AN: So again sorry for the delay. I honestly had it finished around not this Friday, but the Friday before that. I was about to upload it and for some reason it forced closed and since it wasn't saved and I ended up losing the document. And I apologize in advance for the mistakes. So sorry, but i have finally finished it and here it is! ~A

Chapter 4

"I will have the salad." Boo said once a waiter came to our table. We barely arrived at the only restaurant in Lima called Breadstix and boo being the most impatient one out us four decided to skip the line and just go straight to a table only stopping to drop some money to the cashier at the front.

"Ma'am will you please go to the back of that line. There were already some customers in line." The waiter said gesturing to line of people.

"You must be new here, am I right?" boo said with a steely expression. The waiter didn't reply only nodding yes to her question.

"Then let me teach you some things. I run this joint. I can get you fired and if that isn't enough I will go Lima Heights on your ass. So go back to the kitchen get me and my friends a salad and breadsticks so we can eat, and you better do this before I make sure you can never have kids." Boo said her upper lip literally curling up as she sneered at the waiter.

The waiter didn't need to be told twice as he walked to the kitchen to do what he was told.

"That was mean Sanny. The unicorns would be mad at you if they heard what you said to that guy." Brittany said her big blue eyes showing her sadness.

"Damn. What crawled up your ass and died, boo?" I asked smirking.

"Not my fault that they don't train these dudes right. God now I gotta blow off some steam. C'mon Britts." Boo said pulling a grinning Brittany away from the table.

"Where are they going?" I asked watching them disappear into a hallway.

"I'm not completely sure since it is Santana, but they probably went off to 'blow off some steam'." Quinn said even using quotation hand gestures.

"So they are probably doing 'it' against the bathroom stall right now." I said bluntly.

Quinn just nodded and looked up at the waiter that was coming to our table with our orders.

"Thank god that crazy chick isn't here." He said looking around with a smirk probably trying to make a joke.

"What?" I asked looking up at him.

"I said thank god that the crazy chick isn't here." He said finally setting our plates on the table.

"Hey! That's my cousin you're talking about, dude! So watch what you say about her!" I said not really appreciating him talking about boo like that. Plus its not really cool to talk about someone behind their back without even letting them defend themselves.

"Damn. I guess crazy runs in the family then." He muttered.

"What did you say?" I asked getting up and in his face. He didn't move now seeing that my height of my lack of height really was nowhere compared to his taller frame.

"I said that craz-"

And silence by my fist 'accidently' hitting his face.

"Rachel!" Quinn yelled getting up from her seat.

"You are gonna get it now, bitch!" the waiter growled getting up.

"Rachel, calm down! He was just joking, right." Quinn said coming to my side and putting a hand on my shoulder. Even throwing a pointed glare at the waiter.

"Yeah, right. Those are some crazy bitches." He snarled.

"What did you say?" I yelled shoving him back.

He immediately swung a punch once he gained his footing and the next thing I saw was a fist flying then a something hard and blunt hit my left cheek.

"Mother fucker!" I snarled tackling him to the ground.

I straddled him once I knocked him to the ground and punched him on the nose successfully drawing blood. He didn't let the blood stop him though as he punched me again in the face again in the same place. I grabbed his wrist when he tried to punch me again and got up while I twisted his arm so he had to het on his stomach so I wouldn't break his wrist and immediately put some of my weight back on him.

"What did you say?" I asked twisting his arm harder.

"You're a bitch!" he yelled from beneath me.

I put all my weight on his wrist causing him to cry out in pain.

"Wrong answer." I growled in his ear.

"Rach."

I heard from the side. I looked up at Quinn and saw her giving me a disappointed look. Why was she mad at me? This jackass started this.

"What?" I innocently asked like if I wasn't on the point of breaking a guys wrist.

"Let him go." She sternly said.

"I'm not a four year old, you know. You can't just order me around." I said meeting her stare.

She just raised her eyebrow at me. Damn, it's kind of hot when she does that. She cleared her throat and looked pointedly at the guy still struggling under me. I rolled my eyes at her.

"I'm gonna let you go now and you are gonna walk away like nothing happened. You will not say a word to anyone about this unless you want people to know that you got your ass kicked by a girl." I calmly said.

"Sure, yeah, whatever." He grumbled.

I stood up and went to Quinn's side giving her a look that meant if she was happy now. She nodded and smiled at me and I couldn't help, but smiling back. I looked up at the waiter when I heard him getting up. He stared at me and I met his gaze silently challenging him to try something. He broke eye contact and walked back towards the kitchen shoulder checking me on his way. I quickly stuck my foot our efficiently tripping him.

"Just leave already." I sighed out looking at him on the floor.

He just got up and left without a sound.

"Wow. Who knew you could fight like that?"Quinn said sitting back at her seat.

I followed her example and sat down grabbing a plate and handing her plate to her. I didn't start eating yet though, because I'm not even sure if it's okay for vegetarians.

"What? Not hungry?" Quinn asked looking up from her plate at me.

"Yea…its just that I'm a vegetarian and I don't know if its safe for me to eat this." I said looking down at my plate.

"You're a vegan?"

"No. A vegetarian. There's a difference." I said looking up at her curious eyes.

"What's the difference? I always thought they were the same."

"A vegan has a stricter diet and all that. Like I mostly have the same diet as them it's just that they don't use by-products and stuff that has anything containing animals." I said shrugging.

"I didn't know that. Oh, and its safe it's just a simple salad." She said tucking back into her food.

I nodded and started eating. I looked up and saw boo coming our way with Brittany.

"Look who finally decided to join us." I said smirking up at boo who sat across from me with Brittany at her side.

"Just be happy we came back at all." She growled and started eating.

"It's fine. I'm sure you guys came enough times without us." I said smirking.

"Shut up!" Boo said throwing me a breadstick while blushing. I just caught it and chewed on it slowly and smugly.

"Wait isn't that what happened anyway, san?" Brittany asked somehow sounding innocent.

Me and Quinn busted out laughing when Boo turned even more red.

"What happened to your face?" Boo yelled after watching me and Quinn laugh for about five minutes straight.

"Nothing. Ran into a wall." I said nochantlently.

"What happened?" boo asked more serious.

"It was nothing. Just a guy being a dick." I shrugged.

"When?"

"When you were with Brittany in the restroom." Quinn said

"You didn't try to stop her, Fabray!" Boo yelled looking at Quinn accusingly.

"Hey! Boo calm down. It wasn't her fault. She did try to calm me down, but the guy wouldn't stop talking crap." I said looking at boo angrily.

"What was he saying?" boo asked somewhat calmer.

"How were crazy and that it runs in the family." I mumbled looking at my almost finished plate.

Boo just snorted and went back to her food.

"What?" I asked.

"Well. It is kind of true." She said shrugging.

I didn't feel like replying so I just threw her a breadstick.

"Why did you freak out anyway? Rachel can totally kick ass." Quinn said from beside me.

"Its just…you just got back and I don't want to lose her again." Boo said not looking up from her plate.

"You might as well get used to it. Us Lopez's are very protective of people we love, right boo?" I said to Quinn.

"Very." Boo said looking at me then glance at Brittany.

A comfortable silence settled on us as we continued to eat. Well it was quiet until Brittany giggled. I looked up and smiled when I saw that her and boo were feeding each other.

"They are always like that." Quinn whispered in my ear. When did she move so close? Who cares just don't move Quinn.

"Are they together?" I asked.

Boo looks happy with Brittany. It makes me feel a little better to know that she wasn't completely alone, and I can make jokes of how whipped she is.

"No. Brittany is actually with Artie, but the only reason she's actually with him is because Santana says she doesn't like Brittany like that." said eyeing the couple across from us.

"But she does." I said. You can so tell that they like each other just by looking at them.

"Yeah well….it's Santana."

"What does that mean?" I asked kind of defensive.

"San has a habit of…..bottling up her emotions. Like she won't ever tell you what she is feeling you have to get it out of her. Its just that you never know if you're gonna get it out of her or push her away." Quinn said putting her now empty plate in the middle of the table.

"Yeah. I know what you mean. It's kind of a Lopez thing." I said putting my plate on top of hers.

"So, you two are actually cousins?" Quinn asked looking up at me.

"Yup." I said popping the 'p'.

"Who's side?"

"Umm one of my dad's side." I said not really sure how she would feel about me having gay parents. Wait, why do I even care? I never have cared of what people thought of me…well at least not the people I care about.

"One of?" she asked raising an eyebrow.

"I had two dads."

"Had? What happened?" she asked with scrunched up eyebrows.

"My father died when I was younger." I said looking down.

"I'm sorry I didn-"

"No it's fine. It already happened so why think about it so much when I have a life to live. I mean I already accepted that he's gone and he would want me to live the best life there is: a happy one." I shrugged.

She didn't reply after that just opted to stare at me with a calculating gaze.

"So how do you know boo?" I asked once the gaze was starting to make me uncomfortable.

"I used to be on the cheerios and we're in glee together."

"Cheerio?"

"The cheerleading squad at school." She explained looking down at her fidgeting hands.

"You're also in glee too, right?" I asked. How does that mix. Kurt mentioned that Glee kids are at the bottom of the social ladder or something like that.

"Yup. Why? Are you surprised?"

"Kind of, I guess."

"Then you probably wouldn't believe me if I told you that I was actually head cheerleader, would you?" she said with a smirk adoring her face.

"Head cheerleader and in glee." I said kind of surprised.

"And Santana and Brittany wouldn't be in glee if it wasn't for me either."

"How did that happen?"

"It's a very long story." She sighed out. What does she mean by that?

"We got time." I said. An uncomfortable silence immediately was felt after. I wonder what happened to Quinn. I mean, she was head cheerlead and in glee so why does she dress like this. Like if she isn't happy or like if something bad happened.

"What happened to you?" I asked only getting a raised eyebrow in response.

"Like you were head cheerleader. Why aren't you one anymore? Was it the pepto-bismo colored hair?" I asked smiling a little to know I was joking.

"No. The hair only added to badass look I had when I threw my uniform in my coach's face." She said smirking.

"Why did you quit though?"

She sighed and looked me in the eye.

"I never liked it. My dad forced me to join an-"

"Wait. What do you mean he forced you?" I asked hoping what I was thinking was not true.

"He never hit me or anything like that, if that is what you're thinking. He just guilted me into it and a bunch of other stuff. Glee was the only thing I joined on my own choice." She said.

"Oh. How did he guilt you into it?" I asked somewhat relieved that I was wrong.

"Its stupid." She said breaking eye contact and looking at the table.

"Try me." I said grabbing one of her hands.

"He would say tha- that if I didn't join all the clubs and everything that if Jesus were to come for me that I wouldn't go to heaven. He would also say that I'm a disappointment to the family name." she said looking at our hands.

"He sounds like a douche. No offense to you though."

"No its fine. He was a douche."

"Was?"

"Yea. He died a little while back. That's why I'm not a cheerio and its also why I dress like this."

"So you're just upset over his death." I said more than asked.

"No. God, I'm such a bad person for this, but I'm actually happy that he is gone." She said wiping her nose with the hand that I wasn't holding.

"You know what I think. I think that you're not happy about him being gone. You're just relieved that you don't have someone living your life for you." I said handing her a napkin still not moving my hand that is on top of hers.

"I never thought of it like that." she said after some moments of tense silence.

"Yeah, well….sometimes you just need a slap in the face to make you realize some things." I said. She looked up and met my eyes. What color are they anyways. They looked hazel earlier, but now they look green. I wonder if they change color when her emotions change.

We looked up at the same time when we heard plates being stacked on top of mine and Quinn's.

"C'mon we can't be late or will never stop talking about the importance of being on time." Boo said standing up and walking toward the parking lot.

"I'll tell you the rest later." Quinn whispered. There is more?

Brittany, Quinn and I stood up and followed her example. Quinn slowed down and fell into step next to me when we saw the waiter from earlier by the kitchen door looking at us. I met his gaze and smirked when he looked away and retreated into the kitchen.

"Coward." I muttered as I stepped out of the restaurant.

"So…shorty we're gonna go back to school cause we got glee club. You can come if you want so we can talk later about….everything." boo said once we got into her car and drove off.

"Yea. umm actually Puck and Kurt told me I should audition and I already said yes. So I guess I kind of have to." I said looking at her through the mirror.

"Yay! That's awesome! Now we can compete!" Brittany yelled from the front seat.

"That is awesome, but we still would need another member." Quinn said from next to me.

"God, don't be such a buzzkill Q and shorty I hope you can still sing like when we were small. It was annoying most of the time, but you were pretty good."Boo said looking up from the road to throw me a dirty look.

"Well we'll find out then won't we." I said as we pulled up at the school and got out.

We walked through the double doors and I followed them to what I assumed was the choir room. Instrument covered most of the room except for the chairs at the back.

"You're late." An African American girl said from her seat.

"It's not like it matters. isn't even here yet. Oh, and everyone we got a new member." Boo said leading me to take a seat next to her. Quinn sat next to me and Brittany on the other side of boo.

"Can she sing?" the black girl said.

"Umm who are you?" I asked not really liking how she doesn't even know me and she is talking to me like that.

"Mercedes." She said.

"Don't mind her. She is just cranky because her dumb boyfriend broke up with her." I heard Kurt's say walking in and taking a seat.

"Hey Kurt." I greeted.

"Hi. Nice to see you made it. So let me introduce you to everyone. That guy in the wheelchair is Artie. You already met Puck. That freakishly tall guy is Finn, my stepbrother. Asian F as I like to call them are Mike and Tina." He explained.

Everyone greeted me with a range of greetings from the simple 'hi' to a nod. I simply waved a hand around.

"So how is everyone today. I already have this weeks assignment which-" A guy who I assume is said walking in and going to a white board.

"Hey ! We got a new potential member." Boo said interrupting him and pointing at me.

"Oh! That's great! So I assume you already know what to do then…"

"Rachel. Rachel Lopez." I said standing up and shaking his hand.

"Lopez. So you're related to Santana. I knew it!" Puck yelled from his seat in the back.

"Yup. I already have my songs picked out." I said walking toward the piano.

"Okay the floor is yours." said taking a seat.

"Umm well I write songs too and I this is one of them. I was in a dark place when I wrote this so forgive me for the sad tune." I said placing my fingers on the keys.

Strip away the flesh and bone
Look beyond the lies you've known
Everybody wants to talk about a freak
No one wants to dig that deep
Let me take you underneath

Baby better watch your step

Never mind what's on the left
You're gonna see things you might not wanna see
Still not that easy for me
Underneath

A red river of screams
Underneath
Tears in my eyes
Underneath
Stars in my black and blue sky
And underneath
Under my skin
Underneath
The depths of my sin
Look at me
Now do you see?

Welcome to my world of truth

I don't wanna hide any part of me from you
I'm standing here with no apologies
Such a beautiful release, you inside of me

A red river of screams
Underneath
Tears in my eyes
Underneath
Stars in my black and blue sky
And underneath
Under my skin
Underneath
The depths of my sin
Look at me
Now do you see?
Underneath, underneath, underneath
Underneath, underneath

Welcome to my world of truth

A red river of screams
Underneath
Tears in my eyes
Underneath
Stars in my black and blue sky
And underneath
Under my skin
Underneath
The depths of my sin
Look at me
Now do you see?
Underneath, underneath, underneath
Look at me
Do you see?
Look at me
Do you see?

Welcome to my world of truth
I don't wanna hide any part of me from you

I looked up when I finished the last verse. I took in Boo's proud expression, Brittany's excited one and everyone else's shocked and amazed expression.

"Wow. Consider yourself in." said after several moments of silence.

"I have another I would like to do, if that's alright?" I said standing up and grabbing an electric guitar. I stepped up to some guys on the side with instruments ready to play. I told them the song and they all nodded saying they all knew it and I told one of them to back me up on vocals.

"Okay so this is a last moment kind of thing. I didn't write it. I like this song and I do like mostly every type of music it's just that I prefer this kind. Hope you guys like it." I said saying the last part mostly to Quinn. I nodded to the band and started playing the opening chords.

Can't make my own decisions
Or make any with precision
Well maybe you should tie me up
So I don't go where you don't want me

You say that I been changing
that I'm not just simply

aging
Yeah how could that be logical?
Just keep on cramming ideas down my throat

You don't have to believe me
But the way I, way I see it
Next time you point a finger
I might have to bend it back
Or break it, break it off
Next time you point a finger
I'll point you to the mirror

I started walking around the room and stayed at the front once I went around the room.If God's the game you're playing
Well we must get more acquainted
Because it has to be solonely
To be the only one who's holy

It's just my humble opinion
But it's one that I believe in
You don't deserve a point of view
If the only thing you see is you

You don't have to believe me
But the way I, way I see it
Next time you point a finger
I might have to bend it back
Or break it, break it off
Next time you point a finger
I'll point you to the mirror

This is the last second chance
(I'll point you to the mirror)
I'm half as good as it gets
(I'll point you to the mirror)
I'm on both sides of the fence
(I'll point you to the mirror)
Without a hint of regret
I'll hold you to it

I know you don't believe me
But the way I, way I see it
Next time you point a finger
I might have to bend it back
Or break it, break it off
Next time you point a finger
I'll point you to the mirror

I know you won't believe me
But the way I, way I see it
Next time you point a finger
I might have to bend it back
Or break it, break it off
Next time you point a finger
I'll point you to the mirror

"That was awesome! Finally someone who knows good music!" Puck yelled.

"You still got it shorty." Boo said hugging me after I put the guitar down.

"Yay! Now we got two Lopez's in here and they are both hot!" Brittany yelled from her seat.

I looked at Quinn who was staring at the spot I was standing at. Everyone else had excited expressions on their faces.

"Does that mean we can compete now?" the guy Finn said looking at .

"No. Not yet. We still need one more member." He said standing up and walking to the white board while I took my seat.

"So how do you get new members then?" I asked.

"Well. Kind of how you came here. We usually just convince them or we do a performance that will want them to join." said. Writing the word 'Recruiting' on the board.

"So that's this week's assignment. We need new members by two weeks or else we can't compete." He said turning around and looking at us.

"So how are we gonna do this?" boo asked.

"I think we should have a performance." Finn suggested.

"So what do you guys perform in an assembly?" I asked.

"Yup, but usually we end up getting booed at." Artie said.

"But I doubt that will happen with Rachel here now." Puck said.

"Wait, wait what? I don't think I'm ready to be the 'main event' or anything." I said looking around at everyone.

"We'll just make into a group number then." suggested gaining head nods from everyone.

"Okay. We will have practice tomorrow so be here on time. You guys are dismissed." He said already heading to his office.

"So that's it?" I asked boo getting up.

"Yup it's Monday. We get our assignments on Mondays and we carry them out during the week." Quinn said standing up and heading out the door.

"C'mon, shorty. We still have to talk."Boo said grabbing my hand and pulling me toward her car. We got in and started driving to her house which was literally next to mine.

"So you moved back in?" boo asked nodding toward my house.

"Yeah. I explain everything….if you want?" I asked timidly looking at my house.

"Thanks. That's exactly what I want. For us to be how we were. No secrets. No space between us. Like how we were." She said moving my chin so I can look at her.

"Okay." I said. I guess I'm ready to see my family again. I guess I'm ready to tell someone the truth. Finally.

Underneath-Adam Lambert

Playing God-Paramore