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Rachel smiled as she sipped her cup of tea. She zoned out as she remembered waking up in Noah's arms that morning. The two of them had gone to sleep last night on opposite sides of her large bed but when she woke up they had both moved to the middle. Her back was against his firm chest, his arms had been around her and their legs had been tangled. He'd woken soon after her and pressed a kiss to the back of her head before leaving the bed and heading to the bathroom for a shower. She'd made breakfast and they had eaten in companionable silence.
"Look at her. She's totally oblivious." Santana murmured in amusement.
He'd dropped her off at the Palace for high tea with the girls before heading to meet Blaine and Sebastian at Warblers. He had pecked her on the cheek before promising to pick her up in a few hours.
"Earth to Rachel!"
Rachel blinked and realised she had zoned out in the middle of a conversation. She muttered an apology as she noticed that Quinn was glaring at her.
"Oh leave her alone Quinny." Santana barked. "You remember what it was like when you first fell for Sammy."
Quinn lifted her nose in the air and signalled the waiter for the next course. Santana shot Rachel a look of empathy before smiling over at Brittany.
"I'm surprised that you didn't invite Kurt." Brittany said to Quinn once the waiter had left.
Santana laughed suddenly and the girls all waited for an explanation.
"Sorry. But I seriously doubt he'll be in a room with Rachel again before the wedding." Santana announced happily; her dislike of Kurt had never been hidden.
"Why's that?" Quinn asked with a suspicious look.
Rachel sighed when she realised that Quinn actually believed she would do something to jeopardize the wedding. She deserved more credit; no matter the problems between the two of them, Rachel would do anything for Sam Evans.
"He was a real prick last night and Noah gave it to him. It was perfect." Santana continued. "He called him on all of his shit, like he'd known him for years instead of seconds."
"He's a shrink." Rachel supplied as if to explain how perceptive he was.
"He's not going to go running his mouth to others is he?"
Rachel gritted her teeth and counted to ten. As she stared at the haughty girl in front of her she wondered just what the hell had happened to make Quinn this way. The two of them had been so close once.
"So what's the deal with Rachel and Quinn anyway?" Noah asked Sebastian after an hour of sports talk.
Sebastian raised and eyebrow and smirked at him. "You think just because I'm gay that I've got the gossip?"
Noah laughed and rolled his eyes towards Blaine. "No. I think you're kind of bitchy and totally blunt and you're probably the only one who'll tell me the truth without sugar-coating it."
"Touché!" Sebastian took a swig of his beer. "What do you know about them?"
Noah was silent for a moment as he wondered how to answer without giving the truth away.
"Nothing. She's never really talked about Quinn before. I know that she's close with Sam, I figured it was the only reason she was in the wedding party." Noah watched as the Blaine and Sebastian exchanged a glance. "Were they ever actually friends? Or did her best friend just end up dating a mean girl and expect them to play nice?"
"Interesting observation. I guess I can see why you'd think that." Blaine shrugged. "It's not like that though. Rachel and Sam have been friends since they were kids. They grew up together. She and Quinn didn't become friends until high school."
"Quinn was a real bitch at first. Quinn joined Glee club with her boyfriend and she and Rachel hated each other." Sebastian added. "But some shit went down in Sophomore year and Rachel was there for her when no one else was. When Quinn and Finn broke up-"
"Quinn and Finn?" Noah asked, draining his beer. "The plot thickens."
"Yeah they dated for the first two years of high school. There was a pregnancy scare and Quinn had some family shit go down. They broke up when she realised he was more interested in Rachel." Sebastian paused when Noah whistled through his teeth. "Rachel turned him down for awhile as she built up her friendship with Quinn. When Sam transferred to McKinley in Junior year Rachel introduced the two of them. She ended up with Finn right after and the four of them spent the rest of high school as a foursome."
"A foursome?" Noah asked because there was no way that they were all that fucked up.
"Not literally." Blaine assured him but Sebastian was shaking his head violently.
"Their dynamics were always off. I saw it the moment I transferred a few months after Sam." Sebastian insisted. "Finn always had his eye on both of the girls. He was never fully committed to either one of them. And Quinn-"
"You never proved anything Seb!" Blaine warned him.
"-Quinn never got over how things ended with Finn." Sebastian finished. "I could never prove that they were screwing around but I never doubted it."
Blaine was quiet and Noah appraised him. "Do you think they were sneaking around on Sam and Rachel?"
Blaine's fingers brushed at the condensation on his glass for a few moments before he answered. "I think that the only person who was surprised when he left her the night before the wedding was Rachel."
Noah decided it was time to stop drinking when he felt his ears burning in anger.
"Neither of you thought to warn her?"
Sebastian and Blaine both stared at him as he glared at them.
"Rachel was obsessed with him. She nearly gave up her future for him." Blaine exclaimed.
"Of course we tried to tell her. We had no proof and she didn't believe that either one of them would betray her like that." Sebastian insisted. "We both had speeches planned to stop the wedding. They just weren't necessary in the end. He broke her heart; she got on a plane and headed to New York."
"She was going to defer school for another year. After years of preparing to get into one of the best performance arts schools on Earth, she almost gave it up."
"So what happened between the two of them? If they were so close and she didn't believe you then what happened? When did Quinn become the Ice Princess?" Noah wondered.
"She's only like that to Rachel. I'm not sure what happened. One day they were best friends and the next Quinn hated her." Sebastian explained. "I don't think even Rachel knows what happened."
"Your group is one of the strangest I've ever encountered. And I'm a shrink." Noah told them, attempting to lighten the mood.
"See! I always said we'd make good reality TV." Sebastian reminded Blaine.
"Are you alright?" Blaine asked, ignoring Sebastian.
"I feel like I just walked into the twilight zone." Noah admitted.
"Welcome to Lima!" Sebastian yelled sarcastically.
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