notes; First time writing for the Glee fandom. And it's also my first time writing anything in 8 months. This is also my first time publishing anything on this site in years. It's a little rocky.

Chapter One. ; Rachel

Quinn hadn't really thought about the end of high school that much, even though graduation was really just a little over two months away. It was hard to remember that all she'd gotten used to and comfortable with was slowly ticking away. What with senior prom coming up, everything that was going on in Glee club and having just sent off all her college applications a couple of months ago. Life had been busy, too busy to remember that school was nearly over even though all the signs were pointing toward it.

But here as she was sitting in the choir room with Rachel, sorting out sheets of music that the Glee club was choosing between for possible Nationals contenders, she was suddenly pulled out of her 'high school is never going to end' bubble. (Just how exactly she'd gotten the horrendous job of having to stay after Glee club to look through music with Berry, she didn't know but she figured that her being there was a good thing otherwise there was a 95% chance that the Nationals selection would be all Broadway.)

As usual, Quinn was trying to ignore everything that was coming out of Rachel's mouth since most of the time it was just a bunch of crap that she didn't care about.

"It would be a wonderful testament to my-" As usual a bunch of crap that she didn't care about. But for the first time all day that she'd been around Rachel, there was actually something to come out of her mouth that sort of peaked Quinn's interests.

"I'm going to breakup with Finn after graduation."

Wait. What? Immediately raising her head up in the direction that Rachel was sitting at near the piano, Quinn gave her a bewildered look. She couldn't have possibly have heard that coming out of Berry's mouth. The girl absolutely worshipped the ground that Finn walked on, especially ever since their little kiss back at Nationals last year. (The one that screwed them over? Oh yeah, there was no way that anyone in the club would let them forget that one.)

"Did you just say something?"

Rachel had that look on her face, the one that made her look like someone had just run over her dog or something. She was silent a few seconds as though in shock that Quinn was actually responding to her before she repeated herself. "I'm going to break up with Finn after graduation." She looked around the choir room as though to make sure that no one was listening in on the conversation before she continued. "Finn's acceptance letter to OSU came in last week." Rachel looked down and started picking at one of the sheets of music she had in her hand. "And I-I don't know. It got me thinking, I do love Finn but I always knew that it would be over after we graduated."

She let out a slight laugh that was a mix between sad and almost angry. "I mean we both know it's not going to work outside of this school. What with me moving to New York as soon as possible and Finn doing whatever he's going to do."

Looking at how pathetic Rachel seemed at the moment, Quinn felt almost bad for her. She didn't actually think that Finn and Rachel would be breaking up anytime soon especially since Rachel was as clingy as she was.

"Whose to say I'm even gonna want to be in a relationship when I get to New York anyway? With all of those gorgeous young eligible bachelors that are going to be throwing themselves at me once I land my role on Broadway."

And there was the Rachel Berry that made Quinn roll her eyes.

"But why are you telling me this?" It was a fair question. The two girls weren't exactly best friends and while they had gotten a bit friendlier since the year before considering there was no Finn drama between them, there wasn't enough bonding between them that would warrant something as private as this to be shared.

Rachel shrugged. "I didn't know who else to tell. I couldn't tell Kurt, he's all set with a dream that he and I are going to move to New York along with Finn and Blaine. And we'll all live happily ever after."

Quinn highly doubted that, she could think of a million other people that Rachel could be telling this to then her. Their weird sometimes functional/dysfunctional kind of friendship just didn't work like that.

"I just kind of figured that since you've done the whole breakup thing with Finn before that you would sort of understand.

She supposed it made sense. She was the only other girl at McKinley, besides Rachel to have gone out with Finn. (Santana with her virginity robbery didn't really count.) And as far as Quinn knew the only girl he dated before her was back during freshman year, which was only for like a week.

Chewing on the inside of her lip, Quinn began to carefully choose the words that she would say to Rachel. She didn't even know what to say to her. 'Just don't breakup with him before Nationals cause that would screw up our chance at winning.' That was harsh even for Quinn Fabray.

Rachel continued to look down at the music sheets in her hand with a sad look on her face. Quinn could almost hear the girl whimpering all the way across the room. A couple of people shuffled by the open choir room door engaged in laughter. There was still no reminder that high school was going to be ending soon. But here as she looked at the girl who had basically been the bane of her entire high school existence, the former Cheerio could see the big fat red expiration date for senior year.

"I think," Quinn paused as she let everything she could say swirl around in her head. "If you really love Finn then you shouldn't break up with him."

A smile slowly began to form on Rachel's somewhat surprised face as her skin flushed a twinge of pink. Quinn smiled back with a slight nod of her head before she went back to sorting out the sheets of music that she had laid out in front of her.

(She knew it was kind of bitchy but Quinn was a little thankful that no one else was in the room to actually document that the conversation between the two girls had ever happened).