Chapter 2: Party
Becky was laying on her bed listening to music and half asleep when Vicky stormed into her room, making her jump.
"What do we wear to this thing anyway?" Vicky asked, holding up both of her hands with numerous items of clothing.
"i dunno" Becky mumbled and closed her eyes.
"we have half an hour to get ready, don't go to sleep" Vicky demanded in her "im the boss of you" voice.
"Right, come back when i have ten minutes to get ready, and then tell me not to go to sleep, thanks" Becky grumbled, turning over onto her side.
"Becky, what do we wear?" Vicky asked again, she always was very persistent.
"Clothes would be a good start" her sister mumbled still with her eyes closed.
"But like what, jeans? A skirt? A dress?" Vicky asked again. This was their first day at a new school, and the first time they had attended a party since moving, it was important that they made a good impression.
"Its at his house, go casual" Becky said and then still with her eyes closed she pointed in the general direction of Vicky's left hand and said "that".
Vicky smiled and went to change knowing that her sister was in fact paying attention to her, even though to others it wouldn't seem like it. Vicky was soon dressed in a skirt, black heels and a simple, low cut vest top. She kept her hair as it was at school, but added a little extra makeup. She was ready with ten minutes to spare and went to check on her sister. Upon entering her room, she could see that Becky had in fact fallen asleep and had made no attempts at getting ready. Jumping on top of her sister to wake her up, Vicky shouted "ten minutes, wake up!"
Becky woke up quickly and Vicky sat at the foot of the bed as she watched her sister get ready. She made a "tut" sound when she realised that Becky was barely getting changed, choosing to just change her top into a different vest top, and that was probably only due to the fact that she had just been sleeping. As for the makeup, Becky decided she still looked fine, thanks to spraying a little hairspray on her face, a trick she had been shown by her friend. A little hair spray over the top of makeup and it will stay on for hours. All she really needed to do was add a little wax to her hair, and she was good to go, still with a few minutes to spare.
"There, happy now?" Becky asked, smiling at her sister.
"Well, at least you are awake" Vicky muttered as she left the room. Realising that her sister wasn't following she stood at the top of the stairs and yelled "Come on!".
Becky emerged with a smile on her face which let Vicky know that she had an idea. The girls were only half way down the stairs when they heard the sound of a car honking and Vicky made straight for the door.
"I'll be one minute" Becky said, ignoring the look of warning on her sisters face as she made her way into the kitchen.
Vicky said a quick hello to Santana and Brittany before hopping into the car, hoping that they would be patient and wait for Becky rather than just driving off without her.
"Isnt there supposed to be two of you?" Santana asked glancing at Vicky in the rear view mirror.
"Becky said she will be here in a minute, she had an idea" Vicky answered a little nervously.
She didn't have much time to worry as her sister came running down the driveway and hopped straight into the car. "sorry about that, had to get something" Becky said as she strapped herself in, failing to notice the look of annoyance on Santana's face.
As they drove for a few minutes nobody spoke. It wasn't entirely an uncomfortable silence, but it wasn't exactly comfortable either. "So, what was so important" Santana questioned, raising her eyebrows as she made eye contact with Becky through the mirror.
"Oh, i thought this might come in useful" Becky said with a smile as she held up half a bottle of vodka. "i also have a few beers" she said sounding proud of herself.
"Nice one" Santana said approvingly and continued to drive.
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"Thanks for the lift" Vicky said as Santana pulled up outside a house which the girls assumed to be Pucks judging on the loud music that was playing.
"Whatever, don't know how we are getting home yet though" Santana said whilst getting out of the car.
The two sisters looked at each other as if to ask each other what they have let themselves in for, but just shrugged and followed Santana up to the house. Just as they reached the door, it swung open and they were met with Puck.
"Welcome, girls, party is in the basement. My mom and sister are out somewhere, with my aunt or something, I wasn't really listening, so, anyway, we have a free house" Puck said sounding excited but also obviously trying to maintain his bad boy persona.
Everyone from the glee club was already there, either dancing or huddled around a makeshift bar talking. The girls realised that they were probably late because of Becky. Vicky went straight over to Mike and Tina, followed by Brittany and they all started to dance. Becky followed Santana over to the "bar" putting the drinks she had bought with her down on the table and receiving a raised eyebrow from Quinn.
"Our contribution" Becky giggled and received a smile from Quinn. She hoped that by bringing some drinks whatever reason for the awkwardness between the cheerleaders and her would be gone.
"Want to dance?" Rachel said as she tapped Becky on the shoulder, making her jump a little.
"Christ Berry, leave her alone for like, five minutes" Quinn said, looking pissed off at the smaller girl.
"it's ok, but i don't really dance, sorry Rach" Becky said apologetically. She wondered what exactly the problem was that Quinn and Santana had with Rachel. She had spent alot of time with the girl that day and Rachel seemed to be a nice girl, if a little loud.
"I thought we could hang out for a bit" Rachel said, sounding a little disappointed.
"Yeah sure, that's ok, i just, don't want to dance" Becky explained. "See you later" Becky gave Quinn and Santana a smile before following Rachel over to some bean bags that were in the corner of the room.
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"She needs to stop hanging out with Berry" Santana said as she looked over to where the two girls were sat chatting happily and now joined by Mercedes and Kurt. Most of the boys were now dancing with Vicky, Mike, Tina and Brittany in the centre of the room, all taking turns to show off their dance moves.
"She isn't that bad" Quinn said, defending the brunette.
"What? You hate her" Santana said, confused.
"Yeah... i do... i mean... i did... we are growing up Santana, we are a team, she's not that bad" Quinn explained, still looking over to the two girls.
"She is kinda hot" Santana said, earning her Quinn's full attention.
"Berry? Or Becky" Quinn asked, with a smirk.
"I was talking about Berry, i mean, now that she dressed a little less, home schooled... but now that you mention it, Becky isn't sore on the eyes either" Santana smirked, licking her lips and making Quinn laugh.
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"So, what exactly is the problem between you and them?" Becky asked Rachel, taking a quick look over to where Santana and Quinn were still standing.
"What's the problem with who?" Vicky asked as she plopped herself down on the same bean bag as Becky, after having enough of dancing and needing a bit of a break.
"They hate me, always have" Rachel said quietly as though she didn't want anybody to over hear her.
"why?" Becky asked.
"Who hates you?" Vicky butted in, not sure exactly what was going on having only heard part of the conversation.
"Quinn and Santana, well, with Quinn, we have had our problems, boys mostly, and Santana... actually i don't know why Santana hates me" Rachel explained to the girls.
"Boys are always involved" Vicky said with a laugh as she looked towards the group of boys who were still dancing, and not very well.
"They can't just hate you" Becky said, feeling sorry for her new friend.
"It is getting better, at least i don't get slushied anymore since they started glee, and the name calling is decreasing" Rachel said trying to sound more positive.
"Slushied?" Becky asked
"You do not want to get slushied" Mercedes said interrupting. Seeing that Becky and Vicky still didn't know what they were actually talking about Rachel explained "the jocks and the cheerleaders used to throw slushies at us".
"Charming" Becky said, immediately feeling sorry for the girls.
"Even Santana and Quinn have been slushied though, in fact, i think we all have" Mercedes added
"i don't think Brittany has" Rachel suggested and the girls seemed to be reminiscing of the past, working out the accuracy of their statement.
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Finally everyone persuaded Becky to get up and dance. Most of the kids were dancing as though they were in a club. That made it all the more funny when they saw Becky pull off some of her silliest dance moves. Brittany in particular seemed to enjoy it when Becky found it appropriate to do the running man. Vicky and Puck seemed to have paired up and were dancing closely whilst chatting. Brittany and Becky continued to dance and Rachel was more than surprised to see that neither Santana nor Quinn interrupted them when Brittany actually encouraged Rachel to have fun with them.
Becky stopped dancing when she felt a tap on her shoulder and turned around to see Santana who offered her a drink. "Thought you might like a beer, haven't seen you drink anything yet" she said with a smirk, before turning her attention to Brittany. Becky was a little surprised when she saw how the two girls danced with each other as though they were a couple. She raised an eyebrow at Rachel who responded by mouthing "long story". Becky took a sip of her drink whilst scanning the room to see what was going on with the rest of the group. She wasn't surprised to see Vicky and Puck dancing, and shook her head whilst internally giggling at the antics of her little sister. Everyone seemed to be having a good time, all except for one person.
"I'm going to go and see Quinn" Becky explained to Rach+el who nodded after seeing that the blonde was stood alone at the "bar".
"Hey" Becky said as she leant against the table next to Quinn, looking out to the group of teenagers dancing.
"Hey" Quinn said, sounding as though she really couldn't care less as to whether she was talking to Becky or not.
A silence fell among the two as they watched their friends dance. After a few minutes Becky started to get bored and fidgeted a little as she tried to think of something to talk about with the other girl, not wanting to leave her on her own again. Quinn was the one who spoke. She really was going to try to be a nicer person this year. It was her last year at school and she was feeling determined to make it special, and that started by being nicer to people and hopefully as a result, much happier.
"You really can't dance you know?" Quinn said, trying to use a tone of voice that was playful rather than cruel, for lack of anything else to speak about.
"Yeah" Becky said smiling, turning to face the other girl.
"But you do it anyway?" Quinn said, sounding a little surprised. She didn't really see the point of doing something you weren't good at, especially when it was likely to end in embarrassment.
"Why shouldn't i? If it's fun, do it" Becky grinned and took another sip of her beer "Of course, a drink helps" she added as she held her beer up slightly.
Quinn laughed and then turned around to pour another drink. Noticing that Becky had almost finished her beer she poured one for her as well and handed it to her with a friendly smile. The first genuine smile Becky had seen from the girl.
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"Wanna see my room?" Puck whispered in Vicky's ear.
"wow, great line" Vicky laughed and continued to dance.
"It wasn't a line" Puck denied, but his cheeky smile said otherwise.
"I don't trust you, Noah Puckerman" Vicky said as she made eye contact with him. Her tone of voice sounded serious, but the smile on her face told him that she was teasing, at least to some extent.
"Well, how about we at least sit down then?" Puck suggested as he took hold of her hand and attempted to lead her away from the group.
"Cant keep up Puck?" Vicky said teasingly as she pulled free from the crowd and continued to dance.
Puck went to sit down next to Finn and Artie who were apparently in deep conversation and as a result they didn't seem to notice his presence.
"Man, I have to get her" Puck said out loud.
"Who? Vicky? Nah dude, she isn't interested" Finn said.
"She is... i mean, i can make her" Puck said, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees as he continued watching Vicky dance.
"This isn't going to be another Lauren thing is it?" Artie asked.
"What, no! She has to like me, why wouldn't she?" Puck argued back
"Well, maybe she liked guys who don't go around getting people pregnant" Artie suggested
"who is getting people pregnant" Sam asked as he joined the group.
"Puck wants Vicky" Finn explained.
"I have to have her. And anyway, dude, that was one time, i don't go around getting everyone pregnant" Puck tried to argue his case, but the boys just laugh.
"I reckon she likes good guys, you know, guys who open doors and pay for meals and all that stuff" Sam suggested.
"I can be a good guy" Puck said causing the other boys to laugh at him again. This time to shut them up he gave each of them a punch on the arm and walked off back to the dance area with a big grin on his face.
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"This party is boring" Quinn said taking a sip from her cup.
"Its not if you take part" Becky suggested, taking a risk and nudging Quinn's shoulder.
Quinn was about to protest when everybody was silenced by Puck shouting that they were going to play a game and that everyone needed to sit on the floor in a circle.
"Now's your chance" Becky chuckled before she made her way to the rest of the group, smiling when she realised that Quinn in fact was following her.