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I Still Believe
I was so tired! It's been a week since I was first able to take Baby Beth home. I'm still staying with Mercedes but sometimes me and Beth would crash at Finn's place. His mom and Burt were so much help as were Mr. and Mrs. Jones. It was just so tiring, Beth would be crying in the middle of the night, waking me up. I couldn't imagine having to balance school, glee, and taking care of my baby, yet. But I know I wouldn't trade any of it for anything. I will still keep my grades up in school, the glee club was heading off to California for Nationals, and I couldn't be happier with my little girl.
I headed downstairs to make Beth a bottle. Just as I finished I heard the doorbell ring. I went over to open it to find my boyfriend standing there all ready for school. We still had about an hour before school even started. It was going to be my first day back since giving birth to Beth.
"Morning, babe." He leaned down and gave me a kiss. I gave him the best smile that my tired body could manage. He noticed the baby bottle and took it out of my hand. "I'll feed her. Why don't you go take a shower and get ready for school?"
"Thank you." I gave him a quick kiss to the cheek before walking with him to my room. Finn walked over to the crib that he and Puck had put together nicely.
"Morning, baby. How's Daddy's little girl? Are you hungry?" I heard Finn whisper to her. He gently picked her up and I turned back just in time to see her give a little yawn. Finn chuckled and I couldn't help but giggle a bit because it was just so adorable. I left to take a shower while Finn fed her and eventually burped her.
When I came out of the shower I noticed Finn rocking her a little to calm her down. He and Beth looked so peaceful. He was so lucky that I had changed her diaper before he showed up. I came up from behind him and wrapped my arms around his torso. He turned around and looked back and forth between me and the baby in his arms.
"She looks like you. So beautiful and adorable and irresistible. It's hard not to smile when I see her like this so relaxed and peaceful. I can't believe she's ours." Finn smiled.
"Well you better believe it Hudson. This angel is ours and that's not going to change. You understand?" he nodded. "Good. I should go wake Mercedes up. Could you get the baby bag ready for today?"
Twenty minutes later I found myself standing in front of the William McKinley High School. Finn, Mercedes and, I had just dropped Beth off at the daycare about a five minute walk from here. We were lucky that it was so close to school which meant that we could pick her up right before glee and head home after rehearsals. Right now, I wish I could have stayed with Beth because I did not want to walk through those two doors. I turned around, deciding to not go in there and head back home. But when I turned around, I bumped into Finn's chest.
"Where do you think you're going?" He asked, eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, girl. The school is this way." Mercedes pointed out.
"I can't do this you guys. I can't go in there. I don't think I can take everything people are gonna say about me." I wrapped my arms around his back and cried into his chest.
"Come on, Q. Don't cry. You know I hate it when you cry." he lifted my chin so that I was looking into his eyes. He gently wiped the tears away with his thumb.
"You can do this, Quinn. You didn't think you could give birth, but you did. You didn't think you could be a mother in high school, but you are. And a very good one I might add. If anyone can do this, you can." Mercedes added.
"Don't worry about what people say. I'm gonna be walking with you to every class as are some of the others, so those people are gonna wanna think twice before they say something they'll regret. Besides, you have nothing to be ashamed of. You made a little mistake and that resulted in the most beautiful baby girl I've ever seen." Finn reminded me.
It never surprised me that Finn and Mercedes could always make me feel better. "Thank you. I love you, Mercedes." I say before giving the godmother of my baby a hug. "I love you, Finn." I said sincerely and embraced him again.
"I love you too, Quinn." I heard him murmur before he kissed the top of my head. He wrapped his arm around my waist and he headed for the front of the school. There, we noticed all the other glee clubbers, once again minus Rachel and Jesse.
"Hi guys. What are you all doing here?" I say quietly.
"We thought it would be a good idea if we all walked in with you on your first day back, Quinn." Kurt explained.
"And whose idea was this?" Mercedes wondered.
"Santana's." Everyone answered together. When I looked over at Santana she was slightly blushing.
I walked over and gave her a hug. "Thank you, Santana."
"Your welcome. I just thought that maybe people need to see that if they mess with one of us, they have to deal with all of us." She said and looked at her fellow members, who returned smiles.
"So, are you ready, Q?" Brittany asked me from her spot next to Mike, who gave her an encouraging smile.
"Yeah, Britt. Let's do this." The eleven of us all walked into that school together. Once inside we were greeted with confused looks and a lot of whispers.
"Well if you look who it is. The residence of Loserville." Karofsky and his buddy, Azmio showed up. "Oh and Queen Preggers is back too. How was childbirth? Give me a call whenever you're ready to make baby number two, slut."
I looked down. No matter how many times I heard that, it always hurt more every time. I turned into Finn's chest, not wanting to face these guys anymore. I felt his arms wrap around me just before I heard another remark leave the Neanderthal's lips.
"Awww...Hudson that's so sweet. You think that if you comfort her enough, she'll finally sleep with you. That might not actually be a bad idea. But you might want to tap that before I do."
"Don't talk to me, my friends, my daughter, or my girlfriend like that! You're just too damn weak to admit that I'll always have something you don't. I'll have people who love me and a daughter to love and love me back. Not to mention the fact that I can actually get a girlfriend. I'm pretty sure that I haven't seen any girls knocking down your door."
"Nice man." Puck commented before fist bumping with Finn. "Finn's right. When you grow up, you'll be single. Added to the fact that you'll turn into one of those freaky and awkward cat ladies."
"You better watch it Puckerman. Ever since you joined Homo-Explosion and knocked up Queen Chasity, you've lost your respect."
"My respect? My respect from who, you? Please, like I even need it or want it."
"You might want it. If not, I'll just make sure that you and your group of losers experience high school as a living hell."
"You and who? Azmio?" Santana rolled her eyes. "That puts two of you against all of us. You wouldn't stand a chance. So why don't you head on off to the pet store and buy the first cat of many to be your companion for life."
"Just so you know, we have the hockey team on our side."
"What does that have to do with anything? Half of us are girls and everyone knows that guys can't hit a girl." Tina spoke up. "But that won't stop any of us from hitting them."
Santana spoke up again. "And don't even try to get the cheerios in on this. If Coach Sue finds out, your lives are gonna be the ones going through hell."
"So get this through your head. You mess with one of us, you deal with all of us." Mercedes repeated Santana's words from before.
Next thing I saw was Mike, Matt, and Puck stepping in front of the whole group and staring down Karofsky and Azmio. They took up intimidating stances, arms crossed over their chests.
The hallway got quiet and everyone was waiting to see who would make the first move. Karofsky was the first to move. "Hey Preggers, pull down your shirt, none of us need to see your stretch marks."
That really pissed Santana and Brittany off. They both went up to him, blocking his way before he could escape. Santana brought her hand up and full on slapped him across the face, while Brittany kneed him in the balls. He doubled over in pain and fell to the ground. Matt and Mike then hugged their girls. By this time everyone who saw it were laughing and luckily Artie had caught the whole thing on video. This was definitely going on the school website. We all started to walk away, showing praise to both Santana and Brittany. I let go of Finn and went over to Brittany and Santana.
The first thing I noticed was that Santana's hand was red and slightly throbbing. Man that had to hurt!
"Thank you, Brittany, Santana." I hugged Britt first, then San. I grabbed her hand and took a better look. "Sorry that you hurt your hand slapping him."
"Don't worry about. It felt really good to do that. Besides I've experienced the Quinn Fabray Death Grip and let me tell you that that hurts about 10x more." I give her a playful shove for her comment and hugged her again.
Just then the bell rang. Sadly, most of us had to go our separate ways. We all promised to meet up for lunch later, though. My first class I shared with Santana, Finn, and Mike, so the four of us made our way over Mr. Regant's health class. We made jokes and my mood had brightened immensely. We all sat together and it went great. Maybe, just maybe my first day back won't be that bad.
At lunch, I called the daycare to make sure that Beth was ok since it was my first day being away from her for so long. I was worried about my baby. I was relieved when the babysitter, Katie, told me that Beth was fine and was now taking a nap. After hanging up, I joined the glee club for lunch.
One of my favorite parts of school finally rolled around, glee club. I walked in with Santana, Mercedes, Brittany, and Tina and we were talking live we've known each other for our whole lives. And to think that I probably wouldn't even give Mercedes or Tina the time of day if it wasn't for this glee club really did help me get closer to these guys. We all took a seat on the bottom row while the guys took the top row. Mr. Shue had arrived and looked a bit shocked to see me but that was soon replaced with a huge smile.
"Quinn! Glad to have you back! How are you feeling?" Mr. Shue asked.
"It's great to be back, Mr. Shue. I'm feeling fine just a bit tired. That's to be expected since I am taking care of another life now, but I wouldn't give any of it up."
"Well I'm glad that you're back and you're doing fine." Mr. Shue looks up to the rest of the class and looks a bit confused. "Where's Finn?"
"Oh Finn went to pick up our newest member, he should be back any minute now."
"I'm here. Sorry I'm late, Mr. Shue. Just had to pick up Beth." He strolled on in as if cued by my words. I walked over to Finn and Beth and took her off his hands and left him carrying the baby bag.
"New Directions, remember this little one. Our newest member to glee club, Beth Deema Jones Fabray-Hudson." I announce proudly. I looked and saw that Mr. Shue had a tear rolling down his cheek. He must still be hurt about Terri lying about being pregnant. I walked over and stood in front of him. "Mr. Shue, would you like to hold her?"
"Are you sure?" I slowly nod. He held his hands out and I carefully placed her in his hold now. "Hi Beth. You look so much like your mother." A few more tears fell down his face before he handed her back to me and wiped them away. "Thank you, Quinn." I felt bad that he wasn't gonna have the kid he had been looking forward to for months. But he's such a great guy that I knew he was gonna find someone and start a real family with them.
"No Mr. Shue, thank you. I know you really helped me and Finn through our situation. And I'm sorry that I even considered helping Terri lie to you about having a baby.
"It's ok, Quinn. I know that you just weren't able to think straight. Plus, Terri and her sister can get pretty persistent so I don't blame you one bit. Just give me a call if you ever need to talk about this."
"Will do, Mr. Shue. Again thank you."
Since it was the first day I was back, and Beth had come too, we all just relaxed. Mr. Shue had suggested it and said we would start getting ready for Nationals tomorrow. Everyone was so eager to take Beth. I sat back with Finn and enjoyed the time I had to relax with Mercedes and Puck by our sides.
It was fun. Mike and Matt were trying to teach her to dance with her arms. Artie let her ride on his lap while Tina pushed them around. Kurt was showing her pictures of some Pj's that he was thinking about getting her. Brittany and Santana showed her some pictures from the yearbook that borrowed from the library. Sadly the bell rang and we all packed up to head home.
My first day back to school was a lot more tiring than I thought it'd be. Finn just finished feeding burping her and I had just given her a bath. Now Finn was trying to rock her to sleep. I heard him humming to her but I couldn't identify the song. But eventually it worked, she had fallen asleep.
"Good job, Finn. You got her to sleep." I peck his cheek before taking her and gently placing her in the crib right by my bed. "Are you staying tonight?"
"I could if you want." I give him pleading eyes and nod my head. "Ok, I'll stay, just let me call my mom so she knows where I'm at." I let him call his mom and went back to focusing my attention on Beth.
"Mommy and Daddy love you Beth." I tell her as I covered her tiny body with Finn's old baby blanket, McGeeGee. Then I placed my little baby elephant, the one my grandma got me when I was young, right next to her. I kissed her head and stood up straight.
At the same moment I stood up, I felt a pair of arms grab me and pull me onto the bed. I yelped as I fell onto the bed next to my boyfriend.
"Finn!" I scolded him.
"What?"
"You could have woken up Beth. Plus Mercedes and her parents are here too."
"Oh, sorry. But my mom just said it was fine for me to stay here so I was just happy that I get to spend the night with you and Beth." I was happy that he was staying. I placed a small kiss on his lips.
"Ok. Thank you for staying and everything you did for me today, Finn. It really meant a lot to me."
"Anytime, Q. You know I would do anything for you and Beth. I love you."
"I love you, too." I kissed him again before climbing under my blanket. "Now I don't know about you but I'm tired and I'm going to sleep. Goodnight, Finn." I turned off the lamp right next to my bed and got comfortable.
"Goodnight, Quinn." I rested my head in the crook of his neck while his arms wrapped around me. Today went by pretty well. Now all I had to focus on was Finn and getting as much sleep as I could before Beth inevitably wakes me in the middle of the night.
Author Note: Hope you liked what I wrote. Tell me if you liked it or if there's anything specific you wanna see and I'll consider adding it to my story because right now I could use a few ideas. Thanks for reading! Please review!
