"You're all looking at a High School graduate suckers!" Noah yells from the other side of the yard as he shakes a champagne bottle and opens it. It spills out everywhere and he drinks out of it and then starts squirting some of the Cheerios and random people that are at his party with it. "First one in my family, the Puckerman is taking over the world" I roll my eyes. He's so full of himself.
"I hope to God he doesn't take over the world we'd all be screwed" Santana says and I let out a laugh.
"Sanny come dance with me" Brittany yanks Santana's arm and drags her away from me before she has time to protest. Not like she would anyways. Besides me Brittany is the only other person that can get San to do whatever she wants. I shake my head and watch them dance before I decide to go and get a drink.
On my way to the drink table I look around at all the decorations. A bunch of "you did it" or "congratulation" balloons and banners are everywhere. As much as I've come to like McKinley and the people here this isn't where I should be celebrating. I've spent my whole life up until this last year somewhere else and to be honest it does bother me a bit that I didn't get to finish there.
"These red and white colors suck. Where's the green at?" My eyebrows go in, in confusion as I turn around.
"Oh my God what are you doing here?" I shout as I pull Sara into a hug.
"Puck called me and told me this was going to be the last party before he takes over the world and well I couldn't miss it" She shrugs as we pull away from the hug. "He's not really taking over the world is he?" I laugh and shrug my shoulders.
"He seems to think he his" Sara laughs and shakes her head.
"Here babe, I got you a drink" I look over and this new person that's handing Sara and drink and then back at her. She gives me a small unsure smile before introducing us.
"Uh...Rae this is Jeremy. Jeremy this is Rachel"
"Oh so you're Rachel" Jeremy extends his hand and I shake it. "It's nice to finally meet you. Sara talks about you a lot"
"It's nice to meet you too" I look over at Sara and she knows I'm a bit confused. I don't talk to Sara often but the few times that I do she's never mentioned a Jeremy. In fact she's never mentioned anyone at all.
"What hell are you doing here?" I turn my head and see Santana coming towards us with Brittany. "Can't you just disappear from the planet already?"
"I'll disappear when you do"
"Sara" Brittany pulls Sara into a hug.
"Hey Brittany"
"So who's the dork?" Santana nods her head in Jeremy's direction and I elbow her in her ribs.
"Oww"
"Jeremy that's Satan...I mean Santana" Sara gives San a fake apologetic smile."And that's Brittany. Brittany, Santana this is Jeremy"
"I should be offended by the dork remark but lucky for me Sara already warned me about you" Jeremy says with a sly smile as he extends his hand and Santana shakes it.
"Hottie with the cute little body, you came" Noah bear hugs Sara making her spill her drink on the floor. He lifts her up in the air and hugs her tighter before putting her back down.
"Nice to see you too Puck"
"Sup bro" Noah nods his head at Jeremy.
"Puck, Jeremy. Jeremy, Puck" Jeremy extends his hand and Noah shakes it. "Can you go get me another drink since this jackass just spilled mine?" Sara asks Jeremy and he just smiles at her.
"Of course babe, excuse me everyone I'll be right back" Jeremy leaves and we all just kind of stare at Sara until Noah finally says something.
"Babe?" He questions with a puzzled look on his face. In fact we all have puzzled looks on our faces.
"I uh...I'm sort of dating him right now" Both Santana and Noah start laughing.
"You do know you're a lesbian right?" Sara glares at Santana.
"I rather not label myself thank you very much"
"You know if you wanted to date a guy you could have came to me. I'm single you know" Noah tells Sara.
"You're not my type"
"And that dork is?" Noah fires back.
"He's not a dork!"
"See I'm not the only that thought he was" Santana adds and I roll my eyes.
"I thought he was really cute" Brittany adds and Sara smiles at her.
"Thank you Brittany"
"He reminds me of that one boy on that show Arrested Development. What was the boy's name again Sanny? The one that had a crush on his cousin"
"George Michael?"
"Yeah that's it. Jeremy looks like George Michael" Sara frowns as Santana and Noah start laughing again and I even crack a small smile. "What? What did I say?" Brittany says innocently.
"What's so funny? What did I miss?" Jeremy asks as he comes back to the group and hands Sara her drink.
"Nothing" Sara mumbles as she takes a drink.
"I'm going to go start a game of quarters. You all in or what?" Noah asks and we all shake our heads yes.
"Wait before we go" Sara says and then turns to me. "I have your graduation present in the car. Will you come and get it with me?" I smile and nod my head yes. "Will you be okay with them until I get back?" Sara asks Jeremy.
"George Michael will be fine. Come on dude" Noah squeezes Jeremy's shoulder with his hand and pulls him away from us.
"He's such an asshole" Sara says.
"Language" I scold and Sara rolls her eyes. "Save me a spot" I tell San as I kiss her lips. She smiles and nods her head before walking away with Brittany. "So this present, is it really big?" I ask Sara as we start heading to her car.
"Not really"
"Oh. So it's small?" I question.
"Well jeez don't sound too disappointed you haven't even seen it yet"
"I'm sorry" I laugh. When we reach her car she pops her truck and pulls out a wrapped book shaped present. She hands it to me and I look at it before looking back at her.
"Well open it" As I un-wrap I see it's a book with the words yearbook on it.
"You bought me a yearbook?" Sara rolls her eyes at me.
"Will you open it?" I start opening the book and see that it's filled with pictures. Some of me here at McKinley and others of Sara at West Hill. It's sort of a mash up yearbook of both schools. "You told me during summer that you hated not being able to finish at West Hill with me and well...I thought I'd make you your very own special yearbook so you could have the best of both worlds" I look at Sara with tears in my eyes. "I filled it with things that happened at West Hill and things that happened at McKinley for you"
"How did you get this?" I ask when I see a picture of Santana and the Cheerios.
"As much as I don't want to give her credit Santana did help me a bit with this" Sara says with a bit of an annoyed tone. "This was totally my idea remember that but she did send me pictures for the McKinley side of the book" I just smile at her.
"She helped you?" I asked a bit surprised.
"Like I said this was all my idea but yes she did" When I get to the very last page of the book I look at the picture and then back up at Sara and she smiles at me. "I had to dig around in my old box of crap for that picture"
"I bet" The picture is of Sara, Santana and I when we were kids.
"That blank space next to that picture is for umm...it's for the recent one we're all going to take" I raise my eyebrow at her.
"Recent?" Sara nods her head yes. "San's not going to take a picture with you" I tell Sara with a smile.
"Yes she is. I already talked to her about it and she said she would"
"You what? When did you talk to her?"
"Don't worry about it. But she said she'd do it"
"Really?"
"Yep, I convinced her it was for you and not me and well that girl is so whipped, she'd do anything for you it's pretty disgusting" I laugh and nudge Sara.
"I can't believe she said yes"
"Why am I getting the feeling I just got Santana a free ticket into your pants tonight" I just grin.
"This was really sweet Sara, thank you" I tell her as I pull her in for a big hug.
"So N.Y.U. huh?" Sara tells me when we break away from the hug.
"Yeah, I'm headed to the Big Apple"
"That's really great Rae. Maybe one day when you're not really busy with school we could get lunch or something" I give Sara a questioning look.
"Are you coming to school in New York?" She shrugs.
"I will not confirm or deny it" She tells me with a smile and I roll my eyes. "So did Santana tell you where she's going?"
"No, She won't tell me"
"What do you mean she won't tell you?"
"She doesn't want me to focus on us. She wants me to focus on me but she said not to worry and to trust her so well I'm trusting and hoping that everything will be okay"
"You're totally freaking out aren't you?"
"You have no idea" I tell her with a laugh.
"Well just know you'll have someone close by just in case she isn't but I'm sure she won't be too far away" I give Sara another curious look.
"You know something that I don't huh?"
"Come on let's get back to the party" Sara avoids the question and tugs at my arm.
"Hey Sara" I say just before we reach the house.
"Yeah"
"What's the deal with Jeremy? Why didn't you tell me about him" She shrugs at me.
"I don't know. It's all very new to me I guess. Just trying something out. I mean I've tried dating other girls but they...they weren't... you" She gives me a sad smile. "I think you've ruined all women for me"
"Sorry"
"It's okay" Sara chuckles. "I guess when you've had the best it hard to settle for anything less" She says with a shrug. "Who knows maybe I was meant to be with a guys all along and you just distracted me for a while"
"Maybe" We walk back into the party and head straight to the back table where I see Santana and Sara sees Jeremy.
"Hey" Santana greets me once I take my spot next to her.
"Hey yourself"
"Let's see that present" She takes the book out of my hand and start flipping through it. "Not bad"
"Thank you"
"For?" She tells me as she continues to flip through the book.
"The book"
"This was all Sara's idea"
"I know but it was nice of you to give her pictures and for agreeing to take a recent picture with us"
"A recent picture?" Santana tells me as she looks back up at me.
"Yeah, you know so we can match the picture of us as kids"
"I didn't agree to that"
"Yes you did. Sara said she talked to you about it and you said you would do it"
"Rachel I seriously didn't agree to that. The only thing I agreed to was giving her pictures of the school year and that's it" I look at Santana and then back over at Sara who's laughing and talking with the others and then it hits me. She'd do anything for you. Sara's a genius. She knew that she wouldn't be able to get Santana to do this but if I asked her she would. "I'm not taking a picture"
"Yes you are" I tell her with a sly smile.
"No I'm not"
"Please San for me, just this once. You don't have to stand next to her or anything. Please it would really mean a lot to me" Santana glares at me.
"Fine" She says as she walks away. I smile and head over to Sara.
"That was an evil trick you did" I say as I lean into her ear so she can hear me.
"I don't know what you're talking about"
"Oh yes you do. It was evil but she agreed" Sara smiles at me.
"I knew she would'
College time came too quickly. Before any of us knew it we were moving out, heading to our colleges and in the words of Noah "taking over the world" I shake my head and smile at that thought. It took Noah a whole day to realize that taking over the world was going to be a lot of work. Instead he settled for helping out the world and is now working on becoming a cop. Brittany took her dancing scholarship she earned and is going to Julliard which isn't that far from me. Quinn and Finn well I don't really know what happened with them. Santana mentioned something about Quinn traveling the world but didn't mention what Finn was doing. Kurt and Mercedes both got into Fashion Design School in Ohio. Mike joined the Navy. As for Artie, Tina, Sugar and Sam they are all at McKinley for one more year.
"Hey Rach how about a little help here" The door swings open and I snap out of my thought to see Santana juggling two boxes. I jump up from the bed and quickly go over to her and grab the top box. "These are the last two"
"Good I'm tired" I tell her as I drop the box on the floor and lay back down on her bed.
"Tired? You helped me move like two boxes"
"But I moved all morning into my dorm room"
"You only moved two boxes there too. I did the rest for you" I grin at her because I know she's right. I wasn't much help this morning either.
"You know I like organizing more than moving things" Santana just rolls her eyes at me. "So what time does your roommate get here?"
"I don't know. Whenever I guess"
"What's her name? Where is she from?" Santana shrugs. "How do you not know? Didn't the school tell you a little about her?"
"They sent me a paper with her name and number on it but I don't remember her name. It was something weird though. The paper with all of my room information is in my book bag if you want to take a look" My curiosity takes over and I get off the bed and walk over to Santana's book bag to search for the paper. "I think it starts with an S though" I finally find the paper in the mess that she calls an organized folder and read it over.
"Sarazin [sar-uh-zin] Jacobs" I say as I read it out loud.
"Yeah Sarazin, that's it, weird ass name. I mean who names their kid that?" I look over the phone number that is given while San keeps talking. "I was going to call to introduce myself but I didn't. I figure whether we like each other or not we're stuck here together for the year so I might as well wait till move in day to introduce myself" I let out small giggle. "What's so funny?"
"Nothing, nothing at all"
"Why don't I believe you" San gives me a questioning look and I just smirk at her before sitting back on her bed. She walks over to me a stands in between my legs. "You know if you're too tired to go back to your dorm maybe you should just stay here for the night"
"I should?" I answer her back playfully and she nods her head yes.
"With rush hour it might take you two hours to get back over there maybe even more. You need to stay"
"San it takes twenty minutes from N.Y.U. to Columbia and even in traffic it would only take like forty five minutes fifty max"
"So?"
"So... I kind of already told my roommate that would could spend the night getting to know each other" Santana leans into my neck and starts trailing kisses up and down it and I lose all my thoughts.
"That's fucking disgusting. Rae, seriously go wash your neck!" Santana stops kissing me and sort of freezes in place as I break into a big smile. I look over San and see Sara standing in the doorway making a disgusted face.
"You're here" I move Santana out of the way and get off the bed so I can hug Sara. "And watch your language" I scold as we break apart.
"What do you mean you're here? What the hell are you doing here?"
"Unfortunately I'm rooming here with you" Sara answers Santana.
"You're Sarazin?"
"Yep" Santana starts laughing and both Sara and I glare at her.
"Sarazin? You're name is Sarazin? Oh my god where is Puck when you need him"
"Don't you dare tell him my name is Sarazin" Sara warns as Santana rolls her eyes. "I'm surprised Rae didn't tell you it was me though"
"I just found out a few minutes ago it was you but why didn't you tell me you were coming here, or that you were San's roommate?"
"I wanted too to tell you since the graduation party but then I wanted to surprise you so…I just didn't say anything. And believe me when I say that I've been trying to get a transfer since the day I saw Santana Lopez on my school papers but the housing department told me all the rooms are filled. It's either this or I live on the streets"
"The streets don't look too bad" Sara glares at Santana. "Where's George?"
"Jeremy" Sara corrects with an annoyed tone. "He's..."
"Right here" Jeremy says as he comes in the room with two bags in his hands. "Hello ladies" Sara grabs the bags out of Jeremy's hands and he gives me a hug. "So what did I miss? I take it they haven't killed each other yet"
"Not yet" I tell him.
"Yet being the key word" Sara adds.
"You wouldn't dare touch me" Santana challenges as she crosses her arms over her chest.
"Wanna bet?" The two both glare at each other.
"You two behave!" I tell them. "Why do I feel like this is going to be first grade all over again with me refereeing your fights" Both Sara and Santana just look at each other before they both start laughing. My face scrunches in, in confusion. Why are they laughing? Did I miss something? "What's so funny?" I ask. They both stop and look at me but then start laughing again. I shake my head. This really is going to be first grade all over again.
