This story is strongly based off my personal experiences, please be kind with reviews! I have two other stories going but these are just some feelings I needed to get out. Chapters will get longer. Need a beta if anyone is interested.

Chapter 1

It's Nothing

Brittany walked into McKinley High with her head down, her senses on high alert and her binder hugged tightly to her chest. She pushes her glasses up onto her nose, but they just slide back down as she continues to walk with her eyes on the floor. She silently makes her way to her locker and hopes her best friend, Quinn, is there before she is. Brittany peaks through her glasses just as she arrives at her locker, blue eyes connect with hazel just in time for a slushy facial. Brittany hears the snickers through the hall as Azimio & Karofsky fist bump and walk down the hall. Quinn rushes to her best friend's side and grabs her emergency slushy kit, she takes Brittany's hand and helps her to the bathroom.

Quinn has Brittany lean against the sick as she runs a paper towel under the warm water. She silently reaches up to Brittany's face, careful not to get slushy on her cheerio uniform. Just as he is about to place the towel Brittany flinches and cowers away from her touch. That's weird she thinks, maybe she just got rattled by the slushy attack. "Hey Britt it's okay it's just me Quinn, I don't want you to freeze so we have to get that slushy off your face." She attempts to reach Brittany again, she flinches slightly, but let's her friend clean her face. Quinn thinks she has gotten all the purple corn syrup when she notices some is still left, she reaches under Brittany's eye to remove it. Brittany hisses in pain as Quinn dabs the space under her eye. "I'm sorry Britt I didn't mean to hurt you, there was jus some slushy left, and I'm sorry I didn't get to your locker sooner, Sue worked us like crazy this morning I had to take an extra long shower." "It's okay Quinnie" Brittany says softly, not making eye contact with her friend. It's then that Quinn notices the purple bruising under Brittany's eye and decides to ask.

"Hey B, look at me for a second I just want to make sure I got all the slushy off." Brittany doesn't look up her head stays down and is focused on her shoes as she plays with the hem of her shirt. Quinn gentle reaches out, slow enough not to frighten her friend, and places two fingers under her chin. Shiny blue eyes connect with hazel and Quinn gasps at the scene before her. A lone tear falls from Brittany's bruised blue eye and Quinn reaches again to carefully wipe it away. Although her movement is slow Brittany still cowers as her friend's attempt to touch her eye. Quinn quickly retracts her hand. "Brittany, sweetie, what happened to your eye." Brittany raises her head slowly and says "nothing serious Quinnie I was playing outside yesterday and you know me never paying attention and I walked right into the tree house ladder." Quinn doesn't believe Brittany for a minute, she stares at her friend in hopes that she will take it back and change her story and tell the truth. Brittany can see the doubt and disappointment in her friend's eyes and she knows she doesn't believe her. Stupid, stupid, stupid, why can't you do anything right Brittany, don't make Quinn worry about you, nobody sure worry about such a worthless girl. Brittany slumps her shoulders and keeps her eyes focused on the ground again knowing that she is disappointing Quinn just like she disappoints everyone else.

"Brittany please tell me the truth I know you didn't walk into the ladder, ever since we hung the climbing rope you removed the ladder so lord tubbington wouldn't go up in the tree house, I know you better than you think silly girl" Quinn calmly states to the scared girl in front of her. Brittany is shaking, she can't let Quinn find out what happened, and she just can't. Brittany raises her head with sadness in her eyes, "please don't call me silly Quinn, it's just another way to say that I'm stupid, just nicer, nothing happened and I would appreciate if you would stop asking me about it. Go to class Quinn, go find Rachel and make her morning, just leave me alone!" She all but shouts at her best friend and turns towards the mirror, hands gripping the sink so tight her knuckles are turning white. Quinn's eyes water quickly, she knows Brittany is just scared so she decides to put on her HBIC face and storm out of the bathroom to go find her girlfriend.

Brittany stares at herself in the mirror and gently reaches up to touch the bruise surrounding her eye. She hisses as her fingers make contact with the large bruise. She's not used to this normally the bruises are in places that no one can see, or that she can easily hide by wearing a sweater and pants. Brittany reaches in her backpack in hopes of finding her makeup bag so she can cover the black eye and get to close. She frantically searches her bag to only realize that she forgot her makeup kit. "Stupid, stupid, stupid, why did I think I wouldn't get slushied today and have to redo my makeup, you're such an idiot Brittany!" She slides down the wall brings her knees to her chest and finally lets the tears start to fall. What she doesn't hear is someone coming out the stall and slowly walking toward. The girl who has been quiet the entire time finally makes a mistake and drops her pen. Hearing the sudden sounds Brittany coils into herself saying "please don't hurt me, please don't hurt me."

"Brittany." The blonde hears the sudden but soft tone that she doesn't recognize. She digs her face deeper into her legs while repeating please doesn't hurt me over and over again. "Brittany, it's Santana, please relax it's okay. I'm not going to hurt you. I promise I just want to help you." The blonde quickly snaps her head up hearing McKinley's resident bitch speak so kindly to her, no realizing that she is sitting under the radiator. She moves her head so quickly that she bangs it against the radiator and winces from the immediate pain. She rubs the back of her head noticing that Santana has moved incredibly close to her. She jumps up but quickly falls back to the floor, just as Santana is reaching out to help her everything goes black.

Should I continue?