I'm so happy, my internet connection is fixed yay! Here is an other chapter to celebrate...
After three days of radio silence and her mom getting in a better mood, Quinn texted Rachel to ask if she would come over. She was hanging with Tina and was pretty sure Rachel wouldn't mind coming when Tina was there. Quinn wasn't surprised when the dark haired girl agreed and said she would be over in about 30 minutes. About 5 minutes later the doorbell rang, when Quinn opened the door it revealed Cameron and Sharon.
"Surprise!" Sharon yelled as she walked in.
"We haven't spent a lot of time together lately so we decided we need a girls day. Starting with movies." Cameron exclaimed
The duo walked straight up to Quinn's room before the blonde could even try to protest. Quinn felt a sense of impending doom, she felt like she just let two bulldogs into her house while she was waiting for a cute fluffy kitten to arrive. When she walked into her room Sharon and Cameron were already fighting over which movie to watch. Tina just snatched the dvd out of Cameron's hand and put it in the player, making the decision quite easy, fortunately because these fights tended to take awhile.
"Guys… Rachel is coming over later… please try and be nice." Quinn finally got out.
Sharon and Cameron turned to their friend and simultaneously dropped their jaw in disbelieve "What? Why does the dyke need to hang with us?" Sharon near shouted.
"Because my mom needs to think we are dating." right then the doorbell rang again "You guys go and get us snacks, then I'll get the door ye?" Quinn said trying to look calm. Rachel was earlier than expected, so she didn't have time to text the girl yet and to inform her about the new situation.
When Quinn got to the door she saw Rachel standing on her step wearing her leather jacket, as usual, some baggy jeans and converse. She loved how the dark haired girl could put on whatever she wanted and still look badass, not to mention really hot. Quinn had already accepted that she thought of the other girl as hot, lots of girls appreciated other girls beauty after all, nothing wrong with that.
"Hi Rach." Over the weeks she had started to grow comfortable enough to now use the girl's nickname. Quinn closed the door behind her and turned around only to be trapped between Rachel and said door.
"Hey." Rachel said softly, tugging a strand of hair behind the blonde's ear. Rachel leaned in and Quinn put her hand on the girl's hips. Rachel knew Quinn's mom wasn't anywhere near them but she decided to kiss the girl anyways. The blonde was a really good kisser and she found herself holding back a moan. Finally Rachel pulled away.
"So what are we doing?" she asked.
"Well, I think I should warn you, I was about to text you but then you were here already…" Rachel frowned and Quinn stared playing with her fingers. The dark haired girl grabbed them to make sure Quinn stopped fussing. The popular girl took a breath and continued "Ok… Sharon and Cameron are here, they just showed up and I didn't have time to warn you. Please don't kill me!" Quinn rushed out and ducked her head.
Rachel laughed at the cute girl in front of her, because she really was adorable Rachel concluded.
"Nah, you live to die another day... you met my friends and nobody died so I reckon I should be fine." She said.
"Look what we have here." Rachel took a step back and turned around to see Sharon and Tina. Sharon seemed to correct herself, after a subtle step on the toes from Tina, and bit back a remark, to settle for a hi, Tina walked over and gave her a hug.
"Tina, how are you?" Rachel questioned as she started climbing the stairs
"Not bad, not bad at all. We were going to watch a movie… that ok with you?" Tina asked Rachel as she caught up with her.
Quinn watched as the girl let out an approving hum, then started to follow after the duo. Sharon walked silently beside her, following the pierced girl's every move as if she would turn around and kill Sharon if she let her guard down. When they got to her room, Quinn dropped down on the bed and dragged Rachel down beside her. She told herself it was because her mom might walk in but she knew deep down it's because she liked the comfort of the girl touch, it was soothing to her and made her feel a little less anxious.
"So what are we watching?" she asked to avoid the stares of her friends that could potentially make this awkward.
"The notebook!" Sharon and Tina nearly squealed. Quinn couldn't help but groan, it turned into a laugh when she felt Rachel beside her chuckle and mutter 'typical' under her breath.
When the movie ended Rachel stretched claiming she would go for a smoke, Quinn just nodded signaling she heard. When the balcony door closed Cameron piped up. "I think we should ditch the weirdo, she obviously makes things awkward. I just wanted to spend time with my friends, I don't need a filthy junky breathing down my neck."
Quinn was starting to get angry already "Look she needs to be here otherwise my mom will figure out we are messing with her. You either accept she is here and be nice or you can leave."
"You are picking that.. that.. thing over us?" Cameron said raising her voice.
At this point Quinn was boiling in anger, she couldn't believe how her friends treated Rachel, especially after Rachel's friends were so nice to her. She was also very aware of the fact that the door had drifted slightly ajar, she was pretty sure the girl could hear every word that came over their lips.
"I'm not picking anyone, I'm just asking you to be nice to her. Why is that so hard?" Quinn said forcing herself to stay calm.
"Whatever, I'm outta here." Cameron grumbled and got her purse from the desk "Are you guys coming? We can hang out at my place and let Quinn take care of the freak." The blond asked when she got to the door. Sharon was already half way across the room to follow her out, so Cameron was really only asking Tina.
"You guys go, I'm staying here for a little bit longer. I need to be home soon anyway." Tina said.
"Suit yourself, we'll talk about this later." With that the duo was out the door. Rachel stepped back into the room as soon as the door closed.
"Well, I guess I was wrong before. There could be people dieing when it comes to me and your followers." Rachel said, a little smile playing on her lips.
"I'm sorry about that… You didn't need to hear that." Quinn said playing with her fingers again. Rachel noticed that it may be a nervous habit.
"Would you stop that." The smaller girl said, Quinn stopped and locked her fingers together "I've heard it all a million times before. It doesn't bother me anymore, I'm happy with who I am and I have great friends, that's enough for me."
"Well I'm sorry for saying stuff like that about you, all of it." Quinn said, looking down playing with her fingers again.
At this Rachel grabbed her hands yet again, "I told you to stop that, didn't I? And I'll you again, don't worry about that."
"Honey!" Judy's voice sounded down the hallway. Rachel pulled Quinn towards her bed by the hands she was still holding. "Why did Sharon and Cameron leave so soon?" She lay down, pulled Quinn on top of her, sneaked her arms around her waist so that they were cuddled up and kissed her cheek.
Just then Quinn's mom walked in and shot her a glare before continuing "They know they are welcome to join us for dinner whenever they want."
"Well, they had to leave." Quinn said with a glare, Rachel was sure, could melt ice caps with it's intensity. Rachel leaned in to whisper in her ear "Maybe we should tell her we're dating now, she will certainly burst a vein." The blonde looked at Rachel and nodded.
In the mean while, Tina had calmed Judy down a bit by asking if she had a new haircut.
Quinn cleared her throat "Mom," she grabbed Rachel's hand for good measurement, while Tina tried to contain her smile and excused herself to go to the bathroom.
"You might have noticed that Rachel and me are pretty close... Well… we have been dating for the past two months" Quinn said trying to keep a straight face.
"Ye, we just made it official a week ago." Rachel deadpanned.
Her mom seemed like she was about to explode "I really don't approve of this little phase you are going through Quinn. I went to my therapist yesterday and he told me give you your space though, so I'll let you be till this phase is over." With that she turned on her heel and walked towards the door.
"So she can stay here for dinner then?" Quinn asked, trying to push it a little bit further.
"Sure." Judy responded through gritted teeth and walked out.
Rachel turned to Quinn "Well I expected everything but that…" then she noticed the evil smile on the blonde's face "You want to push her even further, don't you?" it came out more as a statement then a question.
"Hell ye!" hearing footsteps again Quinn leaned in and kissed the dark haired girl while crawling on top of her. Rachel's hands found their way to her lower back, tracing lazy patterns over it. Quinn nearly forgot where she was when she heard a cough behind them. She shot up and almost fell of the bed, fortunately Rachel quickly tightened her hold, her mom didn't usually interrupt them. Rachel sat up, so Quinn was straddling her, and leaned back on her hands awaiting what was going to happen.
Quinn turned her attention to the person who had interrupted them. "I thought you were my mom." she stated.
"Well thank you captain obvious, sorry for interrupting your make out session but apparently you didn't hear me come in." Tina said as she dropped down in the bean bag next to Quinn's desk.
Rachel, who saw Quinn was bright red, and even more adorable if she might add, decided to answer for them "Well it would look weird if we jumped apart straight away now we 'came out' to her mom."
"Ye, she took that better then I thought." Tina replied thoughtfully, then suddenly a bright smile spread over her face "So tell me what is it like to kiss someone with a lip ring?"
"Well I've never done that so I don't know why you are asking me." Rachel said with a straight face, earning her a little slap on the arm from Quinn "My, my Q I didn't know you liked it rough." At this Tina burst out in a round of giggles.
Quinn moved of the pierced girl only to curl up under her arm. Before she could get lost in thoughts she decided to answer the previous question. "It's nice, actually Rachel is a really good kisser and the lip ring is just hot."
She had to fight the urge to slap her forehead as she let that last part slip. She still couldn't make sense of her thoughts. Surely the way she felt didn't make her gay, at least that's what she kept telling herself, but most of the time she couldn't help but stare at the girl, she wanted to touch her whenever she was around and she thought about Rachel all the time. If it was anything but friendly feelings it had to be just a crush, she kept telling herself that. She was so busy assuring herself it was just a crush, she didn't even notice she slipped out of denial and admitted she had feelings for the girl.
Tina lifted her eyebrow and Rachel knew the blonde had to endure a lot of teasing about that comment. Rachel couldn't help but resist the urge to lean in and whisper in Quinn's ear. She had a lot of these urges lately and most of the time she could resist them, but this time she gave in. She knew it was wishful thinking that the blonde might have feelings behind friendship for her but that one statement sparked a little bit of hope in her.
"I think you are a good kisser too and you're almost as hot as me." Rachel smirked and chuckled when she felt a shiver run through the girl curled up against her.
"You are so weird!" Quinn said with a little chuckle "Now that Sharon and Cameron are gone and we've come out to my mom, can we go and get something to drink I'm thirsty?"
"You guys go, I'll catch up. I need to call my sister and tell her I'll eat here." Rachel said
Tina took a seat on the kitchen counter, while Quinn grabbed them two bottles of water and handed one to Tina. When her best friend looked at her, she knew the girl was dying to ask her something. With sigh she put her water down. "Ok go ahead, say whatever it is you want to say."
Tina took a deep breath "Well, you know how I didn't approve of this plan. It was because I was afraid Rachel might get hurt, I realize now that I might be wrong, she is a strong person. The only one I'm worried about now is your mother."
"Ok…" Quinn said stretching the word "now say what you really wanted."
"Fine," Tina grumbled, upset she couldn't keep a secret from her best friend, then a smile lit up her face "You like her!"
Those three little words turned Quinn as red as a lobster. "NO!" It came out way to loud and fast for it to be true so she tried again "I mean… no, no, she is just a friend that helps me freak my mom out."
Tina just raised her eyebrow again. "What? I don't swing that way! She is a good kisser but I like boys ok!" Quinn said defensively.
"If you say so." Tina said clearly not believing her.
Before Quinn could really convince her friend though Rachel walked in cutting off their conversation. "Puck says hi, and he's bumped I'm not cooking dinner for him. He says next time he will come here and make me cook." She grabbed Quinn's bottle and took a sip.
"What's up with your friends, you and cooking?" Quinn exclaimed
"Well apparently I'm an decent cook, I'll show you sometime." Rachel said sitting down at the table.
They filled the next hour with playful banter and random conversations. Rachel looked up when the door opened, to see Brooke walk in. She nodded her head and received a smile in return. She was pretty surprised when Quinn spoke up. "Brooke, what are you up to? Want to join us and have a rematch on that game we played a couple of weeks ago?"
Rachel interrupted "Q, don't embarrass the girl! We both know I'll quick her ass, we can play another game in teams so I can team up with her and kick your lovely behind."
A slight blush crept up Quinn's cheeks and Rachel winked at her, Brooke decided to save her sister from some embarrassment and answered the question "Sure, as long as I can be in Rachel's team I'm game."
Around dinner time, one and a half hours later, her mom walked into the kitchen and Quinn watched her jaw nearly hit the floor. It rarely happened that she was in the same room as Brooke without fighting, to see them playing a game and getting along must have been quite a shocker.
"Mom you'll swallow a fly if you don't close your mouth."
Her mother shook her head and composed herself "Oh ye, right, erm… what did you guys want for dinner? We're ordering in."
"Pizza!" Tina and Brooke screamed beating Quinn and Rachel to an answer.
"Ok pizza it is." Judy said grabbing the phone.
"But mom, I wanted Thai food!" Quinn whined, Rachel leaned over and kissed her on the cheek before whispering "You and Brooke are finally connecting, let it be".
Her mother was watching their interaction closely until she noticed Quinn busted her, after that Judy turned away and dialed to order the pizza. Quinn grabbed Rachel's hand that was on the table earning a smirk from both Brooke and Tina.
"So, girls how did you meet?" Judy asked with a fake smile as she sat down at the table.
Quinn looked at Rachel with a slight panic in her eyes, so the smaller girl tried to keep her cool and answered for them. She felt like everybody could see the wheels in her head turning though. "Well we met at school, we are in the same English class, we got talking in detention once and clicked right away." Rachel linked their fingers and stared Judy down.
"Well isn't that nice." Judy said, fake smile still in place but her facade was tumbling a bit "What do you parents do?"
Rachel answered despite Quinn's effort to jump in "My dad owns a garage and my mom left us about a year ago."
Quinn never knew about Rachel's mother leaving her, then she remembered the drawings, they had stopped around the same time as her mother left. She realized it was time to really end this interrogation and made a second attempt.
"Mom! Can we stop the interrogation please!" Quinn snapped.
"It's ok Q, I'm like a rhino." Rachel calmed the blonde, she wanted to keep the peace because she didn't feel like fighting today.
"A very cute rhino though." Quinn winked trying to get a rise out of her mother again. At this Judy mumbled something about a phone call and getting her when dinner arrived, before fleeing the room obviously trying to keep her cool.
The four girls were alone again and returned to their card game in silence. After about a minute Brooke couldn't hold it anymore though and blurted out what was on her mind.
"You guys are really cute…. I mean, if you would be together it would be cute."
"Well I'm a really cute rhino after all!" Rachel quipped imitating Quinn's voice.
"That will never happen." Quinn said completely ignoring Rachel's previous statement.
Saving them from an awkward situation the doorbell rang signaling the pizza had arrived. Both Tina and Quinn jumped up Tina trying to get her pizza as soon as possible and Quinn trying to escape. "Get mom down here too please." Brooke shouted after them.
"So am I being a good bad girlfriend or do I need to be more badass? I can flash her a tattoo." Rachel joked.
"Well that depends… do you want my mom's death on your conscious?" Brooke responded as she put away the cards.
"No, I'd rather not... She'll come to haunt me I'm sure." Rachel said in mock terror.
Just then Quinn walked in with the pizzas closely followed by Tina and Judy. Quinn wanted to go sit down on her own chair but found herself being pulled down into Rachel's lap by two strong arms around her waist. So she pulled two pizza boxes towards them, gave one to Rachel and started to devour the pizza in the other one.