Chapter One
Put It in Writing
"Make sure you give this to Rachel," Quinn told Brittany while putting the note into her hand. "I need Rachel to have this. It tells her what college I'm going to in New York, where to find me. How-"
After all this time, she couldn't say it? She had written it all down in the letter but still couldn't tell someone the way she feels about Rachel Berry. Like the way Rachel always puts a smile on her face. Or the way Quinn feels warm inside when Rachel just talks to her. Or even the best feeling Quinn has ever felt in her whole life; the feeling she gets when Rachel sings. The way her beautiful voice makes her feel warm and safe. Her voice, the voice of an angel. The way Rachel moves Quinn; she makes her feel like nothing in the world matters anymore. The feeling of falling back in love with her all over again.
Quinn swallowed and looked at Brittany, who looked like she had no clue what was going on. She was standing there with her blonde hair half up and half down. Wearing her long, red graduation robe. Somehow, Brittany had managed to graduate the same time as everyone in her class. She wasn't really listening to Quinn; she was to busy staring past her at her girlfriend, Santana Lopez.
"Brittany!" Quinn snapped her fingers right in front of Brittany's face, gaining her attention back.
"Were you listening to a word I said?" Brittany's eyes widened as she thought back to what Quinn had just said.
"Rachel needs the note... This note-," Brittany held up the note in her hand and Quinn pushed her hand back down, hiding the note and checking to see if anyone else saw. "Rachel needs it."
Quinn looked at Brittany, who gave her a very cheesy smile in return. Quinn laughed and nodded. "Yes, Brittany. That's it." Brittany's smile slowly faded and she looked confused again.
"Quinn... Why does Rachel need this note again?" Quinn's smile disappeared as soon as Brittany asked. Maybe this was a bad idea. If she couldn't even tell Brittany about her feelings for Rachel, how could she tell Rachel?
"She-she needs to have the note because," Quinn could do it, she could feel it. She was finally going to tell someone how she felt about Rachel. Brittany and Quinn hadn't talked much in the last year, due to Quinn kind of going all punk ass, she kind of kept to herself more, but Quinn always counted Santana and Brittany as her best friends, and she need someone to know, someone to listen about her feelings. She knew that as soon as she told Brittany, she would tell Santana, but Quinn had a funny idea that Santana already knew. "Because I'm in love with her."
Quinn stared at the floor until she heard Brittany giggling. Brittany's smile appeared again, leaving the girl giggle at what Quinn had just said. Quinn looked at her. "What?" Brittany continued to laugh, and Brittany's laugh was contagious, it caused Quinn to start laughing to. She wasn't really sure what was so funny but they were laughing, and she liked it.
Brittany smiled at Quinn and held her arms out for a hug. Quinn walked into the Brittany's arms and cuddled into the dancer. Then Quinn felt the girl's warm breath tickle her ear, "I've missed you. I missed me, you and San all together. And now we're not going to be in the same schools anymore, and I'm not going to see you again."
Quinn pulled out of the hug to look at Brittany. "That's okay though Britt, I'll come to see you. You and San, I promise. You can't break up the unholy trinity, right?" Quinn winked at Brittany, causing her to smile and pull Quinn into another hug.
"Right, I have to go now." Quinn said in a shaky voice pulling out of Brittany's hug as a single tear ran freely down her cheek. "Don't forget to give the note to Rachel for me, okay?" She took a deep breath and smiled, "I'm going to miss you Britt. But I'll see you soon, okay?" Quinn gave Brittany one last hug and then started to walk away.
The class shouted their goodbyes as they noticed Quinn walking out. She turned around and waved to her old class. She waved to Santana and Brittany, and to everyone else that she was in Glee club with. Then her eyes met Rachel's. Rachel looked sad as she waved to Quinn. A part of Quinn wanted to run up to her, hug her and tell her everything, another part wanted to just run up and kiss her, but the part she listened to was the part telling her to just smile and walk away.
Santana lay on Brittany's bed running her fingers through her hair, while Brittany finished packing her bags. Brittany put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper. She remembered exactly what it was as soon as she saw it.
"Shit!" Brittany shouted, which caused Santana to sit forward instantly.
"What? What is it?" Santana asked anxiously, watching the back of Brittany's head. Brittany turned around slowly, holding the note up levelled to her chin. Santana stared at the note and then back at Brittany. "What is it?" Brittany looked at her with a disappointed frown.
"It's the note Quinn wanted me to give to Rachel," Brittany said in an upset voice. "I was supposed to give it to Rachel before she went to New York. Quinn said she needs to have it." Brittany sat on the bed looking at the note in her hands.
Santana moved to sit behind her, wrapping her arms around Brittany's waist, and resting head on her shoulder. Then Santana spoke softly into Brittany's ear.
"Don't worry, Britt. We'll just take it over to the dwarf's house now." A small smile appeared on Brittany's face. She turned around and dived on Santana, hugging and kissing her.
"Thank you!" Brittany was so excited. Santana giggled as she found Brittany absolutely adorable.
"What's the note about, anyways?" Santana asked when Brittany finally got up off her and started putting her coat on. Brittany shrugged her shoulders and handed Santana the note.
"Something about Quinn's feelings I think." Brittany told her. Santana started reading Quinn's note.
"Holy shit!" Santana jumped up, which made Brittany jump. "Quinn's in love with Berry? Since when?" She looked at Brittany to see if she had any answers, but she didn't, Brittany just shrugged again and turned her attention back to doing her buttons on her coat up.
"Fuck! I mean, I knew she liked her, I could see it; it was written all over her face. But love?" Santana stared down at the letter. She knew she needed to get it to Rachel straight away. Quinn and her hadn't been close over the past year but she still classed her as her best friend. "We have to get this letter to Berry now." Santana basically told herself seen as Brittany was still focused on doing her buttons up.
When Santana and Brittany pulled up outside the Berry house, the lights were all off and Rachel's car was gone. "She can't have gone already." Santana said, hoping that she was right.
They walked up to the Berry's front door and Brittany continually knocked on the door until a man from inside shouted okay.
One of the top windows lit up all of a sudden and the girls could hear a man walking towards the door. "Who in God's name is knocking on my door at this time at night?"
The door swung open, and standing right in front of the two girls stood one of Rachel's fathers, Leroy. He was much taller than both girls, and stood in his blue pyjama bottoms, one hand on the door and the other on his hip. He looked down on the girls with a very angry expression on his face.
"Well?"
The girls looked at each other. Brittany looked at Santana with her big blue eyes and a sad puppy look on her face, and Santana decided that she had to be the one to talk.
"Umm... Well, we were- we were wondering if Berry-I I mean Rachel was here?" Santana said looking quite nervous at the tall man. They both stood there, waiting for him to answer. To turn around and go get Rachel, or for him to say that she's sleeping and to come see her tomorrow, but he did neither.
"Rachel? Well, she's gone to New York. She left about three or four hours ago, right after she got home." Leroy's angry face wiped off completely and turned into a kind of confused sorrow look when both girls looked at each other and sighed.
What were they going to do? Quinn was already in New York waiting hopefully for Rachel to come and find her, but Rachel had gone, she had left for New York, knowing nothing about the letter, about where Quinn was, that Quinn was even in New York waiting for her, or anything about the feelings Quinn had for her.
Shit.
