I'm so sorry for taking so long to get this up. I was thinking about what to do with it, and then I had too many ideas for my tiny brain, but anyway here is chapter 5, I hope you enjoy it!
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Chapter 5
Rachel's car
The drive to Quinn's house was short, it was only about 15 minutes away from the school. About three minutes into the silence Quinn spoke up,
"Do you have any music? I mean I guess I would be highly surprised if you didn't."
Rachel let out a sigh of relief, she normally listened to her Broadway mix, but didn't want to force Quinn to listen to it after being blown off by her date; it just didn't sound like something Quinn would want.
"Yes, I do. I thought I might blow up if someone didn't start singing in the next few minutes." Rachel replied with a small laugh which made Quinn smile. "Uh, there are some CD's in the console."
Quinn pulled open the console and found a bunch of CD cases, either of Broadway musicals, Rock bands, and some pop artists. She looked through the cases, counting at least 15 different ones, and picked up a mix, that was almost certainly made by Rachel.
"I only see like four musical songs on here, that's strange isn't it?"
"Well, contrary to popular belief I don't only listen to musicals. Though they are my go-to," Rachel giggled slightly and Quinn gave her a big smile, making Rachel blush a little,"- anyway, just turn it on."
Quinn did as told, which surprised Rachel that she didn't even make a smart remark about her being bossy, but there would be plenty of times for that to happen later in there friendship.
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For the next 10 minutes, Quinn and Rachel sat in the car laughing and singing along to the songs.
Two of the four songs that played were love songs, and hearing Quinn sing those songs, sing them while looking at her, made her feel a certain way she couldn't explain. All she knew was she felt happy in this moment, and she completely forgot what had happened in the auditorium only 18 minutes prior.
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They stopped outside of Quinn's house, and Quinn opened the car door, hopping out and messing with her cheerleading skirt, trying to seem more presentable.
"Thank you for taking me home Rachel." She said with a small smile, and before Rachel could say anything Quinn closed the car door and waved goodbye before heading off to her house.
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Rachel was at home now, she walked into her bedroom, closed the door and face planted onto her bed.
Stupid, stupid, stupid… She thought to herself.
Why couldn't I just have told her, just said "oh by the way, your boyfriend tried to cheat on you with me earlier, he kissed me, and lied to you. But it's okay because even though I kissed back then I pulled away and told him no."...Yeah maybe it wasn't a good idea for Rachel to tell her, not yet at least.
Rachel sighed as she sat up. She felt like an idiot, and a jerk, how could she do this to Quinn? Well, it would be quite easy to keep that a secret, but she did not want to do that, she wanted to tell Quinn the truth, but she was scared of what might happen if she didn't explain it right, if she didn't make sure Quinn knew that Rachel had no intent on hurting her, and didn't want Finn to cheat on Quinn. Like sure, Rachel had a huge crush on Finn, some might have called it love, he was tall, cute, popular, strong, and he believed in her. It was all she wanted, but she wouldn't try to steal Finn away from Quinn. She knew even if Quinn was a little pushy and sometimes controlling of Finn, she did have genuine feelings for the boy. She wasn't going to be the one to hurt Quinn, she never wanted to do that to her. They may not have been friends for long, but she still cared about Quinn.
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The next day- Thursday
Glee Club
Quinn was sitting next to Rachel and Finn was on her other side. She felt an odd tension between the two but thought nothing of it. She held Finn's hand that was uncomfortably sweaty and listened to Tina and Kurt sing If I Had You- by Adam Lambert.
It was...strange to say the least, but they sounded good so the class clapped and even sang along to parts of the song; although, others singing during what was supposed to be a duet was probably not what they were supposed to do, but that never stopped the club.
Mr. Shue said some encouraging and nice words to the two before letting Mercedes and Brittney take the floor.
"We went with a different style then we would normally sing, because I guess we still believe the words in the song." Mercedes stated, and then Brittney nodded before adding,
"Yeah, but I still like money. It tastes weird." To which everyone gave her a weird look but they just went into the song and sang Price Tag- by Jessie J.
It was finally time for Quinn and Rachel's duet. They stood and walked up to the front of the class, Rachel giving a small speech about the song, and how much she thought Mr. Shue's assignment was a great idea, to which everyone else just scoffed or mumbled 'suck up'. This didn't deter either girl, they had spent the whole lunch period practicing, singing, and dancing. They had even met up before school to practice a little, but that lasted 10 minutes before Quinn had to go to cheerleading practice. The Blonde just smiled at everyone before the music of What the hell- by Avril Lavigne began playing.
Quinn:
You say that I'm messing with your head
Rachel:
(Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah)
Quinn
All 'cause I was making out with your friend
Rachel:
(Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah)
Love hurts whether it's right or wrong
(Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah)
I can't stop 'cause I'm having too much fun
Rachel + some of the Glee girls:
(Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah)
Just Rachel:
You're on your knees
She sang while flawlessly falling to her knees in front of Quinn, and although they had practiced before, seeing Rachel on the ground staring into her eyes as she sang the next part made her blush a bit. Just a bit.
Begging, Please
Stay with me
But honestly
I just need to be
A little crazy
Rachel threw her head around wildly, her hair going everywhere.
Both girls:
All my life I've been good
But now
I'm thinking, what the hell?
All I want is to mess around
And I don't really care about
Rachel:
If you love me
Rachel moved around Quinn in a circle, grinning.
Quinn:
If you hate me
You can't save me
Quinn copied Rachel, moving around her in a circle with a playful look in her eyes and a smirk on her face.
Both:
Baby, baby
All my life I've been good
But now
What the hell?
Rachel:
What?
Quinn:
What?
Rachel:
What?
Quinn:
What the hell?
Rachel:
So what if I go out on a million dates?
You never call or listen to me anyway
I'd rather rage than sit around and wait all-day
Don't get me wrong, I just need some time to play
Rachel was smiling and as she shoved Quinn to her knees gently, with a playful gleam in her eyes.
Quinn:
You're on your knees
Begging, please
Stay with me
But honestly
I just need to be
A little crazy
Quinn did a similar head shake, letting the hair that came out of her ponytail bounce around. There was a wild look in her eyes that made Rachel blush slightly, bringing a smile to Quinn's face.
Both:
All my life I've been good,
But now
I'm thinking, what the hell?
All I want is to mess around
And I don't really care about
Whole Glee Club Joins in:
If you love me
If you hate me
You can't save me
Baby, baby
All my life I've been good
But now
What the hell?
Quinn:
La, la, la, la, la, la
Whoa, whoa
La, la, la, la, la, la
Whoa, whoa
Rachel:
You say that I'm messing with your head
Boy, I like messing in your bed
Yeah, I am messing with your head when
I'm messing with you in bed
Both Girls:
All my life I've been good,
But now
I'm thinking, what the hell?
All I want is to mess around
And I don't really care about
All my life I've been good,
But now
I'm thinking, what the hell?
All I want is to mess around
And I don't really care about
They were basically just jumping around now.
(If you love me)
Rachel:
If you love me
Quinn:
If you hate me
You can't save me
Rachel:
Baby, baby
(If you love me)
All my life I've been good
But now
What the hell?
La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
They finished with Rachel pressed against Quinn in a kind of embrace, with Quinn's arm around her waist, and Rachel staring at the crowd.
Everyone cheered for them, because they sounded amazing. Rachel bowed and thanked them all, trying, and failing, to be humble.
"Great performance, all of you, I'm so glad you took this assignment by the horns and pulled, taking charge." Mr. Shue said it with so much confidence and enthusiasm, but it still made little to no sense.
"Um, anyways, that just leaves me and Finn, we will do our performance tomorrow, leave you all with something for the weekend." He finally finished with a smile and then said that class was dismissed.
Almost everyone was out of the class, except for Rachel, Quinn, Santana, Brittney, Finn, and Mr. Shue and Brad. Quinn had asked Rachel to stay so they could talk, Santana, Brittney, and Finn were probably waiting on Quinn, and Mr. Shue and Brad were talking about songs. Mainly Mr. Shue was talking to Brad, Rachel was pretty sure she heard Brad talk aa total of two times her whole high school experience so far.
"Hey B, S, Finn? I've gotta do something, you mind waiting for me outside?" Quinn asked.
Finn just nodded, but gave Rachel and nervous, maybe a little scared, look, before heading out of the classroom.
"Okay, but don't take too long, Coach will have us running for hours while she throws rocks at us if we are late again. So if you aren't out in two minutes, you can bet your pretty ass me and Britt are leaving you to get punished along."
"Ooo, Quinn's gonna play the punishment game, can I play too? San you said you wouldn't play that with someone other thainommm-" Brittney had started but was quickly muffled by Santana pulling her out of the room with her hand over the taller girl's mouth mumbling about how she wasn't supposed to say certain things in front of people. This just made Quinn and Rachel laugh.
"Wait, does Coach Slyvester actually throw rocks at you guys?" Rachel asked with genuine concern. Quinn just shrugged, but there was a slight shiver that Rachel saw go through her body.
"Among other things. Anyway, I didn't ask you here to talk about Coach, I asked you here to talk about our friendship. I think we should tell people about it, or I mean, I think we should just let it be a public thing. Hiding it is stupid, I don't care...that much, about what people have to say. Plus joining Glee club, at least I'm more used to people hating on me so we'll be fine." Quinn said all this with a hopeful smile on her face, and Rachel really wanted to agree that it was a great idea. But she couldn't, not yet. Not with the secret.
"Okay...How about er How about we wait till Monday. We can let everyone talk about the football game all weekend and how awesome the Cheerios performance was, and then we can walk into school together. It will be great. That sound okay?" Rachel proposed, and Quinn nodded.
"Sounds like a plan. See you tomorrow! Oh, and please come to the game, I know it's not exactly your thing, but I'd love to see you there." Quinn said with a smiled and left the room, hurrying off to Cheerios practice.
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Rachel had a foolproof plan. After the football game, she would tell Quinn what really happened between her and Finn, that way Quinn was already disappointed in the football game, that they would most certainly lose, so the news wouldn't be making her upset as it would if she was already happy about winning the game, instead it would just make her extra upset. Okay so it wasn't exactly a foolproof plan, there were many fools that could come afoot, but it was all she had. And that was better than nothing, because at least she had a plan.
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So a lot is gonna happen in the next chapter, and the one after. Hope you guys are enjoying this, thank you all for the support. Have a good week!