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"You all filmed the pilot and then waited two months until you found out if it was going to get picked up by the network or not. What was that time like? You knew you had something special. You knew you had a great show. But you had two months before your entire lives changed. How did you spend your last two months of normality?" Rita Jones asked.

Rachel blew a breath out through her lips and chuckled.

"Wow. I never thought about it that way. I think those two months were great. We had this excellent group of people that we loved spending time with. We all kind of became family. At the same time though, we could go to dinner in public without paparazzi hounding our every move. It was stressful in a different way. We were waiting on pins and needles. All of us wanted this show so badly. We knew how great it could be. We didn't know how people would respond. We didn't have any clue it would become what it did, but we knew we were devoted to it and we really wanted to see this through," Quinn answered.

"During those two months, most of the cast moved into the same complex. It was like Camp SING! in those apartments. How was that?"

"Oh God. It was insane. It was the most fun I've ever had. We had barbeques in the courtyard where we would sing together. Matt or Scott would play guitar and we would all sing. I'm sure every person in our complex hated the rest of us. It was blast," Rachel smiled, remembering.

"What about you, Quinn? You moved in with Rachel during that time right?"

Both women smiled at each other and nodded. Quinn thought back on what her life had been like before she became best friends with the brunette sitting next to her. It had all happened so fast. Everything changed so quickly. One minute she was living in a rundown neighborhood. The next minute she was living with her former high school nemesis and starring on a television show.

"I did. I had been living with a good friend of mine for years. Mark was like a brother to me, really. He had another show he was working on at a different network and things were really taking off for him. We were sort of moving in different circles."

"You'd worked on Champs together, right?" Rita questioned.

"Right. He was my first friend in LA. It was wonderful and I really adored the time we spent together but we'd been living in this horrible, horrible neighborhood. Originally, we moved there because it was the only place we could afford. Then we started working on Champs together and it happened to be convenient in terms of location. We both wanted to move but neither one of us wanted to be the one to leave. After Champs, I kept scoring auditions in Culver City so it didn't make sense for me to move further north. Mark got a different job so it didn't work for him to move further south. We were kind of stuck in the middle. It really was a terrible neighborhood though," Quinn chucked.

She remembered the day she came home to find police cars blocking off her street. One of the officers asked her if she was lost. She explained that she lived in the neighborhood. The officer had told her immediately that she should consider moving. She was a young, blonde, white girl from Ohio. She couldn't have been more out of place in that neighborhood if she tried. Between the cockroaches and the occasional sound of a gunshot, Quinn knew it wasn't a place she could ever invite her mother. She'd carried pepper spray on her key chain after witnessing a high school kid rob an elderly lady in attempt to get accepted into the local gang. It hadn't been a gunpoint robbery. The kid ran up to the older woman, knocked her cane from her hand, grabbed her purse, and ran. Quinn's moment of shock was when none of the people standing nearby did anything to stop him. Rita's next question pulled her from her memories.

"So what prompted the final move?"

"When we filmed the pilot of SING! it just didn't make sense anymore to live so far away. I really hoped that the show would get picked up. I had other friends who lived closer to our studio. Mark got engaged so it just seemed like the planets aligned. He and his fiancé moved closer to his studio. His next job kicked in around the same time that Rachel's roommate moved out to go to the West End for a show so…"

"I asked her to move in," Rachel finished, happily.

"So how many of the Gleeks lived in the same apartment complex during season one?" Rita questioned.

"Oh man, during season one…well Quinn and I lived together. We were usually the hosts for everything. Quinn is what we call a neat freak. Our apartment was spotless. I have a certain disorder that we shall name "Perfect Hostess Syndrome" so combining my need to host and Quinn's obsession with order and cleanliness, we became the go to location for all get-togethers," Rachel explained with a slight blush.

"Do you both still have those traits?"

"Certainly," Rachel replied immediately.

"We've both learned to relax a little in our set mannerisms. I'm not quite the neat freak I once was and Rachel has learned to calm herself when hosting. But of our friends, even to this day, we usually are the hosts," Quinn grinned with a shrug.

"But to answer your initial question, Quinn and I lived in one apartment. David and his mother lived in an apartment. Courtney and Scott both lived in other apartments in the complex. Also during that first season, Matthew moved into one of the apartments with a friend of his. Brooke and one of her best friends lived literally three blocks away. So we were all relatively close," Rachel answered.

"So basically everyone except Chase and the adult characters were neighbors," Rita laughed.

"It really was Camp SING!"

"It was. After we found out that we were picked up for twelve episodes, we all just kept gravitating towards the same place. It was a little disgusting how much time we all spent together," Rachel snorted.

Quinn added on, "We worked twelve to fourteen-hour days Monday through Friday for months at time without having any real breaks. After work, we carpooled home and had dinner and movie nights together. Chase had a man cave at the time with some of his friends from high school. They'd been living together for years and they used to have some really crazy parties. Not crazy as in wild but just fun and loud. I believe there were a few noise complaints. Still, he made it to almost all of our nights. We were all very close. We were living in this bubble for the first six months maybe. We worked together. We played together. We had no idea what was going on outside our SING! world."

"I think the first few months between actually getting picked up and when the show first aired- that was the time when we all really bonded. Spending so much time together made us into this strange family and I still consider all of them life-long friends," Rachel nodded.