The reviews, alerts and everything has been amazing! I was going to update Friday with a younger Rachel POV, but conked out on me and logged me out as I was saving it to the doc manager. So, I have decided to scrap that idea and just go straight on to Rachel and Co. at McKinley.
Sadly, I do not own Glee. I am not Ryan Murphy (don't let the Kangol fool you.) I am just a super fan with slightly weird fanfic ideas that don't go away until they're posted online.
Trigger Warning:This story deals with the topics of pedophilia, ephebophilia, sexual abuse, and domestic abuse.
Rachel Berry wasn't even supposed to be here. At William McKinley High School, home of Show Choir that could only place at Regionals and completely bomb at Nationals. Home of the Cheerios and a sub-par Football team. There was no Shelby Corcoran, No Jesse , and no shiny new black SUV waiting for her to drive home. Instead, she was stuck here at a school where her talent would make her an outcast. At least she had Kurt.
Kurt was ecstatic when she told him that her dads told her that she couldn't go to Carmel (Well, not ecstatic in the sense of he didn't want Rachel to go to her dream school, but ecstatic in the sense that his best friend would be attending the same school as him.) He knew from his Step-brother Finn that McKinley wouldn't be a walk-in-the-park for either one of them, but at least they had each other.
As the pair walked into the double-doors of McKinley, they were greeted with a sight straight out of some 90's teen flick. Footballers talking to Cheerleaders, Cheerleaders dressed in two-sizes-too-small skirts, Nerdy kids being stuffed into lockers, and the inbetweeners just floating to their classes. Rachel thought that maybe Finn was wrong about McKinley, maybe no one would care if Kurt was gay or that she wanted to be on Broadway. The two of them could just blend-in, and have a generic high school experience.
Splash! The worse pain they've ever felt shot them in the face. Cold, corn syrup-filled death hit their eyes, staining their clothes and ruining their day. Everyone in the hall turned to stop and stare at the football team's two new targets. Everyone knew not to try to help the pair, even teachers turned a blind eye.
Kurt let out a quiet huff as he wiped the Green slushy from his eyes to be greeted with the eyes of his "brother," Finn Hudson. He knew to not even try to say something to the tall-teen cause it would just go through one ear and out the other. Besides, Finn pretty much told him that he wouldn't even acknowledge the fact that their parents were married in school. The golden boy just couldn't have a gay stepbrother. His eyes shot downward to poor Rachel who looked pretty much defeated. She didn't even want to be at this school, and then this happens to her?
Rachel lifted her head up, letting the slushy fall to the ground. Finn's stupid mohawked friend was standing in front of her grinning spouting something about being a "Puckerone" or some random nonsense about his name. She'd be sure to tell his mother and Nana at Temple about his bad behavior at school.
"You know, my two dads will not be pleased when they hear about the two of you slushying us! They're members of the ACLU and they know the Mayor, and when he gets wind of this it's all over for you two!" She quickly spouted her two-cents before grabbing Kurt's wrist and stomping off to the bathroom. Stupid Finn Hudson and Noah Puckerman weren't going to ruin her first day of high school with her best friend.
As the pair stomped into the Girl's bathroom, dripping slushy along with them, they were greeted by three Cheerio uniform clad girls.
"Oh look, it's RuPaul and her fairy sidekick!" Said the tall, pretty blonde one.
"Forget RuPaul, look at her giant Manhands on the poor kid." The tall, Latina one spat while fixing her hair into a high ponytail. The three girls quickly groomed themselves before bumping Rachel and Kurt's shoulders on the way out. The taller, blonde turned back towards Kurt and Rachel and said "I like your nail polish!" before being pulled away by the Latina.
Rachel wouldn't let them make her cry. She wouldn't let them get to her and ruin her day. She was going to be a star and no one was going to ruin that for her. Kurt broke his silence and let out a small chuckle, "Well, at least the most popular kids in school are noticing us! Even if it is to throw frozen calorie filled junk at our perfectly coiffed hair and to insult our looks."
Rachel wiped her face off with a wet paper towel, looking at her defeated reflection in the mirror, "Well Kurt, this will just be fun chapter about overcoming adversity in my memoir. Of course it isn't like that time Finn and Noah egged your house back in 7th grade and yelled homophobic slurs at you, but Close!" Kurt quickly used one of his facial wipes to clean off the dye, and handed one to Rachel before fixing his hair, "You know, they'll all be running to E! to tell stories about how we were the best of friends with them in ten years and we'll just laugh at them while polishing our Tony's."
So what if their first day began with insults and they would have to go the whole day with damning green slushy stains on them, they were going to be Broadway stars and nothing at McKinley would come in their way.
The pair walked out of the bathroom with their heads held high as they walked to their lockers in the Freshman wing. Everyone in the hallway looked at the two, whispering about the pair being slushied or at the fact that they dared to walk the halls with their heads held high. As they made it to their lockers, Rachel spotted a Glee club sign up sheet.
Sure it was no Vocal Adrenaline, but it was somewhere that she could fine-tool her talent and she could pretty much ensure a National title for the poor club. "Kurt! We have to sign up! With our voices, we could definitely go up against Vocal Adrenaline!" It took no resistance for Kurt to sign his name underneath Rachel's large signature and her gold star sticker. Glee Club would be a safe place for the two, a place where they could express their talents with like-minded individuals and a place where they couldn't be slushied or insulted.
The two had to wait until Friday for the first meeting, but they knew it would be well worth it.
Will Schuester could barely believe his eyes when he saw her name on the sign up sheet. He knew it wasn't just a coincidence, he knew it was THE Rachel Berry. The one who won her first dance competition at three months, the one with the two gay lawyer dads and a house in the richest neighborhood in Lima, the one who blew his mind years ago at that terrible young talent show. She was here, and she was going to be in his glee club, performing for him.
Everything he did to ensure that she would be his perfomer was falling into place. He would finally get a title which would shut Figgin's up, and he would finally get the girl he's wanted for the past six years and nothing would stand in his way. He just had to wait until Friday, until the day he could see the beautiful young woman that she grew up to be. He had to make everything perfect for her, and he would start with giving her the first solo of the club. She had to get everything he wanted her to have in order for her to love him. She had to fall into his plan that he concocted all those years ago when he heard her sing.
Everything was going to finally pay off, and he would get his dream girl and he wouldn't need Terri to supplement his needs anymore. He wouldn't even need to be with Terri anymore. Later on that night when he got home, he was still on cloud nine from knowing he'd be sharing another room with Rachel Berry, and that she would be practically at his every whim for a solo of some sort. Nothing would bring him down.
"I'm Pregnant." And in that moment, Will came crashing down from his cloud.
Sorry it took so long for an update! I hope I captured everyone perfectly. I know it strays from the fact that Burt wasn't married to Carole right as Glee started but it fit with the needs of the story for them to be married now. Finn, Puck, and the Unholy Trinity will have roles in the whole Rachel/Will thing and I will reveal that their actions will have a kick-off effect to the first incident. So, reviews and alerts are amazing and I hope you all liked it!