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- Hey! Don't shake.

Kurt laughed at his friend. Friend. Now this word really had a meaning to both teenagers. After Rachel opened her heart and mind to him he didn't fail to help her in any way he could. He understood what she was going through and he wanted to be there for her. Kurt knew how it was to feel confused and alone, to have no one he could trust, who could help with the confusions or maybe just be there to hear all of them so he could put them out.
So now that Rachel was going through the same things that he once went, he wanted to be there to help her. He also had to admit that it hasn't been that bad to be friends with Rachel Berry.

- How can you tell me not to shake? It's a school dance and I never ever came to one of those before.
- I know, but you look incredibly beautiful, you have nothing to worry about.
- Is Blaine coming? – Blaine. Kurt had met Blaine in a Gap store and they sang together. Since then, they were inseparable.
- Maybe he will, he will try but I don't know.
- Thank you for coming with me.
- I told you I'd have your back. – he hug her – Are you ready to go in?
- Seriously? No.
- Come on, you look beautiful and you have that song to sing.
- Oh, yeah, the song. – when she had to choose a song to perform in the dance she and Kurt spent hours trying to find the perfect one, a song who could say everything she wishes she could. And they found it. Of course they had to do some modifications but now it was perfect.
- So… - Kurt asked as he put his hand out to her
- Let's go.

She grabbed her friend's hand and walked in the dance with him trying to control her shaking hands. Once they were in she scanned the place seeing the punch getting spiked by the one and only Noah Puckerman, some people eating and others dancing while some of her Glee club mates were performing. Brittany, Sam and Artie were killing "Die Young" by Ke$ha on the stage. She could see Santana sitting in a chair looking lovingly to the blonde that was singing on the stage. She indicated the Latina to Kurt with her head so he could also see that scene. They smiled because the look on her face was really cute. Cuter to them who understood what she was feeling. Rachel thought to herself how lucky Santana was for loving someone who loved her back. Of course they didn't have openly assumed but everyone could see love in the girls' eyes when they looked to each other. That made she remember about the object of her affection, the one who was totally oblivious to the brunette's feelings. Quinn wasn't anywhere her look could catch.
They sat on the table with Mercedes and Tina. After the song was over Artie and San joined them. She would sing now so she got up and Kurt smiled to her, she was so glad they were friends now…it became so much easier to deal with things now that she had someone to talk about them. The others were also treating her better, maybe it was because she was trying to be nicer to them or maybe they just respected Kurt's friendship with her. Anyways, it was good not having to walk alone anymore. She walked slowly to the stage and when she was on her way she stopped seeing the couple that had just entered the gymnasium.
Quinn looked so pretty in that blue dress that for a moment it took Rachel's breath away. And by her side a tall guy stood proudly. Finn. She should have seen it coming, that's why the blond had asked her that many questions that day on the parking lot, because she wanted to take Finn back.
She felt like backing down on her upcoming performance but Kurt caught her look and indicated the stage to her so she kept walking to where she should stand now. The lyrics were crystal clear in her mind and they were all she felt like saying. She had been practicing along with Kurt for the last two weeks, they had to change the key so it could be a slow dance song. It would be perfect if a certain someone was able to get the message. She grabbed the mic and invited the couples to the dance floor. She knew her plan worked when she saw Finn and Quinn joining the other couples on the dance floor. Then she began to sing. Her heart was out on that song. She was opening herself out like she always did with her songs. It was the only way she could say what she was feeling without really saying it. She sang "Our Time" with all the passion that she could put in that song.

Long road of premature decisions
Leaving me cold with only good intentions
But it's you who could take my pain away
You don't know but it's you who keeps my wide away
You don't know it's you, it's you

This is our time to run away
it's our time we don't have to stay here
'Cause all the things that I never knew that I wanted
Are here with you

This is our time forget the past
It's our time we can make it last
'Cause all the thing that I never knew that I wanted
Are here with you

Ohhh ohh

Long day of stopping me from saying what I want to say
I wish I could do better but you don't know just what I mean

When the last chords came from the guitar she caught Quinn's gaze and she held it. The blond looked straight to her eyes for some seconds and then stopped dancing and dragged Finn back to the table they were sat before. Somehow Rachel felt that her message was delivered and she felt, even more than before, that she was not wrong and she had chosen the right song. As she got off the stage she was caught in Kurt's arms hugging her tightly.

- Oh my God! You were just amazing Rachel!
- Did you like?
- Are you kidding? I loved it. It was by far you greatest performance.
- Glad you liked, I wonder if…
- I'm sure she did.
- She hates me.
- Well, allow me to say that I don't think that she hates you that bad. And even if she does, there's no way someone could hate this marvelous voice of yours.
- Now it's time for you to share yours. Go there already, I really need something to make me dance now.
- You ask it, you have it ma'am. – he climbed up the stage's stairs to start his performance of If I Had You


The song Rachel sang was "Our Time" by Secondhand Serenade and I changed a few things so it would match the situation.

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