Something Extraordinary

Chapter 25

"You'll figure it out. I'm sorry, but I gotta get ready." Kurt didn't want to fight with Rachel, but he didn't want her to put herself in that situation. She wanted Cassandra

"Where are you going?" The annoyance in her tone was quickly gone.

"Isabelle asked us all to come in tonight for a meeting and afterwards we're going to a little party." He sounded very excited when he mentioned the party. "I won't be back for a few hours, probably not before morning."

"A little party?"

"Yah." Rachel loved the fact, that she could easily go back to normal with Kurt. He went to the bathroom to get ready, but returned after a moment. "You okay?"

"Hm?... Oh yah, absolutely, have fun."

"Okay." Rachel did not know what to do with herself, there was nothing to clean up and she hasn't made plans for tonight, so she just sat on the couch and turned the music back on. She considered for a few moments, again, whether she should call Cassandra or not, but since she couldn't think of a thing to say, she decided against it. Maybe she would call Rachel. Probably not. She could call Cassandra and just pretend nothing had happened, right? But how will she get Cassandra to come over, or to invite Rachel over, when they pretend it didn't happen?

"Dammit!" She ended her inner monologue and realized Kurt was standing behind her.

"Rachel?"

"Huh?"

"I said I love the stereo and that I'm sorry I didn't thank you earlier."

"Oh no, you did!" She grabbed Kurt's note and waves it in the air. "Besides, we needed a new one anyway and I'm glad you like it."

"Oh yes, I like it."

"You're leaving now?"

"Yes, you sure you're okay? I could ask Isabelle-"

"No Kurt, it's okay, I'm sure I can handle to be on myself for one night and I got a lot of things to do."

"Like what?"

"Think." It was a sad statement, but Kurt knew what she meant. He smiled nicely, nod and left. A few seconds later he came back.

"I don't forget my keys anymore." He held them up and smiled happily, which made Rachel laugh.

"I can see that. Have fun."

"Thanks." With that Kurt left, without returning a few moments later and it was good this way, because Rachel wanted to think about all the things she heard today. She got lost in her thoughts and laid down on the couch.

While listening to the music and figuring out what to do she fell asleep. Rachel didn't realize it and she also missed the vibration of her phone, if it wouldn't have been set on silent mode, she would have heard the ringing.

"This girl is unbelievable!" Cassandra was annoyed. "So egocentric and stubborn." She walked towards the kitchen, while drinking the rest of her drink and put the glass in the sink.

After Rachel had left, Cassandra walked upstairs and practiced, but she soon realized she couldn't concentrate and got a drink from her bar upstairs. What now?, was the question in the room and Cassandra didn't know. She had tried to call Rachel several times, but Rachel didn't pick up her phone.

"I shouldn't have let her go, I knew something was up." So why did I?. Cassandra had thought about that a lot and nothing came to her mind. "Kurt." She remembered Rachel wasn't living alone, so she called him instead.

"Hello?"

"Hey Kurt, it's Cassandra."

"Oh, hi. How are you?"

"What the-? I'm not calling for chitchat." Clearly, she doesn't chitchat. "I wanna talk to Rachel."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not with her."

"Where is she?"

"When I left, she still was home."

"She isn't answering her cell."

"Uh, well, I don't know, but she didn't mention going somewhere tonight, or having plans at all."

"Then why isn't she answering her damn phone, I mean that's what it's for, right?"

"Ah, yes, but, like I said, I don't know. Listen, I know you two had some kind of argument. Maybe you can just go over to her."

"Sure and because, she isn't answering her cell, she probably will open the door, if she even is there." If Kurt didn't notice Cassandra's annoyance before, he sure did now, the sarcasm was impossible to miss.

"Okay, you're right. There is a spare key, I taped it under the windowsill, by the window on the end of our floor and that will open our mailbox, in which the spare key to our apartment is taped to the bottom."

"You're odd and that's not really safe." But she grabbed her stuff while talking to Kurt, because of course she was going over to their place. If Rachel ignored her calls, she'll make it harder for the girl to ignore her.

"You wanna know which mailbox, or try them all? Because most of them are not labeled."

"Makes the whole thing a little safer and yes, please."

"It's the fifth from the right, two down."

"Thanks Kurt."

"Yeah, you're welcome, but don't tell Rachel about my keys and don't put them back, okay?"

"Can do."

"Oh and she can be a little uptight sometimes, so maybe you can cut her some slack."

"Gosh, she told you everything!"

"I, ...uh-"

"Don't bother saving her, when will you be back?"

"You're going to talk to her?" Kurt sounded worried, but Cassandra understood, they were friends. So she tried to calm him down a little and stopped with her attitude.

"Yes."

"I can sleep at a friends if you want?"

"Would be nice, I don't know how long our talk will last."

"Probably better for my beauty sleep."

"Okay then, thanks and bye."

"Bye." She hung up.

The fact, that Rachel told Kurt about their heated conversation didn't surprise Cassandra, but it annoyed her anyway. Cassandra changed from her dance clothes into something casual. She put on a pair of dark olive cargo pants and a long sleeved white shirt with V-neck.

Before Cassandra left, she tried to call Rachel again, but she didn't answer, so she grabbed her keys, phone and wallet and left. When she asked Henry to drive Rachel home, she told him to take the rest of the night off and she didn't want to disturb him, so she took a cab.