A/N.: Edit 19/08/2014
Chapter 13 – A good dose of headache.
Their kiss in the school's park lot was a very quick one. Almost just a peck. They should go home soon since it was already pretty late in the day. Quinn held the door open for her companion with a sweet smile playing in her lips. The lion's ear trembled and her tail twisted while she waited for Rachel to take action. Rachel smiled back and enters the car feeling all giddy. She even sat on her own tail by accident.
"Ouch!" she let out trying to pull her tail free.
"What's the matter?" Quinn asks worried already inside the car.
"Hm, nothing… I just sat on my tail…" Rachel answers blushing as she rises herself from her sit just enough to pull her tail out.
"That can hurt." Quinn agreed. "I hate when I do that too."
And with that she finally started the car, driving them away from the school. It didn't take long for them to get to the brunette's house. After Quinn parked the car in front of the house, they briefly stared at each other, both knowing what they wanted to do. They moved together joining their lips and soon the innocent kiss turned in so much more.
Rachel was practically about to move onto Quinn's lap when her cellphone started to ring. Insistently. They both groan braking apart and Rachel accepts the call.
"Hum… hello, daddy." The girl answered her phone. "I'm sorry, daddy. It won't happen again. Hum… er… thank you daddy. I'll, hum, talk to her about it. See you soon." She ended the call looking a little unsure.
"What?" Quinn asks furrowing her brows.
"Daddy said for us to stop making out in the car since we have a perfectly nice couch inside. And also my bed… they just expect me to leave the door open when they're home. He also invited you for dinner." Rachel answered turning to her companion.
"Oh!" Quinn exclaims surprised and a little glad that Rachel's parents seemed to be okay with them being… er… together. "Wait! What are we?" the lion girl asked nervously.
"Easy." Rachel beamed "We're getting to know each other and seeing where it is taking us."
"How about a second date? This time just the two of us." The blonde asked biting her lips "Like… tomorrow 7 PM?"
"Perfect. Until then, care to join me inside?" the brunette invited and Quinn was all too eager to accept.
She was also going to meet both of Rachel's fathers while Santana met only one of them.
On another part of the city, eager fingers hovered over a computer keyboard. Words appearing on the screen rapidly forming a post that would make this blog the most read one in McKinley High's history. The figure's skinned tail and ears twitching in anticipation.
Above the post, its title rested, ready to gather everyone attention.
'McKinley High's new sweetheart is actually a spy from another school?'
He knew that half the things he was writing in the post was pure bullshit he came up with, but isn't that how Tabloids worked? She added a picture of the girl and published it without giving it a second though.
If his blog got enough views maybe other people would talk more with him and invite him to parties. Maybe some girl would even accept to go out with him, and let him touch her boobs and other things.
Unaware of such events the girls had a wonderful night. Rachel's dads adored Quinn. The girl was smart, funny and seemed very eager to be introduced to them. A very nice development since, usually, Rachel's suitors were far more apprehensive about meeting them.
Quinn left the Berry's house rather late for a week day. It just about to hit 10 PM when she got home and greeted her mom, who was looking over the bills, with a thigh hug and a swirl making the mail get scattered around the room.
"Oh my, Quinnie, put me to the ground." Her mother said chuckling and patting the girl's head. "What happened to make you so joyful, dear?"
"I kissed Rachel!" the lion girl squealed "And I met her daddies. They're cool and I think they liked me!"
"What is not to like, dear?" the older Fabray said pinching her daughter's cheek. "Now, I have to meet the lovely lady. Invite her for diner anytime."
"I'll do!" Quinn says running to the stairs.
"And, honey? Get yourself back here and clean the mess you caused." The woman said grabbing her cub by the tail.
"Ouch, Mom!" Quinn protested turning around as soon as her tail was free from her mother's hold.
"Well, I wouldn't have to grab you if you weren't running, would I?" The older lion retorted.
Quinn went to sleep soon after that. She wanted Friday to arrive soon. She wanted to see Rachel again soon. And on Fridays… they had morning practices.
However it doesn't matter how good Thursday was, and how anxious Quinn was for Friday… The day started being a bitch. Quinn woke up almost late. She had to rush getting herself ready and skipped her usual breakfast eating only some strips of bacon. Her car wasn't turning on and she had to call Santana, who was already practically at school when she had to turn around to pick her up.
Rachel may have had a better start, but as soon as she put her into school propriety she began to feel uneasy. The few students that were already at school, stared at her with judgmental eyes. They muttered and whispered between themselves and pointed at her.
She didn't get what was happening until she got to the Cheerios' locker room.
"Traitor!" A Fairy said pointing at her.
"What?" Rachel asked confused looking at everyone that was already there.
"You have guts, I'll give you that…." The girl went on without giving her a answer. "Appearing here, even after you got exposed."
Rachel was about to ask again when the door to the locker room opened for Quinn, Santana and Brittany.
"Why everyone standing around looking mad at Rachey?" the nymph asked confused.
"She is a traitor!" a vampire said
"What!?" Santana and Quinn asked together.
"Exactly!" Rachel exclaimed "I'm trying to understand myself."
"Are you trying to say that your mom isn't VA's coach?" the fairy that had spoken first asked her sarcastically.
"VA's?" the kitty frowned.
"What Vocal Adrenaline has to do with it?" Santana asked in her snarky way.
"Oh!" Rachel's eyes widened in understanding. "Yes she is my birth mom. How did you know that? I know people say we look alike a lot, but…"
"Aha! You admit then!" the vampire shouts
"To what?" Quinn demanded.
"It's all over JewFro's Blog! She is here to spy on us!" Rachel once again was accused.
Some of the others girls in the room nodded in agreement. The rest just watched waiting to see what would happen next. They didn't have to wait for long though. As soon the words left the Vampire's mouth the door of the locker room opens again. This time for a furious coach and her bullhorn.
"What you lazy girls are still doing here?" she yelled into the thing making all the girls cover their ears in pain. "All the boys of the squad are already at the field!"
"But coach!" the vampire cried out.
"No buts!" the human yelled again.
"But we have a spy here!" the fairy added whining
"I SAID NO… Wait WHAT?" The woman glared at them. "Explain!" she demanded.
"Uh…Er… I…" both vampire and fairy stuttered.
"They're accusing me of being a spy." Rachel droned, interrupting the girls' pathetic attempt of explaining.
"And why is that?" Sue asked narrowing her eyes.
"Because I'm the daughter of Carmel's choir group coach's." the kitty replied "I don't see how this affects them since Carmel hardly has a cheer squad or so I heard…"
"And they discovered this how?"
"It's on JewFro's blog!" an elf answered "The whole school knows by now."
"That little creep…" Sue mumbled to herself, it wasn't the first time that something posted by the boy in his blog had interfered with her cheerleading practice. She was going to crush him and feed him to some weird animal! "ENOUGH! Everyone to the field and running 50 laps around it! FOR NOW!" she yelled at them making them jump startled after the brief silence. "Becky, find this rodent, NOW! And bring him to me." And with that she was gone.
The whole squad goes to the field and starts to warm up and run. The boys that were waiting for them mostly just whine accusing them of causing it. They knew that this practice wasn't going to be easy. The woman was already crazy usually… When she was mad, then, she got even crazier.
However, for Rachel, the worst wasn't even the practice. Sure it was extremely tiring and they hardly trained their routines. But it wasn't as annoying as what was waiting for her at the end of the cheer squad morning practice.
She was summoned to the principal office and it was her second time in two weeks. She would never be called to the principal office on her last school. She also never received as much attention there as she receives here in Lima.
What is wrong with this school anyway? It was like everything here was so over the top and, although she did like drama, this school seemed to take things a little too intensely. And when she gets to the office this conclusion is greatly confirmed.
Not only the principal was waiting for her, but also were Mr. Schuester, Coah Sylvester, Mercedes and Kurt. Why the two of them were there, hell, why all of them were there was completely beyond her.
"You called, sir?" She says politely but wearing a frown.
"I… I was told that you… That… that you came to our s-school with a secret agenda." Figgins stuttered whipping the cold sweet from his brows.
He was acting more strangely than normal. What with all the stuttering anyway? At least before he was able to speak straight.
"A secret agenda?" Rachel asks arching her eyebrows.
"Yes… that you're spying on our Glee Club for the Vocal Adrenaline coach…" Figgins said but it sounded more like a question than a statement, he also looked at Schuester's direction the whole time.
"I'm telling you Figgins… I've been telling you since last year! Sue wants to destroy us! I bet she planned it… Why else would she recruit Rachel to be a cheerio so quickly and why would she insist for Rachel to sing the anthem at the first game?" the ghost teacher said in a heated way making the frames hanged on the walls rattle.
Mercedes and Kurt nodding in agreement with their teacher.
The commotion made Figgins flinch and shrink in his sit. Probably afraid of being decapitated by one of his decorations. Rachel wouldn't be surprised to find the walls bare the next time she ended up here.
"Oh, please William, not everything is about you. It's not my fault if your team of misfits wasn't talented enough to win last year Regionals." Sue scoffed. The two present members of said team frowning at these words. "And, unlike you, I know how to find talent. And she is a cat. Everyone knows I make sure to recruit every feline possible because they make adequate cheerleaders. Besides, only today I got to know that she is the daughter of your rival."
"Hah! And you want me to believe in that?" Schuester accused.
"Excuse me, But why I'm here exactly? I'm just watching you discuss awhile accusing me of things without giving me the chance to defend myself." Rachel interrupted them. "May I add that it's the most stupid accusation that I ever heard?"
"You don't worry, young lady, your mother soon will be here and we will be able to discuss it…" Figgins tries to speak
"What!?" Rachel practically growled. "You called my mother here? She is not my next of kin, she is not my legal guardian. She is merely my biological mother with whom I happen to have a good relationship with. But she is not the one to be called for anything regarding me. If any of my parents were to be called then it should be one of my dads. This is the utmost irresponsible and inconsiderate act. She is a teacher and you took her off her job over something stupid as a unfounded rumor. Not only that, but you're probably making her worry unnecessarily since she is only to be called if my dads can't be reached. And to top all that you are calling her here to place a stupid accusation on her!" Rachel ranted fuming and making Sue look impressed at her.
"Now look…" Schuester tried to speak, but was interrupted by the office door being slammed open.
"Oh my Lord, Rachel, are you okay?" The woman who entered the room said worriedly kneeling before the kitty girl. "Is everything okay with your fathers… is… why you're not upset? I mean you look upset but more like mad than sad…" she said in one breath.
"Calm down, mom…" Rachel says with a small smile and kindly caressing one of her mother's cat years, which worked like a charm. "It's really stupid why they called you here. My fathers are okay. I was just giving them a piece of my mind saying they would just worry you for nothing."
The woman gets up and looked around the room just now noticing the people there.
"Schuester." She recognized the ghost. "Then, why I'm here exactly?"
"They say you sent me to spy on them." Rachel speaks before anyone else has the chance.
"I was trying to fix this problem before it came to the point they had to call you, but apparently they already had done it." Sue says in a monotone.
"And you are?" Shelby asks arching her eyebrows, just like Rachel did earlier.
They looked so much alike that Schuester was asking himself how he didn't notice it before. Even their fur was of the same color. The only difference between them, other than their age, was their height. Shelby was maybe an inch or two taller than her daughter.
"Sue Sylvester, Rachel's cheerleader coach, and according to them your accomplice." The tall and blond woman answered.
"I would say nice to meet you, but the circumstances prevent me." Shelby nodded in acknowledgment, before she turned to Schuester and then to the Principal. "Are you really telling me that I was called here because of some unfunded rumor?" She asked dryly, her tail moving in a snapping motion.
"It's not unfunded. She is your daughter and she started here two weeks late." Mercedes argues speaking for the first time, but scaring away when Shelby turned to her.
"Because I was moving!" Rachel sighed. "It's being practically 2 months since I last talked to her and almost 2 years since I last saw her in person. Way to spoil our reunion."
"And we were planning such a nice lunch this Sunday…" Shelby agrees with her daughter. "But it's always good to see you, honey." The cat woman says hugging her offspring. "Look, she isn't even in your Glee Club, which I find a little odd, but it's more like her to want to compete against me than to try and help me to bring other teams down. You should know that I severely reprimanded my kids after their behavior last year."
"What they did?" Rachel asked curiously.
"One of my kids was constantly taunting them and they planned to egg them but I was able to stop it." Shelby rolled her eyes at Schue, Mercedes and Kurt's look of surprise, of course they didn't know about it.
"Uuuuh. I almost feel sorry for them…" Rachel chuckled snuggling to her mother "Just thinking about what kind of punishment you're putting them trough. You almost make Coach Sylvester look like a nice lady!"
"Ma'am, I think we need to exchange techniques…" Sue said to Shelby causing both woman to laugh and Rachel to frown.
"Aw, damn…" the girls mumbled against her mother's shoulder.
In the end everything was solved with a short and dry 'Are we done here?' from Shelby and Sue. And by the time lunch period rolled around the school had a new statue in the campus of a rat boy with an afro and only a tree leaf to cover his parts.