Rachel felt her whole world stop as she heard his voice vibrate through out the choir room. She could feel her hands shake and her stomache churn with each word that came out of his mouth. She was scared, she wanted to run far far away, but at the same time she was struck with uncontrollable fear, like a trapped animal in a cage.
"So Will, I was just talking to Figgins and he sees no problem in giving you back your show choir priveledges."Replies Ryan hatefully as he rudely plopped into Will's desk chair.
Will could only roll his eyes at the arrogant man but soon relief replaced that annoyance at the news, his glee club was still moving full speed ahead with no interruptions. His celeration was cut short by curiousity as he stared at the man before him.
"Why all the sudden are we all systems go. What's the catch?" Will asked curiously as he crossed his arms over his chest.
Bryan only smiled and threw his hands in the air, standing from the chair he walked near to where Rachel was sitting. "Well after seeing the talent and devotion from some of your students, It was easy to see that this club had much potential. Why screw up a good thing?Right guys?" Bryan said loudly to the glee kids who then began to whoot, cheer and clap.
Rachel still sat in silence, she could feel the bile in her throat threaten to leave her mouth. Rachel jumped up from her chair and ran from the room, trying to run from the questioning looks from her friends, the smell of Bryan's cologne and the memory of his hands on her scared trembling body.
She ran into the girl's restroom emptying her tossing stomache into the porcelain toliet. She could feel her heart race and wished then and there she could just curl up and die. She continued to purge as she remembered the smile of defeat as he broke her, the satisfaction in his voice as he stood so close to her, the pain that continued to throb in her center.
Soon a knock could be heard on her stall, she froze unable to answer, frightened it was the very man that lead her to be in this stall, hurling. Soon the worried voice of Will Schuester echoed in the empty restroom, "Rachel are you ok?"
Rachel let out a deep breathe she didn't realize she was holding flushing the toliet and standing weakly on her shaking legs she unlocked the stall door allowing it to fall open to reveal a worried looking glee coach. Rachel could tell her appearance did not help matters. Her hair was disheveled and uncombed, her face was a sickly pale and her body was covered with big jeans and an oversized McKinley High sweatshirt.
"Rachel what's wrong? What happened?" Will asked gently as he reached a hand forward to rest upon her shrunken shoulder.
Rachel could see his hand moving forward and fear gripped her sore body, she could see Bryan's hand instead of 's. She screamed and ran past him toward the sink, obviously frightened. "Please don't touch me…don't touch me!" Rachel yelled panickly as she began to cry.
Will stood in a scared silence, never had he seen someone especially Rachel so frightened before. This was not his Rachel. So he just took a few steps backto show her he meant no harm,and watched as she stared dejectedly to the ground, tears fell from her brown eyes.
"Rachel, can you tell me what's wrong?" Will asked slowly as if not to startle her.
Rachel only shook her head in disagreement very slowly as she continued to stare at the floor and soak it in her tears.
"Ok can you tell me who made you feel this way?" Will asked desperatly trying to get a response from her.
He was rewarded when her head shot up and her eyes became big in panic, she shook her head furiously. "Stop it, just stop it? Just let me die ok I just want to die...I can't or he'll come back he promised...he'll know please just leave me alone." Rachel cried furiously as she ran from the bathroom and away from a bewildered Will Schuester.
By the time he could process the fear and flight of Ms. Rachel Berry, she was far gone. He sprinted around the hwole school searching for the crying girl, finally he checked the student parking lot. Her black VW bug gone from the crowded parking lot.
"Shit!" Will whispered harshly as he let the heavy school door close behind him.
He waited impatiently for 3 o'clock, the vision of her dark eyes and tears shook him to his very core. He has seen her sad, he has seen her cry but never had he seen her so small, vulnerable and scared shitless.
The bell rang loudly announcing it was now the end of the day, he was out the door faster than most of his students. He jumped in his car throwing his bags in the bag, starting it up he raced to his fina destination. Rachel's house.