Here is a story in which Brittany Susan Pierce isn't stupid, but everyone thinks she is, except for the one person who is willing to dig beneath the surface.

Brittany Susan Pierce had it all. She was a cheerleader, had a great family, and great parents. She was smart, had straight A's and never let anyone bring her down. However, all of that went to hell the summer before her freshmen year of high school.

She was at cheerleading camp, getting ready to cheer at McKinley High the next year. Brittany was ready to have the time of her life. That was until someone came into her cabin in the middle of the night and took advantage of her. She didn't know who it was or what really happened. All she knew is she felt something tear inside of her and she tried to whimper but a hand was covering her mouth and she heard a voice whisper in her ear, "Shhh….we don't want to wake up anybody now do we?" Brittany just nodded and let him finish.

After what felt like forever, whoever it was left, and she pulled her pants up and went to the bathroom. When she checked, she was bleeding, so she just sat on the toilet and cried. Then, she threw up and went back to bed. Something broke inside her that night and she was never the same again.

No one was up when she went back to bed so she just lay there until the sun came up. When someone asked her why her sheet was bloody, she claimed she started her period, and asked to go home because she felt sick to her stomach. They let her go home and she laid in bed for the rest of the summer.

Despite the summer's events, she still became a Cheerio and became best friends with Santana Lopez. However, she played dumb. Her grades plummeted and went along with whatever Santana did, which was usually what Coach Sylvester wanted them to do.

One year after her innocence was stolen, it still bothered her. However, she just told people she lost her virginity during an alien invasion. She even told her best friend, Santana that's what happened. However, Santana didn't believe her. One night during a sleepover at Brittany's house the summer before their sophomore year, Santana decided to question her.

"So…B, what happened during cheerleading camp last summer?"

"W-what are you talking about?"

"B…what happened?"

"I…I…I…" Brittany couldn't even get past that first letter before she started crying.

Santana immediately hugged her, rubbed her back, and said, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. Here, we don't have to talk about it. Why don't we just lay down okay?"

"O-okay…" Brittany responded and they lay there peacefully for the rest of the night.

The rest of the summer went by somewhat peacefully. They didn't have to go to cheer camp that year since they were going to be sophomores and Brittany thanked whatever deity there was for that.

Once the school year started, they were on the Cheerios again with the ever powerful Quinn Fabray as the head cheerleader. Her and Santana usually did whatever she told them to do. Brittany never argued, she just stood there and did whatever it was she was told. No one other than Santana recognized her. She was practically invisible. That was okay though because that was exactly how she wanted herself to be.

During the first semester, Coach Sylvester asked them to join Glee to spy on them. So that's what Brittany did. She didn't want to spy for her coach but Santana did it, so she did it too. She wasn't her own person, she was constantly living in Santana's shadow and she was okay with that. Brittany also rarely spoke in Glee club unless it was to make some comment that just made people look at her like she was dumb. She wasn't really though. She just pretended to be.

The reason she pretended to be dumb was because she didn't see the point in being smart ever since her innocence had been taken away from her. No one ever bothered to get to know if she really was dumb or not other than Santana and even she didn't know the deepest darkest secrets that lay in the back of Brittany's mind. Brittany wanted to keep it that way. No one knew what happened to her and she didn't want anyone to know. That's why she never let anyone in,, because then she would have to open up her heart to all the shame she felt. No one ever messed with her. She didn't go out with anybody and she didn't want to. No one ever understood how much she was hurting, except for maybe Santana, and she wanted to keep it that way.

She was like this until one day she heard someone come up to her and whispered, "I hope you've kept our secret."

So she ran to the bathroom and threw up in a stall. This caused most of its occupants to leave. After a few minutes, Santana came in, walked up to Brittany and asked, "Are you okay?"

After a few minutes of looking into the mirror, Brittany answered truthfully, "No…"