Hey guy, here's a new chapter. Thanks for all the reviews and alerts. It's unedited so forgive me. Enjoy.

Rumor Has It/Someone Like You Chapter 28

RPOV

This isn't going to work.

I paced the bathroom floor with Brittany and Santana watching me, trying to calm me down.

Kurt was about to go on stage and as much as I wanted to be there for him, I wasn't ready. The door opened and a sophomore came in. She stopped and looked at the three of us. Santana rose off the sink she was leaning on and walked towards her.

"Trust me kid, you don't want to be in here right now"

She lead her back to the door and closed it behind her.

I pulled at the dress I wore nervously stretching it a little. Brittany tried desperately to distract me with tales of Lord Tubbington being an undercover ninja turtle. It worked for a while, making me stop thinking very briefly about my performance in less than an hour. I paced again walking towards the grimy tiles surrounding the full length mirror in the room.

I stopped and looked up to see her standing there and my anxiety hit a new level, but for a whole new reason.

"Good luck Rach, we'll be waiting for you afterward" Brittany said coming to kiss my cheek. I smiled at her and Santana who put both hands on my shoulders.

"You got this Barbra. Go show um why you're the best" she said she walked towards Quinn and patted her shoulder once before walking out.

I continued staring at Quinn's reflection coming closer and closer.

"Do you have any idea why I'm attracted to you?" Quinn asked. I waited for her to continue. "It's your heart, you aren't just Rachel Berry the future starlet to me. You are and always will be Rachel Berry, the girl who offered to stick by me when no one else would. You are the girl who day after day I've seen push beyond the boundaries of expectations" she came to stand behind me "you never let anyone make decisions for you and you are more than determined when you want something"

She turned me around to face her.

"I know you will be better than great today because it's all you've ever wanted. Going to college and becoming the star we all know you deserve to be. Go on that stage, do your best, be your best and I'll be right here" she put her hand on my heart "you've got this baby" her hand ran through my hair and she leaned in to kiss me cheek.

QPOV

Crap

Crap

Crap crap crap

I watched as Rachel rushed off the stage into my direction. The look on her face as she passed me was heartbreaking. Without a beat I was right behind her. She walked into the girl's bathroom we had been in previously.

When I entered she was hunched over one of the sinks, looking at herself in the mirror and breathing really hard. I didn't know what to say to her, so I stood awkwardly by the door.

After a few minutes I took a few steps to stand behind her, she turned to look at me. She didn't say anything and neither did I.

"What the hell Rach?" Santana said barging into the bathroom. Surprisingly she was alone walking to us. "What happened?" she asked the questions I couldn't bring myself to ask, for fear of making her cry. Rachel's bottom lip quivered profusely.

"Rachel, say something" Santana insisted.

"San, back off" I advised seeing the look of pain in her brown eyes. Santana looked at me like I was crazy.

"No Quinn, she just fucked up Defying Gravity, we've heard her singing this in her sleep. Do you really think she should be fucking it up?"

I turned to Santana and got into her face.

"Santana back off" I warned again. Santana studied me for a moment, before turning to Rachel.

"I'm sorry, I know it was a lot of pressure" she said "I think you got this, so Rach call me if you need to. Q, please take care of her"

I turned back to Rachel who stared at me still in silence. I reached for her hand.

"Come on, I'm taking you home" I said. She shook her head.

"You don't want to go home?" I asked

She shook her head again.

"Want to go to my place then?"

She nodded and started walking to the car.

When we got to my house, my mom wasn't anywhere around yet so she walked straight to my room. I sent Santana a text and walked to my room standing by the door; Rachel took her shoes and jacket off, then tied her hair into a pony tail and got into the bed, not caring that her dress had ridden up a bit. School wasn't quite finished so the others wouldn't miss us just yet. I walked over to the bed, sitting next to her feet.

She continued not to say anything about what happened on the stage so I grabbed the book I was reading that morning and started from where I left off. I read the paragraph out loud:

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always.

She turned to face me, intrigued by the words I was speaking so I continued.

She is sitting right next to me. I want to run my finger along her arm. I want to kiss her neck. I want to whisper the truth in her ear.

I closed the book and looked into her eyes.

"I'm so sorry Quinn" her voice cracked in the middle of the sentence and I dropped the book to lie next to her. We were face to face now, my hand on her chin.

"I'm sorry too, let's not fight anymore" I said.

She smiled and bit her lip.

"I just fucked up my NYADA audition"

I nodded "You did"

She rested her forehead against mine. "I just want to sleep" she said closing her eyes. I moved my hard from her chin and pulled her closer to me, kissing her forehead.

"Go to sleep baby"

"Will you be my girlfriend when I wake up?" she asked, her voice trailing off.

"Always" I whispered back.

There you go. Let me know what you think. Oh um the book Quinn was reading is Every Day by David Levithan (I was rereading it and thought that part fit)

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