When the school year rolls around and Quinn is no longer in the choir room week after week, Rachel feels the loss immediately. Determined to preserve the friendship Quinn continually denies, Rachel embarks on a path to prove her loyalty to Quinn. But the result of her ambition may be more than either of them had ever expected.

Attempting to calm herself after finally coming out to her mom and receiving a different reaction than what she expected, Quinn finds herself fast asleep under a golden maple tree in Rachel's front yard.

Rachel suffers an accident and loses her memory. She has a dream of Quinn while in a coma and wakes up thinking Quinn is her girlfriend.