46A.N. Okay so this is a one-shot with a whole bunch of UST. I will resolve it in the summer though. I read this A.U. pezberry fic with stud Santana and it absolutely broke me. I'm going to mark this at complete, but follow cause I will update its just not my first priority. I made breadstix a chain restaurant.
WARNING: Rap music will constantly be featured in this and with rap or trap comes use of a certain word. And I liked to let you know that I'm not going to bleep it out. Now I mean this in a completely non-racist way. If it makes you uncomfortable, this is not the story for you. If it makes you feel any better I am African American. This word may also come up in conversation and unless I say so prior it will have nothing to do with race. In this story it is just a word.
- Jessica
Disclaimer: Rachel wasn't a stud so obviously I don't/didn't own it.
TUD
Oakland, California
September 30th, Friday
Life isn't always as it seems. You can't judge a book by its cover. People are people. Love is love. And sometimes you just want to take the world at face value.
But you can't. You can't. You can't. You can't. And it fucking sucks. Or at least that's how Rachel Berry felt.
Rachel sat in her AP Chem class. Her feet were propped up on the desk and her head was thrown back. The teacher had already asked her the classic 'do you do that to the furniture at your house?' She answered with a yes and a half-assed smirk before shoving her Beats ear buds in.
I got enemies, got a lotta enemies
Got a lotta people tryna drain me of my energy
They tryna take the wave from a nigga
Fuckin' with the kid and pray for your nigga
Ahh. The sweet soothing sounds of Drake.
"Rachel! If you're not going to get your feet off that desk and remove your headphones, then you need to go to the office!" Ooh. Teacher's mad.
Rachel took one of ears buds and with the most cocky smile she could manage she asked," I'm sorry did you say something?"
Not wanting to hear anymore of that more excuse of a teacher's bitching, Rachel walked out the room and towards her white mustang.
She plugs in her AUX cord and continues listening to Drake. 5 minutes later, she pulled up to her home jumping out curiously when she sees moving vans in front.
She knew they weren't being evicted, her parents were both cancer specialists. She walked in to only be tackled by a six year old ball of energy.
"Rachie!" The child squealed as she was picked up and spun around. Rachel stopped spinning the girl and set her on her hip.
"Hey, munchkin. Where's Adrian?" Rachel asked looking around their vast kitchen that had been significantly cleaned out.
"In my room. Mommy said he had to pack my stuff while I colored." The girl said kicking her feet indicating she wanted to get down. The older brunette did as commanded and was quickly forgotten when a stray crayon caught the young girl's eye.
"Adri!" Rachel called trying to get some answers.
Adrian was the oldest of the 5 Berry siblings, being 20, and easily the most organized. He skipped on college and headed out to New York for a internship at some record label company. He was back on some kind of leave that had to do with his company.
Rachel and her twin brother Luca were the second oldest at 17, then there was Jonas who was 14 and a little rebel. Rachel liked to call him wise beyond his years because he was way smarter than her and extremely intuitive.
Lastly, Jade. Jade 6 and extremely feisty. She was super energetic, maybe even overly so. Rachel couldn't get enough of her though. She was her little bug.
"I'm in Jay's room!" He called out from Jade's room. She dragged herself down the vast hall until she got to the little girl's room. He was sitting in the middle of the purple room stacking and labeling boxes. By this point Rachel was pretty sure they were moving.
"Hey, big bro. What's going on with all the boxes?" She asked. The younger girl eventually started helping him sense she was just going to be asked to anyway.
"Mom and Dad got a job transfer, somewhere in Ohio. It starts Monday, so they wanted to get packed and out there so they could enroll you guys and you could start school the same day as them." He explained rubbing his stubble in concentration. Taking a marker out of his back jeans pocket, he labeled another box. The whole room was now packed, so Rachel started to trudge down to her room only to be stopped by Luca.
"Jonas and I already did it." Rachel threw her hands up in exasperation. Turning around to be met with a slightly apologetic twin brother.
"Was I the only one at school today?" Luca shrugged in response.
"Dad texted us and said we didn't have to go, but if we did come home early. Didn't you get it?" Luca asked walking down the stairs towards the living room, Rachel followed.
"I broke my phone, remember? I threw my phone at the wall when Lexi and Ally broke up with us." Luca muttered a quiet 'oh'. He was still reeling back from the whole 'Michaelson-gate' thing.
He slumped down on the bare floor and waited for Rachel to join him. She did, and had fallen into the same exact position.
"We leave in the morning. Mom and Dad felt bad that we have to just up and leave, so we each get a whole new wardrobe when we get there. Even Adrian, and he doesn't even live with us." Luca sighed out his hands moving in semi wild gestures.
"I mean I love them. But they don't have to do this. I'm not going to tell them that because hey, free clothes. It's just they're not here often yes but I don't want them to feel like they have to buy our love, you know?" Rachel ranted, turning on her side to see her twin giving her a sad smile.
"Yeah. I know what you mean. At least we didn't have anything going for us here." He commented trying to reason.
"I guess. Where are we going anyway? All Adri said was Ohio."
"Mom said it's called Lima, Ohio. It's very conservative and very small. Although they have a Breadstix only 5 minutes away from the house." He said releasing his first real smile of the day when he heard his sister's squeal of approval.
"We need to start packing the truck."
TUD
Lima, Ohio
October 3rd, Monday
The Berry siblings, minus Adrian and Jade, sat in Rachel's car, waiting for the go ahead to enter McKinley
"Alright, this is our time to shine. We are going to own this school. Okay, Jo if you aren't coming home right after school call one of us and let us know." He agreed and jumped out the car eager to start his day.
Rachel looked over to Luca who smirked when he felt her eyes on him.
"You ready?" She asked smoothing down her blue button up shirt, and rolling up the short sleeves. Her denim joggers and dark blue Vans also in tip top shape.
"Hell yeah." He put on a pair of aviators, Rachel looked at him questioningly. It was overcast outside.
"What? They're for show." He explained. The girl looked at him on more time before getting out of her mustang. She headed towards the front door getting various stares as her brother scrambled behind her.
Pushing the doors open like she owned the place, her first impression was that it stinks. It literally stunk. The place smelled like sweaty balls.
She walked down the hall, totally not knowing where she was going. Until she came across a rather large fellow in a letterman jacket.
"Um, excuse me can you direct me towards the counselor's." She asked using her meeting new people vioce.
The abnormally tall boy, smiled a dopey smile back at the brunette. And so did the fishy lipped boy next to him. They gave each other 'discreet' fist bumps.
"Yeah, follow me." He set off without a reply and Rachel reluctantly followed.
"So, my name's Finn." He said with the same gassy baby smile.
"Rachel."
"So, Rachel. What brings you to lil' Ole Lima?"
He asked. Rachel could see the gears turning in his head as they rapidly approached the guidance office. They came right in front of it, Rachel still yet to answer his question.
"Thanks, bye." Rachel said trying to evade his presence.
"Wait! Rachel, I was wondering if you wanted to maybe go out with me?" Boy, this dude works quick.
As her saving grace she felt her brother's presence behind her.
"Hey Rae, this goof bothering you." He asked defensively. Rachel saw more gears turning Finn's head. He seemed thoroughly confused.
"Naw, he was just leaving." Rachel insisted. Surprisingly taking the hint Finn apologized and stalked away embarrassed.
TUD
Rachel and Luca walked out of Ms. Pillsbury's office with a considerable amount of paper in their arms.
Rachel looked down at the first one. It was a pamphlet for some extra curricular activity called Glee Club.
The whole Berry family loved to sing. They were all exceptionally good at it too. Rachel turned to Luca with a knowing look. They would try out for Glee during the next meeting.
TUD
Rachel went through the motions, the rest of the day being uneventful. Right up until she was about to head up to her car, when she heard an ear splitting screech and splash.
She turned around to see a heavy set black male standing over a obviously gay man at least half his size with a slushy cup.
Rachel traveled back to her car with an uneasy feeling.
Obviously, this town was way more conservative than she thought and that was so going to be a problem for her.
She sighed as she got a text from Jonas and Luca said they had already had some after school activities.
Looked like she taking care of Jade by herself for a couple hours.
Before pulling out of the lot, her breath hitched when she noticed a strikingly beautiful Latina prancing about linking pinkies with a tall blonde.
Miss Beautiful, how I love to get to know you.
