Rachel's Math test was a disaster. She had never done such a mess in a class test, but at least her French homework was so well done that she got an A+ and a smile from her terrible teacher, Madame Keller. After French class, she went to the canteen, where she saw Finn, Puck, Quinn, Sam and Santana sitting around a table, so she decided to join them. She sat next to Quinn, who couldn't help herself and pointed out how ugly Rachel's sweater was. As Santana's laughter was spread all over the table, Rachel gazed at Finn, who hadn't said a word, instead he was smiling. She took her tray, stood up and walked away, looking for another place to sit and eat. She spotted Brittany rolling Artie's wheelchair to a table where Kurt, Mercedes, Tina and Mike were already sitting. She followed them and sat down in front of Kurt. "Hi guys" she greeted.
"Hi, Rach" they greeted back.
Rachel rested her chin on her left hand, and with the other one she filled her mouth with bread sticks. She felt really gloomy that day. And Kurt seemed to notice.
"Hey, is something wrong?" he asked. "Are you and Finn still fighting?"
"Wouldn't know, he doesn't even talk to me now" she replied.
"How immature" Kurt slowly shook his head.
"What's wrong?" asked Tina.
"Finn is a moron" answered Mercedes, chewing a piece of bread.
Rachel suddenly lifted her head and stared at Mercedes with widened eyes.
"Wow, it took you all this time to realize that, Rach?" said Mike laughing.
"But what did he do?" insisted Tina.
"He refused to sing a mash up Rachel wrote with one song by Gaga and one by Mika" replied Mercedes shrugging. Rachel was speechless. Kurt was the only one who knew about the fight..
"You wrote a mash up of Gaga and Mika, Rach? Great pairing!" exclaimed Artie winking.
"Yeah, thanks.." she said in shock. "But how do you know that, Mercedes?"
"Kurt told me"
"Kurt told you?"
"I told her" Kurt was waving at Rachel with an innocent smile on his face.
She frowned, than she stood up and walked away, leaving everyone else at the table wondering why she was upset this time. Kurt hesitated for a moment and then he ran over her.
"Hey, princess, what's wrong?"
"Don't you dare talk about my personal problems with Finn ever again!" she growled. Her expression was purely angry. Kurt was glad that they were at the canteen in that moment, so if she had stabbed him with her beef knife he would have had witnesses.
"I'm sorry, I hadn't figured it was a secret since you told me.." he tried to apologize.
"You're right, I should have made it very clear that I wouldn't have liked you picking up your phone and calling your girlfriend to tell her what an awful boyfriend I have! My fault, Kurt!"
"Don't say that, princess.."
"Don't call me that. I'm furious and my royalty won't change that."
That made Kurt laugh a little bit, which didn't help much with Rachel's rage. Anyway, she didn't dramatically leave as she always did; it was a good sign.
"Come on, Rachel, I'm sorry" repeated Kurt, rubbing her shoulder. "I didn't call Mercedes so we could talk about how idiot Finn is.. but we both agreed on how good your idea was"
This worked like a charm. Any compliment was more than welcome to Rachel. She shrugged and asked: "She liked it?" Kurt nodded. "Good" she said, with a tiny smile. But then she frowned again. "Great! Now that Finn and I can't do this together, she'll steal my idea and sing it instead!"
"Stop it, Rachel" irrupted Kurt. "Mercedes already has a song for the audition, so don't even worry about that. And here's to you" he added, handing her the sheet music of the mash up. "Thank you for letting me sing Lovely ladies yesterday, but you could have told me you had wrote something else and wanted to sing that. Anyway, thanks for trusting me so much that you let me see the sheet music of your mash up" he said with a soft smile. She didn't take the papers back. She peeked Finn, sitting between Quinn and Santana and laughing like crazy, and then she asked Kurt:
"Do you have any plan for the audition yet?" Much to her surprise, he nodded. But then he said: "See, there's this amazing song by Mika called Blue eyes.. and you know how much I love Lady Gaga". Rachel stared at him astounded, and when she asked him: "What do you mean, exactly?" his reply was: "How clueless you are, princess."