A/N.: Edit: 10/07/2014
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Chapter 2 – Lunch time speculations.
Her Math's teacher was an owl. Literally an owl. Not a member of the birdfolk, but an actual talking owl. It was funny watching him write on the board. He looked like a trapped fly trying to pass through the glass of a window.
He was very small, with the size of a football, and the only one until now that didn't ask her to introduce herself to everyone. The class finished soon enough and she was fast out of the classroom going to her locker once again. She was about to open it when she sees the altercation way down the hall.
It was Santana standing, protectively, in front of Brittany. The other student was enormous and round. He was hovering angrily over Santana, but stank of fear. He sure didn't new how to hold his ground and was almost trembling before the gorgon. Yet he tried to make it look like he had the upper hand.
Thanks to her feline hearing she could hear them even with the others noises of the school. Santana snarled at him with her snakes hissing together in a very menacing way.
"Are you crazing threatening my Britt, a cheerio, that way? Had all this fat infected you brain? Step away from her or I'm gonna cut you! I have razor blades hidden in my hair!" She roared at his face making him wince.
Rachel was anxious to see how things would turn out when something stepped in front of her. She looked up and was met with the goofy smile of Finn the Quarterback, whatever was his surname.
"Hey Rachel… I was looking for you." He said.
"Oh, really?" she deadpanned trying to see past him put he kept putting himself before her.
She let out a low and annoyed hiss, looking up back at him.
"Yeah! So…" He smiled getting closer… as if her neck wasn't already at breaking point for having to look up at him. "You're new and I'm the quarterback… this means I'm popular… So I was thinking, you should walk with me so nobody does nothing with you, 'cause they can be really mean with new kids…" he said as if trying to be all charming and mighty knight-ish.
"Thank you, but I don't think it will be necessary." She tries to be polite
"I don't think you understood me… It… Oh…" he stuttered looking past her.
"Hello, Finn." I voice with a cold air about it came from behind her.
"Hi, Finn." Another voice, way hotter, accompanied the first.
"Hm… Hi… Kurt, Mercedes… Bye. Talk to you later!" He said warily while backing off and then running away.
Rachel looked down the hallway and was disappointed that the quarrel between Santana and the other guy had finished. She just sighed and turned to the two beings that still standing there even after the ent went running.
They were complete opposites. Literally. He was this kind of ice being with an extremely white skin with a frosted bluish tint to it and he even had some snow covering him. She was a fire elemental, with a reddish dark skin and hair. It was like heat came from her in waves.
His eyes were blue and very light with the same frozen like appearance. Her eyes were like lava. He was taller and she was shorter. He was very thin and she was curvy. They had each their own fashion tendencies, but dressed themselves like they lived for it.
"Hum, hello…" Rachel greeted them
"Hello, new girl. I'm Kurt Hummel and this is my best friend Mercedes Jones." The boy introduced both of them "We heard some rumors about you and came to check them ourselves." He explained himself.
"Rachel Berry, pleasure." She answered "And what these rumors are about exactly?" she asks sweetly, relaxing her ears and thankful that Finn had gone away.
"About the new girl catching the eyes of our most popular students?" Mercedes mocked looking her up and down. "Though, I don't know how. I mean, look at your clothes, Kitty Girl." She added with an attitude.
Rachel just looked at her with one ear up and the other down, before rolling her eyes at them and huffing a little. She barely could hold her laugh, however. Her amusement way bigger than the annoyance.
"Not that I have to tell you, but… My clothes were burned by my old neighbor before I moved here." Rachel said trying to hide her amusement and already expecting the obvious answer.
"They sure did you a favor." Kurt replied, proving correct her speculations.
He and Mercedes even touched fingers which caused a hissing sound similar to when you put a heated pan in contact with water.
"You should let us help you with it. As you can see we know what we're doing." Mercedes said showing hers and Kurt's outfit.
It didn't take much for Rachel to understand how much popularity meant in the halls of McKinley. She could also tell that the three cheerleaders plus Finn were members of the popular crowd.
And Rachel, surprisingly so, had their attention. These two, probably wanted to jeopardize it or join her so they could have a little of that attention too.
"Well, I would love the company, but you see… Santana, Brittany and Quinn already have invited themselves to accompany me, so it should be up to them." Rachel kept smiling "Why don't you go and ask them if you can come with us?" She then straightened her back and started to walk past them. "Now, if you excuse me, I have to go."
And Rachel went down the hall with as much poise as she could, swaying her tail and proving how much of a cat she really was and leaving the two of them with their jaws hanging.
By lunch time Rachel was really sure of two things. One was that most of the school population was speaking about her and two was that the rat-boy she saw earlier that day was stalking her. At least, he hadn't approached her… yet. She was thankful for that at least.
She was on the queue for lunch when Finn approached her.
"Hi again!" he said with a stupid smile "Sorry about early, I… hum… I remembered I had to do something. Yes. That. I remembered that I had to do something." He sounded so proud of himself for being able to think of that lie.
It was almost sad, Rachel had to think. She thought ents were known to be wise, but this boy… Well exceptions existed everywhere didn't they?
They were almost getting to where the foods where when Finn seemed to notice something. Rachel made sure to internally brace herself against anything he would throw at her this time.
"Hum… they serve fish over there, you now?" He pointed out.
"Fuck, Hudson! Enough with the stereotypes. Having a gay brother one would you'd known better." someone said pushing him aside "You're in my and Britt's spot, Hollow Trunk."
Santana was soon after Rachel on the queue having pushed Finn behind.
"Hey, Santana I was there…" Before he could finish speaking however he was pushed aside again, this time by the lion girl. "Quinn!" Finn yelled, but went completely ignored.
"Hey, Rachel! You didn't wait for us…" The girl said with her ears pulled back and making a show of sad eyes in Rachel's direction.
"Hum…" she flushed "I guessed we would meet here? Also I didn't know what classes you had before lunch period." Rachel tried to reassure the girl. "Hmm, Sorry?"
Santana laughed at them, apparently very amused, soon been accompanied by a very giddy Brittany. "Relax, munchkin, Q is messin' with you."
"I'm not a munchkin!" Rachel protested.
"Sure is short like one." The gorgon teased.
"Relax, Rachel, San is just messing with you." Britt smiled mocking the other girl "It means she likes you."
"Like hell I do!" Santana objected…
Rachel just looked at them not amused at all, but smiled at them anyway.
"I'm sure you don't Santana. You barely know me." She said matter-of-factly.
"See!?" Santana pointed at her before thinking twice. "Hey, why you're not offended?"
"You're hardly being menacing. I saw you down the hall before with the big guy…" Rachel answers, picking her food. "Why don't you tell them that they're poisonous?" She asked them suddenly curious.
"They who, shorty?" Santana burrows her eyebrows.
"Your snakes… You said you had razor blades in your hair… wouldn't it be more scary if you told them that they are poisonous?" Rachel reasoned.
"She actually makes sense." Quinn said "Not only would you be able to turn them into stone, but you'd able to poison them too." She arches her eyebrow, challenging Santana to disagree.
"Scary…" Brittany says… "Is it actually true? 'Cause they bit me all the time when we're having rough se..."
Santana quickly covers Brittany mouths with her hands, almost letting her tray fall, and laughs awkwardly. "No B they're not poisonous and that's particular… and… I don't hurt you do I?" She asks then very concerned.
"No… it's actually good, like you're nibbling my skin… it tickles." Brittany said with a huge smile and Santana smiles back before turning to Quinn and then to Rachel.
"It's an idea." She huffed feigning indifference. "Not bad, Kitty."
Their interaction was observed by the whole student body and was soon becoming the major topic of conversation around the cafeteria.
Rachel was looking for a table when Brittany called her showing their own table. Rachel walked a little unsure in their direction.
The table sure was a little away from the others, but there were others cheerleaders sitting there too and they were looking funny at her. Until Quinn arched her eyebrow, silently questioning them if they had something to say. They just stayed quiet and looked ashamed.
Rachel sat next to Quinn because Santana and Brittany were almost glued together.
"They're always like that?" Rachel whispered.
"Usually they're worse." Quinn breathed the answer in her ear making her shiver a little. "Look, I want to warn you of something." Leaning on her a little more. "Our coach is always keeping her eyes on new talent. She has some crazy thing about felines. She will probably go after you as soon as she sees you."
"Oh… should I be apprehensive?" Rachel weekly smiled.
"A little." Quinn said "But don't worry if anything I will keep you safe." She looked directly at Rachel's eyes making the girl blush and squirm…
"Are you too going to make out?" Britt asked with bright and hopeful eyes, making Rachel blush even more.
Quinn seemed very entertained by the idea though.
"Oh, fuck no, bitch you won't!" Santana snarled
"Excuse me? Felines. Nothing close to a bitch." Quinn retorted
"Pussy then!" was the answer
"Pussy is what you lick every night." The blond said back
"HELL YEAH!" someone yelled in approval being followed by a bunch of catcalls.
"You idiots better shut up or I'm renewing the city's museum statues collection!" Santana yelled back getting up from her seat.
Rachel looked at everything with very wide eyes hoping that Santana didn't actually mean it. But the whole room stayed quiet after her warning. Well, until Quinn start to laugh at her friend's angry and flushed face.
"Shut it, Q!" Santana snarled sitting again making Quinn laugh even harder.
So hard that it even mixed with a roar or another making chills go down Rachel's spine to the tip of her tail once again making her fur bristle.
"Shush, you two." Brittany said with a smile "So Rachie… how we're going to buy you knew clothes?"
"Hmm… We're going Saturday morning? My dads were going to go with me, but I can tell them I'll go with some friends?" She suggested
"Good. Nothing is worse than the parents getting in the way." Santana agreed.
"Dads? Like two fathers?" One of the nameless cheerleaders asked
"Yeah… and they're both dogs." She said on a deadpanned tone. "Earlier when I got here a dog smelled them on me and though I had a thing for dogs and flirted with me." Rachel ads remembering
"Who?" Quinn asked frowning almost growling
"Don't know… Noah I think… with a Mohawk… which, by the way, looked really strange because of his furry ears." She told not noticing Quinn sending death glares in said boy's direction, or the amused look in Santana eyes while she saw her friend being completely obvious.
"Weird." The cheerleader said
"I think it's cool…" other said.
"Yeah, we don't care what you think." Santana cut the commentaries with a harsh tone.
"Aw! I want to meet them! Can I, Rachie?" Brittany asked clapping her h ands.
"Why don't we pick her up on Saturday and she introduce them to us?" Quinn suggested having stopped glaring in Puck's direction and sitting closer to Rachel
"Yeah… Maybe." The kitty girl answered with a small smile.
"Yaaaay!" the nymph clapped happily and then making a little dance still sitting.
They sure were interesting people, Rachel thought.
The rest of lunch was spent with Rachel telling Brittany about the city she lived before and about her dragons neighbors. Santana was staring at the nymph the whole time with such a sweet smile on her face. And Quinn just looked at Rachel.
Quinn never felt like this before, I mean sure once, but not really like this. She wanted to touch the kitty girl, and snuggle with her. To breath in her smell and nuzzle her neck. God she wanted to touch the girl's tail and fell the fur between her fingers.
She blushed at the thought. It was well known that the tail of any creature that had a tail was a very private part… it was like touching someone's private parts… or flipping someone's skirt… for some people it was even worse. Mostly because the feel of having your tail touched was very arousing. And Quinn wanted to able to do that.
She looked at Rachel's profile and smiled to herself. She was a girl in a mission now.