The first time that Quinn Fabray saw Rachel Berry she didn't think manhands, or treasure trail, or any of the million hideous nicknames she and Santana would later come up with. She thought only one word; angel. The lyrics to an Aerosmith song floated through her head as she watched the girl walk down the hallway towards her….
"You're my angel, come and save me tonight…"
Quinn instinctively knew that these thoughts shouldn't be existing, even at the back of her mind. Her suspicion was confirmed when Santana suddenly brushed past her, slushie in hand, and poured it down the front of Quinn's perfect angel. Santana bitingly relayed a message to the angel, "Stay away from Noah Puckerman manhands. Cuz I WILL go all Lima Heights Adjacent on your ass." The angel looked confused and also heartbroken. Quinn couldn 't look anymore, she couldn't watch that perfect face contorted in pain, couldn't stand to see her angel look as if her hopes had been shattered, so she walked away.
She walked away. She could never take that moment back. The moment when she decided that she would walk away from her perfect angel, because being popular was so much easier than following your heart. Quinn never got that Aerosmith song out of her head, and she often thought of it at night whilst she also remembered Rachel Berry's beautiful face, the face that had become a sweet torture to her. She couldn't bear the thought of living without seeing it, but she almost couldn't stand the pain of seeing her everyday. Knowing that she could never have her, that she had made her choice. That she had walked away from an angel, an angel named Rachel Berry.
With that last thought, she closed her eyes as the tears began to fall. She pushed play on the only song on her iPod. The only song she ever listened to anymore. ….
"I'm alone, yeah, I don't know if I can face the night
I'm in tears and the cryin' that I do is for you
I want your love
Let's break the walls between us
Don't make it tough
I'll put away my pride
Enough's enough
I've suffered and I've seen the light"