Hello guys, so here is my Faberry fanfic.
Rated M for later chapters.
It starts after the Christmas episode so watch out for spoilers!
Rachel Berry was walking in the William McKinley High School's hallways, looking straight ahead and trying to look very confident, as usual. She didn't want people around her to know how broken she was inside. She spent all her days alone, going from class to class, seeing these slushies splashing on her face, changing clothes and trying to stay silent in Glee Club. All the days looked the same since she got back from Christmas vacations. Finn was not hers anymore, and nobody liked her enough to talk to her. She just felt lonely.
Even Glee Club wasn't fun anymore. It was now 4pm and she was sitting at the back of the class, trying to keep her mouth shut so people would not pay attention to her. Finn wasn't even looking at her, Brittany and Santana were talking and laughing and obviously flirting and Quinn and Sam were doing pretty much the same. Rachel was the only one just sitting there looking at the white board in front of her thinking about how much she hated to be alive.
Mr. Shuester was the last person to enter the room and everybody stopped talking as soon as he walked in. Rachel was always in admiration in front of his confidence, things she wish she didn't have to fake and just had.
"-Hey kids! So I had an idea for this week's assignment. I was thinking about duets again, but this time it would be with people you would never expect to be with. It would probably make some of you fit in more.
-Can I be with Santana?" Brittany asked, raising her hand.
"-The point of the assignment is to meet someone new Brittany. You can't chose your partner.
-So I can't?"
Brittany looked all upset and Rachel found it really cute, but when Santana slowly caressed the blonde's shoulder, Rachel felt jealous. She wanted someone to act like this with her. She hated this loneliness, and she didn't understand what she had done to deserve this. Okay, cheating is bad but Quinn could do it, get pregnant and go back to being popular all of a sudden?
Mr. Shuester got Rachel's attention when he called her to go pick a piece of paper in his hat. The diva got up and slowly walked towards the piano, without looking back at her classmates. She was secretly hoping that she wouldn't get sorted with Finn, just because it hurt too much to see him reject her all the time. When she was in front of the hat, she closed her eyes and grabbed a piece of paper praying God it wasn't Finn. She then unfolded it and looked at the written name. Quinn.
"-Quinn. Awesome." said Rachel out loud.
She was being sarcastic, as she was sure that having to work with Quinn was gonna be hurtful, she was so jealous of the head cheerleader, she wanted her beauty, her popularity, he smile... She always thought Quinn was the prettiest girl in school and she always felt ridiculous compared to her.
She went back to her seat, noticing Quinn wasn't even looking at her. She was too busy with Sam apparently to even try to talk to her new teammate for the week. How sad. Brittany and Santana managed to be together, Sam ended up with Puck, Tina with Finn, Artie with Mike and Mercedes with Lauren. Drama was probably going to go down with the asian kid having to work with Artie but Rachel didn't even care about gossiping, she was just thinking about how empty she felt inside, as usual. It was weird, not feeling anything cause she was way too heartbroken to even get her thoughts together...
When told the kids they could leave, Rachel was the first one to walk out. She hated this school and just wanted to go home, lay down on her bed and cry like every other day. She was walking incredibly fast down the hallways when a voice called her.
"-Rachel Berry!"
Rachel turned around to see the head cheerleader, Quinn Fabray trying to run after her. Why would she do that if she didn't even care about the diva? The brunette just turned around, she was starting to get mad for no apparent reason, except maybe that her bed was waiting for her tears and she just couldn't be late.
"-Rachel Berry! I just called you! Can you stop ignoring me?"
Rachel turned towards Quinn and let her get closer without saying a thing. She was just looking at her, piercing her with her eyes and trying to keep the anger inside of her body to not seem mean.
"-We have to work together. I'm actually happy I'll get to sing with you I love your voice." Quinn smiled at the diva who raised an eyebrow. She just couldn't believe what was happening, Quinn Fabray was being nice. After checking several times if Quinn didn't have a slushie hidden somewhere, Rachel finally answered:
"-I guess so.
-So what song were you thinking about?
-I don't know and I don't care."
Quinn looked at Rachel, apparently worried, got closer again and slowly grabbed the brunette's hand before she asked with this angelic voice she could use when she wanted to be nice.
"-Are you okay Berry? If you need to talk I'm here for you okay?
-Why would I talk to you. You spend your time trying to torture me and even though you might seem really nice and innocent right now I don't want anything to do with you."
Rachel pushed Quinn's hand away and turned around to finally go home before her anger could find a way to attack Quinn in a much more violent way:
"-And I'm totally fine."
Rachel drove all the way to her house as fast as she could, and as soon as she parked her car in the drive way, she ran into her house right to her bedroom. She locked the door behind her as she didn't want her dads to come in and she crashed on her bed. The emotions took over and she started crying, really bad. She laid down under her covers, trying to hide from that world that was scaring her so much. Her tears were running down her face, wetting the sheets, but she didn't care. She just wanted to disappear. She wanted to fall asleep and never wake up. She wanted to die.
But suddenly, knocks on her door made her come back to life. In a second she opened her eyes and saw her bedroom, she was so upset this life wasn't just a nightmare she could forget about when she'd wake up.
"-Rachel darling, one of your friends is there for you!"
The brunette was still staring at her ceiling thinking about who might care if she ever died, what would change around her, when her dad totally wake her up by saying this. It didn't make any sense since Rachel didn't have ANY friends. She was lonely and she was starting to be scared of being around people. She hated everything about her life. Especially the fact that right now someone was probably trying to pull a prank on her in her own house.
"-Who is it?" the diva asked.
"-Your friend! Just unlock your door she's waiting for you right outside your door, I have to go back to work honey I'll talk to you later okay? Have fun!"
Rachel quickly went in her bathroom to clean her face and then slowly opened her door, wondering who could be behind it. She didn't want to know, she just wanted to be alone, but since her stupid dad let them in she HAD to hang out with them and she hated that idea.
"-Quinn?" the brunette said, really surprised.
She couldn't believe it, the head cheerleader was standing right outside her room with a big smile on her face. She came all the way to the Berry household to make fun of Rachel. This was pathetic.
"-Okay I don't want you here now, could you please leave me alone Quinn?
-Rachel we have a duet to work on! You didn't tell me when I should come so I just...
-I DON'T WANT YOU HERE ALRIGHT?" the diva finally yelled.
Anger was rushing through her veins, if she could have punched Quinn she would have done it. She just wanted people to stop making fun of her and leave her alone. She was always alone usually why would people not keep it that way?
"-You've been crying Berry.
-No. Leave now."
Quinn didn't listen to Rachel and entered the room. The diva tried to not let her but the cheerleader was taller, stronger, and her eyes were staring at the brunette's face who lost control for a moment and totally forgot she had to not let Quinn inside.
The blonde girl made her way to the bed and sat on it, noticing the wet spots were Rachel had spent so much time crying earlier. She was definitively not stupid and knew what was going on. The diva was not acting normally and even though she was supposed to torture her to keep her popularity as high as possible, the cheerleader couldn't deny that she was worried. This duet was a perfect occasion to find out what was going on with the brunette. She liked her better when she was annoying and all over the place.
"-Sorry Rachel, I had to come.
-Why. Why can't you just leave me alone? I'm just asking to be alone, I always am at school why is it so hard for you to do it now? You could be playing Ken and Barbie with your superficial boyfriend right now instead of being here and bothering me."
Rachel wanted to cry, but she was holding it in as much as she could. She hated Quinn right now, she just wanted to have a long knife and stab the cheerleader's heart with it so she could share her pain. She wanted her to leave. She wanted to die. She wanted her to suffer. She wanted to do something bad so she could actually have a reason to hate herself even more. She wanted to destroy herself.
"-Rachel, come sit next to me, let's talk."
Quinn grabbed Rachel's hand before she could escape and pulled her closer until the brunette actually sat next to her.
"-Listen, I've been talking to Mercedes and Kurt a lot. And we all noticed that something was wrong with you. You stopped texting Kurt back a while ago, you're not being annoying as usual during Glee and even when I say things to hurt you, you don't react.
-What do you want from me?"
Rachel was looking away from the cheerleader. She was too scared her tears were going to come back without telling her before. What if that happened? Quinn would have proofs that the diva was heartbroken and was never gonna leave her alone.
"-I'm here for you. I know it might seem really strange coming from me, but I am. I've been through enough stuff last year to know that you need someone you can lean on right now. Remember the song you guys all sang for me and Finn?
-I was singing for Finn. Not you. I don't want to sing to you, you would just turn it into another one of your jokes against me and use it as a new weapon to attack me."
Quinn tried to take the diva's hand and pull her closer for a hug, but this one got up.
"-Leave. Now. Or I'm telling my dad you're hurting me."
The cheerleader didn't know what to say. She knew she had been bad to the tiny brunette but she regretted it now that she was realizing how bad it was hurting her. She got upset and started walking towards the door.
"-Meet me tomorrow in the choir room at lunch, we have to practice.
-No Quinn, I'll tell I lost my voice, if I have to fake it I will. The last thing I want right now is to spend time with you. Now leave my house before I start yelling."
In a minute, Quinn was gone. And Rachel was alone again, under her covers, crying.
