If I sing a song then you write a note.
AN: Sorry for really late update, I've been on holiday and have had family problems lately, so I haven't had time to update but I'm trying and I have lots of ideas for other stories too! Pre-warning I've had a bad case of writers block for this story. If you have any ideas or anything you'd like to see please tell me, I don't want to disappoint you guys!
When/if I get my own laptop I'll be able to post more often.
Conversations over the phone will be in italics.
Quinn realised she wasn't going to be able to tell Rachel how she felt about her so she thought about her options and decided she would sing to her in Glee club. So she rang up Santana for help.
"Hey Q, what's up?"
"Hey San, I need your help with something."
"What?"
"I wanna sing to her, to tell her how I feel about her."
"Who, Rachel?"
"No coach Sylvester, yes Rachel!"
"Okay, now I'm picturing you serenading coach and it's disturbing me."
Quinn rolled her eyes even though she knew Santana couldn't see her.
"Santana! Focus! Do you think it's a good idea?"
"Yeah, it is but what if she doesn't get it? And what song are you gonna sing?"
"Well if she doesn't then at least I'll get to perform and I don't know, I was hoping you'd have some ideas?"
"What about Melissa Etheridge; come to my window?" Brittany shouted from Santana's desk.
"Sorry I'm with B."
"Put her on loud speaker San."
"That okay Q?" Santana asked, referring to Brittany's request.
"Go ahead." Quinn replied.
"Hey Q! Did you hear my suggestion?" Brittany said scrambling on the bed next to Santana.
"Hey Britt! Yeah I did but it's not really what I was going for. Any other ideas?"
"Doria Roberts, Perfect?" Santana suggested.
"It a nice song but I want to tell Rachel how I feel about her, not out myself in front of the glee club San. It doesn't have to be by a lesbian singer, just a love song."
"What about songbird?"
"Oh my god Santana! You're a genius! Thank you!" Quinn squealed.
"I know, can I go now? Cuz me and Britts need to gets our cuddle on."
"Thank you so much San, you too Britt. See you tomorrow!"
"Laterz Q."
"Bye Quinn!"
Quinn hung up the phone and started practising the song.
Quinn was nervous about singing to Rachel. She didn't want to be too obvious but at the same time she wanted Rachel to know how she felt about her. Kind of. Not really, but she was going to do it anyway.
But first she had a few questions for one Finn Hudson.
"Finnocence!" Santana snapped walking into the choir room; causing Finn and a few others look up. "Why have you been spreading rumours about my girl Q?" Santana asked in a bitchy tone.
"Santana! I said we were going to ask him not accuse him!" Quinn chastised.
"Soz Q, not my style." Santana threw over her shoulder.
"Wait, what's going on?" Finn asked, confused by the girls.
"There's a rumour that me and you are back together, did you start it?" Quinn asked with a hint of authority in her tone.
"What? No! That's just embarrassing!" Finn replied holding is hands up.
"Oh so being with me is embarrassing now?" Quinn snapped with her signature HBIC glare.
"Wait no, that's not what I meant! I meant that it would be embarrassing to be so desperate that I'd say we were back together. Plus I wouldn't do that to you."
Quinn's expression softened at his words. Finn really wasn't that bad. "So you didn't start it?"
Finn shook his head no and gave his lop sided smile that even Quinn had to admit was kind of cute. "So who was it then?" She asked turning to Santana who shrugged.
"I bet it was that Ben creep." Mercedes piped up and everyone nodded in agreement, just as Rachel and Kurt walked in.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Kurt asked, noticing the girls standing in front of Finn.
"Oh nothing, just a misunderstanding." Finn told his brother.
Kurt looked suspicions but shrugged it off, taking his seat next to Tina.
"Hi Quinn." Rachel smiled, walking straight past Santana.
"Hey Rach." Quinn smiled back.
"Nice to see you too Berry." Santana said sarcastically.
"Santana hi, sorry I didn't see you there."
"No course you didn't." Santana scoffed.
Rachel didn't really know what she meant by that so she put to down to just Santana being Santana. Quinn on the other hand knew what she was meant and glared at her. Santana just pretended not to see it.
"So Quinn, did you find out who spread that rumour?" Rachel asked turning back to Quinn.
"No, we asked Finn but it wasn't him. We think it was probably just that Ben freak making it up because no ones tipped him off this week." Quinn scoffed out a laugh.
"God, I really hate that kid." Rachel said with a hint of anger in her voice.
"Didn't you give him a pair of your-"
"SANTANA!" Rachel cut her off before she could say anything else. "That was last year, how do you even know about that anyway?"
"I saw you giving them to him. Didn't think you'd own lace panties by the way." Santana teased and laughed at Rachel's obvious embarrassment.
"Santana I'd prefer it if you didn't discuss my underwear in front of everyone!" Rachel said crossing her arms over her chest.
"Okaaaay, let's change the subject!" Mercedes said feeling slightly awkward.
"Hey San, where's Britt?" Quinn asked and just as Santana was about to answer that she was in the toilet, Brittany came bounding in.
"Hey guys!"
"Hey Britt." Santana said hugging Brittany and linking pinkies with her.
Most of the glee club had their suspicions about the girls because they were always joined at the hip and Santana was always much softer when it came to Brittany, but they were all too scared of her to actually say anything.
Mr Schuester came in and everyone took their seats.
"Right guys has anyone got anything they would like to perform?" He asked the glee club.
Quinn put her hand up and Mr Schue was surprised but happy none the less. "Okay Quinn come on up." She said stepping aside, gesturing for Quinn to come up.
Quinn sat on the stool and gave Rachel a nervous smile and Rachel grinned in return.
For you, there'll be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining,
And I feel that when I'm with you,
It's alright, I know it's right
To you, I'll give the world
to you, I'll never be cold
'Cause I feel that when I'm with you,
It's alright, I know it's right.
Quinn glanced over at Rachel a few times, who was smiling brightly. Quinn was lucky she was sitting down because Rachel's smile was making her knees weak.
And the songbirds are singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before.
She looked over to Rachel when she sang 'I love you.' And although Rachel was still smiling she didn't miss the redness creeping up Rachel's ears and cheeks.
And I wish you all the love in the world,
But most of all, I wish it from myself.
And the songbirds keep singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before, like never before.
Once the song was over everyone clapped, oblivious to the shared glances between the girls, apart from Santana and Brittany.
Quinn sat back down in her seat next to Rachel who whispered "well done" in her ear and gave her an innocent wink, turning the tables on who was now blushing.
Quinn looked over at Santana and Brittany who where smiling. Well, Brittany was, Santana was just smirking and Quinn rolled her eyes at her.
Once glee club was over and everyone had left, Santana told Quinn that they would be at their lockers, which left Rachel and Quinn alone.
Quinn's heart rate sped up as she looked over at Rachel packing up her stuff. She was torn between hoping Rachel knew she was singing to her and not wanting Rachel to know.
"I loved your performance Quinn. That song is beautiful." Rachel said pulling Quinn out of her nervous thoughts.
"You did?" Quinn asked, blush running back up her cheeks, reminding her she defiantly needed to work on that.
Rachel nodded and flashed Quinn a shy smile, which was very unlike Rachel. "Yes, you sing beautifully."
"Thank you." Quinn smiled brightly; her stomach was doing flips how close they were standing. "Do you need a lift? I'm already giving San and Britt one."
"If that's okay? I'd love to accompany you Santana and Brittany in the car."
Quinn laughed at Rachel's long winded response. "You could just say yes you know." She said teasingly.
"Sorry, I talk more when I'm nervous." Rachel's eyes widened for a few seconds at what she just admitted.
"Why are you nervous?" Quinn asked softy, tilting her head to the side slightly.
"Because I'm talking to the most popular girl in school." Rachel said quietly, looking down at the floor.
Quinn tapped Rachel's chin and brought it up to look at her. "Rachel, we talk all the time. I'm not the head cheerio with you, I'm just Quinn."
"Just Quinn hey?" Rachel said teasingly, getting her confidence back. Quinn rolled her eyes playfully. "Well just Quinn, just Rachel was wondering if you like to come to her house after that lift?" Rachel said in a flirty tone, Quinn didn't mind.
"God berry you're such a dork." Quinn said playfully and Rachel pouted. "Come on; let's go otherwise I'll have Santana on my ass." Quinn laughed long with Rachel.
"So what do you wanna do?" Rachel asked, elegantly slumping down on her bed. Quinn always wondered how she always did everything so elegantly.
"The malls open late tonight, we could go there?" Quinn suggested.
"Okay, let me just text my dads to let them know."
Quinn and Rachel were at the mall deciding what shop to go in first.
"Can we go in here? I need to get a new dress for school." Rachel asked pointing to a clothes shop.
"Yeah, I love that shop." Quinn smiled before she was pulled by the hand into the shop. The touch made her stomach flutter.
Quinn was looking round the shop and found a dark blue dress with white poker-dots on. She knew dark blue was Rachel's favourite colour to wear and it looked really good on her. "Hey Rach, come here." Quinn said gesturing for Rachel to come over to her. "What about this one?"
"This is perfect Quinn!" Rachel said looking at the dress as Quinn held it up to her.
"Dark blue suits you, and I know it's your favourite colour." Quinn blurted out before she could stop herself.
Rachel was a little shocked and flattered that Quinn had noticed.
"Thank you, how did you know?" Rachel said shyly.
"I listen." Quinn shrugged.
Rachel smiled. "Well I listen too, green, it matches your eyes."
"Finn never noticed anything like that." She panicked inside thinking she said too much.
"He never noticed anything about me either." Rachel said sadly.
Quinn mentally relaxed when Rachel didn't freak out. Then she was annoyed with Finn for never treating her good enough. "You deserve better." She said sweetly, Rachel smiled and looked up into hazel eyes, Quinn got lost in the bright brown orbs in front of her. "Your eyes are really pretty." There it goes again, it was like word vomit. She really needed to stop talking.
"Thank you, so are yours." Rachel gave her a shy smile, they were both now red.
"Do you want to try it on?" Quinn suggested, holding up the dress.
Rachel nodded a pulled Quinn over to the dressing rooms.
Quinn waited out side until Rachel called her to come in. "Can you zip it up please, I can't reach."
"Yeah, sure." Quinn said zipping the dress up. She moved Rachel's curly brown hair round her front and smiled at her though the mirror. "Beautiful."
"I'd hardly say that Quinn."
"Well I would." Seriously complimenting Rachel just happened, she didn't even think about it.
"Thank you; no ones ever said that to me before, except maybe my dads." Rachel laughed.
"Not even Finn?" Quinn asked, quite surprised.
"He called me hot a few times but never beautiful." Yeah, actually that didn't surprise her much.
"Then he's an idiot." Quinn said playfully, making Rachel laugh.
"Can you unzip me? I'm going to buy it." Rachel smiled, Quinn was quite proud of herself for picking it out.
After 2 more hours of shopping the girls sat down in the food court for dinner.
"So are you going to tell your mum?" Rachel slipped in casually.
Quinn looked confused for a moment then she realised what Rachel was talking about. "I-no, not yet." She said hesitantly.
"Why not? She was fine when you told her about Santana and Brittany." Rachel shrugged. "Good way of testing it by the way." She teased with a wink.
Quinn rolled her eyes and laughed. "I know, and she's been so much more open minded since my dad left, she never agreed with his views anyway, but it's different when it's your own daughter and I'm not ready."
"Yeah, I know how you feel." Rachel sighed. Quinn was trying to work out what Rachel meant. How did she know how she felt?
It went quiet for a moment and by the way Rachel was looking at her Quinn could tell she had another question, which nerved her.
"Go on what is it?"
Rachel sighed. "Do you like anyone?"
Panic flashed across Quinn's eyes and Rachel noticed Quinn was uncomfortable.
"Sorry, that was too personal." Rachel said quickly, worrying slightly that Quinn would be angry with her.
"It's okay." Quinn answered with a small smile.
"I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have asked that." Rachel said with slight panic.
"Rach, it's okay. I'm just not ready to answer that yet." Quinn said reassuringly.
Rachel nodded and carried on eating.
Quinn's heart was racing and she was glad she avoided that question, for now. She couldn't help but notice the slight disappointment on Rachel's face when she didn't answer.
"What about you?"
Rachel nearly chocked on her drink when Quinn asked her. "Right, you don't have to answer that either." Quinn laughed. "Only fair that I get to ask as well. Must be bad you nearly spat that all over me." She said playfully.
Rachel gave a nervous laugh and Quinn decided it was best to change the subject as this conversation was getting to awkward.
"It's getting late we should probably go." Quinn said checking the time.
Rachel agreed and Quinn drove her home.
(This is about a week and a half later since they went shopping, not much had happened just that they've become closer.)
It was Valentines Day, a day that Quinn was rather bitter about. More so this year because she was in love with Rachel Berry and knew it would never happen.
She walked down the halls, her halls, towards her locker. When she opened it a folded note fell out she furrowed her brow and picked it up.
It was addressed to her with 'To Quinn' written in the front the 'I' was dotted with a heart.
She hesitantly opened it and began to read.
Meet me in the auditorium at lunch, I have something for you.
And happy Valentines Day.
Love Rachel xxx
'Love Rachel'
She read it over and over again. Over analysing it at trying to figure out what Rachel could possibly have for her?
"Hey tubers, who's that from?" Santana said walking over to Quinn, noticing the note in Quinn's hands
"Wh-what?" Quinn was pulled out of her thoughts.
"I said who's the note from?" Santana said taking the note from Quinn anyway.
"Why does she want to meet you in the auditorium?"
"I don't know, well apparently she has something for me but I have no idea what." Quinn replied honestly.
"Whatever, me and Britt are going on a date tonight so don't disturb us with one of your random phone calls about how to get the midget." Santana scoffed. She spotted Brittany and walked off before Quinn could reply.
Rachel bit her lip nervously as she entered the auditorium. It was empty and she sat down at the piano and played a few notes to try and calm her nerves.
She didn't hear the foot steps behind her.
"Hey." Quinn said softly trying not to startle the brunette.
Unfortunately it didn't work and Rachel nearly fell off the piano stall. She stood up with blush apparent on her cheeks.
"Quinn, hi, sorry you scared me." Rachel said clutching her heart.
"Sorry I didn't mean to." Quinn laughed lightly. "Why did you want to meet her in here?"
"Wait there." Rachel said walking off to the side of the stage.
Quinn heard some rummaging and Rachel came back with her hands behind her back.
"Happy Valentines Day Quinn." Rachel smiled nervously, as she held out a simple but beautiful silver necklace with a heart on it.
Quinn stood in surprise for a second. "I-Rachel it's beautiful, thank you." Quinn said shakily. "But why?"
"Can I put it on you first?"
Quinn nodded slowly and Rachel moved her hair to the side and put the necklace on her, Quinn shuddered at the touch and Rachel noticed.
"It's Valentines Day." Rachel said simply, but she was visibly shaking.
Quinn tilted her head to the side slightly, she knew that. "So?"
"You asked me why, that's why." Rachel said quietly.
"Care to explain?"
Rachel let out a laugh it was nervous but it did ease the tension slightly.
"What? Stop laughing!" Quinn said defensively.
Rachel was now giggling so Quinn slapped her playfully on the arm.
"I'm sorry Quinn but you're so cute." Rachel giggled, getting some of her confidence back.
Quinn frowned. "Can you just explain what is going on." She said slightly coldly.
Rachel looked at her with wide eyes and Quinn softened her features and gave her an apologetic smile.
Rachel took a step forward Quinn notice that she was shaking so she took both of her hands and smiled softly.
"I like you Quinn." Rachel almost whispered out.
The words went though Quinn's mind trying to process them, her eyes were wide and she seemed to lose all her vocabulary. "I-I you huh?" Quinn stuttered not really knowing what she was trying to say.
"I like you, I like you more than a friend, much more actually and I've been trying to tell you for so long but I was so scared. If you don't feel that way about me then I completely understan-"
Quinn cut Rachel's ramble off with a soft peck on the lips, hoping it would do all the talking. Apparently it did because for the first time since Quinn had known her, Rachel was speechless.
"Does that mean you like me too? In that way?" Rachel finally said after a minute of trying to compose herself.
"Oh no you had something on your lips, I was just getting it off." Quinn teased.
Rachel playfully slapped her arm. "Quinn I'm serious!" She said with a smile.
"Yes Rach, it means I like you too. I'm surprised you and your sixth scent didn't figure it out sooner." Quinn laughed.
"Actually we sort of did, when you sang to me in glee which is why I decided to tell you." Rachel said sweetly. "Wait, you were singing to me right?" She asked suddenly realising she could have been wrong.
Quinn laughed for a moment Rachel was just so endearingly naive. "Yes, I was singing to you, best choice I ever made." Quinn said making a mental note to thank Santana again for her song choice. "San encouraged me though."
"Wait Santana knows?" Rachel asked.
Quinn nodded "She was the first person to know, she figured out that I like you and she's been 'helping' me in her own Santana way." Quinn laughed along with Rachel. "And of course if Santana knows, Brittany knows as well."
"Brittany knows as well?" Rachel asked biting her lip nervously.
"Yeah?" Quinn replied confused. "I thought you'd be more worried about Santana knowing? But they don't know about you."
"No it's just, nothing." Rachel said hesitantly.
"I know you kissed Brittany, it's fine that was ages ago." Quinn said casually.
Rachel looked shocked that Quinn knew this. "How did you-"
"Brittany." Quinn interrupted with a smiled. Rachel rolled her eyes playfully; those girls told each other everything.
They both giggled at nothing, it relieved lots of the tension when they calmed down Rachel looked up into Quinn's hazel eyes and took her hands.
"So what do you say to a valentines date?" Rachel asked nervously.
"I'd say that is very romantic and corny. I'd also say yes." Quinn teased.
Rachel face lit up. "I'll pick you up at 7." She said placing a kiss on Quinn's cheek and walking off unable to stop smiling, much like Quinn.
AN: Again so sorry for the late update so much going on, school started again. Like I said, once I get my new laptop I promise updates will be more often because the one I use atm is so slow.
Hope you liked that chapter, I was scared to post it but I really hope you guys like it. If you don't I'm really sorry, feel free to give me ideas on what you would like to see or how I can improve.