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Chapter 5

SPOV

She's enraged. How could people not be seeing this? Oh, that's right, they're all teenagers wrapped up in their own drama to not notice that the schools brightest star was quickly burning out. Like when a real star burns out but nobody on Earth knows for about 4 years. What? She's smart and hot shit. By the time the rest of these idiots even know something is wrong it'll be too late. Or at least if her observations over the last two weeks is anything to go by.

She, Britts, and Quinn have been watching her constantly for the last two weeks. They'd watch her from the time she got to school to the time that the girls had to go home for dinner. Keeping an eye on her throughout the day, follow her home if they didn't have Cheerios or Glee, drive by after if they did, and drive by on the way to school. She's worried now. Britts was right and now she's freaking the fuck out. Her tiny star is going to go out soon if she doesn't make a move so she's going over what she, Q, and B has seen right now and then she's going to come up with a more in depth plan to get Rachel to let her and possibly Q and B in. She does not want to fucking find out that the star has gone out 4 years after the fact.

Their observations were as such:

1. Rachel never went anywhere without her iPod. It was almost always on and in her ears. Like if she couldn't hear everyone else or notice them, they wouldn't notice her.

2. She wasn't talking unless specifically called on by the teacher or approached first. This probably worries Santana the most. Getting people to open up is a bitch, especially if you've been a bitch to them, but getting people to open up who don't speak is a whole other story. Someone who used to be so vocal should never be so quiet.

3. She doesn't sing anymore. Even though she's got a constant stream of music she doesn't sing, or even mouth the words.

4. She's like a fucking ninja. There one second and gone the next. The girl could disappear into the crowd so fast that it made observing her feel like a fucking Olympic event. If she wasn't so fucking in love with the girl she would have given up after the first week. Quinn had wanted to but Britts had talked her back into it, all the while mumbling about Q being Velma or something.

5. She doesn't eat lunch in the cafeteria anymore or eat lunch at all. This one took about a week to figure out. After she realized that Rachel wasn't in the cafeteria she followed her to see where she goes. She followed Rachel out to the baseball field's dugout. Apparently Rachel seemed to like it. It was just past the football field, the farthest thing from the school while still being on school grounds, and absolutely nobody was out there. Rachel would go out there and just sit and listen to music. Sometimes she would rub her stomach for, what seemed longer than normal, and stare at her backpack like it held all the secrets in the world. She never ate. Santana never once saw Rachel pull out a lunch from her bag. Maybe she has an eating disorder. The tiny diva was looking rather small. Well, smaller than usual.

6. Britts was the only person to be openly nice to Rachel. She'd go up and ask her about her day or a certain class if she caught her by her locker. Rachel would answer in the politest, fastest way possible before quickly making an escape. All without being mean to Brittany at all.

7. Nobody was seeking the girl out to talk to her except the glee club. And all of the ones who did seek her out only yelled at her. Weirdly the girl almost always went to the bathroom immediately afterwards. She had wanted to go in after her but figured that would have given what she was doing away. Which leads to her next point.

8. The bathroom. She didn't know what Rachel was doing in there but she'd go in there looking either pissed as shit or like a robot. B said that she sometimes looked really anxious too, like she really needed to be in that bathroom ASAP. And we all know that Britts is always right on the people front. Then she'd come out looking much calmer and like it was easier to breathe. Perhaps even relieved?

9. None of them ever saw anyone's car in the tiny diva's driveway except for her own. And they drove by a lot. Basically anytime she got in her car she drove by Rachel's house, even if it was out of her way. Britts and Quinn would drive by too but not as frequently as Santana did. None of them ever saw anyone else's car there. Which made them all wonder, where in the world were her dad's? It made her feel like she was an ACME agent hunting down Carmen Sandiego. Was the tiny diva always alone?

10. Tiny diva is clearly not sleeping if the bags under her eyes are anything to go by. She wonders what Rachel is doing at night if she isn't sleeping. She wants to believe it something like homework or singing but she has a feeling that it's nothing pleasant.

11. Rachel likes to sit of the roof of her house. Quinn has seen her several times out there looking at the sky while out running. Why is she out there?

12. She flinches when people touch her. It's very subtle but it's there. She noticed it when she caught her in the bathroom after her last slushie.

Even with all of this Santana couldn't figure out what had caused it. She doesn't know what the root of the problem is but she knows she's not going to like it. People don't change this drastically or this negatively if it isn't something huge and bad. She feels like she's watching Lost. She's got all this information and 42 new goddamn questions. Quinn suggested getting in touch with Coach Corcoran. She said that since she's the girl's mother maybe she could get some answers out of her. Santana thought it was a horrible idea. Coach Corcoran had walked away from Rachel before and San had a feeling that if she did so again then that would be the last straw for Rachel.

Instead, come this Monday, Santana has decided that they were going to move out of the observation stage of her operation. Next up: get Britts to befriend the girl while her and Quinn are both equally as nice to Rachel.