Ok so I guess I should warn you that I have some angsty chapters comming up, promise I'll make it up to you though ;) I mean, what would a story be without a little drama. Also you made my evening when I saw I had 4 reviews in about an hour and a half after uploading :0 It made me update faster, so karma points for you guys.
After dinner and some snide remarks from Judy later, the girls ended up in the game room. Tina was sitting in one of the lazy chairs reading a magazine while Rachel and Brooke were playing a video game with Quinn was watching them, occasionally dropping her vision to the rapid moving fingers and concentrated face.
"This is so not fair! If Puck was here we would've kicked your ass, this bot sucks!" Rachel grumbled.
"You just can't stand to lose. I need to go anyways, I'm meeting some friends." Brooke said chuckling.
Brooke stood up from her place on the floor bumped Rachel's fist and shouted a later just before she walked out the door. Rachel shut down the x-box and threw the controller on the table.
"So what are we doing?" Rachel questioned.
"The question should be what are you doing, I need to go. My mom just texted me I need to watch my little brother." Tina said getting up "Don't get up, I can show myself out. See ya guys later!" Just like that that Quinn and Rachel were alone again.
After a few minutes of comfortable silence, Rachel got up and pulled the blonde with her. "Come on, I got a really good idea for a sketch and I left my sketchbook in your room." She dragged Quinn along by her hand until they got to Quinn's room. Rachel pulled out a pencil and her sketchbook and went to sit on her usual spot in the window.
After five minutes of working in silence she finally noticed Quinn watching her every move from her seat on the bed. "You can talk to me, you know." The blonde nodded and answered "I know but I don't want to interrupt your sudden inspiration rush"
Rachel smiled at the blonde and jerked her head, meaning for Quinn to come over. Once the girl was by her side she replied "You won't. It's just a cute doodle I wanted to do. I got most of the outline and idea down already so I'm going to finish it later. You'd be bored if I do the whole thing now."
"What were you going to draw?" Rachel laughed at Quinn's curiosity. "I'll show you when it's done." The girl tried to not look in her sketchbook, Rachel was moved the girl remembered her promise to her and was trying hard to not break it, which obviously was costing a lot of self restraint. The thoughtfulness of Quinn's action made Rachel decide to let the girl in some more, it was a little pay back for Quinn's effort.
"Sit down." The dark haired girl patted on the space be side her. When Quinn sat down and she had flipped back some pages she continued. "This drawing is one of my favorites, it really jumps out at you."
Quinn hadn't seen this drawing before, given she didn't get a good look at any of the drawings after the gap. On the page in front of her were a couple of intense puma eyes. The cat seemed to be ready to jump of the page and rip you head off. Quinn could tell Rachel was really talented, she just couldn't help but wonder what the pierced girl was working on, that she wasn't allowed to see. Before she could stop herself she blurted it out.
"What drawing were you working on, when we were hanging out and ignoring each other?"
She looked at Rachel who seemingly had an internal debate "Well it needs a few final touches but," she turned a couple of pages over so they were near the end "I guess I can show you"
Quinn's jaw dropped when she saw the image, it was an angel. Over his shoulder there were a couple of his wing feathers visible. The highlight of the piece was the wing that came over his head and he grabbed with his left hand pulling out feathers. There were a couple of feathers that fell in front of the feather plucking angel to finish the picture.
"Woah….. I mean woah" Quinn uttered completely speechless.
"Well it needs some more shading and then it's finished and I think I'm going to give him some facial hair…" Rachel said pensively "Here you can look through it while I'm going to the bathroom"
The second drawing after the break was another angel, this one a girl, she was crying. As she continued to look through she noticed the girl was drawn a lot more, especially in the first couple of drawings after the gap. Finally her eyes fell on a drawing where both the girl and Rachel were shown. They were in a park and Rachel had her arms around the girl's waist from behind, they were smiling.
Quinn's best guess was that it was after a photo because it showed Rachel's friends too they were in the back ground playing around.
Rachel walked back in "Who is this girl?" Quinn asked showing the drawing.
Rachel's face fell "That's Emily, my ex." she said with an even voice but the pain was clearly evident in her eyes. Quinn felt her heart drop and wanted to cheer the girl up.
"Well she apparently doesn't know what she is missing." Quinn said with a soft smile.
"I think she does…" Rachel muttered under her breath, the blonde wasn't supposed to hear it so she let it slide. Trying to move on and avoid awkwardness she said "Well did you design your own tattoos, I mean judging on this you could pull it off?"
Rachel's face brightened up and even though her eyes still held a little sadness in them, she seemed to like talking about her tattoo's "Ye I did, I designed those of Santana, Brittany and Puck too. Puck actually wants me to design another one for him, he only has one because we only let my brother tattoo us and he's not around at the moment. He wants a design ready for when my big bro comes back though." Rachel brightened up a lot when she talked about her big brother, Quinn couldn't help but smile.
"What are you smiling about?" Rachel stopped her ramble.
"Nothing, you just seem to really like your brother, where is he now?" Quinn questioned.
"Jail, but he'll be out in three months. That's one of the few rumors that is true." Rachel smiled thinking about her brother, Quinn let that one slide too.
They agreed to watch some tv and Quinn was currently snuggled up in Rachel's side watching a friends rerun. The shorter of the two just couldn't focus, her right side was tingling because of Quinn and the fact that the blonde, unconsciously, kept drawing random patterns on her stomach wasn't helping either. Rachel had come to accept her feelings for the girl awhile ago and had been debating whether or not she should tell the other girl, for a good part of the week. Santana had told her it was only fair to the other girl and that given the circumstances she deserved to know. Of course Rachel knew her sister was right but she didn't have the courage to do so.
Finally Rachel let out a sigh and told herself "You need to do this, it's only fair... come on do it!" She sat up and cleared her throat. "Quinn" The other girl looked at her and seemed to sense the seriousness of the situation. "I really appreciate the friendship we have developed and I think it would only be fair to tell..." She was interrupted when her cell phone started ringing though.
Rachel let out a groan and cursed whoever was calling her when she finally had gathered the courage. She pulled out her phone to check who was calling her, the screen told her it was her dad. He was probably too drunk to think straight since it was evening already, Rachel knew she had to answer because if she didn't there would be hell to pay. 'I need to get this." she muttered before picking up the phone.
"Hi dad." Rachel said with a monotone voice as she stood up to look out of the window.
"No, I'm with Puck." Quinn frowned when she heard that lie and decided to bring it up later.
"What?" Quinn looked up to the girls face when she heard Rachel's voice grow angry.
"Don't call her that! She was one of our best friends… " The blonde could hear the man on the other end of the line shouting away at his daughter, who in her turn looked like she was about to burst.
"DAD! You should get another beer." Rachel was obviously trying to lose her dad, before she would snap.
"Just go get your beer!" Rachel half shouted hanging up the phone before swearing at it.
"I'm going for a smoke." She said while picking up her hoodie from the floor.
Quinn let out a sigh and ran her hand through her hair. She waited a couple of minutes before walking out onto her balcony, she stopped when she saw Rachel was just standing there, cigarette slowly burning up. Quinn looked for a second and then walked to the apparently not so tough girl in front of her and put a hand on her shoulder.
She really hated her dad, he only seemed to notice her existence when he was drunk and it was only to use her as verbal or physical punishing bag. Rachel was glad he wasn't totally gone so she could ditch him with more beer talk, it did however effectively ruin her mood. She jumped when she suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder. Realizing it was Quinn she turned and gave the girl a sad smile.
"I'm sorry about that, my dad is…" she trailed off not knowing how to describe her father without sharing information she wanted to keep to herself.
"He is what?" Quinn pressed gently
The shorter of the two turned to walk inside again "Not important."
Quinn knew the other girl was going to say something else but let it slip, she seemed to do that a lot this evening. They settled into a silence, lost in their own thoughts. She found out that Rachel had a hard time with her home situation and didn't share information about it with anyone but her little group of friends.
"I'm cold." Quinn said as a shiver ran through her body.
"Go take a shower, I'll go get something to drink in the kitchen." Rachel proposed
Quinn chuckled "You do know I have a mini-fridge here right?"
"Ye, but I need the walk" the pierced girl said absent mindly.
When Quinn walked into the kitchen after finishing her shower she found Rachel sipping coffee while talking on the phone. She walked over and sat across from the girl, studying her.
"I know…. Ye, I'm sleeping here…. No." Rachel flashing her a sad smile. "Hmm... No, I did not…. Do you mind if I bring Quinn tomorrow."
"I'll tell her you said hi… right, later San" Rachel finished her conversation. "Do you want to come over to Brittany's tomorrow?"
Before she got an answer though they heard someone coming their way, Quinn straddled Rachel's hips before leaning in and kissing her. Rachel quickly deepened the kiss and moved her hands to the girl's hips. Quinn was a really good kisser and she couldn't get enough of kissing the blonde. Quinn got one of her hands and entwined their fingers, Rachel pulled back and moved onto Quinn's jaw and neck.
Suddenly they heard a crash, Quinn jumped and nearly fell of Rachel's lap, she was saved from this however by the other girl's arms. Quinn quickly wondered why the dark haired girl always had to save her, she dismissed the thought instantly when she noticed her mother was standing in the doorway with her jaw practically on the floor.