"Aaaand this is McKinley" Kurt said putting one arm in front of him as if to show off the glory of a public high school hallway. It was noisy at first with all the kids rushing around to spread gossip and to get to their lockers before first period but the moment they saw a Rachel coming it was like the splitting of the sea. Everyone parted to either side of the hallway and a silence fell upon the students.

"Kurt, I'm not so sure about this" Rachel replied as she hugged her arms close to her chest. Everyone was staring at her. "Does everyone know what happened to me?" She asked.

"Its high school. I guess news traveled fast, even by McKinley standards" He said, meaning the throw it out like a joke, but one look at the brunette's face he knew she was scared. Her eyes were slowing filling with tears and her cheeks reddened. After waking up from her two day coma with no memory of anything, everything was so new to her. "Come on, let's get to Glee club. I'll show you your locker after" Kurt said while putting an arm around her shoulder and leading her to an open doored classroom. Unlike the previously noisy hallway, the choir room was almost silent besides for the whispers that stopped immediately the moment Rachel and Kurt walked in the doorway. No one said a word, not even Mr. Shuester who seemed as stunned to see Rachel there as much as the students. Finally one of the guys got up and walked towards her. "Hey Rachel, I don't know if you remember me...I was with you in the hospital, and I-" he muttered awkwardly.

"Yes, I actually do remember you. Finn, right?" She asked innocently. And he nodded but then remained silent. He still felt like the accident had been his fault, seeing as it was the date he had planned that she had been driving to, when the car had crashed. And flipped, once, twice? The police didn't specify. But they didn't need to, as the damage done to her body was easily seen as she was wheeled into the hospital on a stretcher. Bruises and scratches covered her body. It wasn't a pretty sight, but the whole Glee club had been there the moment they got the call from their after school practice for Regionals

Flashback

Finn had called Rachel from practice that he had mysteriously not shown up for and told her to meet him at a special location. Normally Rachel would never miss out on any practice no matter what it was but this was Finn, her almost husband. And if they were to be married in May then they had to start acting like it. She had to show him that she was willing to make sacrifices to be with him. So during one of their dance numbers, Rachel had excused herself to go to the bathroom, only she didn't go to the bathroom. Instead she had quickly grabbed her things and headed out to her car. Then while following the address that Finn had texted her she began to drive. It was dark and rainy that night, but it didn't bother her. She was busy imagining was sort of surprise Finn had planned for her when her phone began to ring. Rachel had only looked down for a moment to see that it was Finn calling when she realized that her eyes should be on the road at all times. But that was one moment too late. Her car had accidentally gone off into the wrong lane and she missed her turn on the highway. Before she could do anything a car slammed into her and Rachel's car was overturned and everything for her went black.

Kurt had been the one to receive a call from Finn asking where Rachel was. "Hey man, I'm freaking out" Finn said rapidly over the phone.

"Kurt, no phones by practice you know the rules" Mr. Shue said but Kurt ignored him.

"Finn slow down. Why aren't you at Glee practice and why are you freaking out?" Kurt asked calmly.

"Listen Kurt, so I was planning this whole big thing for Rachel, I was gonna take her to a fancy restaurant outside of Lima that was way out of my price range but I didn't care I wanted this to be special. So I ditched practice to get their early so I could surprise Rachel, and I texted her the address without telling her where she was going but just to meet me" Finn said. And Kurt looked around and did notice the absence of Rachel Berry. "She called me and told me she was leaving, but that was 45 mins ago, dude. She should've been here like over 20 mins ago and I haven't heard from her since" Finn stopped and took a breath.

"Finn, this is important. Did you call Rachel's dads?" He asked urgently.

"Yeah but they haven't heard from her. They thought she was at Glee practice. But they're really protective so they've gone out to look for her" Finn replied.

"Ok that's it. I'm telling Mr. Shue" Kurt said hanging up his phone and putting it in his pocket. Then he walked back towards the group who were now just taking a five minute break.

"Next we're going to go through our second song. Starting with the solo from Rachel" Mr. Shue said and everyone looked around. "Where is Rachel? Or Finn for that matter?" He asked again.

"Mr. Shue I need to tell you guys something" Kurt said and he then repeated over what Finn had just told him over the phone.

"Are you sure Berry didn't just return home to munchkin land after she finally realized how unimaginably untalented she really is?" Santana asked with a smirk.

"No Santana this is serious. Like I said her dads haven't heard from and she's been gone over an hour now and-" Kurt paused as he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket and quickly he picked it up. "It's Finn" he said aloud to the group.

"Well, lady Hummel, put it on speaker" Santana asked. So he did and then he pressed the answer button. "Hello?" He asked.

"Kurt, they found her" Finn said, and at first everyone gave a sigh of relief but Kurt put his hand up to silence them. No, this wasn't news to celebrate. Finn didn't sound happy or relieved. Instead Kurt had heard his voice break.

"Finn?"

"Just..." Finn paused and Kurt was sure he was crying now "meet us at Lima general. Please".

"Finn. What happened to Rachel?" Kurt asked Into the phone, louder this time. Everyone was listening with open ears. But before he could get an answer he heard the line cut off as Finn hung up.

"Lima general?" Blaine asked. "You don't think she...you know...crashed?".

"I think I'll go there now. Anyone who wants to come cam come. No matter how much any of you are bothered by Rachel sometimes, I doubt any of you actually wanted anything to happen to her" Mr. Shue told them all.

"We're all going, that no question" Kurt replied and they all nodded in agreement, some taking a longer time to decide them others.

"Rachel is our friend. All of our friend. is right, lets go" Quinn said speaking for everyone.

So together in a few separate cars they all headed to the hospital. Kurt ran in first straight to the front desk and demanded to know where Rachel Berry was but the woman sitting there didn't have much information more then that she was in the ICU after being in a car crash and they were all welcome to stay in the waiting room. Rachel's dads were already there, sitting on a sofa and holding hands, looking extremely worried. Finn sat on a straight backed chair near the corner obviously trying not to cry but tears slipped his cheeks anyways.

"Finn!" Kurt said running towards him together will Blaine and Santana and the rest of the students while Mr. Shuester went to go talk to Rachel's parents. "What happened?".

"They found her car. It was completely crushed, windows shattered, The whole thing completely bent out of shape. And there she was. The police say that she was thrown out of the car from the impact. She hasn't woken up, but she is alive". Finn replied.

"Well, if there's anything I can say about Berry is that she's too stubborn to die" Santana said, but there was no smile this time, no smirk.

For the next two hours they sat in the noisy hospital waiting room waiting to hear something about Rachel's condition. They didn't hear any bad news yet which was fortunate, but they didn't hear any good news either.

"This is Bull Crap!" Puck said a bit too loudly. It was already past midnight but no one wanted to leave. "Noah, that's enough" Mr. Shue said but before anyone else could start shouting the operating room door opened and a stretcher rolled out being pushed by five doctors still in their scrubs.

"Oh my, Rachel" One of Rachel's dads cried. Finn instantly got up from his chair and ran to her. He didn't want to admit it, but she looked dead. Her entire body was too pale and as he reached out to touch her skin he could feel she was too cold.

"I'm sorry" said one of the doctors "but we need to get her to a room" and then she was gone, being rolled away again and Finn felt a tear slip down his cheek

End Flashback

"I'm sorry did I say some thing wrong?" Asked Rachel. They were still standing in the choir room but Finn had gone silent as he spaced out while remembering the past month.

"Of course not, Rachel he's just..." Kurt said, leading her to the back to sit down. "I'm Santana" said a blonde in a cheerleader outfit

"I'm Brittany" said a tan brunette who held the other girl's hand. Kurt rolled his eyes as he sat down next to a boy with dark gelled back hair who wore a bow tie.

"They're lying" said Kurt. "She's Brittany" pointing to the blonde "and she's Santana" to the brunette. "And this is Blaine. Thats Artie, Sam, Quinn, Joe, Mercedes, Rory, Sugar, Puck, Tina, Mike, and of course that's Finn" he said. "Oh and that's Mr. Shue, and Brad our piano guy" Kurt finished.

"That's a lot of people to remember. But I'll manage" Rachel said, sitting up straight. She decided that she needed to be brave with all this and to not let all these people think she was just a scared little girl.

"It's great Rachel, to have you back" Mr. Shuester started. "Now as most of you know Regionals is coming up in a little less then two weeks!" Everyone cheered, besides for Rachel.

"Regionals?" She whispered to Kurt

"Show choir competition" he whispered back.

"Now Rachel, I know you just got back and things are still a bit new but I think we're all still hoping that you'll perform the solo, if you feel up to it of course" Mr. Shue said. Again all eyes were on Rachel. Some of them grinned and she heard someone say "here we go..." like they were waiting for her to do something.

"A solo? At a show choir competition. I don't think I could do such a big thing like that" she replied, and all the smiles from before turned to shocked and surprised looks.

"Wait, little miss shrunken version of Barbra Streisand doesn't want a solo? Berry how hard did you hit your head?" Santana asked.

"Whose Barbra...?" Rachel asked confused, her cheeks growing increasingly red.

"Seriously that's all you ever talk about! Wow, this is something new!" Santana replied.

Rachel got up and walked towards the door "I'm sorry, this was a mistake" she said and she ran out.

"Great job Santana!" Finn said.

"What?" She asked, obviously thinking that she did nothing wrong.

"Can't you see she's confused as it is? Then you go on and make fun of her for stuff she can't even remember!" He yelled.

"Look, it's not my fault she got upset over a few little comments!" Santana replied.

"Ok that's enough!" Mr. Shuester said loudly. "Santana, please go find Rachel and apologize. No Kurt you'll stay here" he added as Kurt had started to get up as well.

Santana nodded and then left with her hands on her hips, walking straight towards the girls restroom knowing that's where most girls went to cry. "Hey Berry!" She called while walking in. It appeared empty but she knew better, she kicked open each stall one by one making two other girls scream and run out of the bathroom until finally she got to the last stall and kicked that one open as well. She wasn't there. Great. Santana left the restroom and began walking through the rest of the school when she ended up at the auditorium. Of course she'd be in there. Amnesiac teenager or not Rachel was still Rachel. Now she just had to help her see that.

Santana pushed open the door to the auditorium and instantly saw the small figure of Rachel Berry sitting on the stage, her legs swinging off the edge like a child.

"Hey" Santana said as casually as she could manage.

"Why'd you follow me?" Rachel asked while not even looking at her.

"I came to talk to you...And to apologize" she said. A few minutes passed in silence.

"Crap". She said suddenly. Rachel raised her eyebrows at the sudden language.

"What?" Rachel asked.

"I just realized I've never actually apologized to anyone before, I don't really know how to do it".

"Well that must be why you're doing such a poor job at it".

"Hey! I'm trying!" Santana replied and suddenly they were both laughing. "No but really, I didn't mean to...talk to you like that, in Glee club. I guess I've never been good at being nice either" She admitted.

"It wasn't just you, it was everyone" Rachel replied. "Since I woke up a few weeks ago, it's like everyone's been watching me. Waiting for me to start acting like someone I don't even remember being. You saw in the choir room back there, you were all surprised when I wouldn't sing a solo as if it was my favorite thing to do. I don't even know if I like singing or if I'm good at it or..." Rachel said dropping her words.

"You're plenty good at singing, if that's what you're worried about. But who knows maybe that car crash did change you and maybe now you'll be a completely different person, but who the hell cares?!" Santana said more excitedly then she had meant to. And then there was more silence, but it wasn't as awkward as last time.

"Hey Brittany?" Rachel asked.

"Santana" she filled in.

"Right, Santana. Before the accident we're we friends?"

"Not exactly..."

"Remember that thing you told me about being different this time around?"

"Yeah"

"Could this also be different, between us? I mean, I don't remember you or anyone else since waking up but I'd like us to be friends. No matter what it was like before".

"You know what Berry" Santana said. "I'd like that. But you know... that we still have like 42 mins left of this period so if you wanted to go back" Santana offered.

"Yeah,lets go".