Chapter 8: When Chaos Comes Calling
"Let me see that," Finn says, taking Santana's phone from her to look at the text. Part of him wished that his friend was messing with him, but unfortunately, she's not. Posted on Facebook were the words that would likely destroy the social lives of all those involved.
Hey, you'll never believe this, Sara is pregnant! What's worse is that they don't know who the father is, Ryder or Rory.
It looked like it had come from a text message, copied onto Facebook, and posted for all the world to see. What's even more horrifying is that it already has over 1000 views, 200 shares, and more than 2000 likes. The comments are no better either.
OMG Really?!
Who is Sara? Is it Sara Walsh?
From the Geek club?
Is she that freak from Geek club?
Wasn't she dating the exchange student?
I thought it was the football player…
What a slut!
Total slut
Never thought of her that way
Isn't she in the hospital?
Heard she was beaten up and she had blood going down the stairs like the elevator from The Shining,
Hope it's the Irish weirdo, I want Ryder for myself.
Quinn Fabray 2.0
Ever heard of protection?
Did she seriously have a threesome?
Is she that freak who wears hoods in class?
Does she even go to this school?
LOL Really?
How do they not know who the father is? Its whichever boy gave her…
Finn must fight the urge to toss Santana's phone across the room. He hands it back to her and starts towards the wall again. He reaches out and punches it, probably cracking a couple knuckles but he doesn't care anymore. Nothing else mattered. Everything just kept getting worse and worse for Sara. Whenever she gets out of the hospital, her life will pretty much be gone, she'll be in a whole new world.
"Finn!" Rachel says. "Stop it, please you're going to hurt yourself!" She grabs his arm to make him stop.
When he feels her gentle touch, he immediately halts his assault on the wall and looks at her. Her gentle brown eyes giving him the sympathy he missed so much. It takes every part of his being not to lean over and kiss her. Oh, how he's missed hearing her voice, seeing her smile, feeling her touch. He's showing her his tears of regret and agony. She squeezes his arm tightly. How much he loves her…
"Little late now," he mutters under his breath. He presses his hands against the wall and looks down at the floor.
"This isn't your fault," Rachel says firmly.
"Yes, it is! I'm the one who's supposed to be protecting everyone. I'm the leader. These kinds of things shouldn't be happening!"
"You can't always protect everyone Finn," Kurt says to his step-brother.
"I should be!" he hisses angrily. "Why didn't I notice it?! The signs?!"
"None of us saw it, Finn," Quinn says, swallowing hard. She gently transfers Katlyn to Marley's lap and stands to comfort him. She is now fighting tears of her own. "We don't know what happens behind closed doors."
"Even Ryder and I never saw them?"
"Wait, wait for what?" Rachel says in confusion. Kurt and Santana reflect the bewildered expression "Who didn't see what? What's them?"
"What are you talking about?" Santana says.
Ryder sighs heavily, he stands up, despite the weakness in his knees. He was more than angry, but also sad. He wanted to be so angry at Sara, but he couldn't do it fully. They all made bad choices, it's just hers impacted all three of their lives. Rory sighs heavily too, more sad than angry. Betrayed and upset, he thought his relationship with Sara meant something. She certainly made it seem that way, but now… after the truth has been revealed, it feels much less special. Both boys felt very confused and with the news that half the city knew of their alleged threesome, it was humiliating and made them angry.
Ryder stands next to the three alumni's, little Jay still fast asleep in his arms. He slowly rolls the girl's sleeve up. Rachel takes a step back; her hands go over her mouth in horror, tears burning her eyes. Kurt immediately begins to tear up and Santana looks like a deer in the headlights.
"It's on all three of them… and Sara's no exception," Blaine says gravely.
Rachel's head is spinning as her tears run down her face like a waterfall now. Her stomach turns so violently that she stumbles and grabs a hold of someone's arm for support. She's sick to her stomach that she hobbles until someone leads her to a trash can. She kneels on the floor and becomes violently ill. She doesn't realize it, but Finn has her arm the entire time, giving her the support she needs.
She continues to sob in agony, clinging to the filthy can as if it's a lifesaving device.
Kurt and Santana are doing no better. Santana especially; she can remember the times she insulted and basically humiliated Sara in the choir room, calling her Silent Hill or Tina's Emo Twin or hell even Samara from The Ring movies. She taunted the girl for being so quiet and weird when she was really just hiding. She didn't want to draw attention to herself because she got so much worse at home. Even now, Santana couldn't justify one bad thing that Sara had ever said to her, hell she even gave her and Brittany couples Valentine's cards one year before she was even open about her relationship. Santana sat down and began to cry into her hands, the guilt overwhelming her completely. Quinn put her arm around her friend.
"It's okay, none of us knew," the blonde says gently.
"But I made fun of her for being weird,"
"You made fun of all of us."
"But with you guys it was justified, I kept it real but for her… she never gave me a reason to…"
Kurt is crying now too. He wished beyond all belief that he had noticed something, anything. He was too caught up in his own drama to notice when something much worse was happening to his friend. Sara was a comfort to him, she gave him a warm smile every day, texted him jokes when she knew he was having a bad day and every Christmas she always gave him some new accessory, even when he was at Dalton Academy. In fact, she always gave everyone a present at the holiday season, no matter which religion they believed in or none, like he did. She'd also sent his Dad get-well cards when he was in the hospital and if he can remember correctly, a new ball cap of his favourite baseball team. He sobs into his hands, realizing how much he took her limited friendship for granted. He knew she had a good heart, one that could possibly stop beating, within the next little while.
Blaine puts his arm around Kurt and he doesn't fight it. Both lean in together, forgetting their history and grieving for their friend. Blaine has had a little more time to see their friend, she always smiled at him when they talked, she helped him pick a solo every so often and she too would get him a special gift at Christmas time. One year it was hair gel, mostly as a joke, but the one he felt he should treasure now is a little pin she got him after they'd won Nationals for the first time. It was a K+B pin surrounded by a heart. His stomach turned realizing it was probably buried in one of his drawers at home. She must've spent a lot of money on it, money that should have been going towards the three cousins under her care.
Rachel now leans into Finn's arms, everything of the past forgotten as she sobbed into his shirt. She couldn't believe that this was happening. She felt so awful for being so self-involved through those three years in the choir room that she never saw when another glee member was in trouble. She'd talked to Sara on many occasions, the quiet girl mostly just listened as the starlet's overpowering personality took over their conversations. But she listened, she helped Rachel pick new songs to sing and she remembers the star barrettes she was given for Hanukah one year. In fact, even now in New York, she still got a holiday card from the aloof friend, which was lost in the many other greetings she got. She continued to sob in guilt.
"It's okay," Finn says comfortingly. "None of us knew…"
"It's still wrong," she whimpered.
"It is, but he won't get away with it…" he says firmly, strength in his voice.
…
"Who did it?!" Finn says angrily.
It's early morning now, the sun is up, and everyone is bleary-eyed and very confused. All the New Directions members stand outside the hospital in a line like a firing squad. Finn walks down the line, holding up his phone revealing the Facebook post. Everyone has a guilty look on their face, but are also very confused. Rachel, Santana, Ryder, Rory, and Kurt stand behind Finn, their arms folded in disappointment. They did not like the way he was confronting the group, but it had to be someone they knew.
"I can't believe that you would do this to her. And Ryder and Rory…"
Everyone looks at Finn and then down at their feet.
"She's one of our own. And I'll be damned if one of you chooses to hurt her like this!" he shouts. "Her life in school is over. Quinn can vouch for that. You have destroyed the last piece of sanctity she'll have. And from what I've learned recently, it was the last place she could really feel safe."
Standing in the crowd is the guilty party and their façade is holding, but guilt is eating at their insides.
"She's in the hospital, on life support goddamnit and one of you thinks it's okay to tell the Internet that she'd pregnant. And that they don't know who the father is. She might very well lose the baby at this point, and for all we know, she already has, but that won't stop the people from shaming her. Have you read some of the comments?"
He scrolls down through them.
"What a slut? This is the best way to lose the baby, by falling down the stairs. Did she have a threesome? Heard she was beaten up by the father. She was asking for it… I never knew a freak could be a whore…"
He pauses and glares at all of them angrily. "I know Ryder and Rory didn't do it. Quinn would never do it, not after what happened to her. The cousins don't have cell phones, and may my soul burn in hell if I did this to her. I wouldn't betray a friend like that. She may have made a bad decision about being with Ryder and Rory at the same time, but does that mean she should pay for it for the rest of her life. Did one of you hate her? From what I can tell, none of you knew her that well, but to lash out like this… I can't forgive any of you…"
He eyes every one of them.v
"Jake, was this a sick joke?"
He looks extremely offended and snaps back. "Oh right! Pick on the Puckerman immediately. Why does it seem that every time a bad thing happens, the bad boy gets the blame first? Huh?"
"Did she ever do anything to tick you off, spread a rumour, shame you for your playboy attitude?"
Jake turns red. "For your information, I liked her Finn! She never bothered me and never said anything bad about me!"
The troubled boy wants to swing at his mentor but it takes all his restraint to not.
"What about you Kitty? Have anything against her?"
"From the bad boy to the Queen B!" the blonde snaps angrily.
"You've done some things you're not proud of Kitty, but we're all willing to forgive you, but… You were hitting on Rory; did she tell you off? Make you mad and want to get even. Keep your dominance?"
It's the Cheerio's turn to get angry. She clenches her hands into fists to not slap Finn across the face. She's never felt so insulted in all her life.
"Would I do that after I called 911 for her?"
"After you tried getting into Rory's pants," Tina adds.
"SHUT UP YOU B****!" Kitty snarls and goes to attack the formerly goth classmate. "HOW DO WE KNOW YOU DIDN'T TELL ANYONE?!"
"Because I wouldn't rat a classmate you like that, that's something you would do!"
"Why you!"
Finn holds her back before anything further can happen. Tina begins shouting back at her, the girls practically at each other's throats.
"What the hell is going on here?" someone shouts over the fighting.
The group turns to see Private Noah Puckerman, Brittany S. Pierce, Mike Chang, Coach Sheldon, Carol Hudson, Burt Hummel, and Coach Sylvester stand there at the chaos that was unfolding before them.
