Chapter Thirteen

We arrived back in Ohio, at two pm, and back in Lima at just turned half two. I gave them the tightest of hugs and then walked into school, deciding to go to the choir room. I played around on the piano and words came to me and so I was busy writing a song when the door opened. "Hey," said Noah's voice.
"Noah," I said. I ran into his arms and leaned up to kiss him, I'd missed him so much, and we'd only been going out just over a week. "I watched the service yesterday," he said. "It looked so emotional,"
"It was," I said. "Hard to describe how much really,"
"Hey Rach," said Mike's voice it sounded nervous.
"Hello Michael," I said confused.
"I just wanted to apologise for how I treated you last year," he said. "It was more out of loyalty to Tina, and Asians,"

"I completely understand," I said. "Don't worry about it, but I hope you've realised you have to do things the way you want not how others want,"
"I have," he said. "Friends," he looked so nervous I would say no.
"Of course," I said. "I know the guys will like you,"
"They are awesome," he said.
"Yes," I said. "If they're okay with it, we could maybe hang out this weekend,"
"Sure," he said. I sat with Noah and Mike as everyone else drifted in, Tina glared at us, as did most of the girls, Kurt and Finn. Santana and Brittany didn't.
"Okay guys," said Mr Schue. "Oh Rachel you're back," he looked anything but happy about that. I just rolled my eyes, "How was your weekend,"

"It was the one of the hardest weekends of my life," I said. "And I'm not going to discuss it with you,"
"Why were you even there," said Sunshine.
"I was supporting my brothers," I said.
"You don't have any brothers," said Quinn.
"You don't have to be related to be a family, I mean Mr Schue thinks we're a family," I said. "I disagree somewhat since you've always treated me and eventually Noah like dirt on the bottom of your shoes, but I see how it works for the rest of you,"
"You sent Sunshine to a crack house," said Tina. "That part of town is dangerous, and that's an understatement, she got groped by some men and they tried to force her to sniff a line of coke, that's messed up,"

"That's what she told you," I said,
"Yeah because that's the truth," said Sunshine.
"It's bull shit," I said. "She never even entered the house, she left me there alone and I had to walk back to school,"
"Yeah right," said Mercedes. "It's just something you would do, you know like this weekend you probably only went to meet Obama,"
"Okay, who the fuck do you think you are," said Dylan's voice suddenly.
"I thought you guys went home," I said.
"We were going to, and we were halfway there," said Jack. "But Chris called and wants to talk about this weekend, he sounded pissed, so we thought we'd come back here,"

"Well come and sit down," I said. "Dylan calm down,"
"No Rach I won't," he said. "They have no idea what they're talking about,"
"She's just a gold digging bitch," said Sunshine, "You should be careful around her, she might lock you in a crack house,"
"Newsflash bitch," said Rachel. "I've known them since I was five,"
"Don't call her a bitch," said Mr Schue.
"Oh so they can treat Rachel like shit, but as soon as she stands up for herself you she gets put down by you, double standard much," said Cam.
"I thought you were the dumb one," said Mr Schue.
"Oh no you didn't," said Jack, he walked up to Mr Schue and got right in his face. "You wanna say that again,"

"Get out of my face," said Mr Schue.
"Jack," I said. "Come and sit back down,"
"He'd just called Cam, dumb Rach," said Jack.
"I know," I said. "And he's a complete and utter asshole for saying it, but violence is not the answer,"
"A very greasy asshole," said Dylan. I grimaced and turned to face him.
"That sounded so wrong," I said.
"Almost like me sleeping under you," he said.

Myself, Jack and Cam laughed with him, and it felt amazing to laugh again with them, they were back.
"Wait what," said Noah but I could see the amusement in his eyes.
"It's not what you think," I said still laughing. "The room we stayed in had a double bed and a bunk bed, so Jack and Cam slept on the double bed, I took the top bunk and Dylan took the bottom,"
"Oh," he said.
"Yeah and Rach said fuck too," said Jack.
"And that's unusual," I said.
"Well no," said Jack. "But this was in your sleep,"
"Oh my god really," I said blushing.
"No," said Cam, "We're just messing with you,"

Noah, Mike, Jack, Dylan and Cam all began laughing, I tried to glare at them but I found that I couldn't so I started laughing too. "Oh by the way I've just been writing a song," I said.
"Us too," said Dylan.
"Mine's not complete," I said.
"Well neither is ours," said Jack. We sat down in the corner completely ignoring everyone else, except of course Noah and Mike who came over and joined us. We were surprised to find our lyrics were very similar, so we combined them and in turn had created the perfect song.

"I sense a number one hit," I said.
"I don't know," said Dylan. "I think we should have you singing with us too,"
"What you mean actually record with you," I said.
"Well duh," said Cam.
"Yeah it's about time the world heard your voice, plus you helped us write nearly all our songs," said Jack.
"And how are you going to persuade Chris," I said. "He's not likely to allow me,"
"Well he's not the president of our record company is he," said Cam. "We can arrange a meeting with them and discuss it,"
"If you can persuade them then I'll definitely think about it," I said. "God you guys are the best,"
"We know," they said at once.