After School Special

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Chapter 1: It's September Again

SEPTEMBER 2010

Quinn Fabray was one of those strange people, who actually liked the first day of school. It was something that she always looked forward to; there was something about the smell of fresh school supplies that made her happy. Yes, she was a dork, and she knew that. School supplies were not the only reason she liked school though, there were other reasons too; she was a Cheerio, she had the best friends anyone could want, there was also Glee, but the reason Quinn loved school the most was Rachel Berry, her girlfriend.

Quinn never thought she would have a girlfriend, much less a girlfriend by the name of Rachel Berry. It all began in early summer.

Quinn was just leaving the Cheerios summer camp, when all of the sudden it started to downpour. Seeing as she didn't have her car, Quinn thought it would be best to wait out the storm and then she would walk home. Twenty minutes later; it was still pouring, and showed no signs of stopping soon. Figuring she better get somewhere safe, Quinn picked up her bags and started to head home. She only walked about one block, when a car came to a stop next to her.

"What are you doing? You are going to be sick," the all too familiar voice, of Rachel Berry sounded.

"I was walking home. What does it look like I'm doing," Quinn answered, rather hastily. She turned and looked at Rachel's face "Sorry, it's just out of all the days for my car to be in the shop, it had to be today. Plus I am exhausted and starving from practice," Quinn said. It wasn't a great apology, but she was beat.

"Well, what are you still doing standing out in the rain? Get in the car before you get sick," Rachel smiled back.

"Thanks," Quinn replied. Once she was situated, Rachel drove off.

The girls were sitting quietly in the car, listening to the music on the radio. Quinn was pleasantly surprised, that the music on the radio was not show tunes. Right after the song ended, Quinn's stomach grumbled loudly.

Rachel quickly looked over to the passenger seat, and smiled; Quinn was trying to cover up her stomach to disguise the noise. "Would you like to go and get some dinner," Rachel asked.

Quinn blushed, "If you don't mind," she answered quietly. "It's just that I haven't eaten since lunch, and with Cheerio Camp I get hungry faster because of all the exercise. But, I can wait till I get home; it's not a problem," Quinn told, Rachel.

"Nonsense, it's fine. I was actually going to get some take-out from the diner; my dads are on their monthly date night tonight so I have to go there anyway," Rachel assured the blonde.

"Only if you're sure, but do you mind if we eat there? The food tastes so much better if you eat it when it's freshly cooked," Quinn reasoned.

That happened in the beginning of June; by the middle of July, they were dating.

Quinn walked into school, and went straight to her locker. When she got to the hall her locker was located, she saw that Rachel, was already waiting for her.

Quinn gave her a small 'good morning' kiss. "Hey, what are you doing here, so early," she questioned, as she opened her locker and put her stuff away.

"I like to get to school early, you know that. Plus, I like you, also love the first day of school," Rachel answered.

After both girls were done at their lockers, they went over to meet Brittany and Santana at their lockers, and then they all headed to homeroom together. Once they got to the classroom and into their seats' the girls pulled out their schedules to compare what classes they had together. Aside from Glee; there were no other classes that all four girls had together as a group. As it turned out they all had at least one class with each other. Quinn and Rachel were in Honors English 3 and Pre-Cal together and Rachel had Honor's Spanish 3 with Santana. The four girls were talking quietly about Glee. They discussed the types of songs they wanted to sing this year, and what they would need to do in order to beat Vocal Adrenalin. Santana suggested that the next time Rachel went to visit Shelby, she should steal some of her mother's plans for Vocal Adrenalin, but after she saw the look on Rachel's face, which basically said 'are you serious' she quickly shut it down and said it was a bad idea. When Brittany said she had an idea; the other three girls winced, for fear that it might involve animals. However, she surprised them when she said they need to work harder on choreography. All the rest of the girls nodded their heads in agreement, which made the ditzy blonde squeal lightly with excitement and clap her hands. Seeing how excited her girlfriend was, Santana leaned over to give Brittany a kiss; when the bell rang. Santana mumbled something under her breath that sounded like, "Fucking school, with its fucking bells, I can't even kiss my girlfriend." Once Santana was done with her mini rant; she linked pinkies with Brittany to walk her to her biology class. Brittany excited for Biology because the classroom had a turtle and Brittany loved turtles.

"Hey San, do you think that Mr. Wilde will let me feed the turtle," The blonde asked. Her eyes were sparkling with the idea of being able to feed the turtle.

"I'm sure he will Britt, but if he doesn't you can ask him if you can feed it for him"

"Her," Brittany said to her girlfriend.

"Her, what," Santana asked back.

"The turtle… She is a girl not an 'it'. Her name is Shelly," Brittany said to Santana as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Two weeks into the school year, Quinn was already tired of junior year. It felt like every day a teacher was assigning a new project or report; and if they weren't they were talking about how they needed to start preparing for college. Now Quinn understood that junior year would be harder than sophomore year and that 'as a junior' she should start thinking about college, but couldn't they wait until at least October, for the college preparations. It's not like she could apply to college right now anyway. With all the stress going on with her classes, she knew that she could always look forward to her favorite class, Glee, for some relief. Not only was it the only class that she had with both her girlfriend and her two best friends, but it was also the only class where the assignments were fun and the only class where the world college was only uttered if it was about a scholarship. Glee was kind of Quinn's form of therapy, so that she could make it through the day.

Rachel loved Glee without a doubt. She loves that she gets to see Quinn, Brittany, and Santana all at the same time. Seeing Quinn always made her days better, even though she had English and Math with her girlfriend, Glee was the only class that she had a chance to talk to Quinn in class without the fear of getting in trouble. Even though they saw each other multiple times throughout the day the girls always had something new to tell each other.

The thing that Rachel loved, yes loved, the most about her relationship with Quinn was that Quinn was not afraid to be honest with her. Unlike, her relationships with both Noah and Finn, Quinn was not opposed to telling Rachel she was wrong; it made Rachel happy that Quinn was not afraid to defend herself. Rachel thought this was because Quinn saw that her dads, her mom, and her best friend Jesse; were not afraid to knock Rachel a few feet off her pedestal. Rachel knew that Quinn saw the difference between Rachel Berry at school and Rachel Berry at home with her family and close friends. Rachel knew that how she acted at school was a far cry from how she was as a person, but in her own defense, there was only so much she could take. She was not always the diva at school. At first the tiny brunette was kind of shy and reserved; but after the umpteenth slushie facial, pornographic drawings, and vicious rumors; the diva, bossy, and know-it-all side of Rachel reared her ugly head. It shocked her to the core, the day Quinn accepted the ride from her that rainy day in June, and she was even more surprised that Quinn continued to hang out after that.

Glee was turning out to be very different than the previous year. Everyone seemed to bond after their "loss" at Regionals. A few weeks after Regionals, both Shelby and Sue went to the regulators of the competition and told them about how Aural Intensity cheated and found out who the judges were. Once the regulators disqualified Aural Intensity, and New Direction was awarded second place, this meant that even without Sue talking to Figgins; Glee had a second year. All of the Glee kids were at Rachel's house for a BBQ, when Mr. Schue broke the news to the twelve members of New Directions and their parents. The sheer elation that went through the group was enough to bring them together, in a way that no one person could do on their own. That was also the day that Mr. Schue and Shelby told Rachel that they were in a relationship. It surprised both adults that Rachel accepted the relationship with little hesitance. It was still slightly awkward for all parties involved, but that was easy to ignore because they were all so happy. The strangest thing to come out of all the Glee kids becoming friends was not Quinn and Rachel's relationship, but it was when Mr. Schue and Sue saw Santana pull Quinn aside and threaten her if she hurt Rachel. It made Mr. Schue happy to see the kids getting along, but it made Sue proud to see one of her Cheerios stand up for Rachel Berry, the girl she had come to see as a second daughter. Sue had grown closer to the Latina, since Brittany told her that Santana was her girlfriend. However, Sue knew that Santana still took the Cheerio mentality to heart when it came to social high archery at McKinley, so it made her smile with pride when she saw Santana openly stand up for Rachel to one of her best friends.

Today in Glee, Mr. Schue told the kids that their assignment for the week was for each kid to come up with five songs that they would like to sing for Invitationals in October. For the assignment the kids had to rank the songs from one to five, explain why they selected the song, and list who they wanted to sing each song. On top of that the rules for the assignment were that one song had to be just for the boys, one song had to be just for the girls, one song had to be a solo, one song had to be a group number, and the fifth choice had to be one of the four.

After the bell rang, signifying the end of the class and the end of the day; Mr. Schue asked Rachel to stay behind, because he had something he wanted to talk to her about.

Slightly confused, as to why Mr. Schue would want to talk to her Rachel turned to her girlfriend, "I shouldn't be too long, meet me by my locker," she asked. Quinn nodded her head, and left the choir room. Rachel was racking her brain for a reason Mr. Schue would want to talk to her, but nothing came to mind.

"Why did you want to see me Mr. Schue," Rachel asked, rather nervously.

"I was going to see if you wanted to be captain again this year. Also I was thinking of having you guys have more of a choice in the song selection for competitions and other shows that we might do. I know that you all have different likes and dislikes in music; so I figured if I let you all have a say in song choices you would get more out of it," he explained.

"I would love to be captain again. I think your idea to include us more will definitely make everyone more interested and willing to participate, but what does this have to do with me?"

"Well, I was going to see if you would like to help me keep things organized and running smoothly. Between my Spanish classes and Glee, I will have a lot of stuff going on, and I know that you put a lot of heart and soul into Glee, so I thought you would like to do something like this. I talked to Mr. Figgins about it already, and he said with your GPA I would be able to use you as a TA. You would get credits for it instead of money, but you would get to help me make decisions about songs and who should sing them. However, this also means that you have to be fair. You cannot get upset and try to fight me if I want to give a solo to someone that is not you. You would be able to do most, if not all of the work during your study period, so it won't interfere with your life outside of Glee," Mr. Schue, finished. He looked up at Rachel waiting for her to respond.

"I would love to help you, Mr. Schue," Rachel replied, with a smile. "I will need to ask my dads. They will need to sign-off to say I can take the extra credits, but I don't think that they would have a problem with it. And don't worry, I will be completely fair when it comes to songs and solos, I know that everyone needs a chance to shine. I am so excited about this. At first, when you asked me to stay behind, I thought I did something wrong, I am relieved to know it is nothing like that," Rachel said, slightly flushed.

"Rachel you never get in trouble, well not with me anyway. Try and get back to me as soon as you can. Okay," Mr. Schue asked

Rachel nodded her head, and left to tell her girlfriend the good news.

She was very excited about the prospect, of being more involved in Glee. It made her happy that Mr. Schue asked her himself, it wouldn't be like last year, when he ignored her suggestions; he actually wanted her input. Rachel figured that as long as her GPA didn't suffer her dads would let her help Mr. Schue.

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