The Transfer

Chapter 1

It was the weekend that Quinn Fabray finally returned to Lima after being sent to a soccer event with her coach, Sue Sylvester. On the bad side, she had missed the last two weeks of summer break, however on the plus side she had also missed the first week of school which was also a snooze fest anyway!

During this time she had kept in touch with only a select group of people, not including her family of course. Family was a very important thing to Quinn, Russell and Judy Fabray are by no means perfect, but they always did the best they could, strict but fair. Religious, but not bigots, which in the small town in Ohio was thankfully becoming more common. The group of friends that Quinn chose to keep in contact with day to day was her Glee club members. The club that she had joined to make her college application form look that much better had become so much more, the people she got to know became almost like a small family.

Sure, as the captain of the soccer team no one had expected her to join the schools Glee Club and become friends with such a mismatch of people however that was exactly what Quinn had done, it was something she actually really enjoyed doing as it was something that was different to what she was used to. When she had told her two best friends that she wanted to join, they were apprehensive at first however soon came around and thought it was an opportunity for all three girls.

It was nothing new for the three girls to be supportive of each other, they had been friends since they were kids and had always enjoyed spending time together. Santana Lopez, the fiery Latina was also the vice-captain of the soccer team and Britney S Pierce, the girlfriend of the Latina and also head cheerio of the schools cheerleading squad. While Santana was fiery and often wasn't too nice to other people but really the girl had a heart of gold that she only let those closest to her see.

Britney on the other hand was one of the nicest people you could ever meet, she was stern at times and if messed with her friends she was scarier than Santana at times. Being head cheerleader meant that she had to be tough, especially when they've been undefeated at all cheerleading events in the last four years – two of the years had been under Britney's leadership. Together the tall blonde and the Latina were a power couple but they weirdly never made Quinn feel like a third wheel – apart from when they started getting a bit frisky with each other.

Speaking of Britany and Santana, they had informed Quinn of a new member of the New Directions (the name of the Glee club), she was the same age as them and had just transferred from Caramel High. They had mentioned how the girl had a brilliant voice, and seemed nice enough but for some reason had been having a bit of a hard time with the other students at McKinley. One of them unfortunately being Sugar Motta – Quinn's "girlfriend", at least that's how Sugar saw herself. She had made it known that she had wanted to be with Quinn last year and after making out at one of the end of year parties had assumed the role. Of course, they were not official and in all seriousness Quinn didn't want to be in a relationship. This was her senior year and she was seriously hoping her hard work would pay off and she could land an Athletic scholarship. Plus she just wasn't really into Sugar like that.

Quinn was currently getting ready for the party that Puck was throwing as a kind of "Welcome Home" thing, the mohawked boy and the star soccer player had always been close.

Walking up Pucks driveway Quinn's excitement about seeing everyone again was growing, she had missed her friends trebly despite texting and calling most days and nights. Walking through the front door she was greeted by smiles from her peers, all coming to greet her with hugs and asking how the soccer event went.

After a while everything had calmed down a bit and it was just Santana and Quinn stood catching up, a couple of minutes later Brittany walked back into the room, "Hey Q, I want you to meet someone…" Quinn turned around to face the person Brit had brought over to introduce her to. That was the moment Quinn's eyes met the most beautiful set of brown eyes, framed with gorgeous brown hair, that were locked with hers she felt her heart skip a beat and butterflies erupt in her stomach. The small timid smile that appeared on the other girls face made Quinn smile brightly at her.

"Quinn Fabray meet Rachel Berry, the new member of the New Directions. I know you guys will get along brilliantly." Brittany finished off the introduction with a knowing smile in Quinn's direction and walked towards Santana and grabber her hand leading her away, letting the two girls have some space to talk and get to know each other a bit better.

After a couple of moments Quinn found it within herself to talk to the new girl. "Hi Rachel, it's nice to meet you finally, I've already heard so many good things about you!"

Rachel stuck out her hand to shake Quinn's, "Thank you, I've heard so many things about you too, it's nice to finally be able to put a face to the name." Rachel replied, a blush spreading on her cheeks, making her look even more adorable.

"All good I hope," replied Quinn with a cheeky wink, which only made Rachel's blush grow which in turn made the blonde smile thinking to herself "This girl is so cute!"

When Rachel's blush gets brighter Quinn realises she just said that out loud and her own blush begins to show, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to say that, not that I don't think you're cute, well I do, I just …" Quinn starts to ramble.

"Quinn calm down, it's okay, I think you're pretty cute too…" Rachel reply's with a shy smile. "So you're the resident soccer star huh? Did you have a good time at your soccer thing?" Rachel asked causing the blush on Quinn's cheeks to deepen, to hide the smile on her Rachel took a drink from the red solo cup in her hand – the taste of a strawberry wine cooler on her tongue.

"I mean I wouldn't say I'm a soccer star. I think that would inflate my ego too much, but yeah, I've been at a soccer meet with my coach. She wanted me to meet with scouts and everything else. So how are you fitting in?" Quinn asked with a big smile, something she couldn't stop appearing on her face, this girl was just too gorgeous and cute!

Calm down Quinn! You've barely been talking for 5 minutes, slow it down! Quinn thought to herself.

"Everyone has been really great actually, especially the other members of Glee club, it's nice to just have a group of people get along as they do…" Rachel finished, quickly dropping her eyes to the floor.

Quinn noticed this quickly and was confused, lifting Rachel's chin up gently with her hand, "Rach, what's wrong?" Quinn asked, concerned about the girls sudden change in demeanour.

"Erm, it's just that, some of the students haven't exactly been super welcoming since I started. I don't really know why I've kept to myself for the most part." Rachel started, "A couple of them just walked in and I don't want to cause any trouble at your party so I might just go." Rachel said, disappointed that she'd have to leave since she had only just started having a good time.

Looking around, Quinn noticed that the only people that have recently joined the party were some of the cheerios. "That's strange, the cheerio's don't normally pick on anyone.." As if on cue a pair of arms encircle Quinn's waist in a possessive way.

"Hey baby, why didn't you come over to mine when you got back?" Was asked in her ear, Quinn was sure the question was meant to be all seductive (if it had been Rachel doing it, it definitely would have been.), but with Rachel not meeting her gaze is became quite clear what Sugar had been up to since she'd been gone.

Turning around to face her, "Hey Sugar, I knew Puck was having this party and I didn't know I was supposed to?" Quinn knew Sugar thought there was something going on, but now was certainly not the time to put her completely straight as to what was going on between them.

"So you go away for three weeks, barely even talk to me, don't come round when you get back and when I do eventually see you, I find you with this loser. Whatever Q, come find me when you're ready to apologise!" Sugar storms away before Quinn has a chance to even say anything.

Sighing Quinn turns to Rachel, "I'm so sorry about her, I'm going to grab another drink and head outside to get some air, would you like want to come?" Quinn asks, offering her hand to Rachel

Weighing up her options Rachel knows she wants to say yes. However with the alcohol that is already in her system and the attraction she already feels towards Quinn, she's not sure she trusts herself not to make an idiot of herself. "Sure." Accepting the hand Quinn offered to her .

Unknown to them both Sugar is across the room watching them both intently.

A/N

Thanks for reading! So this is a reupload from a story I first uploaded a good couple of years ago, I've re-written certain parts and have an idea of where I want this to go. Please leave a review, I'll 100% upload quicker as they motivate me! :)