I'm SOOOO sorry for how many time this took me. It was almost a month and I have it already written for weeks now. It's just that I write during class, in paper and then I'm terrible busy to copy it to the laptop. mehhh...
Also... it was Carnival. My mind was too busy thinking about other things and those last days was too busy going out til 8/9 am and *cough* making out with hot guys *cough* Anyway, it's just to let you know that my late updating had reasons and it was not lack of interest in the story. Not at all, I'm still pretty much addicted to my own story and drooling about the things that are to come. I decided there's going to be a Beatles week somewhere in the future and I'm just dying for it to come. I've been listening to Beatles non-stop... and chosing songs to be sang. Things like 'All my loving', 'For no one', 'Hold me tight'... really, if you don't know Beatles just start hearing them, because they are the best band in the world :D
Chapter X – Duets
Quinn's day never went by so slowly, for as much as she wished the girl just couldn't stop thinking about Rachel. Trying to get focused on class was almost a joke. She just couldn't hear a word any teacher would say, her mind was always drifting away to Rachel's lips against hers and before she realized her hand was touching the bruised skin in her neck and her eyes were shut. That just earned her weird looks from most of her class mates and call outs for attention coming from the teacher. Luckily, no one actually noticed it was a hickey she was touching in her collar bone. Even after all the pregnancy scandal, everyone knew the head cheerleader was kind of a prude and that mark, if noticed, would cause rumors in the corridors.
But, finally, the day got to an end and it was Glee time. And never the blonde had been so excited about that, she nearly ran to the choir room as soon as it rang to leave the last class. She knew Rachel was always the first to arrive and she hoped she could find her there alone. Finn didn't usually go with her that early, but since that particular day the boy didn't seem to want to leave her alone for a second Quinn wasn't that hopeful.
Although, when she reached the choir room door, there was only Rachel inside, doing some warm-ups to her voice. The blonde took a second to catch her breath, so the diva wouldn't notice she had been running to get there. "Hey." The cheerleader greeted shyly when she opened the door.
"Quinn." The brunette turned to her, clearly surprised by her presence, leaving the echoes of a B flat in the air.
There was a moment of silence, where both girls just stared at each other unsure of what to say or what to do. Quinn wanted to talk to her, but she didn't know what to say. Everything was kind of awkward after Saturday and now it was even more awkward. She had no clue what was going on between them two and as much as she wanted to believe the hormones excuse, she still had to wonder why were her hormones acting only towards Rachel?
"I'm sorry to interrupt your warm-ups." The cheerleader apologized only to break that cold ice silence that had fell in the room. Rachel shrugged and turned back to the piano to gather her music sheet as she wasn't thinking of doing warm-ups anymore. Now that she was alone with Quinn in a room again, all she could think about was attacking her lips again, but then Rachel remembered how motionless the cheerleader had been when Finn called out for her and that thought was quickly kicked off her mind. "I thought Finn would be there with you."
The diva spun to face Quinn again, just in time to catch her walking towards her. The blonde stopped as soon as she was spotted, unsure if she should move closer or not. The brunette was kind of surprised at first, but she nodded slightly, as giving permission for the blonde to come closer and sat down in the piano bench. "He wanted to come, but I scared him away when I started talking about technical aspects of vocal warm-ups."
Quinn saw it there, even if the diva was saying that in a relieved tone, she noticed the hurt in her voice. As much as she may not want him to come with her to the choir room, it still hurt her that it was so easy to scare him away while talking about the stuff she loved. All of a sudden the cheerleader was feeling some kind of anger towards the quarterback, for being the cause of that slight fragility in the girl's voice. "Well, I'm not easily scared. So go on and tell me."
The blonde didn't know what she was doing, but her stomach flipped when Rachel stared into her eyes, curiosity and happiness dancing in her brown orbs. The girl shook her head and smiled gently, then she turned back to the piano and patted on the bench next to her, for Quinn to sit. "I don't really want to talk about it right now." The cheerleader nodded and sat next to her, feeling the shivers in her body just for the proximity between them. "Why didn't you say anything when I left the restroom? Were you mad because I was going back to Finn?"
Quinn couldn't believe she was bringing up the topic like that, so boldly. She didn't expect them to talk about what had happened at all, especially not like that, so openly. The blonde couldn't even being to be that open to herself, she didn't know what was going on, how could she talk about that to Rachel? "I… I wasn't mad… I was just…" She was finding it very hard to make any sense in her words, all her memories were flying to her mind, but not the ones about how she felt when the brunette left, all she could think about was what they were doing before she left. Quinn closed her eyes for a second, trying to focus on her words and putting her thoughts together so she would be able to say anything at all to the diva. "I was more like confused… I think… I didn't expect…" Her eyes were still closed while she spoke but were suddenly wide opened when she felt two hands in her face, followed by soft lips smashing into hers.
Quinn's surprise quickly faded away when Rachel's tongue played with her lips, wanting to slip inside of her mouth, the blonde granted access and leaned closer towards her, holding her hips. The diva pulled away suddenly and stared into the hazel eyes. "I'm sorry. I… I don't know what you're doing to me… I just can't stop thinking about kissing you." The cheerleader face fell into pure confusion. Why the hell was she sorry? She was the one with a boyfriend, not Quinn. But the blonde just couldn't think again, her words just vanished with the diva eyes staring at her so intensely and her hands still in her face. She couldn't stop thinking about kissing her either.
"You…" Rachel nodded quickly, wanting her to say something else, something that would kill her fears of being messing up everything. However the blonde just kept opening and closing her mouth, unable to say a word. The brunette bit her lip unsure of what to do. Slowly, she let go of Quinn's face, but the cheerleader surprised her by catching her wrist before she could pull her hands away. "Don't say you're sorry, you have nothing to be sorry about, except for the fact that you're doing the same to me. All I can think about since I woke up on Sunday is kissing you again."
The blonde freed her wrists and Rachel silently turned back to the piano. She wasn't expecting Quinn to feel the same away she did, she was so confused… The cheerleader couldn't help it, especially when she knew the brunette wanted to kiss her too, she took off her scarf before moving her brown hair away from the back of her neck and started placing soft kisses there. No one would be there until it rang again, so they didn't have to worry about getting caught. "Do you think we can be fine about this?" Rachel asked with a trembling voice.
"I think we do." She answered against the brunette's neck, making her body shiver. The blonde chuckled lightly at her reaction, which made the diva blush heavily. Quinn didn't know if they would be fine about it or not, she didn't have any idea of what was going on, but she wanted to give Rachel the answer that would make her happy, for some reason that seemed to be the most important thing.
The diva moaned softly when the blonde kissed a sensitive spot in her neck and just stayed there with her eyes shut while Quinn kept kissing her and slid her hand under her top and her jacket, caressing her bare skin. "Kiss me…" The brunette begged in a whisper, still not moving.
The cheerleader did what she asked. She brought her free hand to the brunette's chin and turned her gently to her. The blonde ran her thumb slowly through Rachel's lips, her hazel eyes memorizing every inch of the diva's face before moving forward and locking their lips.
It was a lot like Saturday, their kiss started very slow but quickly developed to a faster pace. Rachel gripped Quinn's legs, digging her nails into her skin, the blonde groaned in response and sliding her other hand under the brunette's clothing pulled her against her body. Rachel climbed on the piano bench putting one knee in each side of the cheerleader and smashing their lips together again. Her long brown hair fell in the cheerleader's face and the brunette quickly whipped it off. She threw her arms around Quinn bringing her even closer and pressing their torsos tightly.
The bell rang and both girls jumped, making the blonde lose balance and fall with her back in the floor. "Sorry!" Rachel got off the bench and ran to help Quinn off the floor.
The cheerleader shook her head, accepting the brunette's help to get up but saying she was fine, there was nothing to worry about. Both girls just stayed there for a second, panting from the kiss and the scare. Rachel had never wished so much for Glee club not to start, she just wished it would take another hour to start, they could have a free period in the middle. That certainly would make her happy that day.
Suddenly, Quinn hurried to find something that would work as a mirror, it would be too weird if she looked like a mess when everyone came into the room. The fact that she was alone there with the brunette was enough to earn awkward gazes. "You look perfect, don't worry." Rachel whispered with a smile on her face, sat again in the piano bench. This time, the blonde wouldn't let confusion take control of her actions and smiled back. Apparently, that just made diva's smile grow wider.
"You look perfect too." The blonde replied with her husky tone, walking back closer to her. "Well, almost." She chuckled and fixed a strand of brown hair that was in the wrong side of her head and put back the scarf around her neck. "Perfect, now." Quickly, she caressed her face and fought the urge of kissing those lips again, their friends or even Mr. Schue were certainly about to come in, they couldn't risk being caught like that.
Just as Quinn retrieved her hand from the brunette's face Mr. Schuester entered the room and shot a confusing look to the two girls standing there. As far as he knew, the cheerleader and the diva didn't exactly get along. "Here so soon, Quinn?" Of course, he was asking only to the blonde, since Rachel was just always there when he got in.
"I was just talking to Rachel." The cheerleader smiled confidently and the brunette couldn't help but chuckle lightly, which earned her a glare from Quinn. She shrugged her shoulders, smirking and the blonde just totally wanted to jump on her again, instead, she rolled her eyes.
A second later, Santana, Brittany, Puck and Mike walked into the room. Seeing them inside, Santana fired a disapproving look to Quinn. The girl sighed and giving one last smile to Rachel, she turned and walked to join the latina and the other blonde.
"What, now you're friends with Ru Paul?" Santana snapped in a whisper so only the 3 girls would listen.
"Leave it, San!" Quinn muttered back, motionless.
"I can't leave it!" She almost seemed offended with the idea of just leaving it alone. "She's bottom in the food chain, Q. You can't hang out with her nor be her friend."
"Well, let's see this, Santana, if it wasn't for her B would have spent her night passed out in a bathroom because you were too busy shagging some random guy instead of taking care of her. Any horny teen could have taken advantage of her." Britt eyes stared down at the floor, because she was actually grateful to Berry for having helped her out, even when she was mean to her so many times.
The latina angrily glared at Quinn, for making her feel kind of thankful to the little diva as well. Brittany was her girl, her best-friend, she wouldn't forgive herself if something happened to her just because she was looking out for her.
"What were you doing all night with her anyway?" The question came exactly at the same moment as Finn entered the room and hurried to get Rachel on his monster arms and kiss her softly in the lips, sitting in the front row holding hands after. It was luck the other two cheerios were too distracted to notice her twisting in her chair, fighting her stupid jealousy.
When no answer came, the latina poked her arm dragging the blonde out of her silent rage. "We talked." Quinn shrugged and then a mischievous grin appeared in her lips. "Rachel is kinda cool when you get her drunk." Santana just shook her head, not believing and definitely not understanding the second meaning in the blonde's words.
While they were talking all Glee club get in the room and all of them sat down." Mr. Schuester called for attention so everyone would calm down and when everyone finally did, he beamed up and started speaking excitedly.
"This week we'll be doing something that we're quite used to already… Duets!" No one showed that much interest and Quinn almost groaned loudly at the thought of having to hear the obvious perfect and lovely duet between Rachel and Finn. "But there's a little twist." Everyone looked curiously at their teacher. "I want you to be flexible and I'd hate the idea of my students being homophobic, especially after Kurt left us. So…" Now their eyes were all glued on Will, wondering what had homophobia to do with that. "This week you'll be doing same sex duets. Girls with girls, boys with boys.
All of a sudden boys jaws were falling to the floor and girls were jumping in excitement. Santana and Brittany hugged muttering non-sense stuff and Mercedes and Tina high-fived with a confident 'we got this' coming from the black girl. Quinn looked down at Rachel sitting in the first row at the same time her head turned for her eyes to meet the blonde's. They exchanged a meaningful smile and the cheerleader winked, chewing absently in her lower lip. The brunette's smile widened once again and then she turned back around and nuzzled her face on Finn's arm. Quinn wasn't jealous this time, though, because she knew the diva was just happy for singing with her.
"However I'm going to make this easier for you guys. You don't really have to sing a duet song. You can pick any song and make it a duet." The blonde was happy to hear that, it would make the selecting a song process way easier. Her brain was already running through ideas, she wanted to surprise Rachel by having a plan sooner than her. The diva was far too used of being in control of everything.
"Mr. Schue, that's not fair. I don't wanna sing a duet with a dude, that's gay!" Puck blurted out with an angry tone. The blonde rolled her eyes, he was just being what Will didn't want them to be: homophobic.
"Exactly, Puck, but I believe you are confident enough with your sexuality to do it. I don't see why you would be so afraid of just singing a song with a guy." The teacher was being ironic, leading Puck into seeing it as a challenge, something he needed to do to prove Schuester wrong.
"I'm not afraid of anything." The mohawk boy complained and folded his arms, almost frowning . "I just don't like it."
"Well, but you'll do it anyway. Now, cammon, pair up and give me your names." The boys stared at which other weirdly, until Puck and Finn decided to go together, leaving Artie and Mike as the only guys left. "The winners will have a prize and that'll be a shopping coupon to any shop in the mall in the value of 100$."
Everyone got very excited with the prize and they took a long time to calm down. Boys were thinking of free games, girls were thinking about free clothing. Quinn was actually thinking of dressing up Rachel in clothes like the ones she had that day and her mind quickly flew away with the thought of being alone with the brunette in the dressing room.
"So tell me the names now. Girls, what are your pairs?" Mr. Schuester picked a sheet of paper and wrote as Santana said she was with Britt and Mercedes claimed to be with Tina.
"Me and Quinn." Rachel added, being the last pair. Finn didn't have any kind of reaction, because he was already aware of the friendship between the two girls, or at least part of it. But the rest of the Glee Club shot them confused and incredulous looks. Santana almost groaned to the blonde that retorted she didn't have anyone else, if she did want to sing with anyone else. Besides, the diva was the best singer and she wanted to win. The latina obviously didn't bought her reasons and just kept the scowl on her face.
Will then wrote the boys names and saved the sheet in his bag. "I'm very excited to see what you'll pull out, kids. And we have nothing more to do here, so you're all dismissed to go and work at home."
The song is going to be revealed in the next chapter, not sang though. We'll have a lot them practising because i want to describe everything going on with that song without being boring. :P i had a huge headache to realize how i'd explain everything I had in mind, but i managed to think of a way, now let's see if i can do it properly.