Chapter 2

For the first time in her high school life Rachel drove her own car, not really a fan of driving but she wanted to get out and her fathers were too busy to drive her. She pulled into the vacant parking space in front of school and gathered her things from the passenger side before she got out of the car. Rachel is not even surprised when a lot of eyes look at her, first because instead of wearing her usual clothes for school, she's wearing low waist denim jeans, white t-shirt and doll shoes and second she's driving a Shelby Cobra. It was a birthday gift from her cousin for her 16th Birthday, her fathers are right; things will get better sooner or later. A week after her emotional breakdown, her fathers talked to her about school and they discussed the possibility of transferring her to the school of her choice and she couldn't be more grateful on the outcome of their discussion. Her fathers already arranged everything that she needed; they will be traveling to Switzerland tomorrow to visit the school, they will be staying there for two weeks. One more month, and she's out of this school, she's not really happy but this matter should be decided upon.

As she walked to her locker, the brunette still felt the gaze of her schoolmates as if she had something on her face, but she doesn't care anymore, soon enough she will be gone from this school. When she reached her locker she started putting her things inside so that when school finishes she will just put everything into her spare bag and leave. Before she even closed her locker she looked at the picture fixed inside and smiled unconsciously, it was the Glee picture for their yearbook. Rachel looked at everyone, it seems that they all got along. She hoped it was true but well things can't always be the way we want it to happen, there's always more to it than meets the eye.

Upon reaching lunch the brunette had already made 'to do' lists on what things she needed for her new school, as she had made an extensive research about the school and the country. Currently she has five electives of course that's music, drama class, foreign language (Portuguese and French) and Lacrosse. She doesn't even know that she was smiling just thinking alone about lacrosse, can't even imagine herself playing the game but she is willing to learn whatever it takes, though she's not really a fan of sports but she wanted to do something new. For the last week she has managed to be herself in front of the Glee Club and during lunch time it is no different. Once she got her meal on her tray, she walked towards her fellow Glee Club table.

"Hey everyone" She greeted with her famous smile.

"What's going on?" Kurt's looked at her as if she had done something horrible.

"As much as I want to answer your question Kurt, I don't have any idea what you are talking about" she said honestly and sat beside Tina.

"Your clothes, is it the end of the world? Why are you wearing clothes like a normal person can wear?"

"I'm slightly offended with that statement, simply because I'm not in the mood to dress up" she rolled her eyes.

"So every time you wear the hideous attire you were in the mood to dress up then?" Mercedes asks while eating her cucumber.

"I hope and pray that you should not be in the mood to dress up so you can look like a normal person who knows how to wear her clothes." Kurt said with sarcasm and looked at Mercedes and they did their hand and hair things greeting.

Rachel is already building up a rage inside but tried not to show any of it and pretend that it's not even affecting her. The Captain of Glee Club glances to Tina and Artie and they gave her a weak smile. Clearly this week she's running out of words from her wide vocabulary and to her surprise she doesn't feel bad at all. She looked at their school cafeteria and tried to feel if she can miss it or not, and she feels nothing. She saw Quinn and Puck heading in their direction with Finn, Santana and Brittany in tow.

"Who owns the Shelby Cobra outside?" Puck asked without even greeting everyone else and sat beside Mercedes. Quinn sat beside Artie, Finn, Santana and Brittany sat beside Kurt.

"What do you mean?" Kurt asks curiously.

"Karofsky and his minions were talking about a certain car and said that the owner is one of the Glee Club members. Well, Puck is so freaking interested to see what car are they talking about and it was a classic Shelby Cobra that cost a fortune, so whoever owns that piece of metal is a really big fish" Quinn explained to everyone.

"So, who owns that car?" Puck asked again and looked at Kurt since his dad is in the auto shop business it's not surprising for him to own that piece of metal.

"Not me, I like cars but I love my baby" Kurt pertaining to his Hummer.

Everyone looked at each other waiting for anyone to answer until they focused on one person who's pretty much zoned out from all of them.

"Uh-no not her, stubbles owns that car? I'll be dammed." Santana said hysterically.

"She has two gay dads" Brittany said unconsciously.

"Yeah man hands has two gay dads so probably one of the "clients" of her father gave it to him and…."

"Guys, I'm right here do not talk about my fathers like that!" Rachel snapped but cut Quinn off. She looked at Finn who had remained silent all through out but looked at her about to say something but pursed his lips instead.

"Do you want to add something Finn?" Rachel dares Finn.

Finn just gives Rachel a silly smile.

"I thought so, continue to talk among yourselves who owns that Shelby car thing to satisfy your craving in gossip but do resume once I get out of this cafeteria" she said while getting up from her chair.

Before she continued to walk towards the exit she looked at everyone "and for the record, you guys don't have any idea who Rachel Berry is. What you saw is who I am in school, you never tried to know me, how would you know if I could afford that car or not. See you all in practice" she finally said while turning her heels towards the door.

The group of people she left behind looked stunned on what just happened and start speculating what had gotten for Rachel to snap like that. They knew her as very confident and brutally honest but never snapped back in any insult that they gave the brunette.

"I guess Rachel is right" Tina said shyly.

"If she can afford that car or not, it's not our business anymore if I may say" Artie says indignantly. He hated the fact that they always scrutinized Rachel, even though Berry has a very terrifying personality she was kind hearted in her own way and he believed his fellow Glee Clubbers were trying to ignore that fact.

"Artie and Tina are right, she may be an abrasive sort but insulting her like what you just did is really out of hand" Finn got up and tried to look for Rachel.

Once again they remained silent for a few moments until the bell rang, signaling the lunch is over.

Rachel was inside the girl's bathroom trying to cool herself down. She never felt rage in her whole life, this afternoon was the last straw. No one has the right to judge her fathers, no one. She felt sorry for Quinn but she never gave her the chance to be a friend, she had already been called by the blonde many names and she's gotten used to it already, it not being new anymore. She's about to leave the room when a certain blonde went inside, she looked at her with animosity, she's very much grateful having very expressive eyes. She can feel the blonde shiver thru her gaze, but it doesn't matter anymore since freshman year Quinn had been torturing her making her high school life miserable, she just felt sorry for her since she was kicked out by her own family.

Quinn felt terrified by Rachel's gaze, she never saw the brunette with utmost hostility in her eyes like they are on fire and she's not ready to see her like that, she was caught off guard, she tried to compose herself and regain her confidence.

"What's the matter RuPaul, something's wrong?" she said coldly. To her surprise Rachel looked more intently at her and Quinn saw her eye's expression change from hostility to pity and before she can say another word Rachel is gone. Quinn felt disgusted about her behavior. That's the only thing she has now, after she slid to the bottom of the social ladder and no one even bothered to notice her existence. The only thing real for her right now is every time she called Rachel names she felt superior over the brunette, considering Rachel had done nothing wrong to her. There are times that she wanted to be nice but she's terrified of rejection, it's easy to be a bitch she decided. She always loved Rachel's voice. Sometimes she's dreaming that she was being lulled to sleep by that voice, she knew it would be impossible since they are not even friends, maybe someday when she has the guts to let go of her pride.

Rachel was late for five minutes in her Spanish class, Mr. Schuester looked at her and said "Something's wrong Rachel?"

"Nothing is wrong Mr. Schuester" she answers while taking her usual spot behind Quinn.

For the rest of the 45 minutes she tried to listen on what is being discussed by their teacher; not that she needs to pass Spanish it's just the proper thing to do if someone is speaking in front, everyone should listen.

On her way to Glee practice it was a pretty much dreadful long day, Rachel not even sure if she felt surprised that no one had slushied her today; well at least up to this moment she's still wearing the same clothes that she wore that morning. When she arrived at the music room everyone was already there and once she walked in, here comes again the whispering on why she was late.

"Rachel, is there something wrong? I've noticed that you are always late nowadays, you've never been late before" their director asks curiously.

Before Rachel could answer she heard Santana speak in her native language "¿qué más es el problema con su Señor Shuester? sensación apesadumbrado para se y el grito misma hacia fuera dentro de la parada en cuarto de baño de las muchachas"

She stood up and looked at Santana and tried not to scowl at her team mate and said "¿Señor Schuester, me intentando no a la sensación están molestando cada vez que oí que las preguntas repetidores, por qué es todos que piensa que algo es el mal conmigo? ¿A me no se permite tener un pequeño cambio en mi horario?"

To everyone's surprise, especially Santana and Mr. Schuester they look at Rachel in unison since they had never heard her say anything in Spanish before.

"Is there something wrong Mr. Schuester? You're my Spanish teacher, you should be proud that I can even speak the language fluently it's not something that you can be surprised with" she looked at everyone before she continued "it's very pathetic though that I am the laughing stock of this group as well as their daily gossip news. I might be very popular to everyone then because you guys are waiting each day to see me just to bash me out, it's rather strenuous and immature. If you guys just don't like me, don't pay attention to what I am doing, if my choice of actions and the way I speak irritate you to death then ignore me, I'm used to being ignored guys, all my life I tried to fit in, but I guess some people really have a narrow mind. I can't change who I am just to gain friends, accepting one another whether you have a pitiable or petrifying personality, you accept that person no matter what because that's what you call friendship. Genuine Friends tell you the truth, they do not sneak behind your back, they will tell you that you made a mistake not to tear you apart but to acknowledge that we are just human and we make mistakes and we learn from them and we move on. Friends mean picking yourself up if you're down and pushing you forward and never leave your back because when you fall down again you're quite sure from the core of your being that you have someone to catch you no matter how horrendous you are. That's what you call friendship"

Once again she looked at everyone and no one dared look at her, she looked at Mr. Schuester and he just looked down because she's so sure that everything that she said went directly to their hearts. She looked at Quinn and saw that she's about to cry but trying her best not to sob. When everyone is silent she decided to come clean at least she owes these people, she still wanted to be a part of Regionals but it will be impossible now.

"This will be my last day in Glee; this is not like before just to spite Mr. Schuester this is for real, like you always said I am replaceable" from that statement everyone is looking at her again "It will save you from fighting over who's right and wrong on your speculation, it will also gave you room to have more solos Mercedes and Kurt, you should be happy now, It will also save you from your misery seeing me everyday. My priorities changed, if all the people that I will meet in the future if ever I will be on Broadway were like you, I'd rather not fulfill that dream because that will not be healthy in my emotional and mental aspect of my life. I wish you'll do good in Regionals and goodbye" with that Rachel turned her heels and left the music room without turning her head to see the impact that she made to her team mates. Rachel went directly to her locker and put her stuff in the spare bag and left the school building towards her car, before she even got inside her car, she paid one more look at school that became her life for two years. When she was satisfied she placed her stuff in the trunk then went immediately to the driver's seat and left McKinley High School for good.

Quinn looked devastated while watching Rachel leave the school, she followed Rachel when she left the music room to everyone's surprise, she had the feeling that it would be the last time that she will ever see her. With a heavy heart she went back inside and received the questioning look from her friends, now she's not sure if she can call these people friends. Rachel's litany earlier was like an arrow had collided in her heart and it was painful, she can't even describe how painful it was.

"She left, and for what it's worth she owns that Shelby Cobra" she said, while colliding on the chair that the former Glee Captain inhabited.

Quinn heard her friends whispering but she couldn't focus anymore she felt dizzy and before she knows it she collapsed on the floor, the last voice that she heard was Mr. Schuester saying "Call 911".