Dedication: There are few people that believe in me as a writer, you've become one of my greatest influences and one of my best friends, you and Nick are family to me, and nothing will change that. You've both helped me through a lot and for that I'm grateful. This is for you, happy birthday E.J. :) and thank you to Nick, my amazing beta!

A/N: I am a slightly impatient person, this story is being posted over a week early and it's still not completed, but I promise it will be and if it's not I give you all permission to beat me with a stick. And because this needs to be said: I do not own Glee or the characters used in this story, they all belong to the funny man with the yellow hat, I do however own the storyline.

"There are people in this lifetime that we should never meet cause to be here now without you, well, my life's so incomplete." – Come Undone by Vanessa Carlton

She was the only one. She always has been, and she always will be. I can't tell you when it started. I can't even tell you how it happened, but it somehow did, and all I knew was that I was the happiest I had ever been, even if we were miles apart.

Rachel Berry, yes, you heard right, 'the' Rachel Berry. She was my life, my everything, regardless of whether or not she knew it. I couldn't live without her. I didn't want to live without her. I, Quinn Fabray, was in love with Rachel Berry, and even if I wanted to stop it from happening, I couldn't. I fell in love with my best friend, my best friend who lived on the other side of the country, my best friend who was still dating Finn Hudson.

You may be wondering how I got myself into this situation, but to be honest I wouldn't be able to tell you. My friendship with Rachel just sort of happened, we were never really cordial with each other throughout high school, okay, I was never really cordial with her, after Beth was born things just started to change. I was no longer the cheerleader who ruled the school with an iron fist, I was just no longer a cheerleader, and it didn't really bother me all that much. I no longer cared about being popular or pleasing my parents. I was just happy to be who I was. I was finally getting to know myself and part of that was discovering how I truly felt.

I don't think about it often, it being the fact that I like girls. I don't really think about it at all. I never once considered my life going down this path; it was never supposed to be like this. I was supposed to be daddy's little girl, prom queen, all that 'important' stuff; instead I ended up pregnant at sixteen and kicked out of my house. Just another statistic.

Rachel never judged me though, which surprised me. After all I had done to her, she never once said one bad thing about me, and for that I was thankful. Yeah I was still a bitch to her, but just knowing that one person out there didn't see it as just my fault, one person who didn't see me as a statistic, one person who was willing to see past it all and still offer to be my friend meant more to me than I could ever express. I'll always regret rejecting her and treating her the way I did, but I was scared, I was young, and I didn't fully understand what I was going through.

It wasn't until after graduation and I found myself in California, with Rachel in New York, did I really start to understand my feelings for her. We had grown closer our senior year and while she was dating Finn I chose to remain single. Rachel became my best friend, and although I didn't have all of her, I knew that I had a part no one could ever touch. A part that even Finn didn't get to see.

Everything that I was experiencing with Rachel was completely new to me, it was a whole different world and I found myself drowning in it.