Chapter 11
"Hi," I turned around. "Are you okay? How long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough to know that you're cheating on me. How could you? It's my great grandma's funeral. And I'm pregnant with your baby girl. And Quinn Fabray? I shouldn't have ever trusted you. I'm so stupid." She was crying, I could tell. And she was mad, really mad. But overall she was sad. I hate myself. She was crying for three different things and I caused two of them. "I thought you loved me!" She was yelling now, bawling, actually. Everyone turned to us, even Sam and Quinn. Then, Rachel turned to Quinn. "And you! You apologize and say everything will be okay and I forgave you thinking you changed and you wanted to be my friend but now you're tongue kissing my boyfriend?! You're such a hypocrite! And all of you pretend to be my friends because you really do want to be but how come none of you care when Quinn tells the whole damn school I'm pregnant?! And oh my God you people have all been lying to me for months! Ever since that stupid party everything has been so different and nobody is treating me the same! And now my grandma has to go and die on me because she wants to leave me alone with Santana, the betrayer, Quinn, the liar, and Finn, the cheater!" She yelled before running out of the church crying.
"What the hell just happened?" Sam asked Quinn. They had moved closer to me while Rachel was talking along with Santana.
"Rachel pretty much just broke up with all of us. Well that hurts," Quinn said. Sam walked closer to her and hugged her. Santana just stood there silently. She looked like somebody did just break up with her, almost as if she was shocked or scared.
"Did she just break up with me?" I asked as a general question.
"She would never break up with you. Apparently I'm the bad guy in this situation." Quinn replied.
"You're not," I tried to make her feel better.
"I can't believe this," Santana said out loud. "You told her didn't you."
"Told her what?" Quinn asked.
"About me helping you? About how you blackmailed me?!"
"I didn't do that, San! Stop telling people lies about me!" Quinn yelled.
"We're at a funeral for Pete's sake!" Allie interrupted.
With that Quinn ran after Rachel. She said nothing else; just left. I ignored everyone and walked into the memorial. Sam and Santana stayed there because Sam was probably waiting for Quinn and Santana was still pissed but I decided to just get out.
Quinn's POV
"Rachel?" I walked outside and found her crying in her car. I knocked on the window and she looked up. "Can you unlock the door?"
She didn't answer but she leaned over and opened the car door. "What do you want?"
"I'm sorry."
"I shouldn't believe that." She buried her head in her knees. "I'm crying over my boyfriend at my great-grandma's funeral. I'm supposed to be remembering her."
"Look, Rachel, I know I made a mistake and I didn't want you to find out, especially like that. I was going to tell you but I knew you trusted Finn so I figured you'd just think that I was lying and not really sorry so I thought it would do more harm than good." I explained.
"You know the cheating isn't really what I'm mad about. It's the fact that you're the one who didn't want me to find out. He didn't care. He was just abusing my trust. That's what made me really upset. I gave him my trust, Ali photo shopped, I still trusted him, he really did cheat on me, and then he didn't tell me. And now I'm alone. I don't have him and I don't need him anymore. But, Quinn, I'm sitting here with someone I don't even like and all I want is to go back four months when everything was perfect. I want to be 17 again, like the movie, and relive this whole year. I don't want to raise my baby by myself. I want my daughter to have two amazing parents and clearly he's too irresponsible to handle a wife and a baby. I love him but if he's not gonna take our relationship seriously then than I don't really see the point," She cried. I just sat there and listened to every word.
"Look, he didn't do anything wrong. It was all me. I'm sorry. I was just confused about all of these feelings for Sam and how I was so sorry for what I did to you and then he showed up at my house and…"
"Wait, he came over? Quinn, if he came over to your house without you inviting him then he wanted that to happen. And I'm so pissed at him you wouldn't even believe it!" She yelled through her tears and then calmed down. "I forgive you, Quinn. I really, honestly do. And I miss having a good friend. And I really think you could be that friend. I thought it was Santana or Tina but right now, you're the only person I want to pour my heart out to."
"You have no idea how much that means to me." I smiled. "You need to go back in there. You need to be with your family. And I think there's a star quarterback in there that really needs you right now."
"Thanks, Quinn. I really appreciate it." Rachel smiled even though she was still crying. "Let's go."
We walked back into the memorial and sat down next to Santana, Ali, Emily, Tina, and Sam. Everyone else was scattered. "We have come here today for the memorial of Sophia Elizabeth Berry. Sophia was a very good friend of mine and I've known her since I was only seven years old. She was my babysitter for almost three years when she went off to college in New York. She didn't come back for a while and I don't think I was any younger than 17 when she did. She bought a wonderful house near the river where she married her high school sweet heart, Timothy Berry, rest in peace, and her last name was changed from Penn to Berry. They had a few kids, Elizabeth, Alexandra, Samuel, and Joseph. Sophia's grandchildren, Hiram, Jennifer, and Alexandra are here as well. But the two girls I believe Sophia had the best connection with were her two great-granddaughters, Elizabeth or Lizzie Dayton and Rachel Berry. I believe Sophia's grand daughter, Alexandra would like to say a few words." My eyes moved to Allie who had tears in her eyes as she stood up.
"Hi everybody, I'm Allie Berry. Um, I know you all knew my grandma as the nicest lady in Lima or as the famous Sophia Penn when she was on Broadway nearly 65 years ago. But I remember her as Grandma Berry. She was the person I came back to Ohio to see. And believe me, not many people want to come home to Lima after living in New York," Allie smiled a little as the room chuckled. "I remember when I was only ten and grandma took Rachel, Lizzie, and me to the river. We spent the whole day there laughing and singing and jumping in the river. Lizzie was only five and she couldn't swim yet so she had her little yellow duck floaty. And Rachel was seven and was trying to figure out how to rope jump." Allie had to pause because her tears were getting too heavy. I could tell she was trying to stop but she couldn't. I knew that feeling. Then I noticed Rachel walking up to the podium.
"Hi, I'm Rachel Berry, Sophia's great-granddaughter. I didn't prepare a speech but I have a few things I'd like to say. I've been pregnant for almost four months now and she was the only person who's stood by me. My boyfriend cheated on me, my best friend didn't support me and turned on me, my dads kicked me out of their house, and Allie lived in New York. I love everybody here and I appreciate all of you coming to celebrate her memory or whatever but I miss her and I think I should be allowed to miss her for a while." Rachel said. At that point, I had tears streaming down my face. She was absolutely right. "So that's why I'm naming my baby girl Sophia; I know my grandmother would have loved it."
I smiled as everyone clapped. I noticed Rachel's dads crying in the back next to Rachel's aunt and grandparents. They must feel horrible about themselves.
Rachel's POV
After the memorial was over we had lunch at the church. Finn, Quinn, Santana, and everyone else from glee club left and my dads approached me. "We are so sorry, Rachel." My daddy said first.
"I doubt it," I told them honestly.
"We made a huge mistake. I want to be a part of you and your baby's life. And after that meltdown in there, honey, we need to be here for you," My dad explained.
"Yes and if it means being civil with Finn then we will try," Daddy agreed. "We're sorry."
"I forgive you," I said before hugging them both at the same time. "I wanna come home."
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