Like Children
"Are you excited for school Hun?" Kurt questions the girl sitting in the middle of Finn and himself.
"Yup," she turns to Kurt and smiles.
"Good," Kurt smiles looking at Finn.
Finn looks over to Kurt and gives him a look. Kurt just shrugs and looks out the window. They're behind Mike and Matt heading to the school. It's not long to school only a couple minutes, they could have walked but they're teenagers, so they drove.
"By the way I like your outfit. Very gray, maybe too much?" Kurt asks tilting his head to the side examining Rachel's look.
"Really?" Rachel turns her full attention to Kurt. "I call it Gray light," she smiles to Kurt who's just nodding along. (Rachel's Gray light outfit on my profile)
"well it does have a lot of gray," he says.
"And black. Plus-" She pulls out her hands from her pockets, "I added a splash of pink!" Rachel says excitedly.
Kurt looks up to Finn asking for help on what to do. "Just go along!" Finn mouths to his step-brother.
"Wow! What a beautiful color on you!" Kurt squeals taking her hands in his. "Wow that is a great color," he says under his breath.
"What?" Rachel asks.
"Nothing, Rachel."
"Oh okay. We're here!" Rachel looks at her new school.
Finn slows the truck as he pulls into the crowded parking lot. The campus is filled with teenagers and teachers. Here and there you can see football jerseys and cheerleader outfits. Sam and Puck park Puck's car by the Jocks of the school. Mike and Matt fit their way into a small parking space under a tree. The three in Finn's car settle way in the back by the gleeks. Finn shuts off the engine and lets it be still in the truck for a little.
"Ready for this Ma?" Finn turns to Rachel.
Rachel glances up at Finn from digging in a bag. "You act like I'm the immature one," Rachel smiles up to Finn.
"I'm not the one who took a shower outside," Finn arches an eyebrow waiting if Rachel's going to attack with a comeback.
"You have not seen the bathroom," Rachel looks to Finn. She pulls out a couple of papers and exits where Kurt has.
"Hey!" Finn tries to get Rachel's attention but she's out the truck door already. "I'm the one who cleans that bathroom!" he says over the hood of the car.
Rachel make's a disgusted face at Finn. "Still cleans the same," Rachel whispers to Kurt. Kurt stops dusting off himself to listen to Rachel.
"Disgusting men," Kurt hisses making Rachel laughs loud into the school air.
Everyone turns to look for the face of the loud laugh. Rachel continues to laugh up a storm without noticing the students staring at her. Kurt smiles proudly at the attention of the others, he even waves a little.
"Come along you two," Finn laughs nervously as he pushes along the two. The student body continue to stare at the new brunette.
"Relax Finny." Rachel stops Finn right in the middle of the parking lot to look over her schedule. "Okay it says I have... Uh" Rachel tries to read the schedule. "It say's I have sculpting?"
"Yeah!" Finn cheers, clapping his hands.
"Why is the oaf clapping like a baby?" says a voice behind Rachel and the rest.
"Puckerman."
"Berry" Puck nods to Rachel.
"I have sculpting with Rach, great for me. She can help me with my sculpting," Finn nods his head happily. Now Finn will finally have a A in the class.
"You mean do all the work," Mike calls out. Matt and Mike walk out behind a car with their back packs swung behind their backs.
"Shut it Chang! I'm not the one who made Rachel pretend to be you for our fifth grade play!"
"Hey! I was the lead role and I had to sing a part!" Mike defends himself as both him and Matt walk next to Puck, "I had stage fright too! Can't judge a dude on stage fright."
"Well you don't have stage fright now," Sam enters the conversation now. "You always hog the attention with your dance moves. I was trying to sing Quinn a simple Justin Bieber song and you took away the attention with your sweet dance moves!"
"Haha," Mike chuckles to himself. "I have sweet dance moves." he mimics Sam's voice.
"Will you guys please stop fighting?" Rachel asks.
"Look who's talking?" Puck says. "This weekend it was F this F this get out of my way blah blah blah!"
"Well sorry! This is my first day of school. Plus! You caught me on a wrong da- wrong week, okay." Rachel apologizes to Puck.
"She didn't!" Matt says. "Damn she didn't!" Matt laughs to himself.
"Rachel did you just apologize?" Mike asks, thinking he heard wrong.
"Did I?" Rachel asks, more to herself then anyone else. She scrunches her eyebrows trying to rethink what she just said. She whispers something to herself. Something like 'Shoot I did.'
"Aw! I wanted to be the one who got the apology from Rachel, not Puckerman," Finn says with a small frown but it's soon switched with a smile.
"I did not apologize!" Rachel tries to assure them but nothing works.
In the middle of the auguring Puck, Kurt, and Sam are all staring at each other confused. "Um excuse me!" Kurt squeaks in the middle of the argument. "Why is it okay to not apologize?" Kurt asks sweetly to the group. The Jewish boy and Blond nod in agreement with Kurt.
"Rachel made a promise back when we were little not to ever apologize. We all were waiting for her to crack the promise," Mike says.
"Why?" Sam asks, turning to Rachel. Rachel's still trying to think about the apology she supposedly never said.
"Matt tell them the story," She mumbles along.
"As you can tell Rachel has a bit of a temper." Rachel looks up giving Matt a glare. He laughs in return. "Anyway, when we were little Rachel use to come to her dad's work all the time after school. That's how we all met, from our father's work. Well there was this teenager who worked at the shop part time; Rachel had a crush on him. And one day we all were playing in the break room where the vending machines were. He came in-
"BTW his name was Dawn," Mike slips into the story.
"What kind of name is Dawn?" Puck snorts. Everyone takes the time to glance at Puck and shake their head.
"What kind of name it Puck?" Rachel responds quickly after.
Puck first purses his lips, shutting his mouth up. He quickly mumbles something but it's too quiet and fast to hear what he said.
"like I was saying before I was rudely interrupted," Matt gives a little glance at Mike who just smiles. "Dawn came in for his break. Rachel went to go talk to him about her new dress she received from her aunt. We all were in the process of trying to get a soda from the vending machine-
"Who knew vending machines didn't take fake money from play cash register," Finn shrugs.
"Will you guys stop interrupting me!" Matt says. "Okay. Anyway we were at the vending machine trying to get our favorite soda. Then all of a sudden we hear this crash. We all turn seeing Dawn covered with wet substance. Rachel, somehow spilled his drink on him. And all you could hear is 'I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry, I really am sorry'."
"And they all made fun of me! Some friends you are," Rachel points to all three of them; she mumbles the last part but loud enough for them to hear.
"Then she said 'I will never apologize ever again" Finn takes the time to mimic a bickering young girl's voice. The three friends all laugh while the other three look at them like they're crazy.
"That's why you wouldn't apologize because they made fun of you?" Kurt says. He fixes his hair, sweeping it to the side with his pocket comb.
"yes! They almost made me cry," Rachel's voice hitches a little at the end.
The warning bell rings, signaling that school is about to start. All the students walk to the building in heaps of groups.
Finn searches the red crowds for a certain blond and her side kicks. But all he can find is Santana and Brittney who are both swinging their intertwined hands. Finn makes a little pack to himself to watch out for Rachel. And look out for Quinn who's going to certainly do some damage to someone in this group.
Sam walks behind Finn. He notices that Finn's constantly moving his head around. At first he thinks he's just excited but after a while he doesn't. "Finn are you alright?" Sam takes two giant steps to catch up with Finn.
"Huh?" The tall boy glances down to the blond. "Yeah, just you know worried on how Quinn will respond to Rachel," Finn motions up to the small brunette who's practically hopping with enthusiasm.
"Yeah, probably should. Did you see what Kurt sent out to everybody about you two?"
Finn smacks his head with his hand. "Shit! Forgot he did that! Can't Kurt just keep his trap shut for a little?" Finn sighs and ends up rubbing his forehead.
"Finn, he's Kurt. I don't think he can ever shut his mouth."
"I suppose, you're right. I mean he's kept your secret. But then again it wasn't really ever a secret," Finn nods his head to his talking. Puzzled, Sam asks what he mean "I mean he kept that you're, you know gay." Finn says quietly.
Sam's eyes about bulge out of his head. "I am not gay!" Sam screams. Everyone turns to the Sam when he yells. Puck and Rachel snicker to themselves and Kurt shakes his head. "I am not gay, Finn!" Sam whispers the part softer then when he yelled.
"Okay, okay" Finn raises his hands innocently.
The school day goes by fairly fast for all the friends. And suddenly it's lunch time for the entire school. Rachel adds to the many students in the busy hallways. She makes her way to her new locker in the Senior hall. Not many students are in the hall. Most are already out of the building for off campus lunch. Rachel kicks piles of crumbled up paper. She finds her locker number and twists in the three number code.
"Hey look at the new girl" a black girl knocks on Rachel's locker. "I like your hat," She takes off the gray knitted hat from Rachel's head. "Name's Sheila," she speaks with gum in her mouth.
"Give me that." Rachel snatches her hat from the girl supposedly names Sheila. Rachel places her hat on her head, sloppy.
"Huh, I like your style, girl. Hey Quinn what do you think of this girl," Another girl appears from behind Rachel. She resembles Rachel a little with her long hair. She has on skinny jeans with a black leather jacket with a bra under.
Rachel stares with disgust at the girl. Then she remembers what she said. Quinn. Rachel turns around seeing pink first. She leans against the opposite wall of lockers wearing sunglasses in the school. She wears a long skirt and a black tube shirt. Her hair looks like she hasn't washed it in days. Pink stains her blonde hair.
"Did you use pepto bismal for your hair?" Rachel says. She speaks without thinking and it makes the girl mad. She pushes off from the wall and walks over to Rachel.
"What do people call you?" she speaks. Her voice is slow and quiet to Rachel.
"Rachel," she retorts.
The expression on the blondes face changes, she raises an eyebrow. "Rachel, as in Rachel Berry?"
"Yup," Rachel smiles. "You must be Quinn, the Christian. Did you not win the Chasity ball? Is that why you are like this?"
Quinn lip twitches a bit down. "We're going to have fun with this one," Quinn smiles.
"Has Finn seen you today?" Rachel asks the blonde. "I wonder what he would do if he saw you like this. He was so heart broken when you dumped him."
"And how would you know! You left them for three years to go to New York! You don't know anything about them!"Quinn begins to feel her blood boil. "Do you know that Mike might not ever get to live his dream of being a dancer because of his father. When Finn's mom was with Kurt's dad, that was the hardest for Finn, seeing his mother with another man that's not his father. You can't just suddenly come back and expect for everything to be okay. For you to barge in and expect me to be friends with you."
"Quinn leave her alone."
"Santana leave us alone," Quinn says. She already knows who it is before even looking at the person. "We didn't ask for your input. so stay out."
"Come on," Another girl speaks pulling along a silent Rachel. The girl is tall with blond hair much like Quinn with out the pink. Both the girls wear a cheerio's outfit. "don't listen to her, she doesn't mean it. I'm Brittney by the way," she says.
"Hi," Rachel whispers back. She keeps her head down as she walks down the hall.
"I'm Santana," the other girl says with black hair. "Head cheerleader."
"I'm Rachel."
"Where's Rachel?" Puck asks. He sets down his tray of food on the table where the glee club is sitting.
"Yes! Where is this girl named Rachel?" Mercedes looks around the cafeteria seeing no one they describe as Rachel.
"I don't know, Sam was suppose to escort her to lunch," Mike says with food flying out of his mouth.
"She has two legs she can get here on her own," Puck says roughly.
"Please Mike close your mouth when you chew. I told Finn that this morning, now you," says Rachel.
"Rachel don't move or else you will get cut by the Latina," Finn says when he see's Santana and Brittney beside her.
"Relax Finnocence," Santana holds her hands to Finn.
"Now, Rachel just walk to us slowly and don't look her in the eye and everything will be okay." Matt walks up to the brunette and pulls her to the lunch table.
"What happened to your hair!" Kurt freaks out.
"Of course you would care about her hair." Mike sits aside Rachel.
"Quinn and the skank's is what happened." Santana stands next to Brittney over the table where the glee kids are sitting.
"The skanks?" Mercedes gasps.
"Yeah. Quinn looks like crap. And she dyed her hair pink. I don't think her dye came with directions because it looks like she got a pink crayon and colored it," Brittney beams to Rachel. "Or maybe a pink unicorn peed on it!" she gasps. Rachel smiles at Brittney.
"Quinn?"
"Yeah she went all punk."
Everyone gives each other a look, not knowing what to think. Finn looks the most confused but he shakes it off."What did she do this time?" Finn sighs out.
"Harassing her, really." Santana changes her sight on her nails. Her voice grows bored and before they know it both Santana and Brittney are walking off.
"You're Welcome!" Brittney smiles and waves to Rachel. Rachel glances up quick to exchange a smile with the blond.
"Yeah," Rachel says too quietly for them to hear.
"What's wrong Berry?" Puck taps her with his plastic fork.
"Nothing." Rachel smiles up to the group. "Hi. I'm Rachel Berry. Yes I have two gay dad's. I've been friends with these guys forever. And I'm not dating Finn." She shoots Kurt a look before shaking Tina and Mercedes hands and gives Artie and fist bump.
"Hey guys!" Rachel skips over to Tina and Mike. "Why is there this weird guy with a Afro keep following me around filming me and asking me questions?"
"Oh, that's Jew fro or Jacob Israel. He has a gossip blog about the school. Expect to be one of the headlines. Glee club is the biggest gossip in this school pretty much," Mike says as Tina nods.
"He's extremely annoying," Tina adds with an eye roll.
"You can say that twice," Matt adds to the conversation. Matt appears from the corner and enters the choir room with the three others.
The whole glee club has now entered the room and has taken their seats. Finn's sitting by Sam. Beside Sam is Mercedes. Kurt and Brittney are auguring back an forth about a topic that's not important.
"You are a unicorn!" Brittney smiles and claps her hands. See they're arguing over unicorns!
"Brittney leave me alone." Kurt keeps saying over and over.
Brittney gasps covering her mouth. "did you pee all over Quinn's hair?"
"Leave me alone."
"Lighten up Hummel," Santana leans forward giving eye contact.
Artie's in the corner with his head phones. His hands are in the air giving out weird looking dance moves. He hums along with the music playing in his ears. Sam and Finn watch the boy in the wheel chair laughing to themselves.
"Hey guys," Rachel waves to the Glee club heading to her seat in the middle of the glee club. Sam and Kurt sit beside her.
"So glad that you joined Glee club," Brittney smiles down at Rachel..
"Well there was nothing to do after school because all these guy are here," Rachel shrugs out.
"Mmhh." Kurt crosses his legs.
"Hey guys! Welcome back!" a enthusiasm voice says from the doorway of the choir room.
"I see we have a new member joining glee club."
"Yes. This is Rachel." Sam Pulls Rachel up so that she's standing.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Mr. Schuester the Spanish teacher and choir director," He smiles and extends his arm to Rachel. Rachel slaps his hand and smiles.
"You too," Rachel smiles back.
"So what song are you going to sing for us?"
"Uh, Don't rain on my parade," Rachel smiles confidently.
"Ooh , a Broadway classic," Kurt clasps his hands together and smiles brilliantly to the Rachel.
"Yeah." Rachel walks to the band and talks to them as the group a wait for the music to play
The guitar plays first and a steady beat of the drum follows before Rachel starts playing.
It's summer time
All of the time
That's just my point of view
Some try to mess with my vibe
I got no problems
I already solved them
Oh, don't bring me down
'Cause it's all good
Don't like the stormy weather
Oh, don't bring me down
I'm not gonna go there
She starts walking up the risers and jumps down.
Don't rain on my parade
Don't break my holiday
I won't let the clouds get in my way, no
Just wanna have some fun
I'm not the only one
Everything is going so good today
Don't rain on my parade
If people stare
At the blonde in my hair
She goes up to Artie singing in his face. Artie just does his weird arm dance moves. Rachel smiles and continues singing around the room
Won't let it bother me, oh
Say what you like
I don't really care
I'm doing just fine
Me and my sunshine
Oh, don't bring me down
'Cause it's all good
Don't like the stormy weather
Oh, don't bring me down
I'm not gonna go there
Don't rain on my parade
Don't break my holiday
I won't let the clouds get in my way, no
Just wanna have some fun
I'm not the only one
Everything is going so good today
Don't rain on my parade
Can't take my, my sunshine
That ain't right
Even if they try, it's just a waste of time
Can't sway me or phase me
I know it drives them crazy
Watching me having such a good time
Oh, don't bring me down
When everything is all right
Don't rain on my parade
Don't break my holiday
I won't let the clouds get in my way, no
Just wanna have some fun
I'm not the only one
Everything is going so good today
Don't rain on my parade
Don't rain on my, on my parade
Rain, rain, go away
Hey, hey
Don't rain on my, on my parade
I'm having such a good day
Don't rain on my parade.,
"that was not Barbra," Kurt whispers over to Mercedes. Everyone else claps for Rachel who simply smiles and walks over to her seat.
"Thanks"
"I think we just got our 12th member," Mr. Schuester runs his hands through his curly hair.
"Correction our 11th member. Quinn has gone Punk on us. Don't worry it's just a phase, it will blow over soon." Kurt says, waving it off.
"Hey, where's Puckerman?" Rachel asks looking through the members. But she doesn;t spot the mohawk boy.
"Community service. He still has a couple hours to serve til he's done." Finn tells the rest.
"Community service?" Rachel questions but Santana's already pushing her out the door with Brittney.
Okay for the couples in this story that recvied the most votes were
Sam and OC
Matt and Santana
Mike and Brittney
Finn and Quinn.
But you can still vote if you want a different couple :)
Oh! Also a couple reviewed asking if I could add a little bit of Samchel to make Puck Jealous. Should I? Tell me in a review :)