This is a story about addiction. Unless you watch the show "Intervention" on A&E, you will not understand this story as it is written. Is has a very specific style, a certain way it's written. So, I cannot stress enough, how important it is that you watch, or have at least seen the show.
Also, Jade Price, a character that I've created within Glee stories, is a part of this stories. If you haven't read my other stories involving that character, you probably won't understand that character, or what happens with that character.
Full Summery - Rachel never moved on from messing up her NYADA audition, so she never left Lima. See what goes on when her friends and family try their very hardest to pull her away from her addiction.
Rated M for a reason.
Key Reading Points-
When you see (Name)...that means the person is talking to the camera.
When the paragraph is in italics, that also means the person is talking to the camera.
When the words are underlined like this, it's what is going on within the moment.
When you see [Name]...that means the person is talking to the camera, but not in the interview room. They're talking to the camera when they're within what's going on at that moment.
When you see "!"...it means that something is happening, that wasn't expected to happen.
When the words are centered, and in Bold type, it's a fact, or an explanation.
Again, if you've watched the show, you'll understand this story much better. If not, the way this is written, the style of the words, will not make very much sense to you.
Rachel has agreed to be in a documentary about addiction.
She does not know she will soon face intervention.
Millions of Americans struggle with Addiction.
Most need help to stop.
This is Rachel's Story
(Rachel the the camera.)
"My name is Rachel Berry, I'm twenty-two years old, and I live in Lima Ohio. I like my hometown. I love my family, my father's are amazing men. They raised me well, I'll always be proud to call them my parents. I had a great childhood because of them. Over time I did end up having a very decent amount of friends by the time I graduated. During my senior year...I had an audition, to get into a very important school. I mean...it was the place I needed to be, the place that would have prepared me for everything. I decided to be bold...and change my performance at the very last minute."
Rachel planned on attending The New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts (NYADA) after graduation.
"To say that I choked that day...would be the biggest understatement ever. I...destroyed the one and only chance I had at making my dreams come true."
Rachel was given the opportunity to redeem herself during the audition.
She asked for one more chance, and was denied.
"I'm an alcoholic."
After graduating high school, Rachel refused to apply to any other colleges.
"I didn't really see the point in trying college. I messed up the one chance I had, why bother teasing myself with the notion that...I was actually gonna' have my dreams come true. My Dad's, they took that so hard. They tried, and tried to get me to change my mind, but I just couldn't bring myself to to do it, and I think that...I broke their hearts, because of it. I managed to disappoint them in one of the worst ways. I hate myself for that."
(Leroy Berry to the camera.)
"Rachel was so excited for that audition, she worked very hard to prepare for it. Her dreams were big. So big that she could never imagine doing anything else with her life. We never expected anything less, she's always worked so hard towards Broadway, and everything she's always wanted. We raised her to be a star, because that's what we truly believed she was meant to be. We didn't push her to any sort of breaking point, or make her do things that she didn't want to do. Everything we threw at her...dance lessons, gymnastics, singing, piano, acting. She wanted to do it all, and never got tired of it. The best part of it was, she was amazing at everything she did."
Rachel wasn't introduced to her biological mother until she was sophomore in high school.
(Rachel to the camera.)
"My Dad's were amazing. Not to hard on me, but strict enough, to where I knew I needed to listen to them. I think I've been grounded maybe twice in my whole life, and to be honest I don't even remember what it was for."
Rachel has never had a problem with growing up with gay parents.
"I loved having two dads, and no mom. I actually think having them raise me, has made me into even more of a lady. That's how how gay works I guess."
(Hiram to the camera.)
"Growing up an only child with a gay couple, has had an effect on Rachel for sure. Now, whether or not it's been a good or bad effect, I don't know anymore. I used to think it was okay, because she didn't have siblings, or very many friends, but she was confident, and happy, regardless of any of that. I know she didn't really have too many friends until she hit high school, and I think she always felt bad about that, but we'd always tell her, it didn't matter. The fact that she wouldn't change for anybody, and still went to school being herself every day, even knowing she'd get made fun of...just meant that she was probably the kind of friend somebody needed to have. And they were missing out. The Glee Club, we loved having her involved with that, because it seemed to be a missing piece of her life. No matter the amount of drama that went on within that club, for the most part, it still made her very happy."
(Rachel to the camera.)
"Glee was everything to me. Everything. To this day, I think about all of my friends from that club, every morning when I wake. I'm only friends with some people from Glee now, so I'm always just curious about the others. Like, where they are, and if they've screwed up as much as I have...or if they're happy."
Rachel's drinking has driven most of her friends away from her.
"I think about two people in particular. Finn, my ex-fiance...I think about him a lot. I do still talk to his step-brother, Kurt sometimes. I ask him for updates, but he never wants to actually tell me anything, which is kind of annoying, but he's a drama queen, so whatever."
Kurt doesn't tell Rachel about Finn, because Finn has asked him not to.
"The other person I think about a lot is...my friend Quinn Fabray."
Rachel and Quinn weren't close until their senior year of high school.
"Me and her, we didn't always see eye to eye, or get along. We were always out to torture each other, and hurt each other. It was a huge waste of time, though, you know? I really just always wanted to be close with her, but with the history we had together, it didn't seem like it would ever happen. Eventually it did, but now I...really have no idea where she is, or what she's doing."
Rachel doesn't know that Quinn is back in town, and will be a part of her intervention.
It's three o'clock in the afternoon, on a Friday. Rachel getting out of her car in her parent's driveway.
[Rachel]
"I'm going to see my Daddy...because he's home by himself. It's easier to talk to him, since Dad can't even look at me anymore."
Rachel's Father, Hiram, isn't as hard on her as her other Father, Leroy.
She only visits their home when Leroy isn't there.
Without knocking, Rachel walks into the house and sets her purse down.
"Daddy", she hollers.
"Yeah, in the kitchen, sweetheart!"
Rachel smiles and walks into the kitchen, where Hiram is standing over the stove, cooking something.
"Hi Daddy..."
They hug, and he kisses her on the forehead.
"Hello."
"What are you cooking?"
"It's a new sauce, your Dad wanted to try."
"Oh, so I can't stay long, then right, cause he'll be home soon...", Rachel laughs.
"You know you can stay as long as you want...", he says, seriously.
(Hiram)
"She acts like she's not allowed to be here when Leroy is here. When the actual truth is...she just can't handle being around him. I'll admit, he does get at her about the drinking, and is always very quick to remind her of how badly she's messed things up for herself. So, I do understand why she doesn't want to be near him."
(Leroy)
"I do tend to get angry with her. I say things that need to be said. However, the way I say those things, the way they come out of my mouth...could be better. I love my daughter very much. That is why I am as hard as I am on her, now that she's living the lifestyle that she is. It's okay that Hiram babys her sometimes, because yes, she does need that from at least one of us. That person has to be him, it can't be me."
Hiram and Rachel are sitting at the kitchen table, talking.
"Did you go to work today", Hiram is asking.
"Yeah, but it was only for like...three or four hours, because I was just covering for somebody else."
(Rachel)
"I work as a waitress at a restaurant called Breadsticks. I hate it so much. But, since My Dad kicked me out of the house, I now have to be able to afford rent."
(Leroy)
"The last thing I wanted to do was kick my little girl out of the house, but I had to. What she was doing wasn't right, it wasn't okay. You know, here's my daughter, nineteen years old, drinking in her bedroom until four in the morning. Or, sitting the basement drinking until she passes out. I couldn't have it, she was underage, she had a fake ID, she was bringing all this alcohol into our home. She needed to leave."
Back in the kitchen:
"So, now what? You're going home, or...".
"Not right away. I'll probably go see Noah and Jade for a little while."
"Oh, at the bar?"
"Yeah. See if she needs anything, maybe I'll hang out for a little while."
"To drink?"
"Yeah, Daddy...to drink, God...".
"Please don't get upset, I was only asking...".
"You know damn well that's what I'm going to do, so why the Hell would you even ask?"
Hiram just shakes his head.
(Rachel)
"When I get up, and have to go to work, and I haven't had a drink yet that day...I get very angry. It's not very hard to piss me off when I haven't had a drink. I feel so guilty about it later on though, it never fails."
"Okay, I'm sorry. So you're going to the bar, will somebody be able to take you home? I don't want you driving when you leave there", Hiram warns.
"Noah probably will, it's fine. He always takes me and Jade home."
(Rachel)
"After my fiance and I broke up...he moved away. We had planned on moving to New York together, so he applied for a school, and got in. I didn't really expect him to stay behind with me after I screwed things up, so we tried the long distance thing for the first month he was gone, and it just didn't work. So, we broke up, and he stayed there. Pretty much all of my friends were gone, and so I spent a lot of my time with Noah Puckerman."
Noah Puckerman (Puck) dropped out of high school after failing his senior year.
He works as a pool cleaner, and a bartender in a local bar.
"Noah's my big brother, I adore him. He's been so good to me, and I love him to death. He was working a lot more than I was after we'd gotten closer. So, I went through a...weird period of time where I was very lonely. I was sneaking wine, and wine coolers into my bedroom, and just drinking alone, and crying. It was really bad, and of course I was thinking it would never get any worse than that."
Rachel got so drunk one night, she almost drown in her bathtub.
Noah showed up just in time to pull her out.
(Puck)
"Yeah, this one night I was finishing up with work, looked at my phone. I seen that I had a bunch of messages and missed calls from Rachel. When I tried to call her back, there was no answer so I got there as fast as I could. You know, knocked on the door, ended waking her dads up. We break her bedroom door down, get into the bathroom, and her head is under the water. I had to pull her out and give her mouth to mouth."
(Rachel)
"I don't remember that night, at all. I don't doubt that it happened, I just...really don't remember it at all."
(Puck)
"I kinda' think that was one of the strikes with her and her dads...after that, they started paying more attention to what she came home with every night. They were starting to realize that she had a small problem. At least back than, it was still a small problem. I couldn't be there all the time to cover for her, or talk to her when she needed...and that scared me. So, I decided to introduce her to another really good friend of mine, Jade."
Jade Price also dropped out of high school her senior year after failing.
"We hung out a little bit during school, but after we both failed, we were kinda' there for each other, and she found a second job for me."
(Rachel)
"One the happiest days of my life will always be the day I met Jade. She's an absolute blessing. She's my best friend. During school, I knew of her, but I didn't really know her personally. She kept to herself at school, but I do remember she smiled at me every single time I passed by her in the hallway. She's this beautiful, amazing, African American girl, with a personality like no other, you know? You look at her, and expect her to be mean, and tough, but then she opens her mouth, and the sweetest little voice you've ever heard comes out. After I was kicked out of my house, we got an apartment together, and we've been best friends and drinking buddies ever since."
(Jade)
"My name's Jade...I'm twenty-two years old."
Jade knows she's also an alcoholic, but refuses to admit it.
"I've lived in Lima my whole, and it's not really a terrible place. It's just a place where I don't think I belong. I don't really think that Rachel belongs here either, and I think that's why we get along so well. During school, I barely ever talked to her, it was like...why would somebody that talented, and that adorable ever talk to me? I always wanted to get to know her, but I didn't think she'd ever give me the time of day for friendship. So when Puckerman told me he had a friend that he wanted me to start spending time with, and it was Rachel Berry, it blew my mind. Because, Puckerman had been talking about a friend named Rachel, who was falling apart, and he was worried, or whatever. Never in a million years did I think he was talking about her."
Jade's family owns a local bar, called Jolt.
Jade manages and tends the bar.
"One night, Puck comes walking into my bar with Rachel, and she looked so sad. So little, and so warn out...".
Jade starts to tear up.
"...I mean, you just wanted to hug her, and hold her until all her pain went away. So that's what I did. She was introduced to me, and I pulled in, and hugged the crap outta' her...I couldn't help it. She's been like a sister to me ever since."
Jade drinks with Rachel every single night.
"I know that I enable her. I know that her being around me is probably not the best thing. But, I promised her I would never leave her, and I want to take care of her. I hate what I do to her, I hate that I'm contributing to her problem...but I just want her to be happy...and, she's happy when she drinks, we both are."
(Puck)
"I enable both of them, because I drink too. I'm not an alcoholic, I don't drink every single night like the two of them. I know when I've had enough. Plus, some nights I have to say sober, just so I can watch them. Those two drink alcohol like it's water. I remember one night thinking how crazy it was that two chicks can handle alcohol like two damn bikers. With Rachel...she's really small, so it didn't take that much to get her drunk to begin with. Now that her tolerance is higher, she takes it as far as she knows she can go. Sometimes, farther. That scares the shit outta' me, but...I feel so bad. I just want her to be happy, so I let her drink. I'm pissed at myself for that...but it's the truth. I can't say no to her, and neither can Jade. We both enable the Hell out of her, and it sucks."
Friday evening. Five o'clock. Rachel is walking into Jolt.
"I'm so excited to see her. It's so lame too, because I just saw her this morning when we both left for work. I miss her every time we aren't around each other", Rachel laughs."I think that's probably why people think we're dating."
Rachel walks into the bar, and barely any other people are there. Jade is standing behind the bar. When she sees Rachel, she runs from behind the bar, hugs her, and picks her up.
"Hi Rea Rea...", she says.
"Hey you, I missed you."
"I know, I missed you too. You need a drink", Jade asks, as she puts Rachel down.
"Oh god, are you kidding me", Rachel laughs.
"Come on, come sit. Puckerman's gonna' be here in a bit."
A few minutes later, Rachel is sitting at the bar with a drink in front of her. Jade is standing behind the bar in front of her.
"Went to my parent's today...".
"Yeah", asks Jade.
"Yeah, Dad wasn't home...but Daddy wants us for dinner tomorrow, he asked right before I left."
"Wait, are you gonna' go? What if your Dad's there...".
"I told him I'd go, as long as you could come with."
"Yeah, I'll go, you know I will."
Jade pours herself a shot, and takes it.
(Hiram)
"Oh, Leroy and I, we love Jade to death. Very sweet girl, always there for Rachel. However, we do know that she has a drinking problem. We know she's in denial about it, but we are aware that she has the same problem our daughter does. It's a shame, because the bond they share is so strong, and such a beautiful thing. It's just...the drinking is a huge part of that bond, and I just wish they would have bonded over something else."
(Leroy)
"Rachel and Jade are bad for one another. They are just absolutely poinsoness to one another. Jade is a sweet girl, and Noah is a very dependent young man. However, the friendship between the three of them is just unhealthy on so many different levels. When Jade is in my home, I am just as hard on her as I am on Rachel. I know her home life wasn't great, and her parents didn't act as parents to her. Rachel has said on more than one occasion that she wishes Jade would have lived with us through her childhood. I understand that, I respect it, but if that's what Rachel wants, it's what she's going to get. If she wants me to to treat Jade like my own daughter, than I will. I will be on her case about the drinking as much as I'm on Rachel's."
(Jade)
"Rachel's dads are so amazing to me. They're very loving towards me, and I really appreciate them. I wished they would have been my parents when I was growing up. Yeah, her Dad kinda' gets on my case sometimes, but it's okay, I know he only does that because he cares about me. I feel like I'm letting them down, I know that I'm letting them down. I feel so bad, but...Rachel is my number one priority. I hate to say it, but she comes before anybody else, and that includes her dads."
!
Quinn has just shown up at the bar with a mutual friend of her's and Rachel's.
Rachel saw her, and immediately went outside.
[Rachel]
"Quinn's here...so I'm like freaking the fuck out right now. Quinn does things to me, my emotions get crazy around her. I haven't spoken to her in years...I...I can't even believe she's fucking here right now. Like why the fuck is she even here...".
Rachel lights a cigarette.
"She has to leave...I can't be in that bar with her. I can't...b-be anywhere with her. Why is she fucking here?"
Inside, Quinn and Mercedes are sitting at the bar, talking to Noah, who's bar tending.
"Is she drunk right now", Quinn was asking.
"Oh God yeah, she's drunk right now", says Puck."...her and Jade have been drinking sense like five or six o'clock. They'll keep going until real early in the morning too".
"This is crazy...", Quinn says.
"I told you, but you didn't believe me", Puck laughs.
"Yeah, well I didn't think it had gone this far...she does this every night?"
Puck nods.
"Why can't she be in here right now", Mercedes asks.
"I dunno'...Jade just went to talk to her...", answered Puck.
Outside, Rachel is crying into Jade's arms.
"Why is she fucking here...get her out Jade...get her the fuck out or...let's g-go home. I don't wanna' be around her...".
"Rea Rea...you've been wondering though, you've wanted to see her so bad...why are you freaking out", Jade asks.
"No, fuck her...get her out of here or take me home...I can't do this right now. I wanna...g-go..h-home...Jade...please can we go home?"
"Okay, alright baby, it's okay. We'll go home...it's okay."
Jade is approaching the bar area to talk to Noah. She smiled at Quinn and Mercedes, hops over the bar, and falls onto the ground. Earning attention from other customers.
"Oh god...is she okay", asks Quinn, as her and Mercedes stand.
"Jade...what the Hell, you couldn't just walk around", asks Puck, as he pulls her up."You okay?"
"I'm good...I'm effing fantastic...we gotta' go though", Jade slurs.
"Why do we need to go", asks Puck, holding Jade up.
"R-Rea Rea wants to go home...you gotta' take us home."
"I can't...I take you guys home, who's gonna' work the bar?"
"Alright yeah...yeah okay. So, she's in y-your...truck right now though, Puck...so you want me to just have her pass out, we can wait for?"
"Well yeah, you both can pass out in my truck."
"Ok-kay...okay...", Jade slurs.
"Come here", said Puck, pulling Jade towards the bar counter."You need to be polite, say hi to Quinn and Mercedes. You remember them from school, right? Can you say hey?"
"Hi Jade", says Quinn.
"Jade...what's up baby girl", says Mercedes.
"Oh wow, yeah...I remember you guys! You guys are amazing I love you! We gotta' go though...I'm sorry we gotta go...Rachel needs to go home. I don't w-wa-wanna be rude...I'm so sorry", Jade slurs.
"Where's Rachel now", Quinn asks.
"She...she's outside in his truck out front...we gotta' go home so I can put her bed. She's u-upset...".
"Okay, Jade I'm going to let you do that, but will you do me a favor? Will you let me go talk to her for a minute before you go take her home", Quinn asks.
Jade looks at Noah.
"It's okay, just let her...it's okay", says Puck.
"O-Okay...okay...but...be nice. You can't be mean, you gotta' be nice Quinn", Jade slurs.
"I will be nice, I will. You promise it's okay for me to go see her?"
"I promise...go see her, but just be nice."
(Quinn)
"Rachel means everything to me. I've been hearing these stories about her for a couple years now, and at first I was like...no way, not Rachel Berry. But after the stories continued, I looked into it, I made some calls from where I was...I was in New York. I found out that it was true, and I lost it for a little while. Once I knew for sure it was true, I broke down, and cried my eyes out. I couldn't believe it. So, being back here for her means everything. I will find a way to help her, I will b e apart of getting her the help she needs, no matter what. I will not let her fall."
Quinn has just opened the passenger's side door to Noah's Truck. She starts to slap Rachel lightly in the face to get her attention.
"Rachel...wake up. Wake up right now, I need to talk to you."
I know, it's kinda' weird. BUT, if you watch the show, you shouldn't have a problem reading it. Please R&R. Love you guys.