This wasn't how this relationship was supposed to work out. This was the relationship that was supposed to work out. This was going to be her happily ever after. For Quinn this was her chance to get to a new place, one without her past following her. Yale was her second chance; it had all started out fine. Things were good, she was learning a lot. She had even found a new boyfriend. That's when it all started to go downhill.

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Glee was ending, that's why she was going back. Lima was the one place that Quinn swore she would never go back to. She had made too many mistakes here and hurt too many people. However, now the one thing that had saved her needed some saving of its own.

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Early in the morning she got up and started to cover the bruises. Her new boyfriend had done this to her, but he didn't mean to. He never means to hurt her. Quinn knew she deserved it too, she had hurt people and now this was her payback.

"Ready to do? I've got everything packed up." Cliff, her new boyfriend, asked her. He always pretended like everything was fine the day after he hit her.

"Ready as I'll ever be, are you sure you want to come?" Quinn asked knowing how hard it was to miss school.

"Of course I'm going with you. I'll always be with you." Cliff said hoping that Quinn understood that he would never ever leave her. He didn't mean to hurt her either, but sometimes she just made him so angry.

"Good, we better get going then" Quinn said trying to ignore the uneasy feeling in her stomach

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Quinn had met Cliff in a music store. She was trying to get out of the rain when she walked into the store. Cliff was standing in the classical section and something about that caught her eye. One conversation led to one date which quickly turned into many. The first time he hit her was during a fight they were having about her going to New York to help Rachel after Finn died. Since then he hit her whenever he had the chance. Quinn hoped that people from the Glee club wouldn't notice the bruises that she tried to cover.

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"Hey Quinn." Kurt, Blaine, and Rachel said to Quinn all at the same time.

"Hello guys, how are you?" Quinn said looking around trying to see where Cliff was.

"Good, we'll catch up with you later. We want to run a number that you might get to see later." Rachel said, taking the boys by the hands and dragging them to the music room.

Quinn was left there alone trying to find Cliff knowing he'd be mad if she didn't get to him soon.

"Hey lady, I haven't seen you in what seems like forever!" Mercedes said hugging Quinn who was actually happy to see her.

"I know, things have just been crazy with school, and you know, life." Quinn said laughing for the first time in a very long time.

"Alright, well next time life gets crazy know that you can call me." Mercedes said thinking that something was off with Quinn but knew that she wouldn't want to talk about it.

"We'll catch up later okay?" Quinn said trying to excuse herself so she could find Cliff as soon as she could.

"Okay, I'm going to hold you to it." Mercedes said as Quinn walked down the hall and away from her.

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"S'up Fabray?" Puck said stopping Quinn in her tracks. He always had a way of getting in her way when she didn't need him.

"Puckerman, I don't need this right now." Quinn said trying to get away from the part of her past she could never seem to shake.

"You aren't going to say something about how good I look in my uniform?" Puck said hoping to get a raise out of Quinn. He had always had a way of pushing her buttons.

"You look very handsome, although it could be a bit itchy." Quinn said giving him a smile. A smile that reached her eyes, one that only Puck managed to get out of her.

"Quinn there you are. I have been looking for you everywhere." Cliff said coming up behind her and putting a hand on her waist. This caused Quinn to jump which didn't go unnoticed by Puck.

"I've been looking for you too, I guess we've just gone in different directions." Quinn said hoping that Cliff wouldn't get into things now. The last thing she needed was for Puck to get involved or see one f=of their fights.

"That's probably it, so who is this?" Cliff asked giving Puck the once over, Cliff was the jealous type. So when he saw the way Puck and Quinn were looking at each other he tightened his grip on her.

"Noah Puckerman, you can call me Puck, everybody else does. I'm Quinn's…"Puck told him holding out a hand but Cliff didn't give him the time of day.

"He's friend, an old friend." Quinn said praying that Puck wouldn't bring anything up. Cliff knew nothing about her troubled past and she wanted it to stay that way.

"Well why don't you show me around your old school? I would love to see where you spent your time." Cliff said taking her by the wrist and walked away from Puck.

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Puck didn't like the guy, the second he laid eyes on him the dislike started. This had nothing to do with Quinn, okay maybe it had something to so with her. Either way he didn't like the guy. The way Cliff (what kind of name was that?) touched her made Puck squirm. When he dragged her off Puck noticed something, on Quinn's wrist was a black mark, thinking he was over thinking things Puck just pushed it out of his mind.

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The unholy trinity had just finished their toxic number, which could be summed up in one word-hot.

"Well ladies that was something…" Mr. Schue said to the girls seeing that everyone else was left speechless.

"Quinn, can I talk to you for a minute?" Cliff asked seeming very displeased with his girlfriend at the moment.

"Sure." Quinn said getting an uneasy feeling in her stomach when Cliff asked her to talk.

"What are you thinking? Dancing around up there looking like a slut. You know how that makes me look, stupid!" Cliff yelled at her taking his fist and connecting it with her face.

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Quinn ran to the bathroom praying that no one saw her. Her tears were burning the cut Cliff had left just under her left eye. She knew better than to let him see her cry, it only made it worse. Now that she was in the bathroom, Quinn started to take off her make up in order to fix it. Once her makeup was all off Quinn stared at the reflection in the mirror, this isn't what Quinn thought her life would be like after she left Lima for Yale. Just as she started to re-apply her makeup and dry her tears Quinn heard something. Her whole body tensed up when the heavy bathroom door opened and someone walked inside. Quinn stood there hoping that they would just leave but that wasn't the case.