A/N- Rachel and Quinn move to San Diego after living for years in New York City. While in San Diego Rachel meets Noah (Puck) an officer in the Navy on leave for a month. Rachel and Puck quickly fall in love but when Puck has to leave to his duty, he and Rachel both feel lost without each other and when he returns she has news that will change is life forever.
Chapter 1:
Rachel
"Rachel, hurry up don't you want to see our new house" The perky blonde yelled to the placid but talkative brunette as they pulled up to their new house in San Diego, California. Pulling into the garage of their new house was much anticipated. The brunette Rachel Berry was the one that decided the move should happen, but Quinn Fabray was the one who styled the house and knew the moment they stepped in the front door, that this was their house. The girls haven't seen the house in three months but it looked just as nice as when they left it and couldn't wait to check the house out when it was furnished.
Both Quinn and I fell in love with the house when we saw it for the first time but our reason were quite different. Quinn loved the house and the luxury that the house brought since growing up in Lima, Ohio luxury is not a style that many families know. Quinn and I met when they started high school at William McKinley High School. Their freshman at McKinley, Quinn and I were the two biggest enemies the school has ever known. Head cheerleader and leader of the arts didn't exactly mix more of like perspired against each other. But in the middle of our sophomore year was when Quinn and I became the best friends that we still are today.
Rachel was the lucky one this time to follow Quinn after she went running of crying to the bathroom. This has been happening for a week and Rachel was the only one in New Directions or glee club that had not tried to comfort Quinn. Rachel dreaded the confrontation she would have with the head cheerleader since they both knew how much the other hated one another.
"Who is it this time" the blonde snapped when she heard the door close. "Really they chose you." Rachel rolled her eyes and went into diva mode. "Like it or not Quinn, they all said it was my turn to comfort you after you went crying off, you and I both know that we can't comfort each other, what the hell is wrong with you." That caught Quinn by surprise hearing Rachel cuss from the saint that seemed to do nothing wrong. For once looking at Rachel of all people Quinn was not able to be strong. "I'm Pregnant" she mumbled looking down at her cheerios uniform. Rachel looked at her not knowing what to say, she had never thought in her life she would see Quinn Fabray fumble from her tough strong girl attitude. Quinn slid to the floor crying and Rachel sat next to her not knowing what else to do it was the first time that she was truly lost for words.
"Who's the dad?" "Don't know I was raped." Rachel closed her eyes in shock and distress for the girl she considered her enemy. "Worst part is my parents won't care if I tell them I was raped and that caused the baby, only that I'm pregnant and will kick me out." sobbing harder than before she could finally see Quinn's invisible wall go down and let everything out. "Come live with me and my father's." Rachel herself was shocked that those words came out of her mouth. "Why would you do that for me, we hate each other I love seeing a slushy thrown in your face." "Because that hate that we have could be turned around and I'm willing to try."
Since the day that I comforted Quinn in the bathroom we became more like sisters than anything else. And no one could understand what happened in the bathroom to change enemies to sisters.
I on the other hand fell in love with the house because of the location being quiet and overlooking the ocean. Since we have both lived in New York City for the past 9 years, my favorite part of this house is that it would not be like the overpopulated streets of New York and we could truly have her own space. I loved New York and was famous for being in Broadway productions of Beauty and the Beast, Mamma Mia, Wicked, and West Side Story but even the dream that I planed my whole life wasn't all that it was cracked up to be.
"Q I can't take this anymore" Rachel sighed in defeat when she came home from another day of paparazzi's attacking her on the street when all she wanted to do was be with friends.
"What are we suppose to do pick up and leave, would you really want to stop being on Broadway you love it so much." The look of a plan that was forming in Rachel's eyes made Quinn certain that she would regret the idea of mentioning that to her. She knew her best friend sometimes better than she knew herself and know that she had the idea she could never be stopped. "Why not leave Q, we have been here for 9 years with college and then staying around, you said so yourself that you wanted a more quiet atmosphere."
She was stunned on Rachel's sudden change of heart. She always thought that she would be the one to make them leave New York because she could not handle the city not the other way around. "What about Broadway?" "I loved my 5 years on Broadway and the productions I got to star in, but I never felt like anyone in this city liked me more than the Broadway famous Rachel Berry." Quinn couldn't understand her best friend she had always wanted the fame that being on Broadway brought and now she was the one wanting to escape. She knew herself that she wanted to escape the big city, but would have never told Rachel that after all she did for her sophomore year and helping her find a family to adopt her son, she would do anything to repay her. "So where would we be going?" Rachel smiled sitting on the couch forming her plan even more"What do you think of San Diego, California?"
"I'm coming someone had to turn off the car" I said giggling following my best friend up the stairs to the main part of the house. We both stopped in awe when we made it upstairs from the garage and saw the house all put together. The living room's terracotta stone floor was now full with the furniture that was picked out, making the house fit for a movie star, but the best part was glass windows and a door leading to the patio overlooking the beach that made the place truly feel like home. Rachel couldn't wait to spend time out on the beach. "Come on Rach let's explore our house." Quinn and I wondered through the house finding liking every room better and better.
"So I know where we should go" Quinn said giving me the look. "And what would that be Q" I said playing along knowing full well what she was thinking. "The beach, we need to check out the California guys." "I couldn't agree with you more." Heading out to the beach both of them new full well that this was the best decision they could have made the weather was nice and a lot different than the cold and rainy April days in New York.
At the beach Rachel really got to see why she fell so in love with this place when she mentioned it to Quinn. When my Broadway ex-boyfriend Jesse St. James brought me here on a vacation I fell in love with the place and the city, but Jesse not so much. She could remember all too well catching Jesse cheat on her with the blonde California 'babe' as he put it. I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I hadn't heard someone come over and Quinn was now calling my name very loudly. She looked up and saw an Asian and Latina standing by their chairs, one of them was holding a volley ball. "Sorry I was distracted." "I could see that" Quinn said giggling.
"Hi I'm Tina Cho-Chang" the Asian said "And I'm Santana Lopez" the Latina said. "Hi nice to meet you I'm Rachel Berry." "Are you new to the city" Tina asked looking at both of us trying to decide if she had seen either of them before. "Yeah we just moved here from New York" Quinn said taking over the talking for once. "New York that's such a great city my husband Mike and I went there for our anniversary recently." Tina gushed. "Hey by the way Mike and I are having a party tonight, nothing big just close friends. Would you two like to come meet some people in San Diego." "Yes, Yes of course that would be fun great way to meet people" Quinn said jumping on the idea, like she always did to any party. "Great, would you like to play volleyball with us" Santana asked showing the volleyball a little higher. "I would, Rach are you coming" Quinn looked at me and I could tell that she could see that I was still out of it.
"No I think I'm going to take a walk." "You sure?" "Yeah go ahead I'll see you back at home Q." I got up from my chair and headed in the opposite direction of where Quinn was headed to play volleyball. Being back in San Diego came with the price of having to remember the bad that came from here, but this is where my fresh start was going to be, the one that I needed so badly. I was not paying attention to where I was going, or my surroundings until it was too late, smack. I lost my balance when the surf board hit my in the the back of my head and fell down holding my head in pain, I could feel the pain from where contact was struck. "Shit" a man's voice called as he came to face with me and helped me up. "I'm so sorry, I didn't look to where I was going and then noticed I was headed the wrong way" I couldn't feel the pain in my head anymore and totally lost what he was saying when I looked into his eyes.
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