HAPPY NEW YEAR! That all good may come to us, we deserve it ;) And yes let's hope for more Brittana action on glee, that's still a possibility right? Anyways here comes drama, don't kill me?


After a couple of seconds of standing there, jaw on the floor and glass on the floor, Judy seemed to come out of her shock and exploded.

"Quinn Fabray! I told you I tolerated this behavior because it's a phase but this, this…" Judy made a wild gesture to show she meant the scene she walked into "what are you thinking! Practically having sex in the kitchen, with that… that delinquent! Look at her she has piercings and…. OH MY GOD! Is that a tattoo?" Quinn had pulled up a bit of Rachel's shirt making sure he mother would see the tattoo. Rachel found it hard not to laugh, the woman had taken a color that would even make a lobster jealous. She was a little scared of the older woman though, being in the kitchen, with knifes and other sharp things.

Rachel decided she needed to go home and calm down after every thing, plus that would give her an excuse to leave. She wanted to put a little bit more pressure on Quinn's mother before she left though and sent Brittany a text to make the gang pick her up as soon as possible.

Get over 2 Q's & pick me up! Bring Puck and San! PS look badass - Rach

B there in 5 – Brit

YOU SO LIKE HER! - San

Rachel rolled her eyes at Santana's statement and turned her attention back to the situation at hand, Quinn had just stood up and was now shouting at her mom. "You know what I like her a lot, you better learn to deal with it because it isn't a phase!"

Judy rolled her eyes and cut her daughter off "I am not dealing with anything! She is going to ruin you, she is just after our money and I'm not going to let her have it!" The doorbell rang, making sure Judy couldn't continue her full rant. Rachel couldn't believe her friends were that fast, they were probably in the neighborhood when she texted them. "You know what fine! Don't come crawling back to me when you end up in jail or a drug addict." With that she turned to open the door.

Rachel jumped from her seat, pulled Quinn along by the hand and followed the older woman to the front door. As they crossed the kitchen she had just enough time to warn Quinn what was about to happen, they got tot the hall just in time to see Judy open the door.

Quinn observed the scene from her spot in the spot, a couple of steps behind her mother. Brittany wore her leather jacket, with underneath it a pair of baggy jeans and some with blue checkered skate shoes. Puck on the other hand wore an unbuttoned army jacket, beneath it a sweater vest with a Ramones tee, camouflage shorts and on his feet a pair of flip flops. The shorts were no doubt picked to show off his calf tattoo, which the blonde never noticed before, it was a Chinese cherry tree in blossom. Finally Santana wore a tank top and some skinny jeans finishing it off with some black converse. She wore a bandana around her right wrist and aviators stood on her nose.

Puck was the first to speak "Hi" he looked past Judy at Rachel and Quinn "we're friends of Rachel."

"And Quinn…" Santana added, she elbowed Brittany whose jaw had been dragging over the floor since she saw the house "Honey close your mouth you're drooling."

Judy slammed the door in their face and stormed off while yelling something about silverware and assassins. Rachel chuckled, winked at Quinn and walked to the door. The duo stepped outside joining the puzzled threesome. "I'm sorry about that, it seems my mom has reached her limit for today." Quinn said with a wicked grin.

Puck laughed and waved the apology off "You should have seen Brittany's dad when she came out, we never knew you could have veins at those places. "

"How did you guys get here this quickly anyways?" Rachel wondered.

Puck rolled his eyes "We were on our way from mine to Brittany's and you should know we always look badass Rach… Are you ready to go or do we have time see that awesome room you keep talking about?"

At this Rachel jumped into action "Ye, you should see it, it's paradise." she said as she dragged Puck through the house towards Quinn's game room. "

When they got there Puck let out a gasp and then squealed "And he blames us for spreading gay rumors." Rachel whispered in Quinn's ear, which caused her to let out a small giggle.

Meanwhile Brittany had walked to the pool table and was now preparing for what was going to be an epic pool competition between her and Puck. Santana had flopped down on the couch and was watching her friends in amusement, or so she claimed, Rachel had a slight suspicion that it had something to do with the view of Brittany ass.


"Dad called..." Rachel said after about 10 minutes, when Quinn walked out of to answer a phone call. The statement earned her all the attention in the room.

Quinn hung up the phone after discovering somebody dialed the wrong number. She didn't walk back in the room though, the tension in the room was thick after those two uttered words and she didn't want to interrupt. She lost from her curiosity and couldn't walk away, she listened to the conversation in the room.

"What happened?" Santana asked so soft it was nearly a whisper. Whatever was going on with the sisters' dad wasn't good, that much Quinn could tell.

"San," Rachel sighed "you know what happened." Santana blinked hard an then asked in the same thin voice "What did he say?"

Rachel swallowed, Quinn noticed she was more upset about this then she previously thought.

"He asked me where I was, when I said Puck's he didn't believe me. He went in a rampage about Emily and that I should've followed her. He said if he found out I was with one of my 'filthy whores' again he would slit my throat." Rachel swallowed again, Quinn wanted nothing more than to run in and hug the girl but stayed put.

"He wasn't totally drunk yet, so I told him to get another beer and hung up." Santana got up and hugged her sister who was clinging at her. Quinn saw a tear rolling down her face but then Rachel composed herself and let go of Santana with a sad smile. "I can't break down here, take me home?"

"That guy would even give Freddie Krueger nightmares." Puck said, making Rachel laugh.

"Let's get you home... you can walk Cooper." Santana said pulling her sister up.

Quinn opened the door and walked in pretending to know nothing. Rachel nodded and walked out with her sister. Brittany trailed behind them and turned to her. "Sorry about this all, it's just her dad and Emily are open wounds. Walking Cooper is one of the things that relaxes her the most, so we're going to go home."

"It's ok, I understand... tell her to text me when she feels better."

"Will do." Brittany said, she then gave Quinn a quick hug and rushed after her friends.


The following day Quinn got a text from Rachel claiming she was ok. Quinn had already noticed she forgot her bag when she left yesterday and the pierced girl asked if she could come and get it today, they agreed to meet at four this afternoon.

Quinn had been thinking all evening, she could puzzle some things together, she knew for example that Rachel's dad was an alcoholic and that he didn't like the girl's ex. She couldn't figure out what had happened exactly though. Quinn hoped to get some more answers when Rachel came to fetch her backpack. Waiting for the time to pass by she gave her homework a shot.

It was five passed four when the doorbell rang, Quinn didn't get much work done, instead she had been pining over what was actually wrong between Rachel and her father. She walked down the stairs to open the door. When she opened said door, it revealed a tired and sad eyed brunette. Quinn had grown to know the girl pretty well over the last couple of months, the smile that the other girl had on her face might have made other people into think she was ok, but Quinn wasn't easily fooled.

Rachel knew her attempt to look cheery and ok didn't work on Quinn, she had hoped it did, but when the blonde took a look at her and gave her a tight hug, she knew the girl wasn't fooled that easily. Quinn took her hand and pulled her towards her room without saying a word. Rachel had hoped she could just grab her bag and be on her way but the other girl didn't seem to have the same plan, so she took a deep breath and blinked hard.

"Look, yesterday…" Rachel started but she got interrupted

"You don't have to tell me everything, I just want to know if you're ok." It took her by surprise, she didn't have a lot of people caring for her and while she knew they had forged a bond in the past two months, it was still a surprise to her that the girl cared for her. Suddenly Rachel had a lump in her throat, she swallowed hard and tried to keep her voice leveled.

"I'm fine," she said and added as an after thought "just a little tired."

Quinn studied the tattooed girl, she didn't seem fine at all, her eyes were red, she didn't have the confident pose she normally had, she had wrapped her arms around herself as if she needed to protect or comfort herself. Quinn felt a tug at her heart, this must be really bothering the girl if it had the power to demolish her to the insecure mess she was right now.

"You know I'm here right?" Quinn questioned, she didn't want to much pressure on Rachel, afraid she might throw her walls up, leave and never come back. That's when she noticed a small tear trickle down the broken girls cheek, she stood and wiped the tear away before hugging the girl again.

After standing there, clutching the other girls shirt in her hands, for a minute or two, Rachel felt Quinn pull her towards the bed. She was still crying, she didn't like crying in front of people especially not when she liked them as much as she did Quinn. She allowed the blonde to lay her down and hold her. They stayed like that for a couple of minutes, when Rachel had a grip on herself again, she started thinking.

Rachel thought about what her sister had said, Santana was right, Quinn deserved to know she liked her. She thought about the best way to tell the girl, there was no best way she decided after an other couple of minutes. Scraping all her courage together she cleared her throat and sat up. Quinn looked at her puzzled but sat up too.

"Quinn, I erm… you…" the brunette shook her head, took a deep breath and tried again. "Quinn I need to tell you something you deserve to know."

Quinn kept quiet but nodded to let the other girl know she was listening.

"We've become quite good friends over the last months and Santana said that that is why you deserved to know and I agree" Rachel said playing with her dog tags.

"I like hanging out with you and we have so much fun. At first I really only just saw you as a friend… But a couple of weeks ago I realized I started to have feelings for you… It wa…" Quinn interrupted her little speech.

"WHAT? And you just continued to kiss and hug me! That wasn't the deal! You were supposed to be PRETENDING!" Quinn burst out.

Rachel cringed, she hadn't really expected it to be this bad. Things seemed to be running backwards for her. Typical, she figured life had been going way to well the last couple of months.

"You know what get out!" Quinn nearly shouted, she was now pacing in her room freaking out.

"I'm sorry, I just…" Rachel tried to explain, tried to save the situation from going horribly wrong. She tried to stop the girl from pacing but Quinn just slapped her hand away and didn't let her finish.

"NO! Get out and don't come back, GET OUT!" Quinn now shouted.

Rachel saw no option but to go, she grabbed her bag and all but ran out the door. When she got to the hall she bumped in to Judy who was just walking through the front door. The pierced girl stopped dead in her tracks and looked at the older woman.

"I'm sorry." She said, she wanted the woman to know she was really sorry for the whole situation "Just sorry…for everything." When she heard footsteps coming from near the stairs, she left it at that and brushed past Judy. She got on her bike and rode to her own house, she needed to pick up her guitar, she left it there two days ago. She couldn't even care if her dad was home, she needed to write.