Main Characters
Quinn Fabray- 16
Rachel Berry- 16
Blaine Berry- 16
Noah 'Puck' Puckerman-Berry-18
Katy Berry- 8
Hiram Berry- 48
Judy Fabray-Berry- 41
Chapter 3:
It was the second month of the school year and life with Rachel wasn't getting any easier for Quinn.
She hadn't wanted anyone to know that she was related to the biggest loser in school- even if not by blood. In all honesty, Quinn knew her secret would come out some time. She had just hoped that it wouldn't be so soon as the third day of term!
Just before Glee Club practise had started that day, Rachel ran over to her and in front of the whole club had told Quinn "Daddy wants to know if you like Breadstix." The whole truth came out there, and Rachel also got a slap on the face.
Anyhow, the fact was that Quinn and Rachel hated each other, everyone accepted it, except (seemingly) their parents. Hiram and Judy had kept the girls sharing a bedroom. It wasn't small but it wasn't big either. The girls had divided it right down the middle with a long skipping rope of Katy's. Rachel's half of the room was mostly pink. She had a pink flowery bed, a corner of cuddly toys, a sparkly CD player, sparkly microphone and stand, posters from Broadway musicals all over her walls and cabinets filled with trophies from singing and dancing competitions.
Quinn's side of the room was red and white- McKinley's colours- as was her bed. She also had cabinets filled with trophies- but Quinn's were for gymnastics and cheerleading. Quinn's posters were of cheerleading magazine front covers (an enlarged one even had her face on it) and some religious ones.
The two of them were so different and had so many reasons why they hated each other, however, Rachel could have bore Quinn if it hadn't been for the day that she saw Quinn kissing her crush, and all the moments that it resulted in.
Rachel and Quinn had one thing in common though, they both always got what they wanted. Although, in this case, only one could win and neither of them were backing down anytime soon.
~~Life With Rachel~~
"Taylor Swift," Mr Schue declared as he scrawled it in his messy handwriting across the board, to a chorus of groans from all the guys. "Someone tell me who Taylor Swift is."
Of course, Rachel's hand immediately shot up, but unlike usually, most of the other girls (excluding Santana- who thought she was too bad for country) also put their hands up.
"Brittany," Mr Schue smiled at the girl who hardly ever spoke in Glee and usually just sat whispering with Santana and Quinn.
"Team Jacob!" Brittany grinned. "He's like, really hot, and San and I went to LA last summer and stalked him cause we both had a dream where we straddled him an-"
The Glee coach was bright red. "Okay! Thank you Brittany. Quinn?"
"Taylor Swift is a country and pop singer who has won multiple awards. She's my personal musical icon." Quinn smiled, everyone gaped at her, surprised that she sounded so much like Rachel.
"Well, she is. Deal with it." Quinn hissed and then switched to her sweet persona again and gave Finn a quick kiss on the lips. Rachel noted that Mr Schue said nothing about the PDA- despite constantly complaining if anyone else kissed in his lesson.
"Taylor Swift is indeed, as Quinn said, very talented. Give me an emotion to do with love." Mr Schue pointed to Finn.
"Uh..." He stared at Quinn, not wanting to say anything wrong. "In love?" Quinn pecked his cheek happily, clearly fine with his choice.
"Taylor has a song for it, an example is Love Story." Then he pointed at Tina who shrugged,
"Angry," before quickly assuring her boyfriend Mike that she wasn't.
"Picture to Burn, Rachel." He pointed to the small teenager.
"Huh?" Rachel turned her head to Mr Schue, she'd been too busy gazing at Finn and Quinn, trying to see which of Quinn's traits that Finn liked that Rachel could replicate.
"An emotion to do with love, please." Mr Schue repeated.
Rachel was silent for a moment as she thought about the best way to put it. "Having a huge crush on someone and yet knowing that they'll never want to date you because they're already dating someone else and would never even like you anyway."
Before Mr Schue could answer, Rachel had leapt up from her seat.
"I will be performing one of Ms Swift's songs that relates to me the most, as of now, if that's alright, Mr Schuester?" Rachel declared passionately as Quinn rolled her eyes at her step-sister's tone.
Mr Schue gave her the go ahead and moved out the way as Rachel whispered her song choice to the band and Brad. She then stood in front of the piano and nodded.
"You're on the phone with your girlfriend,
She's upset, she's going off about something that you said
Cause she doesn't get your humour like I do."
Rachel found herself staring at the power couple as a flashback ran through her mind of when she and Finn were in her room practising for sectionals, as captains of glee club. Quinn had pushed into their room and dragged Finn out for "Prom Royalty practise". Rachel scowled as she remembered.
"I'm in my room, it's a typical Tuesday night,
I'm listening to the kind of music she doesn't like,
And she'll never know you're story like I do.
"But she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts
She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time."
She was certain that everyone in the room except Finn, who sat grinning and head-banging, knew who this was about. Even so Rachel tried to not stare at Quinn and Finn too much, it wasn't going too well.
"If you could see that I'm the one who understands you,
Been here all along so why can't you see
You belong with me?
You belong with me."
"Oh, I remember you driving to my house,
In the middle of the night.
I'm the one who makes you laugh,
When you know you're 'bout to cry."
"I know you're favourite songs
And you tell me bout your dreams,
Think I know where you belong,
Think I know that it's with me."
Hesitantly, everyone began to clap, however when Rachel looked over to her stepsister, she saw that Quinn was clapping slowly and as soon as they locked eyes Quinn mouthed "It's on."
~~Life With Rachel~~
Quinn stormed into the family room with Rachel trailing just behind her.
"Me or HER?" Quinn spat out venomously.
Hiram was taking Katy to her hip hop class and Judy was working in the office type area inside their bedroom. Blaine cautiously slipped behind the girls to shut the door (so as not to disturb Judy) as Puck asked the question both boys were wondering.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about the fact that RuPaul over here attempted to steal MY boyfriend with that cute baby song in Glee Club!" Quinn raged. Rachel finally spoke up, pushing Quinn out of the way to do so.
"Queen Chastity only starting dating Finn because she knew I liked him and wanted to hurt me! She stole him from me!"
"How could I steal something YOU never had?"
Blaine pushed into the middle before the girls could kill each other but they both just shouted at him to choose again. Reluctantly, Blaine stepped back and then over to Rachel's side. The brunette smirked as Blaine whispered,
"Sorry, Quinn. But twins stick together."
Quinn stared across at Puck, who- for once- was silent.
"Just go." She muttered. "Join your siblings. See if I care." But then Puck crossed over to her side, causing the Berry twins to gasp dramatically. Rachel and Blaine ran out of the room, and Quinn and Puck stood staring at each other.
"They're only as much my siblings by blood as they are yours- you know that right?" Puck said at last.
"No." Quinn responded softly, trying to comprehend what he was saying.
"I'm adopted. My mother didn't want me. She gave me to Mom and Dad when I was just over eighteen months old. She was a crappy mother, apparently she just left me on a door step. She was kind enough to leave my name on a note though." Puck added the last sentence sarcastically. "Noah Puckerman- crappy name. I wanted to change it completely to just Noah Berry when I was ten but Mom and Dad insisted I had to remember my past and not try to escape it- so now it's Noah 'Puck' Puckerman-Berry." Quinn patted Puck's shoulder awkwardly. She'd been idiotic not to ask where the nickname Puck was from, she'd just always accepted that he wanted to be called that- she'd called him Noah once (the first time they met) and he'd attacked her. The only person he let call him by his real name was Rachel.
"But you treat them like real siblings?" Quinn couldn't refrain from asking.
"Yeah. They ARE my real siblings. I lived with Mom and Dad from when I was eighteen months old and the twins had just been conceived- Mom didn't know she could get pregnant, that's why they accepted me and adopted me. But they ARE my parents. They kept me even when a month or two later they found out Mom was pregnant. They cared for me just as much as their blood children. I broke down at Mom's funeral."
"How- how long ago was that?" Quinn whispered.
"Three years after Katy was born, I was thirteen, the twins had just turned eleven. Dad was broken, I tried to be the strong one but-" Puck's eyes were brimming with tears but they didn't fall. He just stopped talking and slouched down on the couch.
Quinn didn't say sorry. It wasn't her fault and she knew it would only annoy Puck. "I just um- could you tell me one more thing." Puck gave a barely visible nod as his response. "Why did you side with me?"
Quinn turned to the door after a long pause, assuming Puck wasn't going to answer, but then she heard his voice. "Because I understand."
And he did. He could only ever draw the Berry family tree, never his biological one. He'd hated Blaine and Rachel when they were born because he was used to getting all the attention. He felt like his parents didn't want him, but he grew to love the twins. He knew that Quinn would slowly start to feel like she belonged here, just as he had. Eventually.
Next Time: Rachel and Quinn's rivalry continues, but when Katy needs BOTH of her sisters, will they be able to get along to help her?
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