Hi everyone, I'm on holidays so I'm not actually sure if it has been a week or not since my last story update. I will definitely try to update regularly (I'm aiming for once a week) but life has a way of getting in the way, so hopefully I don't keep anyone waiting too long. Sorry if any of the chapters seem a bit short, I promise I'm working on it. Also Jesse and Rachel are the same age in this…. Sorry if that bothers anyone.
She was wrong when she thought she wouldn't cry. She'd managed to keep her show face while she was out but as soon as she got home and one of her dad's mentioned him, she broke down.
Simply she said 'We broke up.'
Her dad's understanding that she didn't want to talk about it let her run up to her room where she dissolved into tears. Crying herself into a restless sleep, exhausted from all the emotions running through her, she tried to hate him. The reason he had left her was for his show choir. Sure they may be the top show choir, and his best chance at getting into NYADA, but she knew that if he loved her as much as she loved him, he just couldn't have left her like that. Devastated she concentrated as what she perceived as a lack of love and pretended that she hadn't really felt anything either.
As the weeks and months progressed she found that she was more convincing when it came to making her friends believe that she no longer liked him. She still cried with every solo, them all managing to remind her of him somehow or another, but they never connected the two together, and for some reason she never felt the need to tell them. Everything appeared to be fine until the night after Regionals.
At Regionals she was surprised to find that no one realised that Get it Right had been written for Jesse. Sure she had been careful to make it look like it was directed towards Finn, especially after Quinn and he had gotten together again, only because she didn't want the questions that were sure to follow. Jesse had been gone for 6 of the 9 months and she still couldn't bring herself to hate him, she still loved him just as much as the day that he had said goodbye.
Meanwhile….
Jesse had snuck in to watch the New Directions perform both as sectionals and regionals. He told himself that he was just scoping out the competition, however he secretly knew better. He was still in love with the amazing woman, who seemed to surprise him vocally every time he heard her. However, even after he no longer had to worry about his commitment to Vocal Adrenaline, he knew that he could never have her back. She looked like she was fawning over Finn again and even though it made him so jealous that he could barely see straight, he couldn't actually change that; after all he was the one that had said goodbye.
Rachel sung Get it Right very emotionally, with both Jesse and her thinking about the other and all they would never have. They would never be on Broadway as the best power couple ever, they would never have their long debates about which Broadway tune was the best and they would never get to spend forever just talking to each other again. They had said that they were going to try and be friends and yet every time that they ran into each other it was just awkward. Both of them struggled to go into the music store anymore, wondering if the other would be there and whilst Rachel's performances got more and more emotional, Jesse didn't allow himself to care at all.
The performance ended with the standing ovation that Rachel deserved, with even Jesse joining in. He supposed he was glad about one thing though; even if it's that great oaf that Rachel is chasing, at least he couldn't hurt her anymore.