Quinn stood looking in the full mirror in the corner of her bedroom talking to herself, "What the hell is wrong with you, you can't just kiss her like that and run away!" "But she liked it, and so did you." "That is not the point here!" "What is the point then?" "I kissed her and ran away. Okay stop pull yourself together Fabray, talking to yourself is not going to solve anything." She pulled out her cell and called the only person she could think of.

"Hello?"

"Kurt, I fucked up, bad." She ran her hand through her hair in frustration.

"Sweetie, what happened? Hang on, let me get inside then tell me what happened." He was seriously worried, but having this conversation in the middle of his driveway was not something he wanted to do. "Okay Quinn, take a deep breath and tell me what happened."

She sighed "I kissed her."

"Kissed who?" she could tell from his voice he was surprised.

"Rachel."

"Okay, and what happened?"

"Uh, I ran up to my room and locked myself in."

"Well what the hell did you do that for?" He was confused, he knew Quinn liked her. He was fairly certain that Rachel liked her back, why would she run away?

"I don't know! She came down the stairs in her sleep shorts, and a bra and I couldn't help myself." She heard Alex's voice call down the stairs for Rachel. "Shit, Alex is here too, fuck my life." Then she heard Rachel climbing the stairs and Alex ask her what was wrong. "Hang on Kurt."

She walked over to her door and put her ear against it to hear the conversation. "She kissed me."

"Who?"

"Quinn." She could hear the tears in the smaller brunette's voice.

"Well did you kiss her back?" Quinn didn't hear a response, so she assumed Rachel just nodded. "Then why are you crying? It's what you wanted right?" Whoa, what? She had to strain hear the response.

"She ran away." Silence. Then, who she assumed was Alex pounded on her door.

"Shit, Kurt I'll call you back." Without waiting to hear him answer she closed the phone. "Yeah?"

"Open the fucking door Fabray." Alex was pissed Quinn knew she was in trouble. Answer the door and get her face punched in, or don't and get her face punched in tomorrow?

"Not now Alex, please go away." She decided tomorrow would be a better day to get her face pummeled.

"Now. Fabray. Open. The. Door." 'Shit, ughhhh why must she have such an over productive best friend, and why did she have to be here now?'

"Alex, I don't want to talk, please, just leave." No way she was answering the door with the tone she was using, it scared her.

"I will break this door down Quinn, open the door." Quinn got up and unlocked it. She wanted to be as far away from the girl on the other side of the door as possible when she came it.

"It's open." She finally called after she was on the other side of the bed. The door opened and a fuming Alex walked in and slammed the door behind her.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Okay, good sign she's not beating my face in, yet.

"What?" Quinn was shaking, on the inside, no matter what, she wasn't going to let her know she was scared of her.

"Stop playing stupid, and I'm not going to beat you up, so calm down" How the hell…

"Look just tell me what you're on about so I can go to sleep." She relaxed a little.

"You kissed Rachel. She told me, why did you run away?" Her voice was soft, but too soft for the way she was screaming through the door ten seconds ago.

"I. I don't know. Okay." She really didn't.

"Is she the girl you were talking about with Kurt?" Quinn knew Rachel knew, did she really tell Alex everything. "Yes she does, now answer the question."

"Okay, one get out of my head, it's creepy. Two, yes." Her voice faded from her HBIC tone to a soft whisper when she admitted it.

"Then why the hell did you run away?" The edge was back in the older girls voice.

"I told you already. I don't know."

"Yes you do. Now explain it to me so I can help you fix this."

"I'm scared okay. I don't, I don't want to fuck up the best thing in my life. She's my best friend, and I can't lose her, and that is the exactly what is going to happen if we get involved. You know it." She didn't even realize that was how she felt, but apparently she felt it.

"No, it wouldn't. Not unless you seriously fucked her over. Rae isn't like that. If you knew anything about her you would know that." That stung.

"That was below the belt. I know Rachel. Her relationship with Finn ended and now they barley talk, she wont even look Puck in the eyes anymore. I can't handle that happening between us. I need her in my life, and if that means we have to just be friends, then so be it." The blonde was crying, and Alex looked sympathetic.

"Rachel and Finn don't talk anymore because Finn wont talk to her. She tries talking to him and he ignores her. She doesn't look Puck in the eyes anymore because" She stopped, rethinking what was about to come out of her mouth. She knew Quinn had no idea what happened between them, and she was pretty positive that Rachel didn't want her to know.

"Because what Alex?" Quinn wanted, no needed, to know why, because if it was a good enough reason, maybe this could work.

"I can't tell you, it's not my place. Trust me when I say that she wont kick you out of her life, if things don't work out." Alex prayed Quinn wouldn't ask anymore questions she couldn't answer.

"How do you know that? How can you be so sure that if we don't work out she won't push me away, she wont run away kicking and screaming?"

"One, I don't think you have anything to worry about when it comes to you two working or not. Two, because out of the three girls Rachel has dated, all three of them are her best friends." Alex said walking over next to the blonde and pulling her into a hug. "Apologize and ask her out, she will say yes. Trust me." And with that the brunette walked out and shut the door again behind her. Quinn called Kurt after she stopped crying.

"You do realize that if you hadn't told me you'd call me back, I'd probably shoot you for calling me at 2:30 in the morning, right?" Quinn laughed.

"Thanks Kurt, I needed that, and yes, I do realize that. Sorry it's so late. I just wanted you to know that I'm just going to say screw it, and ask her out."

"Alex pep talk huh?" She smiled again.

"Yeah, but uh, I may need you to help me out with this at school, because I'm not going to hide if she says yes."

"She'll say yes Baby doll, and of course I'll help you, two conditions though girl."

"What are your conditions brethren?"

"Okay, you just made it three, let me go to sleep, call me tomorrow to let me know what happens, and never, I repeat, never call me brethren again" They both laughed and said goodnight.

After putting her phone on the charger, she took a deep breath and walked down the hall to Rachel's room. One more deep breath to calm her nerves, she knocked on the door. To her surprise Alex opened the door, she smiled and turned back to Rachel.

"I'm going to fix me something to eat, you need anything Rae?" The smaller girl shook her head and Alex nodded. Walking past Quinn she whispered "Fix it." then walked down to the kitchen.

"Hey Rach, can we talk?" she got nervous all of a sudden.

"Sure, close the door please." Rachel's voice was small, and Quinn knew it was because of her. Walking in and closing the door per request she stood awkwardly against the wall.

"I'm sorry I ran off after, uh, attacking you."

"Don't worry about it. I get it."

"Get what Rach?"

"You didn't want to kiss me. It's okay." Quinn was very confused now, hadn't Alex talked to her about what happened between them? "You like Santana, I get it, it's okay." Obviously not.

"I don't like Santana." 'Why can't you just tell her? Seriously, grow some balls Fabray.'

"Then who, who were you and Kurt talking about?" It was the diva's turn to be confused.

"You." 'There you told her. Was that so hard?'

"Wh…what?"

"I like you Rachel. Like, I like like you. A lot. The girl we were talking about was you." Quinn held her breath, she told her everything, well almost.

"Me?" Rachel was shocked, happy and confused all at once. To make her point stick, Quinn walked over to the edge of the bed the diva was sitting on and pulled her into a soft but powerful kiss. She pulled back, quickly, but didn't run away. After about a minute of silence, the blonde couldn't take it.

"Say something, please." She pleaded.

"I like you too. I have for a while." The diva smiled and pulled the blonde back into a kiss, making this one last longer then the second.

"So, uh, where do we go from here? I've never done this before." Quinn asked after catching her breath.

"Well, ideally we would go on a date or two." Rachel's voice was shy again.

"Okay. Rachel, will you go on a date with me? Tomorrow maybe?" Quinn asked, smiling softly.

"I would love to, but I have plans with Alex tomorrow. Friday?" Rachel asked, kind of disappointed she couldn't go tomorrow.

"Friday is good for me." Quinn smiled and kissed the diva on the cheek. Rachel pulled Quinn into her bed to lay down, laying her head on the blonde chest.

"You have something you want to talk to me about? Something serious?" The brunette asked after about ten minutes of silence, noticing the blonde starting to fidget.

"Uh, yeah. Something Alex said to me, while she was talking some sense into me earlier. About Puck." Rachel tensed up.

"What did she say?"

"Well she didn't really say much, I was telling her that I was scared that if something between us did happen, and it didn't last, that you would push me out of you life. Like, how you and Finn don't talk unless you have to, and how you don't look at Puck in the eyes anymore. She explained that the reason you and Finn don't talk is because he is a giant douche, and she started to explain why you don't look Puck in the eyes, but she stopped and told me I'd have to ask you about it." Quinn explained not wanting her to think that her best friend had gone running her mouth, but she did want to know.

"Oh, okay, well uh, sophomore year, we dated, and it ended a week after. The night before I was leaving to go to New York for the summer, he came over, he was drunk and um."

"Hey Rachel, you're dad let me in. He said to tell you he went to get Thai for dinner." Puck said walking into her room without knocking. Rachel had just finished getting dressed after her shower.

"Oh. Hi Noah. Okay thanks. So what brings you around?" She asked nervously, she didn't like when she was around him alone, in her house, in her bedroom. Not just him, anyone really.

"Not much just wanted to see how my favorite girl was doing." He slurred.

"Noah are you drunk?" She looked appalled.

"Nah, baby doll, I just wanted to see how you were doing." He walked over cornering her in between her closet and the wall. His hand slid up her side, under her shirt.

"Noah, stop it. You're drunk and you need to leave. Now." She was scared and he could tell.

"Awe don't be scared baby doll, I'm gonna make you feel real good." He said before forcing his lips onto hers, grabbing her left breast roughly. She tried to push him away, and he wouldn't budge.

"Noah, Stop it." She was crying and shaking at this point.

"Awe baby what's wrong, scared to have a real man show you what you're missing with that dyke of a girlfriend?" He was biting her neck and roughly pulling at her breasts, when they heard the front door shut and Rachel's father call up the stairs.

"Rach, sweetheart, Where's your dad?" Puck stopped his assault on the diva and walked away from her without a word.

Rachel was crying at this point, so was Quinn, but she was beyond mad. She tightened her hold on the diva and kissed her forehead.

"I'm so sorry baby. I never knew. I am so so so sorry." She whispered in the smaller girls ear wiping the tears from her face.

"It's okay, Alex is the only person that knows, well besides you now. The next day I flew out to New York and she met me at the gate. I fell into her arms and cried, telling her everything. A couple hours later, my dad called me and told me Puck was in the hospital, he was beat up pretty bad. Alex had called her cousins in Medina, they drove over to his house and beat him up. She never did tell them why." Rachel assured her.

"Well I want to beat him up all over again." Quinn said protectively, pulling the diva closer to her.

"That won't solve anything, and the issue has already been resolved. I forgave him after 6 months of him doing nothing but apologizing and begging for forgiveness." Rachel smiled.

"It will make me feel better, no one hurts my girlfriend without my fist in their face." Quinn said, still angry, but not as much as before, the smile on the diva's face calmed her down a lot.

"Girlfriend hmm?" Rachel teased.

"Well, I was kind of, uh, hoping. You know only if you want to. I mean –" Rachel cut her off with a kiss.

"I was just kidding Quinn, calm down. I would love to be your girlfriend." Quinn smiled and relaxed, leaning over to kiss the brunette again. There was a knock at the door.

"Come in Alex." Rachel laughed. Opening the door, Alex walked in with a Tomato sandwich and a pop.

"You two kiss and make up?" She asked sitting at the foot of the bed smiling.

"Yes nosy, and I told her about Puck too. I know it didn't take you that long to make a sandwich." Rachel teased.

"No, it took me that long to burn a steak, and make a sandwich." Alex said as Quinn and Rachel laughed.

"Yeah, Quinn, never let her go into the kitchen by herself, it's a recipe for disaster." Rachel informed her girlfriend, who laughed harder. "No seriously, she burnt oodles and noodles in the microwave."

"One time, ONE time, and you will never let me live it down." Alex complained.

"How did you manage that?" Quinn asked through her laughter.

"I got distracted by your girlfriend here." Alex pointed.

"Oh really? How come?" Quinn asked teasingly.

"She walking in practically naked, and demanded I come back to bed." Alex laughed at Rachel blushing, and Quinn's jaw dropping.

"You decided that you HAD to have some food and I wasn't ready to give up my cuddles." Alex laughed harder. Quinn was confused and uncomfortable.

"I got hungry, geeze. You know I am a total stoner after sex." Rachel blushed harder and Quinn looked at the two brunettes like they had ten heads each.

"We dated for a while back in the day Quinn, she wasn't sleeping around."

"Oh really? That's one ex girlfriend, who are the other two?" Quinn teased after she got over the shock.

"This girl I met at the Hide-a-way, Charlie." Rachel said, hoping she wouldn't ask who the other girl was.

"And the other?" Quinn knew she was hiding something and she was very curious as to what. Rachel mumbled something into her girlfriend's shoulder and Alex smirked knowingly.

"Sorry baby, I didn't hear you." She really wanted to know now. Rachel mumbled something a little bit louder but Quinn still couldn't hear her. "I'm sorry I didn't catch that."

"I said Santana!" Rachel yelled turning a deep red and Quinn's jaw dropped, her eyes bugged out and she choked on air. Alex fell off the bed laughing, dropping her unopened pop on the floor, her sandwich still sitting on the bed.

TBC…

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