Glee is not mine. This is AU and completely OOC.
Prologue
She didn't know how she was still standing. The room was spinning and the walls were tightening around her like in a bad horror movie. Her eyes were watering from the wild ringing in her ears. It seemed like any moment now her lungs might stop working.
Questions, she had millions of questions. And strangely enough, she had all the answers too. They always were right there on the surface.
She was blind.
And not just in the matter of what was happening right now. God, how many coincidences, how many clues there were.
She was blind.
She thought she knew him. She thought she was the only one who knew the real him.
Obviously she did not.
Jake tried to warn her this morning and she just laughed at him. Laughed in the mist of her own stupidness.
You are a fool, Rachel Berry. A damn fool.
She wanted to run. Drop everything, get a taxi and be on the other side of Manhattan as soon as possible. She wanted to go home. But she couldn't.
Her home, her small cozy apartment, that once was her safe heaven, now was soaked in him.
And she couldn't fail Marley.
She had nowhere to run.
So she did what she always does best.
She put on the mask and went on stage.
Only this time it wasn't at Puck's.
It was her life.
Rachel squared her shoulders and made the last step to the living room.
"Sorry about that. Girl problems."
Silly laugh. So not her.
This whole scene was so not her.
And only the amber eyes of her main spectator remained the same.
Like every other Thursday for the past three months.
Many thanks to my amazing beta berryfinntastic. You're a lifesaver.
Please review and share your thoughts with me. It would mean a lot.
First chapter later.
~Ana