Two days later, word had gotten around school that Mr. Schue had decided to leave school to become an accountant or something like that. Apparently, Rachel had taken over the Glee Club as the temporary director and hoped to become permanent director, but Finn had quit. Quinn and Santana were walking down the hall when they saw Finn and Rachel talking. Quinn immediately went over there. "Hi Finn. RuPaul." Quinn said. Santana avoided Rachel's gaze.
"Hey." Finn said. Quinn narrowed her eyes.
"What are you doing talking to her?" Quinn said.
'Seriously Hudson. Why are you talking to my girlfriend.' Santana thought. Finn stammered.
"Science project. We're partners." Rachel said. Santana raised an eyebrow at the lame excuse. Finn was not in her and Rachel's science class.
"Whatever. Christ Crusaders tonight at five. My house." Quinn said. Santana smirked at Rachel. Quinn grinned at that, thinking that Santana was sending a message to Rachel. Only Rachel and Santana knew what the smirk really meant.
"Sounds great." Finn said. She and Santana walked away. A couple nights later, Rachel was sitting on her bed working on homework when there was a knock on her door.
"Come in." she called. She smiled as she saw her girlfriend enter.
"Hey sweetie. How's your homework going?" Santana asked. She sat down on her girlfriend's bed.
"Pretty good. I was actually about to work on stuff for Glee Club, if you want to listen." Rachel said. She closed the book she was reading and moved to the side of her bed.
"I wanted to talk to you about that. So I heard Finn Hudson joined Glee Club. Is that true?" Santana asked. She laid out on the bed.
"Finn Hudson? Yea, he joined. He's really talented." Rachel said. Santana nodded.
"Yea, his girlfriend isn't so happy about that." Santana said. Rachel looked at Santana.
"Who's his girlfriend?" Rachel asked. Santana looked away.
"Quinn Fabray." Santana said. Rachel raised an eyebow.
"Quinn Fabray? As in, one of your best friends?" Rachel asked. Santana shook her head and held up a hand.
"Q and I are not friends. We both want to be on top. We are competitors." Santana said. Rachel made a 'get on with it' gesture. "Yea. Anyway, I can't stand Finn. I hate that Quinn is still with him. He's obviously with her because she's captain of the Cheerios. It's like he is trying to create the world's most common cliché." Santana said. Rachel sighed.
"Santana, where is this going?" Rachel asked. Santana grinned.
"I want you to pursue Finn." Santana said. Rachel looked at Santana in disbelief.
"I'm sorry, you want me to do what?" Rachel exclaimed. Santana bit her lip.
"Santana that is the worst idea ever." Rachel said. Santana stood up.
"Rachel, just hear me out." Santana said. Rachel sighed.
"Fine." Santana smiled and continued.
"It'll turn away any suspicion that people may have towards us. If you're going after Finn, people won't think that you and I are dating if we happen to be caught talking to each other." Santana explained. Rachel rolled her eyes.
"How is that going to throw off suspicions of you?" Santana sat back down.
"Quinn, Brittany, and I rule that school. We can make someone cry just by glaring at them. If you're going after Quinn's boyfriend, why would I be nice to you?" Santana reasoned. Rachel raised her eyebrow again.
"This isn't your only reason for wanting to do this." Rachel said. Santana looked away.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Santana said. Rachel rolled her eyes.
"Santana, come on." Rachel said. Santana looked anywhere but Rachel.
"I don't know what you're talking about Rachel." Santana said. Rachel smiled.
"You care about Quinn." Rachel said. Santana gave in.
"Fine. Okay, Quinn is one of my best friends. I don't want her to get hurt. And Finn is going to hurt her." Santana said. Rachel looked confused.
"Uh… how is having someone pursue her boyfriend attempting to get them to break up going to prevent her from getting her hurt?" Rachel asked. Santana sighed.
"Okay so I'm going to ignore that you said that and concentrate on my plan. Are you in?" Santana asked. Rachel stared at Santana for a long moment. She sighed.
"Fine. I'll do it." Rachel said. Santana smiled.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, Rachel." Santana said. Rachel nodded.
"You owe me, Santana Lopez." Rachel said. Santana's face dropped.
"I hate those words when they come out of your mouth." Santana said. Rachel smirked and nodded.
"You can start by watching every single musical that I own on DVD with me." Rachel said. Santana's mouth dropped open.
"But that was my punishment the last time you said that." Santana protested. Rachel sighed.
"Fine. I'll think of something else." Rachel said. Santana smiled.
"How about I start with this?" Santana asked. She leaned over and kissed Rachel. After making out for a while, Santana pulled away. "So I want you to start flirting with Finn during your next Glee rehearsal." she said. Rachel raised an eyebrow.
"I guess I can do that. Are you sure you are okay with this?" Rachel asked. Santana nodded.
"I trust you. Besides, if you were to ditch me for Hudson, then there would be something seriously wrong with you." Santana said. Rachel smirked.
"This is true. But like I said, you totally owe me, Santana." Rachel said.
"Yea, yea, yea, whatever. I'm not scared." Santana said. Actually, she was a little scared. But she would never admit that to Rachel.
"So am I supposed to convince Finn to quit Glee or what?" Rachel said.
"No. Keep him there." Santana said. Rachel nodded.
"All right…" she said.
