Day 1: One Giant Cookie
Christmas has always been Quinn's favorite holiday. It was the one time a year her parents didn't criticize every choice she made. Instead, they were happily drunk on eggnog and let Quinn free in the mall with hundreds of dollars to spend on "presents". Besides being free of her parents Quinn just enjoyed the general feeling the holidays gave her. Everyone around her was full of vast amounts of cheer and love. It was as though the whole world glisted like the sun off of fresh Christmas snow. Quinn stood at her locker lost in her thoughts of the wonderful holiday and how it was so close. She didn't notice the short brunette come up to her side until she heard an impatient foot stamping.
"What's got you all worked up already? We've only been at school for five minutes." Quinn asked the girl.
"Well you see it's Christmas time, my girlfriends favorite time of year and she won't open her locker to see the gift I got her." Rachel spat out quickly.
"Wait, why'd you get me a gift already? We still have twelve days until Christmas and I thought we were going to exchange gifts that morning when I come over for breakfast with your family?" Quinn questioned.
"You'd see if you'd just open your locker already!" Rachel was ready to open Quinn's locker for her if she asked one more question. It was their first Christmas together and Rachel wanted to make sure it was absolutely perfect for her girlfriend. It took her days to come up with the perfect gift for her girlfriend and she wasn't going to have Quinn's stubbornness ruin it. The blonde saw the look on her girlfriend's face and knew to stop asking questions or else she'd be filing a request for a new locker door. She entered her combination and pulled the lock off revealing a giant, star shaped cookie.
"Rachel, what is this?" She asked, confused as to why a heap of sugary mess was now perched atop her books.
"Just look at it Q. It's special, and not just because I made it!" Rachel smiled, her cheeks nearly splitting from the size of her lips across her face. Quinn picked up the cookie, almost dropping it immediately from the unexpected weight. On it in bright red frosting and Rachel Berry's perfect print was a poem.
Just 12 days 'till Christmas
Isn't that sweet?
You've filed your wish list
and now I've made you a treat.
You'll get a new gift each day
just as the song will say.
One kiss if you guess
the version I've chosen.
But it'll be one less
If your brain doesn't know it!
Merry Christmas Q!
Quinn stared at the cookie, then back at her girlfriend.
"Rach, what in the world is this? Do you mean the 12 Days of Christmas song? Because I'm pretty sure on the first day she receives a partridge in a pear tree and not a cookie." Quinn was completely baffled yet charmed by amount of effort and thought she was positive Rachel had put into this.
"That's why I said you have to guess the version I picked. It's not the traditional song. I did some research and found one that would be a lot more fun because I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't appreciate getting a bunch of different birds and musicians." Rachel beamed hoping Quinn would realize the genius that is Rachel Barbra Berry.
"You really are something else Rach. How long do I have to figure it out before this kiss I've been promised expires?" The tall blonde smirked. Rachel's whole face lit up with joy in that her girlfriend, the girl who is never happy with anything, is going to play along with her little Christmas game.
"I'll give you until day six because if you don't guess it on that one then you will have officially been an even more deprived child than I was."
"You've got yourself a deal Rach." With that Quinn shut her locker and walked hand in hand with her girl to first period.