I Feel Pretty When You're Around

Chapter 24

"Are you ready for tomorrow?" Quinn asked Rachel while laying on the diva's bed. They had just had the Berry family dinner and the blonde wanted to have some alone time with her girlfriend before she had to leave.

"As ready as I'll ever be," Rachel answered sadly, she was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Baby, come give me cuddles before I have to go home," Quinn asked.

Rachel moved to snuggle up to her girlfriend but didn't say a word.

"What's on your mind?" Quinn asked.

"Nothing," Rachel replied sadly.

"You can't lie to me Rach... Tell me what's up?"

"I don't want to upset you."

Quinn gave her girlfriend a tight squeeze, "I'm already getting upset because you're upset... So please talk to me."

"It's just about tomorrow."

"What about tomorrow?"

"Everything is going to change," Rachel huffed.

"What do you mean by everything?"

"Everything meaning us," tears were starting to form in the brunette's eyes.

Quinn pulled back from the embrace to look Rachel in the eyes, "Why would you say that?"

"Because you're going to become popular again and I'm just going to still be the loser gleek that gets slushied and everyone hates," tears were falling down her cheeks now.

Quinn touched the brunette's cheek and wiped away the tears, "Baby, why didn't you talk to me about your feelings before, you have known about me going back on Cheerios for three weeks now."

"I thought that I would get over it and I didn't want to be a bother with my insecurities."

"You're never a bother to me baby, please know that," Quinn said with sadness in her eyes, while Rachel just nodded.

"But baby, please know nothing is going to change between us, I told you it won't be forever... I have a plan anyways and San is going to back me up. I cannot wait for the day to walk down the hallways and hold your hand, I'm not ashamed of you, Rach... And if I had to choose between you and Cheerios I'd choose you... I'm only doing this for San and Britt; I didn't even plan to be back on Cheerios this year."

"You're really amazing," Rachel said wiping the last of her tears away.

The next day Quinn was standing on the Berry residences porch. Hiram opened the door greeting the blonde and letting her in, she walked through to the kitchen to see Rachel standing at the sink rinsing her breakfast bowl.

"Morning," Quinn said with a warm smile.

Rachel looked up from the sink and was meet with hazel eyes from her girlfriends, Rachel beamed overjoyed, "I thought you were going to school early with Santana and Brittany so you could talk to Miss. Sylvester."

"I still am, but I'm meeting them there, I wanted to take my girlfriend to school and I believed that she would be ready and wanting to get to school early."

Rachel dropped her bowl and then walked over to Quinn, "Well you were right."

Quinn smiled, "So are you ready?"

Rachel nodded and went to pick up her bag that was on the kitchen table but the blonde moved in to grab it first, "No, let me."

The brunette turned to face her girlfriend, she smiled, "So chivalrous, Sweetie."