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Ch3: When the beginning is there…
The annoying alarm o'clock woke up the two girls bright and early at 6:30. Santana groaned but sat up and finished waking Rachel up. Rachel's eyes opened and she stretched, her bones popping here and there.
"Oh shoot, I left my cheerio outfit at home." Santana said grumpily.
"Do you have to wear it today?" Rachel asked.
"Well, we don't have practice today so I can wear normal attire, but I'm kinda used to my cheerio outfit." The Latina explained.
"You can borrow my clothes, just like I borrowed yours." Rachel offered, and Santana's face lit up with a smile.
"Really? Thanks Rach. Ill go and get our outfits." Santana exclaimed and skipped to the walk in robe. Rachel meanwhile giggled and went downstairs to make the two girls protein shakes. When she was finished, she left them on the dining table and went upstairs for two towels. She handed Santana one.
"Here, you can use my shower." She said with a smile and took her outfit.
"Thanks." Santana said with her own smile and walked to the bathroom, bringing her outfit with her. Rachel walked towards the bathroom on the other side of her house, trying not to drop her outfit. She walked into the bathroom and locked the door.
Once she was done showering, she blew dried her hair and left it down. She put on the brown waist tube dress that had turquoise, yellow and brown beaded gems, the soft and plain turquoise cardigan and her Vera Wang Lavender gold/brown ballet flats. She walked out of the bathroom, throwing her used towel in the laundry and walked back to her room where she saw Santana sitting on her bed already dressed. The Latina walked over to the vanity and looked at Rachel.
"Do you mind?" Santana asked as she picked up black mascara.
"No, go ahead." She reassured the Latina as she herself made her way to the vanity, picking up her Coco Chanel perfume and spraying it on herself and Santana who smiled.
She put on her Juicy Couture Nostalgia ring, Chan Luu leather wrap bracelet and her book locket necklace.
"Pick out anything you want." Rachel told the Latina as she put on the mascara on her top lashes. She grabbed red and turquoise nail polish to fit Santana's and her nails.
"Ill do your's first." Rachel said and started applying the red nail polish to Santana's left hand, and then her right hand. When Rachel was done, they waited half a minute for the polish to cool down before Santana did Rachel's nails. The girls went downstairs and drank their protein shakes and checked the clock which said 7:30. The girls left the house, Rachel locking the door after them and sped off to school.
They were the first ones there but Santana wanted to talk to Sylvester about something.
They walked to the bleachers where they started talking.
"Are you and Puck back together?" Rachel asked curiously.
"No, we both agreed that we'll wait a while for the drama to die down before we start dating, but we decided to be sex buddies again." She said with a smirk. Rachel made a disgusted sound at the visuals the Latina just gave her while she just laughed. Matt and Brittany joined them then.
"Why aren't you wearing your uniform San?" Brittany asked curiously.
"I left mine at my house so Rach let me borrow her clothes." Santana said.
"Lookin good Rach." Matt complimented Rachel. Britt nodded in agreement.
"I need to go talk to Sylvester. You stay here, Ill be back soon." Santana said as she stood up and walked towards the building. Just then Puck and Mike came.
"Where is Sanny off to?" Puck asked Rachel.
"Sanny, huh?" Rachel teased.
"Cherry!" Puck shot right back making Mike and Rachel once again confused.
"What the hell is up with the Cherry thing?" Mike asked, while Puck just rolled his eyes and said nothing.
"She went to Sylvester for something."
"So Rach, are you thinking about joining the cheerios?" the blonde asked. Rachel shrugged and bit her bottom lip. She would love to be popular again, but she wasn't sure if she wanted past to repeat it self.
"Cheerio? Why would Berry wanna be a cheerio?" Puck asked.
"Because she was a cheerleader in ." Brittany said.
"St. Monica Brittany." Rachel corrected her blonde friend.
"Oh, Right." The blonde said.
"St. Monica?" Matt asked.
"Its in California…I lived there up until half way through Freshman year." Rachel said.
"Cool." Mike said something, and it made Rachel's heart speed up for some reason. And then Santana was back, sitting on Puck's lap. No one missed the smile on her face.
"What's up?" Puck asked as his hand came to rest on her thigh.
"You'll find out tomorrow." Santana said simply.
"You wanna go into the Auditorium and put a number together a number or something? Its going to get pretty boring during practice." Rachel suggested.
"Sure, why not?" Brittany said and Santana agreed, the three girls already discussing what to sing, while the guys trailed after them.
"What about Russian Roulette? We can make it into a trio." Rachel offered.
"Hey, what about us then." Puck asked.
"Girl only. Sorry." Santana said with an evil smirk as the trio made their way to the Auditorium, discussing parts of the song they're going to sing.
Meanwhile the boys were watching girls with fascination as they agreed on solo parts, without Rachel saying a word or even making an uneasy face. What can they say? They were proud of her.
Rachel checked the time on her phone and saw that it was 8:00 and they had class in thirty minutes.
"I'm going to get my books." Rachel said when she stood up, Santana and Brittany followed her and they fell into step together , the boys once again following them like lost puppies. Brittany took her books and decided to have some alone time with Matt and since they have the same homeroom, they went early. Puck took Santana's books from her arms and Mike took Rachel's, swinging his arm around her shoulder as they made their way to their homeroom. Mike was happy to remember that Puck , San , Rachel and Mike had similar classes. He had his first class Math (seriously, Math? In the morning, but still, Rachel had it too.), his second class was Biology (He was partners with Mercedes though…), his third class was free period (Puck, San and Rachel had it too.) Then there was Chem. that he didn't have it Rachel, then there was lunch and gym after and English 2 with Puck and Rachel. Okay, so he may have kinda stole Rachel's schedule from Puck's locker. But do you blame him?
They group sat in their homeroom, waiting for the teacher to call their names, raising their hands when she did, and when the bell rang for first period, Mike, Rachel , Santana and Puck walked to Math, the hall parting like red seas for them, but the again, Santana is scary like a freaking Rachel Berry when she's crazy. And when Rachel is crazy, she's bat shit scary.
"You want to perform the song today, at practice San?" Rachel asked Santana when they walked towards Math.
"Sure, we have to show bitch and wheezy what real talent is." Santana said harshly, still annoyed by Quinn's actions yesterday. Rachel smiled at Santana and mouthed thank you to her, which Santana answered with a wink.
They entered the classroom and sat at the back where there were two joined tables. Puck sat on one edge and Mike sat on the other, leaving the girl sit in the middle. They took out their books and started taking notes, except Puck, who couldn't bother . Saying that he'll remember everything.
The teacher let them talk when they finished their work.
"So, what exactly is going to happen at the Pool Party, Rach." Santana asked curiously, gaining Puck's and Mike's attention.
"Well, we come dressed in swimming suites, eat junk food, drink and tan? Oh and have fun?" She said lamely.
"Drink?" Puck asked excitedly.
"My daddies trust me, I'm allowed." Rachel said smugly.
"Spoiled rich brat." Puck said with a smirk, to which Rachel scoffed. "What are you gonna have?" He added.
"What ever you want. We have Wine and Whiskey, oh Champagne. I can make drinks and cocktails . My auntie taught me." Rachel said again.
"Do your parents know?" Mike asked to which Rachel nodded.
"Seriously, you're such a spoiled little brat ,Berry." Puck said.
"Oh wait till you see her Friday." Santana said to which Rachel blushed.
The bell ran signaling the end of class. Mike and Rachel walked to Biology and Puck and Santana to Chemistry, Puck talking to Santana about their Chemistry, to which Santana rolled her eyes but smiled.
"I hate Biology." Rachel announced. "I m partners with Quinn."
"Tell me about it, my partner is Mercedes." Mike groaned and Rachel grimaced. Mike and Rachel walked into the room and saw Mercedes and Quinn sitting in the corner of the class.
"Oh Mr. Chang, Mr. Berry, there you are. Miss Jones wants to sit with Miss Fabray if that's okay with you." The teacher said. Mike smiled widely and led Rachel to an empty table.
"Cool. We're partners." Mike said and Rachel answered with a smile.
"That we are."
Biology passed slyly, occasional glares from Mercedes and Quinn, which Rachel ignored.
The bell ran and Mike and Rachel walked out of the classroom, to be met by Santana and Puck.
"Bleachers?" Santana asked the group who nodded.
"Me and Mike are going to 7-11 to get slushy's . Cherry Santana?" Puck asked with a smirk.
"Yes, I really want Cherry." Santana said while looking at Rachel. The brunette rolled her eyes and linked her arms with the Latina and they walked to the bleachers.
"What about you Berry? You want Cherry?" He asked innocently.
"While, I do like Cherry very much, I prefer Grape." Rachel said, still not knowing what her friends were talking about. Puck rolled his eyes and he and Mike walked out the door while Santana and Rachel opened the other door and walked into the field, and walked to the bleachers.
"Do you have a Facebook Rach?" Santana asked curiously.
"I deleted it before I moved to Lima." Rachel said..
"Oh, What about MSN?" The Latina tried again.
"That I do." Rachel said.
"Nick?" Santana asked, hoping it wasn't something ridiculous.
"GoldiStar." Rachel said confidently, not missing a beat.
"Okay, tonight I'm making you a new MSN and a Facebook." Santana announced.
"Facebook? Why? Why would anyone add me?" Rachel said and stared and Santana like she was an idiot.
"Cause soon, you're going to be popular. Precisely tomorrow." Santana said with a smirk.
"Can I know how?" Rachel asked weakly like a little mouse.
"No." The Latina said firmly, and just then as on que, the boys came. Mike handed a slushy.
"Thank you Mike." Rachel said as a blush crept up to her cheeks and Mike grinned at that. Puck gave Santana a slushy and she moaned when she tasted it.
"Mmm.. Cherry. Oh Chang , Berry… you should totally go for the Cherry." Santana hinted but Rachel was still oblivious. Mike narrowed his eyes and looked at Puck who raised his eyebrow and dared him to say anything.
"No thanks San. I like the grape." She said happily, oblivious to what was going on around her.
"So what is my new nickname going to be?" The brunette asked Santana.
"I don't know. It has to be something catchy. Like, Berry or something. Or I know… What about , Cherry." Santana said.
"Enough with the Cherries, for gods sake, what is with you guys." Rachel said frustrated.
"They're just being idiots." Mike said roughly and made Rachel's eyes snap to his when she heard how harsh and loud he was. "Sorry." he muttered to which Rachel nodded.
"Pick something like RachBerry , or I know. RashBerry." Puck said, proud with himself.
"RashBerry?" Rachel asked confused.
"Well yeah, Sanny calls you Rach, so maybe you good do Rash, as in Ras. So its Rashberry." Puck explained his logic and the rest agreed.
"Rashberry it is." Rachel said. The teens talked for a while longer before the bell rang for fourth period.
"I've got Chemistry now. Puck you have English with Rach now right?" Mike asked as he stood up. To which Puck nodded and kissed Santana on her temple and they set off to different classes.
When they were seated, Rachel started bothering Puck.
"What with the Cherry crap?" Rachel asked, and Puck stared at her, still not used to her swearing. "Well?" She asked impatiently.
"You'll find out later Rach. Now stop talking, we have to do our work." For once not using her old nickname.
"No we don't. We're done remember? We have free time now." Rachel said smugly to which Puck rolled his eyes. Quinn was sitting in front of them and suddenly turned to Rachel.
"Oh shut it, man hands. Stop thinking you own the place . You do know that Mike just wants to be your friend so he could get in your pants? And the whole time you and Puck dated he just wanted to screw you and get over it." Quinn said scathingly.
"I assure you that me and Noah dated for different reasons. He needed to date a Jewish girl, and I was the only one that he knew." Rachel said, avoiding the Mike sentence, not knowing if it was true. It hurt her that Mike wanted to only have sex with her. But this is Quinn we're talking about, the person that wants to make her life a living hell. She had to be lying.
"Sorry Q, but to your disappointment, I actually liked Rachel." Puck said with a smirk. "So get your nose out of her fucking business." He defended.
"Puckerman! Watch your mouth young man." The teacher yelled.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Loin ." He said with a flirty smile which made the teacher roll her eyes and turn back to her book.
"What ever Puck." Quinn said harshly, and with the last glare she turned back to her notepad.
The though of Mike using Rachel bothered her. She knew that Quinn was lying, but what if it was true?
"She's just jealous." Puck said when he saw the lost expression on Rachel's face. "Mike want to be friends with you." Puck added. Rachel, unable to say anything nodded with a smile and grabbed her Blackberry. She unlocked the keyboard and saw a recent text from Santana.
[San] : am dun my calculus .. Wat bout uu?
[Rach] : Done my eng. Sooo boring up here.
[San] : K. lunch, me n Britt are sitting with u guys. Kurt is planning on slushying Bitch and Wheezy.
[Rach] : Will me trying to stop kurt work?
[San] : nope.
[San] : Gotta go, bells goin in ten.
Rachel locked her keyboard and put her phone in her bag.
"What did she want?" Puck asked.
"Sanny told me that Quinn and Mercedes are getting slushy facials today. By Kurt." Rachel said with a sigh.
"What's wrong? Don't you want them to get slushied?" He asked, wondering why Berry has to be so fucking nice all the time.
"Well, a part of me, the very, very selfish and naughty part of me, wants them to suffer. But I know what it feels like." Rachel said.
"They're gonna get what they deserve." Puck said, leaving no room for arguments. Rachel sighed but nodded. Looking at the clock, it said 3 minutes until lunch.
Just to have something to do, she sang over the part of their trio and the chorus. When she was done with that, she only had 26 second left.
Damn that stupid Bell. She thought.
Then the Bell went.
She and Puck stood up and went out the door, where Santana and Mike were waiting. Puck kissed the Latinas forehead again and swung his arm to her waist. Mike took Rachel's books and rested his Arm on Rachel's shoulders like always. Telling the Mc Kineley that Rachel was his, and of course Rachel was still oblivious. Santana and Puck who decided to play with them a little, took Rachels free arm and dropped it around Mike's waist.
"Don't pull away. I know you want to hold him." Santana whispered in Rachel's ear and with that, her and Puck were gone, running around the corner to the Cafeteria. Mike knew that Puck moved Rachel's arm, but he was still happy and smiled down at Rachel who smiled back.
They pushed the doors to the cafeteria and separated, Rachel going to put her books where The Gleeks minus Finn, Quinn and Mercedes were sitting, but instead two jocks and a cheerleader sat. She saved a seat for her and Mike beside Santana and went back to the line, where Mike saved her a spot in front of him.
"Thank you." She said and smiled at him. She bought a Nacho and orange juice and went sit but she was stopped by Finn. Mike bought similar and went to stand beside Rachel.
"Can we talk? In private." Finn asked, eyeing Mike.
"No. We can talk now." Mike said harshly.
"Its okay Mike. Go take the spot I saved us before someone steals it." Rachel told Mike and gave him a pleading look. He walked back to their table and sat where Rachel's books were, turning around to talk to Santana and Puck. Rachel turned to Finn.
"What?" She said harshly.
"I wanna be with you." He said.
"Are you kidding me? You are such a pathetic little boy, Finn. I'm not ever going to like you again. Stay away from me." She said snidely and walked back to their table. She dropped her tray of lunch and was about to sit beside Mike when some red headed Cheerio took her place.
"Excuse me. I was sitting here." Rachel said politely, which gained Mike's , Santana's and Puck's attention.
"Sylvia, Rachel was sitting here." Mike said, moving so he could give Rachel some space to sit.
"I was first." The red head said scathingly.
"Syl, let Rach sit there." Puck said with a wink, but the Red head just scoffed.
"Move Renedez." Santana said calmly, well, as calmly as the Latina could.
"Why?" She asked like a child. "Don't you want to sit beside me Mikey?" She asked Mike, clearly checking him out. Rachel didn't know what annoyed her more, the fact that a cheerio was checking him out, or that he wasn't doing anything about it.
"No." He said harshly.
"Guys, calm down. Its okay. Ill just go sit beside Tina." Rachel said with a smile and took her tray, but when she was passing Santana, the Latina stole her tray and set it beside Mike's.
"San, I don't have anywhere to sit." Rachel protested.
"Yes you do, I have the most perfect place." Santana said. She grabbed brunette pushed her down on Mike, making her sit on his lap. Rachel blushed and immediately tried to get of off his lap, but the Latina stopped her.
"Santana, stop it. I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable." Rachel said.
"You won't . Mike won't mind, Right Mike?." She assured Rachel and looked pointedly at Mike, who still hasn't said anything. But instead rested his hand on Rachel's hip, trying to steady her.
Rachel wiggled a bit, trying to get comfortable, which was pretty hard since something hard like his phone kept stopping her from her comfort. Mike grabbed both of her hips, making her stop.
"Stop moving." He said lowly and rested his head on her shoulder. Giggles of three different voices could be heard from her table as Puck laughed loudly and Matt snickered in Rachel's and Mike's direction.
Lunch ended a bit too fast for their liking, but since the whole gang except Mercedes and Quinn and Artie of course didn't have Gym, that made up for it.
Gym went by smoothly, except Finn trying to talk to Rachel, but when Mike flipped him a birdie, he stopped and avoided Rachel for the rest of the Class.
Next, Rachel had English 2 with Mike and Puck, while Santana had Math 2 and Brittany and Matt had free period and were probably making out in the Janitors closet again.
Santana kissed Puck on the cheek and skipped of to class while Mike and Rachel walked to English, both exhausted from Gym, sat at the back of the class and sulked and moaned about how unfair Tanaka was.
"You think Tanaka was hard? Then imagine Santana, she wouldn't leave me alone. I had to do 20 laps and then stretch for 30 minutes!" Rachel exclaimed and put her head on their table.
"Okay. You win." Mike said and then looked up and said "At least I have the class with you."
"That sure makes up for it." She mumbled into the table, but took her book out and started on her assignment . She needed to write either , a short story, a poem or a Diary entry. She decided on writing a diary entry, making sure that Mike wasn't looking at what she was writing, she described the Regional's, what happened after, yesterday and today. And lastly, she wrote a quick paragraph about Mike, still making sure he didn't see. When she was done, she closed the book .
"Mind sharing? Ill show you mine if you'll show me yours." Mike said with a smile, startling her out of her thoughts.
"Nah- uh." Rachel said shaking her head. "I don't want you to know my super secrety secret." She joked around it and made Mike smirk. The bell rang Rachel ran out of her classroom towards Glee, but was stopped by Brittany when she came running down the hallway and towards Rachel, when she was near Rachel, she threw herself at her and started crying loudly, well, more like sobbing. Rachel wrapped her arms around her and started rubbing her back.
"What's wrong Britt?" She cooed to the sweet blond.
"Matt just wants in my cheerio skirt." The blond girl wheezed.
"Who said that?" She said sharply.
"Mercedes. Me and Kurt were ready to slushy them just a second ago and before I could, Mercedes told me that." Brittany said.
"Sweetie, you should know better than to listen to Mercedes. Matt likes you, and Mercedes lied to you because she likes Matt. Don't trust her." Rachel told her, seeing Mike disappear to where Brittany came from. "Do you understand?"
The sweet blond nodded and smiled at Rachel.
"Now come on, we have five minutes to sort it out." Rachel said and led Brittany down the hall to where Mike went. When they reached the place, Quinn was behind Mercedes who was snickering. Kurt and Santana were held back by Puck and Mike and Matt was looking all over the place. When he finally saw us, he run over to Brittany who jumped into his arms. Rachel smiled.
"Guys, you still singing?" Rachel asked Santana and Brittany. At Rachel's voice, The Latina started calming down and turned to Rachel.
"Of course." She said calmly and Puck let her go. Santana threw one glare at Mercedes and walked over to Rachel and they walked towards the Choir room where Mr. Schuester was already sitting.
"Mr .Schuster ? Me, Santana and Brittany are performing a trio." Rachel said. Will looked up and smiled at the two girls.
"Of course, Rach. Lets wait for everyone shall we?" Mr. Schuester said. The two girls nodded and went to sit, waiting for everyone to come in. Puck, Matt and Brittany were the first ones there and went to sit around the two girls. Mike came in next, taking a chair and sitting beside Rachel, who threw him a smile. Tina and Artie walked in and sat beside Matt while Mercedes, Finn and Quinn sat two chairs from the group. Kurt came in last and grabbed a chair, sitting beside Puck, throwing glares at Quinn and Mercedes.
"Okay, Guys. Brittany, Santana and Rachel have something for you. Take it away Ladies."
Santana and Rachel stood up, taking their spots and the band began to play the music.
[Rachel]:
Take a breath, take it deep
Calm yourself, he says to me
If you play, you play for keeps
Take a gun and count to three
Im sweating now, moving slow
No time to think, my turn to go
[All]:
And you can see my heart beating
You can see it through my chest
That I'm terrified but I'm not leaving
Know that I must pass this test,
So just pull the trigger
[Santana]:
Say a prayer to yourself
Close your eyes
Sometimes it helps
And then I get a scary thought
That he's here means he's never lost
[All]:
And you can see my heart beating
You can see it through my chest
That I'm terrified but I'm not leaving
Know that I must pass this test,
So just pull the trigger
[Brittany]:
As my life flashes before my eyes,
I'm wondering if, Ill ever see another sunrise?
So many wont get the chance to say goodbye,
But it's too late to pick up the value of my life.
[All]:
And you can see my heart beating
You can see it through my chest
That I'm terrified but I'm not leaving
Know that I must pass this test,
So just pull the trigger
The girls finished and waited for the group's reactions.
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