Thank u for the amazing response, so I decided to continue. Sue is really nice in this story by the way, but only to Santana and Quinn and Rachel, no one else, she's still horrible to the other girls and the glee club. Anyway, Read and Review :)
I will add small tiny flashbacks in these stories when something triggers Rachel's memory and slowly she'll start putting the pieces together :)
When the bell for next period rang, Santana and Quinn pulled away from their hug "Remember our first day here? We thought the ideas of mirrors in lockers was stupid" Quinn laughed "And I remember you putting your picture in your locker" she thought back to that day when they were young.
"I know, I was just thinking about that" Santana admitted "And now were the new Sadrina whatshername" Santana wiped her eyes and shakily turned around to the door "Hey" Quinn grabbed onto her arm "Are you going to tell her?" she asked.
"I have to. Even if she doesn't remember me I have to tell her" Santana shrugged "She has to remember"
"Exactly" Quinn walked closer to her "You should wait until she remembers, that way she can start remembering you and get to know you"
"But how am I suppose to do that without people asking why I'm hanging around a Freshman?" Santana asked "She signed up for glee club remember?"
"Then just make her sign up for Cheerios, at least then you'll be able to keep an eye out for her, do what the seniors did to us, pass her a flyer, do some convincing, but in front of everyone else just say you needed little people to shoot out the canon" Quinn said "And we're head cheerios, we won't actually let that happen"
"Good idea" Santana nodded "Yeah, that's actually a pretty good idea" she said approvingly. Quinn lopped her arm around Santana's "We better go get them flyers"
Rachel gasped when her locker was slammed shut with a loud bang echoeing down the hallways. It was almost as worse as the slushy; the fear. She turned around and was met with Santana Lopez and Quinn Fabray and visibly gulped. The rest of the hallway stopped to witness the two head Cheerios crowd the younger Freshman, but all Rachel could see in their eyes was desperation, not that she would ever say that out loud.
"W-What can I do for you?" Rachel asked nervously.
Quinn handed Rachel a flyer "We need little people for our team...squirt" Santana said not going for an insult but an endearment for Rachel instead. She winked at her and Rachel took a step back shocked.
"I don't know" she said eyeing the flyer "I never imagined myself as one of...them"
"I think you'll be perfect for the team squirt" Quinn suggested. Rachel read through the flyer, what had she got to lose? But she didn't trust the Cheerios enough yet "How do I know this is not a prank or a joke? And when I turn up you and all the others girls are going to give me the worse slushy shower of my life?"
Santana sighed, it still hurt to know Rachel didn't remember her, and now she learnt she was afraid of her too "Don't be late, we tend to automatically crush your dreams if you're a second off that clock"Santana said. Then her and Quinn spun around and walked down the hallways, everyone gaping at them but they ignored the looks and waited to see if Rachel would actually turn up to the tryouts or not, as she was already automatically on the team if she did.
"Okay, Auditioning for new baby Cheerios, next!" Sue called into her speaker and the next timid Freshman nervously walked to stand at the front of them. Quinn cocked her eyebrow "Your name?"
"U-Uh yes..my name...my name is Lilly Heshvan and I'm here to tryout for the Cheerios" Lilly said nervously and her hands were shaking as she held onto the pompoms for dear life. Santana snorted and leant back in her chair bracing herself for this painful audition.
Lilly raised her pompoms and started slowly cheering "C-H" she spun around "E-E-R" she raised her leg "L-O" and threw her arms up "Cheerios!" Quinn glared at the girl "That was the most horrid thing I've seen in my life, you clearly don't know that to be a Cheerleader you have to actually no how to cheer" Santana was nodding in agreement but when she turned her head to the door she saw Rachel watching with her mouth open as Sue was flying insults at the girl.
"And you have to know how to spell Cheerios!"
Lilly bit her lip to stop the tears "NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF MY GYM!" Sue yelled throwing what looked like a pen at her and Lilly dropped the pompoms and bolted out of the gym with her head in her hands. Santana saw Rachel quickly take off as well and cursed before she got up to go after her. Now the little diva was scared.
"Lopez, where are you going?" Sue yelled.
"She's going after Rachel" Quinn whispered. Sue nodded immediately, she knew about Santana's situation so she was always nice to her for it, Sue was like family, and so she put Rachel straight on the team even before she auditioned for Santana's sake. Any family of Santana's was a family of hers.
Santana speeded out of the gym and saw her little sister running down the hallways "Rachel wait!" she called chasing after her. Rachel slowed down slowly but didn't turn around and in the delay, Santana caught up with her "Where are you going, you have to audition?"
"And face Sue Sylvester? No thanks" Rachel said turning away but Santana grabbed onto her hand and at that moment she saw something that had been stored in the back of her mind.
Flashback
Rachel could see a hand holding hers. The room was yellow and Rachel was looking down with teary eyes to the hand she was holding and it made that special spark. Her hand looked tiny, like she was very young holding onto an older girl's hand, but she couldn't see the face of her yet. Just the hands.
End of Flashback.
"Rachel are you okay?" Santana asked. Rachel quickly pulled away and looked up at Santana like she was a ghost "Yeah, I am" she said. Santana didn't look convinced but she slowly slid her arm around Rachel and pushed her back towards the gym.
Rachel stopped "I don't-"
"You don't have to Audition" Santana told her.
"What? Why?"
"Because you can dance, right?" Knowing she signed up for glee club she probably could. Rachel nodded "And you can sing?' Rachel nodded again with a smile "Then you're on the team"
"But what has that got anything to do with cheerleading?" Rachel asked. Santana looked at her seriously "It has a lot to do with it, plus, all you have to do is maybe stand at the back of the field and not do anything, like I use to in Freshman year"
"Why are you being so nice?" Rachel asked before they entered the hall "What?" Santana asked.
"Cheerios are suppose to be heartless, but you're being nice" Rachel said confused and intrigued. She stared up with big brown eyes at Santana and Santana looked away trying to think of something "Um..well, I'm saying from them hideous clothes" Santana said "When you're a Cheerio, you'll wear uniform, instead of walking around like that" she said.
Rachel never thought she would join the Cheerios. But so far, the only friends she had made were Cheerios. She just hoped this wouldn't backfire and nodded before letting the older Latina lead her back into the gym. She wondered about that flashback, and if she would have anymore.