AN: Hey hey hey! So, here's the new chapter. Hope you enjoy it!:)
CHAPTER 9
"Good morning, Ohio. It's 7 am and we have a beautiful day to come!"
What? The radio? Quinn didn't remember setting the radio to wake her up. Bah, who cares what wakes me up? she thought. She just let the radio on, but she didn't even open her eyes. She wanted to sleep a little longer, since she didn't have much sleep last night. She had been at Rachel's house, hanging out with her and her parents until midnight. They were actually really cool, and she thought she'd made a good impression. And apparently, Rachel thought so too, because she was bouncing around the house with a huge smile on her face. She sighed when she thought about Rachel. She couldn't believe she'd been so lucky to have her as a girlfriend. She sighed again. She had to get up to get to school. Anyways, it was Friday, so she'd have all weekend to be with Rachel. She opened her eyes, smiling.
The second she opened them, her smile faded. She couldn't move for a minute. She was in her room. In her own room, not Puck's. Slowly, she got up and walked to her bathroom. Reflected on the mirror, there was a blonde girl with eyes wide open. Yes. It was her, Quinn. She had her body back. She smiled brightly, and tears of joy started to fall from her eyes. The small oppression in her chest was gone. The fear that attacked her every morning when she woke up in Puck's body wasn't there anymore. She was herself again.
She ran back to her room and called Puck.
"Hello?" Puck's voice said. It was obvious that he was still sleeping.
"Puck! It's Quinn. We have our bodies back!" It felt so good to talk and being able to hear her own voice. Puck stayed silent for a minute. Quinn heard movement through the phone, and after while, Puck came back.
"Yes! Oh thank God! I was so fucking scared that I would stay in your body forever…" he started to laugh. Quinn laughed too, releasing all the tension that had been acumulated this past days. "Fuck Quinn, this is amazing. I missed my guns. Oh yeah, the Puckassaurus is back, ladies." She imagined Puck smirking and looking at himself in the mirror, so she just rolled her eyes.
Wait a minute. Puck was supposed to be dating Rachel. Her Rachel. Fuck, for a moment she'd forgotten about her. Oh boy, now the tension she had released was back. She had to tell the truth to the brunette, and fast, because it would break Rachel's heart to see Puck flirting with some random slut at school.
"Hey, Puck. Listen to me. I know this might sound weird, but… well, I like Rachel, okay? So I'll try to explain to her what has happened and… I don't know what's gonna happen, but please, I need you to be nice to her if she talks to you, and please, I'm begging you, don't flirt with any other girls when she's around."
"Well, well, well, turns out our little Quinn Fabray has gone gay for Rachel Berry? Didn't see that one coming. Hey, I'll try, but I can't promise anything. You know it, I'm a sex shark, if—"
"Yeah, yeah, if you stop moving, you die." She interrupted him, rolling her eyes. He'd said that hundreds of times. "Just don't be a jerk. And, by the way, our love duet has to be performed today. I'll give you the sheet music at school. Don't mess it up, you know how important this kind of stuff is for Rachel. I'll meet you at the front door at 9, and you'll give me your sheet music for whatever song you're performing with Finn. And yes, we're gonna skip first period."
"Great. See ya later." Puck answered. He was probably going to skip first period anyway, so it didn't really matter. Plus, Puck's first period was with Rachel, and she wanted him as far away from the brunette as possible.
Quinn decided to pick up Rachel to go to school, since Puck didn't even know about the arrangement. She had plenty of time til 8.30, so she took her time showering. She loved having her long, blond hair and her toned, small body back. And she certainly did not miss Puck's body. Not at all.
When she'd finished, she put on one of her prettiest dresses and she went downstairs to have breakfast. Her parents were still sleeping. One thing she didn't miss when she was in Puck's body was her parents. At least Puck's mom cared about her son, but her parents didn't even care. She made toasts, but she couldn't even finish them. She was too nervous. She drank some orange juice, brushed her teeth and drove to Rachel's house.
When the brunette got out of her house, her smile faded, and she frowned. Quinn smiled and waved. Rachel walked slowly towards her car. When she got there, Quinn opened the passenger door from the inside. She flashed the brunette with her best smile.
"Good morning, Rachel. I'll drive you to school today. Puck is… busy."
Rachel nodded, still frowning, and got into the car. She had to stop herself from kissing her. She had to remind herself that she was in her own body, and not Puck's. Quinn decided to drop the news when they got to school, so, in the drive, she tried to break the ice. She didn't know how to act. She was used to talking to Rachel as Puck, someone who obviously the brunette liked. But with her own body, Rachel didn't like her that much, and they weren't even friends. She just tried to be friendly.
"So… big day today in Glee, huh?" Oh God, she sounded like a nosy mom. Rachel's silence didn't help either. She usually was really talkative, but she was being too silent now. Probably it was because Quinn had been a bitch to her for the past years. Ugh, she hated herself. The blonde decided to stop talking to not make it worse. There was an awkward silence all the way to school. When Quinn parked on the parking lot, Rachel opened her door immediately.
"Wait, Rachel. I would like to talk to you about something." Crap. She hadn't thought about how to tell her. She thought about that while Rachel, with a scared expression on her face, sat on the passenger seat and closed the door, staring at her.
"Look. I really don't know how to say this… but… Hum… I…" Her mind was blank. She really didn't know how to tell her something so surreal. Rachel was going to think she was crazy, or on drugs, or something.
"Quinn?" Rachel looked confused. Quinn just decided to start from the beginning.
"Okay. So, here it comes. Don't freak out, okay? And I swear that what I'm about to say is true. So, promise me you're not gonna interrupt me while I'm speaking." Rachel nodded. "Okay… So… Well, you know, well, you've dated Puck for a while now, right? And… well, did you notice that Puck changed? As in, since Monday, he has been all chivalrious and romantic and whatever."
Now Rachel was even more surprised. She nodded again.
"Well… Hmm… This may sound weird but… That "new" Puck, wasn't Puck. It was me."
"Excuse me?" Rachel was getting mad. Oh boy, that was worse than she thought it would be.
"Please don't get mad Rachel. Look, I'm as confused as you are, okay? But I don't know why, when I woke up on Monday I was in Puck's body, and he was in mine. And then you told me you were dating me, well, Puck, and—"
"Quinn. Are you telling me that I havee been dating you instead of Puck for a week? And that you switched bodies?"
"Hmm… Yeah, basically that's the general idea…" Fuck, it sounded crazy, and she knew it.
"Come on, listen to yourself. That doesn't even make sense. I thought your pranks were better than that. And I thought that we had left the name calling and the MySpace comments and all of these actions behind, but I guess it's not." She was frowning and her voice had gone like an octave higher. Wow, she was mad.
"No! It's not a prank! I swear to you, it's been me this whole week! Okay, on Monday I made grilled cheese for you, and we practiced for our love duet, the one from the Lion King 2. And on Tuesday you told me you didn't love Finn anymore, and Wednesday your dad almost caught us making out, shirtless on your bed, and yesterday you saw Santana and I kissing and I sneaked into your room and I told you I loved you and—" She took a deep breath and lowered her voice, which had gone louder and louder "I love you, Rachel."
The brunette had been listening to her speech completely silent. Quinn smiled and thought that she had convinced her, but when Rachel talked, she could see how mad she was at her. Crap, she had come out too strong.
"Quinn, I don't know how you know all that, but it's really creepy. You know, I could sue you for stalking me."
The blonde felt like she'd just been slapped on the face. She felt her eyes watery and her lower lip start to quiver. She was not going to cry in front of Rachel. She had to be strong. It didn't matter how much the brunette hated her right now, she was going to get Rachel back. The girl just glared at her and left the car. She tried to blink the tears away, but it was impossible. She broke down right there, where everyone could see her. She couldn't care less. Because, who was she kidding? She wasn't going to get Rachel back.
