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There was a knock at the bedroom door, "Hey Quinn, you up yet?"

When there was no response from the other side, Mercedes let herself in. She found the blond still sleeping in the guest room.

"Hey, Q, You need to get up. You have to get going for school."

"What time is it?" Quinn asked sleepily.

"It's near 7."

Mercedes reached down and pulled back the covers, much to the chagrin of the still half asleep blonde, "I'm not going, I'm taking a sick day" she mumbled.

Mercedes sat down on the edge of the bed and put her hand on Quinn's shoulder, "Quinn, you have barricaded yourself up here ever since you got home Saturday night. What happened, girl?"

"I really don't want to talk about it. I just want to forget it, and the best way to do that is by sleeping."

There's a soft flicker of concern in Mercedes eyes as she meets Quinn's gaze, "Do you want me to stay home with you?" the diva asked in a worried tone.

"No."

"Ok, mama. If you need anything don't hesitate to text," she said, and got up off the bed, calmly picking up her bag and leaving her room to go to McKinley.

Quinn awoke later to the sound of her phone going off. She looked to see who it was and hit ignore after seeing Cam's number on the screen. Five minutes later, he calls again, and this time he leaves a message. Annoyed, Quinn promptly deleted it, not wanting to hear the boy's voice. She was making her way downstairs when her phone started ringing again. She quickly flipped it open and pressed it to her ear.

"Hey, Puck…Yeah I'm still at Mercedes' house…. No I don't want to talk about it…Yeah I wouldn't be opposed to dropping in, it will give me something to do at least. Thanks for calling. Mkay. See you soon."

She pulled up to McKinley and thought how much simpler her life would be if she was able to stay here. She had friends, she was going to be head cheerleader again, she was determined to get the star quarterback on her arm and once again be the HBIC. At Carmel, all Quinn felt was defeated, especially around Katie. It was hard to accept the fact that what she had done had affected Katie to the point where she wanted to destroy her life. It had changed Quinn, but she hadn't realized it until the talk with Mercedes the other night.

Quinn arrived at a time when she knew classes would be in so that she wouldn't have to deal with the multitudes of people in the hall.

Reaching her destination, she put all thoughts of her other school out of her mind and strolled in the classroom, "Hey Mr. Schue, do you mind if I crash Glee Club today?" the blonde asked.

The teacher smiled and got up to hug the girl, "It's nice to see you Quinn, but shouldn't you be in school yourself?"

"I got out early today and thought I'd come and see how rough it is without me."

The teacher let out a small laugh, "Glad to see you still have a sense of humor. To answer your question I have no problem with you sitting in today."

Even though the blonde had expected it, she was still happy at the answer, "Thanks Mr. S, I wanna surprise them though, so do you mind if I head over there before everyone gets out of class?"

The teacher's look went from jovial to concerned, "Well, Quinn, Rachel has a free period and she's using the room to practice. You're welcome to sit here and wait as I know the two of you don't exactly get along."

Quinn had a pensive look on his face, "I think I'll head down there anyways. Berry always loves an audience, and at least that it will be more entertaining than sitting in an empty classroom…No offense."

Again he laughed, "None taken. Well then I'll see you in class."

She finished the short walk from his Spanish class to the glee room, and just stood at the door watching as Rachel belted out the final notes of a song she didn't recognize.

"Well here goes nothing," Quinn thought, and cleared her throat, making Rachel aware of the fact that she had company. She nearly jumped out of her skin when she saw that the person standing there was none other than Quinn Fabray.

"Hello, Quinn. I was certainly not expecting to see you here today," the tiny brunette said, flashing one of her patented smiles.

"Well would you mind if I sat?" Quinn asked, gesturing towards the piano booth where she was sitting.

"Of course you can. I don't bite despite what Santana may have told people."

Quinn could only wonder what she was talking about. They sat for a moment without speaking but it only got more awkward as the minutes, which seemed like hours to Quinn, went by.

The blonde shifted slightly before speaking, "Look, Rachel. I've got something to say, and against my better judgment I'm gonna to say it. "

"Go on."

Quinn exhaled a long breath, "I have been a total Bitch you…"

Rachel interrupted her, "No more than usual, I thought you were acting well within the parameters of our non relationship and the social hierarchy that is implemented in this school and I'm sure at Carmel High."

"Rachel, I-I'm sorry. Sorry for the names, the slushies. I'm sorry for everything that I've done to hurt you. I know you don't believe me, and I've given you no reason to trust me, but I would really appreciate it if you accepted my apology."

Rachel listened to Quinn pour her heart out in her apology. She didn't want to believe her, but the look in Quinn's eyes while she was talking was one she had never seen from the blonde before. Remorse, regret even. Not to mention she had only seen this girl cry on one other occasion, and that was when she revealed the true identity of her baby's daddy.

"Did you enjoy it?" Rachel asked suddenly, "Did you enjoy being mean to me? I mean you must've because you did it constantly."

"I should've stayed in bed," Quinn stood up but before she could walk away she felt a small hand grab her wrist.

She turned around to face the brunette, "Rach, I can't do this. Talking to you...it wasn't a good idea. In fact it was a big mistake, so just let me go and we can forget about this."

Rachel knew the ice wall that the blonde used to put her feelings behind had gone back up, but she wasn't going to back down now.

"I want answers and I'm not letting you leave until I get some. You wanted to talk so let's talk. First off why?"

"Why what?" Quinn hissed.

"Why should I even accept your apology? As you know I'm a very forgiving person. It's one of the qualities I love most about myself, but there's only so much one person can take before," she was cut off by Quinn apologizing once more.

"Stop apologizing and just tell me why you did it?"

By this point, both girls were standing face to face and were within inches of each other.

"You wanna know why I did it?" Quinn yelled, unleashing the anger in her, "I bullied you because you deserved it…Is that a good enough answer for you?"

After a few seconds of silence, Quinn spoke again "I'm outta here."

She yanked her hand away from the brunette, and wanted nothing more than to get out of this room. She had thought this school would make her feel better, but right now it was making her feel worse.

"Now I know why your such a great athlete, Quinn."

Rachel's declaration stopped the blonde and caused her to return to her former position in front of the other girl sporting a now terrifying glare. Rachel was determined to not back down this time.

"Why's that, Rachel?"

"Because you're always running away from something. Whether it be the truth, or any one of the number of problems you have, you're always running."

"I don't run from my..." Rachel put a hand to her face, "It's rude to interrupt someone, Quinn. As I was saying, you run away from everything. Look at last year, for example. When Finn wasn't treating you right, you ran to Puck, and because of that you got pregnant. When you got pregnant did you bother telling Finn who the real father was? No. You ran away from that problem t
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hat problem too."

"Don't go there, Berry. I'm warning you right now, drop the subject."

"You ran away from all of your problems last year, which just made them bigger, and then when you had Beth you ran away from that too by giving her up."

Before Quinn had even thought about what she was doing, her hand made solid contact with the side of Rachel's face.

Rachel flinched, and immediately collapsed back down on the piano bench, her mouth finally shut tight as she realized she had gone too far.

"I'm sorry," Quinn said in a meek voice, staring in horror at Rachel's cheek that was quickly turning red.

"No, you have nothing to apologize for. I deserved that. Obviously I knew from prior events that was still a sticky subject for you, but due to my lack of a filter at the moment, and me obviously not heeding your earlier warning, I didn't think what I was saying all the way through, so for that I'm truly sorry, Quinn."

The blonde looked over at Rachel, who was now rubbing the slight bruise on her cheek and said softly, "I don't hate you at all, and to answer your question from earlier, I did it because I was jealous of you."

The tiny diva gave Quinn a confused look, "I was jealous that you were stronger than me. I've done so many horrible things to you in the past, and yet you're still talking to me."

Quinn tried to stop the tears from flowing again, but she knew it was a futile battle so she just let them flow. Rachel stood up and pulled her into a hug with surprisingly no resistance from Quinn.

"I know we're not friends, and I don't know if we will ever be…But if you ever need to talk, then I hope you know that I'm a great listener, and at times people say I even give good advice."

Quinn nodded, "Thanks. I needed this. All of this, including the fight."

Rachel chuckled, "Well if you ever need someone to fight with again….call Santana next time."

Quinn playfully punched Rachel's shoulder as the bell rang, signifying the beginning of the last period of the day…Glee Club

A/N Had a bad case of writer's block hence what i think is a bad ending. maybe you thought differently. Tell me what you think of the chapter by clicking on the link below and reviewing. Thanks guys