Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, if I did – Tina and Mike would break up :P I also don't own the songs Single Ladies by Beyoncé Knowles or Don't Unplug Me by ALLCAPS
AN: Yeah okay, I took too long again. But hopefully this longer than usual chapter will make up for it. No? Okay… And thank you iLOv3rEAd1Ng for all your flames, you succeeded in making me cry. Haha, I'm only joking, she's my friend and was doing it to tease me .
x Beth
Chapter Eight: I'm Pregnant
Quinn Fabray stood outside for twenty minutes before she finally gathered up the courage to knock on her sister's door. Bella was the only person she could think of that she could talk to, the only person who wouldn't judge.
"It's open," came the muffled reply through the closed door. Quinn bit her lip and opened the door. Bella was curled up on her bed reading the Hunger Games, There were tears streaming down her face.
"Are you okay?" Quinn asked, sitting down next to her sister. Bella wiped her eyes and smiled, placing the book next to her.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just…Rue." Bella's expression quickly turned to concern when she saw Quinn's face. "What about you Quinnie? You look pale, are you sick?"
"No, I'm not sick. But I need to talk to talk to you about something, but you need to promise me you won't freak out." Quinn replied looking anywhere except at her sister.
"Why, what's wrong?" Bella asked, placing her finger under Quinn's chin, she raised it so that Quinn was looking at her.
"No, you have to promise me" Quinn said seriously, taking Bella's hand
"I promise Quinnie. Now tell me what's wrong, you're scaring me." Bella pleaded.
"…I'm pregnant"
"Bella…Bella say something" Quinn pleaded.
"But…the celibacy club…" Bella said softly.
"I know, I know! I'm such an idiot!" Quinn cried, tears starting to fall from her eyes.
"Is it Finn's?" Bella asked, using her free hand to wipe away Quinn's tears
"…Yes" Quinn replied looking at her hands.
"Quinn" Bella said, narrowing her eyes, she saw right through her sister's bluff.
"Okay, fine, Finn isn't the father. It's…" Quinn started, but couldn't continue
"It's?" Bella edged on, she could already feel her anger boiling.
"…Puckerman's" Quinn finished quietly. Bella tore her hand away from Quinn's as if she had been burned. Bella couldn't believe her ears, Quinn had cheated. Not only that, but Puck is Finn's best friend! How could she do that to sweet adorable Finn Hudson? She was just as bad as Christian and Jade.
"You have to promise not to tell Finn!" Quinn cried, Bella's eyes turned cold, an act like that was unforgivable.
"And why should I do that?" Bella spat venomously.
"Because I'm your sister, and you love me." Quinn said with wide pleading eyes, trying to take back Bella's hand, but Bella wasn't having it.
"Yeah, well Finn loved you, and that didn't stop you cheating on him did it?" Bella replied back, she was not caving. Quinn's puppy dog eyes would not work on her.
"Bella please" Quinn practically begged. "I know it was wrong, but I need you to be on my side with this." Bella bit her lip, why oh why did Quinn's guilt trips always work on her?
"Fine, I won't say anything. But I'm not forgiving you." Bella said without any feeling in her voice. "Now get out of my room." Quinn jumped up and ran out the door sobbing. Quinn leant against the closed door, she should have known that Bella would react like that after what happened with Christian. But Quinn knew Bella would forgive her, she always did, and then when she had the support of her sister again, she'd be able to deal with anything. So until then, Quinn would just have to deal with the hostility, and just hope that it will pass soon.
Bella refused to look at Quinn throughout the entire glee rehearsal. She couldn't be bothered dealing with that back stabber's issues. She knew Quinn had told Finn about the baby, but she withheld the information about Puck. Instead she fed him some bullshit sob story about sperm being able to travel faster in hot water. Bella couldn't believe Finn bought that, he is so freaking gullible.
"I think you're being unfair!" Rachel's cry snapped Bella out of her thoughts. Rachel looked furious about something, which was no surprise, she was always complaining about something.
"What's going on?" Bella whispered to Kurt, he looked at her in disbelief.
"Why aren't you paying attention?" he whispered back curiously. Bella only replied with a shrug. She wasn't close enough to Kurt to spill any of her secrets just yet. "Well, Mr Schue gave Tina 'Rachel's' solo from West Side Story. So she's being annoying about it." Bella rolled her eyes. Bella watched as Rachel stormed out of the Choir Room.
"She is such a drama queen." Bella groaned
"I know, hopefully she doesn't come back. Then we could share her solos!" Kurt said happily, causing Bella to smile
Bella froze when she saw who was standing in front of her locker. It was Christian, with a bouquet of flowers. Bella rolled her eyes in annoyance, did he seriously believe he could get her to forgive him with a bunch of flowers.
"Get lost Christian" Bella sighed, pushing him out of the way so she could get her books for her next set of class. Which just happened to be with both him and Jade.
"Look, I'm sorry all right?" Christian said, smiling his charming smile. "Forgive me?" He handed her the flowers, and leaned forward to kiss her. Bella quickly turned her face away.
"So a bunch of stupid flowers and everything's forgiven? I don't think so. You hurt me Christian, I can't trust you any more." Bella shook her head and tried to move past him, but he pushed her back against the locker.
"What, so three years down the drain then?" Christian snarled
"What do you expect? YOU HAD SEX WITH MY BEST FRIEND!" Bella screamed. Everyone in the hall stopped and stared.
"Well I wasn't getting it from you was I, you fucking Prude." Christian spat. Bella bit her lip to keep from crying.
"You said you didn't mind." Bella said quietly.
"Of course I minded! I'm a stud, what did you expect, for me to abstain my urges until you were ready?" Christian scoffed
"Yes, that's exactly what I expected!" Bella cried "…you said you loved me"
"And I do, I just love sex more." Christian smirked
"How long? When did you start?" Bella asked, the tears finally freeing themselves from her eyes.
"The night after you said you wouldn't put out. Jade wasn't that hard to convince either." Christian replied coldly
"You disgust me" Bella spat, she shoved him away from her as hard as she could. Christian stumbled in surprise, and Bella took her chance to escape.
"You'll be back" Christian called after her as she hurried down the hall "They always are."
Bella refused to listen, and threw the flowers in the nearest bin she could find. Christian was dead to her.
Bella wasn't in the mood to eat anything, so she just moved her mac and cheese around on the plate.
"Not hungry?" asked Kurt, sitting down next to her.
"Yeah, something like that." Bella smiled
"So, I have a favour to ask," Kurt said happily
"Shoot," Bella replied placing her fork down and giving Kurt her full attention.
"I need you to help me teach the football players how to do the single ladies dance." Kurt said quickly.
"You're joking right?" Bella laughed.
"No, it's my secret to being a kicker, and the coach thinks it could help the other boys too." Kurt grinned. Bella bit her lip, Kurt was excited about this, and it seemed important to him. And she was one of the best dancers in the school, that was the reason Kurt had asked her. Plus seeing those boys trying to dance would be hilarious.
"Okay," Bella was interrupted by Kurt letting out a squeal of joy. She put her hand over his mouth to silence him. "On one condition. When Christian needs help, and trust me, he will. You deal with him." Kurt moved Bella's hand away from his mouth,
"I wouldn't expect anything else" Kurt replied, nodding
"Wait…Why are you a kicker anyway? I thought you hated football." Bella questioned
"I do…But my Dad loves it." Kurt mumbled
"So, you're doing it to make him happy?" Bella said, raising her eyebrow
"In a way, yes. Brittany blurted out that I was already on the football team to my Dad. And I just couldn't bring myself to disappoint him any further." Kurt admitted quietly.
"Why would he be disappointed? You're totally awesome Kurt." Bella smiled encouragingly
"Yeah, but…" Kurt lowered his voice, and leaned in so that only Bella could hear "He doesn't know I'm gay." Kurt lowered his eyes, so he couldn't see Bella's wide ones. "He wants a macho son, and I just can't deliver it to him."
"Kurt he loves you. He'll always love you no matter what. You know that, don't you?" Bella replied gently, getting over her initial shock that he felt comfortable enough with her to confide in her, especially with something that personal.
"I just… I just don't know Bells. I'm not ready to say anything yet." Kurt quickly looked at Bella and asked "You aren't going to say anything are you?"
"Of course not, sweetheart!" Bella exclaimed, and Kurt looked immediately relieved "I still think you should tell your Dad though"
"I will. I promise. I'll talk to you later." He rose from the table but smiled before he left. "Thanks for listening Bells."
"No problem, I'm here if you ever want to talk again." Bella smiled back. Kurt nodded happily, and left the cafeteria.
Mike watched as Kurt left the table, and immediately headed towards it.
"Hey Bee," greeted Mike, sitting down in front of her. "You really should eat something you know, seeing as you have Cheerio practice next." Mike passed Bella a bowl of fruit salad, which she accepted.
"Thanks Mike, you really should stop worrying about me though." Bella said quietly,
"Why? I enjoy looking after you," Mike grinned
"Mike…" Bella mumbled, averting her eyes to her hands.
"Damn Bee. You know, you're so beautiful today you made me forget my pick-up line." Mike smiled sweetly, taking her hand.
"Not today, please Mike. I'm really not in the mood." Bella sighed
"Sorry Bee," Mike said, removing his hand from hers. "I'll see you later Bee, I gotta go get my books for chemistry." He stood up from the table and gave a half wave before wandering off.
"Hey Mike!" Bella called after him, Mike spun around to face her "You ready to dance like Beyoncé?" Bella smiled mischievously
"We'll see Bee" Mike replied, winking "We'll see."
Bella stood in the doorway of the choir room and had to bite her lip to stop herself from laughing. Kurt was trying to teach the jocks the dance steps, emphasis on trying, because they clearly weren't getting it. "Nice dancing guys!" Bella said cheekily. The boys looked up and stared at her horrified.
"Boys, Bella Fabray is here to help me show you how to dance." Kurt said happily, smiling at Bella. Mumbles from the boys went around the room. It was clear that they were unhappy that a girl was there to watch them make fools of themselves.
"Are you seriously worried about embarrassing yourselves around me?" Bella asked, smirking. "Boys, I'm a dancer. There is nothing you can do that I haven't seen before. Now Kurt, take it away!" Kurt went back to doing the steps slowly at the front of the room, while Bella went around and corrected the boys positions every now and then. The jocks were finally starting to get the hang of it, but there was one boy in particular that was doing very well. Bella couldn't help but stare at how flawlessly Mike was dancing. He had only just learned the steps fifteen minutes ago, and he already knew them off by heart. Then again, the dance was pretty easy, she remembered, shaking her head. Mike looked up and grinned when he saw her staring. Annoyed that she was caught, Bella immediately looked the other way. Unfortunately, that meant she was looking at Christian. He was pathetic, he couldn't even pull off one simple move. Bella could tell that he was feeling frustrated, he hated showing that he was bad at anything. And by the look on his face, he was going to blow his top any second.
"You know what, this is bullshit!" Christian burst out, Bella rolled her eyes at her accuracy. "All we're doing is acting like a bunch of fucking fags!" Bella sighed as Christian stormed out the door. She can't even remember what she liked about him in the first place.
"Okay, from the top!" Bella said loudly, rewinding the song to the start again
"Hand, hand, Point to the finger, Hip, hand." Kurt was saying as he did the dance at the front and the boys behind him copied him. "Tap the ring, palm through the hair, slap the but -"
"Okay, I think that's it for today. Hit the shower boys," Interrupted Coach Tanaka from the back of the room.
Bella Fabray was watching her team from where the rest of the cheerleaders were positioned. She still wasn't sure if they were actually going to go through with the performance. Knowing them, they probably wouldn't want to embarrass themselves in front of a whole crowd of people, even though thanks to her and Kurt they were awesome now. They were going to forget all about their plans of surprising the other team, and actually winning a game for once.
They were getting thrashed, the other team was stronger than them and kept tackling them to the ground. There was nothing Bella and the Cheerios could do except watch the McKinley Titans get their asses kicked. The score was zero to home and six to Guest. There was only ten seconds left on the clock, there was absolutely no way that they could win now.
"FINN! DO IT, DO IT NOW!" Bella screamed out to the quarter back desperately. She thought they weren't going to listen, but at one second left on the clock, Finn called time out. No one had a clue what the Titans were doing, but the referee listened and allowed the game to stop. Finn called the group into a huddle and Bella could only hope that they were going to do what she thought they were going to. The boys got back into position,
"Hut one, two, three – Let's hit it!" Finn yelled, signalling towards the guys on the sound booth.
"All the single ladies! All the single ladies! All the single ladies! All the single ladies! All the single ladies! Now put your hands up!" The song burst through the speakers on the field and everyone one stared in shock and amusement as the McKinley Titans danced along to the song. Bella squealed and grinned in encouragement. The boys on the other team seemed weirded out by the sudden breakage into dance. But the crowd was loving it, they were cheering clapping their hands and dancing along. While the other team just stared in confusion, having no idea what had gotten into their opponents. When the song ended, the other team were still so dazed that they didn't realise that the Titans had started playing, when the finally started to chase after the boy with the ball, they were already too late. The McKinley Titans had scored a touchdown. The crowd went wild, the Titans hadn't gotten a touchdown in what seems like forever. Now they only needed one more point to win. And Kurt was the only player who could do that for them. Bella watched as Kurt nervously ran into the middle of the pitch
"COME ON KURT! YOU CAN DO THIS!" Bella screamed, she held her breath as the music turned on again.
"Cause if you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it! Oh oh, oh, oh, oh oh!"
Kurt did a few dance steps, before he kicked the ball. And boy did he kick it! It went straight through the goals, which earned the Titans another point. The referee called time, and the crowd went wild. The McKinley Titans had won! They never win! The football team ran to Kurt and lifted him onto their shoulders. Kurt looked ecstatic, and Bella felt so proud of him. And she knew that Kurt's father just had to be as well.
"Don't unplug me, or just shut me down. Please just love me with your steel heart!" The ALLCAPS song burst from Bella's phone. Bella was surprised when the caller ID said it was Kurt calling. She groaned, and reluctantly answered the phone.
"Hello?" Bella greeted, yawning
"Hey Bells. I have amazing news!" Kurt squealed happily.
"What is it Kurt? It's one in the morning. I was asleep." Bella grumbled.
"I CAME OUT TO MY DAD!" Kurt announced loudly.
"Ohmigosh!" Bella squealed back, immediately brightening up. "What did he say?"
"He was okay with it!" Bella could practically hear the smile she could tell he had on his face. "Thank you so much for encouraging me Bells. I don't think I could have done it with out you."
"Nonsense!" Bella laughed. "But can I go back to sleep now?"
"Sure, sorry for waking you up. I just had to tell someone." Kurt replied "I think I might go to bed too actually"
"We'll discuss this in detail tomorrow. Love you Kurt!" Bella said affectionately
"Love you too Bells." Kurt said back, Bella hang up. She lay back on her bed with a grin on her face. She knew that her and Kurt were starting to become Best Friends.
"Hey guys, lets give a big Glee welcome to our three new members," Mr Schuester said happily, leading three boys into the choir room. Bella's eyes widened with shock when she realised who they were. "Noah Puckerman, Matt Rutherford and Mike Chang." Bella looked away from Mike's gaze and stiffened when he moved to sit next to her.
"Bee? Are you alright?" Mike whispered "It's okay that I'm here right?"
"No, it's awesome that you had courage to come here." Bella smiled.
"Great!" Mike grinned "I couldn't stand it if you were mad at me." Bella sighed inwardly, she had no idea why, but she felt weird around Mike now, she felt awkward.
"Do you want me to drive you home tonight? Because you seem mad at your sister." Mike offered
"That's sweet Mike, but I'm staying at Haley's tonight. Wait, how did you know I'm mad at Quinn?" Bella asked, confused.
"It's kind of obvious Bee, you've hardly looked at her, and when ever you do, it's like your eyes are shooting daggers." Mike said, shuddering. Bella laughed at his explanation. Rachel turned around in her seat and shot her own daggers in their direction.
"Will you two, shut it!" Rachel snapped.
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Beth
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