Wow I can't believe we're on chapter Four already. You guys are awesome for reading this and leaving your comments, I still can't believe how many of you have added this to your favourites, that's incredible, so Thank You :) A/N - I'm going on holiday for a week, so I won't have any access to the internet until the end of next week (Sorry!) but please stick with this, as I definatley won't be abandoning this, as I love writing it so much. There should be another chapter posted by the end of the week, so until then enjoy!
Anyway, this chapter is happier than the others, it took me a while to write it, but I'm quite pleased with the end result, as always please leave me your thoughts, as I love reading them.
Mr Schuster's Spanish class was always a rowdy environment, everyone knew how generous he was, he wasn't an ordinary teacher, he believed that his students should be allowed their own freedom for learning, sure he wasn't a push over, he made sure that the work got done, but he wasn't as strict as the average teachers. He had a common understanding with his students, and they accepted that.
As Rachel flicked through her textbook, she noticed Finn's eyes on her; she placed the book flat on the table and turned to face her.
"Finn?" Finn jumped and blushed as she spoke his name.
"What's going on between you and Jesse?" Rachel rolled her eyes and tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear.
"I really don't want to talk about it Finn," she mumbled as she began flicking through her book again, Finn nodded as he mimicked her actions. They worked in silence for a while as the rest of the class continued with their conversations.
"So you and Matt huh?" he asked, trying to hide the jealousy in his voice, Rachel lifted her head and allowed a sneaky smile to escape her lips. She knew that Finn was jealous of her relationship with Jesse; he'd made no effort to hide that fact from her, so it came as no surprise to her that he was jealous of her talking to Matt.
"There's nothing going on there Finn," she grinned,
"I saw the bear Rachel,"
"Yes, Brittany came to see if I was okay last night, Mike and Matt were with her, and they invited me to the Mall with them," Finn nodded as he tried to register everything that she had said to him.
"Have you got any ideas for the Glee assignment?" Finn asked, deciding to change the subject for good.
"Do you even need to ask?" Rachel grinned as she scribbled some notes onto her page, noticing that Mr Schuster was making his way around the classroom.
"What do you think we should do?" Finn continued, Rachel rolled her eyes and pushed his textbook closer to him.
"Later Finn," she hissed as Mr Schuster approached to them.
"We need to do something big if we want to beat Vocal Adrenaline," Finn half laughed before noticing that Mr Schuster was stood in front of him. Finn's smile faded slightly as Mr Schuster picked up Finn's work; he gave him a disappointed sigh before placing it down on the desk.
"Finn, you really need to start applying yourself in class," Finn nodded, hating the disappointed look in his favourite teacher's eye.
"Sorry Mr Schue," he mumbled, Mr Schuster nodded and picked up Rachel's work, Finn glanced at her as she sat comfortably in her seat.
"Very impressive Rachel," he smiled, placing Rachel's work back onto the table, Rachel beamed at him as he walked away, and Finn simply stared at her, mouth open.
"How do you that?" he asked.
"Do what?" Rachel asked innocently, Finn rolled his eyes and gestured towards Rachel's 'impressive' piece of work, she blushed and shrugged.
"I'm able to multitask Finn," she grinned, "It's an important quality in stars," Finn nodded and grinned as the sound of bell filled the classroom. He threw his books into his bag quickly before turning to face Rachel again, who was taking a little more care as she loaded her bag ready for her next lesson. The pair of them walked to the front of the classroom, handed Mr Schuster their work, Rachel the more eager of the pair before heading out to their lockers.
"I'm just going to place a few books in my locker," Rachel announced, Finn nodded and turned to follow her.
"Finn, it's okay. I'll meet you in the cafeteria," he deflated a little before nodding and walking off in the opposite direction. She was finally beginning to feel like the old Rachel again, and she loved it, she walked with a spring in her step, her mind full of performance idea's that she simply couldn't wait to share with the rest of her group. She opened her locker and began placing her school books inside, her hand then fell onto her pink bear, and she held it in her hands for a moment and smiled.
"Cute bear," Rachel jumped and turned around.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"I miss you Rachel," she rolled her eyes and placed the bear into her locker.
"Jesse, don't do this here," she whispered.
"I thought we had something special,"
"So did I," Rachel mumbled, turning her back on him and closing the locker.
"We still could have," he said lowering his face to meet hers, she felt shivers as his breath touched his skin, she closed her eyes for a second and briefly surrendered to his spell. Jesse smiled at her as she opened her eyes slowly.
"I...I've got to go," she stuttered, Jesse nodded and stood up, giving her space.
"Until next time," he whispered.
"Goodbye Jesse," Rachel mumbled as she darted down the corridors, desperate to get away from him. Jesse watched as she ran, through the corridors before taking a deep breath and walking away in the opposite direction.
"Looks like there is trouble in paradise," Quinn stated as she stood by her locker, she'd been watching Rachel and Jesse interact as she waited for Santana to fix her makeup. Santana looked away from the mirror momentarily and raised an eyebrow at her friend.
"Rachel and Jesse, what do you think is going between them?" Quinn asked, Santana shrugged and turned her attention back to her reflection. Quinn bit her lip momentarily as she watched Jesse walk away. She'd been suspicious of him ever since he'd joined New Directions; everyone claimed that he was a spy, only allowing him to join with the persuasion of Mr Schuster. But there was no denying how happy Rachel had been since his arrival at the school. Quinn just found it weird at their sudden change in behaviour.
"Come on, let's go to lunch, I want a burger," Santana announced as she closed her locker, Quinn sighed quietly as she walked away with her friend. Quinn had changed a lot since discovering that she was pregnant, sure she missed the Cheerio's, but she had also found a whole new life with New Directions, she could be herself and was accepted for it. They'd all been there for her when the truth was revealed, and Quinn couldn't have been more grateful to them. Rachel had been there for her, sure she was annoying – everyone admitted that – but Rachel had convinced her to return to Glee when everyone else had shunned her, they had a mutual agreement now, they were not the best of friends but the rivalry between then had subsided, which suited both girls perfectly. As the girls entered the cafeteria they noticed the majority of the Glee Club sat together in the far corner, Quinn smiled to herself as she paid for her lunch and headed over to them. Puck smiled and pulled a chair out for her; she gave him a polite smile and sat down.
"So what's going on?" Quinn asked, Mercedes grinned and leant forward.
"We were just discussing the drama between Rachel and Jesse," Quinn nodded and began nibbling at her lunch.
"What do you think is going on with them?" Kurt asked.
"Who cares," Santana shrugged.
"Maybe we should do some investigating of our own," Quinn suggested, "After all, I doubt if Rachel is going to tell us anything."
There were murmurs across the table, Rachel was one of them, granted they didn't always want to accept that, but she was nonetheless. Jesse, he was new to the group and had never been totally trusted. This definitely needed to be investigated; they did not want to risk the drama that they'd been faced with at Sectional's. They'd vowed to never suffer that sort of humiliation again.
"Maybe we should trail him," Santana suggested, silencing the group. Everyone turned to face her and she simply shrugged.
"Is that really necessary?" Finn asked, as Santana shrugged.
"That's actually not a bad idea," Quinn admitted.
"So we're really doing this?" Puck asked, Quinn and Santana shared and grin and nodded.
"We're so doing this," Everyone gathered around ready to receive their orders, for the evening that followed.
Rachel checked her reflection in the mirror one final time as she waited for her friends to arrive, she'd decided to wear something a little more casual this evening, she'd always been chastised for her dress sense, but she had friends now and she was desperate to hold onto them. She heard a car pull up outside before grabbing her purse and running outside.
"Hey Rachel!" Brittany grinned as she opened the car door.
"Hey guys," she squeezed into the car and Mike set of to the movie theatre.
"I love your shirt," Brittany grinned, Rachel smiled as she silently praised her decision to ditch the animal jumper for the evening.
"Thank you," she beamed. Mike turned the radio up and the four of them began singing loudly along with the music, Rachel suddenly realised that they all good voices, she'd been that used to them singing back up that she hadn't actually spent time listening to their voices individually. She'd have to reconsider that when they worked on their Glee assignment.
"So what movie shall we see?" Matt asked as they walked inside.
"Not another Chick-flick please," Mike protested, Brittany groaned loudly
"He's only saying that because he cried at the last chick-flick we watched together," Matt laughed, Rachel giggled as Brittany linked arms with her.
"What film do you want to see Rachel?" she asked.
"I...I don't know," she admitted, the boys nodded.
"I tell you what, why don't we surprise you both?" they suggested, Brittany nodded and Rachel agreed, she opened her purse and handed Matt some money.
"That's for my ticket," she stated, Matt and Mike shook their heads.
"We invited you, remember," Rachel nodded and placed her money back into her purse. Brittany giggled and pulled Rachel in the direction of the ladies bathroom, Rachel watched as Brittany stood in front of the mirror, fixing her hair in a variety of different styles. It suddenly dawned on her that she had rarely seen her without her hair being pulled back tightly.
"What do you think Rachel?" Brittany asked,
"Erm..." Brittany giggled at her.
"Up or down?" she asked again, Rachel giggled nervously
"Definitely down," Rachel giggled as Brittany quickly ran a comb through her wavy blonde hair.
As the girls left the bathroom, Rachel noticed the boys stood waiting for them, loaded with popcorn and other assorted confectionary items. Again Rachel offered to pay and once again the boys told her no. Rachel sighed as once again she placed her money back into her purse. Brittany giggled and linked arms with her once again and followed the boys into their designated screen.
"You've got so much to learn," she whispered, Rachel giggled and silently agreed with her.
"I knew he was up to know good," Quinn hissed as she crept into the Vocal Adrenaline rehearsal, followed by Santana and Mercedes. They took a seat in the auditorium and watched as Jesse stood at the edge of the stage.
"What is he doing?" Mercedes asked, Santana shrugged as all three girls kept their eyes locked firmly on him. They crouched in their seats, they knew that if they were caught spying then Mr Schuster would never forgive them, not that he'd understand their intentions anyway. He was one of those teachers that always sought out the good in everyone, not always a good thing when you were dealing with the enemy. Quinn waved at them to be quiet as voices started travelling from the stage.
"What do you want Shelby?" Jesse asked,
"Everyone has started asking about you, they want to know when you're coming back," Shelby stated. Quinn frowned and Santana and Mercedes exchanged glances.
"After everything that's happened?" Jesse snapped.
"Come on Jesse, you need Vocal Adrenaline, Vocal Adrenaline need you!" Shelby desperately tried to convince him, as the girls rolled their eyes.
"Not anymore," Jesse snapped, turning to walk away.
"Jesse! Jesse, is this about what happened the other night?" Jesse froze and retraced his steps, standing inches away from Shelby.
"You have no idea do you, she's heartbroken Shelby, we did that to her!" Jesse was shouting now.
"You were never meant to get romantically involved with her Jesse! That wasn't part of the plan!" Quinn glanced at her friends, the pair of them giving her the same worried stare.
"Don't you think I know that?" Jesse raged "But at least I took an interest in her,"
Shelby dropped her gaze and momentarily lost her composure, she'd never seen Jesse so angry before, she knew that he was overly dramatic at times, but this was a whole new experience for her.
"What was I meant to do?" she asked.
"She's your daughter Shelby, you could've tried to get to know her a little, instead of forcing all of this on her, now we've both lost her!" Jesse stormed off the stage and Shelby ran after him, screaming his name.
"Oh my god," Mercedes mouthed, turning to face the others.
"No way," Quinn mumbled as the others sat there, shell shocked, "No freaking way!" The girls stood up quickly and headed out of the auditorium, they had to let the others know before all of this spiralled out of control.
Rachael x