Hey it's Day 20 of Faberry and Day 6 of my headache so I'll keep this short. All mistakes are mine. Shoutout to my reviewers and alerters and I love you guys. more tomorrow and all mistakes are mine. If I forget anything forgive me.

Enjoy!

Rumor Has It/ Someone Like You Chapter 16

RPOV
"I don't know what to do girls. I still love him but I can't hurt Shane" Mercedes explained. Santana Tina and I were sitting around a bench while Quinn, Sugar and Brittany went to 'take care of something' according to Quinn.

"Riddle me this then Cedes. You don't want to hurt Shane but aren't you hurting him more by being in a relationship that you aren't 100% invested in? Is it fair to the three of you to string this along if your heart is telling you to be with Sam?" Santana asked resting her back against my front.

"She's got a point" Tina said nodding.

"Why does this have to be so hard?" Mercedes asked. Tina put her arm around her.

"Matters of the heart often are" Santana said. I shoved her shoulder lightly. "Did you just say that?" I asked

She cringed away from me with a disgusted look on her face.

"Oh my god I'm beginning to sound like you" she screeched

Tina, Mercedes and I laughed at her antics as Mike, Rory, Artie and Noah joined us.

"What's wrong with her?" Noah asked sitting next to Mercedes.

"She just realized Rachel is rubbing off on her" Tina replied "Kinky" Artie noted.

"Where are the others" I asked changing the subject

Mike shrugged through his laughing "Kurt and Blaine ran off long time ago and Sam said he'll be right back"

"Did you guys get the text to meet Quinn here?" Rory said

I checked my phone and sure enough Quinn had sent me a text.

Q- Hey beautiful stay where you are. Where coming to you now.

"Well that's cryptic" I said sarcastically

"What?" Santana asked turning to face me. I showed her the text and she furrowed her brows.

"Exactly" I said answering the question her eyes were asking.

We all sat around the little benches closest to the karaoke booth. An awful rendition of Someone Like You started up and we all turned to see who needed putting out of their misery.

"God dammed this man sounds worse than Finn's dancing, Rachel's constant screeching oh don't look at me like that you talk a lot deal with it. He sounds worse than Mike doing that thing he did with Tina when they did that duet. God it's like listening to Blaine's bowties, Seeing Kurt's bright ass scarves, and Irish's attempt at speaking so people could understand. He's awful" Santana said taking a deep breath and blocking her ears.

"Hey" I said slapping her hand softly

"What he sucks and you know it" Santana shrugged

"That's not what she was saying hey about Santana. You managed to insult 6 of your friends in 30 seconds" Mercedes explained

"Oh I'm sorry" She said turning to face me. "Rachel don't you talk non-stop?" I opened my mouth and she cut me off "See she was about to start up. Mike you know I mean no offence but you do remember the highest note you hit that and was it only me that heard when you sounded like you were doing a mating call"

"San, stop" I said

"Okay fine I'm sorry, but the guy sucks" she said turning to face the man again. As his song ended much to everyone's delight Sam replaced him with Quinn and Brittany. Sugar, Kurt and Blaine stood off to the side smiling.

"What are they doing?" I whispered to the others

"Who knows" Artie said wheeling the chair next to me.

"Hey everyone I am Sam and I'm-"

"Just do the fucking song" A man couple benches down shouted cutting him off.

"Hey pipe down over there and let him talk" Santana yelled loudly

"This song goes out to the love of my life, Mercedes Jones" He said smiling

The music started playing and I heard a slight squeak from behind me where Mercedes sat. Quinn and Brittany started humming into their microphones.

[Sam]

I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl
Who's still around the morning after
We broke up a month ago, and I grew up - I didn't know
I'd be around the morning after

Kurt and Sugar walked over to Mercedes pulling her off the bench and up to where Sam stood. He took her hand and smiled brightly as he continued.

It's always been wait and see
A happy day and then you'll pay
And feel like shit the morning after
But now I feel changed around
And instead of falling down
I'm standing up the morning after
Situations get fucked up and turned around sooner or later
I could be another fool or an exception to the rule
You tell me the morning after

Quinn nodded at Blaine who handed her something she held behind her back and replaced her assisting Brittany as she walked towards me. She knelt in front me handing me a rose and sang softly along with Sam.

[Sam and Quinn]

Crooked spin can't come to rest
I'm damaged bad at best
She'll decide what she wants
I'll probably be the last to know
No one says it 'til it shows
See how it is, they want you or they don't
Say yes

I smiled brightly not able to take my eyes off Quinn. Her eyes shined brightly and she stood pulling me up with her taking my lips into her mouth as Sam sang the last part.

[Sam]
I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl
Who's still around the morning after

Quinn stood behind me pulling me into her and nestling her face in my neck as we clapped for Sam who was pulled in by Mercedes into a big kiss.

"Yay" I said bouncing.

"It's about time" Santana whispered. I turned to face Quinn "This has been the best day ever Quinn. Thank you so very much" I said about to kiss her when she stopped me. "It's not over yet Rach. Come with me" She said pulling me by the hand away from our friends and away from the carnival.

"Wait, what about Santana and Brittany?" I asked

"They're good" She replied

"Where are we going?" I asked not expecting her to tell me anyway"

"We're going to a motel"

"Oh, wait what?" I asked alarmed. She glanced at me silently.

"NO! Come on Rach it's nothing like that. I thought you would want to freshen up before I take you out to dinner I made reservations and we won't have time to get back home and make the reservations" She explained pulling into a Motel 6.

I breathed a sigh of relief not sure how I would feel about a situation like the one I thought we were going to be in.

"Oh okay I could deal with that but I didn't bring anything to wear" I said She put the car in park and got out and I followed suit. Her trunk popped open and a garment bag and a duffle bag were there.

"Here and no peaking" She said handing me the garment bag. I attempted to peak and she smacked my hand away lightly. "I said don't look"

"Fiiiiiinnnne but you have to make it up to me for that" I said

"Yeah Yeah, come on" She said taking my free hand to room 10. Inside was simple enough a bed television, a table and couple chairs and the door. She dropped everything on the bed and pulled me into her kissing me deeply.

"Happy birthday baby" She whispered

"The best birthday ever thanks to you" I replied pulling her closer. She reluctantly pulled away.

"Time to get dressed baby and I'll tell you this if we continue on like this we won't make our reservations"

I groaned and grabbing the towel she handed me and walked to the bathroom. "No worries baby tonight is going to be great" She said smacking me on the butt and running into the bathroom.

We were dressed and out of the hotel in under an hour and only limited distractions. I put the CD on from the beginning listening to Quinn's sexy voice over the speakers. I felt content, not the I want to be happy type of content the I am so happy with where I am right now and who I'm with I could die tomorrow and it wouldn't matter because I am with her type of content. I listened to the music being lulled into a state of relaxation when we got closer to home.

We got onto my street and I looked at her. "I thought you said that we couldn't come home"

"We have to get something from here"

I raised my eyebrow "You're lying"

"At least you can tell when I'm lying" She replied opening her door and coming over to my side.

Her red dress sashayed around her thighs her heels clinking against the driveway. I took her hand and rolled my eyes. It was dark now so she probably didn't see that.

"I saw that eye roll Berry" She said cheekily opening the door revealing not only my dads, but her mom and my mountain of presents from earlier this morning plus many more.

"Happy birthday!" They yelled. I smiled brightly turning to Quinn. "It wasn't in my original plan but they insisted on this" she whispered in my ear quickly.

"So happy to have you all here" I said recovering from my shock quickly. "We actually have some news" I added looking at Quinn.

She looked at me and smiled nodding he head giving me the okay.

"Quinn and I are dating" I announced

The room went empty and the three parents just started at us.

It's not how I wanted it to go but I will work with it because I already have lots planned from here. For those wondering Santana and Brittany had arranged from the get go to get a ride home with Mike and Tina. Santana wasn't being mean in her mind she was trying to prove a point.

Specks :)