Chapter 10

Ms. Pillsbury handed Quinn another tissue and waited for the girl to blow her nose and wipe her eyes.
"Are you ready to talk about it now?" Asked the red head as she rubbed hand sanitiser into her hands after handing the bin over to Quinn to throw away her tissues. Quinn nodded her head, grabbed another tissue and took a deep breath.
"I'm a horrible person." Is all she said
"That's not true Quinn…no one can ever be a completely horrible person…well except for maybe Hitler, and Stalin but that's not the point the point is, you are not a horrible person."
"Yes I am…I've spent the first half of my high school career tormenting people who I deemed as losers…I cheated on my boyfriend with his best friend, got pregnant, disappointed my family, my church…I lied to everybody. I couldn't even keep my own daughter…"
"But you gave her to a family who would love her and who would be able to provide for her, that doesn't make you horrible Quinn it makes you strong and incredibly brave." Assured the red head.
Quinn sat there for a moment tears forming in her eyes.
"I slept with Santana." She finally admitted.
Ms. Pillsbury was prepared for most things when it came to Quinn as she has spent the last couple of months talking with the young girl after she gave birth and gave away her daughter, but this. This she wasn't prepared for. She had many pamphlets on this sort of topic and she had been to various workshops in relation to dealing with students coming out but all that flew out the window when Quinn admitted she had slept with her friend.
"Um…o-ok that's um…I've got to say I didn't see that one coming." Is all she could muster.
Quinn laughed and turned to look at Ms. Pillsbury.
"Neither did I."
"So…is what you're saying is that you're confused? Or…that you're-"
"I'm not confused….I know what I am…I've known for a long time now…I've just never been able to say it out loud…not to anyone…not even myself." She said as she looked down in shame.
"I'm getting the feeling that this is all part of something bigger…am I right?"
Quinn nodded yes.
"It might help if you start at the beginning maybe?"
"It's a long story"
"I've got all the time you need." The red head smiled at her and waited for Quinn to begin.
Quinn took another deep breath and opened her mouth to speak.

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Mercedes took tentative steps towards the blonde Cheerio's car and grabbed her books from the roof. She looked down into the back seat and was not prepared for what she saw and thought that the sight of a heart broken Brittany was not a sight the world should ever have to witness and should be illegal. She softly knocked on the window to get the girl's attention. Brittany slowly lifted her head to see who was knocking on her window. She saw Mercedes standing there with a soft smile on her face.
"Can I come in?"
Brittany just nodded and opened the door for her fellow Glee club member. Mercedes got into the car and sat in the backseat next to Brittany. "You left your books on the car roof." Was the first thing that she could think of to say as she placed them on the front seat.
"Thanks." Brittany's voice sounded so broken.
Mercedes opened her bag and handed Brittany a tissue, as Brittany wiped her eyes Mercedes put an arm around the blonde's shoulders. Brittany leaned her head down on the girl's shoulder and sighed. Mercedes was about to say something but Brittany beat her too it.
"I know everybody thinks I'm stupid."
"That's not…I mean….not everybody."
"It's ok….I know I'm not the brightest crayon in the tool shed…I've been told this all my life by pretty much everybody."
"That's horrible."
Ignoring Mercedes Brittany continued "There has only been one person who has never called me stupid…or ever made me feel stupid."
"Santana" Mercedes finished
"Yeah…Santana" Sighed Brittany. "Until now that is…She was the only person I knew I could count on, who would never hurt me…who would never make me feel stupid…but she lied to me, she told me she loved me and told me she wouldn't sleep with anyone else but me…and now I feel so stupid because I believed her."
"You're not Stupid B…Santana is the stupid one and as much as I love my girl Quinn, she is also the stupid one here…but not you."
"I just don't understand why she did this to me"
"I'm not trying to defend them in any way…but…maybe it just happened…by the way they reacted I don't think they planed it…and I think both of them deeply regret doing it."

Santana sat on the floor with her back leaning against the wall, while Puck sits in the chair across from Mr. Shue's desk. They had been sitting there in silence for around ten minutes.
"You're an idiot" Puck finally said.
Santana lifted her head from her knees and just looked at him.
"Yes, thank you Puck I'm well aware of how much of an idiot I am."

After leaving the auditorium and not finding Rachel, Tina decided to try the girl's bathroom down the hall. She took a deep breath, squared her shoulders and pushed the door open, but what she found was not what she expected. Standing in front of the mirror by the sinks stood Rachel as she reapplied her lip gloss. She saw Tina in the reflection and turned around with her trademark smile on her face and no evidence of the fact that she had spent the last twenty minutes crying her eyes out.
"Hello Tina, I'm just on my way out" Rachel bent down to pick up her bag and pulled it over her shoulder "Have a good weekend!" The girl smiled her big bright smile and turned to leave.
A little fazed by her behaviour and appearance Tina almost forgot why she was there in the first place until she saw the pile of tissues that had been shoved into the small waste basket by the sinks. She turned to go after Rachel only to find she had already gone.
"Damn!"

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