Chapter 10

"So was there a special person in your life?"

Quinn looked at him a little confused.

"Were you dating anyone?"

"Um yea, I was dating this cheerleader friend of mine."

"Girl or…"

"No, girl."

"Oh…so you're…"

"Gay…yep."

"Oh"

"You don't have a problem with that do you?" Quinn asks

"No…no of course not. My grandson's gay. Love is love to me." A pause. "So is she pretty? What's her name?"

"Okay, slow down." Quinn chuckles. "Her name is Brittany and she's absolutely beautiful. She has the kindest heart. She tends to go into her own world sometimes, but she is the smartest person I have ever known. No matter what people say."

"Uh, so how you two been together?"

"It would have been a year in a month, but…yeah." Quinn said sadly.

"Sorry…so…how did you two meet?"

"Um well we actually met the summer before our 8th grade year at cheerleading camp." Quinn began. "I was bunking with her and her friend, Santana. We all just bounded from that point on. Well Brittany and I did. Santana and I, our relationship was a little weird…" Cooper looked confused. "…we were always competing with each other, and we're always at each others throat." A pause. "I never told her this, but in a weird way, she was like a sister to me. We fought and we were always at each others throats. But when it counts, I will always have her back. And I knew that she would do the same for me." Quinn said.

"Wow"

"Yeah."

"Okay so finish telling me about the girlfriend."

Quinn laughs at Cooper's enthusiasm. "Okay…um well after the summer, she started going to a different school, so I didn't start talking to her again until freshman year. She had just transferred to McKinley. Um we bumped into each other, and just started talking." A pause. "She was having some trouble with some of her classes, so offered to help her out. We bounded again from that point on, and I kind of developed a crush on her. But I didn't ask her one date until our junior year."

"Why not?"

"Cause I was…let's just say in my good friend Santana's words, I was being to much of a wimp, and I needed to grow a pair."

"Oh"

"Yea."

"So how did that go?"

"How did what go?"

"The date."

"The uhh the date. It was uh it was…it was great…it was great…" Quinn stutters. "Well not great great, but um it was good. It was good. Well maybe not good good, but it was um…it was…god what's the word I'm thinking of…"

"Bad" Cooper helped her out with a smirk on his face.

"Worst than that, but we can go with that." Quinn grimaced.

"Wow." Cooper laughs. "What happened?"

"I don't know. I guess I was just…nervous. And…"

"And?"

"Our friends wind up tagging along. Well not at first, but…"

"But? Come stop with the stalling man." Cooper said

"Okay fine. What happened was…my plan was to take her to dinner and a movie. That was the plan. Totally cliché. Yeah, I know, but hey you gotta do what you gotta do." A pause. "So anyway, we decided to stop to get something to eat before the movie. So we went to Breadstix. Things were going good. We were talking. Getting to know each other a little better. It was great. Then our mutual friend Puck…"

"Puck? What kind of name is Puck?" Cooper asks.

"Well his name is Noah. Noah Puckeman, but we call him Puck."

"Oh…continue."

"Um yea, so he comes in with his smash of the week…"

"Ah smash of the week?"

"He's a man whore." Quinn said simply.

"Ah" Cooper nods in understanding

"Anyway, he saw us, so he decided to join us. Later our other friend, Finn and his girlfriend, Sugar, joined us too. Then came Santana with her smash…she's like a girl version of Puck." Quinn said when she saw Cooper about to ask. "And after that they decided that it would be cool it they tag along to the movies too. It was a complete disaster. Well maybe not a complete disaster, but it was close. I'm completely embarrassed that my plan was ruined, but Brittany…she was just happy she was hanging with her friends. Did I mention she was possibly the sweetest person you will ever meet?"

"Yes, you mentioned that." Cooper chuckles

"And in the end, because neither Puck and Finn had a car, they asked if I could give them a ride. God I wanted so bad to say hell no, but…damn my niceness. And Brittany's pout." Cooper chuckled at Quinn's pout. "I decided to drop Britt off first. So as I'm walking her to her house, these assholes are cheering in the back of my car. It was annoying, but I just ignore them. Then as I'm going for the kiss…we fucking bump heads."

Cooper burst out laughing.

"Dude, it's not funny." Quinn huffs.

"Yes it is." Cooper laughs.

"Whatever."

"I'm sorry." Cooper tries to stop his laughter. "Okay, I'm good now. Sorry. So what happened? Why did you guys bump heads?" Cooper said failing miserably to keep his face straight and not laughing.

"I don't know. I was nervous. And with my friends making noise in the car. It was just…nerve wrecking."

"Performance anxiety." Cooper teases

"Yes,…wait no…shut up." Quinn whines.

"I'm sorry, Quinn. Go on."

"Well that's it. That's all that happened. We bumped heads, she chuckled a little, I was so embarrassed. I said a quick goodbye then practically ran back to the car, almost tripping twice, and I never got that goodbye kiss." Quinn said

"So what happened next? I'm pretty sure there was a second date. I mean you guys are dating…were dating." Cooper asked

"Well yea, there was. A few days later our friends were planning on going to the fair. And we thought it would be cool to kind of make it a date. All we had to do was just separate from the rest of the group. The fair was a big place. It could happened. So we did."

"So was this date any better?" Cooper asks

"Nah uh." Quinn shakes her head..

"Oh boy, what happened?"

"Well, once again everything was going good. We walked around holding hands. I won her a stuffed duck, which she loved. She has this thing with ducks, it's weird but extremely adorable. I bought her dinner, and everything. Then…"

"Then?"

"Then…I was playing another game trying to win her another prize, and I was really in the zone. After I won, she jumped on me and hugged me. We were so close. She let me go, but I was kind of still in the moment, so I tried to kiss her. Just a quick kiss. The thing is I was so nervous but I really wanted to do it, so quickly before she got her prize, I turned to her to kiss her, but I didn't realize that she had her drink in front of her, so basically instead of kissing her, I winded up smashing into her and her drink, spilling red soda over both of us."

"Oh no"

"Oh yes. And what was worst is we were in front of a whole bunch of people. Humiliating."

"Wow, so what happened?"

"I helped her clean up. She thought I was sweet. At the end, I may not have ended up with a kiss but I guess a kiss on the cheek was good enough."

"Yeah. Next?"

"Oh well I may have acted like it was no big, but inside I was freaking out. After that I avoided her for almost the whole week. Then…"

"Then?"

"Santana caught me." Quinn sighs.

"What?"

"Santana caught me."

"Okay, I don't see what she has anything to do with this." Cooper said confused.

Quinn took a deep breath before explaining.

*Flashback*

It's been a whole week since the Quinn and Brittany failed date attempts, and Quinn was avoiding Brittany. She didn't know how to face her. She was so embarrassed. The two dates that she had with prettiest and sweetest girl, for a lack of a better word, sucked. She didn't know what to say to her, so she avoided her for the remainder of the week.

That however did not sit well with Brittany's best friend, Santana. Later that week, Santana confronted Quinn.

Quinn is at her locker when Santana comes up and slams her locker in her face, barely missing her hands.

"What the hell Santana?" Quinn shouts.

"What the fuck is your problem?" Santana hisses.

"My problem? Um you're the one who come up to me and slammed my locker and almost took off my fingers…"

"You're lucky if that's all I take off after what you did." Santana threatens

"What? That doesn't even make sense. And what did I do?" Quinn said irritated.

"What did you do? Seriously?"

"Uh, yea."

"God, seriously. I don't even know what she sees in you."

"Who?"

"Brittany, you ass!" Santana yells

"Brittany? What does she have to do wit…Oh." the realization dawned on Quinn.

"Yea, oh." Santana folded her arms over her chest. "So, what do you have to say for yourself? And it better be good, cause I am 5 seconds away from ripping all of the pretty little blonde hair out of your big thick head."

"I'm sorry." Quinn said ashamed.

"You're sorry? That's all you have to say for yourself? For hurting Brittany?" Santana hisses.

"I didn't know how…"

"Brittany likes you. Don't know why, but she does. And for some unknown godly reason, you make her happy." Quinn looked down in shame. "Do you have any idea how excited she was when you asked her out. She was practically jumping off the walls. Then you had to do this."

"The dates were a disaster S." Quinn said

"What?"

"They were awful. Nothing went how I planned. I wanted to make everything perfect for Brittany, but it all went to shit and I was embarrassed. I didn't know how to face her."

"Really, well Brittany thought they were the best dates she's ever been on." Santana said

"What?" Quinn looked surprised.

"I heard me blondey. She liked the dates. Actually she loved the dates. And she can't wait for the next one, blah, blah, blah."

"How do you do know?"

"Uh hello best friend here. She tells me everything."

Quinn looked down at her shoes. "How's she doing?"

"She's Brittany. She's holding up, but she's hurt." Santana answers.

"I fucked up, didn't I?"

"Yea, you did." Santana said without missing a beat.

"Gee thanks, S." Quinn said sarcastically.

"No problem. You know I'm not one to beat around the bush." Santana said. Quinn sadly looked up. "Ugh look it's not to late to fix it though. Just go talk to her. Tell her the truth. I'm sure she'll forgive you or whatever."

"Really?"

"Yeah, sure, whatever."

"Thank you so much, San." Quinn hugs Santana.

"Whoa, enough of the mushy shit. Get off of me." Santana shrugs Quinn off.

"Sorry"

"Whatever." A pause. "Look Brittany's about to get out of Cheerios practice, you can catch her there."

"Thanks S."

"Whatever just don't mess it up next time." Santana gets in her face. "And if you do anything to hurt her, I swear to you that I will kill you and sell you bones on eBay." Santana threatens.

"Uh, okay." Quinn said half scared half confused to how she was supposed to respond to that.

"Good, now…go get your girl."

Quinn sent Santana one more smile before going off to find Brittany.

*End of Flashback*

"Wow that Santana sounds scary." Cooper said

"Yea, she does, but that's how she is when it comes to people she cares about." Quinn said

"So what happened when you talked to Brittany?"

"Well…"

*Flashback*

"Hey, Brittany" a voice called her name.

Brittany looked around the hall before she saw Quinn walking up to her.

"Hey" Quinn said a little out of breath

"Hey" Brittany said

"So…how've you been?" Quinn lamely started.

"Good. Well except this girl who I really like started avoiding after two of the most amazing dates ever, and I don't even know why." Brittany said sadly.

"Britt…Brittany I'm sorry." Quinn said

"Then why did you?"

"Because…"

"Do you like not want to date me or something?" Brittany said sadly

"What? No, of course I want to date you." Quinn said

"Then why?"

"Because…because I was embarrassed."

"Of me?" Brittany looked hurt.

"What? No! Of course not."

"Then what?"

"Because…because I had everything planned. Planned perfectly, but it always ended with something bad happening."

"What bad happened?"

"Britt, our first date, our friends crashed it."

"So I thought you liked hanging with our friends.""I do, but not when I want it to just be the two of us. Together. Alone."

"Okay"

"Then our second date, I try to kiss and wind up spilling soda all over us."

"I thought it was pretty cute." Brittany smiles.

"Really?"

"Mmhmm" Brittany nods

"Well…I thought I was pretty embarrassing…"

"You're kinda cute when you're embarrassed."

"Wha…that's not the point."

"Then what is the point?"

"The point is…first dates are supposed to be perfect. Special." Quinn said

"It was special to me."

"Really?" Quinn looked surprised.

"Yea, cause I got to be with you." Brittany said

"Really?" Quinn asks again.

Brittany nods

"Oh…okay. Wow."

There was a slight silence.

"You know, Quinn if you really feel that way, you could always ask me out again. They do always say that third try's the charm. Or something like that." Brittany said

"Really? You really want to go out with me again? After everything that's happened?"

Instead of answering her, Brittany leans forward and place a soft sweet kiss on Quinn's lips. After a few seconds, Brittany broke the kiss.

"Does that answer you question?" Brittany smirks.

"Uh y-yep…yep…sure uh sure does." Quinn stutters

"See, cute." Brittany says. Quinn blushes. "Um, so I have to go. I have dance class in half an hour."

"Uh cool…cool. I guess I'll see you tomorrow." Quinn said

"Yea, ah see ya." Brittany said before slowly turning to leave. Before she got farther, she heard someone call her name.

"Hey, Britt." Quinn came jogging up to her.

"Yea" Brittany turned to her with a small smile.

"So, um I was wondering if you uh wanted to maybe go out this week. You know if you weren't like doing anything."

"Yea, sure. That would be great."

"Ah cool, cool. I guess I'll see you this week too."

"Yea, I guess you will." Brittany chuckled. They stood there awkwardly for a few minutes.

"Okay then, well I guess you should be on your way then."

"Yea, uh bye."

"Bye"

Brittany started to walk away before a hand stopped her and turned her around. Before she could say something, she was stopped by soft lips crashing into her own.

Yes, Quinn finally gets the goodbye kiss she's been waiting for and boy was it worth the wait. And when she felt Brittany kiss her back, she almost died of excitement. The two continue to kiss until air was needed.

Brittany was the one to break the kiss and leaned her forehead against Quinn's.

"What…what was that…for?" Brittany pants.

"Uh…just making up for old times." Quinn said

Brittany smiles. "Okay." Brittany said before diving in for another kiss, which Quinn happily accepted. They stood in the hall, Quinn's arms around Brittany's waist and Brittany's arms around Quinn's neck, kissing. What broke them apart as not from the lack of air, which was actually becoming an issue too, but from the sound of someone called them.

"Britt, quit making out with Q and let's go." Santana said

The two broke apart, both with goofy smiles on their faces.

"Okay, S. I'll be out there." Brittany said, not looking at the Latina.

"Whatever."

"I gotta go." Brittany told Quinn

"Yea."

"See you"

"Okay"

Brittany gave Quinn one more kiss before following behind Santana out of the school.

Quinn stood there, still with that goofy smile on her face.

"Yes!" she shouts before running or skipping out of the school.

*End of Flashback*

"Wow."

"Yea."

"So what happened?'

"You mean that day or on the date?"

"Both"

"Well I didn't see her again till the next day, but we talked on the phone. And the date, it was perfect. I took her to the movies, then we went walking on the beach where I had a little picnic set up. And I finally got my goodbye kiss." Quinn smiles.

"Wow, sounds romantic. I guess third time really is the charm." Cooper teases.

"Yea, I guess it is. And we've been together ever since, well until…you know."

"Yea, I get it."

"Yea, now I wont be able to see that beautiful smile of hers again." Quinn said sadly.

"Hu, that's young love for you." Cooper said

"What?"

"Young love. You were in love with her weren't you?"

"Oh uh yea, yea…I guess."

"You guess?"

"Yea, at least I think I was. I mean I know I care about her, but I don't know. How do you really know when you're in love anyway?" Quinn asks.

"You know that you're in love when you can't imagine a day without that person. When nothing else matters in your world without that person. That without that person you feel like nothing, but with that person you feel invincible. Like you can go against anyone or anything and still come out strong. Win or lose. That's how you know." Cooper explains.

"Wow. I um…yea, I know that feels." Quinn said.

"With Brittany?"

"Uh no, not really. I mean I like Brittany a lot and I care about her tons, but I don't know. I guess I've tried to be in love with her, but I seemed like something in me was holding back." Quinn exclaims.

"Something like what?"

"I…I don't know."

"But you have felt this way before? You have been in love?" Cooper asks

"Yea, I guess."

"With who?"

"Huh?"

"Who were you in love with?"

"I uh I don't remember."

"Bullshit."

"What?"

"I'm sorry, but are you seriously telling me that you don't remember your first love. Didn't you know that forgetting your first love is like remembering someone you've never met. You remember that guy Ted Simons?"

"Who?" Quinn looked confused.

"See what I mean." Cooper said. Quinn rolls her eyes.

"Okay, fine. I do remember, but I really don't feel like talking about it. So can we just drop it."

"Sore topic?" Cooper asked

"Yea"

"Bad break up?"

"Yea, something like that."

"What happened?"

"Coop, I know what you're doing" Quinn said annoyed

"What?"

"I know what your doing and it's not going to work. I told you I don't want to talk about it."

"Okay, fine. Sheesh."

"Thank you."

Silence came between them again.

End of chapter 10

So we just got into a little of Brittany and Quinn's past, next we'll learn a little about Quinn and Rachel's. Stay turned.

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