So I kept telling myself to not start another story, unless it's a one shot, because I already have two I'm working on, New Semester and the sequel to Qualifications, but this idea started bouncing around in my head so I wrote the first chapter and the second is already started so looks like I'm doomed to start more lol. This is going to be eventual Matchel with strong Pezberry and Puckelberry friendships as always :) I hope you enjoy!
Driving out of the parking lot, Rachel was fuming. She couldn't believe the nerve of her all of her so called friends and her teacher. She was done, she had finally went off, defended herself for once, quit and left. She flashed back to the moment that everything snapped.
"Leads for our new number, Lucky, are Finn and Quinn" Mr. Schue announced, handing out sheet music.
"What? But you promised me the lead for the next number" Rachel cried out, feeling upset for being slighted once again.
"Oh shut up, man hands. Not every solo is yours" Mercedes had snapped back immediately from her spot on the other side of Quinn.
Mr. Schue looked uncomfortable, knowing he had in fact promised the lead to Rachel when he gave Tina the last solo and let Mercedes have the one before that. Out loud he said, "I'm sorry Rachel, I just think Quinn's a better fit for this one. Next songs yours, promise" He tried giving her a reassuring smile and she rolled her eyes.
"Like you promised last time? How about the promise of a solo the time before that? Forgive me if I have trouble trusting in your promises." She had replied, ruder than she usually allowed herself to speak with an adult but she felt justified.
"I'm sorry Rachel, my decision stands" Schue had answered.
"Then I quit" Rachel replied, getting up and starting to gather her stuff.
"Oh sit down, it'll save you the embarrassment of having to come crawling back later" Kurt had said, rolling his eyes at her even as she was looking at him.
"For your information, Kurt, I am done. There will be no crawling back, as you say. Last year I thought we all had finally gotten to a point where we were actually a group, all of us a sort of messed up family but now I realize Jesse was right about one thing. You never appreciate the talent that you have among you. You all take me for granted, expecting me to take all of the crap you throw at me day after day and then when the time comes for a competition or something goes wrong and you need a quick fix you turn to me to save the day. No more. I'm done. I don't need any of you but you all needed me and I want you all to remember that I would have given anything to make us win as a team before but now… now in terms you will all understand, I just don't give a damn."
And with that, she walked out. Amongst the mutterings and even the few applauds, which she was sure came from Noah and possibly the other two boys. They were the only three in the group that she had talked to after the disastrous summer between Sophomore and Junior year. She shook her head to snap her self out of the daydream. She and Noah were best friends now and on occasion she hung out with him, Mike and Matt but she didn't know the two of them as well.
She arrived home, slightly less upset then she had been when she left but still rightfully annoyed at the whole situation. Her dads were gone on a vacation for the rest of the semester. They'd be back in time for Hanukah but just, so she had the house to herself. She dropped her school stuff off in her room and went down into the basement to her studio to practice Curly's dance and relieve some stress. She was sure it wouldn't be long before Noah burst into her house but she didn't want to talk to him while she was this upset.
Halfway through her dance her phone beeped, letting her know she had a text message. Normally she'd ignore it but she figured it was Noah and if she didn't answer he'd think something was wrong and hurry to her house so sighing she stopped and grabbed her phone. She was right, it was Noah but his text wasn't what she expected.
Noah: Damn Berry, gotta say that was hot. San wants to know if she can come over w/me
Rachel was confused, why would Santana want to come over? True since regional's they had been civil to each other, even friendly on some occasions when they ended up at the same party because of Noah or something but they never hung out purposely outside of glee.
Shrugging she replied.
Rachel: I don't care, but I'm not going back to glee.
The response was instant
Noah: That's fine, neither are we. Be there in five.
And that was that, Rachel Berry had single handily done what Coach Sylvester had tried to do the whole of the last year, in one practice. Glee club was done because apparently it had lost three members in one day. 'Four' she thought to herself, knowing where Santana went, Britney would follow.
Shaking her head, she never wanted this to happen. She loved glee, even loved most of her team mates but they had proven time and time again that they did not feel the same and she had finally been pushed to far. If this is the consequence, they can blame themselves, she refused to take the responsibility for their actions any longer.
With that decision she felt lighter and continued her dance until she heard her door open and shut. Knowing that Noah had let himself in, he basically lived there so he had his own key, and that her solitude was over. She grabbed a bottle of water out of her mini fridge and started heading up the stairs as she heard him at the door to her studio.
"Berry, you down there?" He called as he opened the door.
"I'm coming Noah, hold on." She replied, as she got to the top of the stairs.
He grinned and as soon as she got close enough he hugged her, twirling her around in circles. "I'm so proud of you! I was about ready to go off on all of them bitches but you did it for me and it was fucking hot"
She laughed at him even as she said, "Thank you, Noah. Now put me down"
He laughed with her but did as she asked, putting her on her feet but grabbing her hand. "Come on, we have company."
"I know you told me Santana was comin…"She trailed off when he tugged her into her living room because not only were Santana and Britney there but Matt and Mike as well.
"Um, hi." She said, surprised.
Britney came up first and threw her arms around her, "I'm so sorry they were mean to you Rachel! I would never be mean to you! I love you! You're always so nice to me and don't make me feel dumb like the rest of them do. Can we be friends?" She said all of this while squeezing her arms around Rachel's neck.
Rachel managed to choke out, "Can't breath, Brit"
Santana stepped up and gently disentangled Britney's arms from Rachel's neck.
When she could breath again, Rachel smiled at Britney, "Of course we can be friends. I've always believed we were already"
Britney smiled and launched herself on Rachel again, much to the amusement of everyone else in the room."Let her breath, Brit" Santana reminded the ditzy blond, who then pulled her arms off but linked her arm with Rachel's leading her and Noah, who still had one of her hands, to a big couch in the living room.
"As much as I appreciate this visit, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Rachel asked them, confused by the presence of not two but five of the glee club kids here.
Mike was bouncing around the room, like seriously five year old kid bouncing. He was looking at all of the pictures of Rachel from when she was little, all of the trophies, and legit ogling the 60' Flat screen she had in there, so was Matt but he wasn't bouncing so it didn't seem as weird but when he heard the question he stilled long enough to turn to her and say, "You're our friend, you were right so when you left we left." He shrugged as if it was the obvious thing for them to do.
"But you all love glee" Rachel argued, not wanting them to give up something because of her.
Santana shook her head at her, "Berry, haven't you realized yet? You are glee. If you're gone there's no point anyway"
Rachel opened her mouth to argue that because plenty of the girls could take over her spot, including Santana herself but she was cut off by Matt who said, "Don't argue, she's right. Everyone there knows it too which is why they get so pissed when you do manage a solo. They're jealous because they know you deserve them"
Mike nodded, agreeing with his friends but adding "Besides, glee wouldn't have lasted this long if you wouldn't have saved it in the first place last year at sectionals and before that you saved us from embarrassment at the invitational. You were just to nice to let us all go to hell even though we treated you like shit and deserved it."
San nodded, "You never stuck up for yourself so everybody kept treating you like they did and expecting you to be there when they needed you anyway because you would be. Until today that is. That was freaking awesome by the way"
Britney nodded, "And hot as hell" She added sweetly
Rachel, who was already red and had tears in her eyes, grinned at the blond, "So I've heard" she said with a smirk at Noah before going on, "I truly appreciate you guys supporting me in this but I don't think it's right you all quit glee just because I was treated poorly. They need you and besides that, you'll miss it."
"Fuck em, Berry" Noah answered that, "If we miss it then we'll come here and we'll sing and dance and have fun without them. We can enter our own competitions without them or anyone else telling us what to do, if we want."
Rachel's eyes lit up at that and Santana grinned, "Dude we totally could. We'd kill at competitions."Matt and Mike both nodded and Britney was just happy everyone around her seemed happy so she grinned along with them all. That is how it started, us ending New Directions and starting Chasing Dreams.
Short little chapter to show the intro to Chasing Dreams. The other Glee club members will be in the story some but it will mostly focus on these six forming the group and getting through all the challenges and competitions that it throws at them. Hope you all enjoy it :) I'll update as soon as I can.