Quinn's POV

I wake up to hear the screams and cries from Beth, this is yet again another night when she has woken both of us up in the middle of the night like this, at this point both Puck and I am running on no sleep and just making it harder for us to try and take care of a toddler all day and now all night. I pull myself out of bed and make my way into Beth's room where I find her already in the arms of Puck, she is still crying and Puck is bouncing her up and down trying to get her to calm down. Puck looks over at me "She woke you up too?"

"Yeah, it was kinda hard to miss the screaming" Puck holds Beth close to his chest and starts to hum to her, he is pacing around the room as she starts to calm down and I watch at how good he is with her, how good he is with our daughter. Finally Beth stops crying and calms down enough so Puck can lay her back down into the crib, we both stand in the door and wait as she falls asleep, only five minutes pass and she is out like a light giving us the opportunity to quietly sneak out of the room, we both walk into the kitchen and I go to the fridge to get a bottle of water

"I think she is as exhausted as we are" he laughs but it sounds forced, I know we are both tired ourselves but since we are up there is a very small chance either of us will be getting back to bed anytime soon.

"You would think she wouldn't even have enough energy to keep us up all night too" I sit down at the table and lay my head down, I close my eyes and am desperate enough to actually fall asleep right here at the kitchen table, my eyes open when I feel Puck's hand on my back, he is rubbing circles on my back and this scene seems oddly familiar to the first and only time we had sex, it was also when I got pregnant. "Puck I know that something like this have brought us closer together but we can't do this, not again"

"What?"

"It's not a good idea and now we have Beth to think about, I know that there are still feelings there but it's just not the time" he bursts out laughing

"You thought that I was putting the moves on you?"I blush and feel so embarrassed

"Then what the hell was that about"

"What about?"

"The rubbing my back thing"

"Quinn I was just comforting you, or trying at least"

"Oh, I feel stupid now"

"I'm sorry that I gave you the wrong impression"

"It's not like I wanted anything to happen between us"

"Quinn, I just wanted to tell you that I was thinking you have done a really good job this week with Beth, you have been getting up with her and we have been taking care of her without many issues for a whole week" he laughs and I crack a smile myself

"Thank you, you have been doing a really good job too"

"I know how worried you were about this at first but your doing such a good job, you really are her mother, you always were meant to be"

"Why couldn't I have had this back in high school? Why couldn't we have had this?"

"I was young, and dumb"

"If you were more like this before we probably could have done a decent job at raising her"

"You needed time to grow up yourself, luckily you grew out of your crazy Quinn phase" I laugh at what he says, it might be from the exhaustion but I just don't have time to argue with him about this, and I will never say this out loud but he is a little right about my crazy phase.

"Do you think we would be here if we decided to keep her"

"Yeah, except we wouldn't be in Shelby's house and we would most definitely still be in Lima" he's right, if we had kept Beth we probably would be living at my mom's house still and we both would have been Lima losers like I had predicted. I stand up and start to look around the kitchen, I wander my way into the living room and start to look around the room, everything here belonged to Shelby and the life she built with Beth, it is like a ghost she left behind and it's eerie. "This house screams the ghost of Shelby, we really should do some redecorating"

"I would have to agree" he looks over at a picture hanging on the wall of Beth and Shelby "We should really replace this with a picture of the three of us"

"That would be nice"

"Since were up do you think we should start redecorating tonight?"

"Yeah, lets see what we can do" we spend the next hour removing all pictures that have Shelby in them and anything that is hers personally, we find some boxes in the garage and start to put all her things into boxes, after about an hour and a half we have four or five boxes that are filled and now fills a small space of the living room , we are both laying on the couch and my head is laying on his shoulder "I think we did good tonight, we have a good start"

"What time is it?" I look over to the clock that sits on a table in the corner and I see that the clock reads 3:45

"It's 3:45" I yawn through my words and I can feel my eyes growing heavy and that they are starting to close

"We should go out tomorrow and get that picture I mentioned"

"Yeah that would be nice" I move my body closer to him and before my eyes close I could swear that Puck had kissed my head and whispered something, I just couldn't make what he said out before I fall asleep for the last time that night.