Moon With Gold

So Close but So Far

"Blaine!" Rachel called, but he didn't stop. "BLAINE STOP!!" She yelled and he turned around.

"What?" He hissed, and Rachel eyes turned angry.

"You do not get to judge me!"

"Oh really, why not, you are getting friendly with MY BROTHER!!" He yelled.

"You left me for Kurt." She reminded him.

"And I told you, I didn't have a choice." He told her.

"Of course you had a choice, you still do...Blaine I love you, but I am not going to just sit there and watch you be with someone else.  Cooper asked me out." She told him, her eyes searching his.

"Rachel." He groaned, closing his eyes for a brief moment. "What did you say?" 

"I said yes."

Blaine turned and punched the locker behind him, and Rachel shrieked in surprise.  

"You don't understand Rachel, my brother, he's a playboy, he will just use you and then when some one taller, blonder, more pretty than you comes along, he will leave you." 

"Just like you." Rachel choked out.

"Rachel." He stuttered out. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."

"No you don't, I get screwed over time and time again, and just when I think that there is someone who will treat me right...you ruin it." She took two steps away, and turned back to him. "Have you ever liked someone so much you just want to lock yourself in your room, turn on sad music and cry?" Her tear filled eyes met his.  "I wish it could be you Blaine, but I can't wait forever." She turned and walked back to the room

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Rachel walked back into the room, and was met by the eyes of the entire club and Cooper.  She met Santana in the middle of the room, and was wrapped in a hug by her.  That is when she broke down.  Puck and Brittany stood up and walked over.

"Okay." Will said, and everyone looked at him. "Rachel you need to tell us what is going on right now." Rachel shook her head at him. "It isn't healthy."

"I'll tell them." Blaine said from the doorway.

"What are you talking about Anderson?" Puck said from his spot next to Rachel. "If this is you trying to do the right thing, you are about 5 months too late."

"Puck." Will said, and then turned to Blaine. "Normally I would need the consent of both students, but this is destroying Rachel, so you will come to my office BOTH of you." He said.

"But what about the rest of us." Mercedes glared from her spot.

"I really don't see how it is your business." Santana glared back. 

"If we can't tell each other everything, then how are we going to conquer Prom? Nationals?" Mercedes spat.

"Oh please, you are just pissed that you don't have gossip about the two lead members of Glee?" Santana chucked humorlessly.

"Well it's easy for you, Rachel told you what happened."

"Yah and I have kept it a secret." 

"Really that is your excuse..."

"I cheated on Kurt!!" Blaine shouted, ending the fight between the two divas.

"What?" Kurt gasped.

"I made Rachel promise not to tell you, because I didn't want the person to feel like they were living in hell." Blaine looked at his feet.

"Rachel?" Kurt asked.

"She wanted me to tell you right away, but I didn't want to."

"Blaine?" Cooper asked, shocked. 

"Sorry Coop." Blaine looked at the floor.

"Who is the guy?" Kurt asked.

"I think the appropriate question is 'Who is the girl'?" Cooper said.

"Coop?!" Blaine looked at him, outraged. "You're my brother!" 

"And?" Cooper stood his ground. "What you did wasn't right little bro."

"Seriously you are one to talk Mr. Hollywood." Blaine glared at his older brother. "Hitting on a high school girl who just turned 18."

"How do you know that?" Mercedes countered.

"I'm her friend." Rachel cringed at the word 'friend'. "In fact you should all know that."

"True that." Mike said from his place next to Tina.

"Unless..." Mercedes trailed off, looking at Rachel.

"No." Kurt said. "Rachel wouldn't do that to me...right?"

Blaine looked at the ground, and Rachel buried her head back into Santana's chest.  Cooper's mouth fell open.  Sure he had expected his brother to hook up with a girl at least once, but why would Rachel...she mentioned Blaine, and had looked upset when she talked about him.

"2 months ago or so." Blaine began, sitting on the piano. "Rachel and I had been sneaking around for 2 months, it started that night when you said Rachel was locked at the knees." Blaine glared at Finn. "I was pissed about what you said, and knew that Rachel was most likely upset as well.  So I went over to her house, we talked for hours and passed a bottle of her dad's liquor around until it was gone."

"The next morning we woke up, and pretended like nothing had happened." Rachel said, walking next to the piano. "But then it happened again and again, and I made him chose, me or you."

"As you can see I chose you Kurt." Blaine said, his eyes tearing up.

"And you think this makes it okay?" Kurt gasped. "That just because you chose to end it with her, I should just forget all the stuff you just told me, and I can go back to loving you."

"That's not why I chose you." Blaine said looking at the floor.

"You realize that is all pretty pointless now right?" Rachel spat, moving to stand in front of him. "Do you know how much my life turned upside down right?" She grabbed his chin with her hand, and forced him to look in her eyes. "You may have spared me the humiliation that Finn, Mercedes, and even Kurt are going to give me now, but you gave the worst gift...a broken heart." With that she left the room, and Blaine jumped off the piano.

"Rachel!!" he called after her.

"Well, who wants pie?" Brittany asked, trying to ease the tension, even though everyone thought it was just normal.

A/N: Again kinda short, but I am going to be on the road for 20 hours or so on Monday, so I will try to update then.