A New beginning.
"Rachel, come on!" Rachel cringed and rolled to the other side of her bed, burying her face in the sheets.
"Rachel!"
"Okay mum you'll be happy to know I'm awake." Rachel yelled back at her mum.
"Well come down for breakfast then." Shelby replied.
As Rachel slowly slumped out of bed, she turned on her curler, and made her way down stairs. Before she had even stepped off the last step, she checked what was on her schedule for breakfast. Scrambled eggs on toast with freshly squeezed orange juice.
"Yum." She thought to herself. As she walked into the kitchen her mother was standing at the stove cooking the eggs.
"About time missy."
"Sorry, I just love the new sheets you bought me. They are so snug." Rachel replied as she walked over to give her mother a kiss.
"Good excuse." Shelby replied, as she bent down to receive the kiss from Rachel. Shelby scraped the eggs from the pan and started mashing them. Rachel walked over and grabbed the toast from the toaster. She grabbed the butter and started spreading it on her and her mother's toast.
"So mum, this afternoon I'll be a little late home. I'm going to Quinn's.."
"Okay. That's fine. Just be home before dinner."
"I will." Rachel replies as Shelby plates up her eggs and toast. They both sit down and start eating their breakfast.
"So how is Quin? I haven't seen her around the house lately. The only person I've been seeing is Finn. You two are getting really close. Anything I need to know..?"
"Mum! There is nothing going on between me and Finn. Were just really good friends. Best friends in fact. If we went out it would be a little weird..I think."
"Okay okay. Whatever you say," Shelby replied with a smirk on her face. "He's a good friend you know, a keeper. "
"I know mum. Thanks for breakfast." Rachel took her plate to the sink and started walking up the stairs. She walked into her room and opened her walk-in wardrobe. She picked out a pink frill shirt and a waist skirt. After curling her hair and finishing it off with a ribbon, she packed her school bag and walked downstairs to get her shoes and leave. She found her mother sitting in the living room watching T.V. She walked towards her mum and gave her a kiss on her cheek.
"Remember. Home before dinner." Shelby ordered.
"Yes mum I will." Rachel yelled back while walking out the door. As she stepped outside she looked around. She looked towards the park bench that was located across the road and right on cue, there was Finn. She smiled and made her way across the road.
"Hey you." Finn said with a smile.
"Hey you. Ready to go?" Rachel replied.
"Ready as I'll ever be." Finn replied. They started walking.
"So how was holidays? Well the days I weren't there." Finn laughed.
"Well on the first Monday, mum made me go to some dance class, she only goes because the instructor is some hunky guy with as she quoted "a hunky body". She won't admit she likes him, but I know she does. And then I went to see my dad's. That was boring because they have gone vegetarian so there is no meat in the house. I'm going to have to take my own food next time. I was in desperate need of meat!"
"You crack me up. My holidays weren't much better than yours. My mum likes this guy and brought him home one night after I got home from your house. Let's just say it was awkward and strange."
"Wow. We both have sorry excuses for parents don't we?" Rachel asked.
"We sure do." Finn replied. Just as they finished their conversation they reached their school.
"Oh great. The term starts off with a lovely conversation from Quinn. Queen bitch of the snobby cheerleaders."
"Just don't say anything stupid." Finn asked.
"Oh hello Rachel. How are you and your boyfriend going?" Quinn asked.
"Shut up Quinn, he is not my boyfriend. You know that. He was the only one that was there for me when you hurt me."
Quinn flared, "oh boo hoo, go have a cry Berry. I don't regret anything I did for one second. So I think it's time you built a bridge, and got over it."
Finn was starting to worry. "Let's go Rachel." He whispered.
"Yes Rachel, go with Finn. You better do what your boyfriend says."
"Quinn I would zip it if I was you." Finn snapped at Quinn. Just as Quinn went to say something back at him, the bell went for rollcall.
"Come on Finn, let's go to rollcall." Rachel hurried Finn.
Finn took one last look at Quinn and turned to walk away.
"Why did you do that?" Rachel asked Finn.
"You don't deserve to be talked to like that. She doesn't have a right to treat you like that."
"I know. But I can handle her. She hurt me bad but I still have my dignity and I can handle whatever she throws at me."
"I just don't want to see you get hurt. Promise me you won't do anything stupid?" Finn questioned Rachel.
"Okay. Let's just get to rollcall. The last thing I want to do is get in trouble on my first day." They both walked off to rollcall.
End of First chapter. Hope you liked it, I'll try and get a new chapter up soon. Please review and tell me what you think!