I Feel Pretty When You're Around

Chapter 35

It's the Sunday before Sectionals. It had been 3 weeks since Quinn and Rachel had had their first real fight, and in those 3 weeks Brittany had been elected student council president and had even asked Kurt to be vice president because she wanted him to organize and run the bullying programs that he campaigned about. The Glee club had come up with three numbers to perform for Sectionals. They were all busy focusing all of their attention to perfecting their routines. Rachel didn't want a fiasco like Nationals last year, where they came up with their songs and choreography basically the day before, because that was not professional at all and Rachel wasn't having any of that this year. Mr. Schue expressed to the club that they needed to choose some upbeat songs, while Rachel expressed that Sectionals is very important not just because they needed to win but because it would be held in the McKinley auditorium and that the last time it was held there was in 1963.

The Glee kids came up with an idea to do a Jackson tribute kind of performance, having a song from the Jackson 5, Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson. Mr. Schue was impressed with the kids enthusiasm so thought to do that until one afternoon during Glee club Santana expressed that she and Mercedes had been working on a number and asked if it could be placed as a number for Sectionals. Once the rest of the Glee members and Mr. Schue heard it, they were happy to place that in. It even gave the Spanish teacher an idea, and that was the girls would be performing one song and the boys would perform another one then they would all sing a song together. The Glee teacher did also speak to Rachel personally and asked her if it was okay by her to not have any solo parts in any of the songs. Of course Rachel was upset about hearing the news but Mr. Schue expressed that he wanted their best vocalist to not be heard until Regionals and he promised to give her a solo in Regionals. In the end Rachel happily accepted the offer and promised to help out everyone and step up as captain, so that she would have the chance to sing a solo at Regionals because if they lost she would be screwed and that wasn't going to happen.

Since Quinn and Rachel's first real fight, the couple had gotten through it positively. Quinn hadn't expressed those three words to her girlfriend yet, she was still waiting for the right time and it was very hard for the blonde to say something so heartfelt, true and meaningful to Rachel. She's never meant it before and she would be lying if she said she wasn't scared. She was scared to let her guard completely down to someone else. She's never done that before. She's lived her whole life with her walls up, guarding her from getting hurt and being resented. But she knew that Rachel wasn't someone that would hurt her on purpose, so the blonde was just waiting for the right time to say 'I love you' and what more perfect time could there be then the couples 6th month anniversary, which was today.

"I can't believe you managed to make me do this" Santana groaned with a big yawn. It was 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning...'Who gets up this early on a Sunday anyways? Oh right Berry,' Santana thought.

"Shut up, San. Just do as I say. Stay here so she can't see you and I'll give you the signal to start playing when I'm ready" Quinn said, with a bit of nervousness in her voice. Santana growled but nodded. She could not believe how she got roped into doing this.

Quinn walked closer to her girlfriend's window, the blonde signaled for Santana to start playing the guitar... yes Santana could play the guitar but she wasn't going to tell anyone that, well beside Brittany and Quinn and soon to be Rachel also.

It didn't take long for Rachel to open up her window to see what or who was making the music, the brunette then spotted her girlfriend looking up at her, "Quinn?" she breathed out surprised with a smile.

The blonde smiled and waved up at her girlfriend and waited for the instrument to go to the right note she needed and then started to sing, never taking her eyes off her girlfriend while she sang.