Summary: AU from the beginning of Season 2, episode 9: Special Education. Santana told Rachel about her sleeping with Finn last year and that Finn has been lying to her about it. Rachel did not cheat on Finn with Noah but instead she decided to break up with him as she has had enough with lying to herself about being gay, and to stop hiding behind her school/glee Rachel diva mask and to bring the true Rachel out. Soon she will find out the real reason why someone wanted Rachel and Finn to break up. Secrets will be uncovered but for the good or the bad. This story will try and follow some of glee season two story lines. So there will be some scenes from the show that will be in here.
AU right after Santana tells Rachel.
Pairing not sure yet but it will be one of the Unholy Trinity that ends up with Rachel and the other two Unholy Trinity will be paired together, so I'll leave it up to you readers for what pairing happens, highest pairing votes wins. Will have Puck/Rachel friendship, Rachel/Kurt friendship, like in season 2 and eventual Unholy Trinity/Rachel friendship and a few others later on. All relationships will be slow burning.
AN: Disclaimer: I don't own Glee or the Characters owned by Fox. Beginning of this chapter starts just like the show.
This Chapter was beta'd by Wheelie91. Thank you for your hard work
Edited by Wheelie91 12/02/14
The Secrets: hidden behind the mask.
Chapter One:
The New Directions were all sitting in the choir room; the room was filled of chatter and laugher as everyone waited for Mr. Schuester to arrive to start the lesson. They were all excited about sectionals that were coming up but they were all saddened that Kurt was part of the warblers and now their competition.
Rachel was seated next to her boyfriend Finn Hudson in the front. She continued to watch the door for Mr. Schue to arrive so that she could give him her idea for sectionals. Mr. Schuester arrived in the room as he carried his folder in his hands and placed it on the piano when he got in front of it. Rachel immediately raised her hand and stood up in front of her chair.
"Mr. Schuester, I have an announcement, I have selected the perfect moving ballad for Finn and I to sing to launch our performance at sectionals…"
"Me, first," Mr. Schue interrupted Rachel before she was able to continue, "Two things, first our competition at sectionals are classic stool choirs; great voices but they don't move. Now, if we are going to beat them, we need to do what they can't; dance. Which is why, I've decided to feature Brittany and Mike Chang's sweet moves in our performance."
The students started chattering about Mr. Schuester's idea.
"Wait, they're going to dance in front of me while I sing my solo?" Rachel asked, clearly upset by his idea.
"You're not getting a solo for this competition Rachel," Mr. Schue replied, as he saw Rachel clearly become upset by his idea. What he didn't know or anyone else in the room, expect one, was that Rachel was struggling within herself, as the real Rachel Berry was fighting with the diva Rachel Berry. The Diva Rachel was an act, or a mask to cover her real self from the others, to protect herself. Some days she wondered why she still had her mask on when she was sick and tired of all the abuse that she got at school but then, she always remembered that it will be the only way to insure that she left this town.
"Finally, so what song do I get to sing?" Mercedes asked as she grinned.
"I was thinking that the winners of our duets competitions would take the leads." Mr. Schue replied as he looked at Sam and Quinn, who each had a smile appeared on their faces.
"Ken and Barbie? Wait, a-are you trying to throw this?" Diva Rachel asked 'Ha-ha, Ken and Barbie, so true. They look like they could be brother and sister, not boyfriend and girlfriend' Rachel laughed to herself. 'They are so gross together'
"You used to be just sort of unlikeable but now I pretty much feel like punching you every time you open your mouth" Quinn said to Rachel as Sam, who was seated next to Quinn, smiled at this. 'I'd like to see you try, blondie, you wouldn't be able to touch me before I have you on the ground out cold,' Rachel thought to herself. 'Shit, shit, have to be careful, still at school. Argh wish I wasn't here right now'
"Okay, listen. I have talked the talk about everyone in here feeling special for over a year now but, frankly, I haven't walked the walk. I mean, we have got a lot of talent here, and I'm gonna highlight it" Mr. Schue said to the group.
Rachel nudged Finn in the side " Do something?" she told him as she realized that she still had to play her part as everyone knew that she would try and stop this.
"Look, I'm all for pumping up the team. Making everyone feel special, but that's for practice, you don't take out the star quarterback out before the big game." Finn said .
"Yep," Rachel nodded her head.
"Easy to say when you're the star quarterback" Tina told him 'Yeah, that is true, but a really bad one at that' Rachel thought mentality giggled to herself.
"This isn't just about me, this is about the team." Finn replied back.
"You are such a hypocrite," Santana jumped in and said to Finn.
"Like you even know what that means," Rachel replied to defend Finn as part of her act.
"It means that your boyfriend is full of crap, hobbit." Santana argued back.
"You know what?" Rachel said as she stood up from her chair and faced Santana who was seated behind them, "Ever since the wedding, you've been up my butt, and I'm sick of it." 'Seriously what has been her problem, I know she's been a bigger bitch than normal lately, but what the hell?'
"Come on, Rachel. She's not worth it" Finn said to Rachel, hoping that it might calm her down.
"Oh, Really?" Santana replied before Rachel could, "Cause that's not what you thought last year in that motel room," Santana said as she bend closer to Finn from behind him. 'What the hell is she talking about?' Rachel thought to herself as she looked between Finn and Santana.' "That's right, Yentl. You're Sweetheart. He's been lying to you. Cause he and I totally got it on last year" She said to Rachel as looked at her. 'He's been lying to me all this time even after I came clean about what happened between Jesse and I. Well, lack of really, thank god. Eww, I totally just grossed myself out, but then again I have been lying to him about who I really am, for all this time.'
"Okay, enough already," Mr. Schue butted in before Rachel could go all diva. 'Of course, he would jump in. He doesn't want me to make a scene but really, he just wants to protect Finn.' Rachel sighed.
Everyone else was not surprised as most of them already knew about Santana and Finn having had slept together last year.
"No more conversations about this or-or anything. This is our plan for sectionals and that is that. Mike and Brittany, come on up. Let's start choreographing." Mr. Schue said.
Rachel finally returned to her seat next to Finn. She couldn't look at him or even talk to him. She had to process everything that has just happened in this room. Rachel knew that it was a good time to break up with Finn, she didn't know how much longer she might be able to carry on with this fake relationship. Fake on her half, Finn had believed, since they got back together, that the relationship had been real. 'Oh, if only he knew the truth,' Rachel laughed to herself. Rachel was sick and tired of Finn. He had tried countless times to push their relationship to the next level. Of course Rachel didn't want that, as if she would ever sleep with him, let alone any male. The truth was Rachel Berry was gay, she had come to terms of her sexuality some time ago, but she hadn't planned on sharing that information with anyone yet. It was for the best that she had kept it a secret. It could destroy everything that she has built for herself. That was part of the reason she had decided to date Finn, even if dating him has made her feel sick half the time. There was, of course a few people who were close to Rachel who knew that she was gay and that they were very supported of her being gay.
Rachel continued to sit there as she watched Mr Schue, Brittany and Mike practice the choreographing for sectionals. Rachel had thought it was a good idea to use Brittany and Mike's dancing talents. They were the best dancers that they have and they should be able to show that. If she was being truthful to herself, she actually didn't care that Mr Schue didn't give her a solo or even a duet for the competition. Sam and Quinn really did sound good together, even if Quinn didn't have the power behind her voice like she did. It was going to show the other choir groups that they have a lot of amazing singers in their club, and that Rachel didn't always have to lead the New Directions.
Rachel stayed seat in her chair as she watched the clock tick away the seconds til the end of glee. She had come to a decision and it was for the best. She was going to break up with Finn and move forward. Rachel knew that Finn isn't going to like it but it was the prefect exit without her revealing her secret to the world, well mainly this school. Rachel was terrified that people will work out her secret; she didn't want happened with Kurt to happen to her, especially that she was raised by two gay men. She imagined that she would get it ten times worse than Kurt because of that fact. Her fathers didn't know that she was gay and was okay that they didn't know.
Rachel was deep in thought that she didn't realize that glee had finished for the day until she felt Finn's huge hands on her arm. She snapped out of thoughts and turned to look at Finn, that is when she realized that Mr Schue had already left for the day but everyone else had stayed seated in their chairs. Even though they were talking to each other but Rachel knew better, they all wanted to be witnesses to the Finn and Rachel drama. 'Seriously do these people have nothing else better to do than watch teenage relationship drama' Rachel scoffed to herself.
Rachel cringed at having Finn's hand on her arm. His hands were huge, and she didn't like that his hand was still on her. It was time for her to put an end to this, time to take her mask off and show everyone who she really was. That Rachel would no longer put up this act and would stand up to the people who have made her life a living hell.
"Yes, Finn?" Rachel asked him.
"Class is over. Are you okay?" Finn calmly replied as he hoped that she wasn't mad at him.
"I can see that," Rachel scoffed "and yes, I am fine." She stood up from her chair and trekked over to the piano. She had planned to leave but in the end she decided to do it there, as everyone was still seated in their chairs. She could see and hear that everyone had stopped what they were doing so that they could watch Finn and her.
"Cool, I was worried that you might be mad at me," Finn replied as he rubbed the back of his neck before he got up and followed Rachel to the piano.
"No, I'm not mad, just upset that you didn't come clean about it when I told you about what really happened between Jesse and I." Rachel said calmly without looking at him.
"I know I should have, but it didn't mean anything to me," Finn said.
"Clearly, if it didn't mean anything to you, then why lie about it?" Rachel asked, still not looking at him.
"Cause I didn't want you mad at me, that we wouldn't have gotten back together." Finn said, raising his voice a bit.
"I see, would you've continued to lie to me, if Santana hadn't just told me in front of everyone?" Rachel asked, curious to know the answer.
"Umm, I don't know, probably." Finn muttered, rubbing the back of his neck again.
Rachel snorted loudly before she turned to face Finn; she crossed her arms across her chest and raised an eyebrow at him. "I see, so you don't know if you were ever going to come clean about it?" she asked.
"I don't know, look I'm sorry that I didn't tell you. It's just that it didn't mean anything to me and I didn't want it to cause any drama between us," Finn replied.
"It must have meant something to you, for you and everyone else to keep it from me?" Rachel asked as she looked at everyone else in the room to confirm what she already knew.
"But it didn't, okay, it was only with Santana, so didn't mean anything," Finn almost yelled out, his anger was starting to get the best of him. He was sick and tired of Rachel going around in circles.
"Was that meant to make me feel better?" Rachel asked as she watched Finn's temper make an appearance. She always did find Finn's quick temper very amusing and hilarious, "Because it was only with Santana?"
"Well, yes. It's not like she cared about it. Look Rachel, we can make this work, how about we go out tonight for dinner or something?" Finn asked, in hopes that this might change the subject and move on from it.
Rachel could see that Finn was trying to change the topic, hoping that they didn't need to talk about it and go back to normal. 'As if that was going to work' Rachel thought, "I'm going to end this once and for all'
"No, I'm not interested in going out with you tonight, Finn." Rachel calmly replied as she made her way back to chair to pick up her bag.
"Okay, how about we just hang out tonight at yours then and order take out?" Finn desperately asked Rachel as he followed her.
"No, Finn, I'm sorry but I'm not interested in spending time with you tonight," Rachel replied as she looked back at him.
"Oh, okay, how about Friday or this weekend?" Finn asked again in hopes that Rachel would agree.
"Oh my god, Finn, no, I don't want to spend time with you at all, even if you do change the day." Rachel replied, still very calm.
"Wait, what? What do you mean that you don't want to spend time with me?" Finn asked, still very confused to why Rachel didn't want to spend time with him. He was sure that they could work this out and move on from it. His relationship with Rachel was important to him, he loved her.
Rachel looked at the confused look that was on his face. She did a quick scan around the room and she could clearly see that everyone was watching them in interest. It was clear on some of their faces that they knew what she was doing, even if Finn was very slow at working out the clues. "What it means is that you and I are over. I am breaking up with you." Rachel said as she looked back at Finn.
"WHAT?!" he yelled out, as his face went bright red, "You're breaking up with me because I slept with Santana and then lied to you about it?" Finn asked angrily, clearly not happy that Rachel was breaking up with him.
Rachel burst out in laugher as she looked at him, she couldn't help it, his face when he was angry was sometimes the funniest thing to see. He got this constipated look on his face when he was angry. Rachel could see that everyone else in the room was very confused as to why Rachel was breaking up with him as they all believed that she was deeply in love with the boy question and why she was laughing like the way that she was.
It took Rachel a few more seconds before she calmed down and looked at Finn while she wiped the tears of laugher away before she addressed him. "No, Finn, the reason that I am breaking up with you isn't because you fucked Santana last year," she heard everyone gasped in shock as they just heard Rachel Berry swore for the first time ever, "or any other girls you may or may not have fucked, though I am surprised that you were able to fuck anyone with your fun size penis. Let alone, be able to get anywhere near a pussy without your early arrival problem rearing its ugly head." Rachel said as her school mask dropped and the real Rachel made her appearance. Rachel heard a few snigger at what she had just said but most of them were silent.
Finn and some of the others were stunned into silence. They couldn't get over the fact that Rachel had sworn not once but three times and also that she had just made fun of Finn. This was not the Rachel Berry that they knew. This person was the complete opposite of her.
"What the hell Rachel? Why did you just make fun of me and why are you breaking up with me if you don't care about me having sex with Santana?" Finn asked angrily.
"Because I wanted to, it was too easy to make fun of you." Rachel replied as she shrugged her shoulders, not really wanting to get into it with Finn.
"Rachel, what is going on with you and why are you doing this?" Finn said angrily.
"I'm breaking up with you because I feel like it and I think it's for the best that we do. At least now you can find some girl who might be willing to spread her legs for you, even though they will be the biggest idiot to do that." Rachel replied as she grabbed her bag and made her move to leave the room, while everyone else just sat in their seats with shunned and confused looks on their faces.
"Rachel, I love you and you love me. Why are you breaking up with me?" Finn said as he angrily grabbed Rachel's wrist before she walked away.
"Remove your hand from my wrist, now." Rachel hissed out in anger. It was clear that she was angry by the fact that he had grabbed her wrist.
"Not before you tell me, why? I deserve to know why you are breaking up with me if it's not because I slept with Santana," Finn angrily spat out as he continued to hold her wrist.
"Remove your hand right now before I have to ask you a third time," Rachel hissed out, getting tired of this.
Finn did not listen to Rachel and he just continued to speak, "I just need to know why because you can't break up with…" Finn's sentence was cut off by someone punching him in the face and then he proceeded to land ass first on the ground. Everyone could hear the crunch sound as someone's fist connected to Finn's nose, possibly breaking it.
"Ow! Mother fucker, that fucking hurt like a bitch, is your head filled of bricks or something, if so, it would probably explain why you're so thick all the time." Rachel shouted out in pain as she looked at my hand. Everyone snapped their heads back to Rachel as they had heard her swear again and they watched her as she looked at her hand.
"What the hell Rachel? You punched me and I think you might have broken my nose," Finn whined out in pain as he has covered his nose with hands to try and stop the bleeding.
"So I did," as she looked down at him. "Let that serve you as an reminder to what will happen if you ever put your grubby, sausage fingers on me again, oh and keep your mouth shut as I really don't want to hear you whine like a little bitch that we all know that you can be at times," Rachel said in her bitch tone that could make a run for Santana's money.
Finn just nodded in reply as he was still stunned by the fact his girlfriend, well ex-girlfriend now, had just punched him and the words that were coming out of mouth. This side of Rachel actually scared him as he had NEVER heard or seen her this way before.
"Good." She said and turned around and walked over to the door but then turned around and looked over at the scene and felt everyone's eyes were on her. A few of them were terrified as they have never seen this side of Rachel and the others were too flabbergasted.
"Oh Finny boy, you might want to get that check out as soon as possible, it looks really bad from here," She said as a lethal smirk graced her lips. She watched as Finn gulped and then nodded his head at her. Rachel turned her head to look at Santana who was already looking at her. Rachel kept the same smirk on her lips and addressed the Latina "Oh and by the way, Santana, you are welcome to have him now, although I would feel every sorry for you if you decide to date his giant ass, but oh well. Bye everyone" Rachel smirked as she turned around and gracefully walked to the door, but before she left the room completely she quickly glanced over her shoulder to see the bewildered looks that were present on everyone's faces as they watched her walk away, which brought Rachel to another fit of laughter and then proceeded to leave the room.
The rest of the New Directions continued to sit there as they watched Rachel leave the room as her laugher could be heard as she walked down the hall. No one knew what to say or even react to the scene that they had just seen.
After what seemed like hours, Tina broke the silence, "What just happened?" she asked the room.
"That is actually a very good question, because I don't even know how to answer that." Mercedes said as she recovered her voice.
"Did we enter the twilight zone or something because that was just freaky?" Sam asked the group.
"I have no idea," Quinn replied to her boyfriend's question, clearly still stunned.
Puck stood up from her chair and made his way over to Finn, who was still on the floor with his hands covering up his face.
"Come on dude, let's get you to the nurse to get you checked out" Puck said as he helped Finn up from the ground.
Finn nodded his head in reply as he was in a lot of pain from being punched. Everyone watched them as they too left the room.
"I actually can't believe that Rachel swore," Brittany said to break the silence again as everyone had just watched Puck and Finn leave the room.
"Me either, let alone punch Finn." Artie replied to his girlfriend's question.
"It was hot though," Brittany said, causing everyone to snap their heads to her in confusion "What?" she asked, when she looked at everyone's confused faces.
"You found the hobbit hot?" Santana asked her friend
"Well yeah, the way she swore and basically tore Finn a new one with her words. Oh, just like you and Quinn do, when someone has pissed you off." Brittany replied.
"Oh my god, she was channeling the both of you at the same time" Mercedes blurted out.
"Oh please, as if she can be a bigger bitch than me," Santana scoffed and flicked her ponytail with her hand and Quinn nodded her head in an agreement to Santana's sentence.
"But then explain why the Rachel we just saw was being a bitch and said all those things to Finn. The Rachel we have come to know, until today, would never have done those things. I thought she was deeply in love with him. We all remember what happened last year." Tina said.
"Yeah I wish we could explain what we just saw, but I have no answers." Mike answered his girlfriend.
"Did you all see the way she stayed calm the whole entire time that she was speaking to him, until Finn didn't remove his hand from her?" Sam asked.
"Yeah that was weird. I was expecting Rachel to go all diva on him, like we have seen before but she didn't." Mercedes replied, still very confused by Rachel's actions today.
"In a way I can understand why Rachel punched Finn in the end. He deserved it for not removing his hand from her wrist, which she clearly asked twice for him to do." Tina said.
"But Rachel doesn't like violence." Brittany said.
"Well, clearly that has changed. I mean; hobbit must know how to throw a punch to be able to knock Finnept to the ground like the way she did and she probably broke his nose." Santana stated.
"What are you trying to say S, that Berry knows how to fight?" Quinn asked her friend.
"That is exactly what I'm saying. Hobbit must have had some training," Santana told the group.
"If that is true, it's kind of scary." Brittany said sadly.
"I doubt that she would use it against us." Santana said as she tried to calm Brittany.
"And yet she punched her now ex-boyfriend in the face." Tina replied to Santana's comment.
"That is true," Mike muttered.
"Do you think we need to worry?" Tina inquired to the group.
"Oh hell no, the diva will be back to normal tomorrow, demanding that she gets the solo for Sectionals, then probably end up back with Finn by the end of week, after she gets over the fact that he had lied about sleeping with Santana. Anyway I'm out, see you all tomorrow." Mercedes said as she grabbed her bag that was beside her chair and got up from it and left the room.
"You know, I don't think what Mercedes has just said will happen. Something tells me from the way Rachel acted today was just beginning," Tina said after she watched Mercedes leave the classroom.
"You can't be serious," Santana mocked "Wheezy has Yentl pegged to a tee. Everything will be back to normal tomorrow."
"But S, what if you and Mercedes are wrong about Rachel and she changes?" Brittany asked her friend. "I mean, what do we really know about her?"
"That she's loud and busy and throws diva storm outs all that, but it doesn't matter; I'll protect you and I'll warn the hobbit to stay away from you," Santana voiced to her friend, hoping that it will keep her calm.
"Don't worry B, I'll make sure that she remembers her place here," Quinn answered.
"Are you sure that will work, cause none of us truly know Rachel and what she can do? Rachel punched Finn, and she did say some real mean things to him and we all thought that she was in love with him." Brittany responded sadly.
"Britt, you don't have to worry. You are safe, okay." Santana murmured calmly.
"Do you truly believe that? Something made Rachel snap today and we have no idea if the Rachel we have known until today will be back tomorrow and things will return to normal." Mike scoffed as he looked over to the three Cheerios.
"Oh please, it's just Berry creating more drama than usual." Quinn sneered.
"From where I sit, I don't believe that." Tina muttered.
"Look, this is pointless, this maybe a one off thing. Maybe in a few days everything will have calmed down." Sam told the group, in order to try and keep the peace.
"I think Sam is right maybe we should wait and see what tomorrow brings." Artie said.
"Fine, but if the Hobbit steps out of line, I'll teach her a lesson" Santana said as she stood up and held her hand out for Brittany to take.
"Okay, we will wait and see." Brittany replied as she too stood up and took Santana's hand.
"See you all losers later." Santana called out as they both left the choir room with Artie trailing behind them.
"Never a dull moment in glee," Sam snickered as he also stood from his chair as he waited for Quinn to pack her bag so that they could both leave together. They said their good byes to Mike and Tina and left the room.
Both Mike and Tina were the only two were actually concerned about what tomorrow may bring for everyone. They didn't talk about what happened today in glee again, they too hoped that Sam was right and it was just a one-time thing.
When Rachel arrived at her house after she left the choir room, she went straight to the freezer she pulled out a packed of frozen peas to place on her hand. She was sure that it was probably going to bruise but she couldn't care less, it wasn't the first time she had a bruised hand from punching. Finn deserved it in the end; she had asked him twice to remove his hand from her wrist.
She poured herself a glass of water then made her way upstairs. Once Rachel reached her room, she placed her glass of water down on the desk then she threw the frozen peas on the bed. She sighed to herself as she flopped on her bed. She was still stunned that she was able to stand up for herself and show everyone in glee part of who she really was. Rachel was happy with how things went with Finn; she didn't want to punch him in the face and in the process breaking his nose but she thought maybe it was for the best. Rachel sat herself up on her bed; she stood up and headed to her bathroom. She turned on the taps to fill the bath up. She decided that she would need a bath to relax after what went down today.
After the bath was filled to the right height and temperature, she turned the taps off and proceeded to strip her clothes off and climb in the bath.
Sometime later after Rachel had her bath and did her homework, she found herself laid out on the couch, wearing black booty shorts and a purple wife beater; clicking through the T.V channels to find something to watch so that she could relax. She was debating on what to order from dinner tonight. Rachel's thoughts were cut off when her doorbell rang through the house. Rachel sighed and got up, she ran her fingers through her hair and she made her way to the door. Rachel hoped that Finn was not on the other side as she could not deal with him again in hope that they would get back together.
She opened the door to see a smirking Noah, standing on her porch holding a black plastic bag in one of his hands.
"Noah, what brings you here?" Rachel asked, sighing in relief that it wasn't Finn.
"Hey Jew-babe, I thought I'll come by and see how you were doing and get some answers about what went down today in glee?" Noah smiled at the girl.
"Well as you can see, I'm doing quite well." Rachel replied, stepping aside to allow Noah into the house. Once inside she closed the door behind him.
"Are your dads home?" Noah asked before he made in further in to the house.
Rachel snorted loudly, "When are they ever home, Noah?" Rachel said sadly.
"True, well in that case I brought beer." Noah replied with a smile on his face, holding up the black bag.
"Excellent, I was about to order something for dinner, do you want some?" Rachel asked as they both walked through the house to the lounge.
"Would love too, pizza?" Noah replied.
Rachel nodded her head and grabbed the house phone and ordered them some pizza before sitting on the couch in the lounge. Noah and Rachel had been friends for years; they knew everything about each other and always had each other's back even if they didn't show it at school. Noah was one of the select few that knew Rachel was gay and tried his best to protect her even if it meant throwing a slushy in her face at school. Noah himself was an actor. Puck was his character that he portrayed at school and around his friends that weren't Rachel or his family.
"Can you explain what happened to you today, cause one minute you where school diva Rachel then the next, you were the real you? You have never showed the real you at school before." Noah asked as he gave Rachel a beer to drink.
Rachel sighed before taking a sip of beer that Noah had handed to her before she answered him, "I guess I got sick and tired of everything. I was tired of being abused by everyone in that club. I know that it's my other personality that people are abusing but doesn't mean that it doesn't still hurt, when people say hurtful things to me. I was just tired of being who I am and lying to myself. I don't want to everyone's doormat any longer."
"Well I think after today there will be a few people who might be cautious to be around you after you punched Finn in the face. Let's not forget you swearing at him and putting him down with your words," Noah chuckled as he told her.
"The asshole got what he deserved for man-handling me and I don't really care about anyone else or how they feel about me." Rachel gritted out through her teeth.
"Yeah, well, you did do a good number on him; you broke his nose and gave a split lip in the process." Noah laughed out.
"Good," Rachel giggled.
"So, is Star going to be gracing the halls of McKinley from now on?" Noah asked, wanting to know if today was just a one off, or would it continue?
"Of course, Noah. It's about time that the real Rachel Berry made an appearance." Rachel giggled.
"Well, I've got your back from now on." Noah said.
"What do you mean, Noah?" Rachel asked as she looked at him.
Noah sighed and ran his hand through his Mohawk and then he looked Rachel, "What I mean, Rae, is that I'm going to be by your side all the way. I don't care what people think of our friendship. I can no longer pretend that we aren't friends. I want the world to know that Rachel Berry is my best friend." Noah said, smiling at his longtime best friend.
"Noah, you're growing up." Rachel giggled at him, "Do you truly mean that?"
"Of course I am, Star." Noah softly said.
"People aren't going to like it especially Finn, he's going to think that we are together or something." Rachel replied.
"Well, fuck him, he doesn't need to know, plus it would be fun to mess with his head." Noah laughed.
"I don't need another beard." Rachel huffed out.
"You don't need one, Rae. I know that you don't want to come out yet but that doesn't mean we can't have a bit of fun, even if everyone thinks that we are dating." Noah told her.
"Okay, but we are going to have to be careful though. I really don't want any more drama," Rachel sighed.
"We will be fine, trust me." Noah replied as he watched Rachel raise her eyebrow at him and just nodded her head in reply.
"Have you heard from Finn since the incident?" Noah asked before drinking some of his beer.
"No, I haven't. I turned my phone off when I got home, why?"
"Because when I was taking him to the nurses to get his nose checked, he kept mumbling that he didn't understand what had just happened or why you would punch him and shit like that. I guess that he was planning to ring you tonight after you had a chance to cool off to ask you these things."
"He can try, but I'm not going to talk to him. I know, tomorrow that he will probably demand some answers from me and hope to get back together."
"Yeah, I can see him doing that. He's going to be a pain tomorrow." Noah sighed.
"Probably."
"What will you tell him?"
Rachel snorted, "Well I can't tell him the truth, now, can I? I would possibly tell him that I don't love him, like he loves me, and that we don't belong together. I know he thinks that we have broken up because he lied about sleeping with Santana, but really, I don't care about it. Did you know about them?"
"Yeah, I did, but I didn't know that he lied to you about it. I just assumed that you already knew about it. That is why I never brought it up. I am truly sorry that I didn't tell you, and had to find out the truth the way you did today." Noah said, looking guilty.
"You don't need to apologize for anything, Noah. It's not your fault that it happened." Rachel said, hoping that it may erase some of his guilt.
"Thanks, Rae." Noah replied.
"Do you know why Santana told me today and not some other time" Rachel asked, curious to know what he thought.
"Who knows what goes on in that girl's mind, she probably did it so she could make a play for Finn, herself," Noah said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"That is what I presumed. She is welcomed to have him. I don't really care." Rachel laughed.
"Good for you," Noah said, joining in on Rachel's laugher.
Rachel and Noah continued in mindless chatter and drinking the beers that Noah had brought with him until the pizza arrived, then they settled down to watch a movie together before Noah had to go home for the night. Rachel was feeling lighter by the time she went to bed. She was grateful that she ended her relationship with Finn and could move on with her future. She couldn't wait to see what tomorrow would bring.
AN: well there you go; the first chapter from this new story. Please review and let me know what you thought about it so far.
Let me know which of the Unholy Trinity you think should be paired with Rachel. Just remember the other two will be paired with each other in the end.