A.N. Ren's first day has arrived :)
Chapter Three – Wait, There's Two of Them?
Monday rolled around and had Rachel driving herself and Renee to school. Rachel was nervous about Renee being in her school. She was worried she would tell her Dad's about what school was really like. Renee on the other hand was freaking out about her first day at a new school.
When she had first told Leroy and Hiram that she wanted to go to school this Monday, she wasn't sure she would be ok. She knew she needed to go on with her life, just as she had told them all but she really had no idea how she would really feel about it and now it had arrived she was on edge. Thankfully she had never been one of those girls that burst into tears when she got emotional but she had been tearful for the few days that she had been at her old home with Hiram. When she had arrived in Lima the day after the funeral they had for her Mom, she had been an emotional wreck, tired and sarcastic. She had locked herself in her new room and sobbed herself to sleep before waking up at 4am the next day having slept over a solid 12 hours. She had sat on her new bed in the clothes she had worn the previous day and stared out of the open window. Her biological Dad was nice. He had told her to call him Hiram or Papa if she felt comfortable enough ... she hadn't. She didn't really know them ... any of them. Rachel was nice, she was overbearing and used to getting her way and she could tell that she sometimes didn't like her but that was ok. She was sure that it was just the newness of it and she was also pretty sure that Rach had wanted to know her Mom and was a little jealous that she had grown up with her. She could understand that, she also thought she didn't like it that Renee called her Rach, but she thought that Rach suited it so kept calling her it, she would stop if she was asked to. So here they were driving to William McKinley High School for her first day. Everything went smoothly. Rach took her to the Principal's office, where they were both shooed inside by the harassed looking secretary.
"Miss Berry," the Principal acknowledged, smiling at her. "Good to have you back, I know Mr. Schuester will be over the moon to have his star back." Rachel smiled politely as he turned to look at Renee. "And this must be Miss Curazon." Renee smiled politely this time. Principal Figgins looked carefully from Rachel to Renee. "Well your Father's told me that you were identical twins but they didn't say there was no way to tell the two of you apart." He smiled widely, clearly impressed with his little joke. "Here's your schedule and your locker combination as well as a map. We were able to get you a locker next to your sister so she could show you around," he glanced at Rachel, "If that's ok with you Miss Berry?" he asked.
"Of course." Rachel told him.
"Your schedules have also been matched as much as possible however there are some differences." He smiled again. "Any questions?" he asked. Both girls shook their heads. "Ok excellent. Miss Pillsbury wants a quick word with you in her office but she has assured me that you will both be in time for second period."
Rachel and Renee stood up and left the office. They walked in silence down the empty corridors before reaching Miss Pillsbury's office and being waved inside. Miss Pillsbury didn't say much, just told them that she was there if they needed anything and asked them a couple of questions about how things were going before they were allowed to leave.
"Is everyone going to be so ... nice?" Renee asked as they walked to their second period. They both had English.
"Probably not." Rachel shrugged. "Well, except for Miss Pillsbury, she's always like that ... I don't think I've ever seen her mad ... except for at Sectionals." Renee nodded. She had been told all about what had happened at Sectionals and was actually intrigued to meet Coach Sylvester. The next few classes went as expected. They got a lot of stares at there being two of them and the teacher for Literature actually let a small squeak escape at the fact there seemed to be two Rachel's in his class. Rachel had rolled her eyes at this. Honestly! It wasn't as if she was THAT outspoken about her views on Literature. They had just arrived at the lockers at the beginning of lunch when Finn came walking up. He smiled at Rachel as he opened his locker and reached inside to put away his books from the first half of the day.
"Hey Rach, how's thing going? We missed you last week and all we were told is that you had a family problem." He threw his half smile at her and she smiled back. "I hope your Dad's are ok, I'd have text you but ... well I don't have your number." He finished sheepishly.
"Well we should change that right Rach?" Renee told her slinging her arm around her sister's shoulders and beaming up at Finn. Wow Rachel had said he was tall but this was ridiculous. Rachel was too happy at seeing Finn and that he had seemed to be asking for her number to feel any irritation towards Renee at first. Then she saw how he was looking at her, that was how he always looked at Rachel, he wasn't supposed to look like that at anyone else. "I think we scared him mute." Renee staged whispered to Rachel who couldn't help the smile that appeared on her face at this. Finn looked so adorably clueless.
"Finn this is my twin sister, Renee Curazon." She introduced. Renee grinned and stuck her hand out to shake Finn's.
"Call me Ren," She told him as he shook her hand a little dazed. "So YOU'RE the infamous Finn ... I've heard so much about you." Rachel quickly nudged her in the side but this just made her grin wider.
"Funny I've not really heard of you ..." Finn started but then quickly changed tracks, "Wait ... what've you heard about me?"
Renee smiled at Finn and was about to answer when SPLASH! Renee was hit with a slushie facial.
"Oh my gosh!" Rachel exclaimed as she saw Renee standing there, absolutely stunned but she didn't stay that way for long. She was absolutely furious and turned around to grab the arm of the beefcake who had thrown the slushie at her.
"WHAT THE HELL! YOU JERK!" Renee screamed as he fell against the locker, a little surprised at being called out about the slushie facial, especially as he thought he had thrown it at Berry. As he looked down he realised he had.
"Whoa Berry! Where did you find a backbone?" he sneered.
"My name is Curazon, Renee Curazon!" she yelled back, "And since when is it ok to throw a slushie in someone's face and not expect some sort of retribution?"
Karofsky's face turned to confused instantly after she had spoken and he looked behind her to see the real Rachel Berry standing looking worried with Finn's hand on her shoulder. "Retri what now?" he asked, "And how was I supposed to know you weren't Berry, you sure look like her?" he laughed. "Sorry about that by the way." He didn't even see the slap coming to try and stop it.
"Firstly, you moron, twins are supposed to look alike and secondly we look a lot like our Mother, you pathetic piece of scum and she died just over a week ago! Do you want to insult the way we look now!?" she yelled angrily. There was silence in the halls as the rest of the student body took this in. "I thought not," Renee growled, "Stay the HELL away from me or I swear to God that being the thickest moron in this school will be the least of your problems!" With that last insult, Renee turned and walked to Rachel where she grabbed her hand and pulled her away from Finn and into the nearest girl's bathroom. "Was there something about your school life that you maybe forgot to mention?" Renee asked, after she had checked all the stalls to make sure they were alone. Rachel met Renee's gaze and didn't flinch under the furious stare, despite how embarrassed she was that Renee now knew about how things were at school.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think that you might get hit with the slushie facial ... I guess it should have since we are identical." She didn't get to say anything else as the bathroom door burst open and Mercedes, Tina, Quinn, Brittany, Santana and finally Kurt came walking in.
"So it's true then," Kurt said, sounding a little bored, "There are two of them, just when we thought it was safe to go back to Glee." He sighed melodramatically. Rachel's embarrassment worsened at these words. Now Renee would find out that everyone in Glee hated her. She had tried to keep her tales about Glee solely about the others but now she was about to find out the truth about her sister. She turned a little pink at these words, refusing to turn fully red. She shot a terrified look at the new arrivals before turning her face quickly back to neutral. Renee noticed this and her already over heated emotions took over.
"You'd be Kurt I'd imagine." Renee observed as Kurt nodded, "Yeah well honey your jacket maybe authentic D&G but anyone can tell your boots are not authentic Ugg's so back the hell off."
Kurt started at this and then looked at Renee with a steady gaze. "I like her," he announced, deflating the tension in the room.
"Finn told us what went down," Mercedes told them, "Do you need any help getting cleaned up?" she asked. Apparently, if Kurt had decided Renee was ok, so did the rest of the group.
"Oh ... so I'm ok am I?" Renee asked sarcastically.
"Hey you just stood up to Karofsky and you're as tiny as Rachel is ... that makes you ok in my book" Quinn told her and the two Cheerio's nodded.
"Yeah that takes some g-guts." Tina smiled shyly.
Renee turned to face Rachel who was still standing in the corner of the bathroom. "Hey Rach, I won't tell your Dad's about this slushie thing but I really don't like it." She smiled crookedly, emphasising the teasing to her tone for the last part of the sentence. Rachel didn't know what to say and being speechless wasn't something that happened to her very often. She stood and watched as the other members of Glee hurried forward and started to help her clear off the slushie mess. Today she had worn two t-shirts, a longer sleeved one underneath which thankfully had not had too much slushie juice leaked onto it so the last thing Rachel saw before quietly leaving the bathroom unnoticed by the others, was Renee removing this and leaving the plain blue long sleeve t-shirt on. As she closed the bathroom door and turned to walk back towards her locker, she bumped straight into the solid chest of Finn.
"Finn!" she exclaimed, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you ... well I wasn't paying attention, I don't think anyone could really miss someone of your height."
Finn smiled at her and put his hand on her arm before asking, "Are you ok?"
"Yes, I'm fine. I didn't get hit this time." She answered.
"That wasn't what I was making sure you were ok about." Finn told her. She looked up at his face and noticed the soft knowing look on his face. He was asking how she felt about her Mom dying. She realised for the first time since this had all happened that Finn knew how she felt. He had lost his Father before he was really given the chance to know him properly. She smiled softly.
"Honestly, I'm still not sure." She told him.
"And Ren?" he continued. Rachel spun on her heel and started to walk back to her locker, this time with Finn trailing behind.
"Renee is Renee, I'm not sure how she feels about our Mother. She wanted to 'live her life' so came back to school and well ... now the rest of the Glee ladies are cleaning her up now." She answered curtly.
"Didn't I see Kurt go in there?" he asked confused.
"Is there a difference when it comes to Kurt?" she asked, snippily.
"Rach, are you ok, really? Just because that was kinda ... bitchy for you."
Rachel sighed as they reached her locker and she shot a searching look at Finn before she opened her locker and finished sorting out the books that she had put in haphazardly after Renee had been slushied. "I wish I knew what it was. It's like ever since she's arrived she's been this really nice person who is so perfect all the time. She cleans up after herself and is always thoughtful. She likes all of Glee and they all like her, they accept her but have never accepted me. She gets a slushie facial and turns around to Karofsky, yells at him and everyone loves her!" Rachel's monologue had got steadily louder until she finally said, "And she cooks!" in a loud voice that made a few people turn and stare.
Finn paused before reaching over and pushing some of her loose hair behind her ear and saying, "But you can bake too. You made those really nice sugar cookies, I must have eaten about half of those you made for Mr. Schue." He reasoned. Rachel looked up at him, allowing herself to get lost in his cinnamon eyes before they were interrupted by Artie, Mike, Matt and Puck.
"Hey Berry, is it true there's two of you?" Puck asked with a smirk.
"Back off Puckerman!" Finn growled, turning his attention to Puck. Whilst there was an uneasy peace between Finn, Puck and Quinn, they still barely interacted. Rachel didn't want this to be the start of another fight between them so she quickly placed her hand on Finn's forearm.
"It's ok Finn," he smiled up at him and he smiled back at her, "Yes Noah, I have a twin sister and she has started here."
"Where is she?" he asked warily glancing at Finn, who was stood at Rachel's shoulder, glaring at him.
"She's in the bathroom, she got hit with a slushie facial." Rachel informed them.
"Wow on her first day! That's harsh ... who did it?"
"Give you one guess," Finn mumbled.
"Karofsky," Puck growled, "But why slushie the new girl?"
"He thought she was me," Rachel rolled her eyes as if this was obvious.
"You ready for lunch Rach?" Finn asked, trying to change the subject from her twin, knowing how she was feeling about this subject.
"Yes, let's go," she grinned, closing her locker and following Finn towards the cafeteria.
Back in the girl's bathroom, Ren wasn't feeling brilliant. After she had pulled Rachel into the bathroom and then had it out with her about the slushie facials, Kurt and Mercedes had made their way over to her and started to help cleaning her up. The rest of Glee had also made their way further into the room towards her but had stopped at various points to lean against walls and sinks. Somehow, in this change around, Rachel had disappeared from the room. She had removed the outer t-shirt she had and looked up to find her gone.
"Hey where did Rach go?" she asked, confused.
"She must have gone to find Finn," Kurt told her as he pulled the collapsible cup out of his bag and sat her down on a chair in front of the sink.
"Yeah she pretty much throws herself at him," Quinn sighed.
"Yeah even when Quinn and Finn were still together," Mercedes rolled her eyes.
"Guys I appreciate what you're doing for me here, but can we please back off Rachel a little, she has been really nice to me ... despite the lack of warning about the slushie thing." Ren asked a little resignedly.
"We've just had a few problems with her, that's all," Tina mumbled.
"Oh believe me, I know," Ren smirked, "She's actually quite hard on herself about some of the stuff that's happened at Glee and believe me without realising it, she has told me everything that's happened, from baby scandals," she glanced and Quinn, "to solo hogging," she glanced towards Tina and Mercedes, "to fake makeovers." She finally glanced at Kurt. "I know she's not easy to be around ... I live with her but can we try to keep the better bits of her in mind too?"
"Oh really? Like what exactly? Her voice? Because we all appreciate that honey." Kurt said sarcastically.
"Like how she used her voice to save all your asses at sectionals and at invitational's. Didn't she have to eat her words and get you guys to give her a second chance then? Well as far as I can see you're all still treating her the same." There was a pause as everyone considered this until Quinn finally spoke.
"Maybe you're right ... there's a lot that's happened from both her side and ours," she said looking around, "And we do all need each other now."
There was a murmur of agreement and the topic was dropped as Kurt and Mercedes stared discussing Beyonce as they helped clean Ren up.
TBC
A.N. Hope ya liked this, please review guys :) Nicki xoxo