After the cheerio meeting Quinn said goodbye and got in her car she was suddenly over come with the urge to cry, she didn't want to go home and explain to her parents so she drove to the forest and went for a walk. She came to a log that was laying to the right of the walkway, Quinn sat there and put her headphones in no longer caring if her Cheerios uniform got dirty. The music started and she sat there silently looking at the surrounding forest, her thoughts took over while the song played silently in the background.
I'll leave the lights on,
In case you come back, in case you come back
I'm playing my old song
God, I believe that, yes I believe that
It's been too long, you now try to stay strong
But you're one life away
do you hear me calling your name, yeah?
Every time the night falls down,
So do you wonder what I'm doing now
Do you think of me?
Oh leave me, let me down
See, I just want to do it now
Do you think of me?
I say oh, oh, and oh, oh
Do think of me oh, oh?
I'm living by the telephone
You never called back
why don't you call back?
I'm... I don't believe that,
why don't you come back?
It's been too long,
and I'll try to stay strong
But you're one life away
do you hear me calling your name, yeah?
Quinn started to cry as her emotions over rode logic. She did want to see Rachel again but she wasn't sure if she could trust her. After all that happened and her eyes, who knew what that was? Quinn's mind moved to their kisses and how amazing they were but something wasn't right and she couldn't ignore the eyes. Rachel looked so different, her eyes… her eyes had changed from the brown orbs that Quinn loved to bright blue but they were glowing, like actually shinning. It wasn't natural and the thought terrified Quinn. everything in this world had balance and order… Highschool was the perfect example of that, cheerio's and jocks on top… average people in the middle and drama geeks and teacher suck ups at the bottom. She pressed the arrow on the right for the next song, she didn't want to think of Rachel or what happened.
Black dress with the tights underneath,
I got the breath of the last cigarette on my teeth,
And she's an actress (actress),
But she ain't got no need.
She's got money from her parents in a trust fund back east.
Tongues always pressed to your cheeks,
While my tongue is on the inside of some other girls teeth,
Tell your boyfriend if he says he's got beef,
That I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fucking scared of him.
She wants to touch me (Whoa-oh),
She wants to love me (Whoa-oh),
She'll never leave me (Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, oh, oh),
Don't trust her,
Never trust her,
Won't trust her,
Don't trust me.
X's on the back of your hands,
Wash them in the bathroom to drink like the bands.
And the setlist (setlist),
You stole off the stage,
Had red and purple lipstick all over the page.
Bruises cover your arms,
Shaking in the fingers with the bottle in your palm.
And the best is (best is),
No one knows who you are,
Just another girl alone at the bar.
The last two verses had resulted in Quinn thinking about Rachel once again, the tears carried on as she allowed her emotions to poor out. Her phone vibrated and Quinn picked it up to see who it was, she gasped as she saw 'Rach' flashing on her phone. She opened her message…
Quinn we need to talk at some point, please? I'm sorry for everything. R x
Quinn felt like she was ready to talk, even if she wasn't sure what she wanted to say. She typed back..
Ok, you're right we do.
She was unsure of herself and what she was feeling at the moment, she wiped her tears on her forearm and looked up, she heard birds chirping and looked to her left.. she saw Rachel sat at the other end of the log.. she jumped up and to the side and shrieked.
"Rachel Barbra Berry what the hell is wrong with you" she screamed.
Rachel turned her head to look at Quinn, she looked sad, desperate and run down. Her eyes looked desperate and pleading.. "Please Quinn, I just wanna talk" Rachel said with her eyes watering.
Quinn was scared, she didn't know what or who Rachel was anymore.. could she really trust her.
"Fine but you stay there and don't move" Quinn sighed and held her hands out defensively while slowly sitting back down. Rachel looked forward and bowed her head so Quinn couldn't see how much that hurt her.
"Breadstix… what you think you saw-" Rachel began before being interrupted.
Rachel's head snapped up at the interruption and Quinn flinched but continued "what I saw Rachel was your eyes go from that (she pointed to Rachel's eyes) to bright glowing blue" Quinn spat.
"I can explain Quinn"
"you lied before, what's to stop you lying again"
"I didn't lie.. I just didn't tell you. I know how this must look but please just hear me out"
"oh you know how this must look?" Quinn laughed "you haven't got a fucking clue… I know that for a fact because I don't even know how this all looks"
"Quinn please, all I wanted to do after you left was talk to you. I've tried all
day but you haven't replied and I understand why you didn't but I'm begging you, let me explain. You can tell me to stop at anytime and I will, I'll leave you alone and never even look in your direction again" Rachel spoke quietly but firm and Quinn could see the sincerity in her eyes.
"You'll never bother me again?" Quinn quizzed quirking her eyebrow.
"If that's what you want"
"Okay start talking" Quinn spoke confidently making sure her façade didn't show her true conflicting emotions.
"Ok well before I start there's lots of legends surrounding what I am, a lot of them are false so before I start I want to know that you'll at least try and hear me out." Rachel was so nervous about Quinn's reaction.
"I'm not promising anything" Quinn saw the look on Rachel's face and instantly felt guilty so decided to expand "but I'll try an hear you out"
Rachel smiled a small but sad smile, she nodded before continuing.. "I'm a vampire Quinn" she waited to see if Quinn would bolt but she sat there silently showing no emotion so Rachel continued "legends about what I am reach back farther than Christ, back to ancient Assyria and Babylonia. Ancient Aztecs used to pour blood into the mouths of their India Rajahs drank blood from severed heads. In China, the family would guard a corpse the night before the burial from a cat or dog jumping over it and turning it into a Vampire. First ancient Greeks, then Romans after them believed in a type of female Vampire called a Lamia. Lamia's were thought to seduce men in order to suck their blood. Later in Greece there was another word for Vampires Vrukalakos, creatures who would revive the dead then feast on the living. Recently there are some people who are trying to prove that Vampires are nothing more than people suffering from porphyria an incurable genetic disease. Symptoms of porphyria include a need for blood transfusions, a negative reaction to garlic, and a necessity to avoid sunlight… that's clearly not true as I clearly love sunlight.. The original legends of Vampires started in Romania and Hungary around the early 16th century. The word itself is comes from a Slavonic term and didn't exist in English until about 1730. after that many people travelling through Eastern Europe reported sightings and encounters with Vampires. These reports spread throughout Europe; and the myth of Vampires began. It wasn't until authors like Byron, Goethe, Baudelaire, and of course Bram Stoker that Vampires as you know them were created.
The truth of how the vampire I am came to be Quinn is, one night while a deputy soldier was eating dinner with a family on a farm they were joined by an old man. The soldier noticed the family was extremely frightened of the man. The old man touched the man of the house on the shoulder and left. The next morning the soldier discovered the farmer had died and that the old man from last night was the farmer's father who had been dead for 10 years. When the old man touched the farmer on the shoulder he both caused and announced the death of the farmer. When the soldier reported this his commanding officer questioned the family under oath. Eventually they exhumed the old man's body. Which according to reports had looked like the body of a man who died recently. The commanding officer ordered the man's head cut off and they laid the body to rest again. Back in those days Vampires always attacked relatives and lovers first.
While the officers were questioning the town's people they were told of another Vampire roaming the city. A deputation with seemingly impeccable credentials was sent to investigate. This Vampire had killed three nieces and one brother in a fortnight and was attacking the fourth niece when he was interrupted. When the Vampire's body was dug up it was discovered to have hair, nails and eyes all in good condition. The interesting part about this Vampire is that his heart was still beating. The deputy drove an iron stake through his heart, cut off his head with an axe, and then buried the body in quicklime. The fourth niece finally started to recover but what they didn't realise is that the niece that he'd brutally beaten to the point she was bleeding heavily had cut the man when she tried to defend herself and their blood had somehow mixed… she wasn't human anymore but it has to be said she had the most impeccable self control" Rachel stopped there, aware she'd been talking for a while and she looked into Quinn's eyes to see if she could tell how the blonde was feeling but she couldn't see anything. She started to panic..
"How do you know that the niece recovered and wasn't human and had this amazing self control.. sounds like a fairy tale to me" Quinn said her voice thick with doubt.
"I know because I was there.." Rachel said dubiously not sure if she should have told Quinn that.
"uhhh-huuu.. So how old are you" Quinn asked quirking her eyebrow
"Does it matter?" Rachel asked shrugging.
"I'll get back to you on that, so how do you fit into this story?" Quinn hesitantly asked not moving her eyes from Rachel.
"Well she was my best friend and secret girlfriend" Rachel stated.
"you know what, I'm not sure I believe any of this. Your lying all I saw was blue eyes that could have been the reflection of the moon or the adrenaline from nearly being murdered by your psychopathic friend" Quinn said standing up with a wave of her hands, she turned to walk away and then Rachel was in front of her. Quinn stopped dead in her tracks unsure of Rachel's motives.
"Jesus Rachel stop doing that"
"Doing what"
"Being one place and when I turn round your just there"
"But it must be normal because I was lying right?" Rachel asked quirking her eyebrow and Quinn's obvious loss for words.
"fine, prove to me that your nothing more that a light footed ninja" Quinn smirked, she really was in denial about what she'd just heard, she'd been noticing things about Rachel that didn't add up since she first gave her a lift home.
Rachel picked up a stick "throw this as high as you can above you" Quinn rolled her eyes but complied and threw the stick… Rachel ran to the tree infront of them jumped and kicked off the tree thrusting her higher into the air, she grabbed the stick and landed before handing it to Quinn.
"that doesn't prove your not a highly skilled ninja" Quinn argued, this time Rachel rolled her eyes before sighing..
"your okay with blood right?" she questioned. Quinn just nodded.
"good, give me the pen knife you carry in your bag"
"What? I don't know what your talking about" Quinn said shocked.
"Quinn I'm not the police give me the damn thing" Quinn rustled through her bag and pulled out the pen knife, Rachel looked at it, opened it and handed it back holding her hand out.
"Cut me with it" she instructed.
"NO!" Quinn squealed in horror at the thought.
"Don't be a baby" Rachel said smirking.
Quinn placed the pen knife in Rachel's hand "I'm not doing it" she stated in a way that made Rachel aware she wasn't winning this battle.
"fine… watch closely then" Rachel took the knife and made a cut from the right to the left across her palm. Quinn jumped forward ripping her scarf out of her bag about to put it on Rachel's hand "wait" Rachel said watching her hand… Quinn froze and watched out of horror and curiosity… the brunets hand was bleeding heavily when suddenly it started to heal, the wound closed up. Quinn looked up at Rachel's eyes in shock of what she'd just seen and was stunned to see Rachel's eyes were shining blue again.
"What.. the.. fuck" was all Quinn breathed out.
"Quinn I understand if you no longer wish to be friends and I'll respect your decision but for what it's worth I'll miss you" Rachel gave a short smile and Quinn blinked trying to get head around everything but when she opened her eyes Rachel was gone.
"What the fuck" Quinn repeated confused by her whole ordeal. She grabbed her stuff and headed back to her car. When she eventually found her car, the pen knife she'd leant Rachel was sitting on top of her bonnet underneath was a note.. she grabbed the pen knife and the note before getting into the car turning her radio on and unfolding the paper to read.
Dear Quinn,
Marcus Tullius Cicero once said 'The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.'
Love and friendship are both important. It's been said that true friendship is the initial step to love. Everyonee has someone or some people in their life that they consider a close friend. They are always there for you whenever you need them. They wake up at four in the morning to receive your calls. Friends are someone with whom you can share all your secrets with. They help you out, talk to you when you need to talk, share your problems, talk to you about their crushes, and hang around. Help you out with any issues.
Love's only slightly different from friendship. Love is when you start to like or love someone from the depth of your heart. This feeling is very different from all the other feelings. When you see them around you start to get cold sweat, and when they come to talk to you about something, you realize your tongue tied or maybe you're lost of words. When they touch you, suddenly you can feel butterflies in your stomach, and then it is love. Love and friendship are two very important relations in one's life. Life can be very beautiful if you have both good friends and a loving partner. You told me you were falling for me before all of this happened, if you can I'd like to be friends and if something can happen between us then I'd love that but you obviously need time so starting from now I wont visit, talk or text you... let me know if you ever need help, you need to talk or your ready to talk about this.
Rachel x
Quinn felt her tears building again as she heard the radio..
Not that I don't care about you
Just that things got so compliqué, eh, eh
I met somebody cute and funny
Got each other and that's funny, eh, eh, eh
I have something that I love long, long
But my friends keepa' tellin' me that something's wrong
Then I met someone
And eh, there's nothing else I can say
Eh, eh, there's nothing else I can say
Eh, eh, I wish you never looked at me that way
Eh, eh, there's nothing else I can say
Eh, eh
Quinn came to the conclusion that the radio and the lyrics sucked, as all the song did was remind her of Rachel.. she turned it off and laid her forehead on the steering wheel as she started to sob again.