An: No Shelby in this chapter. I'm sorry but she will be back in the next one.

In The Woods near Dalton

This is unbelievable and so stupid, Jesse thought to himself. He is chasing after a Freshman member,a newbie of Vocal Adrenaline, who keeps saying she is Shelby's daughter.

Shelby was a robot with no family. She lived and breathed coaching Vocal Adrenaline. There is no way she has a a daughter.

Jesse keeps running until he falls on an uprooted

"Motherfucker," Jesse yells n pain, he looks down to find his leg is gashed opened and blood was starting to drip out.

"Oh shut up," Rachel yells.

Jesse turns around to see Rachel wearing just her bra and shorts looking at him. He found himself glancing at her small figure. Her slight curves. What stood out the most was the bruising under her bra line and how her rib cage was starting to show. How there was a cut mark on her stomach. He actually feels like he wants to hold her and try to make everything better.

"Who did that to you," Jesse asks.

Rachel starts to walk away. Jesse gets up and starts walking towards her. He quickens his pace to catch up to her. He reaches out and grabs her wrist, turns her around and pulls her into a close embrace.

"Please tell me, This wasn't Shelby," Jesse says, "please."

"I cannot," Rachel whispers.

"How long has this been happening," Jesse asks.

"She was a good mom. The best actually. We used to sing Barbara and show tunes together," Rachel says, "about four years ago, after her first win as the Vocal Adrenaline Coach, something just clicked in her, that turned off the caring mom, who sang "let it be" by the Beatles, when I was having a bad day. She was always tough on me because she saw how amazing my singing was from a young age."

Jesse smiles because Rachel was a phenomenal singer.

"But, she forgot how to stop trying for perfection. The need for perfection has led to the abuse. How much do you practice."

"Umm, like 60 hours a week." Jesse says.

"That's adorable," Rachel says, " she has me doing Vocal Adrenaline practice, before I go to bed, I have to perform 100 perfect vocal runs and if she doesn't like them I have to start over again. Each morning, I wake up early because she makes me run to the school. I easily do triple the amount of hours then anyone on that team. I don't care if i'm only a freshmen."

Rachel sits down on a piece of log and puts her head between her legs. She breathes in and out.

"I'm so sorry," Jesse says, he used to think Shelby was a god, now he could only see her as the devil. "How about you come with me?"

Rachel raises her head, "no, no, no, no"

She stood up and started running again.

"Goddammit," Jesse yells after her.

Few Yards Away

Sebastian couldn't sleep knowing that Rachel, his future wife, was in the woods next to Dalton Academy all alone. Fuck, I have to do be a superhero and go rescue her, he thought. He didn't care if she was a member of one of their biggest competitors. He couldn't lose her. Sebastian tried to slowly to get out of his bed without waking up his roommate, Nick, but he failed.

"Dude, it's 1 a.m., where the fuck are you going," Nick groans half asleep.

"I'm going after Rachel," Sebastian says.

"In the woods," Nick asks, he doesn't let Sebastian answer, before he turns over and says, "make sure you wear a sweater, we don't need you to catch a cold."

Sebastian laughs as he grabs his Warbler Hoodie. Nick is basically the mother of the warblers. He takes good care of everyone. He makes sure no one was failing classes. He takes care of everyone when they were sick. Sebastian did notice Nick took extra care of Jeff. Everyone wrote it off because they are best friends, but he could tell it was deeper than that.

Sebastian goes down the stairs and pushes open a side door that wasn't alarmed. He starts walking for what felt like forever into the woods, when hears a man yell and is pushed off balance by a small figure.

"Rachel," a mystery voice yells, "stop,"

Sebastian sees a familiar curly hair boy coming towards him.

"Jesse," Sebastian asks with confusion.

"Can you please go get that girl," Jesse says, "I cannot keep running after her. I need to lock her up in some high tower."

Sebastian laughs as he runs after Rachel. He grabs by her waist and pulls her over his shoulder.

"Hey, let me down," Rachel says, hitting Sebastian's mid back.

Jesse runs to catch up to the two.

"Nice to see you, Jesse," Sebastian smirks as he puts Rachel down but makes sure he pushes her body against his with his arms wrapped around her.

"Can you let me go," Rachel says looking at Sebastian, "and how do you know each other."

"He's my cousin," Jesse says then looks at Sebastian, "I didn't realize your parents decided to move back to Ohio. What happened to Paris?"

"Mom wanted to be back home in America. Dad is still over there though," Sebastian says, "may i ask why are you following this amazing angel to my woods at 1 am."

"She ran off during practice and our coach was very concerned about her," Jesse says, trying not reveal too much.

Rachel breaks free again and looks at Sebastian. Sebastian looks at Rachel's body and sees the same bruises as Jesse did.

"Who did that to you," Sebastian asks, "I will murder the bastard boyfriend of yours."

" I don't have a boyfriend," Rachel says with a small smile. "It was my mom."

"Wait, what," Sebastian states, "why?"

"I'm not perfect enough of a performer or a daughter," Rachel says

"What do you mean performer," Sebastian says, "most parents clap and are amazed we didn't quit something after the first week."

Jesse laughs because it was true. He couldn't recall the last time his parents watched one of their shows or competitions. They were just glad that he had discipline and was doing something that wasn't ecstasy, like his older brother.

"Shelby Corcoran, our coach, is her mother," Jesse says.

Rachel just drops to the ground and breaks out in tears. Both boys go to help her, she then decides to push away from them and run away again.

"Fuck," Sebastian yells.

"Not again," Jesse yells.

Both boys being to run after her. Sebastian being the more athletic one, sprinted as hard as he could to reach her again. He pulls her into an embrace with her head against his chest.

"Stop, fucking doing that. Stop fucking running away," Sebastian says as he holds her tighter " we cannot help you, if you keep running away."

Jesse runs up to see Sebastian holding Rachel and basically threatening her. Which seemed on par to his cousins attitude but he was also being very tender with the small female.

Sebastian starts singing, 'lost boy, by Ruth B.', into Rachel's ear. Sebastian moves his hand to Rachel's neck to support it as he looks into her eyes as he finishes the song up, he kisses her forehead,"you and Jesse will stay with me tonight."

"I'm sure one of the warblers is a child of lawyer or social worker," Sebastian adds, "I don't want your mother to touch you ever again."

Sebastian pulls his hoodie off to reveal his 6 pack abs to the world. Rachel's eyes got wider. She took the sweater and put it over damaged body.

Sebastian's Dorm Room

The three of them then made the 30 minute trek back to Dalton Academy, where Sebastian opened up his door and waking up Nick.

"Either, i'm dreaming or we have a Rachel in our room and the male lead of Vocal Adrenaline," Nick says.

Sebastian flips the light on.

"Fuck it, man," Nick groans trying to shield his eyes.

"Not dreaming, turns out Jesse here, My cousin by the way, was sent to look for Rachel by Shelby. Shelby is the Vocal Adrenaline coach and her mom." Sebastian stops talking when they all watch Rachel basically kick Nick out of his bed.

"This is nice," Rachel says, "nice and soft. Smells great too." she looks at Nick, "I like your shampoo."

"Thank you," Nick says confused, Rachel then nuzzles her head on his lap and falls asleep. Nick looks down at the small girl's bruised body

"What the hell is going on," Nick whispers.

"It's complicated," Jesse says.

"No it's not," Sebastian says, "her mom has been abusing her."

Nick was very careful to get Rachel's head off of his legs and into his bed onto his pillow. He then stood up.

"I will talk to Jeff in the morning his aunt is a foster mom," Nick says," least she had been in the past. He maybe be able to get information for her."

Nick goes towards the door.

"Where are you going," Sebastian asks.

"I'm sleeping in the warbler practice room," Nick says. Nick then shuts the door.

"Well that was dramatic," Jesse says.

"Says the king of drama," Sebastian says.

"I need to get going, morning practice is in three hours," Jesse says, " can you watch her for me,"

Sebastian nods his head. Jesse gets up and walks over to Rachel, whose body is facing him. He leans over to kiss her on the forehead and say goodnight.

Rachel in her sleep tips her head up, so their lips touch. Rachel's eyes shoot open. All three of them were shocked about what just happened. Jesse steps back from Shock. He looks over to Sebastian, who for some reason looks pissed off for what had just happened.

"Rachel," Jesse says,," I have to go back to Akron but you are staying here with Sebastian, he's my cousin, and he maybe a cocky bastard but I trust him."

"Okay," Rachel says,

Jesse then left to go back to Akron to talk with Shelby at their morning lead's practice. Sebastian then takes off his sweatpants leaving him in his boxers and crawls into his bed. It wasn't long until Rachel gets up and cuddles next to him.

"Thank you," Rachel says., as she falls back to sleep.

An:hopefully you like this update. I had the idea of making Jesse and Sebastian cousins and i just went with if.