Hi! First of, I want to thank you so much for taking the time to review and put the alert on this story, it means a lot more than you think. I will try to keep you intrigued and hopefully you like where the story is heading as more chapters are posted, this one is a little shorter than I usually write my chapters, but I couldn't join it with anything else so…yeah, anyway, I'll let you read already, enjoy!

She came back to the doctor's office four days later with a response on her mind, she was just worried about not feeling it in her heart, which was always the one making the choices.

Rachel was sitting on one of the stiff plastic chairs in the waiting room, debt to all of the comfortable seats were occupied, she was trying to read '100 años de soledad' for her AP Spanish class, but she couldn't get one word of it. She was certain that from afar she looked ridiculously conflicted by reading a book in a language she only understood three words of it, and was sure that didn't even know how to pronounce them. Yes, she was absolutely doomed, Rachel only took the AP class because she thought it would look good on her resume and also because she wrongly thought Mr. Shue would be the one teaching it. Her reading was interrupted by another teenager siting down beside her, who looked exaggeratedly dressed up for a doctor's appointment, Rachel's attention also got caught by the little bandage on top of her nose, which looked incredibly swollen, and she had bruises all around it, making her look like she had either not slept in a month or had gotten in a fight, both of them highly doubtful.

"I recently had surgery." The girl explained, looking back at her. Rachel felt how her face flushed of a soft red, embarrassment, she wasn't usually so indiscreet.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stare." She apologised and went back to her book.

"Are you thinking of fixing that?" The girl warmly asked, pointing at her swollen nose, which still looked pretty damn bad.

"Uh, maybe." Rachel answered honestly. She looked at the clock on the wall, she still had a good five minutes to think about it. "Do you think it's worth it?" She asked the girl, collecting everybody's opinion except for hers.

"Well, if you really don't like it, then change it, there's nothing wrong about it. I for one have no regrets, once this beauty has recovered fully, I'll be a new me. It was my New Year's resolution." The girl said smiling, glowing happiness. And Rachel had to really think twice about it, she could either end up making the best decision of her life or regretting it for the rest of it. This decision was a big one and she couldn't do it on her own. But it was way too late to go running out the door.

"Rachel Berry?" A familiar voice called and Rachel looked up to meet once again the curly haired boy's eyes and she felt the odd need to stay. She got up from her sit, careful to not forget her book and followed the guy once more to the examination room, following the same routine as before. "You're in luck this once, broken nose girl, the doctor is in the office today." Rachel dismissed the nickname, finding it just a little funny.

"Then where is he?" She demanded.

"With another patient, he will be here as soon as he finishes, his words, not mine. so do not hold it against me." Rachel nodded, twitching her teeth nervously. She looked at the guy and cut a glance of a name tag which he immediately hid on his pocket. Rachel smirked momentarily. She wasn't a bad human being; she wasn't going to get somebody fired just because of some not so respectful words, she didn't know him, knew nothing about this guy's life, maybe he was just having a rough day, like she had, he couldn't be blamed because of that.

She did caught a J from his name tag, at least she could play guesses now while waiting.

"Jason? No, you don't look like a Jason." She started.

"What are you talking about?" He asked, slightly confused.

"Your name, you didn't tell me last time, I know it starts with a J and I just simply want to know, don't worry, I won't get you fired." The guy arched and eyebrow but curved his lips into a smirk and then nodded.

"Okay, let's see if you can guess." He agreed.

"Jeremiah?" He laughed.

"No, do I look like a Jeremiah to you? I am far better looking than any Jeremiah." Rachel rolled her eyes but kept going.

"Justin?" He shook his head.

"Jeff?" Was a no.

"Jamie?" No again.

"James." He shrugged.

"Jonathan!" He laughed again. "It is, isn't it?" He shook his head. "You do look like a Jonathan anyway."

"Well, I am not." He said. "Keep them coming, this is kind of fun." Rachel frowned.

"Jonas...Jack...Julian..." And all three were wrong, she was about to give up when the doctor came in with her answer.

"I'm sorry for making you wait, Rachel. Jesse, could you bring me her chart?" He smirked at her.

"Of course, doctor, right away." He said mockingly facing his boss who just sighed worn and then exited the room.

Jesse. It was a pretty name, she thought all the way back home, pretty enough to match the person. She wasn't going to deny that she felt attracted to him but there was also his attitude which made her take a step back on him. He obviously had a problem with authority, with that one she could not relate, at all, no matter how hard she tried to twist the concept of Rachel Berry. When she saw him, Rachel could not help but act around him as if she had long ago met him, anyhow, his face always seemed familiar and she could not make out from where. And just as his name was revealed to her, Rachel felt like two pieces of a puzzle finally clicked together, but so far away from seeing the whole image.

She wanted to be pretty, pretty enough to turn heads on the street like Quinn always did in the hallways. Her insecurities had not disappeared the day Finn suddenly told her he loved her, they just started growing in other directions and when she caught him staring for too long at a Cheerios skirt they started growing even more. Pretty was all she wanted, and if a nose job would get that for her, then she was on board.

Her dads had been supportive of her choice, much different from her glee friends who just had started with 'Rachel, why do you hate yourself?' Week, and it was annoying. She didn't hate herself, they were all clearly over reacting, and while Finn's 'Rachel you're beautiful' sentence would've done the trick before, today they just were meaningless words put together in order to get something done out of her. All her so called friends were acting like a bunch of hypocrites, they all had things they didn't like about themselves and tried to change that every day, and once she tries to, suddenly, it's unacceptable. She was surprised when Santana was the only one who was kind of supportive and Rachel had to admit that it was entertaining watching Santana truth-attack somebody that wasn't her.

Rachel had also been thinking about what the doctor had said to her the first time she was at his practice. That a nose job was kind of a passing ritual for Jewish girls? No. The thing about Barbra Streisand; she was her absolute idol, she had broken through the beauty standards everywhere and had succeeded like no other, but, she was also one in a million. Rachel had always thought that talent was all that mattered, but as she grew older she started to realize that looks are very important too and if high school hadn't hit her so hard she wouldn't be so self-conscious right now. But, if she had learned something so far; the secret to popularity and success was always without doubt beauty.

Concluding: she was going to be a new person and nobody could stop that.

Aaand that was it, see? I told you it was short xD but anyways please leave me a review with your thoughts on it, what do you think Rachel might end up doing? And anything else you can think of, constructive criticism is very well welcomed as well.

I hope you guys had great holidays and Happy New Year! :DDD 2016 please don't make such a mess of me xD