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ok, so I had this long time ago but since my original idea was to post everything at the same time, I hadn't post it... but for now, I leave you with this chapter! thank you all so much for all your reviews! and for liking this story so much! hope you keep on liking it! :D enjoy - moony!
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"Rachel, please! Can we just stop for a second? My feet are going to fall off!" Quinn complained as the four girls pulled their bags through the city.
"Quinn that is because you decided to walk all around the city with your Jimmy Choo shoes!" Santana told her.
"Excuse me for wanting to look nice!" Quinn pouted.
"I'm hungry" Brittany complained.
"Alright!" Rachel said annoyed. "Let's go get something to eat and rest for a while" she told them.
"Oh yes! Let's go to Le Bernardin! We haven't been there in forever!" Santana said excited.
"Oh, or Masa! I would kill for a roll of sushi right now!" Quinn told them.
"Girls, I don't think we're able to go to Le Bernardin or Masa right now" Rachel told them.
"What?" both Quinn and Santana said at the same time. "Why not?" Santana added.
"We don't have any money!" Rachel told them.
"What are you talking about?" Santana asked getting her credit card out of her purse. "Hello?"
"We can't do that! San that's exactly why we left home!" Rachel told her. "Look, I have some cash on me and I'm sure you girls do too. Why don't we just grab something cheaper to eat today and then, we'll do the numbers and figure this out" she told them.
"Who's gonna do the numbers? We suck at Math" Brittany told her.
"That's because we never cared about not spending money before! I'm sure we can come up with something" Rachel told them.
"Well, where do you suggest we eat?" Santana complained.
"Hey, look at that! There are burgers there! That's not that expensive, right Rachie?" Brittany said excited pointing at a restaurant across the street.
"Oh that looks like Joe's Bar from Grey's Anatomy!" Quinn said smiling. "Let's go ladies" she said adjusting her sunglasses. "Maybe we can find our McDreamy" she said laughing and walking hand in hand with Brittany who was giggling. Santana and Rachel rolled their eyes but smiled as they followed them.
They stepped inside what looked like a mix of a Hard Rock Café and a TGI Friday's. Only it was smaller. There were all kinds of stuff hanging from the walls and quotes all over the place, but most of them, if not all, were from music. There were about ten tables, fifteen tops, a pool table, an old jukebox, and some guys playing darts. The majority of people in the bar were boys in their twenties who immediately turned their heads to the door as they saw four young girls dressed as the cast from Sex and the City. Since they didn't see a host or hostess at the entrance, they spotted a table on the corner and made their way towards it. Once they reached it, Quinn got some tissues out of her bag and some Lysol and she started cleaning the spot she was going to sit in. Behind the bar, a tall, handsome Asian guy was enjoying the whole scene.
"Hey Sam" he called through the kitchen window, where a hot blonde guy popped his head at the window when he heard his name. "Check out Malibu Barbies" Mike said nodding his head towards the table where they could see one of the blonde girls telling the other three to clean their silverware. Sam let out a loud snort but couldn't help to think that the blonde one scolding her friends was… kind of cute.
"Puckerman seen 'em yet?" he asked Mike smirking.
"I don't think so" Mike said chuckling. "He's taking out the trash. That's my section today anyways, so I better go see what the ladies will ask for" he said walking away from Sam. Once he reached the table, his eyes landed on the other blonde. The one that was laughing at something the short brunette had just said, apparently mocking the other two on the other side of the table where the other blonde was cleaning her menu. "Good afternoon ladies" Mike said smiling at them. "My name is Mike Chang and I'll be your waiter for today" he said taking out his pad and taking the pencil from behind his ear. "What can I get for you?"
"Are you on the menu?" Santana asked smirking.
"Santana!" Rachel said widening her eyes at her. Especially since she had seen the look on Brittany's face when Mike approached to them.
"What? It's been a long time ok!" Santana said annoyed.
"Please excuse our friend" Quinn said in a kind tone. "She's just hungry" she said smiling. "Do you have Voss?"
"What?" Mike asked confused.
"She just wants water" Rachel said kindly.
"No. Not just water. I want Voss" Quinn said glaring at Rachel a little.
"Well, um, I'm sorry but we don't have any Boss" Mike said trying not to laugh.
"It's Voss" Quinn said with a small smile. "With a 'V'."
"Well, we don't have that either" Mike said letting out a small laugh. These girls were something else.
"Uh! Can I order us one really, really long piece of spaghetti like in Lady and the Tramp?" Brittany asked Rachel excited. "I've been practicing nudging the meatball across the table with my nose" she told her. Mike had to admit that there was something particular about this girl that interest him in more than one way.
"Sure Britt" Rachel answered her smiling.
"Would you like to be the Tramp?" she asked looking at Mike.
Mike thought for a second that she was kidding and he was ready to let out a laugh until he saw the look on the other three girls. The look that said: it doesn't matter how girly we look, you laugh, and we will make you unavailable to reproduce… with our designer shoes. So he held it in and his eyes softened when he looked at Brittany again smiling widely at him.
"I'd love to babe, but I'm working" he said smiling at her. "Maybe some other time?"
"I'd love that" Brittany said blushing a little bit.
"I'll have a Caesar Salad please" Quinn said smiling.
"And I'll have a cheeseburger" Santana said handing her menu.
"I'll share the spaghetti with her, thanks" Rachel told him kindly.
"Coming right up" Mike said walking away from them.
"Ok, if I had known they made guys like that in this part of the city we would've frequented it way more often!" Santana said smirking as Mike walked away.
"He wouldn't take his eyes off you" Quinn told Brittany, who blushed a little deeper.
"That's not true" she said shyly.
"Of course it is Britt! And he agreed to be the Tramp next time you eat spaghetti" Rachel said smiling at her.
"Ok, look we can go back to hot waiter in a minute. Can we please figure out what we're doing tonight? I do not want to live on the street!" Santana said worried.
"Yeah, we could die out there!" Quinn said getting worried too.
"I don't want to die yet" Brittany said looking over at Rachel. "At least not until One Tree Hill gets cancelled."
"We're not gonna die!" Rachel told her friends.
"How are you so sure?" Quinn asked her.
"We just need a plan, ok?" Rachel told them.
"Oh, a plan? That's it? Because I thought we needed somewhere to live!" Quinn said frustrated.
"Ok, this negativism is not going to take us anywhere ok?" Rachel said annoyed. "Look between the four of us there has to be a place that we can afford to live in and we could all get jobs."
"How? We're trained to do nothing!" Santana told her.
"That's not true" Rachel told her. "I'm sure there's something we are good at."
"Well…" Santana said smirking.
"That doesn't involve that San" Rachel said rolling her eyes.
"Well then what do you want me to say Rach? There's nothing we're good at. We've never done anything for ourselves" Santana told her.
"Well, you're good at fashion" Quinn told Santana. "I mean, you're always fixing our dresses when they get ruined."
"And our shoes!" Brittany added.
"And you always know what looks good on each one of us" Rachel told her.
"Ok, that's true I rock at that! I mean, I'm the one who got Berry get rid of the knee high socks and the ugly sweaters in junior high" she said laughing.
"Hey! That wasn't my fault! I didn't have a mother to show me how to dress! I had two unbelievably protective dads and an even worse brother" she said rolling her eyes.
"That still doesn't explain the insanely short skirts" Quinn said smirking.
"Ok, we found San's moving on!" Rachel said.
"Oh me! I wanna go next!" Brittany said excited.
"Hun, you're a hell of a dancer" Santana said smirking proudly.
"Yeah! Not to mention you helped Artie direct every single one of our school plays" Rachel told her.
"That's only because he sucked at dancing" Brittany said giggling.
"See? Now we're getting somewhere" Rachel told them smiling.
"Right cause dancing and fashion are two things in life where you succeed so easily" Quinn said sarcastically.
"Quinn, with that attitude we're really not gonna go anywhere! I'm not saying that they should go and be a known fashion designer or a professional dancer in the blink of an eye! But I mean, I don't know! San could work at a clothing store or for some recognized brand and Britt could teach dance lessons" she offered.
"And what about us Rachel?" Quinn asked her.
"Um, well, we both like cooking" she said while the other two girls smiled at her. "Maybe we're not like the best cooks or whatever, but we could learn" she continued. "Look, I know that is not going to be like in a movie where you just suddenly make it, but we could start from zero and I know we'll get far. I believe in you girls. You are way more talented than what you think-"
"Alright, alright! We'll look for jobs! Enough with the motivational shit already! Just stop talking before the blondies want a group hug or something" Santana said rolling her eyes.
"Excuse me" a red-haired woman with really big eyes approached their table. She didn't look like she worked there and she seemed a little older than thirty. "I really didn't mean to but I couldn't help to listen to your conversation" she said with a kind smile. "And I think I may be able to help you."
"This is getting creepy" Santana murmured to Quinn.
"My name is Emma Schuester. My husband and I own this restaurant" she said as she continued to smile. "I take it you girls aren't from this part of town?"
"What gave us away?" Rachel said with a little laugh.
"Well, we're not used to seeing that many designer clothes in here since Kurt first walked in" she said laughing.
"Would you like to take a seat?" Brittany offered moving closer to Rachel so she could fit in the booth.
"Thank you" she said taking the seat next to Brittany. The girls couldn't help but notice that she cleaned their already clean silverware and Quinn smiled proudly at their friends. "So what brings you girls here?" she asked them. The four girls turned to look at each other nervously. "Oh, I'm sorry. I am a guidance counselor and I just have this constant need to help people" she said kindly.
"Well, it's kind of a long story" Rachel said awkwardly.
"We left home" Quinn simply said.
"W-what? You left home? As in leave left?" she asked kind of shocked and the four girls nodded. "Why?"
"Because we were sick of living a lie" Santana went next. "My parents wanted me to date a gay guy, Britt's parents wanted her to stay in a relationship where the guy was in love with someone else. Quinn's parent's wanted her to marry a shithead who cheated on her and Rachel's parents told her that if she didn't marry an asshole, she was out of their house" she told Emma.
"We couldn't let Rachie come on her own and we didn't want to be back there so… we came" Brittany said smiling.
"W-wow, well um, that's- uh, that's a lot to take in" she said smiling kindly at them. "Look, um, I'm not sure if this is what you girls really want. I mean, the world is tough out there-"
"We know. But we're tired of not making anything on our own. We didn't want to keep on living stupid fakes lives" Rachel explained to her. "So, we saw an opportunity and decided to seize the moment" she said smiling. "Plus, I pretty much didn't have a choice" she said with her smile turning sad.
"Well, I would really like to help" Emma said smiling.
"No offence Bambi, but how exactly are you going to help us?" Santana asked rolling her eyes.
"SANTANA!" Quinn widened her eyes at her. "Please, excuse her. She just gets really moody when she's hungry" she said kindly.
"That's ok" Emma said with the smile still on her face. "Look, I can get you girls jobs here" she told them.
"No offence Mrs. Shuester, but why would you do that? I mean, we're just four strangers that walked into your restaurant" Rachel asked curiously.
"Well, it's kind of a long story but if you girls don't mind me joining you for lunch, I could tell you all about it" she told them.
"Of course not!" Brittany said excited. "See San? We've already made a new friend!"
"Please stay, is the least we could do if you're trying to help us" Quinn told her.
"Ok, hold on one second" she said turning back to look for a waiter. "Puck!"
They saw their waiter, Mike, talking to some guy. Scratch that. Talking to a gorgeous guy with a stupid mohawk on his head. But in Rachel's opinion, that made him look a little hotter. The guy snapped his head in their direction and Emma called him with her hand. He approached to the table and eyed the four girls on the booth.
"What can I get for you Mrs. S.?" he said trying to be cool. Rachel felt her cheeks reddening just by his voice.
"The usual please Puck" Emma said smiling nicely at him. "Oh, and please bring us a round of… Margaritas?" she asked looking at the girls.
"Yes!" Santana said excited.
"Please?" Brittany and Rachel said at the same time.
"Oh, please?" Quinn said smiling excited too.
"Ok, a round of Margaritas on the house" she said smiling back at Puck.
"Sure thing Mrs. S." Puck said smirking before walking away and returning to his conversation with Mike while he made the drinks.
"Ok, scratch what I said before! I don't want the Asian! I want him!" Santana said smirking looking in Puck's direction.
"San, you want everyone" Quinn said rolling her eyes.
"That's not true! I never liked Finnderella back home! He was all yours" she said getting a little upset.
"Anyways, getting back to our guest" Rachel said warning her friends.
"Right, where was I?" Emma asked them.
"You were going to tell us why you were being so nice to us" Quinn told her.
"Are you an angel?" Brittany asked her all of the sudden.
"Oh, um no" Emma replied smiling kindly. "Well, it wouldn't be the first time" she started.
"You help strangers all the time?" Quinn asked intrigued.
"I guess you could say that. I mean, Puck, Mike and Sam are a good example of it" she said looking back at the bar.
"What do you mean?" Rachel asked confused.
"Well, they're all here for a different reason" she explained. "But that's not my story to tell. The thing is, my husband and I give you guys a job and our friend Shannon owns a building not far away from here. She rents apartments. They're not big and fancy like the ones I'm sure you're used to but it's a good place to get started."
"Here you go" Puck said getting over to the table with Mike while they handed their food and drinks to them. "If you ladies need anything else, we'll be right over there" Puck said smirking at them before heading back to the bar.
"And again, why would you help strangers like that?" Santana asked curious.
"Well, when my husband and I were about your age we came to the city with nothing" she told them. "We grew up in a small town in Ohio called Lima. We met in high school and we fell in love almost immediately. But my parents didn't like him because he wasn't a red-haired" she said rolling her eyes a little. "And his parents never supported his career. So, we kept our relationship on the low. He got a degree in business administration since his dad made him while I got mine in psychology on the state university. We were about twenty-three or twenty-four when we finished and he proposed" she said smiling. The four girls had the biggest smile on their faces not making a sound. Even Santana was paying her full attention. "Our parents forbid it. Said we were too young to get married and that we were crazy if we thought they would let us marry one another. So, one night, we packed our bags, grabbed our savings, and we came here to pursue Will's dream. He always wanted to have his own restaurant and I encouraged him to do it. Once we were here, we looked for jobs and a really small apartment but we managed to get through. Will loves to cook so he got a job at a small restaurant while I managed to get a job at McKinley High. It took us a while to save some money until Will bought this place and started his own business. After a little while we got married, moved into a bigger apartment and things turned up pretty good. Now we have three kids, live in a beautiful house, have a restaurant, and I still work at McKinley High" she finished her story facing four girls with the biggest smiles on their faces. "And well, now we kind of help every young adult who comes into the city trying to make it. No matter what the dream is, we believe in them here" she finished kindly.
"Wow" Brittany spoke first. "It's like a fairy tale!"
"You have to be the nicest people I've met" Rachel told her. Emma was about to say something but was cut off by a loud sob. They all turned to look at Quinn who started crying.
"See? That's what I wanted!" she managed to say between sobs. "W-why did F-Finn have to g-go and cheat on me l-like that? I just wanted to have a l-lovely f-family a-and be hap-py" she said while Santana wrapped her arms around her.
"Oh Q!" Rachel said grabbing her hand.
"Oh dear! I didn't mean to make you cry" Emma said worried.
"Don't worry. Is not your fault" Brittany told her.
"She just recently broke up with her long-time boyfriend, oh no wait, fiancé" she corrected. "because he cheated on her" Rachel finished sadly.
"Oh my! That's terrible!" Emma said getting up and sitting down next to Quinn and holding her in her arms. "I am so sorry Quinn!"
"I d-don't even know what I did wrong! I m-mean, why wasn't I good enough for him?" Quinn said as she continued to cry.
"Quinn don't say that!" Brittany told her.
"Yeah, he doesn't deserve you honey!" Rachel assured her.
"You didn't do anything wrong Q! Franketeen was just a dickhead who didn't see what he had in front of him!" Santana said resting her head on Quinn's shoulders.
Emma smiled a little at the scene in front of her. They were good girls. Sure, maybe they were a little naïve, but they had good hearts. So she decided right there, that she would do anything they needed to help them.
"What the fuck dude?" Sam asked confused looking at the table on the corner where now one of the blondes was crying and even Mrs. Schuester was comforting her.
"Chicks man, I have no idea" Puck said equally confused.
"What do you think they're here for?" Mike asked them.
"Maybe they're lost" Sam told them.
"Who cares? They'll be gone in an hour tops. Back to their upper east side mansions" Puck said rolling his eyes.
"I don't think so dude, look at their luggage" Mike told him.
"Dude, their girls. And not just girls, rich girls! That luggage could be for a one hour trip" Puck said laughing.
"I don't know man, something tells me they'll be hanging out here more often" Mike continued. "I wouldn't mind seeing those four pretty faces every now and then" he said smirking.
"Wake up Chang! Girls like that don't go for guys like us" Puck told him.
"How would you know? Maybe they're bored of the rich man that could buy them the moon and they're looking for someone to show them some real fun" Sam said smirking too.
"Are you really that stupid? I bet you thought Bert and Ernie were just roommates" Puck said annoyed.
"Why are you so upset about this? Is not like it matters if they're leaving in an hour tops, according to you" Mike told him.
"What? I couldn't care less about them! I just hate people who think they're better than anybody else just because they have money!" Puck answered them.
"Dude, you haven't even talked to them" Sam said laughing.
"So?" Puck said childishly.
"Whatever dude, they didn't seem that bad" Mike said rolling his eyes. "And for the looks of it, Sammy here has a crush on one of them" he said looking at Sam who's eyes were still glued on Quinn.
"What? What the hell are you talking about Mike?" he said looking at him and pretending to be confused, but his eyes turned to Quinn once again. "What do you think happened to her?"
"Honestly guys! You're worse than girls! Who the fuck cares? Maybe she broke a nail! Or maybe she couldn't get her daddy to buy her a new pony because the old one wasn't pretty anymore!" Puck said before walking out of the restaurant.
"Ok, either he's hungry or he hasn't had sex in a long time" Sam told Mike who just nodded.
"Are you sure this is the right address?" Quinn said looking at the place a little scared.
"Positive" Rachel said looking at the paper once again. "Mrs. Schuester said her husband would be here too" she said looking around. "Oh no" she said a little annoyed.
"What?" Brittany asked.
"There's no elevator" Rachel told them.
"Qué?" Santana asked mad.
"Que no hay elevador!" Rachel repeated in spanish.
"Oh I thought I heard voices" a curly haired man appeared from a door on their left. "You girls must be Quinn, Santana, Brittany and Rachel, right?"
"Maybe" Rachel said while Quinn and Brittany hid behind her and Santana.
"I have a teaser" Santana muttered to Rachel.
"I have pepper spray" she said putting her hand inside her bag.
"I'm Will Schuester" the man said walking closer to them. "My wife called me to say you were on your way" he said kindly and the four girls sighted in relief.
"Daddy!" an adorable little boy who didn't look older than three, came running (well, kind of tumbling) towards Mr. Schuester. He turned to look at the girls and hid himself behind his dad's leg.
"Hey bud, come here" Mr. Schue said picking him up. "This is my son Kyle. Kyle, say hello to the ladies" Will told him.
"Hi" Kyle said shyly waiving his tiny hand before hiding himself in his dad's shoulders.
"Ow" the fours girls said at the same time. "Hi Kyle" Brittany said kindly.
"Sorry Will, he wanted his dad" a kind of a big woman said stepping outside of the room.
"Is that a man or a woman?" Quinn whispered to Rachel.
"Quinn!" Rachel whispered-yelled to her widening her eyes.
"Oh, the girls are here already!" the lady said smiling at them.
"Girls, this is Shannon Beiste" Mr. Schue said introducing them. "She's the landlady" he said laughing. "Shannon, this are Quinn, Santana, Rachel and Brittany, although I'm not quite sure which one is who?" he said smiling at the girls.
"Oh, how rude of us" Rachel said smiling. "I'm Rachel, this is Santana, that's Brittany and this is Quinn" she said pointing at each one of them.
"Nice to meet you girls" Shannon said shaking their hands. Rachel saw Quinn putting her hand in her purse.
"Don't you dare take out your Lysol! This woman is giving us a roof!" she whispered to her and Quinn immediately took her hand out of the bag.
"Ok, so I have something that I think you might like" she said as she started walking down the stairs. "Sorry there's no elevator, it's kind of an old building" she explained.
"Oh, don't worry about that" Brittany said kindly while she made funny faces so Kyle would laugh.
"Yeah, it's kind of like on Friends" Quinn said smiling.
"Would you stop comparing our lives to TV shows?" Santana whispered to her.
"It's what I need to do to not focus on the fact that we have nothing!" she whispered back.
They were about to walk up the stairs, when the front door opened. The four girls turned around to face the two waiters from the restaurant, plus a handsome blonde walking in.
"Good! Puckerman, Chang and Evans" Shannon said smiling. "I'm glad you're here, you can help the ladies carry their bags" she told them. "These are your new neighbors. Rachel, Quinn, Santana and Brittany" she said pointing at each one of them. The girls were a little surprised that she remembered their names already but just smiled at the three boys. "Ladies, meet Mike Chang, Sam Evans and Noah Puckerman, or well, Puck."
"Well, hello again" Mike said coming towards them as he grabbed Brittany's bag.
"Oh, that's ok" Rachel said blushing a little. "We can take them-"
"It's no problem" Sam said walking over and taking Quinn's bag. Quinn's smile suddenly got bigger.
"Yeah Rach, if they're nice enough to carry our bags, the decent thing to do is let them" Santana said removing her sunglasses and winking at her, while Puck, a little annoyed, walked over to them and carried both bags.
"Well, um thanks" she said smiling at Puck who gave half a smile back.
"So, where are you girls from?" Mr. Schue asked them as they walked up the stairs. Kyle suddenly threw his arms at Brittany who smiled excited.
"Can I?" she asked Mr. Schue.
"Of course" Mr. Schue said handing the little boy to her. "Careful, he's getting heavy" he said laughing as the blonde girl took the boy in her arms.
"We're from the Upper East Side of Manhattan" Quinn said answering Will's question.
"Shocking" Puck muttered under his breath but Rachel heard him.
"And what exactly brings you here?" Mike asked confused.
"Well, that's kind of a really long story" Rachel said trying to be polite. "But as it turns out, we're your new neighbors" she said smiling kindly at him.
"Ok, so a few things you need to know" Shannon said as they continued to climb the stairs. "Laundry and mail are in the first floor. Rent gets paid first of every month, Mr. Kidney is the janitor, he's here every day until four and that's pretty much it… we're here" she said as they finally reached the fourth floor. "Here it is" she said opening the apartment. It was kind of big. White walls. Kitchen, a small table with four chairs, a small living room with a couch, a TV and a coffee table. "You can paint the walls if you want. Living room, kitchen, one bathroom, two bedrooms" she said pointing at it. "It's not that big, but it's actually the biggest one in the building so, I think you girls can fit in here" she said smiling. "If you need anything else, here's my phone" she said handing them her card.
"Thank you so very much Miss Beiste" Quinn said smiling kindly.
"Oh, no girls. It's Shannon or Miss B as the boys put it" she said smiling at the three guys. "Now, I'll be on my way… call me if you girls need anything ok?"
"Ok, thank you!" the four of them said smiling and she left the room.
"So, looks like we're gonna be seeing each other a lot more often" Mike said looking particularly at Brittany. "We live right across the hall, so if you ever need anything…"
"Including you?"
"Santana!"
"Sorry! It was worth a shot!"
"Well, we'll let you get settled in" Sam said smiling at them as the three of them put the luggage on the floor.
"Thanks again" Rachel said smiling at Puck who just nodded his head and left.
"Ok, so my wife also mentioned you girls needed jobs" Mr. Schue said sitting on the couch.
"Yeah, we do" Rachel said blushing a little.
"No worries, I could offer you jobs at the restaurant. Have you ever waitress before?"
"Sure" Rachel said without even thinking and the other three girls turned to look at her as if she was crazy.
"Great! And I will also need you maybe to help Sam in the kitchen sometimes. And you don't mind handling money, doing the dishes, taking out the trash or any of that?"
"That's fine" Rachel said smiling kindly. "Not a problem at all. Really you don't have to go through all this trouble!"
"Is no trouble at all" Mr. Schue said standing up. "I know it's hard to make it on your own, starting from zero" he told them. "Specially without your parents' support" he said with a sad smile. "Honestly I don't think I could've done it without Emma" he said smiling at Kyle who threw his little arms at him and his father carried him. "So, come by the restaurant at around 10:00 a.m." he said looking at the four girls. "We open at midday so, we need to clean and everything" he told them and the four girls nodded smiling. "Ok girls, I know you had a rough day, so I'm gonna let you go rest ok?"
"Thank you Mr. Schuester" they all said at the same time.
"Oh, no! Please, call me Will" he said laughing. "I'll see you girls tomorrow. Say good bye Kyle" he said looking at his son.
"Buh bye!" Kyle said smiling and waiving his little hand at the girls.
"Bye Kyle!" the four girls said walking over to them and Kyle gave each one of them a kiss on the cheek.
"Um, Mr. Schuester" Rachel said walking out of the apartment and he turned to look at her. "I'm sorry, um Will" she said smiling.
"Yeah?"
"Um, I just wanted to thank you so much for helping us and giving us this opportunity and I promise we won't let you down! We were so scared to just come and we didn't really know what to do and now we have a roof and we have jobs I honestly don't know what we would've done if your wife-"
"Rachel, breathe" he said letting out a little laugh. "It's really ok. I've been there. It's hard going out there on your own. And you girls look like really good people, you just need a little help" he told her. "That's what we're here for ok? Me, Emma, Shannon, all of us! We're a big family. And also Sam, Puck and Mike are really good guys if you ever need anything ok?" he said sweetly.
Rachel couldn't help to get this fatherly vibe out of him. It was the first time in such a long time that someone cared about her like that. Will wasn't really prepared for when Rachel threw her arms at him and gave him and Kyle a big hug but he wrapped his free arm around her waist and Kyle wrapped his tiny arm around her shoulders.
"Thank you again" she said smiling with her voice breaking a little and he saw her teary eyes.
"You're more than welcome" he said smiling as they pulled away. "You're gonna be ok, Rachel" he said sweetly and she just nodded at him. "I gotta go. I promised Emma I'd bring home dinner."
"Pizza!" Kyle said excited throwing his little arms in the air.
"Pizza? We had pizza for lunch buddy" he said laughing a little. "See you tomorrow Rachel!"
"Bye Rachie!" Kyle said smiling and waving at her while his dad was heading down the stairs. Rachel smiled waving back at him before walking back inside.
"So, this is really it huh?" Quinn said looking around the apartment. "I mean, this is going to be our home?"
"Come on Q, is not that bad" Brittany tried to cheer her up.
"Not that bad? The only good thing are the three beefcakes across the hall!" Santana complained.
"Come on girls, I'm sure if we clean a little and we put everything in place, we could make it look really cozy" Rachel offered with a hopeful smile. Quinn and Santana turned to look at each other and tried to smile back.
The girls started unpacking and cleaning around… by Quinn's orders. And soon the apartment started looking a little more habitable. (Quinn's words.) Quinn and Rachel were in charge of the kitchen for the moment while Santana was organizing hers and Quinn's room and Brittany was organizing hers and Rachel's.
"I can't find garbage bags!" Quinn protested.
"Oh, I think I saw some in here" Rachel said looking through the drawers. When she opened one of them both girls started screaming in horror at the sight of it and Rachel quickly pushed the drawer shut with her foot. Santana and Brittany instantly walked out of the rooms to see what was going on.
"What is that?" Quinn asked on the verge of tears with her hand over her mouth.
"I don't know! But maybe if we keep that drawer shut, it'll die!" Rachel told her equally scared.
"I can't believe we're living here!" Quinn yelled upset.
"So, why do you think they live here now?" Sam asked as they watched TV.
"Who the fuck cares?" Puck said lying on the couch tossing a football up and down.
"Dude! Seriously! You cannot tell me that you are not the least curious about why four girls straight out from Gossip Girl are suddenly living across the hall from us!" Mike told him.
"Dude! You totally watch that show!" Puck said laughing.
"No I don't! Shut up!" he said annoyed.
"Puckerman! I told you to go to the fucking store! Our fridge is empty!" Sam complained shutting the fridge's door.
"Relax mom!" Puck said laughing.
"Dude, it's been empty for like three days! Is your turn to fill it!" Mike said annoyed.
"Ugh fine you spoiled bitches! I'm just gonna say this once" he said getting up. "This girls haven't been here for more than ten minutes and you two already have their royalty attitude! Not to mention you were practically drooling over the blonde Barbies" he said laughing as he put his coat on.
"Shut up!" Sam and Mike yelled at the same time when Puck opened the door and froze for a second to see someone there with her hand up as if she was about to knock.
"Um, hi" Rachel said kindly.
"Are you lost?" Puck asked with a hint of annoyance on his face.
"Uh, um, no" Rachel said getting a little nervous. "I was j-just wondering if you guys could tell me where I could go to buy something to eat for tonight. I wanted to go to the supermarket but well, it's kind of late a-and-"
"That's cool… Rachel, right?" Mike said coming to the door and she nodded with a small smile. "Puck here is about to run to the grocery store if you'd like to go with him, or he could um, accompany you to the nearest pizza place and we could have dinner together" he said smirking and Puck rolled his eyes.
"Oh, um there's no need for you to come with me if you don't want to" Rachel said noticing the irritation on his face and feeling a little bummed about it for some reason. "You could just tell me where to go and-"
"Right. As if we're going to let you walk by yourself at this time at night" Sam said laughing.
"Well, um, if you don't mind" Rachel said looking hopefully at Puck.
"Whatever" he said walking past her. "You coming?"
Rachel smiled at Sam and Mike before she turned around looking kind of nervous but still followed Puck. They went down the stairs in a kind of awkward silence until Rachel couldn't take it anymore.
"So um, Noah, right?"
"It's Puck" he said a little harsh. "Nobody calls me Noah."
"I'm sorry, it's just I'd rather not call you by a nickname, they're kind of distasteful, specially when you have such a beautiful name as Noah" she said with a little smile.
"It's Puck, ok?" he repeated a little upset.
"Ok, Puck" she said not wanting to make him more upset. "Um, how long have you lived with Michael and Samuel?" Rachel asked him.
"Bout a year" Puck said as he continued to look down the street.
"Oh" Rachel said before falling into awkward silence again. "Is the store far from here?"
"It's easier to just go to the pizza place actually, it's just three blocks away" he answered.
"Ok" she said looking away knowing it was useless to talk to him. Puck turned to look at her and noticed she was rubbing her arms and she was shivering a little.
"Cold?"
"A little" she answered not facing him. He chuckled at her trying to answer like him.
"Guess designer clothes aren't so warm after all" he said with a little laugh.
"I'm sorry. Do you have a problem with me?" Rachel suddenly asked and he laughed at her. She didn't know why she asked it, but it bugged her that he was being kind of a jerk to her.
"Babe, I may have a lot of problems but, trust me, you ain't one of them" he said with half a smirk. And suddenly, Rachel was annoyed by him.
"I'm not going to acknowledge that as reference to me. I'm not your babe, that's misogynous and demeaning" she said offended.
"Ok, I don't even know what half of those words meant" he told her.
"It means" she said before he could go on. "It's a way of not having to remember a girl's name so you can disguise it as endearment when, actually, they don't mean anything to you, babe" she finished.
"Endearment? What are we in? Paris?" he said laughing at her. "The point is, princess, that you have no fucking idea of who I am or what goes on in my life to assume that you're on my list of problems" he said bitterly as they reached the Pizza place and he went inside. Her following getting more furious every second.
"Excuse me Puckerman! Do not flatter yourself ok? Is not like I'm asking to be in your life! But since we're neighbors the decent thing to do is to establish at least a civil relationship with each other! I was trying to do that, but apparently you're not interested!"
"Is this the part when I feel sorry for you?" he asked sarcastically.
"I don't expect you to… but a well adjusted person would" Rachel told him.
"Oh, did I hurt your feelings sweetheart?" Puck said in the same tone before walking away from her. Rachel scoffed before following him.
"You're a jerk, did you know that?"
"Oh, no, I'm heart-broken" he said sarcastically as he continued to walk.
"Look, I was just trying to be nice ok! We're alone and we're scared and I thought maybe you would be polite guys who would like to, oh, I don't know! Become our friends!"
"Whoa stop right there, princess" he said angrily turning around to face her. "You're acting like I owe you something. I don't, honey" he spat at her and Rachel felt like he had just punched her in the stomach.
"Ugh! You are so… infuriating!" she said growling.
"Well, I'm sorry to be a fucking problem in your perfect little life your majesty" Puck told her.
"Perfect life! You think my life is perfect?"
"Oh, no, my mistake! 'Daddy, why can't I have the candy factory?', 'Daddy, I've worn the same shoes twice!', 'Daddy, I want that car because it's pink!', 'Daddy, make the cast of Cats sing happy birthday to me!'" he said trying to imitate her voice.
"What? The cast of Cats? Are you insane-?"
"Look princess, things are different here ok? So don't go around expecting everyone's friendship and shit. We don't paint our nails or braid our hair and go shopping together or anything!" he said harshly. "This is the real world!"
Rachel was taken aback by Puck's words but she wasn't going to let him know how he got to her. She turned around and walked away from him. Puck rolled his eyes but quickly followed her. Yes, he may be an asshole but he wasn't that much of an asshole. This wasn't exactly the best neighborhood and he noticed how some boys were checking out Rachel. Not that he cared or anything, but he wasn't just about to let her go back on her own. She headed towards the cashier and ordered a pepperoni pizza and something to drink, oblivious to the mohawked guy following her. That was something that kind of surprised Puck. He thought she was going to order a stupid salad and some diet thing. That's how girls eat, right? He did the same thing after her, ordering full meat instead of just pepperoni. They both waited for the pizza in complete silence and when she started heading towards the door, she finally noticed he was still by her side.
"What?" she asked bitterly. He simply stepped in front of her, opened the door and stepped aside.
"After you princess" he said in a mocking tone. Rachel simply rolled her eyes and walked pass him walking back to their apartment with him behind her in complete silence.
Once they reached the door, she stopped and turned to look at him. "Good night Noah" she said walking inside before he could say anything.
"Girls" she said taking off her coat and she saw a post-it on the table.
'Get to the roof B!'
Rachel put her coat back on, grabbed the pizza and the drinks and headed upstairs. Two floors later, she was faced with the door to the roof. She opened the door and found her three best friends cuddled up in one of Brittany's blankets.
"Hey" Rachel said walking towards them.
"Pizza's here!" Santana said taking the box from Rachel and giving her a piece of the blanket. Rachel sat next to her as they all grabbed a slice of pizza.
"Isn't it beautiful?" Quinn said looking at the view. Millions of lights covering the city.
"Yeah" Rachel said smiling resting her head on Santana's shoulder.
"We're gonna make it" Brittany said suddenly and the other three turned to look at her. "I know it because we're together and because we can do anything!"
"What? If we can make it here we can make it anywhere?" Santana asked laughing a little.
"I'm serious! We've met some nice people and we have a pretty apartment" Brittany told her.
"And we got one of those… jobs things" Quinn added a little proud.
"Yeah, people may think we're dumb, but they overestimate us!"
"Underestimate us honey" Rachel told her sweetly.
"Oh, right!" she said happily. "Look at us, we don't need Artie, or Finn, or Dave or Jesse, we're four hot young girls in the city living on their own! We're independent!"
"We're like the young versions of Sex and the City!"
"Q! I told you to stop doing that!" Santana said laughing a little.
"Yeah, we're gonna be ok" Rachel said smiling at them before returning her eyes to the beautiful view in front of them.
The next day the four girls made the biggest effort to get out of bed, shower, get ready and be at the restaurant on time. Which means, it took them about three hours for all of them to get their hair done, their clothes perfectly, and their makeup flawless. The four girls walked into the restaurant and spotted Mr. Schuester and Mrs. Schuester with Kyle and two little girls. Mike was sitting at the bar talking to Mr. Schue while Puck and Sam got everything ready.
"Fuck no!" Puck said annoyed rolling his eyes.
"Good morning girls!" Emma said excited when they walked in.
"Hi Mrs. Schuester" they all said at the same time.
"Wow" the two little girls said looking at them in awe.
"Are you real princesses?" the older one asked making the girls giggle.
"Girls, these are my daughters. School's out for today, so they had to come along" Mrs. Schuester said smiling. "This is Ruby and this is Gracie" she said smiling and the four girls greeted them.
"You look like our Barbies" Ruby told Quinn and Brittany and the boys tried really hard not to laugh.
"Ow, thank you" the girls said smiling sweetly at her.
"I like your dress" Gracie told Rachel smiling sweetly at her.
"Oh, thanks sweetie, I like yours" Rachel said smiling back at the little girl.
"Good morning girls" Mr. Schuester said walking over to them.
"Good morning Mr. Schuester" they all said at the same time.
"Ok, so Mike and I worked out your schedules. We close on Mondays so you have those days off and then it's a rotation day ok?" he told them showing them the papers. "Also, on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, it gets pretty busy after 10 PM. If you'd like some extra money you can always stay and work as bartenders" he said smiling and Rachel turned to look at Santana smirking. "The guys always stay cause their band plays here and well, either Puck or Mike is always in charge of closing up so you don't have to worry about that" he finished. "So, here are your uniforms" he said handing them the outfits. "Mike, Sam and Puck will teach you everything you need to know."
"Thank you so much again for this opportunity Mr. and Mrs. Schuester" Rachel said kindly.
"Yeah, and for our cute uniforms" Brittany said smiling and the four girls went into the bathroom to change.
"Mr. Schue, please tell me you're joking" Puck told him once the girls were out of sight.
"What? I hired them to be waitresses. They're good girls" he told him.
"Um, no. Whatever that is, it does not belong to this restaurant, it belongs to a show on Bravo" he said pointing at the direction the girls left.
"Come on, go easy on them Puck" Mr. Schue warned him. "They need the jobs and you guys need the help!"
"Are you sure we can't get the meth addict back? He was very good at cleaning" Puck tried.
"But his teeth fell out!"
"You are really judgmental, you know that?" Puck said while the other two laughed.
"Puck, come on dude! They can't be that bad!" Sam said laughing while Rachel came out of the bathroom.
"Lookin' good Rach" Mike said smirking at her.
"Why, thank you Michael" Rachel said smiling at him and Puck rolled his eyes. "Good morning Samuel, Noah" she said smirking at Puck. Puck was about to say something but Mr. Schue beat him to it.
"So Rachel, I thought you could be in the kitchen with Sam today" Mr. Schue told her.
"Oh, sure" she said smiling at Sam when suddenly, an impeccable well-dressed boy came into the restaurant.
"Kurt!" the little two girls ran over to him.
"How are my favorite two princesses?" Kurt said kneeling down to hug them.
"Hi Kurt" Mrs. Schuester said with Kyle in her arms.
"Hi Mrs. Schuester, hi Kyle" he said walking over to them. "Mr. Schuester, Mike, Sam, Puck… and who's this lovely lady- oh my God! Wearing this gorgeous Brian Atwood's!"
"Hi, I'm Rachel" she said giggling a little. "You must be Kurt" she said while Santana and Brittany came out of the bathroom.
"Oh, my Coach and Prada" he said looking at their bags. "I have died and gone to heaven!"
"Kurt, this are our new waitresses" Mr. Schue said laughing a little. "This is Santana and that's Brittany. Girls, this is Kurt. He always comes here to get coffee before heading to work" he told them.
"My pleasure to meet you ladies" he said taking each of their hands and kissing them and the girls giggled.
"Mr. Schuester!" Quinn said walking out to the bar again holding her uniform as if it was toxic. "I think someone wore this before me… like, right before me" she said kind of disgusted. "So, I think it would be best for all of us if I just wear what I'm wearing cause, this is Channel, thank you very much and… let's waitress" she said excited.
"I love her" Kurt muttered.
Puck arched an eyebrow at Quinn and then turned to look at Rachel who looked up at him with a tiny smirk.
"I bet you thought I would be the worst one" she said before turning around and going in the kitchen with Sam.
A/N: ok, so they're waitresses... for now! :) this is just a start-job! don't worry, they'll get something along the way! :D and all you Matt lovers, don't worry I haven't forgotten him, he just comes later in the story! :)
thank you all so much for reading... let me know what you think :)
