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Chapter 4, Will the Real Rachel Berry please stand up?

Almost being bowled over Rachel hugged her friend tight, "aww Jess, it's so good to see you" she gushed "I missed you so much"

"I missed you too Sweets" Jess said happily not letting go of her friend

"Who's Sweets?" Tina asked curiously

"Aww that's our Rachel here" Eli joked, helpfully releasing Rachel from Jessica's chokehold around her neck, "this is my sister Jessica" he introduced the girl to the team, confused the team swivelled their eyes between the tall black 17 year old and the petite red head who was white, "I'm adopted" he explained, "come on guys I'm starving" he told the two girls poking them in the sides pushing them towards the door, Rachel shuffled towards the door slowly saying goodbye to the girls, noticing her slow pace Eli threw her over her shoulder to drag her from the room.

"Argh! Eli, put me down" she yelled hammering on his back laughing at the same time, putting his arm out he grabbed his sister and towed her towards the door, leaving Puck seething behind them as Rachel was carried out so possessively.

Next day at lunch

The whole team sat together the next day at one of large lunch tables, all talking over each other, Eli and Rachel sat beside each other, Eli's arm around her shoulders on the other side of the table Puck watched the two of them together, seeing the interaction he felt his jealousy rising higher every time Eli held Rachel a little tighter and they way she reacted to him.

Santana sat on the other side of her, while Jess sat with Matt and Mike; she was a dancer and as such had clicked with the best dancers in the group,

"You heard from Luke lately?" asked Jess suddenly in a gap in the conversations of everyone "He said he missed you when we left" the group fell silent as they waited for Rachel's answer curious to who Luke was,

"I receive a few emails every month" Rachel replied primly

"He's your boyfriend for two years and all you get is a few emails?" Jess asked incredulously "that sucks, especially considering..."

"Jess!" Rachel and Eli interrupted her

"What?" she asked confused

"Considering what?" Puck asked smarting at the idea that he hadn't been Rachel's first boyfriend, not that they had labelled the week long relationship they had had, and also curious about what Jess was referring to. Rachel looked at him with a look on her face that she couldn't decipher and then glanced around at everyone else's curious faces.

"Considering that I lost my virginity to him" Rachel said strongly not ashamed of that fact.

Everyone, except her two friends from California, looked stunned at her frank admission. Puck felt a sucker punch to his gut as Rachel admitted that she had given herself to another guy, looking at her though he could see that she was not ashamed at admitting that she was no longer a virgin, something that he was curiously proud of her for being so, Puck only knew two types of girls, those who flaunted that they had sex, such as Santana, or those who never discussed it.

"Okay moving on from that subject" Eli said tightening his hold on Rachel's shoulder "When are we going back for summer anyway?" he asked "Rachel comes back every summer for a month, this time we are going back with her" he explained to the group

"Just after 4th of July as usual" Rachel smiled "I'm very much looking forward to catching some waves from Neptune beach"

"You surf Rach?" asked Finn in surprise

"Surf? She was on the surf team at Kennedy!" Jess said in surprise "and the Cheerleading team"

"What!" shouted almost everyone at the table

"Jess" Rachel said warningly

"What? They don't know any of this?" Jess said, deliberately knowing that they didn't, and that they didn't know the Rachel everyone at Kennedy High loved, she knew this in part was because they didn't know Rachel's history, and therefore couldn't resolve the determined, super-crazy Rachel in their minds, just seeing how intense she was and not the reason for it. "Rach, you were Class President, Cheerleader co-captain, member of the surf team and Glee club you should be proud"

"Shit you were popular diva?" Kurt said but with less venom than the day before

"Shit yeah she was" Said Eli proudly

"But she's like scary intense" he continued

"Maybe if you actually knew Rachel, or could be bothered to find out, then you would know why we love her despite her intenseness" Jess snapped at him, noticing how uncomfortable Rachel was looking

"Jess, please" Rachel said "they do know me"

"I'm not so sure Berry" Puck said a little hurt "seems like we don't know the real Rachel Berry"

"You do know me No...Puck, you just don't know my history" Rachel assured him, "I'm sorry about Jess, she doesn't always think before she speaks, apparently even if it's not her history to talk about"

Jess looked down in shame as Eli looked at her pointedly, "Sorry Sweets" she said

"It's ok Jess, just please don't talk about Kennedy High, it's my history I get to choose if it's revealed"

The conversation continued along a different path to Rachel's relief, Santana jumped onto the fact that Rachel had been a cheerleader and her and Brit were excited to talk about her routines,

"That's how you knew to give us those ideas" gushed Brit excitedly

"Yes, my background in dancing is also extremely beneficial to seeing how a routine will go together, how is your new routine going?" she asked

"The girls are having trouble" Santana admitted grudgingly

"I would be happy to help Santana" Rachel offered her friend,

"Oh I was hoping you would say that!" she admitted "meet us at practise after school?"

"Of course I will" Rachel said happily

Later Rachel walked onto the practise field, dressed in a track suit rather than her usual school clothes she walked up to Santana who was standing with a women she had never seen before,

"Hey Rach, this is Couch Sylvester's temporary replacement, Ms Stevens, we told her about your idea for the routine and she likes it, but wants to know if your actually qualified to give ideas" she added wryly, glaring at her new coach.

"That's acceptable Santana" Rachel assured her friend " I assume any type of tumble routine is acceptable Ms Stevens?" the women nodded her head and without further comment Rachel launched into a routine. Starting with a back handspring she rattled off into all the advanced moves she possibly could, heel-pulls , tucks, round offs and the bow and arrow, a pike, a triple back flip, that she reversed into a triple front flip, liberty twists and more before she finished with another back handspring.

"Fuck!" shouted Amber " that was amazing Rachel, you didn't warm up or anything"

"Thank you Amber" Rachel replied not even out of breath "my extensive training in dance has certainly aided both my repertoire and stamina"

"Rachel is it?" asked Ms Stevens, Rachel nodded "welcome to the Cheerio's"

"I was not auditioning Ms Stevens, I'm only here to help the team"

"Aww, please Rachel, please join us" begged Brit "your amazing, and with Quinn out we really need another member"

"Yeah please Rach, that was amazing and you're so energetic and skilled , we could really do with you if we want to win nationals again" Santana joined in with her girlfriend.

"It's a bit of a cliché isn't it if I join the team?" Rachel said wryly "I'm the unpopular kid who suddenly becomes a cheerleader, sounds like every bad B rated movie"

"That wasn't a no" Santana declared victoriously again, Sighing her assent, Rachel was jumped on by Santana and Brit before the other Cheerio's joined in happy that they now had a chance to win nationals.

Ordered by her Head Cheerleader, aka Santana, to get to school early the next day, exiting her car she found herself being dragged into the girl's locker room to change into her uniform and have her luscious brown locks pulled into a high ponytail. Feeling self conscious she exited the locker room tugging at her top and skirt,

"Wow Rach you rock that outfit" Brit told her, excitedly they left to walk into the school hallways, people stopped and stared as they realised that it was Rachel Berry wearing a Cheerio's uniform.

Down the hallway Puck felt like his jaw hit the floor as he saw Rachel walk towards her locker the male student body staring at her rocking the school colours. "Fuck she's hot" he thought smirking his badass smile he strode up to her,

"You look smoking Berry" he told, she turned and beamed up at him,

"Thank you Puck, it's a little more swirly then I'm used to and more revealing, but the male student body seems to appreciate it"

"They always appreciated your outfits Berry" he told her truthfully "this just means your popular as well" he continued waving at her outfit. Mike wandered up to the two of them

"Hey guys, looking good Rach" he noted

"Thank you Michael, I should get to home room, see you later on Puck, Michael" she told them turning to leave, not noticing that her top had ridden up slightly at the back, Mike and Puck saw a mess of scars criss-crossing her lower back,

"Did you...?" asked Mike

"Yeah" Puck said quietly

A/N not really sure about this chapter but hope you like it if so review please! Hehehe xxxxx