October was a great month at McKinley. Halloween was at the end of the month, and the "new school year" frights were over.
The best part was watching the orange flavored slushies face plant into people's faces. Seeing those innocent people gave Rachel Berry a reason to walk down the halls with confidence every day.
Correction, she walked down the halls with little confidence every day.
Not even her snug cheerios uniform could help her feel better about herself. The only reason she was on the cheerios was because of her small stature. Without it, Rachel wouldn't be hoisted up to the top of the human pyramid every cheerleading practice and competition. Other than that, she was moderately popular to the girls. The guys thought she was candy on a stick though, with her taut cheerios shirt and short skirts.
That was one reason why she was dating Noah Puckerman, who was known for being a badass. Sure, he only wanted certain things that she wouldn't give to him. He cheated on her before, but that was probably one reason why Noah stayed with her. He liked being in a relationship with someone that didn't care what he did. Plus, they were both Jewish, so he always carried faith with him.
As for other clubs Rachel was involved in, she had joined glee club to showcase her real talent; singing. One day, she wanted to accomplish her dreams of being on Broadway and winning dozens of Tonys. Being in glee club would be step one to achieving her goals.
She was one of the first ones to join, along with Artie Abrams, Mercedes Jones, Tina Cohen-Chang, Kurt Hummel, and Finn Hudson. Finn was one of the quarterbacks on the football team, so they knew one another. He wasn't that bad of a person; quite nice actually.
Then Santana Lopez, Brittany Pierce, Noah, Matt Rutherford, and Mike Chang joined. The New Directions was almost complete. The final piece of the puzzle joined not too long ago, and her name was Quinn Fabray. She had a huge crush on Noah, and wasn't afraid to show it. Even when the couple was holding hands, she'd stare at him like a piece of cake.
On the other hand, Rachel saw Finn look at her a couple times. The two of them had an encounter at Santana's end of summer party. They swore they'd never tell anyone or acknowledge to each other what they did that night. Finn was making it pretty obvious something had happened between the two of them, though.
Since it was the end of the day, it was time for glee club. With her head and pony tail held up high, she walked into the choir room like she owned it. A few people were already there, including her boyfriend. She gave him a light peck on the cheek before sitting down beside him. Rachel looked around the room with her big brown eyes, and of course, Quinn was staring at her boyfriend. She ignored it, and just listened to Mr. Schuester talk.
"Alright guys, mark it on your calendars, because Sectionals is on December 9th!" everyone wasn't very enthusiastic, since no one thought they'd win. Rachel reluctantly flipped through the pages of her planner towards the end of the year. She stopped on August 26th, which said "end of P".
Wait a minute… she flipped through every day of September, and didn't see anything about her then. It was now October 8th, and it had almost been seven weeks since the party. Oh god…
Rachel bolted out of her seat when she heard Mr. Schuester, "Where are you going Rachel?"
"I forgot I had a doctor's appointment today. I'll be here tomorrow," she ambled out of the room in a hurry. Since glee was an after school activity on Thursdays, she was able to leave the school without any questions.
Rachel decided to just walk to the drugstore, since she didn't have her driver's license yet. In Ohio, you could get your learner's permit at fifteen and a half, so she was a few months shy of obtaining it.
She wondered what she'd do if she found out she was pregnant. Getting rid of it was not an option; she wouldn't be able to forgive herself if she did such a thing. The Broadway hopeful should also give it up for adoption since that seemed easy to do. She could also keep it...As much as Rachel would love to see the potential baby grow up, she felt like she couldn't do it.
The drugstore was small but nice. She walked to the back of the store where she went to the family planning aisle. These tests shouldn't be on this aisle.
She went to the bathroom and did what she had to do. Rachel read the box and it said she had to wait ten minutes for results. Why? I don't want to wait in a drugstore bathroom for ten minutes!
She reorganized her purse about twenty times, looked at all the songs on her iPod, and opened up her Barbra Streisand book when the timer on her phone went off.
This is it.
Rachel picked up the white thermometer shaped test and gazed at it anxiously. Then after what seemed like hours, a symbol popped up.
A pink plus sign.
Crap.
Sorry this chapter is so short! Anyways, this is a new fanfic I'm going to be writing. It's basically set in season 1 on Glee, but Rachel's a cheerleader and Quinn isn't. They have the same personalities as they do on the show, though.
Coming up in the next chapter: Rachel tells Puck she's pregnant, and someone else finds out also.