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Chapter 21:
Rachel knocked on her girlfriend's front door and waited for someone to answer, Jack swung open the door. "Oh, Hi Rachel," the blonde boy said as he moved out of the way.
"Hello Jack, is Quinn still here? Her cars still in the driveway..." Rachel trailed off.
Jack nodded, "Yeah, she's in the kitchen with Paige."
The brunette smiled and then made her way to the Madden/Fabray kitchen, overhearing her girlfriend and Paige having a conversation as she continued to walk closer.
"So what your saying is you could be a freshman already?" Quinn asked.
"Yeah... Mum spoke to your principal and because of my age and what I've already learnt in Australia, I just need to do an exam to see if I'm smart enough to move up."
Rachel then walked in as Quinn asked her sister another question, "But we're two years apart... Does that mean I could be a Junior? Why wasn't I told this before?"
Paige shrugged, "I have no idea... Maybe you could be... Speak to your principal."
"What's this?" Rachel asked. Quinn swung around on her seat on the stool as she heard her girlfriend's voice. "Rach?!" the blonde said surprised.
The brunette smiled and walked over to give her girlfriend a hello kiss on the lips. As she leaned back she spoke to her girlfriend, "I thought to drive you to school today..." Rachel smiled shyly.
Quinn shrugged and smiled, "I'd love that."
Rachel beamed and nodded, "So what are you two talking about?" the brunette asked as she sat next to her girlfriend.
"Well supposably Paige can be a freshman already..." Quinn trailed off with a shrug.
"Why weren't you placed in your proper year when you moved here?" Rachel asked.
Paige shrugged, "I have no idea... Something about my birthday being early..."
"Does that mean you should be a Junior?" Rachel asked her girlfriend.
"I have no idea... Maybe, but I'm not going to ask Figgins to move me... I'm happy being a sophomore," Quinn smiled.
Rachel beamed, "Good, because I don't want you to move up in years... But if you could leave school earlier why don't you find out... You could be in Pucks year." The mohawk boy was currently a Junior.
The blonde shook her head, "No... That doesn't bother me. I wanna stay with you."
Rachel smiled and leaned over and gave her girlfriend a kiss on the lips.
"Hello Rachel," Judy said as she saw her daughter's girlfriend when she walked downstairs into the kitchen.
The brunette pulled back from kissing her girlfriend, and turned and smiled at Judy. "Hello Judy."
"Are you ready, Paige? Where's Jack?" Judy asked her youngest daughter.
"Yeah, I am... And he's just getting his backpack," Paige answered.
Judy nodded and went to fill up a thermal cup of coffee. "So are you transferring to McKinley for second semester?" Rachel asked Paige.
Paige shook her head, "Mum spoke to your principal and he said that I should just finish my year in middle school and then do the exam and if I pass then I can be a sophomore when school starts back after summer."
"What about all your friends?" Quinn asked.
Paige shrugged, "They will just be freshman's... And I'll make new friends in my year... It shouldn't be hard, I'll be a Cheerio," the younger blonde smirked.
Quinn laughed, "If you get on the team."
"Of course I'll get on the team... I'm better than you," Paige smiled.
"Oh... You are soooo up yourself."
Both Quinn and Paige burst out laughing. "Sisterly love," Judy smiled.
"Quinn knows that I love her," Paige smiled.
"And Paigie knows I love her... We just like to have some fun," Quinn shrugged and Paige nodded at her older sister.
Rachel smiled at the family's interaction; she really loved Quinn's family. "Baby, if we leave for school now we can get a coffee at Lima Bean," the brunette stated.
Quinn hopped up and nodded at her girlfriend. Rachel then followed her girlfriend by standing up from her stool.
"Have a good day, girls. And good luck today, Luce," Judy smiled.
"Thanks mum. Bye," Quinn said to her mum and sister.
"Bye, Judy…Paige... Have a good day," Rachel said as she walked over and out the kitchen with her girlfriend.
"Bye," Paige yelled out to the leaving couple.
As Rachel and Quinn exited the house and walked over to the brunette's car, Rachel grabbed her girlfriend's wrist to stop her from opening the passenger's door. The brunette wrapped her hands around Quinn's neck and smiled, "I've miss you wearing your Cheerio uniform."
Quinn smirked, "I'm sure you enjoy it more when it's not winter."
Rachel nodded, and smiled as she slipped her tongue out of her mouth a little and bit on it. Quinn smiled and leaned down and kissed her girlfriend on the cheek. As the blonde leaned back she saw her girlfriend pout. "What?"
"I want more then a kiss on the cheek."
The cheerleader chuckled, "Well you're holding onto me... You're free to do whatever you want."
That was all Rachel needed to be told before she smacked their lips together.
When lunch came around at McKinley High, Quinn walked down the hall to make her way to her Glee teachers office, she was happy to know that Coach Beeson was going to talk to Coach Sylvester, she was sure that Mr. Schue would be okay with her missing some Glee lessons.
Just before she got to the Glee teachers office, Hayley walked up to her. "Coach went crazy when Sarah spoke to her."
Quinn bit on her lip and took a breath in, "What happened?" the blonde asked when Hayley walked closer to her and stopped in front of her.
"She threatened to rip your Cheerio uniform off you and make you walk around in your underwear for the rest of the day..." Hayley trailed off, she looked scared even saying it.
The blondes eyebrows shot up, "And then what?"
"Luckily I was walking past and walked in. I told Coach that as the captain I'll personally spend extra time with you with routines."
Quinn gave her best friend a small smile, "You wouldn't spend extra time with me... I'm only going to be missing a couple practices each week."
Hayley finally nodded, "I know... I just said that so she'd calm down. She went on a rant on how she shouldn't have lesbians on her team because of the trouble they cause," the brunette shrugged.
The blonde just laughed, "Wait till she finds out about Santana and Brittany," Quinn whispered.
Hayley lightly laughed, "Oh, I hope I'm still here when she does... Though I'm not going to be surprised if Sue is just hiding the knowledge that she does know."
Quinn nodded, "She tends to find out everything that's going on... Anyways I've got to go chat to Mr. Schue with missing out some lessons..." Hayley nodded and said a quick goodbye to her best friend.
The Cheerio then walked the rest of the way to Mr. Schue's office and knocked. The blonde saw the teacher standing up at his desk, moving paperwork around; he looked up when he heard the knock on his door. "Oh, Quinn... Come in."
Quinn walked in, Mr. Schue motioned for her to take a seat in front of his desk and he took a seat in his chair.
"I wanted to ask you a question," the blonde started.
Mr. Schue smiled and nodded encouragingly. "So I've just joined the McKinley softball team..." Quinn trailed off.
The Glee teacher clapped his hands together and smiled, "Well done, Quinn. Congratulations."
Quinn gave out a small smile... She wouldn't lie, but Mr. Schue's enthusiasm kind of scared her a little... "Thanks Mr. Schue... But I'm here to get permission to miss some Glee lessons due to softball training."
Mr. Schue slowly nodded. "So what you're asking is missing more lessons than any other Cheerio and Jock in Glee?"
The blonde nodded, "Yeah I am... Because I'm in Cheerios, Glee and softball I'll need to work out an afternoon school roster on which extra curricular activity to do... Softball only has trainings on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and we play on the weekends..."
The teacher nodded, "What happens if our Glee performances lie on a weekend you're playing softball?"
Quinn's eyebrows shot up, she hadn't really thought of that... "Well Sectionals is in two weeks and my first softball game isn't till February, and I'm sure Coach Beeson would be okay if I missed one game due to Regionals and the date for Nationals is the week after softball finals finish."
"What about the other members, they will be at Glee every lesson, do you think it's fair that they will be there for every one but you won't?" Mr. Schue said lightly.
Quinn shook her head, "No I don't, but I'm not asking for a solo or anything... I enjoy Glee, Mr. Schue... All my friends are there and I don't want to have to leave, so I'm asking if you will be lenient and let me... Rachel will help me with all the extra work I need to do."
"Is that fair for Rachel to help with extra work for just you?" Mr. Schue asked.
What the fuck? Did he really just say that? "Mr. Schue... Rachel is my girlfriend... It's not going to be a burden for her... You should have seen her over the holiday break... I think I can do our Sectional routine with my eyes closed, with the amount of times she wanted me to practice with her."
The Glee teacher nodded, "I'll allow it, Quinn... But you have to personally ask the other members if they are okay with it."
Quinn nodded and stood up saying a quick thank you and left... That was actually harder than she thought it was going to be.
That afternoon Quinn and Rachel walked in to the choir room, hand in hand and took a seat together, chatting away about their day, until Mr. Schue came in.
"Okay, guys... We have two weeks until Sectionals so they won't be any assignments that I will set because I think we need to concentrate entirely on Sectionals, but before we start, Quinn would like to ask you all something."
Quinn rolled her eyes... She kind of was a bit pissed off with the Glee teacher... She didn't want to say anything... He wanted her to say something. The blonde hopped up and turned around to look at all her friends. "Well... Most of you know I got in the school softball team... And because of Cheerios and now softball training I will have to miss out on some Glee lessons... So Mr. Schue..." She turned and gave the teacher a quick stare and then turned to all of her friends, "...wanted me to ask you if that's okay with all of you if I miss some lessons."
"Of course it's okay," Rachel said quickly. The brunette knew what Mr. Schue wanted Quinn to do so said it as fast as she could to back up her girlfriend.
"It's cool, Q," Santana added, she too knew about this little speech. Actually everyone did besides Finn, because he stopped sitting with any of them during lunch.
"Yeah, Quinn... I saw you practice... You belong on that softball field," Tina said with a smile. Kurt nodded to what Tina voiced, "Yes, I'm okay with it," Kurt added.
"That's one less person I'll have to fight for a solo, so all good girl," Mercedes added.
"Quinnie's a good softball player, I want her to play," Brittany voiced. "Actually I want to play too," Brittany whispered out, but no one heard her.
Hayley, Puck, Mike and Matt just shrugged they really didn't care at all. Mr. Schue looked a bit distort, he then looked over at his favorite male lead, "What about you Finn?"
"Umm... Well it's a bit unfair for all of us..." Mr. Schue beamed, that's why Finn was his favorite... Quinn rolled her eyes... She really didn't like the giant boy.
"You would be in the same predicament if football was all year round... With basketball and Glee..." Quinn said.
"Predicament?" Finn asked, looking dumb.
Oh my gosh, really? "Yes... Predicament, Finn..." Brittany voiced. Everyone turned to her and Quinn beamed at one of her best friends. "What Quinnie is saying is that Cheerios is all year round... And football is only in first semester and basketball is in second semester... So if football was all year round like Cheerios, then you would be in three things like, Q."
"So, you should understand the situation Quinn is in, Finn," Rachel added.
Finn just sat their dumbfounded. Rachel then looked at Mr. Schue, "Mr. Schue, even if Finn doesn't approve, everyone else in Glee does... And as captain I'll make sure that Quinn is up to date with everything that goes on in lessons that she misses."
Mr. Schue didn't know what else to say, so he nodded. "Okay, well I guess if the majority of the Club is okay with it then it's okay, Quinn... Now let's start working on our numbers for Sectionals..." the Glee teacher voiced as he started to teach the lesson.
Tuesday afternoon found Quinn down at the McKinley softball field having her first training session with the softball team. Coach Beeson introduced her to the team, some were pissed with the new addition to the team, others hated the fact that Quinn was also a Cheerio because she's the first ever Cheerio to join the team, but they were a few who were more than okay with the new teammate. And after the training session, more girls had warmed up to the blonde cheerleader.
As everyone was packing up and grabbing their equipment then heading into the locker rooms, Sarah yelled over the teenagers, "Quinn, can I have a word?"
Quinn stopped what she was doing and walked over to her new Coach, "Yes, Coach?"
"I just wanted to let you know that your Physiotherapist contacted me today and is going to start informing me about your progress during your appointments."
The blonde nodded, "Yeah, Claire said she was going to do that."
Coach Beeson nodded, "Okay... Well that's all. You did well today, Quinn... I'm glad you're on the team."
Quinn smiled, "Thanks, Coach. I'm glad too," and then she walked off, grabbing her bags and then walked over to the bleachers, taking a seat and looking out on the diamond. A few minutes passed and she saw her girlfriend making her way up to join her, "How was practice? I was going to come watch you as soon as Glee finished but Mr. Schue kept us all back," Rachel stated as she sat down next to her girlfriend.
The blonde nodded and smiled and then started to talk to her girlfriend on everything she did in training. Once she finished she then hopped up, "I better head to get changed... I'm sure everyone is out of the locker room by now."
Rachel stood up, "You should have told me... I would have let you go."
Quinn smiled and leaned down to give her girlfriend a peck on the lips, "I wanted to spend time with you. I'll be really quick... Then you can inform me all about Glee... I'll meet you out in the carpark?"
The brunette nodded, and walked down the bleachers with her girlfriend, separating at the bottom to go in different directions, but not before Rachel got a proper kiss from her gorgeous new softball player, girlfriend.