Chapter 1

Quinn's world had just come crashing down. Finn had flipped out during Glee practise when he found out that Puck was the father, and when he ran out no one particularly knew what to do. The room was in complete silence for a few moments, everyone sharing shocked glances. Puck rested his hand on Quinn's shoulder, and she thought he said something to her but she couldn't hear anything but her own thoughts and sobs. She briefly looked around the room, seeing everyone staring at her, noticing Rachel's watery eyes and Mr Schue's look of what seemed to be disappointment, before running out of the room, letting Puck's hand fall to his side again.

She found a quite bench along the hallway, where she always sits whenever she needs to calm down or think about things. It had been about 10 minutes, and during this time many things had crossed Quinn's mind. She thought about how hurt and alone Finn must feel, she wondered why Rachel had seemed so upset, where she would stay now seeing as her parents had kicked her out and she can assume that Finn no longer wanted her to stay with him. She had calmed down a little now and had stopped crying, although she was still deep in thought. She was blankly staring ahead, not paying too much attention to her surroundings, as she saw someone approaching her.

"I'm so sorry." Rachel's voice, of course. "I fully understand if you want to beat me up." Quinn turned her head slightly towards Rachel and looked up to her, her eyes full of guilt and hurt. "If you can, just try to avoid my nose." Rachel closed her eyes tightly, expecting Quinn to take this opportunity to hit her, as she thought she had wanted to do for so long.

"I'm not mad at you," Quinn said softly, making Rachel's eyes open to look at the emotional wreck in front of her. "All you did was what I wasn't brave enough to do. Tell the truth." To this, Quinn looked away from Rachel, feeling somewhat ashamed once again.

Rachel seemed to stay standing for a moment, felling sorry for Quinn and all that the brunette thought she had put her through. She hesitantly sat beside Quinn. "I was selfish when I told him. I wanted to break you two up so he would want to be with me." This of course was no surprise to Quinn. She found it quite hard for this to come as a surprise to anyone, in fact.

"And now neither of us have him." Quinn felt more tears coming and she didn't particularly plan on stopping them come either. "I have hurt so many people." There was a moment of silence as Quinn looked ahead and started thinking again. "Can you go now?" she suddenly spoke to Rachel, perhaps startling her a bit. Rachel gave her a quick nod. "I just really want to be alone." Quinn felt a tear rol down her cheek as Rachel stood up and walked away.

Quinn stayed sitting, shaking her head as she thought about everything she has done and everyone she has hurt over the past few months. She wiped a tear away and looked up, seeing Puck walking up to her and sitting beside her. "Hey," he said in a softer voice than usual. "So, I know you're upset now, but I want to be with you. I'm going to do everything I can to be a good dad to our baby."

Quinn still couldn't really believe how mature Puck seemed to be about her and the baby. "Thanks, but I honestly can't handle any more stress in my life right now." She looks him in the eyes while she says this, already knowing how disappointed he would be, but seeing his reaction was heartbreaking, and she wanted to say this to him as gently as she could. The emotions he felt were obvious as he looked down to the ground, only to look back up again once Quinn started talking. "I'm gonna do this on my own. I know you don't understand it, but please respect it." She stood up and walked down the hall as quickly as she could, leaving a stunned Puck sitting on the bench, resting his head against the wall.

The trip to Sectionals was quiet for Quinn. Everyone else seemed to be frantic about losing Finn before the competition, and Quinn felt guilty about this. Puck tried to talk to her, but she wasn't in the mood for talking so she just answered with short answers or a shrug, and shortly after Puck understood she didn't want to talk, so instead let Quinn use his iPod so she couldn't get distracted with any more drama while he quietly sat next to her, thinking about everything that had happened recently.

After they arrived and had found out that their competition had stolen their set list, the whole of New Directions were distressed, especially Rachel and Mercedes. Quinn was also upset about this, seeing as Coach Sylvester had kicked her off the Cheerios and now Glee Club was all she had.

Rachel had called a meeting during the second set, and everyone was faithful for that, to figure out what to do next. After everyone had accused Santana and Brittany of leaking the set list to Coach Sylvester, which in fact Brittany admitted to, everyone was desperate to create a new set list. We all agreed for Rachel to sing a ballad. "Well I guess we have our ballad. And we can close on 'Somebody To Love'. It's a real crowd pleaser," Quinn suggested. "Yeah, that and a can of soup will guarantee us third place. We still need another song we can all sing together." Puck said matter-of-factly.

Everyone took a moments silence to try to think of what to do, when almost on cue, Finn walked through the door holding up some sheet music. The whole room went silent, Quinn dropping her hand to her side and Puck getting ready to defend himself. He stood there for a few seconds. "I have one. I found the sheet music on line, I used the Cheerios copier to make copies, and then I trashed the thing." Rachel gave him a bright smile and he dropped the sheets on a coffee table, where they were given to everyone. He told the dancers to figure something out and seemed to put everyone at ease with his leadership.

Quinn looked guiltily towards Finn, and saw Puck walking up to him. "We cool dude?" He held out his hand out. Finn moved closer to Puck, intimidating him slightly with their height difference. "No," he said in firm tone, staring Puck in the eyes before turning and walking toward Rachel. Quinn looked at him, her eyes apologetic. "Finn…" Finn completely ignored Quinn, and both her and Puck decided to leave him and go to the rest of the Glee members.

The performance seemed to go great, but the club were still a little worried that their unrehearsed song and dancing would cost them first place. This feeling was quickly replaced with ecstasy as it was revealed that New Directions had placed first. On the way back to McKinley, Puck noticed that Quinn seemed slightly more at ease, and she even made slight conversation with him. The only time she returned back to her quite state was when Puck asked her where she was staying. As soon as he asked, her smile faded and she instantly looked down toward her feet. "Oh, well, um. Finn and his mum have given me until Sunday afternoon to move out. I was going to try to get my parents to let me live with them agai-"

"Hell no, you're not!" Puck interrupted. Quinn looked up at Puck, a little surprised at his interruption. "Sorry Babe, I'm not gonna let you live with them. Especially not him. A real man would never kick his daughter out, no matter what. Even I know that much." He stopped for a brief moment, giving a quick glance in Finn's direction. "Listen Quinn, I already told you, I'm going to be there for you and our kid no matter what. I told my mum about you last night, and even though she seemed pretty upset about the whole thing, she told me I have to stand up to my responsibilities. I'm going to do what it takes to get you to trust me, Quinn."

While Puck was speaking, Quinn also stole a quick glance at Finn, who seemed too distracted by Rachel that he had probably already forgotten about everything that had happened for now. Once he had finished talking, Quinn looked at him, giving him a slight, almost unnoticeable smile. "I do trust you, Puck."

"Obviously not as much as you think, if you didn't come to me when you knew you didn't have anywhere to stay. You know I'm going to be there, Quinn. You know I want to be there. Please don't go back to your parents. I want you to stay with me." The tone that Puck had used had be firm, as if to say that she doesn't have a choice, that he is going to make sure she is going to stay with him even if she says no. And she knows it, so all she does is give him a soft smile and a slight nod, and truly try to trust Puck as much as she can.