Shelby, Cassandra, and Rachel rejoined the rest of the group inside Breadstix moments later. Quinn glanced up at Rachel and then looked down at her plate just as fast. Rachel took a deep breath and took a seat in the empty chair next to Quinn.

"Hi." She said to Quinn. The blonde's head still hung over her plate and she didn't look up to meet Rachel's eyes.

"Hi." She said, still avoiding the brunette's eyes.

Rachel reached under the table and grabbed Quinn's hand, slowly but surely lacing their fingers together. "Please Rachel," Quinn said, "you don't have to do this for me. You can go sit with someone else; you don't have to make me feel better about this."

"I'm not doing this for you." Rachel said, "I'm doing this for us."

"What do you mean us?" Quinn said, finally looking up into Rachel's eyes.

"I mean us," Rachel said, squeezing Quinn's hand under the table, "as a couple."

Quinn furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "But I thought just ten minutes ago you hated me for telling you how I felt?"

Rachel shook her head. "I would never hate you." She said, "I was just in shock. I love you Quinn, I just never thought I'd get the chance to love you in this way. I don't know where this is going between us, but I don't want it to stop. I don't want to lose my best friend."

Quinn frowned and hung her head again, dreading the friend zone. Rachel nudged Quinn's chin and tilted her face up towards hers. "I think you're beautiful, you know." The brunette said, "Some days I just look into your eyes and think about how lucky I am to have someone like you in my life. If that's not the kind of love you're looking for then I guess I can't help you, but I can promise I'll love you as much as I possibly can."

Quinn pursed her lips and thought for a moment. "You promise?"

Rachel nodded her head enthusiastically.

"Well then," Quinn said, "I guess I'll let you be my girlfriend."

Rachel shook her head and pressed her lips against Quinn's. The room filled with "ooh's" and "aw's" as the glee kids watched the make out session. Rachel pulled away from the kiss slowly and smiled.

"Yeah," she said, "I guess I could get used to being your girlfriend."

2 years later

"Shelby!" Cassandra yelled as she walked in the door, "Mail for you!"

"I'm in the kitchen!" Shelby yelled back. Cassandra followed her voice into the spacious kitchen where she was preparing mac n cheese for Beth's lunch.

"Hi boo-boo!" Cassandra said to Beth as she kissed the little blonde girl on the forehead.

"Hi CC!" Beth said back and continued bouncing around the kitchen, "How was school?"

Cassandra smiled and shook her head. Beth always referred to hers and Shelby's jobs as 'school' since they worked at McKinley. The living situation between the two women became permanent after that first date. Cassandra quit her job at NYADA and traded it for a job as McKinley's dance teacher; she was the only woman who could make the students cry more than Sue Sylvester. Shelby took Emma's place as school councilor when her and Will finally tied the knot and were blessed with their first baby boy. Beth adjusted well and too to Cassandra like a second mother.

Cassandra plopped onto one of the bar stools across the counter from her lovely lady. She picked Beth up and set her on her lap. "My day at school was wonderful, boo-boo."

Shelby took the mail out of Cassandra's hand and shuffled the envelopes. "Bills, bills, ads, more bills." She said as she read the front of the letters, "What's this?" She pulled one of the envelopes out of the stack. The paper was thick and rosy colored, and the calligraphy written on the front was addressed to 'Miss Shelby Corcoran, Miss Cassandra July, and Miss Beth Corcoran.'

Cassandra looked curiously as Shelby slid the little invitation out of the fancy envelope. "What is it?"

Shelby gasped as she looked at the beautiful couple in the photo; underneath the photo written in extravagant lettering- 'Save the date.'

"Shelby, what's going on?" Cassandra asked frantically as she tried to see the paper over Beth's little blonde head.

The brunette smiled and shook her head. "Quinn and Rachel are getting married."