Tina's POV

Life was good. New Directions had just placed second at Regionals and Puck and Quinn had their darling baby girl. Glee club's popularity hadn't gone up, really it had actually gone down, but everyone was so happy that glee club was going to continue. Sure, we would have rather beaten Aural Intensity and gone on to Nationals, but another year was too much of a good deal to be handed to dwell on what we had wished we had. Even Rachel seemed to be perpetually happy. (Which was surprising because of all her baby drama.) In the early months of Quinn's pregnancy, she cried all the time, but the only time Tina had seen Rachel cry in the past week was when Finn had hit Jesse.

"Tina," called a familiar voice.

I turned around to see Rachel and Jesse walking up to my locker. Usually Quinn and Puck would arrive with them, but they were both on leave for the rest of the school year due to the arrival of Beth. However, Figgens gave them permission for them to come in with Beth on the last day of school, which was in two weeks.

"Hey guys, how are you today?" I asked.

"Fine, thank you," said Rachel.

"Very well, thank you. And how are you, Tina?" asked Jesse.

I was a little surprised at the kindness in his tone. I didn't think he liked me very much after I came knocking on his door at four the morning I told him that Rachel was pregnant.

"I'm fine, thanks," I stammered out. I'd always been shy, but I was exceptionally shy around Jesse after that one morning.

"So, Tina, I know we've never exactly been friends, but could you please do me a favor?" asked Jesse.

"A totally unnecessary favor. Jesse St. James, I am capable of taking care of myself," protested Rachel. I was interested by whatever the said favor was.

"Sure. What do you need, Jesse?" I asked, eager to try and forge a friendly relationship with Jesse and find out why Rachel was opposed to whatever he was going to ask me to do."

"Well, Rachel's dads have been on a business trip for the past few days. I've been spending a lot of time at her house so she won't be completely alone, and because I love her. Anyways, I still don't like that she's the only person in her house at night. Her dads are coming back tomorrow evening, and I was wondering if you would have a sleepover with Rachel tonight," explained Jesse.

"Sure! My parents are out of town too; did Rachel tell you that my parents work with hers?"

"No, but supposedly the mentioned pregnant female adolescent doesn't tell me a lot of things," he chuckled.

"Jesse! Did you know that you really annoy me sometimes?" growled Rachel.

"Yes, and I take pride in that," grinned Jesse.

"Well, I'll see you after school, Rachel," I said excitedly.

"OK, anytime you want to come over is fine," she replied as she and Jesse went to go talk to Mr. Shuester about Rachel's ideas for Sectionals. Already.

I felt happy. Even though I was sleeping over at Rachel's house because of Jesse's compulsive and obsessive need to protect her, it still made me feel good inside. I was always the weird girl who never got invited to sleepovers.

Rachel's POV

"Does it still hurt where Finn hit you?" I asked Jesse worriedly.

"How many times do I have tell you that I'm fine, Rachel?" I chimed back.

"Well, it seems like every time I tell you that I'm fine you don't believe me, so I'm just returning the favor."

"Rachel, I don't believe you because you're usually lying to me when you say that."

"That's not true!"

"I believe it is. But to answer your question, it doesn't hurt anymore."

"Really? Because it seemed like he hit you really hard. I'm just glad that you didn't hit him back."

"Not with you standing right there!"

"Well that's comforting, Jesse."

"You need to stop worrying about what Finn and all the other glee club members think."

"You're right! I should enjoy it while they don't know that I'm pregnant! I mean, soon they're going to be thinking much worse things."

"Rachel, it doesn't matter what they think."

"Thank you, Mrs. Pillsbury."

"I think pregnancy makes you sarcastic."

"It also makes me want to slap you, but Finn already took care of that."

"Yes, because Finn has always been there for us."

"Now you're being sarcastic!"

"But I always have been."

"You have a point. But I still think that having Tina come over is unnecessary."

"Tina's really helped you out, won't it be fun?"

"You're probably right. It'll be fun to spend a night just having fun."

"Make sure you get some sleep, you are-

"PREGNANT. I KNOW."

Sorry for the short chapter length. The next chapter should be longer and detailing what happened between Jesse and Finn and detailing the sleepover.