For as long as Rachel Berry could remember, she'd wanted to be Pretty. She'd been playing the game, and even had her perfect face planned out. Her hair would be straighter, her eyes would have gold stars in the pupils, and Santana would never be able to call her "Man Hands" again. And the best thing of all, the very best thing, was that her nose, that awful nose that identified her would be gone. The surgeons would do God knows what to it, and then, it would be erased. Like it was never even there. Then, she'd finally be able to go across the river New Pretty Town.

She couldn't believe they'd just let Quinn go like that. No surgery, no nothing. They'd taken one look at her on her 16th birthday and just let her go on through. A natural born Pretty they'd said. No one would ever look at her that way. They looked at her and wondered why someone as Pretty as Quinn even would be in the same room as her, let alone be her best friend. But Rachel had a secret. Rachel couldn't stand Quinn. Why was Quinn the Pretty when Rachel could sing like one? Every year at the Uglyville talent show Rachel had been singing for Quinn. But did anyone know that? No. Rachel was just another faceless Ugly, with Quinn being the pretty one. Not for long though. In a month, Rachek would be Pretty. The she would be a force to be reckoned with.