AUTHOR'S NOTE
Hey guys! Here's the next chapter! Thanks again so much for the reviews and favourites, it's really what keeps me writing these as quickly as I can.
I just wanted to also mention that my story won't really be following the story line of the actual show, some stuff might mimic it, but a lot of the timing might be a little off and it's going to be pretty different.
Also, it's entertaining to see all of your guesses in your reviews and how much you guys like the story. And I'm happy to say that so far, by the looks of it, no one knows Rachel's secret yet so far :)
Anyway I don't own Glee blah blah
Enjoy!
Quinn was late to school this morning. Having been given the gift of some beautiful morning sickness after having her breakfast had her hunched over the toilet for the most part of the morning with the excuse to her mother that it was 'something she ate'.
She ran into the hallway, bypassed her locker and headed straight to English, happy that she could easily come up with an excuse for her English teacher as to why she was late.
"Sorry Mrs. Hollander, I uh-wasn't feeling well this morning," the teacher gave her a knowing, simpathetic look and proceeded with her lesson. She made her way to her seat in the back, ignored the snide comment from Santana, who actually looked a little worse then Rachel today. Quinn couldn't help but smirk as she took her seat.
The blond quickly met the concerned gaze that Rachel was sending her from the front of the class, and Quinn managed to respond with a small, hopefully not to awkward looking, smile.
As expected, Rachel made her way to Quinn as soon as the bell rang. "Quinn, is everything ok? I heard you say that you weren't feeling well, are you sure everything's alright?"
Quinn couldn't help but still be curious to why Rachel Berry was so concerned about her and her pregnancy but dismissed it to the fact that this is certainly not the most surprising thing that has happened over the past few days. "I'm fine Rachel, just a little morning sickness." Rachel perked up a bit and Quinn wasn't sure if it was because of the answer or the lack of usual disgust and annoyance that her voice had.
"I'm happy to hear that Quinn. Morning sickness is extremely common in the first trimester and you should be done with it soon. Now, I wouldn't want to make you late to your next class." And with a small wave, she was gone.
Quinn's stomach grumbled as she hurried for the cafeteria, it was then when she remembered that she forgot to pack her lunch because of the rush she was in. She took a glance at what they were serving in the cafeteria and it looked less than appetizing. The pregnant girl then noticed Finn waving to her from their usual table and she went to sit down next to him.
"Hey Quinn, where's your lunch?"
"I forgot it at home," was all Quinn responded with, as she eyed her boyfriend's lunch with disgust. A barbeque chicken sandwich with a bag of Cheetos.
"Oh," Finn looked around quickly, "do you want some of my sandwich?" Quinn flinched, just the look of that greasy thing made her nauseous. Finn quickly realized this, "or maybe my Cheetos?"
Quinn sighed, "It's ok Finn, I'm going to go check if I have something left over in my locker. I'll see you later." Finn smiled at her as she left the table as well as the cafeteria.
The ex-cheerio made her way down the hall when she passed the choir room and heard the soft melody of a piano coming from behind the door. There was no singing so Quinn couldn't identify who it was.
Feeling bold, the blond slightly made her way into the choir room. She wasn't at all surprised when she saw Rachel Berry sitting at the piano, her lunch discarded on one of the chairs.
'She hasn't seen you yet, just leave, walk away.' Quinn started to turn around to leave with a sigh.
"Quinn?" the blond hadn't even noticed that the music stopped. She turned back around and met the curious gaze of the girl she'd been seeing a lot over the days. "Did you need something?"
"No, uh, sorry," the blond looked around the room awkwardly, "I just heard the piano."
"I often like to come to the choir room and play a bit, it's quiet in here, almost welcoming." Quinn nodded in slight agreement. "You finished your lunch already? That's awfully quick. It probably isn't great for the baby to be consuming your food at such a pace. Maybe you could.."
"Rachel."
Rachel visibly shrank a bit and Quinn felt bad. "No, I mean, I uh, forgot my lunch at home, so no, I didn't eat fast or anything."
A loud gasp was heard and Quinn couldn't help but smile at the reaction.
"Quinn Fabray you are eating for not only yourself but also for the child attempting to grow inside of you. You can't simply risk your baby's health by going a day without eating your lunch."
The brunette made her way to her little containers of lunch on the chair and grabbed them. She carefully took out one of her sandwich halves and handed it to Quinn.
"It's lettuce and tomato. Vegan cuisine isn't exactly the most exquisite." Rachel said with a small laugh.
"Rachel, I'm not going to eat your lunch.." the brunette held up her hand to stop her.
"Quinn, don't argue with me, eat this instant or I will come to you tomorrow with a 20 page power point presentation on keeping a fetus healthy and letting it grow properly in your womb."
Quinn laughed at the use of 'fetus' and 'womb' but still hesitated, but her stomach was begging her. She took hold of the sandwich half with a smile and gracefully took a bite. Rachel smiled and took hold of her half. They ate in silence for a while before Quinn's curiosity finally got the better of her.
"Why are you being so nice to me?" Quinn internally smacked herself because the question sounded more threatening then she had wanted it to. Rachel, always one to keep her manners, finished chewing her piece of bread, took a small sip of water and finally answered.
"Why not?" T'hat's it?! That's her big response.' Rachel must have noticed her facial expression because she spoke again. "I don't know what you want me to say Quinn. I've always been quite nice to you, this is just the only time you allow me to be in your presence enough to actually recognize it."
Quinn opened her mouth to respond but nothing came out. She's right, the short brunette has never been anything but polite to her she would just be quick to insult her to no end. The guilt was rising up in her but she quickly swallowed it down.
"But the slushies, and Santana, that's not normal 'polite' behavior."
"Maybe not." Rachel paused as she opened up another container, which seemed to contain fruit, held it up to Quinn, who shyly took a strawberry, and smiled as she put it back down. "You're in a tough situation Quinn. And while I do not condone the reaction of the rest of our student body to your…Situation, I for one, can see that you could use a friend, and I am offering to provide that to you. Granted your offer for a friendship still stands. But even if you don't want to start a friendship with me, I will still be polite to you and try to help you, especially when it concerns your safety or the safety of your unborn child." She then took out a grape from her little blue container, and popped it in her mouth.
Quinn stayed quiet for a long time. Her mind was racing at everything the singer just said and the fact that she said it so…Calmly. This didn't seem to matter, because Rachel seemed to have more to say.
"I mean I don't understand how anyone in this school can do this sort of stuff to you when clearly you're in an extremely fragile state. I mean, they may be a little incompetent but they aren't imbeciles. Frankly, the entire attitude of this school body is pretty incredible, and not in a good way. They can't do these sort of things to you now! Not that I condone them doing these things to you before, not that they did these things to you before, but anyway don't they realize how dangerous it is? Don't they realize that you or possibly your baby could easily be in harms way? Our classmates are a lot of things but they aren't murders. It's quite unimpressive that I've had to 'protect' you several times in only the past few days, and I know I seem ridiculous but you need to be safe. You and your baby need to be safe, this can't happen again, I won't let it happen again." By now the small singer was rambling almost hysterically, Quinn quickly got up from her chair and made her way to the one right next to Rachel.
"Rachel, Rachel!" The brunette finally looked up and the blond noticed her eyes watering. 'What do I do?' Quinn frantically searched through her brain for some sort of TV show she's seen in which friends had to comfort each other. She internally cursed herself for not watching more television.
Call it hormones, call it her 'motherly instincts' kicking in, call it whatever you want. But something made her rap her arms around the crying girl. She just kind of stayed still as Rachel awkwardly returned the hug.
They stayed like that for a few seconds until Rachel finally pulled away.
"Thank you," she whispered and Quinn smiled.
"I think I should be thanking you." Quinn simply responded. "No ones ever been this nice to me."
"You've never let me be this nice to you before," Rachel said with a shrug as she started closing her colored containers.
"I've never let anyone be this nice to me," the blond mumbled more to her herself.
"Hmm?"
"Nothing."
"Oh."
Silence. Both girls seemed to now be lost in their own thoughts until the bell finally rung signaling the end of lunch. Rachel was first to make a move. The shorter girl got up, gathered her things and began walking out of the room.
"See you in glee." And with that she was gone.
Quinn waited a few minutes and then left as well, only half noticing that had been the first time in a while where she hadn't gotten sick after eating.
The rest of the day passed without anything surprising happening. Rachel took two more slushies for her, always with the same sad smile directed towards her before heading to the bathroom to wash up. People from Glee were starting to get suspicious though unfortunately. Quinn knew they would be asking questions soon.
Sure enough Quinn walked into the choir room with Finn by her side after school to see Rachel being cornered by about half the club.
"What's going on?" the tall boy whispered to her.
Quinn wanted to laugh for a second at the fact that her own boyfriend hasn't noticed the little Streisand lover…looking after her the past few days. Quinn merely shrugged as they approached the huddling group.
"Hey what's going on?" Finn asked the group.
"You tell us Finn," Kurt obviously was the first to respond, "shouldn't you be wondering why Rachel here is spending her time taking slushies and beatings for YOUR girlfriend?"
"What are you talking about?" Finn looked between his girlfriend and the small brunette in confusion. "Rachel and Quinn don't even like each other."
Rachel's head ducked sadly a bit and Quinn finally spoke up.
"What me and Rachel do is none of your guys' business. So let's all do ourselves a favor and stay out of it. Now, I suggest we all sit down and get ready for Glee."
With that she grabbed Finn's hand and walked to the middle row's set of chairs to sit down, vaguely hearing, "did she just call Rachel by her first name," come out of Tina's mouth.
Luckily, everyone seemed to listen to her and take his or her respective seats, and everyone was quiet when Schuester walked in.
"Alright guys, I've been thinking a lot about the competitions we have coming up but I then realized that before even thinking about competitive stuff we need to start thinking like a team." Everyone kept a curious eye on the curly haired teacher as he present this week's assignment. "We're lucky enough to have people from very different backgrounds and with very different interests to have joined Glee and I think it's time we try to embrace that more."
Quinn eyed the room, if only the teacher knew the actual reasons why some of these kids joined. Quinn's gaze found Mr. Schue's again as he grabbed a marker to write on the board.
'FRIENDSHIP'
The word stared Quinn down as the teacher stepped away from the white board with a smile.
"I want you guys to come in through out the week with different songs about friends and friendship and how important they are. You guys can form little groups or sing something by yourselves. Have fun with it guys, maybe you'll all find things in common with someone you've never expected to, and maybe even make some new friends."
If Mr. Schue heard the scoff come out of Santana's mouth, he sure did ignore it well enough.
The rest of Glee went by with people brainstorming ideas out loud and Mr. Schue smiling and suggesting other songs that could match so and so's range well enough. Quinn tuned out most of it honestly.
"Alright guys! Good stuff! I look forward to seeing what you guys will prepare." And with that we were dismissed.
Quinn got up from her seat tiredly, and walked over to where Finn was talking with Puck, she could not wait to get to Finn's and take a nap.
"Quinn, hey! I wanted to ask you if you would mind if I just drove you home today after school instead of you coming to my house." Quinn raised an eyebrow at him. "It's just that, Puck's coming over and we're going to play video games and he might even help me with my song this week."
Quinn sighed and brought Finn close to her to whisper in his ear, "I'll probably fall asleep at my house Finn and I don't usually do that and my parents are already getting..suspicious."
Finn's mouth took the shape of an 'o' as he began to understand the situation.
"Yo Finn, let's get out of here, this badass wants to get his zombie killing on," Puck shouted from near the door as other members of the Glee club began to leave.
Finn shouted a reply to the Mohawk boy before turning back to Quinn, "Well, I guess you can still come over then, me and Puck will try to be quiet so that you can sleep."
Quinn sighed again, she really didn't want to be in the house with the guy who got her pregnant and the guy who thinks he got her pregnant. "It's fine, I'll just go home."
"You can come to my house," was faintly heard from behind the blond girl. Quinn turned around to see none other then Rachel Berry. "I-I have a guest room Quinn can use to sleep and my dads won't be home until later in the evening so it should be quiet enough."
"Are you sure Rach? I mean…Quinn are you ok with that?" Finn looked between the two girls quizzically.
Quinn thought about it for a moment. Possibly falling asleep at Rachel's house, would mean having to make small talk with the short girl on the way there, and for the possibility of Rachel's dads coming home before she wakes up and throwing her out on the street for being so mean to their beloved daughter in the past. Then again, going home could mean her mother asking her more and more questions and slowly hinting and complaining about the fact that she is now off the cheerios and how disappointed her and Russel are.
"Quinn?" Rachel questioned, concerned. "It was just a suggestion, in fact, I think I'll go now." The brunette, obviously embarrassed turned to leave.
"Rachel wait," Quinn reached out to grab her shoulder and the short girl turned around. "That would actually be really good." 'really good? really Quinn?'
"Uhh.." Finn still seemed a little confused as to whether or not this seemed like a good idea, "Are you sure Quinn?"
"Yes, Finn, I'll be fine, you enjoy your time with Puck." The tall boy grinned and pecked her on the lips.
"Thanks babe, call me if you need anything ok?" Quinn nodded and her boyfriend jogged over to Puck who muttered a "finally" under his breath as they both left.
The two girls were left in silence for a while before Rachel finally spoke up, "well, shall we?"
Quinn nodded with a small, unsure smile as they walked out the choir room door.
So what did you guys think?
I know I've read a lot of stories that kind of hate on Schuester but mine won't be like that simply because I don't find he's a bad guy, infact, I think he has helped the characters grow a lot.
Anyway, please review!