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Chapter 10:
The next morning Quinn woke up early, it was just past five when she hopped out of bed. She only had two hours of sleep. The blonde went to her bathroom, had a shower and got dressed, it was almost six when she got out and was ready for the day. Rachel then woke up, the brunette was tired, yes she likes to wake up early but she usually goes to bed at an appropriate time to get the necessary rest for her body.
Rachel looked up and saw her girlfriend all dressed, she looked over at Quinn's clock on the bedside table and read that it was 5:56. "Why are you up so early?" Rachel crocked out.
Quinn looked over at her girlfriend then walked over to her bed and sat down next to the sleepy brunette. "I'm going to church," Quinn stated.
The brunette scrunched her face in confusion. "What time does your service start? And how come you haven't told me you attend church?"
"It's not something I parade around, I have my beliefs just like everyone... And it starts at 8:30 but it's up in Columbus."
"Why do you go to church all the way up in Columbus?"
Quinn shrugged, "I did some research and I liked it, so thought to give it a go, and all the churches within Lima are very closed minded and I didn't want to go to a church like that."
Rachel nodded. Quinn leant down and gave her girlfriend a kiss on the lips. "I'll be home just before one, go back to sleep and then you can hang around here with my family if you like."
The brunette nodded tiredly, "Isn't your family going to church with you?"
The Cheerio shook her head. "No, they don't come with me... They actually don't go to any churches."
"Oh okay, so what made you start going to church?"
"How about we talk about this later, go back to sleep, baby," Quinn said, leaning over to Rachel and giving her a kiss on the forehead. "I'll see you soon."
Rachel nodded and yawned rolling over and going back to sleep.
Quinn got home and walked into the kitchen to find her mum working on making lunch for everybody. "Hey mum, where's Rachel?"
Judy looked up and smiled at her daughter. "She's upstairs in the lounge room with Paige... How was church, Sweetie?"
The blonde smiled. "It was good."
"Lunch will be ready in 20 minutes."
The blonde nodded, "Okay thanks."
Judy notice Quinn holding two coffee cups in her hand. "Is one of those for me?"
The younger blonde looked over at her mother and smiled. "No, sorry. It's for Rachel and me."
"Of course it is," Judy smiled back.
Quinn just shook her head not understanding why her mother was smiling the way she was smiling and chose to walk up to the second lounge room to go be with her girlfriend. As she got to the top of the stairs that led to the lounge room she heard Paige talking to Rachel.
"How can you get such a high score? This is the first time you have played, right?"
The blonde walked in and saw her girlfriend holding a microphone and Paige sitting on the couch. "Yes it's my first time Paige, but I am well diverse in singing. It's not hard for me to get a high score on a singing game."
Quinn smiled and looked at what they were playing. It was obviously one of the karaoke games for the families Wii.
"I still don't get how you can get such a high score... No one will be able to beat that."
"Well I could offer you some singing lessons, free of charge of course?"
Before Paige could answer Quinn walked in. "Do you think you could give me some free singing lessons?"
Rachel beamed when she saw her girlfriend. The brunette walked over to Quinn and pulled her in for a hug. "I think I could have that arranged."
Once the couple pulled away from each other Quinn smiled and looked at her girlfriend. "Good, because I'd like to get better at singing."
"You know you have a sweet voice already, Quinn... Occasionally sharp, but that's just because you lack my years of training."
Quinn smiled and the handed over a coffee for Rachel. "This is for you."
"Awww, thank you, baby." Rachel leaned up and kissed her girlfriend on the lips.
"Okay, I can't stand any more of this sweetness... Well I will say it's better than what I saw between you and Emily," Paige jumped off the couch, she gave herself a shiver at what she just said and then made her way out of the lounge room. Before she left she looked at her older sister. "Oh, thank you for being so considerate and buying me a coffee too," Paige said sarcastically.
"You're welcome, I hope you enjoy it," Quinn said sarcastically back.
Paige just laughed, "Bitch... Not buying me a coffee... Leaving your girlfriend to spend the morning with your weird ass family."
"Are you calling yourself weird, Paigie?" Quinn laughed.
"Oh, shut up. I'm leaving now," Paige said angrily joking, as she walked down the stairs.
Quinn just laughed and then looked over at her girlfriend. "How was your morning? I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable," Quinn said honestly.
The couple then made their way over to the couch. "I wasn't uncomfortable at all. You went to church, I'm not going to be angry at you for your spiritual beliefs. I spent the morning with your mom, we cooked breakfast... It was lovely. Then Paige asked if I wanted to spend time with her up here... Your family are very welcoming, baby."
The blonde smiled and nodded. "I'm glad, I felt horrible leaving you. But when I woke up this morning I just felt like going to church."
"So you don't attend every week?"
"No... Just when I feel like it. You've slept over on Saturdays before and I've never gone to church the next day."
Rachel nodded. "So did you enjoy yourself?"
"I did actually," Quinn smiled.
"Well that's great," Rachel said smiling as she slipped on her coffee.
"So tell me, how did you start going to church?" Rachel asked.
"It was probably about five or six months after I meet Emily."
"Does Emily go to church, too?"
Quinn shook her head. "No, I just decided to go."
"And why's that?"
Quinn hated replaying her past to people but she knew Rachel deserved to know... Part of the answer... "Well you know how I played softball?" Rachel nodded, Quinn had told her that she use to play softball but she never told her why she gave it up.
"Well the day that I meet Emily, I got told by my doctor that I wouldn't be able to play softball again."
"Why?" Rachel asked, curious.
"Well I dislocated my shoulder pretty bad and they said if I continue to play I may injure it to the point of having no movement in my arm anymore."
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, Quinn."
Quinn shook her head. "Yeah, what's even worse is that I was lined up to make the Junior Australian team."
"Oh, Quinn," Rachel said as she grabbed her girlfriends hand.
"So... I was pretty distraught after that, my dream to represent Australia in softball was over... Actually softball was like my life... My close friends were from softball... I had training six days a week... It's kind of like you and your singing... That was softball for me. Anyways, after I found out, I was pretty depressed, and one day I just thought to walk into a church and check it out."
"So your belief in God has helped you through it?"
"Mmmm... Maybe a little bit... I wasn't much better until my family and I moved here."
Rachel nodded. "Why is it that you can be a cheerleader and not be able to play softball?"
"Lifting up someone causes a different stress on my shoulder then throwing a softball," Quinn answered.
"Have you spoken to any other doctors to see if there is a possibility you may be able to still play?"
Quinn shook her head. "No... I didn't even go see my doctor for my final check up... After she told me I couldn't play anymore I just gave up."
"But Quinn, you should have gotten a second opinion, what if you could play again?"
The blonde looked at her girlfriend in the eyes. "I won't be able to play again, Rachel. And I don't want to get a second opinion to only be told that I can't play again." She wasn't angry at her girlfriend she just didn't want to talk about this.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you."
"You didn't upset me... It's just something I don't like talking about."
Quinn gave her girlfriend a small smile and then leaned in to give her girlfriend a kiss.
"Let's go have some lunch," Quinn said standing up, reaching her hand out that wasn't holding her coffee, to help Rachel off the couch.
As they were walking down to the kitchen "Baby, did you want to come have dinner with me and my dads' tonight?" Rachel asked.
Quinn turned around and smiled at her girlfriend. "Sounds good to me."
The couple stepped down to the floor where all the families bedrooms are. They then saw Paige run from the bathroom with her tracksuit pants around her ankles... Least she had underwear on. "What the hell, Paige?" Quinn voiced. Rachel just stood there shocked and confused.
Paige shoved her head out of her room and burst out laughing. "Shit, didn't think anyone would see me."
"What's with your pants around your ankles?"
"I just put moisturizer on my legs, I'm waiting for it to dry."
Quinn laughed. "Dumb ass."
Paige just shrugged then looked to Rachel, "Sorry about that."
Rachel smiled. "It's okay Paige, I understand the predicament you put yourself in."
The younger blonde smiled then nodded, then made her way back in her room.
"I guess Paige was right when she called herself weird just before." Quinn and Rachel just laughed as they made their way to go have lunch.
Quinn was over at the Berry's residence for dinner, they were chatting away during their meal.
LeRoy spoke up, "Baby girl... Your uncle wants us to come over for lunch next weekend."
Rachel looked up and smiled, "That sounds lovely, I haven't seen Uncle Leon and Aunt Louise in a while."
Hiram nodded. "They're excited to see you, Michael cannot wait."
LeRoy smiled and looked over at Quinn, "Quinn, you're more than welcome to come... My brother and his family just live outside of Lima."
"I'd love to meet your family, if that's okay with you."
"Absolutely, they will love you."
Quinn smiled and returned to eating her meal. Rachel has mentioned her daddy's family before, they seemed to be the only family Rachel and her fathers' see, besides the one off occasions of seeing the grandparents. Quinn was exited to finally be able to meet Rachel's relatives.
The next day Quinn was walking down the hallway when she spotted Artie at his locker.
"Hey Artie," Quinn said smiling as she walked up to him.
Artie turned his head surprised to see a cheerleader initiating a conversation with him, he looked around to see if someone was going to pop out and throw a slushy on his face.
"I was wondering if you could do me a favor?" Quinn asked. Artie was still shocked to see the Cheerio standing in front of him so didn't talk.
"I heard you're friends with people in the V/A Club." Artie nodded. "I was wondering if you could help me out by placing some microphones in the choir room and auditorium... I'll pay if you need to buy some," Quinn voiced.
"Not that I won't do this but why are you asking me?"
"Because you know people in the V/A Club... Like I said before," Quinn scrunched up her face confused.
"Yes, but cheerleaders don't talk to people like me," Artie said confused.
Quinn smiled "Artie, we're in Glee together, I've spoken to you before."
"But talking to me in the hallway is basically telling everyone you want to be slushied."
The blonde shook her head. "Anyways, will you help me out?"
"Yes... Of course... But why do you want microphones placed in the choir room and auditorium room?" Artie wondered.
"Can you keep a secret?" Quinn asked with a smile.
"Depends," Artie said honestly.
"Well, I want to record every song that Rachel sings."
"That will be a lot of songs, Quinn," the wheelchair bound boy said seriously.
Quinn laughed. "Yes I know, so will you do it?"
Artie nodded. "Yes... However I may need to buy some more microphones otherwise the A/V Club won't be happy with you using all their microphones for such a long time."
The blonde nodded. "Okay that's fine... I've got money... Just give me the bill."
The boy in the wheelchair nodded. Quinn then started to leave, but before she did she smiled at Artie. "Thanks for doing this, I owe you one."
Once Quinn left Artie she then headed into the cafeteria for lunch. She noticed her girlfriend, Hayley, Santana, Brittany and Finn sitting down on a table, so she headed over and sat next to her girlfriend. "Hey baby, what took you so long?" Rachel asked.
"Just needed to get something out of my locker," Quinn smiled, as she placed a peck on her girlfriend's cheek.
"So what's new?" Quinn asked everyone.
"We're just thinking of what to do this weekend."
"Mmmm… Well Rachel and I are going over to her Uncle and Aunties for lunch on Saturday after dance and Cheerio practice... But Saturday night is free, want to all come over?"
"Only if alcohol is available," Santana said seriously.
Quinn laughed. "Of course, S. Hay you can stay in the guest room if you like."
"Sounds good to me," Hayley shrugged.
Quinn looked over at Finn, she didn't really talk to him because they had basically nothing in common but he was Hayley's boyfriend so she had to be nice. "Finn, you can come if you like... Bring some of your friends even."
Finn smiled a dopey half smile and nodded. Then Puck came over, "Bring friends where?"
Quinn really hadn't spoken to Puck either, he was still being a sleaze, but she knew that he was Finn's friend. "Just having a hang out at mine on Saturday night, seeing as there's no party's on."
"Can I hang?" Puck asked joining them on the table.
Quinn shrugged and Puck punched his fist in the air.
"Why don't we ask the other Glee members to join... If that's okay with you, baby?" Rachel asked.
Quinn looked at Hayley and Santana, their faces almost made her laugh out loud. Before Quinn could answer, Brittany did, "Oh yes, Rachie! That would be so fun... Wouldn't it be, San?"
Santana's facial expression changed immediately. She forced a smile on her face and looked over at Brittany "Sure, B... Sounds like a smart idea." Santana hadn't yet spoken to Brittany about her feelings yet, but she knew the time was coming.
Quinn then shrugged, "Yeah, seems fine to me."
"Quinn, do you have a Wii? I brought the new Super Mario Brothers game... We could hook it up and play the shit out of it on Saturday," Puck said excitedly. That was probably the first real sentence Puck had said to Quinn.
The blonde looked over at the mohawk boy, "I actually already have it, my brother bought it the other day."
"Oh, cool," Puck gushed excitedly.
The bell rang indicating the end of lunch, Quinn and Rachel jumped up together saying bye to everyone as they walked together hand in hand out of the cafeteria to head to their lockers. "Are you okay with having Tina, Mercedes, Kurt and Artie come over to your place?"
"Yeah of course, why wouldn't I?"
"Because they're not popular like you and your friends."
Quinn opened up her locker and then looked at her girlfriend. "They're your friend's right?"
"Yes... I guess... We haven't really hung out because I usually spend my free time with you... And Kurt and Mercedes usually just try to fight me for a solo... But on some level I guess they're my friends."
"Well if they're your friends... They're mine," Quinn shrugged. "So ask them if they want to come over and it will help me get to know my girlfriends friends... Well, I see them in Glee Club but it will get me to know them outside of Glee."
Rachel smiled and leaned in to give her girlfriend a kiss on the lips, it was only fast... The couple only does small PDA within school.
"Thank you, baby."
"Don't thank me, Rach... You know, why don't you actually start to hang out with them more often... Maybe outside of school?"
"Why?" Rachel scrunched up her face sadly. "Don't you like spending time with me?"
Quinn gave out a small chuckle, grabbed her book and then closed the locker, then pulled her girlfriend in for a hug. "I didn't say that, baby... I love spending time with you."
"So why did you say it?"
"Because what's so bad with hanging out with them?"
"Nothing."
Quinn smiled. "See... Maybe give it a go."
Rachel nodded and smile. "Okay... But now you have to walk me to my locker and then my class," the brunette smirked at her girlfriend.
The blonde shrugged, "Like I always do."
Quinn and Rachel smiled at each other and they took each other's hand and walked through the hallways of McKinley to Rachel's locker.