Quinn felt her buzz slowly get stronger as she took another sip of her mix drink. She kept stealing glances at Rachel who seemed to be doing the same to her from across the party. There was a conversation going on between Brittany and Mercedes about what feline depression was that Quinn wasn't so interested in. She saw Rachel push a drunken Finn away and walk into an empty room. Quinn finished her drink and headed towards where Rachel was.
She knocked a few times to be polite, "Go away Finn!"
Quinn opened the door and slipped inside, "It's not Finn. Can you deal with me instead?"
Rachel smiled and nodded her head. Quinn took a seat next to her on the bed and nudged her, "So what's wrong?"
"Finn's just being a drunken mess wanting me to go with him to an empty room like this one to do.. stuff"
"Oh.. Well you don't mind being alone with me in an empty room?"
Quinn won a smile from Rachel that made her heart flutter, "Of course not."
The heart flutter sunk into a bad feeling and Quinn cleared her throat, "I know. I guess I'm getting too buzzed to start making sense."
Rachel got up and tripped over herself proving to be more drunk than Quinn thought. Quinn smiled at Rachel who was on the floor giggling and tried helping her up. When she finally got up right and looked stable, it took two steps for Rachel to trip over herself again and take Quinn with her against the wall. Quinn tried catching her so she was leaned up against Rachel, only a few inches away from her face.
Quinn saw a look dawn over Rachel that told her to kiss her but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Instead she steadied Rachel and cleared her throat before opening the door to carry Rachel out to the party.
[2 months later]
"I also think you should wait... Finn is terrible in bed."
Rachel stormed out of the room and headed down the hallway. Quinn looked around room and saw that no one was willing to chase her down. cowards.
Quinn ran outside the room and down the hall to try to catch up, "Wait Rachel!"
The girl spun around in a dramatic fashion and pointed her finger at Quinn, "No, How dare all of you try to talk me out of having my first time be with Finn! The only person who seemed to support me was Tina.", Rachel gave Quinn a torn expression, "I thought we were friends."
"You asked us Rach.. You can't really expect us to be okay with this."
"Okay but I at least expected your support. It's my body Quinn! You can't tell me what to do with it."
Quinn felt herself ready to beg Rachel to not have sex with that disgusting teenage boy she was dating, "Just wait Rach.. That's all we're asking you to do. You should wait for the right person and not lose your virginity just to do it."
"Why? Why should I wait? You didn't wait, Santana and Brittany definitely didn't wait... I don't see why I shouldn't do the same as everyone in that room."
Quinn didn't understand how Rachel didn't get what Quinn was trying to tell her.
Every desperate feeling she had in her body mustered up into a shout down the hallway trying to reach the small girl, "Because you should wait for me!"
Rachel turned to see Quinn's shoulders slump and her eyes water, "I've loved you from the start. Don't you see that? Haven't you noticed the way I look at you? The way I can't stand to see you with him?"
"You never said.."
"Well I'm saying it now. All those long hugs, nightly talks, faraway stares.. They mean something to me. It's always meant something to me. When we were at that party a few months back, you can't deny that you wanted to kiss me too. I was too scared to do it back then. But I can't just let you give something away like you don't mean anything. Because you do. You've always meant something to me."
Rachel stood there as Quinn came closer and stroked her cheek gently. Rachel looked into the glossy hazel eyes in front of her and felt her heart racing. She saw the little glint of hope in Quinn's eyes as she slowly tried to bend her neck down and kiss her.
Rachel turned away at last second and backed away, "Don't Quinn. You can't expect something from me like this when I'm with Finn. It doesn't matter what either of us feel because he got to me first while you didn't know what you felt."
