Someone like you

"Quinn? What are you doing here?" Rachel said with a frown but a smile was playing on her lips. Quinn was sitting in front of the piano in the choir room pressing random keys. "Not that that's a bad thing but I wasn't expecting to see you here again."

"I don't have another place to practice" Quinn said very quietly, starting to play the melody of "Don't stop believing". Rachel looked sadly at her, remembering that was one of the songs the Glee club played at practice that day. She didn't understand why Quinn refused to join them again. "It's very quiet here when no one's around. Just the piano and me; except the times you show up."

"I'm sorry" Rachel said, biting her lip.

Quinn shrugged, stopping the music. She stretched her hands in front of her before speaking again. "It's okay, you've proven to me that you're not as obnoxious as I thought"

"Can I?" Rachel asked, pointing at the piano bench. Quinn looked at her hand and nodded, scooting to her side to make more room. "About friday…"

"You don't have to say anything. I was drunk, remember?"

Rachel studied Quinn's face. She seemed tired and Rachel hadn't ignored the fact that Quinn hadn't seen her in the face since she entered the room. She waited for a moment just watching her and listening to the melody Quinn was making by pressing random keys.

"But you weren't" Quinn added so quietly, Rachel was sure she had been able to hear it because she was sitting beside her. "Why did you kiss me back?"

"I-I don't know, I guess I just… went with it" Rachel answered and wished she had thought better in her answer when Quinn looked at her in the eyes for the first time, hazel eyes filled with hopelessness. "Why did you kiss me?"

Quinn looked down again, a frown in her face. "I was drunk" She said, starting to play "don't stop believing" again. Rachel stayed silent just watching Quinn's fingers dance over the keys, until she stopped and looked at her. Rachel held in a breath at the way hazel eyes were burying into her own.

Music filled the air again and Rachel couldn't take her eyes away as she recognized the song: Someone like you.

Rachel started to sing the song when Quinn tore her eyes away. This wasn't the first time they just sat together, Quinn playing the piano while she sang the songs Quinn chose to play.

"Guess she gave you things, I didn't give to you" Her voice trembled making Quinn's hands stop for a moment as she closed her eyes tightly. Rachel saw her take a deep breath as she started playing again from the pre-chorus.

"I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited but I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it, I had hoped you see my face and that you be reminded that for me it isn't over."

Rachel felt her voice break again when she hit the chorus. She never took her eyes away from Quinn's face. She wasn't stupid. Quinn wasn't just playing this song just because. She was trying to tell her something. She was trying to make her understand what she couldn't say after she kissed her in Finn's birthday party and took off running instead. She knew what Quinn was trying to tell her and she knew Quinn was aware of Rachel's feelings about it.

Quinn stopped playing suddenly, her shoulders slumping, and Rachel let free the tears she'd been trying to fight back at the image.

"Quinn…" Rachel said softly, and like it was a slap to the face to wake her, Quinn turned around and took her face on her hands, kissing her.

The kiss didn't last too long. Quinn pulled away a few inches and fisted her hands on Rachel's hair at both sides of her head, her sobs hitting Rachel's lips.

"Just don't say anything, please. I just needed you to know but that is all" Quinn breathed out. "I'm not asking you anything. I don't ask for anything anymore"

Rachel felt her heart break at Quinn's words. She wished in that moment she could return Quinn's feelings. She cared about her and it pained her to know she was making her go through this kind of pain.

It was a good thing Quinn didn't want her to say anything because she wasn't sure of what to say without breaking Quinn's heart even more. So she cupped Quinn's neck instead and kissed her lips over and over again, and then let her lips travel all around Quinn's face -her cheeks, her nose, her eyes-, and left a last lingering kiss in her forehead, before she looked sadly into Quinn's eyes, silently apologizing. Quinn broke down in sobs when she stood up from the bench, walking away her own tears falling from her eyes.

A/N: ...okay.

I'm sorry, I remember hearing that song over and over again when I wrote this... probably last year when I didn't seem to hear any other song than that one.