It's a Wednesday, almost a Thursday, when Quinn Fabray wakes up from a bad dream at 10:35pm and realizes that she's done living in this fantasy world that she's built for herself ever since she was a child.

Even in kindergarten when they'd play 'House', Quinn would fight to be Finn's wife- because he was the handsome, tall, brunette-haired popular little boy and she was the gorgeous, blonde-haired, hazel eyed popular little girl. And all of this had made perfect sense to Quinn until that Wednesday night when she awoke having what one may call an epiphany.

When Quinn thought back in time, she realized that Finn had been by her side only at the good times- When she was a popular little girl in kindergarten, Finn was her best friend. When she won the title of "Little Miss Lima, Ohio" at the age of 7, Finn was the first person she took a picture with. When she was at the top of the pyramid in cheerleading and the most popular girl at William McKinley High; Finn was her boyfriend and now that she was topping the prom queen votes, he was there by her side again- but whenever she went through tough times, Finn was the first to leave. When she grew plumper in middle school, Finn teased her, stopped answering her phone calls and asked her to never speak to him again. When she started getting acne, Finn would send her disgusted looks from across the cafeteria and would laugh at her with his other friends. When she was pregnant in her junior year, Finn left her on her own to deal with it. Granted, she had cheated on him, but if he really loved her the way he numerous times had claimed, he would have at least stood by her side a little longer and not gone off to Rachel as soon as it had happened.

So, maybe it was time Quinn left Finn's side. Yes, she needed him to get to the top of the Prom Queen voting but if she was only going to win because she had Finn at her side, then she'd rather not. It angered Quinn to think of how Finn had always gotten off easy while she had always had to pay the price. The first time she'd cheated, she landed up pregnant and the second, she came down with mono (and a serious case of heartbreak). Finn never had to deal with any of this. He had lied to Rachel about saving his first time for her and had caused Quinn to cheat on Sam, and what had happened to him? Nothing. Yes, he had also gotten mono but he hadn't gotten his heart broken, ever.

So, it's a Wednesday, going on Thursday, when Quinn Fabray wakes up and decides that she's going to have to move on from her Finn phase, fast, because he's never going to be there for her when she really needs him, and then she goes back to sleep.

Thursday Morning

There he is, parading down the halls with a smug look on his face and a hand up waving like a fool. If Quinn hadn't followed his direction, she would have thought he was waving to her, like he should be because she is his girlfriend, but instead his wave is directed to the short brunette a few lockers down from her who is excitedly waving back. Finn walks right past Quinn, up to her, smiles and leans against her neighboring locker- trying to act all cool and casual but failing terribly, and from her locker, just a few meters away, Quinn has to push herself really hard to not let out the chuckle that's threatening to explode because she really wants to hear what Finn has to say to this girl, who isn't his girlfriend, and so, she can't be seen or heard but Finn really looks ridiculous and Quinn can't even begin to imagine why Rachel actually looks like she's enjoying Finn's presence, genuinely.

"So, I hear you've been writing some original music"

"How did you... Oh, Kurt?"

"Yeah."

"I asked him not to tell anyone", and she sounds genuinely annoyed that Kurt had told him, maybe even enough to tell him to leave..." But I understand. Brotherly trust and all of that" ...or maybe she isn't.

"Sorry. Hey, do you maybe want me to listen to one of your songs someday. You know, I could be like those people on Idols and X-Factor, the ones who tell the people whether they can sing or not, not that I'll tell you that you can't sing, cause you can! I know that."

"Hahaha. You mean a critique or judge?"

"Yeah, that thing"

"Well... I'd actually love that"

"Cool, just say when and where and I'll be there."

"Hmmm... How's this afternoon? I'll meet you at-"

But Quinn doesn't get to hear where they'll meet because there's a slight tap on her shoulder which makes her jump a little and when she turns and sees Sam standing there, his eye-brows raised in confusion but his lips curved into the shape of a smile, she realizes how weird she must have looked- standing in front of her locker, the door wide open with her head leaning a little more back than necessary, so that she wouldn't miss a word. Sam just shakes his head at her, smiling, realizing what she was up to and turns to his locker, the one to the left of hers, and begins to open it, shuffling through the books inside it. Apparently some time in between Quinn's sudden eavesdropping interruption and now, Rachel and Finn had decided to walk on as when Quinn turns she find them walking down the hall, probably to Chemistry, which they have together every Thursday morning. Quinn realizes that she's going to have to speak to Finn about her revelation later on and turns to talk to Sam who seems pretty absorbed in his locker. "Hey Sam" "Morning Q" He pulls his head out of his locker for a few seconds to greet her with a smile then pushes it back in there, seemingly looking for something very important. "Whatcha looking for there?" "I seem to have lost my novel and I need to find it or Mrs. G is going to make me sit in front with her... again." Quinn giggles as Sam's head comes out of his locker again, this time his nose all crunched up as to show his disgust. Being in the same English class as him, Quinn understands his predicament. Their teacher, Mrs. Golbraith-commonly referred to as Mrs. G- has a crush on Sam and appears to have no problem with being very forward about it. Just last week Sam had forgotten his novel and as punishment had to sit at the front with her. The old lady had ended up spitting at him thrice and winking at him twice and had continuously started small, meaningless conversations with Sam when the rest of the class was doing their work, leaving Sam with lots of homework. Quinn had actually felt sorry for Sam, so she reached into her own locker and pulled out her novel handing it to him.

"Here, take mine. You can use it and I'll just sit in front. I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a crush on me!" Quinn says while giggling and she really doesn't know how, but she finds herself always feeling so at ease around Sam.

"Thank you so so sooo much Quinn. I owe you!" "It's my pleasure" Sam smiles at Quinn, again, then looks back at his locker to pack the rest of his morning stuff into his bag. "Hey Sam?" " Yeah?" "Do you think it's wrong?" "Huh?" "Do you think it's wrong? I really only did it 'cause he walked right past me and I wanted to know what was so important and-",Quinn bursts into a real long speech and even though Sam has quite a good idea of what Quinn's talking about, he can never be too sure. "Quinn, what are you talking about?" "You know, Finn and Rachel..." "Oh, naaah! I think its ok. You had reason to, I suppose. He totally ignored you and stuff." Sams not sure if he's the best person to be asked about this, being the ex and all. "I'm going to break up with him this afternoon." "Oh." "Because he's never there for me when I need him and he always choses Rachel over me" " I understand" " I know you do". Sam who has now closed his locker door and slung his bag over his shoulder, gives Quinn a smile and a quick 'See you later, Q. Thanks again' before he turns and walks away. Quinn turns back to her locker and once she's sure she has all her books she closes her locker and turns to see Sam walking and talking with Mercedes. "You always do understand Sam... You always do..."

Period 1: English

"Can everyone please take out their novels?" Mrs. G starts the lesson and Quinn sitting close to the back internally sighs. She's hoping Mrs. G won't notice that she doesn't have her novel because she really hates sitting in the front and she feels like kicking herself because really now, why did she give her novel to Sam anyway? He's with Mercedes now and she should be giving him her novel, but no, she's sitting comfortably next to Sam with her own novel in her hand, smiling at him flirtatiously and Quinn quickly has to look elsewhere because she feels she might puke if she sees them being all 'couple-y', but her eyes land on Sam who is actually looking right back at her apologetically and Quinn is about to send him back a look that says, "What did you do?" But then she hears Mrs. G's voice next to her and she realizes what his expression was all about.

"Miss Fabray, where is your novel?" With Sam.

"At home" Lie.

"Why is that?" I was trying to be a good friend.

"I forgot it this morning" Another Lie.

"Come sit in the front with me then."

And Quinn picks up all of her stuff and moves to the front where she's forced into sitting right infront of her teacher. When she walks past Sam& Mercedes, Sam looks at her and mouths 'sorry' and she just smiles back at him, even though inside she's kind of annoyed that she's given her novel to Sam when Mercedes should have and now she's here without her novel or Sam and Mercedes, she's got her novel and Sam and that's just not fair, ok?

The lesson goes on fine until they actually open their books to read. Quinn, sitting in front has to read a lot because their teacher claims to love her reading voice and isn't she in that school singing group anyways, so she should be proud to show off her voice? Quinn though knows that it's just because she's forgotten her novel and it's easier for Mrs. G to correct her if she's right in front of her and also, if Quinn reads, Mrs. G can spend her lesson staring at Sam. Have you no shame? Quinn wonders in her mind, she's finally not reading anymore and she turns in Sam's direction to see that he's actually staring right back at her. He once again mouths a quick 'sorry' and Quinn gives him a look to say 'it's fine, I'm enjoying it here in the front' All Lies. And she's pretty sure Sam realizes it's all lies when as soon as Jacob Green is finished reading a page Mrs. G hands over reading rights to Quinn again, spitting at her in the process.