A/N: Hello everybody! New chapter, again, so enjoy! By the way, there are no song lyrics this chapter. Just saying…


Rachel's POV

I nodded my head, not quite sure that I could trust myself to talk at that moment. I walked upstairs to my bedroom, Quinn following behind me. I sat down on my bed and we were both silent for a good few minutes.

"Okay, look." I started, "If you're just here to screw with my head, go."

Quinn snapped her head up at the thinly veiled accusation, "Me? How do I know that you're not messing with my head?" She said, in a teasing tone,

I rolled my eyes, "Look, if you want to forget this ever happened, maybe take a trip back to your nice little closet, that's fine by me. Just don't drag this out."

Quinn moved from where she was standing to lie down on my bed, "Now look who's projecting?" She teased with a smile, "I'm not going anywhere, Rach. Not until you explain what's going on in that pretty little head of yours."

I gaped in shock, "My head? What's going on in my head? Come on Quinn, you are the most 'hot and cold' person I know, like this evening, for example!"

"I'll explain what's going on in my head, but I want to hear an explanation from you first. After all, you were the one who kissed me." Quinn bargained,

I took a deep breath, well, it was as good a time as any, "Well, if you didn't already guess, I'm gay. It all started late last year when I was dating Finn. Something wasn't… right… in our relationship, so, I went to Noah's house, to see if he could," I coughed awkwardly, "'Help' me. He couldn't obviously and I told him everything that night."

Quinn sighed knowingly, "That's when you guys got closer." She stated,

I nodded in response, "Yep. So, I broke up with Finn and decided to take a break from the dating scene. It was just too early for me, I'm not ready to come out yet. To anyone. Then around March, I, well I guess you could say I 'met', someone. She was absolutely beautiful. The most amazing personality. But she was, to my knowledge, completely straight. I started developing feelings for her and they got deeper and deeper. Then we became friends, which killed me, but I thought, 'Hey, at least I get to spend time with her.' So, I did. Then, one night, I went for dinner at her house and kissed her. The rest is history…"

Quinn looked up at me in shock, "Me?" She spluttered,

I rolled my eyes in exasperation, "Well duh, who else would it be?"

Quinn seemed to consider that for a moment, "My turn?" she asked,

I nodded at her,

"Well, my story isn't as long or fancy as yours. We started hanging out more, I started feeling things for you that friends just don't feel for other friends. I had a mini freak out, and then when you kissed me, I freaked out, even more, I thought you might be messing with me or something. Then I was worried because you weren't answering my texts or calls. I told my mom everything and demanded she give me the car so I could come talk to you." Quinn recalled,

"So…" I said, not quite sure if I understood what Quinn was saying properly,

"So, Rachel Berry, I'm madly in love with you and would love to take you out on a date sometime?" Quinn offered with a charming grin,

I didn't answer her, instead leaning over to give her a fairly chaste kiss, and lying down next to her. Life was looking up for one Rachel Berry.


Quinn's POV

I was shitting myself. I was in my mom's car (which she had kindly let me borrow) on my way to Rachel's house. Today marked our first date and I was terrified that I was going to muck it up. We hadn't really gotten a chance to fully talk about our 'relationship' yet. We both knew that we loved each other, we just didn't really know where to take it from there. Also, Rachel had put me in charge of planning the first date, which just gave added pressure to the situation.

I pulled up outside her house at 6 o'clock, grateful that her dads were still at work. I was super pleased with the fact that I could avoid any awkward conversations with her dads, especially seeing as they didn't know Rachel was 'seeing' someone, especially not a girl.

I walked up to the front door, wiping my sweaty palms on my dress. I had chosen pretty casual attire for the date. I was wearing a light blue and white patterned dress, with a brown belt and my favourite brown boots, plus a denim jacket as it was starting to get a bit cold in Ohio.

I knocked on the door and waited patiently for a response,

"Coming!" Rachel's voice called from inside, followed by some footsteps and clanging around the house,

The door swung open to reveal Rachel, standing there putting her earrings in.

"Hey Q. Come in, I'm almost ready I swear," She said with a kiss to my cheek,

"Take your time babe," I replied easily, after all, I had taken a really long time to get ready myself,

Rachel quirked an eyebrow up at me, "Babe?" She asked,

I started stuttering a response but she shut me up with a chaste kiss, "I like it." She said with a small grin,

I just grinned in response and checked my reflection in the mirror, fixing my lipstick.

Rachel grabbed her bag and slipped her phone into it, "I'm ready!" She announced, "Now let's get going!"

We jumped in the car and I switched on the radio,

"So, are you going to tell me where we're going?" Rach asked nosily,

I shook my head, but didn't answer,

"Quuuiiiiiiinnnn!" She whined,

"You'll just have to wait till we get there, but don't worry, it's not Breadsticks," I reassured her,

"Thank God." Rachel scoffed, "Quinnny you have to tell me!" She pleaded,

I pretended to zip my lips and throw away the key, she was just going to have to wait. No surprise really that Rachel Berry doesn't like surprises.

"Oh, and put this on," I said, holding out a black blindfold,

"You want me blindfolded, on the first date? Kinky." Rachel smirked,

I looked over in shock that Rachel had actually just said that, and then shoved the blindfold towards her, I don't want you to be able to see where we're going!" I whined,

"Alright!" Rachel said, snatching the blindfold from me playfully and putting it over her eyes, "Happy?" She checked,

"Yep!" I replied lightly, "Now sit back, relax, and enjoy the drive."

After about 40 minutes of driving in a comfortable silence, I pulled over on a side road.

As soon as the car stopped Rachel moved her head around to try and see where we were,

"Stay still, I'll open your door in two minutes," I instructed, to which Rach nodded,

I grabbed the basket and the extra blankets out of the boot of the car and went to go get Rachel, "Could you hold these?" I requested, holding the blankets out,

"Got 'em!" Rachel confirmed,

"Now take my arm, and follow me!" I said excitedly,

As we hadn't yet discussed our relationship fully, I had chosen to take her to a park overlooking a lake, just outside of Lima. I led Rachel over to a nice patch of grass near the water, then grabbed a blanket from her and laid it down.

"Okay," I said, as my hands go to the blindfold, "Ta-da!" I revealed,

Rachel gasped in surprise, "Aw, Quinn, it's beautiful! I love it!" She said and turned around to give me a kiss on the cheek,

I sat down cross-legged on the blanket and tapped the space next to me. Rachel sat down very gracefully and looked out at the lake.

"I packed some food and stuff. I've got cheese, crackers, sandwiches, biscuits, soda and much more…" I said,

"Oh, Quinn. It's so perfect. Perfect first date." Rachel replied with a smile,

I sighed happily and took out half a sandwich, "You know, now that we're actually on our first date, I have no idea what to say to you." I said honestly,

"You're putting too much pressure on it, I love you, you're amazing, it's just me that you're talking to. Don't overthink it." She replied, "And I'm nervous too." She admitted,

"You're right. I'm overthinking. I can't believe it took us so long to get here." I laughed,

"I know right? We spent so much time dancing around in circles instead of actually telling each other what we wanted too."

"Yeah…" I sighed,

"Quinn…?" Rachel asked tentatively,

"Yeah, babe?" I replied, turning so that I could face her,

"I'm not ready to… I mean I don't think I could… Well, what I think I'm trying to say… Well…" She stammered,

"Rachel sweetie, think about what you are trying to say," I told her, grabbing her hands, "What is it?" I asked her, looking her straight in the eye,

Rachel took a deep breath, "I don't want to tell people we're dating." She rushed out, "It's nothing to do with you! I would love to be able to show you off to everyone, I'm so proud to be your girlfriend. I'm just, not ready to be out. I'm at the bottom of the food chain at McKinley as it is. I can't handle it. I don't want you to have to handle it either." She finished, looking down at our hands,

I had to admit, I was extremely relieved. I wasn't ready to come out either, "I agree." I said simply, and Rachel looked up at me hopefully,

"You do?" She asked quietly, "You're not mad?"

I put my fingers under her chin and forced her to look at me, "No." I said firmly, "Even if I didn't agree, I would agree with it because it's you. But I agree. So, we don't have to worry."

"When are we going to tell people?" Rachel asked curiously, picking up a biscuit and dropping crumbs all over her lap. Adorable,

"We'll tell Glee club when we feel comfortable." I decided, "Whether that's next week or next year, or a couple of years from now."

"As for our parents?" She prodded,

"Well, my mom already knows about the whole, I'm in love with you thing but she doesn't know we're dating yet…"

"OH! Of course! Duh," She face palmed,

"So it's just your parents and confirming to my mom that we are dating."

"Okay, well. We'll tell them when we tell them." Rachel decided, "Yeah, let's not put a time limit on it. It can be our special little secret for now."

"I like that idea." I agreed,

We sat there at the edge of the lake for hours. Talking about anything and everything. It was the best first date I could have imagined.


Over the next few weeks, Rachel and I hung out all the time. Well, as much as we could without our friends getting suspicious. Both Rachel and I had to be sure to pencil in time to spend with Noah, Tina, and Britt and Tana. It was quite annoying, but we figured that keeping them happy would ensure that they didn't think something was up. We usually hung out around the house, because in a town like Lima, you ran into someone you know at every corner.

One day, a couple of weeks (ish) after Rach and I started dating we decided to go to a mall in Columbus because there were some sales for end of Season clothes.

"Want to go get some coffee?" Rachel asked, swinging their hands between them,

"Babe, you know I don't function before coffee," I smirked,

We walked towards the nearest coffee shop and ordered two coffees, and a muffin we could share,

"I'm just gonna pop into the bathrooms really quick," I said, walking off.


Rachel's POV

I was sat at the table in a nice little coffee shop in the mall when I hear a familiar voice call my name, 'Shit.' I thought,

"Rachel!" Kurt called out, walking over to the table, "Fancy seeing you here today. What are the chances huh?"

"Yeah, my dads just dropped me off so I could do some shopping, you know, me time and all that," I replied with a smile, pulling out my phone to text Quinn,

'Don't come out of the bathroom! I repeat, DO NOT come out of the bathroom! CODE RED!'-Rach

"You're planning on drinking two coffees all on your own?" Kurt asked raising his eyebrow in disbelief,

Fuck, "Well, I got two because I have never been to this coffee shop before and wanted to make sure that if I didn't like one of them I could just try something else." I explained. See, that right there, is why I'm destined for Broadway.

"Oh," Kurt said, "Well I guess that kind of makes sense."

I smiled in response,

"Can I please sit with you for a minute? We haven't caught up in ages." He whined,

Shit, I had forgotten to pencil Kurt into the 'friend' time that Q and I had organised for ourselves, of course.

"Yeah, sure," I said, waving to the seat,

Just then, I turned my head to see Quinn walking out of the bathroom, drying her hands on her skirt. I tried to catch her attention but she wasn't looking at me. 'God, we are so totally fucked.' I thought to myself. Kurt saw my eyes flick to the side and follow my line of sight to see Quinn walking towards our table,

"God, what were the chances of running into her here?" He muttered,

Quinn walked right up to the table, and looked up in shock when there was someone in her seat, trying to make it seem like she planned to approach us, she started speaking, "Lady Hummel," She greeted, "Berry." She said, with a nod,

"Quinn, what are you doing here on this fine day?" Kurt asked curiously, barely disguising his disdain,

"Well, what do you normally do in a mall?" She shot back, "I'm shopping. On my own, obviously. I don't have anyone else to shop with. So yeah, here by myself." She finished,

I mentally facepalmed; this was going not so great. Luckily, Kurt didn't seem to notice anything out of the ordinary, and continued speaking,

"Well, it was lovely seeing you. Goodbye." He said dismissively,

I could see not only the anger in Quinn's eyes at being dismissed from her shopping trip with her girlfriend but also the hurt that arose from having Kurt talk to her like that. Glee may be a family, but the people in the club that are closer to usually aren't that fond of Quinn, because they think we don't like each other, and that the way Quinn treated me was unfair.

Quinn nodded curtly, and walked away from the table,

"Sorry she had to ruin your shopping trip," Kurt apologised,

"It's fine." I said shortly, "You know, I'd love to catch up, but maybe we could do it tomorrow? My dads just texted me saying their plans changed."

Kurt looked a little put out, but agreed nonetheless, "Okay, I will text you though Ms Berry. You need to catch me up on a certain Lucy."

Did he just…? No, never mind. It's impossible.

"Bye!" I called over my shoulder as I picked up me and Quinn's coffees and jogged out the store, heels clicking on the tiles,

I pulled out my phone and dialled Quinn's number,

"Hey, babe." She answered,

"Hey, I'm outside the coffee shop, where did you run off to?" I asked her,

"I'm downstairs, like, right beneath you." She replied,

"Be there in a minute," I said, before hanging up,

I got downstairs and spotted Quinn outside a pharmacy, I checked our surroundings before giving her a quick hug, "You okay?" I asked concernedly,

"I'm fine. I get why he acts like that. I just wish I could show them I'm not as bad as they still think I am." She replied,

"As soon as we tell them they'll have no choice but to love you as much as I do," I told her with a smile,

"As long as you keep loving me as much as you do, I will never need anyone else." She replied,

"God, you cannot say things like that in public!" I protested, slapping her arm,

"Why not?" She asked, seemingly genuinely confused,

I leant forward and whispered in her ear, "Because you make me want to do things to you that would get me arrested." I pulled away with a seductive smile, which quickly changed innocent,

"You can't say that." She growled, "Come on, my mom isn't home and we can't stay here knowing we might run into Kurt again."

I giggled and grabbed her hand, pulling her to where the car would be.


Come Monday, I still hadn't talked to Kurt about 'Lucy'. That meant, that I wasn't particularly surprised when he corned me in the Glee room before school,

"You know; you still haven't shown me a picture of Lucy." He said, rocking on his feet,

"A… uh, a picture… I… um… don't have my phone on me." I lied, I would have to find some random picture of 'Lucy' to throw Kurt off the scent,

But, as my luck would have it, my phone started ringing from my pocket, probably Quinn, funnily enough,

Kurt coughed expectantly, "What was that you said about your phone?"

I laughed it off, "That's funny, I could've sworn I left it at home today. Silly me."

"Rachel." He said, giving me a stern glare, "Why would you lie?"

"I didn't lie, I just forgot my phone was in my pocket," I replied, rolling my eyes,

He raised an eyebrow at me, "Oh, not about the phone. About Lucy."

I froze, "What about her?"

"I've got the feeling you're not being entirely truthful about her existence or her…" He replied in a sing-song voice,

He wasn't trying to be evil, he was just trying to figure out the truth, which I guess I couldn't blame him for,

"I don't know what you're talking about," I replied shortly,

"Who is it, Rachel? Who is the real person, behind Lucy? You can tell me, please, trust me! I want to help! But I can't do that if you don't tell the truth! Does she go to our school? Is that why you can't tell me? Because I only know one person in our school that's called Lucy…"

Did he already suspect it was Quinn? 'Oh shit! He's getting warmer! Uh, another lie! Another lie!' I thought desperately,

"She is real Kurt. I just can't tell you everything about her." I answered evasively,

Kurt looked kind of hurt, "I wish you would tell me." He said, before walking out of the door,

Okay, he already suspected it was Quinn, we really needed to step up our game if we were going to throw him off the trail.

We had agreed to stage several arguments in Glee club over the school weeks until Thanksgiving break, then we would see how the situation was.

So, we got to Glee club that afternoon already having agreed that anything that was said in the choir room, would stay in the choir room.

"Alright everybody," Mr Schue announced as he walked into the room, "We've got to get a move on for Sectionals. We have two weeks to get our set-list ready to go."

"Oh well, that's easy Mr Schue. We'll just get little miss 'I'm so talented' to perform a solo, then she and her boyfriend can do a duet, while we all sway in the background." She said, waving her hands around to demonstrate her point,

I turned to glare at my girlfriend, "Just because I have more talent than you Quinn, doesn't mean you can get upset by it." I told her condescendingly,

"Look, Streisand, I'm not the one who thinks she's more talented than the rest of the glee club and spends all of her time hogging the spotlight."

"At least I'm not the slut who got pregnant in high school!" I shouted back, standing up,

Don't worry, that was a rehearsed line, I would never dare say that to Quinn,

"Well, I'm not the whore who encouraged a boy to cheat on his pregnant girlfriend!" Quinn screeched, now standing up,

I slapped Quinn across the face, well, it was a choreographed stage slap, but it still made me feel like an abusive partner, which was not very a nice feeling at all, but she slapped me back, so we could call it quits,

"ENOUGH!" Mr Schuester shouted at the top of his lungs,

Noah grabbed my arms and dragged me to one side of the room, while Mike grabbed Quinn and led her to the other. The Glee club (especially Kurt for some reason) looked horrified, but not necessarily surprised that one of our 'conflicts' had reached this level, and Santana looked like she was having the best time of her life, all she was missing was popcorn.

"This kind of behaviour is unacceptable!" Mr Schue reprimanded, "We are so close to Sectionals at this point and we need to have a united front. You two need to sort out your issues, or deal with them."

I just huffed and stormed out of the choir room. A perfectly executed fight, followed by a perfectly executed patented Rachel Berry storm off. I was giving myself props for being such a good actress when Tina, Mercedes and Kurt came running after me. I felt like Mr Burns, 'Eeexcceelleent.' While knotting my fingers together in front of me,

"Are you alright Rach?" Tina asked tentatively,

"I'm fine Tina," I sighed angrily, "Quinn just, URRGHH she constantly gets on my nerves. Always pushing me to argue and fight with her! It gets quite tiresome actually."

"We understand, she took it way too far that time," Kurt replied, and Mercedes and Tina nodded in agreement,

"She left just after you, muttering God knows what under her breath. Next time that white girl threatens you, I will cut a bitch." Mercedes threatened, and there was no doubt in my mind that she would,

"Which way did she go? I kind of don't want to run into her alone on the way to my car…" I said nervously, fidgeting with my hands,

"It's alright sweetie. We can walk you to your car." Kurt offered,

"Aw, thank you," I replied graciously,

I was thanking my lucky stars that Quinn had already asked Santana for a lift that day because Tina, Cedes and Kurt walked me to my car and literally watched me drive down the street.

After I had turned off a couple of roads, I pulled over to check my phone, and saw a message from Quinn, who was now labelled as 'TLC' in my phone (because of the duet we performed), so that nobody that saw our phones would know who we were texting,

'Hey babe, you okay? Want to come around to mine for dinner?'-TLC

'Yep, I'll go home to change and be there at 5:30'-Maria

That night, I looked online and considered buying that coat Angelina Jolie wears in 'Mr and Mrs Smith' because I was getting really into my secret agent role.


The next few weeks, progressed relatively easily for myself and Quinn. We continued to argue and fight in Glee, though we tended to stop it before it got as bad as the first time, just so we didn't get in any actual trouble.

The Glee club dominated Sectionals, as expected, and won with flying colours. I had ended up singing the solo, but the duet was sung by Sam and Quinn, and the group number was led by Noah. It was an excellent moment for us, and even Quinn and I declared a 'ceasefire' for the celebration period. Which, lasted about a day in the end.

Quinn and I kept going on dates all the time. I think her mom was even starting to get sick of me being around hers for dinner. Then before we knew it, it was Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, I spent the Thanksgiving break with some family in Chicago, so I was away from Quinn, but we kept up via text and phone calls.

Then came Christmas, which was a nice time for Quinn and I because it was our first Christmas as a couple. She got me the most beautiful pair of earrings I had ever seen, and I bought her a matching bracelet and necklace. We did spend a lot of time on the break together, but we both also had family stuff to get through.

Before we knew it, Quinn and I had been dating for three months. It may not seem so long to some people, but Quinn and I had feelings for each other before the relationship officially started, so we didn't feel like we were rushing anything. It was perfect. Then it was back to school and we mutually decided it was the right time for us to make a move.


A/N: Hello! Did you like it? Please review if you did, they encourage me to write much quicker. Next chapter is the last before I start posting the sequel! I just have a couple of things to say. 1, Rachel's dads have been conspicuously absent for most of the story, just on business trips or seeing family, there is nothing wrong with them, and they are still amazing parents to Rachel, it will just make things that happen in the sequel make more sense. Also, the end may seem kind of rushed, but I didn't really know how to write those three months, day by day, you know? I felt like it had to happen like it did. But if you guys want to see any specific one-shots or anything, let me know, I will be happy to write them for you. That's it, I'll see you soon for the grand finale! –Lauren's Glee Stories xx