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Suddenly 'don't rain on my parade' filled the room. She got up and grabbed her phone from the nightstand. Her breath shocked when she looked at the caller-ID.

"Hello?"

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"Hello, Rachel." The voice on the other side of the line said.

"What do you want." Her voice was cold, bitter. She didn't care about being friendly. I was her mom, yeah, but why should she be nice to the woman that abandoned her twice?

"I need to talk to you. It's about Jesse." Rachel's breath shocked. What do I have to do with him?

"What about him? Listen I don't have much time. And I honestly have no idea what I have to do with him."

"Please Rachel; What about lunch? It's important." Shelby said. I was important. No, seriously.

"Why would I want to have lunch with you? You can tell me now right?" Rachel was getting curious. What would it be that made Shelby so nervous, was about Jesse, and had something to do with her? She hoped Shelby wasn't pregnant of Jesse tough, but she didn't see what she had to do with them then. Ugh, that thought was just weird. Jesse would be like the father of her stepsister then. No, let's erase that thought.

"C'mon Rachel, please." Shelby said desperately. She really didn't want to explain this on the phone. It would be too confusing.

"Fine." Rachel snapped. "When?"

"What about now? I'm in the neighborhood, so I could meet you at Breadsticks?"

"Ok. Bye, Shelby." And with that Rachel disconnected the call. She was filled with curiosity now. It wasn't bearable. So she hurried out the door after grabbing her keys and purse and doing her hair and makeup.

She sat on the bench right next to the entrance. It was hot for a spring-day, and she was already sweating in her sweater. She saw a woman coming up to her, with the same haircolour and curls like hers. Shelby. She wore a black halter top with flowers on the front and a purple skirt. She had a really worried look on her face and her steps were really small because of the tight skirt.

"Hey Rachel." She said awkwardly and out of breath when she arrived at her daughter.

"Hey. So let's go in?" Rachel said nervously, pointing to the door. Shelby nodded, and they went in. Breadsticks was a cozy place. Like the typical movie restaurants. They sat down at a table, in front of each other.

"So, why did you call me?" Rachel said, trying to get to the point of this stupid meeting right away. She didn't care about how her mom's day was and how beth must cry night after night. She cared about Jesse. Of course, nobody could know. She pretended like he made her hard as a stone and she was even more ready for Broadway, but deep inside she missed him like hell.

"Well… I told you it was about Jesse." Shelby begun.

"Yeah."

"First of all I want you to know that I never meant to do you any harm. And Jesse neither. He was just doing this to not get kicked out of VA and lose his full ride to UCLA. He really liked you Rachel. And I was a monster forcing him into leaving you, it killed him. Well, it is almost killing him literally, but I'll come back to that later. I didn't know about the egging Rachel, and Jesse wanted it neither; but the members of Vocal Adrenalin forced him, otherwise they would kick him out of VA themselves. He came to my office after the egging happened, I could see that he had been crying."

-Flashback-

He drove back to Carmel, with the egg yolk still sticking on his hands. It was all over the wheel now too. Tears were rolling over his cheeks, hot and wet. He couldn't believe he actually did this. He knew he could never, ever burn the look on her face out of his memory. She had looked at him, her eyes screamed disappointment in him, hurt, disbelieve. He pulled over at his VA01 parking spot. He whipped his cheeks dry before running into the school.

"Jesse? What's wrong?" Shelby asked worried. His eyes were red and puffy, and there was egg yolk all over his clothes.

"It's all your fault, you fucking bitch!" he yelled, pointing at her. "Why couldn't you wait until she was fuckin' 18? She'll never want to see me again, and you're the blame! How can you be so cruel?" He smacked a chair to the ground in his rage. He was furious.

"Jesse, what happened?" Shelby asked quietly.

"I- they wanted me to egg her." He took another chair and sat down in it. He buried his face in his hands, desperately trying to hide his tears. "She's a vegan! I'm such a monster!"

"They what?" Shelby asked angrily. That wasn't the plan! That was just… cruel, mean!

"egged. her." Shelby ran out of the office, to the auditorium.

"WHAT THE HELL!" she yelled when she entered the room. All the VA members were laughing about what happened, and that made her even more mad.

"What? It was funny." Giselle said laughing.

"No, it wasn't. Is that what you guys really are? That's just low! I'll find you a right punishment, and I promise it'll be harder than a Vocal Adrenalin practice 'till midnight!" and with that she stormed out of the door, leaving the 8 egging-teens behind.

-End flashback-

"So what are you trying to say?" Rachel asked.

"Well-" she got cut off by the waitress coming to take their order. Shelby ordered a lasagna and Rachel a vegetarian salad. She sighted. "Well, I'm saying that Jesse needs you."

"What do you want me to say?" Rachel was confused; he was the one that was supposed to contact her, not the other way around.

"Nothing. You don't have to say anything. Rachel, Jesse isn't doing very well. I heard he partied and drank every night, and even took drugs sometimes. And I know it's because he was trying to lose the pain of what he did to you and of missing you. Rachel, please." Shelby's shoulders felt a lot lighter when she told her, but Rachel's just got heavier.

"Wait, partied? Drank? Why past tense?" Rachel was slightly panicking. He can't be dead, right?

"He crashed his car, he's in the Lima hospital now. He's in a coma Rachel. You have to be there for him, or he won't make it. Please Rachel, please…" Shelby couldn't hold her tears back anymore. The feeling of guilt was eating her alive. Rachel couldn't believe it. She felt like she couldn't breathe. Jesse was dying. Dying.

"I- I…" She didn't know what to say, and that didn't really matter, she couldn't find her voice anyway.

Fin! Hope you liked it, tell me what you think!
Disclaimer: I do not own glee. If i did, Jesse would have a leading role.

Love, Hach.