"Quinn, Quinn, Quinn, hey Quinn, listen, listen really quick okay?" Rachel was talking rapid fire right in the other girls face, but it appeared as if nothing was making it into Quinn's head. Rachel begin playing her arm like a piano hoping to get her attention. She moved her hand up to her shoulder playing her fingers a little faster. Soon her fingers were going all over Quinn's face and pulling at her lip and pinching her cheeks.
"Quinn are you alive, oh no you're really a robot. Haddie! Quinn's broken, fix her, you have to fix her. Please fix her, I'm so bored I can't contain it anymore. I need to move, I need a partner, oh no everything is going upside down"
"Mini Diva, get out of that head stand, that bench is nasty! Now listen, how do they normally wake people up in fairy tales, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty. Queeny is a princess, it all makes sense, right." Miss Haddie was clearly baiting Rachel and fueling her jumbled mind with thoughts.
"You're correct," she said righting herself from her head stand and perching herself on the bench again, "the princes always kiss the princesses awake. What do you think Quinn's movie would be called, Ice Princess? Wait, that's already a movie, oh Dreamboat Delinquent! Oh God it's so perfect, I need to get Stanley in here to give me a second phone call, I must call Disney and get the cartoon up and running. Oh wow what if Pixar picks it up and then it wins an Oscar! I would win an Oscar oh my, pens, pens I need pens I have so many ideas!"
"What the hell did you give them?" Kathy asked, whispering her her ear.
"A little home remedy for headaches. Okay fine, it was speed."
"WHAT! They are eighteen years old, they shouldn't even be in here let alone taking drugs, what have you done?"
"Relax crazy, it was a harmless dose. I fixed it up myself, they will be fine, except Miss Zombie, that's gotta stop." She returned her attention back to Rachel. "Is our Queen awake yet? No, well wake her up then, be a prince charming and do your job girlfriend."
"I am not a boy, I am anatomically mentally and every other -ally word a girl. But if you're saying its the only way to release a princess robot from being broken, I must take one for the prince team and awaken this princess with true loves kiss." She stood on the bench with her fist in the air and her voice booming. "Wait, do you think it will still count if I don't love her?"
"You don't?"
"Well, no, at least I don't think so. I'm all grudgey and angry at her, but we decided to forgive her, we just couldn't say it out loud this night." Rachel crossed her arms and huffed out a breath. "Miss H, how do you know when you're in love. Like fireworks are supposed to happen right, but what if I have never seen fireworks before because I am afraid of loud gunshot noises and I never could stay up until eleven thirty to watch them on the forth of July, so what if my lack of a proper fireworks display has lead me to be incapable of loving someone. It all makes sense! Oh woe is me, my life is such sorrow."
Rachel jumped off the bench, ran to the bars and clung to them, "If I fake loves true kiss, I could kill her, she would never awaken from her beautiful sleep," she said leaning back and looking over her shoulder, "these feelings are too much for me. I need to push, push them away they are so big."
"Diva, tone down those dramatics, go wake up your princess so you can talk about all these feelings."
"Yes, yes I must do this for the league of princes everywhere, even Aladdin, who was a pretend prince. Especially for Aladdin, because I'm a pretend prince too."
Rachel let go of the bars and walk back to the bench and stood in front of Quinn. Her eyelids were closed but her eyes were darting around all over the place behind them. Rachel pinched her cheeks one more time as a last ditch effort. Getting no response Rachel gently cupped Quinn's cheek and softly being stoking her jawline. She stole one last glance over at an eager looking Miss Haddie and back at Quinn's peaceful face. Her eyes focused on Quinn's slightly parted mouth and full pink lips.
"For Aladdin," she whispered just inches from Quinn's mouth. She leaned forward, closing the small gap and brushed her lips against Quinn's.
Quinn's eyes instantly shot open and would have bugged out of her eyes if her body hadn't reacted to the feel of Rachel's lips. Her eyes slowly drifted shut again as the taste and feel of Rachel took over all of her senses. Her hand slowly found its way into brunette curls and easy became tangled in the softness. She opened her mouth to deepen the kiss and felt Rachel nip as her bottom lip. The feeling of her teeth grazing her lip made Quinn let out a soft moan.
"What was that!" Rachel said jumping away from a surprised Quinn, "did you all hear that. I was like a huge loud gunshot boom followed by another and another and oh no it's like War of the Worlds! The robots are attacking, we need to kill Quinn!" Rachel whipped back around and charged at Quinn. She jumped in the air just before she reached the bench and landed straddling Quinn, shaking her shoulders.
"Rachel! Rachel cut it out!" Quinn grabbed the girl on top of her by the wrists to stop her from shaking her. "I'm not a robot. Guess what? I am not a robot," Quinn started singing, distracted from getting Rachel off of her.
"Oh! I love that song, Marina is so hot," Rachel said bouncing and a little over excited. Quinn's eyes darkened and her skin was on fire as she remembered Rachel straddling her lap and now bouncing up and down on her. For a minute Quinn thought she was going to throw Rachel on the ground and take her right in front of two hookers on a dirty cement floor, but what little sense she had took over. She picked Rachel up and set her on the ground almost keeping her hands glued to her thighs where she has lifted her but the crouching stance was getting awkward and uncomfortable. She straightened up and looked down into Rachel's eyes.
"Thanks Prince Charming," she tapped her nose and grabbed her had and spun her around.
"I am no prince, can we both be princesses? Because I like pink way more than blue, plus, princesses have cuter outfits."
"And way better hair, and we wouldn't have to carry swords, well I might, just in case I had to defend your honor." She twirled Rachel again and brought her in to her body, and playfully danced with her.
"I would carry a bow and arrow and use my stealth and cunning ways to defend your honor when they aren't expecting it. Our crowns would be gorgeous too."
"Yours could be platinum with ruby and pink gems."
"Oh and yours could be gold to go with your hair with green and black diamonds and a touch of ruby red to match me."
"And why would we need to match?"
"Duh, because we are the rulers and people have to know we are together. Our chairs would match, and it wouldn't be all like the movies when the king's chair is bigger, because we are both princesses and we don't need to say who is more qualified even if you are older and taller."
"But you are definitely more talented and better with people and you would look cute in a big oversized chair." Quinn smiled and brushed a few stands of Rachel's hair out of her face. "Where would you want to live? I'll build us a castle."
"Right here," Rachel replied in a dreamy voice not taking her eyes off of Quinn's hazel ones.
"Stan!," Quinn yelled turning away from Rachel and running the short distance to the bars. "Stan I need some of those space blankets!"
"What are you going on about your highness?" Stan asked trudging towards their cell.
"The space blankets that crinkle like plastic when you move. I need to bui- I mean, I'm extremely cold Stanley and I love the Snuggie but insulation is more important than bricks right. Space blankets would be perfect insulation. So I need two of them, no four! Four Stanley, please, we could die. Think of the children." Quinn pulled out her puppy dog eyes and jutted out her bottom lip pouting.
"Yes," Quinn cheered when Stan walked away to get her the blankets, "chest bump!" She hollered and ran at Rachel. Rachel, watching the exchange every closely was ready and eager and readied herself. The two girls jumped in the air, bumped chested and landed grunting like two boys on the football field.
"Solid!" Rachel yelled high-fiving Quinn.
"If you girls do something idiotic or destructive with these I am adding time on to you stay here. Don't suffocate in these either." He handed the three plastic wrapped blankets through the bars.
"We are not children Stanley, we are well aware of the dangers of plastic and suffocation of blankets," Rachel scoffed at his warning and sat back on the bench wondering what Quinn was up to.
"Stanley, thank you for your kindness, it will not go unnoticed when we are running our own county. I bid you adieu until next time." Quinn channeled her inner Julie Andrews in the Princess Diaries and waved Stanley away.
"You are both crazy," Stanley muttered walking away.
"Had! Give me your shoes, you too Kathy, I need some cement to put up out castle." Quinn's hand was out waiting for the two to give over their shoes.
"Oh hell no, do you know how gross this floor is, well I do. Covered in STDs, not a chance."
Quinn jutted out her lip and teared up her eyes for the full affect of the puppy dog look. "Haddie, please, Rachel needs a castle to survive, she could die, think of the children."
"Christ, what is your issue, why didn't you just use that line and face on your girl over their, she would have been yours in two seconds," Kathy said taking off her shoes and elbowing Haddie to do the same.
"Courting isn't ever that easy."
"So that's what you're calling this charade?"
"Certainly. Thank your for your compliance, your contributions to our future will not go unnoticed."
"Shut your big Queen mouth with that nonsense and get your girl," Miss Haddie said lightly shoving Quinn away. Quinn gave them both a huge toothy grin and walked to the front corner of the cell.
"Rach, just sit there and wait while I craft the single best castle in all of history."
"Alright Quinniebear. I can only imagine the architectural feats you are about to master with space blankets and shoes."
"I am going to pretend you didn't just throw up sarcasm and take that as a compliment." Quinn unwrapped one of the blankets from it cover and draped it over the horizontal bar. She shoved the platform shoes on the bar holding the blanket in place at both corners and let it fall so it was acting like a curtain, blocking the view into the cell. She unwrapped another and shoved the corners under the shoes and walked the blanket as far as it would go, angled it like an old tent and put Kathy's chunky boots on top to keep it in place. She finally open the third one and places it on the ground inside to makeshift castle, shielding them from the dirty ground.
"Tadaaa" Quinn said with her hands in the air, "I give you the Quinchele Castle. No, no that sounds too much like Finchele. Got it! Welcome to the Faberry Fortress!" She walked over to the bench and yanked Rachel on her feet. "Come along darling, let me give you the grand tour, oh and don't forget your evening jacket miss, the air conditioning is on so you might be a bit chilly."
"Well thank you kind princess, I am most looking forward to seeing my fortress for the first time. And I must commend you on the name of our lovely home, it is the perfect combination of our names and sounds like a some exotic, delicious fruit that I would definitely enjoy eating right about now." Rachel slipped her arm through Quinn's and ducked into their tiny blanket fort.
"If you turn your head to the left we have the grand ballroom, the dining room for when we have parties and invite the neighbors, and the dining room for our family of seven children Elton Michael, Kaya Jean, Derrik Benvolio, Idina Renae, Lainey Marina, Jarred Macavity, and little baby Lilli." Quinn knew she should have been embarrassed by that, but she couldn't be bothered with caring at the moment.
"I am so happy you let me pick some of their names!" Rachel squeezed Quinn's arm, still in an awkward ducking position inside the fort. "But what's baby Lilli's middle name?"
"What would you like it to be, I think it is your turn to pick the middle name, since I got to pick her first name."
"It's only fair, although I do hope Elton doesn't feel like we love him more because of his name. He is the oldest and our first born which gives him a head up in the eyes of the other children but rowdy Derrik must hate you for letting me pick his middle name." Rachel sat down Indian style on the space blanket and tugged Quinn's arm down with her. "But Lilli, our baby girl, with your hazel eyes and baby blonde hair. Diana. It's perfect, after the greatest and most fabulous princess of Wales ever. Lilli Diana Fabray," Rachel laid down and looked up at the shiny, metallic color of the space blanket. Quinn lowered herself down and Rachel immediately curled into her. "Our little princess." Rachel grabbed Quinn's hand, held it tight and threw the Snuggie over them to keep warm.
"Yeah," Quinn sighed, "all ours."
The girls lay there in silence, listening to each others breath and rapidly sporadic heart beats.
"Why are you being like this Quinn?" Rachel asked so quietly, she almost didn't hear it.
"Like I said, I have so many regrets about high school and I just want to be your friend." More like girlfriend, Quinn thought and she turned to face Rachel.
"I don't want to forgive you, but you're making it almost impossible. I have a grudge Quinn, and I never give up on anything I start. Ever." Rachel was starting to panic a little and shot up into a sitting position. "I wasn't supposed to be naming our future children in a castle you built with your bare hands. I made a power point and Lilli must have spit up all over it. It wasn't supposed to be this easy for me to not be mad anymore." Rachel turned her body away from Quinn shielding her from tears that wear about to fall.
"Rach, come on," Quinn gently placed her hand on Rachel's arm.
"Where are the stupid nicknames, and the near constant look of hatred and annoyance and I know we are no where near a 7-11, but where are the cold slushies that should be dripping down my pants. Nothing is how it should be."
"I thought you would think that was a good thing. I am trying to be your friend, I'm trying to be what you need Rachel."
"I don't need you!" The blood was rushing through Rachel's veins so fast she could feel her body tingling. "Did you know I've made friends at school. Real classroom friends who don't think I'm awful or dress terrible or ruin everything I've ever loved. Why did you do it? You made me scared everyday just because you were scared, I don't buy that Quinn, tell the truth!" Rachel's whole body was visibly shaking. The other girl was completely on edge and nearly falling over it as her vision began to blur with tears and confusion and her body went numb.
"I-I," Quinn stuttered before she shut her eyes and literally saw her brain in a bikini swimming in her skull. The brain looked up from its floating device through its sunglasses and said 'Now or never Queenie.' It took a big sip of a Big Gulp slushie and Quinn's eyes jolted open.
"I was afraid of liking you too much alright." Quinn covered her face with her hands and hung her head.
"What is that supposed to mean, you liked me too much so your were atrocious, that's like.."
"A seven year old boy on the playground with a crush!" the two girls heard Miss Haddie yell from outside the fort.
"Yeah, a school girl crush," the mortified blonde mumbled threw her hands. After a few beats of silence Rachel erupted in laughter.
"Seriously, you expect me to believe that. That's more farfetched than Barbara agreeing to play the role of Mimi in Rent or, or Puck being president. Is this just another one of your jokes?"
"Wait, no Rachel, this isn't a joke, I thought we were on our way to being friends here."
"In this imaginary bubble we created sure, but when you popped that bubble, metaphorically speaking, with that weirdo confession of having a crush on me, well I can only assume our paths will eventually diverge back into one filled with purple ice and superglue and you being a meanie. So, I am going to spend the remainder of the night in my castle, I think you should vacate the premises and please leave our children I will be seeking full custody so you wont be able to damage them with your inability to love."
"Inability to love, what is this, I love our babies! I spent just as many if not more nights awake with each of them when they were babies and I even gave birth to four of them! You only had three, so I get custody!"
"No you don't, your gone at work too much and they love me more because you aren't around enough. And when you do decide to show up you coddle Derrik and Lainey and practically ignore Kaya, she actually came in our room one night crying because she didn't think you loved her."
"You're lying, Kaya knows I love her. And maybe I only coddle Derrik and Lainey because they look exactly like you and are so much smaller than the rest of them they get lost in the bigness of it all. Their huge brown eyes beg me to be around them all the time."
The girls continued to go back and forth inside the fort while Kathy and Miss Haddie sat utterly confused on their bench.
"What the hell are those crazies going on about? They don't have kids right, especially seven of them loud screeching things, it's gotta be the drugs." Miss Haddie said, trying to wrap her head around everything that was being said.
"Should we break it up, it's getting a little heated and none of it is even real?" Kathy was slowly starting to stand and prepare to take one of the girls out of the fort.
"Just give em a few more minutes, I have a good feeling about this."
"Rachel please you can't take me away from them," Quinn took the smaller girl's hand in her own and begged her.
"You're just going to teach them to get down on each other and become bullies in school," a tear slid down her cheek.
"You know I wont, would never do that. I love them too much to make them go through what I did. I just want them to be tough so they don't get picked on, or treated how I treated you. Elton already came home once with his school binder ruined, did he show you? I almost started crying but I didn't, I just told him it would get better one day and that I loved him."
"Why didn't he tell me that," Rachel's tears had started to turn into sobs.
"Baby don't cry," Quinn moved on her knees and wiped the tears away and kept her hand caressing her damp cheek, "we need to stay together okay, because I can't do this without you. I can't be happy when you're crying."
"I know, I'm so sorry." Rachel put her hand over Quinn's and looked at her with sparkling apologetic eyes. Quinn almost gasped at how beautiful the smaller brunette looked, even in the stale light that came through the opening of their fort. She inched her way closer to Rachel, never taking her eyes off of her.
"Is it okay if I need you sometimes?"
"As long as it's okay if we can stay like this forever." Rachel's eyes drifted down to Quinn lips as the blonde kept leaning forward.
"Forever." Quinn closed the gap between to two and pressed their lips together.
"Told you."
"Yeah, whatever, just never give them any kind of drug again, it was like a romantic comedy being played on fast forward. Too much drama in less that ten minutes."
The two girls cuddled together underneath the Snuggie talking about their fake children and sharing soft kisses, slowly drifting to sleep in their fort as their high wore off.
