Hey everyone! Sorry i haven't posted in a couple of days. Been quite busy and my baby hasn't been sleeping very well so i've been exhausted. But here is chapter 9. I hope it is still as good as it started out being. Next chapter i will have the 'dinner' and i think we will find out why Quinn and Finn broke up... again =)
Hoping this doesn't disappoint. I don't own Glee just borrowing =)
As Rachel was pulling out of Quinn's drive way her phone started to ring, she looked down at the screen and when she saw it was Santana she answered and put it on speaker phone.
"Rachel you need to calm down, you are using text speech and its freaking me out." Santana's said with a laugh.
"Sorry. Seriously though I think I will need to be admitted if Quinn keeps it up. I mean, does she have feelings for me too? Is she just messing with me now she has had me admit that I am a lesbian? She is crossing into personal space and its driving me insane!" Rachel said all this in one breath and then had to take a deep breath to calm herself down.
"What did she say that set you off this time?" Santana sounded amused.
"We stopped at the store and that jock was there that painted my car. Quinn got all up in his business and then when we got to her place she said she 'needs' me to just walk away when they harass me. I asked why and she said cause she didn't want my 'pretty face' to get all messed up." Rachel knew she sounded exasperated but she felt like she had a justifiable reason.
"That's odd. I can see what you are saying. I tried to ask her how she felt about you in a round about way the other day. I didn't want to make it obvious that I was blatantly trying to figure out how much she liked you, but she dodged the questions like a pro. Maybe we need to try something else." Santana sounded contemplative.
"Yeah but what?" Rachel asked with a sigh.
"Well we are going to Pucks party this Friday right? We will use the rest of the week to try and figure Quinn out, and if that doesn't work out you should just try to seduce her at the party." Santana said seriously.
"Ugh, San, I know i'm like great at everything but everything for me doesn't include seduction. And I don't know if I really want to embarrass myself like that." Rachel was frowning as she pulled into her street.
"Well i'm sure you could Google the art of seduction Rachel." Rachel wasn't sure if Santana was joking or not.
"Or how about I just take your attitude at the party and just wing it?" Rachel asked with a scowl.
"What ever floats your boat Berry. Either way I wont be able to help you with it. But we have the rest of the week and that dinner tomorrow night to figure her out." Santana pointed out with a laugh.
"Yeah that's true. Anyways I'm home now now and I need to talk to my dads about my car. I will see you tomorrow San." Rachel said when she pulled into her driveway and turned off her car.
"Alright Chica, I will see you at school." Santana said warmly.
After saying bye Rachel hung up the phone and went inside to talk to her dads about her car before going up stairs and doing her vocal exercizes and then going over the homework she had done Friday night. For the first time in a while Rachel laid in her bed well into the morning unable to sleep.
The next morning Rachel tiredly dragged herself out of her bed when her alarm went off. She groaned when she realized she had only gotten about 3 hours sleep and then went about her morning ritual. Once done with her exercise and showered Rachel went down stairs and greeted her parents before sitting down and eating quietly.
Rachel had thought about Quinn for pretty much the entire night and so she was unable to sleep. She found herself very conflicted and confused by the blonde. On one hand Rachel was pretty sure Quinn had feelings for her, but on the other hand she had no actual idea if this was true or not and she had spent several hours thinking around in circles only to come to the conclusion that there was no conclusion.
Rachel barely spoke to her dads except to reassure them that she was fine and that she was just a little tired because she hadn't slept well. After a while she decided to just walk to school and so she went upstairs of got her things before saying goodbye to her dads and heading on her way.
Half and hour later Rachel was walking into the front doors of the school, there weren't many people there as it was still rather early in the morning but more and more people turning up as the minutes passed. Rachel went to get locker and was standing there in a bit of a daze trying to remember what class she had first when a warm breath landed on her ear.
"Morning." A distinctly feminine voice spoke.
Rachel startled a little and turned towards the voice to see a girl who looked familiar but whose name she couldn't remember standing beside her. The girl was tall with mouse brown hair that was cut just above her shoulders. She had deep blue eyes and rather sharp features accentuated by thin lips.
"Hello...?" Rachel knew she looked as confused as she sounded.
"I'm Tiffany. We don't have any classes together so don't feel bad for not knowing who I am." The girl spoke with a flirty smile.
"I'm Rachel. Nice to meet you." Rachel said after a moment and she realized she hadn't responded.
"I know who you are. I heard about you, I was wondering if maybe you wanted to go out sometime?" Tiffany asked hopefully, she hadn't noticed the blonde standing behind her.
"Oh... Um... What... what makes you think i'm gay?" Rachel asked, also not noticing the silent ex-cheerio.
"Oh, its a rumor going around." Tiffany said not embarrassed at all.
"Then you must have heard the rumors that she is seeing someone. Doesn't seem like the right thing to do, to poach someone elses girlfriend." Quinn spoke up startling both girls.
"What... Oh...I... Quinn, how are you?" Tiffany stammered as she turned to face the blonde.
"I would be better if you left now." Quinn said a little harshly.
"Oh...Sure, but Rachel never answered me..." Tiffany didn't seem as sure of herself as she had a few moments before.
"Oh, well its like Quinn said, i'm seeing someone already." Rachel said feeling a little sorry for the girl.
"Oh, OK. Well nice meeting you." Tiffany walked away without a backwards glance and Rachel frowned.
"You look a little dazed Rachel." Quinn said stepping a little close to the brunette.
"Yeah... How are you today Quinn?" Rachel said trying to refocus.
"Better now. You look tired." Quinn pointed out inching closer to the brunette.
"Yes... I didn't sleep well." Rachel hadn't noticed how close Quinn was until she felt the warmth coming off the of the blonde on her arm.
"Something on your mind?" Was Quinn's voice lower or had Rachel just imagined it dropping?
"Yeah. Are you still coming to dinner tonight?" Rachel asked without really answering Quinn's question.
"Most certainly." Quinn's voice had definitely dropped and Rachel looked into the hazel eyes for the first time.
"That's great." Rachel's voice cracked and she cursed herself internally.
Quinn moved impossibly close to Rachel, there was hardly an inch separating them and Rachel found herself rooted to the ground unable to even lean away from the blonde. Quinn leaned in a little more and Rachel wondered briefly if the blonde was going to kiss her before a devilish glint appeared in the hazel eyes and Quinn spoke.
"Yep. See you later Rach." The blondes voice was decidedly husky but as she spoke she stepped past Rachel and walked away leaving the flustered brunette to stare after her in shock.
Quinn was grinning to herself the whole way to her locker. Toying with Rachel was incredibly amusing but where as she had started to do so for the fun of it she had recently found herself more and more attracted to the little brunette. Still, Quinn enjoyed messing with Rachel and she decided that the brunette was amazing adorable when she was flustered.
Rachel was still staring after Quinn when a hand touched her arm and she gave a small cry and turned around to see an amused looking Santana smiling at her. Rachel sighed and wrapped her arms around Santana getting the hug she had wanted all morning. Santana returned the sisterly embrace and it soothed Rachel immensely.
"Was that Quinn I just saw walking away from you?" Santana asked into Rachel's hair.
"Yes. She has to be messing with me on purpose. There is no way she could be that naïve." Rachel muttered.
Santana was about to reply and Rachel was about to pull away from the embrace when a grape slushy came out of nowhere and covered both girls. Rachel gave a startled shout and Santana gasped and turned towards the assailants.
"What the hell?!" Santana asked angrily looking at the partial football team that stood before them.
"You queers looked like you could use a little cooling off." The short football player said as he dropped the empty slushy cup.
"You are a dead man!" Santana cried out and lunged at the guy only to find herself held back by Rachel who had wrapped her arm around the Latina's waist.
"Santana just ignore it. Come on we need to go get cleaned off before classes start." Rachel tugged the resisting Latina away from the jocks that were leering at them.
After a moment of struggling against Rachel, Santana relented and followed the brunette into the bathroom where they cleaned up. Santana was spouting threats about doing some serious harm to the football teams genitals if she got the chance and Rachel was agreeing just to make the Latina feel better about the situation.
Once cleaned up the two went there separate ways and hardly made it to there respective classes before the final bell sounded and they had to take there seats. The rest of the day was mostly uneventful and Rachel went to Glee practice feeling only slightly more awake than she had during the day. They sang a few songs and talked about the upcoming Sectionals before Mr. Shue dismissed them all.
Rachel was walking out of the building when she was approached by Brittany who looked, Rachel decided, quite angry. Rachel sighed inwardly feeling like she knew what was about to come.
"Hey Britt." Rachel said with a smile.
"Hello Rachel. I saw you hugging Santana today..." Brittany sounded the most Standoffish Rachel had ever heard her sound.
"Yes. I was feeling quite down. Please Britt don't assume it means anything. I told you San is like a sister to me that is all." Rachel said earnestly even though she felt far to tired to be having this conversation... again.
"I cant help how I feel when I see you two." Brittany snapped looking irritated.
"Of course not. But I don't like Santana like that, I like someone else." Rachel said with a smile.
Rachel didn't exactly want to tell Brittany she had feelings for one Quinn Fabray but she realized it as probably the only way to get Brittany to understand that things were purely platonic between her and Santana.
"Really?" Brittany asked already looking considerably less upset.
"Promise me you wont tell anyone but Santana?" Rachel asked a little nervously.
"I promise." Brittany said instantly.
"I like Quinn." Rachel blurted out completely unaware that said ex-cheerio was standing around the corner with a huge grin on her face just out of sight.