This is slightly AU, in the idea that Lucy Caboosey didn't actually happen and Quinn was always blonde and small.
Quinn stared ahead of herself silently, biting her lip. She'd finally broken down and gotten a job, to be able to afford her own apartment. It was easier to do it in the summer, when she could work every day and have no other obligations. She wasn't entirely sure what she'd do now, on the first day of her senior year. Quinn hardly expected anyone to even recognize her now, after she'd come into her own.
Her entire life, her parents had always wanted the picture perfect daughter. They wanted petite, blonde, head cheerleader and prom queen. It'd become abhorrently clear when she became pregnant that despite a life dedicated to making her parents happy, it meant nothing if she made one mistake. Now, she'd lost her family, the cheerios and she was tired of mooching off of glee club's families.
It was needless to say that lacking any family and any true friends, Quinn was quick to realize she had nothing to lose. She didn't exactly have the best reputation in school to worry about damaging; no family to have to please and suddenly, the blonde could be her own person. A week before school started, the ex-cheerio went shopping for clothes that actually appealed to her instead of what was just in style and even dyed her hair pink.
Sure, it had been freeing to not have to worry about what anybody thought but it didn't mean that she didn't. Taking a deep breath, she tugged at her black cut off Nirvana shirt with a tiny smile and forced herself to continue forward to the big doors of the high school. Of course it would be intimidating; being the first time she'd seen anyone from school since her big makeover. But, she was Quinn Fabray and Quinn Fabray did not back down.