-Chapter 30-

-Brittany pov-

It's been few weeks that we've been at Camel High. It's so weird being somewhere new still. We've slowly been getting used to it but...I miss the old place. I know it was bad but I still had memories and friends there. All I have here-not that I'm complaining- it's my girlfriends, Shelby, Sugar, and Jesse. I was actually like over there and not secretly hated. I don't like being hated.

"Hey you doing ok Britt?" I jump at Lucy's voice "You seemed in deep thought"

"Just thinking about everything" I give Lucy a small smile "It's just been so weird"

"I hear you" Lucy looks sad for a second but then smiles "But you are getting closer to a special day!"

"It's my birthday soon?!" I starts jumping "Yay! I want a big cake!"

"No britt it's your one month anniversary with Rachel" oh no I forgot "You forgot didn't you?"

"Yes!" I put my back to the lockers a slide down "I'm such a bad girlfriend!"

"Why are you a bad girlfriend?" I jump up when I hear Rachel's voice "Whoa are you ok? I didn't mean to scare you"

"Uh yeah yeah I'm good" I look at Lucy who nods at me "Uh it was just something me and Luce were talking about cause I...I forgot your favorite candy!"

"That doesn't make you a bad girlfriend Britt!" Rachel shakes her head and smiles "It's sour patch kids!"

"Aw all of those poor sour sugar babies" I pout and Rachel pulls me into a hug "As much as I love this hug Uh-Uh I gotta go!"

I quickly pull away from Rachel and take off down the hall. I go so quick I almost run into Santana. I apologize quickly before running off again. I gotta find a plan!

-Rachel pov-

"So can either of you tell me why Brittany ran away and almost ran into me?" I shake my head no and look at a very nervous Lucy "What did you do Lucy Q?"

"Besides accidentally pee myself from being scared?" I glare and she swallows thickly "She forgot its was approaching Rachel and her one month anniversary"

"But we agreed that we'd do it as a shared on!" Lucy looks down at the ground and look at Santana "Go find her while I take Lucy to Shelby"

"There you are!" We all turn and see Sugar running to us "I just ran into a very upset and confused Brittany"

"Led me to where you see her go" Santana looks at us "Go take wets a lot to Shelby"

"I don't wet a lot" Lucy kicks the top of her show off the ground, still looking down "I just got a weak bladder"

"Come on Lucy" I grab her hand and start taking her to shelbys room "Maybe there will be no one there"

-Time skip-Santana pov-

I have been going around the whole day trying to find Britt. I can't find her at all! I've talked with all of the girls and Shelby but they know nothing! They've looked while they could but Shelby has class and the girls had to be elsewhere.

"Brittany are you in here?" I wait for an answer in the empty auditorium "I guess that's a no"

"I mean it's not a yes" I quickly look around and finally find her in the back right corner of the stage "I'm sorry I just got so caught up trying to plan stuff out"

"We've been looking all over for you!" I run over to here and pull her into a hug "Rachel said she searchers here already"

"She did" I pull back and look at Brittany confused "I hid when I knew it was her coming in"

"Oh Brittany" I sit down across from her "Lucy forgot to tell you this morning something very important"

"That Rachel knows?!" Brittany stands up quick "Oh god I gotta find her!"

"No!" I grab a hold of her before she can run away "That we all agreed on doing a joint month anniversary date the day after when I took Rachel out"

"Really?" I nod and Brittany relaxes "I thought I was such a bad girlfriend"

"You're the exact opposite B" I put a strand of her hair behind her ear smiling "A bad girlfriend wouldn't have hid all day planning a date for their girlfriend"

"Lucky we are in glee club huh?" I nod and we both laugh "I really am crazy huh?"

"We all are" I put my hand in hers and lead her off the stage "Let's go to our last class to get at least some knowledge"

-Fran pov-

I can win this...I can make the thing bigger...I will not be beaten by a baby! I can beat her!

Pop

"Momma!" I look over at my mom "Beth eep cheatin!"

"She's a baby sweetie she isn't cheating" my mom walks in to the room holding a sippy cup for me "Here's your apple juice"

"Tank you!" I grab it a start drinking when I see my mom start breastfeeding Beth "Mom I have a question"

"What is it dear?" My mom turns the tv on to the news before looking at me "You know you can ask anything"

"Rachel has manipulation tactics, Santana has anger issues, Brittany is smart but also ditzy, and Lucy has some problems that really need help" I look at the cup in my hands "I know I have problems too but...why am I the one that is never ever able to find love?"

"Because you fall too easily" I look at my mom confused and she gives me a small smile "You trust and you care too quickly and before you really know it you're in love! You're just like me"

"Is that why you ended up with Russel?" Mom nods and I look back at my cup moving it "I really enjoy all of this...I know I shouldn't...I know people think this is weird but I've enjoyed doing this"

"We all have" I move over and lean into my mom "I love you baby girl"

"Wove you too momma" I point at the tv "Toons!"

"Aye aye captain" I laugh and momma changes the tv before pulling me closer, running her hand through my hair "Don't choke on your juice while laying on me and don't drink to fast"

-Time skip-Shelby pov-

Glee practice gets better every time. There's no more tension and the kids seem to get along at least in the room. I know they aren't friends but this works. Better then yolks everyday..

"Mom" I stop collecting my stuff and look over at Rachel "When are we getting ready for the competition?"

"Soon" I start grabbing my stuff again but stop when Rachel grabs my arm "Yes?"

"Why not next practice?" I look at her confused "We need to be ready so we can beat New Directions"

"We will beat them no matter what" I finish grabbing my stuff and grab my keys "Lets get home"

"Why are you not worrying?!" I stop and turn to look at Rachel "We could still lose! People underestimated us every time! We beat those people!"

"No" I point at her "Lucy, Brittany, Santana, and you beat the nonbelievers"

"There was more talent in there!" Deep breaths Shelby "Are you deep breathing me?! Am I annoying you that much!"

"Rachel lets just get to the car" I open the auditorium door "The girls are waiting for us there"

"No I wanna talk about this right now!" Deep breaths and count to ten "I'm not some random kid from the club I'm your daughter! Why won't you just say you don't know what your doing?!"

"You are my daughter so I'd advise you to stop yelling at me!" I step toward Rachel "I'm trying to give you the opportunity to talk about this once I'm cooled down! Now go to the car!!"

"No!" I glare as she stomps her foot "I'm not leaving!"

"I don't want to embarrass you but if you don't leave right now I'm going to pick you up over my shoulder!" I wait for her to move but she doesn't "Fine"

I quickly pick her up over my shoulder before she can realize. She tries squirming down but I don't put her down. I carry her like this all the way to the car.

"Put me down!" I stand her up beside the car "You proved a point good job"

"What is your problem?!" The girls just stare at us "Why are you acting like this?"

"I-I-I don't know" tears form in Rachel's eyes "Just everyone was talking that usually everything would be set up by now an-an-and I just want to show them that we belong here!"

"Rachel you have nothing to prove to anyone" I pull her close and look at the other girls "None of you have to prove anything to anyone here got it?"

There's nods of everyone's head and a few minutes in a group hug before we leave. You know I'm always ready for anything usually. Especially when I'm heading home. I'm not ready for however a fire truck and police car in front of the house after school.

"Stay in the car" I park it and run up to a firefighter "What happened? Why are you at my house?"

"There was a small fire Shelb" I turn and see Fran, Judy, and Beth "It was just a small accidental cooking incident"

"How did yo...Fran?" The girl starts looking around to not have to look at me "You tried cooking again didn't you?"

"I'm not that bad" I raise a eyebrow and she Sighs "Alright so I have room for a lot of improvement"

"No more unless we are in the room" I look over at Judy "So what's the damage?"

"Well need a new kitchen" she motions me closer and I walk to her so her can whisper "Rachel's star and Brittanys stuffed hippo were burned"

"That's gonna be a fun conversation" I look as they start bringing some burned stuff out "Anything else?"

"All of the stored breastmilk is gone and I haven't been able to look at anything else" I sigh and look at the car "We'll be fine"

"I know" I give her a kiss then go to the car "Alright I'm just gonna say everything...the kitchen got burned bad, Fran no longer is allowed to cook without me or Judy present, Rachel and Brittany your star and Hippo are gone...we'll get replacements, and we still have to go in and check out everything else"

"But everyone is ok right?" I nod at Brittanys question "Alright, so can we get out now?"

"Yeah" they get out of the car and we walk up to Judy "They leaving soon?"

"Yeah we've already given report they just helped bring some burnt stuff out to the trash" She point the huge pile by the trash can "Hopefully trash people actually pick it up"

I nod and we all head inside. We all stand inside the now black as night kitchen. We all look around in silence at what could have possibly been. What could have been more rooms, what could have been the whole house, and what could've been three loved ones life's.

"I'm so sorry" I look over at Fran who has tears in her eyes "I just wanted to help out...but I even messed that up"

"You didn't mess it up Fran" I walk over to her with Judy and we pull her into us "Everyone is fine"

The girls join in soon too. We just hold onto each other more out of fear of losing the others. Today could've been a possible close call. A close call I don't want to ever repeat. When we pull away we leave the kitchen and don't go back the whole night.

We can check what we lost tomorrow. For now we are gonna spend time together because that's what we need more. We need each other.