Once Upon A Ball

By: Princessrose175

Chapter 21

Arguments and secrets

Disclaimer: i do not own Glee or any of its characters.

AN: i promised you things would get better didn't i.

Rachel POV

We had been arguing about staying in New York or going back to Lima for hours now. It was insane. Papa thought we should just stay as my senior year was starting soon and daylily had already accepted me. But i said that i've been going to mckinley my whole life and all of my friends live there. And he countered that i'd be with Andreana and i countered back that id only be captain of the new directions, that i wouldn't be able to captain for the songbirds. And with that last comment i thought i had won but then he went into huge rant of how he'd be loser to his job and how daddy had already interviewed for a position in this hospital and i said that he already has a job, in Lima! Its was so stressful until Andreana came in with her uniform on, that consisted of a white button up that had a navy sweater vest over it with a navy and red plaid skirt that barely met her pointer finger, finger tips. Then had white tights and ,mary janes, it was just a twist of what i normally wore.

"No! I'm not going to daylily and i never will!" i protested as she tried to convince me to go to Daylily. "Thats Final! I will finish my education at WMHS unless forced to stop my education, i will graduate from WMHS and i will go to NYADA. No further discussion now let me sleep, please,"

Then Dr. Dessie walked in, "i'm afraid i can let you do that" she said as she unplugged my IV and took the needle out of my arm

"OW!"

"You're getting discharged today, congratulations! I brought you this little gift, i hope you like it, i figured you don't want to go home in hospital scrubs and its very warm out and you're previous outfit was for 50 degree weather." she rambled on.

I opened the bag to find a spaghetti strap crop that with fringe that was a light blue with a pastel colored floral pattern adorning it,And then there were some short short jean shorts and some open toed brown wedges.

"I love it! Thank you! I'll make sure to wear it home and on my first day of my senior year. Especially since i won't be wearing a uniform" then i glanced over and glared at my dads,

"Well i'm glad you like it, you can go get changed now, on your own, since well you're not connected to eight million wires and tubes. Well...And there's the fact that I want to see you wear it," blushed Dr. Dessie.

"Alright alright, I'll hurry up" I replied as I rushed into the large ensuite bathroom.

Three minutes later I emerged in my new ensemble plus the cute white jean vest my dads had got me.

"I also have a little something for you" smiled Ana, "I figured you would want some new makeup" she continued.

"You guys are acting like I don't have a suitcase full of makeup, clothes and shoes" I laughed.

"Yes well…" started Dr. Dessie,

Then Andreana continued, "all of that is meant for 50 degree weather and colder and your makeup is all spring colors. And it's now late summer early fall."

I just laughed, and grabbed the new makeup bag out of her hand and my current makeup out of my suitcase.

I first applied my light layer of eyeliner, which consisted of a black, white and hazelnut colors. Then I applied my eyeshadow from the new collection which was full of all natural looking pigments. Wow, andreana actually got me a good makeup palette, considering the girl doesnt wear makeup often she actually picked out something nice. Then i applied my blackout mascara and my rose gold highlighter. I finished my look with a nude lipstick and liner.

I soon walked out the bathroom in my full ensemble including the 1 ½ inch wedges. Which were surprisingly quite quiet. I looked over to dessie and she reassured me that she purposely got these wedges because they were famous for not making a sound any louder than normal shoes would.

"Oh well, thank you" i replied while very surprised at her actions.

"Yes well you gave me a perfect going away present."

"Going away present?" i asked very shocked.

"My daughter and I are moving to Westerville, Ohio. i want her to have a chance to grow up in a small town environment just like i did"

"Wait you're moving to Ohio!"

"Yes, i can never go back home to Indiana, I left all my friends and colleagues without a word, if they were to see me again… i can't imagine they'd have anything nice to say." she frowned.

"Oh… how old is your daughter?

"11, she'll be going into the sixth grade."

"How old are you?"

"30, i got pregnant with her right at the end of my senior year, i ended up having to take a leap year. But Yale held my scholarship till the next year, they saw i was having a hard time deciding what to do, so they offered to hold my scholarship if i promised that i wouldn't get an abortion. It was a fairdeal. 11 years later after 8 years of college and 3 years of medical residence, i'm finally a real doctor, which means i can get out of this huge city and continue my career somewhere where i can be a doctor, and not just known as the newie."

"Well on Ohio's behalf i would like to welcome you to our very crumby part of the country but anyway...are you guys flying or are you going by car."

"Flying, our flight is tomorrow, we already had the moving truck bring everything to our new home, it left at 5:30 this morning, but my friend said we could crash at her place for the night, problem is its two hours away from the airport, but it will have to work."

"Why dont you and your daughter come stay with us" offered Andreana. "My dad is heir to a ton of old money, meaning we got a huge place. We have three guest rooms, and the berrys will only be using two of them tonight. As their flight is also tomorrow." she continued.

"Are you sure you're dad wouldnt mind?" dessie skeptically asked.

"To him a friend of the Berry's is a friend of his. Him and hiram have been friends since the beginning of time, he says 'if hiram trusts or is the friend of said person, then i can see no reason why i shouldn't be' plus he loves little kids to play with, for him being so old he's very entergetic."

"So old!" gasped daddy, "70 is so old, we are at the ripe age of 45 deary!"

We all laughed, including daddy, then dessie broke our laughter,

"Well… shall we get going, if i have any hopes of picking up my daughter on time we have to leave now, Rachel, Andreana, do you want to come with me?"

"Sure," we replied in unison as we all started humming, 'we're off to see the wizard the wonderful wizard of oz.

Meanwhile

Quinn pov

After making the purchase of my pink wig and skank clothes, my mother sent me to my grandparents lake front home to let go and reconnect with the world. Which brings me to where i am today, lounging in a lounge chair while gazing at my grandparents gigantic infinity pool that is literally 10 feet away from the water of morse reservoir. That's right my mother sent me to northern central indiana for relaxation. But i can't complain much, there is a killer ice cream joint down the street. It would be great except my mom has isolated me from anyone, oh what am i saying… like that evr stopped santana anyway. And… my grandparents are on vacation this week and half of next week, if we clean up i'm sure they won't notice someone besides me was there.

I was all the persuasion i needed three minutes later i had called up the whole glee club to come on over, including the newbie sam who wants to join. Sadly glee clubs favorite member wouldn't be there.

Two days later

Finally it was the day that all of glee club was coming over. Brit and san arrived first in their cheerios outfits both with duffle bags and suitcases.

"Hey" i greeted gruffly

"Hi Quinn, how are you? Oh i'm fine"

"Shut up" i said as i roughly shut the door.

"Hey, this attitude isnt you, what's going on, come on preggers talk to me" she sincerely asked.

"Nothing, now just mind your own Damn business."

"Oooh. little lucy thinks that she can intimidate me" she laughed then pushed me onto the floor.

"Oh no you dont." i all but yelled. Then i hopped back onto my feet and started doing whatever i could to get her on the floor, just as we were throwing the finishing punches two big oafy arms grabbed me at the waist and picked me up, i looked up to see someone holding santana up too.

"What's going on here?" asked a muffled voice, "santana stop it," he said again as he set santana down, for her to fall in brittany's arms. I watched britt comfort san from my position up high then looked up to see Noah standing there with his arms crossed his chest.

"What do i do?"called out finn from behind me.

" let her go" he gruffed out.

I fell to the floor with a thud that startled everyone including those who were coming in.

"Q? What's going on?" asked a startled Mercedes who hasn't seen me in my new look.

"Nothing, just this big oaf harassing me" i snapped with not the slightest smile.

Then noah came up on me and grabbed me so that i couldn't escape and so i was staring straight into his eyes.

"We didn't come here for you to just insult us, now are you going to cheer up and start the party or are we going to have to go back home tomorrow after breakfast because you can't get your shit together?"

"Puck." i growled.

"Don't push me fabray, last i checked i'm more that double your size"

"Unless she got knocked up again," muttered a weak santana.

"Can it lopez" i yelled.

"Dont push me fabray, or I won't hesitate going all lima heights on your ass."

"Listen to me Q." soothed Noah, "i get that you're upset about rachel, we all are. But you can't tear yourself up about this."

"But i was there, her heel was stuck in the drain and i told her to have someone who cared about her to fix it, and then i told her to stop wasting my precious time, then she got hit and almost immediately blacked out. Who knows if she's even going to make it.." i choked out as noah set me back down on the ground and brought me into his warm embrace for a hug. "And her last memory of me will be me yelling at her, this wasn't how it was supposed to end. She was supposed to be my happy ending, my soulmate even." it was only at that moment that i had realized what i had said when everyone gasped.

"It's going to be okay," soothed the recovered Noah, "first take off this blasted wig," he tore it off only for everyone to gasp once again as when i had last cut my hair i didn't have it dyed again so it had been growing out long and red. "And then go change into something nicer, if rachel were here she would be loathing your clothing"

"Not just loathing, she would be unadulterated loathing it" joked kurt.

"Then she would burst out singing songs from wicked" continued mercedes, and that last comment was what brought very one into tears of laughter as we all could imagine it.

Noah let me go so he could wipe his tears, "go change, britt, San, can you go with her." he asked the two girls huddled in the corner, they both nodded yes, Brittany got up first then helped Santana get up.

We all hurried up stairs quickly myself faster than them since they were carrying a suitcase each and i had just grabbed their duffel bags, we quickly arrived at my room which was suprisisngly well decorated for a sophisticated teen, lots of blacks, whites and gray and the occasional pop of color like a bright pink or purple.

"Wow," breathed Brittany who marveled all the crystals, mirrors, mirrors with crystals, the drum light chandelier and the big bulb christmas lights that adorned the room in various places: on the ceilings, at the vanity, around the storage area that wrapped around the vanity and at the frame of my bed.

"Hey San" i whispered after setting the bags down and taking a final glance around the room.

"Yeah" she blatantly replied.

"I'm sorry about earlier"

"It's fine, just don't get your panties in a twist. Sylvester has just worked me really hard these past few weeks. On our drive here i spent the majority of the ride asleep, i just wasnt at my best when the fight went down."

"Why is sylvie working you so hard." i asked

"Because you're not there, she claims it's my fault. You promised her you would be there, when you weren't she took it out on me."

"My mom wouldn't let me go!" i exclaimed as i started taking off my heavy makeup.

"You know she doesn't care about that you're on the cheerios until you're kicked off or until you die. No quitsies."

"I know its just…"

"We know"

"I'm gonna go chnage in my main closet, you guys can chnage out here or in the second closet."

"Main closet?"

"Yeah come take a look, my grandparents have two closests full of my clothes, this one is for spring and summer and the other is for fall and winter. They each have a makeup vanity with extensive storageand the clothes and makeup are restocked every season or whenever my grandmother buys me something new, but at least every season."

"Jeez fabray, you are so spoiled."

"Yeah yeah, just let me change"

With that they went into the main room and changed clothes and i'm positive they made out some especially knowing the moans i heard. But nevertheless i came out of the closet, oh god i did not word that right.. But i came out fully dressed in my more normal clothes and makeup, though i looked a little different given my hair color.

Three hours later,

Three hours after the whole skank quinn debacle we were making burgers on the grill and preparing a feast to feed an army. We were having burgers, corn on the cob, fresh fruit, and brownies or sugar cookies for dessert. May sound boring but currently santana and britt are whiping us all up those frozen margarita drinks that you can buy at the store. And with santana looking like she's in her mid twenties they were easily able to buy them. But while we waited for dinner to be ready we swam in the pool some, took a ride on my grandparents speedboat and after dinner we are going to ride on their bigger boat that can fit 16 people, so the 11 of us will definitely fit comfortably.

Twenty minutes later dinner was served at the various places and and tables that adorn their various decks and patios. I was sitting at the bar high table with the fancy bar stools with mercedes, kurt, santana and britt. Kurt then brought up that blaine is nearby as his grandparents live down the street and kurt asked if he coukd come over.

"Sure, why not? The more the merrier!" i laughed as i was already on my second margarita.

"Just make sure you don't impregnate him." joked santi, as of what happened the last time i was drunk.

"But thats kurt, boys cant get pregnant." i frowned,

Meanwhile kurt was laughing hysterically at the sight and words of drunk Q.

Then i exclaimed, while poking kurt in the chest, "what are you laughin bout' hummel?"

He just replied with laughing even which brought an aslo drunk mercedes to tears because of how hard they were laughing, but while all of this was going on brittana was peacefully making out in the kitchen as they had went to get seconds.

What a life, rite?

Yes i purposely misspelled right. There you go. Hope this chapter was worth the wait. It's just under 10 pages long.