Chapter 2: So Emotional
It's been two hours since the two girls arrived at the Berry house and they are still fighting about the song choice. Santana has been insulting her in English and Spanish. Also throwing in a lot of 'no me gusta's toward Rachel. Rachel has been ranting towards Santana every time Santana has said no to every song she picked. She is trying hard to keep her anger in check because she knows it will get her no where with Santana but she is getting on her last straw.
"Obviously Mr. Shue made a mistake pairing us together," Santana looked at Rachel rolling her eyes when Rachel held up sheet music for 'Nowadays' from Chicago. "He didn't realize that working with a Hobbit was like trying to get a dog to fly. It's impossible. You make want to stick forks into my eyes and ears just so I can pretend I'm not around you."
"You know what Santana? Working with you isn't a piece of cake either. You are an insensitive, selfish, ignorant bitch," as soon as Rachel said it she covered her mouth. "I'm so sorry Santana, I didn't mean-"
Santana cut her off by standing up and walking closer to her, making Rachel flinch back and cover her face, expecting Santana to slap her. Soon Rachel hears clapping and looks up to see its coming from Santana, who is wearing a smirk, "Well damn Berry. I didn't think you had it in you to say something like that to anyone, especially me."
"I'm really sorry Santana. I didn't mean it. Please don't hit me," Rachel rushed, backing up.
Santana laughed, "I'm not going to hit you Berry. It was kind of funny hearing you say something insulting to me."
Rachel slowly dropped her hands, staring at her, "so you aren't going to hit me?"
"Not this time but you say something like that again I'll go all Lima Heights on your ass," Santana warned as she sat back down on the bed.
"Noted," Rachel replied thickly and heard a knock on her door. She went over and opened it, "hi daddy."
Hiram stuck his head into the room, "Hey baby girl. Your father and I brought home some take out if you want to come downstairs and eat."
"OK daddy, we will be down in a minute," Rachel smiled at him before closing the door.
Rachel turned to see Santana grabbing her jacket, "Well I should get going."
The diva raised an eyebrow, "You don't want to stay for dinner? Maybe after we can keep arguing until we find a song that suits the both of us."
"Are you sure you want an insensitive, selfish, ignorant bitch having dinner with your parents," Santana looked at her, amusement written on her face.
Rachel flinched at the insult from a few minutes ago, "Yeah. Maybe it will help me assuage my guilt."
Santana shrugged and put her jacket back down, "I'm staying for the free food, not to help you with your guilt." She walked out of Rachel's room and started walking downstairs.
Rachel laughed and followed the Latina down the stairs. As they hit the bottom, Rachel looked at her, "Oh, and it's vegan."
Santana scrunched her nose in disgust, "why is is vegan?"
"Because I'm a vegan," Rachel reminded her.
"Wait really?" Santana looked at her, not remembering that fact.
Rachel nodded and walked into the dining room, "Hi dad, daddy. This is my," she looked at Santana before turning back to her fathers, "Teammate from the glee club, Santana."
Santana put her hand out towards the diva's fathers and smiled, "hi, nice to meet you Mr. and Mr. Berry."
"Please call us Hiram and Leroy, Mr. Berry sounds too formal. It's nice to finally meet a friend of our Rachel, she never has anyone over," Hiram smiled at Santana, shaking her hand.
"She's not my friend. We were just paired together," Rachel said before Santana could say anything else. "And could you please not go around telling everyone I have no friends." She walked into the kitchen to get dishware to set the table.
Santana smiled politely at her fathers, "I should go help her." Santana followed her into the kitchen, "So you have no friends Berry?"
Rachel sighed and pulled four plates down from a cabinet, "You know I have no friends Santana. Except maybe Kurt and Mercedes but we don't talk much outside of school. You know everyone hates me. Can you grab cups please?"
Santana grabbed four cups out of the cupboard Rachel pointed to, "I didn't think you didn't have any friends, I thought it was just Quinn and I who hate you."
"Yeah, well no, everyone does," Rachel grabbed forks and knives, before taking them out to the dining room and laying them out. Santana followed her and put the cups down.
Rachel walked back in to grab something else and Santana turned to Leroy, "So she never had friends over."
Leroy shook his head, "She never brings anyone home and doesn't talk about anyone from school."
"She sits home most days after she gets done with school," Hiram said then quieted as Rachel came back in with a pitcher of juice.
They all sat at the table and started eating. Hiram looked at Santana, "So you said you and Rach got paired together in Glee club. What's the assignment."
"Well Mr. Shue put us into pairs based on the fact if we hadn't done a duet together and he didn't think we would ever do a duet together," Santana explained to him.
"Yeah, but Santana and I can't agree on anything to perform," Rachel told them.
"Your father and I were listening to this song in the car, what was it?" Leroy looked at his husband.
"'So Emotional' by Whitney Houston," Hiram supplied.
Rachel and Santana looked at each other and nodded, "That sounds perfect."
They spent the rest of the dinner talking about different things going on at school. After Santana and Rachel cleaned up and did the dishes. While they were cleaning Rachel looked at Santana, "Why are you helping and being so nice to my fathers?"
"Well despite popular belief I'm not always a bitch," Santana said. "I'm not going to be rude to someone in their own home, you excluded from that of course unless your fathers are around. And I am helping because they provided me with food so it's only right that I repay them in some way."
Once they were done they went up to Rachel's room and sat on her bed. Santana looked at her, "Well since we have our song what do you want to do now?"
Rachel shrugged, "you can go home or watch a movie with me, I don't really care."
Santana looked at her for a few seconds. She did feel kind of bad that Rachel never had anybody over to hang out with. So she bit her lip and answered, "What movie do you want to watch?"
Rachel stood and went to her movies, "Most of my movies are musicals but I know you don't like those so I can go downstairs and see if my dads have anything.
"If you want to watch a musical that's fine. How about Chicago? It's probably one of the only musicals I like because they are a bunch of convicts that killed the dumb men in their lives," Santana smirked as she got into a comfortable sitting position on the bed.
"Of course that's why you like it," Rachel laughed and shook her head. She put the movie in and went to sit next to Santana but she moved across the entire bed. "Really?"
"I'm just trying to get comfortable," Santana looked at her.
Rachel rolled her eyes and put her hands on her hips, "I'll sit on you if you don't get on your side of the bed."
Santana laughed and rolled over to the other side of the bed, "well I wouldn't want the Diva to be uncomfortable."
"Thank you," Rachel sat on the bed and started watching the movie. The opening number was always one of her favorites. 'All That Jazz' was a good, fun and upbeat song to start the movie with.
When they got to the part where the execute the Hungarian women, Santana looked at Rachel, "I have never understood why they kill her and no body else. I thought she was innocent. Unless in 'Cell Block Tango' she is admitting to killing the man."
"Do you not know what she said in that song?" Rachel looked at her and when she shakes her head, Rachel tells her, "Hunyak says, 'what am I doing here? They said my famous lover held down my husband while I chopped off his head. But it isn't true, I am innocent. I don't know why Uncle Sam says I did it. I tried to explain at the police station but they didn't understand me.' That's why she had the white handkerchief."
Santana nodded, "that's brutal but it still doesn't explain why they kill her."
Rachel shrugged, "because they couldn't understand her they just said she was guilty."
"Well that sucks," they fell into silence after that. Once it was over Santana stood, "Well I should be heading home. See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow," Rachel stood and went into the bathroom to start her nightly ritual.
Santana walked downstairs, "goodnight Mr- Hiram and Leroy. Thank you for dinner."
The men looked up from their places on the couch, "It was a pleasure to have you over. Hopefully you'll come back again."
"We'll see," Santana smiled. "Maybe."
"Goodnight Santana," they responded with a smile before turning back to the TV.
Santana walked out and went home. Maybe she could be friends with Berry but that was still a big maybe.
The next day Santana walked up to Kurt and Mercedes who were talking by their lockers before class started, "hey Lady Hummel, Wheezy, I need to talk to you."
Kurt rolled his eyes, "What do you want Satan? Have you killed Rachel yet?"
Santana crossed her arms, "No I didn't killed Man-Hands but I do want to talk you about her."
Mercedes raised an eyebrow at her, "Why would you want to talk about her? You hate her."
"True, but yesterday I went to her house and her fathers told me something so I want to do one nice thing in my life and help her," Santana rolled her eyes.
Kurt grabbed Mercedes and feigned shock, "I am going to have a heart attack."
"Fine, forget it. I'll let her keep being a sad pathetic loser," Santana started walking away.
"Wait don't go," Kurt looked at Santana.
"How do you plan on helping her?" Mercedes asked.
Santana looked at them for a second, "So I know you guys kind of hang out with her here but when I went to her place yesterday to work on the glee assignment and her dads said something to me. Apparently I was the first person Rachel has hung out with after school in a long time. Then Rachel said that she has no friends because everyone hates her."
Mercedes and Kurt frowned, Kurt shook his head, "wait seriously?" When Santana nodded he continued, "that's sad but I'm not sure why you are sharing this with us."
Santana sighed, "I want you guys to invite her to hang out with you guys, you know become real friends with her."
Mercedes looked at Kurt then nodded at her, "Fine, we will do it."
Santana grinned, "Great." She started to walk but turned around and warned, "Don't tell anyone about this conversation especially Rachel or I will kill both of you." With that she walked away.
"I guess we should go find Rachel," Kurt said after she left.
"Yeah. I'm surprised that Santana wanted to help her," Mercedes said as they started walking towards Rachel's locker.
Kurt nodded as he followed, "I wonder what she gains from this."
Mercedes shrugged as they walked up to Rachel, "Hey Rach, what's up girl?"
Rachel looked at them as she shut her locker, "Hey Mercedes, Kurt. Nothing's up. What about you two?"
"Nothing much, we were just wondering if you wanted to come hang out with us after school. Have a little girl talk," Kurt looked at her as they all started walking.
"Oh um sure. If you are sure you want to hang out with me," Rachel shrugged trying to sound nonchalant but they could here the hope in her voice.
"We are sure. We will come by your house after school. Is that cool?" Mercedes asked.
"Yeah that's fine," Rachel smiled at them. "I'll see you later."
"See you later," they walk away and go to class.
In glee everyone was sitting in their seats, most sitting next to their partners. Mr. Shue walked in with Miss Pillsbury and began, "alright. Miss Pillsbury will be judging with me so it is fair. So lets get this started Puck and Tina you are up first up."
They stood and Airplanes by B.o.B started. When they had finished they all clapped for the group. "Good job guys. That was a great first performance, you all have something to beat," Mr. Shue applauded.
"Yeah well it's OK because Berry and I will blow everyone else out of the water," Santana shrugged, crossing her arms.
"And how do you figure that Santana?" Finn looked at her, rolling her eyes.
"Because Finnocence, I'm hot and I have a great voice and I guess Berry has a good voice and we will make the rest of you look like tone deaf whales," Santana told him.
"Well be prepared to lose because Blaine and I have picked out a great song and we will kick your ass," Finn retorted.
Santana scoffed, "Well Potato Sack, unless you and Gay Man have some magical powers, the Midget and I are going to kill you."
"Alright Santana that's enough. Can we just finish today please?" Rachel said from next to her.
Santana looked at her and sighed, "Fine. I'll stop. For now."
A lot of people gave shocked looks at the pair but Mr. Shue continued before anyone else could say anything else, "Alright. Next is Quinn and Kurt."
The two stood and went up to the front. The pair did Irreplaceable by Beyonce and when they finished everyone gave them their well deserved applause. They actually sounded really good together.
"OK so those are the only two groups going today. Blaine and Finn and Artie and Sam will be going tomorrow," Mr. Shue told them. "But those were great performances today."
Everyone stood and started walking out. Santana looked at Rachel, "hey, want to rehearse today?"
Rachel looked at her as Kurt and Mercedes walked toward them, "I would but I'm hanging out with Kurt and Mercedes today. I'm sorry."
"No it's good. We don't really need to rehearse anyways, we are just too bad ass," Santana joked as they four of them kept walking.
"You got the ass part right," Finn said as he passed them.
Santana rolled her eyes, "We weren't talking about your face."
"Santana," Rachel warned her. "And Finn just stop. This is getting old."
Santana crossed her arms and didn't say anything else but Finn smirked, "Have fun losing." He then walked out of the school.
"Next time he says something just know I'll go all Lima Heights on his ass," Santana shrugged before walking away, calling out, "I'll see you tomorrow Berry."
The other three kept walking to Kurt's car and Mercedes was the first to speak, "What the Hell was that Rach?"
"What are you talking about?" Rachel looked at her.
"Santana actually listened to you when you told her to stop. Twice," Mercedes looked at her.
Kurt nodded, "She isn't acting like herself."
Rachel shrugged, "I don't know what to tell you. I'm surprised myself. Last night I called her an insensitive, selfish, ignorant bitch and she didn't even insult me."
Kurt raised his eyebrows, "She got you to swear? She's even more infuriating than I thought."
Rachel laughed and shook, "Yeah. She also watched Chicago with me. And she hates musicals."
"Damn, are you sure that it was Santana?" Mercedes laughed.
Rachel shrugged, "She probably doesn't want to fight with me until after our performance. She will probably return to her normal viscous self after the performance."
"Probably," the other two agreed before getting into the car and they drove to Rachel's house. Rachel was just happy she was finally getting some friends. She doesn't show it, but she really does get lonely.
Alright so there is the second chapter. I hope you all like it. I thought I would get in some Kurt and Mercedes because I love the both of them. Anyways review and follow. I'll post the third one in a few more days.