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I keep my distance but you still catch my heart,
Tell me baby, do you recognize me?
Well, it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me.
-Last Christmas, Glee Cast Edition
-Quinn POV-
"What?" I said to Rachel. "Did you just call me to tell me that you know who your MOM is?"
"Yes, Quinn!" She said, crying
"Ok, Rach, don't cry, OK. Do you want me to call Finn?"
"No, Quinn. I just need you. I need my best friend." Well, she had me at that. I was going to be there for my best friend if she needed me.
"Ok, Rach. Just go get a glass of water and I'll be there in 20 minutes." She hung up and I jumped off my bed and ran towards the door.
As I got in the car, I started thinking about Rachel and I. I mean, we've been friends since, like, the 1st grade! In Elementary and Middle School, we were basically like twins! Now that we're in High School, though, things have changed. I became head cheerleader, and she became, well, no one. Ever since the Glee club formed, though, she's had a place that she belongs. Glee club is just amazing for everyone. No one gets teased, and what's good about having a range of people from the social ladder is that the so called 'losers' get protected by us, "Popular Kids" and we don't get teased. It works out well, and when people see us coming down the halls, they part like the red sea… or at least they do when one of the "popular kids" are around…
I got to Rachel's house and I opened the door.
"Rachel?" I called. There was no answer.
"Rach?" I tried again.
"Up here, Quinny" Said a weak voice. God, I hate it when she calls me Quinny, but I hate seeing her cry more. I walked up the stairs to her room and opened the door with the gold stars on it.
"Hey there, Rachie." I said using her childhood nickname.
"H-hi…" she feebly responded. This is when I knew she was really upset because she always gives me a huge lecture whenever I call her Rachie.
"How are you?" I asked after a while.
"I, I don't really know. I mean. I don't know what to feel." Well, this is something new, Rachel always knows exactly what's going on and how to react to it.
"Well, what should we do?" I said after a while.
"I don't know…" She said after thinking about it. "Actually, I would like to know what her name is." Rachel finally decided.
"OK, well, what do you know about her anyways?"
"Umm… I just have a picture of her, and it's from the day I was born. I mean, for all we know, she could have had plastic surgery, or gained like 3,000 pounds or-"
"Rachel!" I said cutting her off. "Calm down!"
"Oh, right, sorry." She said with a sheepish grin, and that's when I knew she was OK. We sat together and talked for a long time. We were about to go on the internet and look at random things, but then I saw the time. It was almost 9 pm. I knew I had to get home to finish my English homework for tomorrow since we were going to have a new teacher. I told Rachel this and she agreed that I should go home and do it. Just as I was walking out the door, she called me back and said:
"Q, wait."
"Yeah?" I said.
"Here" She said handing me a picture to look at. "It's my mom." She whispered.
"Rachel," I started "She looks just like you." I looked up and received a thousand-watt-smile. I walked out the door in full joy.
-Rachel POV-
I walked into school the next morning and met Quinn at our lockers.
"Hey Quinn!" I said!
"Hey Rach!" She responded. "Ready for English first block? It's the new teacher today, remember?"
"Oh, yeah!" I said. I had totally forgotten about it. "I hope she's nice, like Miss. Holiday."
"You actually liked her? I thought you hated her?" Quinn said caught off guard.
"Ya, I did!" I said. "I just was having a bad day that day!" I said defensively just as the bell rang. We both grabbed our books and walked to class.
GLEE
-Still Rachel POV-
We walked into class and sat down in our assigned seat chart that was outside the door. Quinn and I were right next to each other on the left side of the middle row. We came and sat in our seats where we saw two notebooks and a reading book on the table. I looked at the book which happened to be Les Miserables, one of my favorite Broadway shows! I showed it to Quinn who gave me her nod of approval. I looked up to see the teacher looking at us with a smile equal to the one on my face. I knew right from this moment that English was now my top favorite class-well, besides for Glee obviously.
-Shelby POV-
Oh, my gosh! As soon as I saw the Girl smile, I knew that that girl sitting in the seat next to the blond cheerleader, who I noticed from Sectionals was indeed, my Rachel. My Daughter! Will had said they were best friends and had been since like the 1st grade or something. I double checked my seating chart to make sure it was here, and there it said, in bold, bright, letters: RACHEL BARBRA BERRY. All too soon, the rest of the Class walked in.
"Alright, students," I began "My name is Miss. Corcoran, and I will be your new English Teacher. We are going to start of this class by having each one of you write me about 1 ½ to 2 pages about different forms of literature and what you know about them." As soon as I said this, I looked up to see Rachel already quickly scribbling down on her paper. "Your time starts now and you have until the end of class. I will select two or three students whose papers were the best to come up and read them. If they do so, then they will receive extra credit." At the mention of Extra Credit, everyone's eyes lit up and they all quickly started scribbling on their papers with motivation.
As soon as the bell rang, all of the students gathered their things and handed me their papers. "Make sure to read the first 20 pages of your book!" I shouted after them. After the mob of students left, I looked up to see Quinn standing up walking over to hand me her paper. After she did, she stood at the door, waiting for Rachel, I presumed, who was getting something out of her bag. I looked down to organize the papers, and saw a paper slip into my hands. I looked up to see a smiling Rachel looking at me and she said
"Thank you Miss. Corcoran." Rachel said to me "I'll see you at Glee Club then." She said with a thousand-watt smile on her face.
A nod and a smile was all I could manage right now. I was trying to hold in the tears that were brimming over my eyes. Rachel and Quinn took each other's hands and walked out of my class. I looked down to see what Rachel had put on her paper and on the top, right next to her name, was a small Gold Star Sticker. I knew exactly what she meant by that. It was a metaphor. It's also exactly what I did at her age, and what I still do. As soon as I saw that star, all the tears started falling. "My Baby Girl…My Baby Girl…" I just kept on repeating those words to myself and that alone, was magic to my ears.
-Will POV-
Shelby walked into my office right before Glee was about to start.
"Hi, Will" She softly said.
"Hey, Shelby…" I said "Did you see her, Rachel, I mean"
"Ya, I-I did" She said, a smile creeping upon her face
"So, how did it feel, seeing her for the first time?" I curiously asked.
"Honestly, Will, it wasn't the first"
"What?" I said shocked.
"Well, I saw her at the hospital when she was born, just for a second, when she was getting cleaned off, she turned her heads through all those nurses, and she looked at me, (AN: Theatricallity) but that wasn't the only time. I've seen Glimpses of her throughout the years." She said, looking up at me.
I looked at the clock and realized we still had time. "Glimpses?" I asked.
-TBC-
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