Dear Diary
Unfortunately my assumptions that the recent wave of slushie attacks would be a passing craze
Were sadly mistaken….. Its been five weeks since I went to school without ending up covered
In that disgusting icey, syrupy, gloopy frozen gunk
I suppose things are slightly better since glee was revitalize but I don't think they like me very either
"Rach, hunny?" a voice drifted up the stairs interrupting her unconscious stream of thought "Rach?" this time the voice was accompanied by a knock on her door, Rachel turned around to see her pop hovering in the doorway, smiling as he always did when he he looked at her brown eyed baby girl - "writing your memoirs again?" he asked with a little laugh, she spun around and smiled up at him, her dark eyes showing joy for the first time since that morning, "pops, you know as well as I do that one day this will prove beneficial when it comes to actually writing my memoirs" she rolled her eyes slightly as she spoke and smiled warmly at her pops chucked as he entered her room and moved towards her desk, "you must have a hundred of these by now, you stated that summer at dance camp" he motioned towards a photo clipped to her mirror, the photo showed two small girls, one a mass of dark hair and dark eyes and the with a mass of blonde hair with the brightest of blue eyes shining as the girls obviously laughed at joke now forgotten, Rachel tuned and looked at the photo and smiled "it was the summer I learned what it takes to be a star" she giggled pulling a star pose as she stood up and kissed her father on the cheek and pirouetted out of the room singing under her breath. As he father followed her down the stairs he was sure he could make out the song she had learnt at that camp all those years ago, the camp song and mantra was HOW TO BE A STAR…..
Sitting at the table, Rachel chattered on to her Pop and her Daddy, filling them in on her day, covering everything from the A+ for her maths test to the new lead in Glee club, she left out the subject of the slushie she had had thrown square in her face that morning. BUZZ BUZZ Rachel's pop stood up and excused himself as he went to answer the front door, wondering who would be calling round at tea tine "hi M Berry" he was greeted by smiling blonde girl who flung herself at him and squeezed him "con on now floss surely after 10 years you can call me Spence" the blond girl giggled as she danced into the house and plopped herself the table "sorry spence, hey Mr oh erm Joe" Rachel's daddy headed into the kitchen and retuned with another plate and placed in un front of the blonde arrival " help yourself" Rachel smiled over at her friend " I didn't know you were coming round tonight?" she smiled when she saw the blonde look worried for a minute and she reached out and touched her hand " relax floss, you practically used to live here, your welcome whenever" the other girl grabbed Rachel's tiny hand in hers and held on as she loaded up her plate with chilli " I thought maybe girl time, after today, I mean imp sorry, although I like grapes sp it would be like e a grape bath right?" the two fathers just chucked and started clearing their plates away, Spence leant over and whispered into his husbands ear "grape bath?" "aw come on now baby we know better than to ask for explanations" "girls we're going to do some work leave the dishes, and call if you need anything"
Later the two girls were sprawled over Rachel's king sized bed the blonde girl as usual did most of the talking, but Rachel didn't mind, she let the words roll over and she stretched her leg out and extended it over and over, Rachel found it important to keep her body in top form, that way when she had gruelling Broadway schedules she would be able to cope...
"Rach? Hello:? Are you listening?" Rachel tuned over to face the talkative blonde and nodded " So what do you think - I saw him staring at you?" Rachel curled her legs under and stared up at the blonde from under her long dark lashes, "I hear you but I can assure you that what you saw will have a simple explanation because what you think you saw simply would not be permitted the high school social standards that are set in stone thanks to generations of teen steadying in movies that have ended up dictating to the masses how they should act" " oh Rach, you're the only one who doesn't think im stupid…. And you know you didn't actually say I was wrong did you/" she said with a small smirk " Britt - I don't think your stupid, I think your brave and clever you keep your head down and manage to survive high school one day at a time - and I see you smile at me in the hallway and I appreciate it and" she held out a hand to silence he friend "Britt I know you don't understand why im different at school but I guess I just am but we'll always be friends okay" Brittany leapt on top of her friends and hugged her " imp glad you feel that way because imp joining glee and then I'm going to help everyone see the real you" Rachel, pulled out the embrace mumbling something about lemonade, as she left and hurried down the stairs, Brit knew the those huge brown eyes were probably filling with tears as they always did when talk turned to people caring about her, as she got to her feet and wandered over to the mirror and looked at intently at her cheerio's uniform, the gaze drifted down and she saw the her friends diary laid open and felt a pang of guilt and not being able to do anything to stop her friends pain, pulling her gaze away from the diary and back to the mirror she settled on the photo of the two of them at summer camp and she furrowed he two tying desperately to remember what had caused the two of them to be laughing, "hey Britt" the blonde spun round and took a glass from her fiends hand " you really think he likes me…. I mean he's a jock and he's so popular and" Brittany stood up and placed her hands on Rachel's shoulders and said slowly "I may live in Brittany land - but I know boys and I know he likes you - he has these eyes when he looks at you.