Nothing is Right When You're Pretend
Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to Glee or any of it characters.
A/N: I know it's been forever but here is the next chapter. Hopefully updates will be coming weekly if all goes according to plan. Thank you for your patience and continued support.
This is a reply to the guest reviewer that seems to have a problem with Santana and Rachel's friendship. First Santana is not acting like a jealous girlfriend. She's acting like a friend. I don't know about your friends but mine would jump a bitch that tried to hurt me and I would do the same for them. Santana reacted the same way when Finn grabbed Quinn and the girls had to hold her back. She doesn't completely know how Quinn feels about Rachel yet. She has her suspicions but even when she does it won't change the way she views Rachel. Rachel was there for her when no one else was and helped her through a hard time. Rachel believes in her and they have a special bond so being who Santana is she will always protect her. Rachel is just getting used to Quinn being her friend so she trusts Santana more at this point. As far as Brittany and Santana's relationship, give me a minute. They have only been truly together one day and part of that was shopping, Regionals and the confrontation with Finn and both of their friends. This is early times for the story, things will progress with all of them. Patience please. Quinn's first instinct was to make sure Rachel was ok then she kicked Finn in the gonads and threaten him. Santana has always been her enforcer and the boys had a hold of Finn so she took a moment to make sure Rachel was ok. The second she took command of the situation Santana backed off. Reread the story as a whole and figure out that not much time has passed and it's just getting started.
Ok, now that my mini rant is over I will get on with the story. Thank all of you that reviewed and those who follow/favorite me and my story. Your reviews help me continue, and as always keep them coming. Suggestions and corrections are welcome and taken into serious consideration. Hell, I started this story for someone that wanted to see me do a Faberry story to begin with. Again, thank you all.
Chapter 11
Once they arrived back at Santana's house they unloaded the car and headed in not letting Rachel carry anything much to her dismay. "I'm not an invalid guys. I can carry my own bag."
Quinn just shook her head. "Rachel you can barely lift your arm."
"I have another."
Santana huffed. "Yea, and that one just stopped hurting yesterday. Suck it up. We're not letting you hurt yourself more."
Rachel tried to cross her arms in indignation but cried out in pain. Quinn rubbed her forearms in sympathy as she dropped them back down. "See, just let us help, I can't stand to see you in pain."
Brittany rubbed her back. "Rachie it hurts my heart please."
Rachel softened at their concern. "Ok, I'm sorry."
Santana kissed her temple. "Don't apologize just go down to the basement and I will bring you an ice pack while we set things up."
With a nod she made her way down to the TV room. They watched her go then Santana turned to Quinn. "I swear to god I'm going to kill that hijo de puta."
"Get in line San. I can't believe he hurt her like that before and you didn't tell me." Quinn was not happy with her friend.
"I promise we would have told you after I saw him grab you Q. I would never let him hurt you."
Quinn shook her head in anger. "I don't give a damn about me, I can take care of myself! He was hurting Rachel!"
Santana took a step back. "Oh, woo there Q. What the hell? Why would I ever think that you would care about that? Until this week you two were barely friends."
Quinn took a calming breath. "Fine, but from now on I want to know this stuff San."
Santana watched her closely for a moment. "Ok Q, I'll tell you if she's in trouble, Ok?"
Quinn nodded and took off toward the kitchen. "I'm gonna grab an ice pack for her arm then start moving the furniture around down there."
Santana watched her leave then come back and head down stairs before turning to Brittany. "Um, what the hell was that?"
Brittany kissed her lightly. "She's a pressed lemon for Rachel, San."
"I kinda figured that out myself but I didn't think she was that far in."
Brittany smiled sadly. "Q's just scared. They'll be hot together when they finally tell each other though."
Wrapping her arms around Brittany, Santana smirked. "True that. Well, we'll just have to give them a little push here and there I think." She kissed her deeply before stepping back and pulling her toward the stairs. "Come on, before blondie kills herself trying to moving the couch alone."
An hour later the TV room is set up for the night and the girls are lounging on the couch talking waiting for the others to arrive. They are all laughing at something that Rachel has just said but it's Santana who recovers first.
"So you're telling us that you are the one that got the jocks to terrorize Jew-fro after her told Sue about her pregnancy and that article he wrote?"
Rachel shrugs. "He broke our deal and I don't take kindly to being used then lied to. All I had to do is tell Noah what he did and he ordered the team to torment him."
Quinn just looked confused. "What deal did you have with him? Why would you even make a deal with him?"
She looked down and mumbled under her breath. Santana nudged her. "You want to repeat that mumbles?"
Rachel shook her head. "Um, not really."
Brittany playfully knocked their feet together. "Come on Rachie, you can tell them about the panties, they won't laugh or anything."
Rachel swung her head to look at Brittany horrified. "How do you know about that? I never told anyone."
"I heard him asking you for them. I didn't tell anyone else, I was just glad you did it."
"Ok, what the hell?" Santana looked between them.
Rachel sighed. "Jacob came up to me and told me he knew about the pregnancy. He told me he wouldn't run the story if I gave him a pair of my panties. I gave him a pair, well I bought a pair at goodwill that looked like something I would wear and gave him those, but then he told Sue and ran the story anyway. That's why I had Noah go after him."
"Why would you do that Rachel?" They were shocked and Quinn just didn't understand.
"You were still dealing with so much and you needed time. I knew it would eventually come out but I had to buy you some time to figure out what you were going to do before the school found out. Your parents didn't even know yet. I couldn't let it happen if I could stop it."
"But why would you do that for me? You hated me and wanted Finn for yourself."
Rachel shook her head. "I have never hated you Quinn and I really didn't want Finn for anything but Glee club. I'm sorry I interfered in your relationship with him. It was stupid of me."
Quinn went to ask more but the doorbell sounded and Santana got up. "I'm going to get that. Let's drop this for now since the gossip girls are here."
They all nodded and just sat quietly until Santana returned with the girls. They all shared hugs and started setting up their sleeping bags.
Mercedes handed a bag to Santana. "I brought a blow up bed for you Rachel. I figured it would be more comfortable."
Tina held up a bag chuckling. "I did too."
Lauren laughed and threw her own in the pile of the others. "Great minds I guess."
They all laughed and Santana pointed to the bed in the corner. "Looks like we all thought of the same thing, but now we have enough for all of us to sleep on."
Lauren smirked. "I say we blow them all up and stack them to test the princess and the pea theory with the diva."
This caused them all to laugh uproariously and Rachel to huff in indignation that was ruined by the small smirk she held. "I will have you know that my fathers tested that theory many years ago and it failed. Just don't put a bad musical DVD under my bed and I will sleep like a baby."
They all lost it at that and Santana fell over from laughing so hard. "Oh my god that's priceless." Rachel just smirked and joined in the laughter.
They decided to order pizza and set up the karaoke machine to play the karaoke challenge game Rachel had suggested. They all chose silly or crazy songs and put them in a hat.
Rachel held up two hats. "Ok, we will choose a name out of one hat and a song out of the other." She paused as she drew out a name. "Mercedes!" She holds the other hat up and lets her pick a song.
Mercedes starts laughing. "Macho man, really guys?"
They all lost it as Santana set up the song. Mercedes started her song and Tina and Lauren jumped up and sang back up for her.
Next up was Lauren how sang It's Raining Men. Tina sang Boom, Boom ain't it great to be crazy. Santana chose YMCA and Rachel, Quinn and Brittany backed her as they all danced along. Quinn got stuck singing Physical my Olivia Newton-John. Brittany picked Kung Fu Fighting and did an awesome dance with it.
It came time for Rachel to pick the final song out of the hat and Brittany clapped happily. "Oh goody, Rachie gets to sing my song."
Rachel smiled and pulled it out of the hat and smiled softly. "Crazy by Patsy Cline."
Santana nudged Brittany with her shoulder. "Hey I thought we were picking silly songs?"
Britt just shrugged. "Rachie said silly or crazy songs and that song is called Crazy so it counts. I love that song."
Santana kissed her cheek and Rachel just smiled. "I do too Brittany, load it up San."
Santana nodded, got the track ready and started it when Rachel gave her the sign.
They all sat back and watched as Rachel belted out a heartbreaking rendition of the song. Santana watched Quinn out of the corner of her eye and saw her discreetly wipe a tear before it fell. Quinn just listened. She loved to just hear her sing, god she loved her voice, but this song just hit too close to home.
Once it was finished they all clapped and Brittany stood and hugged her gently. "Rachie wins, now it's time for the next game."
They all just laughed at her enthusiasm and Rachel got up. "I'll go get the stuff for Pictionary, we left it upstairs."
Brittany jumped up and followed. "I'll go too and bring down some more snacks and the other games."
After the door closed Mercedes turned to Santana and Quinn excitedly. "Ok girls, what is the prank and how can we help?"
They shared a look and Santana shook her head confused. "Um, what prank? We aren't pulling pranks tonight. What are we 12 and were going to call people and ask them if their refrigerator is running?"
Lauren shook her head. "No, the one you are planning for Rachel."
Quinn sat up straight. "We are not pulling a prank on Rachel tonight and neither is anyone else."
Mercedes scoffed. "Oh come on. We know that that has to be the plan all along. Why else would you throw a slumber party at your house and invite Rachel?"
Santana stood pissed. "Are you high? Where the hell have you been? Rachel is our friend. I threw this party because Rachel has never been to a slumber party and I wanted to give her that. You were only invited as fillers."
Quinn pulled her back down and frowned at the others. "There will be no pranks pulled tonight. So help me god if one of you do something to hurt her more I will make your lives hell."
Tina sighed in relief. "Good, I didn't want to pull pranks. I like Rachel and that's just mean."
Santana nudged her with a small smile. "Agreed, no pranks…"
She was about to say more when the girls returned with games and snacks. Santana stood and helped them with the things in their arms and Quinn pulled Rachel down close to her and eyed Mercedes.
Rachel bumped shoulders with her gently and whispered to her. "Hey, what's wrong? You're all tense and throwing daggers at 'Cedes."
Quinn took a breath and made herself relax. "Nothing Rach, I'm fine." She rubbed her arm and pulled the Pictionary Man box to her. "Ok, how do you play this thing?"
Rachel explains the games and they broke into two teams to play. Rachel, San, Britt and Quinn were on a team and won Pictionary and charades. After the games they decided to settle for the night and watch movies. Santana sat with Brittany in her lap and Quinn sat in the middle with Rachel to the side so they didn't hit her arm on accident. Rachel settled with her head on Quinn's shoulder, Quinn's head resting on hers. The other girls took the other couch.
Two movies later they all decide to blow up all the mattresses and settle to sleep. San and Britt pulled their bed to the side and lay down snuggled together. Mercedes and Tina shared a bed and Lauren took the twin size one alone.
Rachel and Quinn moved to lie down together and Quinn paused. "Are you sure this is a good idea Rach? I can sleep on the couch."
Rachel shook her head. "No, don't be silly, It's fine. You're not going to hurt me Quinn. Please lay down."
Quinn sighed and nodded lying down with Rachel. Once they were all settled she moved in behind her and whispered into her ear. "Good night Rach."
Rachel shivered at the breath on her ear. "Good night Quinn."
They settled and fell asleep quickly enjoying the closeness of the other.
A/N: Ok, there's the sleep over. Next up, the morning after and Monday dealing with Finn.
