Disclaimer in earlier chapters.

I personally think I could have done better for this chapter because it seems like a jumbled mess and it probably is. But on that note...

I hope you all enjoy.

CHAPTER 21

When Mr. Schue ends us sick Rachel takes it upon herself to lead glee.

"Rachel, I support you, I do, but we are not going to decide songs for you to sing." Quinn says as Rachel writes 'Me' on the board in the upper left hand corner.

"You didn't let me finish." Rachel says as she draws a line under 'me' all the way across the whiteboard. She makes four vertical lines through the horizontal one making a chart. She writes 'Tina,' 'Mercedes,' 'Kurt' and 'Santana' in the other slots.

"I think a pod person took over Rachel." Kurt says and Rachel huffs.

"Erase Hummel." Santana says but Rachel shakes her head and leaves his name up there.

"As kind as Rachel is being, it is kind of suspicious." Artie says and Rachel huffs crossing her arms.

"We need a real teacher to take over glee." Kurt says and Santana narrows her eyes at him.

"Better watch what you say Hummel, the dumpster has missed you." Puck warns.

"It's fine, Kurt, if you have someone in mind bring them in." Rachel says erasing the board. "Until then I'm going to go spend the rest of this period doing something productive." Rachel gathers her things, types out a message on her phone and leaves.

Once Rachel is out the door four cell phones beep alerting their owners of a text.

'I'm going to pick up some things for the wedding and an early lunch.'

"Wait for me!" Santana shouts. She can go for some Breadstix right now. Santana gathers up her and Brittany's things before linking pinkies with Brittany and running out of the room.

"You can't leave me! Who's going to do the heavy lifting?" Puck asks scrambling after.

Quinn just shakes her head and calmly gathers her things.

"Can I come?" Sam asks and Quinn thinks it over. He already knows how she feels about Rachel and she didn't go into detail about what happened over summer but he had gotten the gist of it. Quinn shrugs.

"Sure." She says standing.

Sam smiles and grabs his things before following her out.

"What's trout pout doing here?" Santana asks tossing her and Brittany's things in the backseat.

"He's coming with us." Quinn says. "Be nice, he's been a good friend." Quinn says going over and kissing Rachel softly.

"Uh, Quinn?" She nods her head at Sam.

"Oh, I already know." Sam says and Rachel turns to Quinn who nods.

"I told him about my feelings for you while we were partnered for duets." Quinn says and Rachel smiles.

"Well then, you are very welcome to join us." Rachel says.

"Be ready for a long story about our group." Puck warns as he goes over to his truck. "You need a ride?"

"Sure." Sam says as he and Puck get into the truck.

Rachel climbs into Quinn's car and smiles at her.

"What?" Quinn asks.

"I love you." Rachel says and Quinn freezes on her way to start the car. "I know it is probably too soon, but I do love you." Rachel says as Quinn leans over and cups her face pulling her closer and kissing her passionately.

"I love you, too." Quinn whispers against Rachel's lips.

Holly Holliday was not what Rachel was expecting but she had to admit she as fun. She was shocked when Holly asked her what she wanted to perform.

Holly took everyone into consideration and when she left the glee club was sad.

The next matter at hand for them however was Karofsky. He was bullying Kurt more than usual. It was scary. Rachel and him might not be closer right now but she could see the differences. SO she rallied the girls together to talk to the guys on the football team.

It didn't end well. Sam got a black eye and Finn still refused to look after Kurt in fear of what Karofsky would do during practice.

During Burt and Carole's wedding Quinn wanted to kill Finn. He kept trying to get Rachel to notice him and it was annoying as hell.

Kurt ended up switching schools and that should be enough catch up.

When Puck came in with Lauren Zizes as their newest member Rachel almost couldn't believe it. After Puck told his story of how they became a couple she was laughing hysterically.

"It's not funny! Who turns down the Puckster?" Puck exclaims and Rachel quirks and eyebrow. "Except you, my charm never did work on you." He says and Rachel laughs again.

"I'm sorry, but you finally found a challenge." Rachel giggles as she lifts Beth up and brings her down blowing a raspberry on her stomach making her laugh. Rachel lowers Beth to her eye level and smiles at her. "Does Quinn still have you making up for your time in juvie?" Rachel asks and Puck nods.

"Yep." Puck smiles.

"I think it's good for you." Rachel comments. "When was the last time you through a party or hooked up with someone?" Rachel asks. "Being a dad looks god on you." Rachel says sincerely making Puck smile wide.

"Did you talk to Quinn about her dad?" Puck asks and Rachel nods.

"We haven't talked about it since but we've talked. She's content just forgetting he ever showed up. Fran and Eli are sticking around until sectionals. But I worry about Quinn. She looks as if she is tossing it aside but she gets lost in thought more. She's trying to figure out what her father wants." Rachel sighs. "Quinn is amazing. She's stressing out over her father and yet still maintaining a better grade point average than me." Rachel huffs and Puck laughs.

"Then take her out. Get her mind off of it. I'd say screw her senseless but I know you two plan on waiting." Puck says.

Through the open bedroom door the two hear the front door open and close. Rachel and Puck look at the clock. Cheerios practice is over.

"Maybe that's what we need. An outing. Just me and her." Rachel mumbles as footsteps approach and Quinn appears in the doorway. A big smile breaks out on her face as she spots Rachel and Beth. She goes over and kisses Rachel deeply before kissing Beth's head.

"Hot." Puck comments and Quinn glares at him.

"How was practice?" Rachel asks.

Quinn shrugs. "Practice, nothing new." Quinn says.

"Well, I'm going to go find a snack, maybe you can help Rachel think up a good set list. Finn's deadest on them having a duet." Puck takes Beth and honestly hears a growl coming from Quinn. "Easy their tiger." Puck teases as he walks out of the room.

"Quinn, I am not going to be getting back with Finn anytime soon." Rachel assures her and Quinn smiles kissing her senseless. Rachel loves kissing Quinn. It quickly became her favorite thing in the world. But the way she is kissing her right now. Rachel is seeing stars flying across the sky with fireworks going off. She's out of it when Quinn pulls away.

"Are you sure?"

Rachel's confused. "What?" She shakes her head. "What were we talking about?"

Quinn smirks and pecks her lips softly. "So, what songs have you picked out?" Quinn asks and Rachel grabs her notebook.

"I think Santana should sing a solo." Rachel says and Quinn gasps slapping her hand to her chest dramatically.

"Can it be? Is Rachel Berry giving up her solo?" Quinn says dramatically as Rachel swats her shoulder.

"I'm being serious. We need to surprise everyone at Sectionals. They are going to expect a duet from Finn and I and a solo from me. Let's give them something new." Rachel says and Quinn smiles kissing Rachel's cheek.

"You are amazing Rachel Berry." Quinn says as they smile lovingly at each other.

"Barf." Santana gags walking in and dropping herself on the bed behind them making them bounce with the impact.

"San, you ruined their moment!" Brittany scolds and Santana groans grabbing one of Rachel's pillows and pressing it to her face.

"It's fine Brittany, Quinn is helping me go over a set list." Rachel says showing Brittany the list.

"Oh, Santana's going to sing the solo?" Brittany asks and Santana sits upright and scrambles to the foot of the bed and practically climbs over Quinn and Rachel to read the paper.

"Hey!" Rachel cries as she is nearly shoved off the bed.

"Santana get off!" Quinn growls trying to shove her best friend away.

The rest of the afternoon is spent going over suggestions before Puck, Brittany, Quinn and Beth leave for the night.

Rachel is shouting at a waiter for candy when Kurt approaches her. They make nice and Rachel admits to him being her only competition and after they hug he asks the question.

"Are you and Santana really hooking up?" Kurt asks and Rachel scrunches her face up.

"No, you know she and Brittany are more than friends, just like the rest of us. Santana and I are not romantically involved. It is a very long story actually. We are living together as you know, but not because we are together, you have to promise not to tell anyone." Rachel says and Kurt nods.

"I swear." He says.

"My dads left to get away to figure out what made them fall in love in the first place and they left me here, I ran to Shelby and she took me in. A few weeks after moving in I went to dinner with her and her boyfriend. Imagine my surprise when we walked into the restaurant and there at the table is Santana and her father."

Kurt gasps. "No!"

"Yes! But a few weeks later into the summer he asked us to move in with them and then he proposed!" Rachel squeals and Kurt joins in jumping up and down. "But you can't tell!" Rachel reminds.

"Why not?" Kurt asks.

"We're kind of having fun. People are waiting for something, anything, and we plan to keep everyone on edge. We want some big reveal after winter vacation." Rachel says and Kurt claps.

"Winter wedding?" he asks and Rachel nods.

"Tell anyone and you're uninvited." Rachel warns and he swears.

"I swear not to tell a soul." Kurt says.

Rachel wants to believe him but something in her tells her not to. But she wants to patch things up. They spent so much time being each other's competitions when they could be friends. She finds it funny how she can all into this with Kurt. He's her friend, on his way, to being her friend, but she doubts he'll ever be as close to her as Puck and Brittany. Sam is her friend. Kurt is on his way.

Quinn comes up behind her after Kurt leaves and smiles as she wraps her arms around Rachel from behind. "That was nice of you." She says as Rachel relaxes into her arms.

"Everyone deserves a chance to prove themselves and I think he'll be a good friend." Rachel shrugs.

"Now that he isn't competition?" Quinn teases and Rachel turns in her embrace.

"Just how long were you spying Ms. Fabray?" Rachel asks bringing her arms around Quinn's waist.

"Long enough." Quinn smiles. "They're looking for you back there, you need to get changed." Quinn says and Rachel nods.

"Let me just get the damn candy." Rachel grumbles as she turns to the man and he has returned with the candy. Rachel pays him and takes Quinn's hand. They walk to the dressing room with giant smiles plastered on their faces.

Rachel has to admit that Quinn and Sam do an amazing job acting like they are into each other. Every time Quinn catches her eye she sends Rachel a loving smile. Rachel returns it each and every time.

They tie with the Warblers and that doesn't bug Rachel as much as it should. Santana sees this and is surprised that her sister hasn't demanded a recount of the votes. There are only three judges though. Santana likes to win but even she can admit it gives them an incentive to do their absolute best to crush the competition at regionals.

Quinn hugs Rachel and spins her around as the others around her continue to cheer and celebrate their win.

"So, only a few more weeks till the wedding." Quinn says and Rachel feels like slapping herself.

Rachel looks down. "I kind of told Noah he could be my date." Rachel says and Quinn's face falls.

"I can't say I like it, but he is your best friend and I am assuming that you came to this conclusion before we were together." Rachel nods. "So I hope you don't mind that I'm bringing Sam as mine." Quinn says and Rachel's jaw drops. "I'm not going to leave you. The last few years were hell without you, I hated what happened and I'm sure that if I were to lose you after having you I'd die." Quinn says and Rachel blushes. The noise is so loud no one can hear their conversation. "I love you, Rachel Barbra Berry and I plan on doing my best to remind you of that for as long as you'll have me."

Rachel freezes. Quinn said it. She said she loves her. Rachel wraps her arms around Quinn tight and starts jumping up and down and rocking side to side while squealing.

"I love you too, Quinn." Rachel says. "I really wish I could kiss you right now." Rachel whispers into Quinn's ear.

Quinn tenses up and surveys the room. She loves Rachel, but she isn't ready for that.

"I'm forcing Puck to take care of Beth tonight. When we get back to yours, we can kiss as much as you like." Quinn says and Rachel beams.

As they lay together in bed that night Quinn strokes Rachel's hair as she sleeps.

"I do love you Rachel. I hope you never forget that. I meant it. I'd absolutely die without you." Quinn whispers placing a kiss to the top of Rachel's hair.

I hope you all liked it and please review. I love hearing what you think.

Also I have a new story called "Hold on" out there. Please go check it out.

And next chapter is the wedding! Will it go as planned or will their plans, fun and happiness be ruined?