A/N: I feel like I'm on a roll... I don't know how long this writing spree is going to last but I'm going to use it all up to try to write more of this. This fic is fucking gigantic! I've never written so much ever, I'm just trying to work things out to steer it towards the end, but there are a few side trips we have to make before it gets finished. As always please Read and Review! Reviews fuel my passion to write better.

My cousins flew in like a hurricane, destroying everything in their path until they reached the guest house, with so much as a 'hello'.

Rachel was thrown off guard, just staring at the door with her mouth hanging open, frozen in place.

"Rachel," I laughed, because if I didn't laugh I'd cry, "Meet my cousins."

I began following behind the disastrous duo and picked up a few artifacts that needed to be placed back on the shelves as I headed toward the guest house. Rachel was silent as she followed behind me and I had to wonder if she was changing her mind about sticking around with the duo here.

"So how's the caped crusaders," I asked as I opened the door to guest room. Alex was pulling his shirt over his head while Stevey had already stripped down to his swimming short.

"Capeless, I'm afraid," Alex said, after tossing his shirt aside.

I heard a quiet 'oh my god' from behind me and I turned around to find Rachel covering her eyes with her hands.

"Oh my god, do you think I would actually stay here if they were getting naked," I asked with a giggle, "Tradition. The second they get here they strip down to their swim shorts and then canon ball into the pool."

"Oh," Rachel said softly, but she was still using me as a shield. That was when Alex noticed her for the first time. And he ducked around me and with a swift head movement that would make Bieber proud, held out his hand towards her.

"Sup, pretty girl, I'm Alex," he said as if now that she knew his name and was offering her to touch his hand, she should be blessed now.

"Rachel," she said as she sucked in a deep breath, shaking his hand.

Alex and Stevey were twin brothers, both sun-kissed blond boys with shaggy cuts and deep tans. They were really a woman's dream if they dreamed of surfers from L.A. They were athletic with very nicely toned bodies and they really were surfers from L.A.

Unfortunately the duo were excellent at not following rules and getting everyone else into huge shit, while they looked like the innocents.

"Stevey," Stevey said from across the room holding up a hand as a half ass wave, "Alright bro, you ready? Last one in is creepy Kaylee."

I grit my teeth at that remark, I knew it was mean't to hurt me. I wouldn't let it.

"What does that mean?"

"With them, who knows?"

After their swim of course the brothers were starving. They popped a pizza in the oven that they had brought and after some uncomfortable talks about university cheerleaders and sex addicted book worms, I escaped to the bathroom.

I hadn't been gone that long, but when I got back Rachel had already eaten a piece of pizza and I noticed my cousins were watching her with wide grins, so entranced by her that they weren't even eating their own pieces.

"What's going on," I asked sternly, as I took a seat next to Rachel on the couch. My cousins just laughed. That was when I looked at the pizza and looked how odd the mushrooms looked, "You guys didn't."

"Oh we so did," Alex laughed uncontrollably.

"Your girlfriend is gonna be flying high in a minute," Stevey laughed along with him.

"You fed my girlfriend shrooms," I screamed, what is wrong with you.

"Oh my god, Brittany," Rachel said and I turned towards her with alarm, "You're so full of color. Did you know you have rainbows following you?"

"Fuck," I screamed, the last thing I needed this weekend was to babysit Rachel and my cousins, but Rachel came first and since I was fairly certain she hadn't done any drugs, I knew she needed a babysitter for this one.

"Say that word again," Rachel sighed blissfully.

I raised an eyebrow and looked at her as I repeated, "Fuck."

"That word is bursting with purple," Rachel said with a smile. Before I knew it Rachel was on her feet and running out of the house and into the backyard. I should also mention that my parents own a lot of land but most of the land at the back is just forest.

Rachel ran right into the forest screaming, "Everything is alive."

I tried to catch up to her but as soon as I reached the forest I couldn't even hear her anymore. No sticks breaking or bending or leaves crunching beneath bare feet.

"Rachel," I called making my way through the thick brush, branches scratching and cutting my body, but I hardly noticed. I had one thing on my mind. Rachel.

After several minutes of me panicking through the brush I finally heard Rachel's voice as if it was right beside me, "I never knew how many colors there were outside."

I turned all the way around looking for her with nothing. I looked up and there she was, sitting atop a tree. Her feet and legs were bloodied and scratched, probably looking a lot like mine.

"Babe I need you to come down," I said, doing my best to coax her down.

"This tree is very nice," Rachel said, rubbing her hand against it, "I might stay here forever."

"Come on, Rach, please," I begged, "Please come down."

"This tree and I have a connection, you wouldn't understand," Rachel said, sitting back against it.

"No, that's a tree, we have a connection."

"Oh Brittany, if you could only see the truth. I'm red and you're blue, we just can't be together."

"Okay, that's the shrooms talking Rachel, we will be together forever."

"Forever is an awfully long time."

I sat down under the tree, staring up at her, "Forever is a long time, but we'll make it. Till the end."

Rachel sighed, straddling the tree branch and leaning back against the trunk, "It's like I can see the future, all the colors swirling together and whispering the bumps along the way. So many bumps, swirling together, until... the end."

I laughed softly, "Oh my Rachel, you have no idea what you're talking about. You're high on shrooms."

"The moon is so big tonight," Rachel yammered on, ignoring my words, "I want the moon, it has rainbows around it, Brittany will you get me the moon."

"I would give you the universe if I could," I said, lying back in the leaves and staring up at my girl. With the moonlight lighting up her features she looked like an angel. And then she started speaking again.

"I have a secret," Rachel said so softly that I could barely hear her, "It's a very dark very black secret. No rainbows."

"You can always tell me anything," I answered, brushing my hands through the fallen leaves. I may not have been on shrooms, but it did feel good to just be out in nature at night, and staring up at girlfriend who is high as a kite is fun too.

"It's been bothering me for so long, sometimes its all I think about and it's scary," she said, slurring her words but not beyond recognition and I started to feel very uneasy about this conversation.

"You were right," she sighed throwing her arms up in the air, "I was in love with Santana-"

My heart sank and everything in my body stopped working. I was frozen just waiting for her to spill all the terrible news out.

"-for about 2 hours," Rachel finished with a soft laugh, "She was my first kiss, she was so beautiful, with fingers that outstretched mine. Maybe even after she betrayed me there was a part of me that still wanted her, wanting the girl in the closet to come back. You don't understand. The Santana you know is not the Santana I know. The girl in the closet who promised me refuge and safety for the rest of my high school years and just when I think life is finally going right she turns on me and for the rest of my high school days I had and have to be cautious of slushie facials, they are around every corner."

"I'm sorry," I whispered, "I guess she wasn't ready to accept her feelings, and unfortunately for her we already have and we're in love. We are in love aren't we?"

"Of course," Rachel smiled so blissfully as she tilted her head back against the tree, "there will be bumps, but we are forever, even if it is an awfully long time."