Here's the next chapter. I hope everyone's still enjoying the story.

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After hanging out with her friends in the food court Noah had taken her over to his house for dinner with his family. After a delicious meal she had helped Sara with her homework before Noah had driven her home. She had thanked him for helping her so much lately and gone inside feeling perfectly content. As she fell asleep that night she thought to herself how incredibly lucky she was.

Quinn had picked her up the next morning for school and they had sung along to a Nickelback song with their very best Chad Kreuger voices. They were both wiping tears of laughter away as they walked into the school. Rachel grinned as the glee clubbers waved at her and greeted her as she walked towards her locker with Quinn. Noah had showed up at her locker and they had walked to their class together. She had found herself concentrating happily throughout all of her classes as she sat with her friends. She sat with most of the glee club at lunch as they pushed tables together passing their lunches around.

The rest of the week passed in a whirlwind of laughter and music. When Rachel had decided that she wanted to enjoy the rest of her final year, she'd had no idea that it would be so easy. She'd had so much fun this week as she renewed friendships and explored new ones. This being the reason she found herself cuddled on her couch beside Quinn on Friday night. She stretched her legs out as the credits rolled for 'I am number four.'

"I know that Noah thinks the Aussie chick is really good-looking, but I think that Sarah was much prettier." Rachel stated to break the silence.

Quinn had just smiled in response and tossed a pillow at her head. Glancing at the clock on the wall her smile got even wider.

"We should invite some of the others over Rach. We could work on another song for the Glee project. I know that Artie and Rory bought some sheet music that they thought would be cool to sing next week."

"That's a fantastic idea Quinn!" Rachel replied before spending out a mass text message to the whole club.

Quinn grinned as she followed Rachel into the kitchen. Rachel had insisted that if they were to have guests over then they would need to be good hosts. Quinn sat back in amusement as she watched Rachel bake with a flourish. Quinn suggested pizza and they decided to wait until everyone got there so they would order the right amount of food and the right kinds of pizza. Thirty minutes later, Rachel had a batch of chocolate chips cookies in the oven and cupcakes cooling on the stove just waiting to be iced. The doorbell rang just as Rachel pulled the cookies out of the oven. The two girls exchanged grins as they raced to the door. Getting there slightly ahead of Quinn, Rachel pulled open the door to find everyone standing on her doorstep. She and Quinn moved aside as everyone walked inside and out of the cold. Noah walked in last and started laughing as he looked at the two of them.

"Cute pyjamas, ladies." He said with a smirk as he followed the others down to Rachel's basement.

Rachel and Quinn looked at each other and burst into laughter as they realised they had forgotten to get changed. Quinn shrugged her shoulders and looped her arm through Rachel's as they followed the others out of the room.

Quinn immediately suggested pizza as they all made themselves comfortable on the couches. Everyone seemed excited and they started making their preferences known. Rachel looked around at the group, frowning slightly when she realised that Mercedes and Finn hadn't shown up. The only hitch in her perfect week had been the dirty looks Mercedes and Finn had been shooting in her direction whenever they crossed paths in the hallways.

"Maybe they'll come next time." Tina whispered from her place next to her on the couch.

Rachel smiled at her and decided to enjoy herself anyways. It was their choice to exclude themselves. She had invited them and that was all she could do at the moment.

The group spent the night pigging out on pizza and Rachel's baked treats. They also spent some time brainstorming for what songs they'd like to perform in Glee. Once they had narrowed it down to two songs they broke into two groups to plan the songs out. Rachel's group went upstairs to work in her living room, while Quinn's stayed downstairs to work on theirs.

Rachel sat down at the piano with Rory as Noah grabbed his guitar so that they could arrange the music. Brittany and Blaine worked out the choreography for the song together. Santana used Rachel's laptop to look up various covers of the song that they had chosen. Santana had teased Rachel for somehow turning their hangout into a glee practice minus the choir room and the drama. When Rachel had looked slightly offended Santana had smacked a kiss to her cheek and ruffled her hair before turning back to the laptop.

After an hour or so Rachel had declared that it was the weekend and they should leave the rest until tomorrow. Everyone had quickly agreed and settled onto her couch to watch the first season of 'The Walking Dead'. Within minutes some of the girls were crawling into the laps of the person next to them and hiding their faces. Puck snorted as he realised that only Rachel seemed unaffected by the violence onscreen. Even Santana was looking nervous as Brit hid her face on her shoulder.

Rachel watched as Sam wrapped an arm around a clearly scared Quinn. She leaned her head against Noah's shoulder and settled in to enjoy the zombie marathon.

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