Author note: This is my first fiction. I am not a native speaker of English, but I do my best. I hope you enjoy it. Please, feel free to leave comments. Sorry if there are many mistakes.
Summary: Set during 1930's-40's. Quinn has a perfect life, but is that what she is looking for?
housewife
It was a sunny and warm day of summer. She woke up early and prepared breakfast. Everything should be perfect for him. She was expected to be the perfect housewife. She learnt everything she knew from observing her mother as a child. She would spend hours with her and her sister baking and cooking. She was taught to be a perfect housewife.
It is eight o'clock now. After cleaning up, she sat quietly at the end of the table waiting for her husband to enter the kitchen.
"Good morning, babe" he greets her with a smile. She smiles back.
"This looks fantastic!"He says enthusiastically. "Did you cook all this food for me?" The only answer she could give to that question was a nod and a gentle smile.
"I am very lucky to have you as my wife, Quinn." He kissed the top of her head and sat at the table. Quinn shivered at his touch. She was still uncomfortable acting like a married woman. She loved being single. She was independent, just a little bit more than she was now, and did not have to fulfill all the necessities of a husband. She had all the time of the world to spend reading books or listening to music. Now she has a house and a husband to take care of. She had to give up college and follow the social conventions. She started her studies of Literature and Music in September and even though her parents did not approve her choice, they at least let her sit for her exams before the wedding. She passed all of them with merit and was granted a scholarship for the next year, which she had to decline. All she wanted was to make her parents proud of her, and she knew the only way to make them proud was leaving college and accepting the Finn's proposal. They all seemed fascinated with him. Even though he was not the sharpest knife in the drawer and sometimes was a bit clumsy, he was charming and loved by the little town of Lima. He was the high school's popular quarterback and Prom King who dated the popular cheerleader and Prom Queen. Yes, Quinn was also loved by this little town but she did not enjoy being the center of attention, she did all that to please her mother.
Quinn's attention was brought back to the kitchen when she heard the noise of a fork scratching a plate. She looked at him and tried to put one of her best fake smiles.
"Quinn, darling, I have to go now. I don't want to be late." He kissed the top of her head again, grabbed his coat and left. After some years working at the high school as a football coach he got his first serious job as a salesman just before the wedding and today was his first day. Quinn did not know how he got that job. Finn did not have qualities that good salesmen had. He could only make you buy something from him when he did his puppy sad face, and you would buy something because that face was annoying, not because it was convincing.
After cleaning up she decided to go to the public library. She agreed to leave college but her parents did not say anything about not studying on her own. She was decided not to let her parents take control over her passion for learning and make her a dumb housewife whose only goal is bake perfect cupcakes.