Songs series - Respect - Brittberry
Pairing: Rachel, Brittany
Rating: K
Words: ±400
Disclaimer: nothing is mine
Note: English is not my first language. Thanks to myxe for the help
Set during 'The Rhodes not taken'.
"Who's ready for another exciting Glee meeting?" Mr. Schuester exclaimed enthusiastically, his arms held open.
"Wait, where's Rachel?" Finn asked.
"She left. Don't you remember?" Kurt asked, annoyed.
"And thank God for that," Mercedes muttered.
Finn stood up. "No. She said she's coming back."
Groans followed his announcement.
"Finn, where are you going?" Mr Schuester asked.
"The auditorium," the boy replied, before leaving the room. Soon, all the others followed him.
"Rachel."
"Hello, Finn," the girl greeted him, before resuming her warm-ups.
"What are you doing?" he asked after a while, seeing that it didn't look like she was going to stop anytime soon.
"I think it's obvious. Didn't you listen to me when I explained, in detail, the importance of having a proper warm up regime to prepare before embarking on a singing session?" She looked at him, annoyed at being interrupted and at his complete disregard of her instructions.
"I-" he flushed and stuttered. "I mean, we have glee right now."
"I'm aware of that. And it makes me even more curious as to the reason you're here right now," she said primly, and then she noticed the rest of the group. "I'm sorry. Were you scheduled to use the auditorium?"
"You said you were coming back," Finn said.
"I said no such thing."
"Yes, you did. I asked you. And then we went on a date," Finn stated, as if that explained everything. Quinn gasped, along with Mercedes and Kurt.
"First of all, I accepted your invitation only because I was under the impression that you were going to apologize to me for your appalling behavior, and possibly for your club mates' too. Secondly, I have enough self-respect to not come back to Glee just because you asked me to and then took me out. Furthermore, I have no idea why I should consider it a date, since you're still dating Quinn - which, by the way, you conveniently avoided informing me about - and I don't condone cheating in any way or form."
Finn looked at her, confused, before focusing on the thing he understood more clearly: Rachel having issues with him dating Quinn. He tried to conceal the fact that he was smiling victoriously inside at Rachel's jealousy. "Who told you?" he asked. "It was Jew-Fro, wasn't it? You know how he is," he said, hoping to convince her that Jew-Fro was lying and just trying to keep them apart.
"It was me," Brittany spoke up, amidst the group.
"Britt?" Santana said, echoing everyone's thoughts. She looked at her best friend, confused.
"What? Why?" Finn almost whined.
Brittany shrugged. "I like Rachel. Since you're dating Quinn, you can't date Rachel. If you can't date Rachel, then Rachel is single, and that I can date her."