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Chapter 14

Santana/Rachel

The next morning the girls get up and fall into the routine that they have followed all week. They head to school and off to Cheerios practice and football for Puck. The day is altogether uneventful with no drama. At the end of the day they head to the choir room.

They are talking about their upcoming weekend as they take their seats which they switch to first and second row center since Finn will not be here. Rachel is telling the girls that they need to run by the grocery store on the way home to get supplies when Brittany cuts in "Rachie don't forget we have dance after Glee."

Rachel looks to Britt, "Oh crap, I forgot about that." She turns to the other two. "Do you guys mind waiting for us?"

They start to answer but Britt cuts in again. "No we need them to go with us. I called our instructor and she said it was ok if they come. I want to show them that toss we were talking about so they can see it and help me show the squad."

Quinn speaks up first. "That's fine Britt. We can come with you, then we will go to the store after your class, grab take out and head home. After that we can veg out, eat until we're sick and watch movies all night."

Britt looks to Rachel, "Hey, can we watch in the media room with the big recliner couch?" she asks excitedly.

Rachel chuckles good naturedly at the girls enthusiasm. "Sure we can. We can set up the projection TV." Britt just claps and bounces.

San looks excited. "You have a media room? With surround sound, a big screen, and a recliner couch?"

Rachel nods smiling, "and it has a mini snack bar and theater style popcorn maker." Quinn and San start bouncing themselves. They squeal and high five each other than laugh like loons. Rachel and Britt laugh along with them all getting excited for their weekend. The rest of the club just look at them like they've lost their minds shaking their heads at the giddy girls, never having seen any of them except for Brittany act this way.

Kurt turns to Mercedes and whispers in her ear. "Have we entered the twilight zone or something?"

Mercedes simply replies, "I'm just not sure. It's scary."

Kurt goes to say something else but Mr. Shue enters and starts talking before he can get the words out. "Hello guys. Ok, I will open it up as always to anyone with a song to sing then we will split up and ready our duets." Everyone looks to Rachel again and she just puts her head on Santana's arm and says nothing. No one else offers to sing either. "Ok then guys let's split up and work on our duets. Artie, I put every duet paring in the hat last night to choose who you will be working with since you don't have a partner. You need to join Matt and Mercedes and if you guys win there will be an extra voucher for breadsticks. I will be in my office if any of you need help." With that he goes into his office. The group splits up to the same areas as Tuesday's practice.

Rachel takes a seat at the piano and starts playing a tune that Santana has never heard. She listens for a minute then sits next to her.

When she stops playing San bumps her with her shoulder. "Hey, can I ask you a question?"

Rachel looks up, "Santana, you can ask me anything."

San smiles, "I was just wondering why you haven't been singing. You passed on it during all of our practices this week. You always sing, I missed it. What's up?"

Rachel looks down, "I just... I just wasn't in the mood to deal with everyone this week. Someone always has something to say. Whether it's about my song choice or my clothes or whatever. I just didn't have it in me to act like I was ok." San started to say something but Rachel cut her off kissing her on the cheek. "Don't say I'm sorry. I told you I don't need to hear it anymore. You asked why and I gave you an honest answer. Let's leave it at that." She says gently

It takes Santana a moment to recover from the kiss on her cheek to reply, "I wasn't going to. We agreed at the mall to let the past go and look forward. I was going to say that I would stand up for you next time. Nobody has the right to tear you down like that all the time. Shue should have stopped it a long time ago." Rachel shakes her head and starts to speak but San cuts her off, "Carińo, think about it for just a second. What do you do when someone says bad things to or about me? What have you always done? Like at sectionals."

Rachel closes her mouth and blushes a little. "Exactly, you stick up for me. I only ask that as your friend, you allow me the same privilege." Rachel nods and puts her head on San shoulder sighing contently. "Now, about this duet. Any ideas for a song?"

Rachel shakes her head. "I honestly haven't really thought about it. What do you think?"

"Well," she says as she pulls out her IPod and earbuds, "I was thinking and I don't want to do a standard duet." She hands one of the earbuds to Rachel and continues before starting it. "I think this song would be perfect for us to do. I already have a break down in my head and I also know the piano version of the song by heart. I love this song and think it would be good for both of us."

They listen and by the time the song is over Rachel has tears streaming down her face. "It's perfect Santana. I've never heard that song before, but it is amazing. Thank you." She tells her kissing her on the cheek again. "We can work on the music part this weekend. Why don't we write out the break down you were thinking of for who sings what?" San nods and removes her notebook and sheet music from her bag and Rachel pulls out her laptop for lyrics. For the rest of the time they work on their song. They are so engrossed in what they are doing they don't notice the time until Quinn is yelling at them from where she is in the auditorium that it is time to go back. They gather their things and head back to the choir room.

After Mr. Shue dismisses them Rachel turns to Puck. "Noah we are going to be hanging out and watching movies tonight if you want to join us.

He shakes his head, "Nah, thanks but Tina and I are going out to that new pizza joint that has karaoke tonight to practice for our duet. She's also going to give me a ride to my car since you have dance tonight."

Rachel just smiles, "Ok Noah, we will be hanging around all weekend if you want to come by at all." She gets up with the girls and they head out to the car. "Quinn can you run me by the house I forgot my dance bag?"

Quinn opens her mouth to answer but Brittany beats her to it. "No need Rachie. I grabbed your dance bag from your house this morning before we left. It's in the trunk with mine."

"Thank you Britt, I didn't even notice you grabbing it."

"You were loading the dishwasher and the girls were cleaning up the rest of the kitchen when I got there so I put everyone's bags in the car. I noticed your dance bag wasn't with the other bags so I ran upstairs and grabbed it."

Rachel smiles at her thoughtfulness, "Thank you Sweetie." Britt just beams and they get in the car and head toward the dance studio.

When they arrive and get inside Rachel notices that they already have everything set up for the stunt. She smiles as she and Britt show the girls where to sit while they go and change. When they come back they go over to the girls.

Rachel looks at them, "Ok, for the first run through you guys just sit here and watch to see what the final product looks like then we will break it down for you and teach it to you so that you can help Britt teach the others. This is a dangerous stunt but if done properly is marvelous to watch."

She's turns to walk away but San stops her. "Hey, querida? Who's your flier? I don't see very many smaller girls."

"We don't do many flier needed stunts, but when we do it's always me." She replies and Santana's eyes bug out of her head.

"Rachel no." Quinn grabs her hand, "Sweetie, your shoulder." She reminds her.

"It's ok. They won't touch it. They don't need to, they will be using my legs and torso the most for this." She tells them.

San finally finds her voice. "I don't care. A cheer routine is not worth your health hermosa. You have bruises all over your torso. I don't want you to get hurt." San grabs her in a hug and buries her head in Rachel's neck.

"Ok, listen. I promise if it starts bothering me we will stop. We have one other girl who is trained to do it but she doesn't do it as well. Like I said, it's dangerous and I don't want to risk someone else for a stunt that I created and was my idea that Britt uses it in your routine. I promise you if it starts to bother me I will stop. Ok?" She had lifted her head while she was talking and is looking into her eyes. "Trust me, please. I know what I'm doing. I have done these routines with worst injuries. Trust me." San nods her head defeated. Rachel looks to Quinn. Quinn nods but crosses her arms over her chest showing her displeasure.

Rachel turns and joins the others in the middle of the floor on the mats. They talk for a minute with the instructor while they stretch. Once they had properly stretched two sets of two bases form about twelve feet apart. Rachel moves off to the far edge of the mats. She gets a running start then does a one handed summer sault twisting herself in the air and landing in between the first base set. As she lands they use her forward momentum to flip toss her into the air toward the second base set. While in the air she does a triple twist with her body flipping so when she land she is on her back. She lands in between the second base set sitting in their arms as they use her momentum to flip her into the air in a backwards dismount. She land gracefully on the mat on the other side of them. It was one fluid movement with no pauses. It was seamless perfection. The whole dance troupe claps and Brittany is jumps up and down moving forward to hug the tiny diva.

Santana and Quinn just sit with their jaws on the floor until Rachel approaches them. "Sorry I was a bit rusty, haven't done that in a couple weeks. What did you think? Do you think it is something your bases and fliers can accomplish?"

San looks at Quinn trying to judge her reaction but the girl is just in shock so she addresses Rachel herself. "That was amazing querida. I had no idea you had something like that in your skill set. Oh my god that was great." She looks to Quinn. "We have four fliers and two backups, do you think any of them can do that? I mean our bases are pretty set and can do just about anything but the fliers would have to be spot on."

Quinn finally recovered thinks this over, "I think Rebecca and Stacy could do it. They have the most control, but we should let them all try it out to be on the safe side and to have backups that know how to do it. With some serious time and work I think they can do it." She smiles a full bodied smile turning to back to Rachel. "Teach us." Rachel just giggle grabbing their hands and leading them to the mats.

They spent the next hour of dance class teach the girls to be the second base set since Britt was already a part of the first base set.

When class was done for the day Rachel and the girls went to talk to the instructor. "Thank you so much for allowing us to intrude on your practice session." Quinn said to the lady.

She just laughs. "It was no problem. They just finished a competition last week and deserved a break. We will start fresh next week I think. I'm glad we could be of assistance. Let me know when your competition is. I would love to see that move done in double."

San just nods her head vigorously. "Of course. We would love to have you there." With that they all said their goodbyes changing clothes and headed to the car.

Rachel spoke up as they got into the car. "If you guys want you can call Samantha from the squad. I'm sure she wouldn't mind coming by this weekend if you guys want to practice some more. She is part of the troupe and is usually a part of the first base set. She had an appointment that she had to skip class for today. She knows I don't want anyone at school to know about me but probably wouldn't mind coming over if it's for the squad and she gets to be part of the stunt. I have mats in the garage that we can spread in the back yard."

"You're like Batman. Intelligent sexy nerd by day and super-secret sexy badass by night." San says with a giggle. Rachel just blushes and Britt giggles too.

Quinn just chuckles at her, "True that. That sounds like a plan Rach. I will text Sam when we get back to the house." Rachel just nods.

They headed to the store and loaded up on junk food. They also picked up a few more groceries since they were running out of food at the house.

They pulled into the drive and grabbed all the bags. Rachel turned to the girls as she opened the door. "Ok let's put the groceries away and take all our treasure to the media room. I have a pull down wall bed in there and two recliner couches and a refrigerator where we can store our junk food. We can veg out in there all weekend if we want when we are not practicing for Glee or Cheerio's." The others nodded excitedly and rushed in the kitchen to put away the groceries.

While the girls were putting things away Quinn texted Samantha

Quinn-Sam: Hey it's Quinn. Wanted to know if you could meet Britt, San and I this weekend to work on a new stunt for Cheerios?

Sam-Quinn: Sure, just let me know when and where, but why meet outside of school? We've never done that before.

Quinn-Sam: It needs to be a secret and we need your help for part of the stunt. You will be one part of the first base set for the stunt.

Sam-Quinn: Ok no problem when and where?

Quinn-Sam: 3795 Shalloway Dr. it's Rachel Berry's house. Be here at noon.

Sam-Quinn: OOOhhh, got it. That's why it's a secret. She doesn't like people outside of the troupe to know what she can do. No problem at all, if she's helping it must be one hell of a stunt.

Quinn-Sam: Ok thanks for your secrecy in this. We will see you tomorrow, and yes it is one hell of a stunt.

Sam-Quinn: Aye aye Cap see you then.

Quinn completed her conversation and looked to the others. "She's in. She will be here at noon. I figure that would let us sleep in and eat before she arrives." The others nodded and headed upstairs. The media room was in what used to be the attic but had been converted years ago. "My daddy had this made when I was in 6th grade and added and upgraded it when new home theater products came out. He spoiled me horribly. Dad always just shook his head good naturedly and did whatever daddy wanted spoiling him. I have added a few things myself over the last two years, including the popcorn maker. Before we just had a microwave for popcorn but I like the theater style kind. I even have vegan butter oil that Noah says taste just like the theater." They unloaded all their goodies, started some popcorn and went to change into sleep clothes. When they came back Rachel went to a wall and slid open a hidden door to reveal hundreds of movies. VHS and DVD's. "I also have lots of others downloaded to that computer over there that is hooked up to the projector as well."

The girls were speechless, staring in awe at the massive collection. San recovered first, "Oh my god. What did you do knock over a movie store?"

Rachel just giggled, "I told you I was spoiled. I didn't have any friend growing up so daddy overcompensated with things. He was my best friend." She said sadly looking away.

San came up and drew her into her arms. "I know you miss him. I wish I could have met him. He sounds so awesome from all you have told me about him."

Rachel squeezed back and pulled out of the hug. "Yes, he was amazing. Ok, no more sadness. We are supposed to be having fun, so you guys pick a movie and I will get the popcorn. Do you want to sit on the couch? We will all fit on one, or I can pull down the bed."

Quinn looked over to the crazy plush comfy looking couch. "I say we start out on the couch and go from there." The others nodded and they went about finding a movie.

San and Quinn talked the other girls into a horror movie marathon. Rachel and Britt protested but conceded to watching with them as long as cuddling for protection was allowed. They had a Nightmare on Elm Street marathon loading them into the 10 disk changer in order and eventually moved to the motorized king size wall bed. They all fell asleep curled around each other. Quinn and Rachel in the middle with the others flanking them. Rachel in San's arms Quinn wrapped around Rachel as per usual and Britt wrapped around Quinn. Rachel woke up at one point and just craned her neck looking around. It was a Rachel sandwich. She thought to herself as she curled back into Santana to go back to sleep, 'I could get used to this' and fell back to sleep with a contented sigh.

A/N: Next time more sleepover fun, cheer training, duet practice, and we meet Samantha. Just to give you a visual, Samantha is loosely based off the Missy Pantone Character on the original Bring it On movie. A badass gymnast with a small chip on her shoulder. Thanks again for your continued support and interest in my story.