Quinns mood had completely shifted when they returned from the bathroom. Rachel and Quinn spoke about everything, except for what was happening afterschool and what had just happened. They decided to do some of the work that was on the board, and they kept smiling at each other, Quinn getting butterflies if her hand brushed against Rachels. But the more they looked at each other and chatted, the more paranoid she became about people figuring out that they liked each other. And then before she knew it the class was over and they grabbed their books, walking together to Quinn's locker.

"So, do you want to hang out with me, Santana and Britt?" Quinn asked as she opened her locker and put away her books.

"Uh, sure. I was going to practise the song I was going to sing for Glee club tomorrow, but your idea sounds better." Rachel said as she smiled at Quinn as they began walking to her locker. They walked a little closer than usual, and although she was anxious that people would be staring, she liked being so close to Rachel.

After rachel put her books in her locker, they made their way over to where Santana and Brittany hang out. Quinn was happy that they were going there, as it was usually deserted, only a few people walking past there every week. They sat down with them, smiling like idiots and Santana noticed.

"What are you guys so happy about?" Santana asked, excited. She squeezed Britt's hand and she looked over at them.

"Did you guys win the lottery? My uncle won it once, he had to go to hospital because the muscles in his face were spasming." Brittany said as she tilted her head, watching Quinn.

"No, we.. we didn't win the lottery." Quinn said as she laughed a little.

"We're going to be together." Rachel said proudly. Santana almost squealed.

"Are you serious? You guys are together?" Santana said, her eyes practically popping out of her head.

"Well, not yet. I'm taking Rachel to a secret location after school, because I don't want to ask her at school." Quinn said as she looked at Rachel, putting her hand in Rachels. Rachel smiled and looked back at Quinn, their eyes locking. It felt like the world stopped turning when Quinn looked into Rachels eyes. Her big brown eyes were mesmerizing, and Quinn wanted to look in them forever. She was snapped away from her perfect oblivion when Santana began talking again.

"Thats cute, Fabray. So are you going to tell everyone?"

"Uh, no. Not yet. We-"

"We want to keep our relationship quiet for a while, let it sink in ourselves before we come out, not only with our relationship, but our sexuality." Rachel finished Quinns sentence. Quinn looked down and smiled to herself about howcute she thought that was.

"Wow, finishing each others sentences, its like you're already married." Santana said with a cheesy grin.

"Shut up, Lopez." Quinn said, looking straight at Santana. Santana put her hands up in shock,

"Sooorry box fairy."

"Box fairy?" Rachel asked quizically.

"It means lesbian.." Quinn said, rolling her eyes, although a deep pink crept along her cheeks.

"Oh, then thats the perfect nickname for you." Rachel said, smiling as she nudged Quinn, making her laugh.

"Well then maybe you need a nickname!" Quinn said, smirking.

"You could be a bush hound, I heard someone say that at when I was walking past a bar last week." Brittany said, looking dreamily up at the sky. Quinn doubled over in laughter,

"Oh my gosh, you have to have that nickname!"

"Bush hound? I sound like a dog." Rachel said, even though she was smiling too.

Santana put a hand over her mouth, coughing, but trying to say "Incoming."

Quinn knew what Santana was trying to say and quickly removed her hand from Rachels, turning around to see Puck walking towards them all.

"Hey ladies. What is this, mothers club?" Puck raised an eyebrow when he saw that Rachel was sitting with them. "Wait, since when are you all friends?"

"Since a while, Noah. But uh, I was just leaving." Rachel said as she stood up, "I have to finish rehearsing for tomorrow anyway. I'll see you later, Quinn." Rachel said as she waved at Quinn and walking away. Quinn felt her heart drop. She felt so much happier when Rachel was around, even if she wasn't talking, she loved just being in her presence.

"What do you want, Puck?" Quinn said, looking straight at him now.

"I- what was that about?" Puck said as he pointed to where Rachel had just been walking.

"Nothing, okay? Just drop it."

"Okay, fine. Anyway, I was just in the careers office. They're already telling me to find an appropriate college." Quinn's stomach dropped. For a moment she'd forgotten that she was a senior and that she would need to choose where she wanted to go, if she was even going. She always had her sights set on NYU, but the open day was soon and she still didn't know if she was going. By now, her panic had made her miss out on half of the conversation, only snapping out of her own world when Santana said her name.

"Quinn?"

"Oh, uh yeah?"

"I was just saying that I know you wanted to go to NYU and I was saying I wanted to go there too for their Law program."

"You're going to be an awesome lawyer, you even got Lord Tubbington to admit he started smoking again and stole your dirty magazi-"

"Yeah, I got him to admit he started smoking. Uh-huh. Yeah." Santana said as he eyes went shifty.

"Anyway, yeah I was thinking about applying there too. They have an advanced certificate of Studio Arts and it seems good."

"Since when do you want to be an artist?" Puck asked, an eyebrow raised.

"Well if actually talked to me instead of just trying to get in my pants you might've known that." Puck looked away. "But their open day is in like 3 weeks and I don't even know how I'd get there."

"We could drive there together?" Santana asked, smiling.

"That could actually be really fun, we'd be taking your car. Its more of a road trip car."

"That's true," Santana and Quinn both laughed, Brittany was looking up at the sky.

"Yeah okay, well I'm gonna go. I'll talk to you guys later." Puck said as he got up as walked away.

There was silence for a while as Quinn looked around. There was an emptines she felt and hated it, she just wanted to get up and walk around.

"I miss Rachel." Quinn accidently blurted out. Santana had been whispering something in Brittany's ear but stopped when Quinn spoke.

"Go find her then?" Quinn looked at her watch.

"There's no time, the bell is about to go." Quinn got up anyway, "Oh well, I'll see you guys later or tomorrow." Quinn walked away from there, hearing a faint goodbye from the girls. Just as she thought, the bell went, and she dragged her feet to her locker. As she opened her locker she heard her name being called, she spun around and saw Rachel, and automatically smiling, her stomach doing triple flips.

"Hey, sorry I walked off before.." Rachel said quietly, "I hope we're still on for after school. I'll be here after the bell goes." And with that she walked away.

Quinn watched her walk away, having to remember how to breathe. She couldn't wait to ask Rachel out.

As Quinn walked into her final class of the day, she saw that they would be using laptops and was relatively excited, it meant she could go online and look up stuff. When she sat down next to Santana and opened her laptop, the class had already gotten loud and they could talk freely.

"So, excited about after school?" Santana said with a smirk.

"You already know the answer to that." Quinn said as she opened google. She looked for places she could potentially take Rachel, where no one would see them and they could act like an actual couple. She was looking for about half an hour when she finally found something.

"Hey, have you heard that there's a carnival in Fort Wayne next weekend?" Quinn said as she looked up from her laptop and at Santana.

"Uh, no. Why, will it be any good?" Santanas eyes glistened with excitement, Quinn knew how much Santana loved carnivals.

"I think so, but if you haven't heard about it maybe no one else has either. I could.." Quinn lowered her voice to a whisper, "I could take Rachel there."

Santana smiled.

"Do it, go do all that cute stuff you see in movies when they go to carnivals. I'm gonna take Britt to it, give me the website." Santana said as she leaned over and looked at the url, slowly typing it into her own laptop.

"I think I might." Quinn said as she looked back to her laptop, smiling over the possibilities.

Class had finally finished, it felt like it had dragged on forever. Quinn had given back her laptop and practically sprinted to her locker. She thought Rachel would've been there by the time she arrived but she wasn't. She was kind of disappointed, but didn't mind waiting. She grabbed her bag and homework and shut her locker, leaning against it as she waited for Rachel.

Time felt like it was dragging on forever.

And ever.

One minute.

One minute, thirty seconds.

Two minutes.

Two minutes, twenty seconds.

Two minutes, forty seconds.

Three minutes.

Quinn got her phone out to see how long she'd actually been waiting.

Three minutes, Quinn thought to herself as she leaned her head back against the locker. Did she change her mind? Crap, she probably did. Fuck. Quinn began panicking a little as time ticked by. She kept staring at the clock on her phone, four minutes.

The halls were nearly clear by now, Quinn was surprised that the halls cleared so quickly, but she didn't care about that, she cared about Rachel. She was sitting on the floor with her bag in her lap, still looking at her phone when she heard footsteps. Her head jolted right and saw her.

"Rachel," Quinn said, breathing a sigh of relief. She got up and hugged her, adrenaline already beginning to pulse through her, as she knew soon she would have to pluck the courage to ask her to be her girlfriend.

Her. Girlfriend.

"I'm so sorry I'm late, I had Mr Shue and he wanted to talk to me and I just wanted to leave but I couldn't and I want you to know I didn't mean t-"

"Its okay, Rachel. Lets get going though." Quinn said as she grabbed Rachels wrist, going through the nearest exit and out to her car. As they both jumped in, Quinn realised she was smiling like an idiot, but saw that Rachel was too, causing a hot red to creep its way to her cheeks as she started up her car and left the carpark.

"I liked your song this morning, Quinn. What was it called?"

Then Quinn remembered that Rachel had walked in on her. When she was pretending to sing to Rachel. Awkward. "I -uh. Its called Falling in love at a Coffe Shop, by Landon Pigg. Its a personal favourite of mine.." Okay so she was partially lying. It wasn't an absolute favourite, but it made sense in her mind to say that it was, maybe it would explain why her eyes were closed or why she was so into it, and she hoped Rachel would believe it.

"Oh, well I liked it." Rachel said as she smiled at Quinn. The hot red got hotter on her cheeks.

"Thanks." Quinn said as she tried to focus on the road, but it wasn't working very well, Quinn could barely keep her mind on the road.

"So, uh. Where are you taking me?" Rachel said as she looked out the window.

"A place I love to go to. Usually I go there when I need to calm down or relax. Not many people know I go there. Except I guess you will now." Quinn said as she turned a corner, the trail of houses becoming more and more scattered. She turned down another road and then suddenly, they arrived.

The lake.

There were only two other cars in the lot so Quinn was happy, she was hoping there wouldn't be many people around, if any at all. But Quinn was happy anyway.

They both got out of the car, leaving their bags and walking to the edge of the lake.

"Wow, its so nice here."

"I know, its amazing. I used to come here when I was little. Now I just come here to think."

"About what?" Rachel asked as Quinn sat at the edge of the lake.

"Life. The future. College... You." Quinn looked at Rachel as she sat down next to her. She grabbed Rachels hand and intertwined their fingers, her heart pounding, adrenaline rushing through her, making her feel almost lightheaded. This is it. Do it. Now.

"You.. You think about me?"

"Of course I do."

"Wha- uh. What about me?" Rachel said as she smiled a little, a light pink caressing her cheek as she looked out at the water.

"Just.. you. How amazing you are. How beautiful you are." Quinn gulped. "What it would be like to call you mine." Rachel looked back at Quinn, her eyes softening as she smiled a little. "And I mean, I know that these past couple of weeks have been.. odd. But they've been amazing and I love hanging out with you, Rachel."

"I lo- I love hanging out with you too." Rachel smiled as she looked at their hands. Their was a breif silence as they just sat in each others presence.

Then Quinn turned towards Rachel.

"Okay, Rachel I know that if I don't do this now I'm going to chicken out so I'm just.. I." Quinns brain was filled with thoughts, but all about the same thing. "Will you be my girlfriend?" Quinn thought her adrenaline was bad before, but now it was like she was in another world, like she was dreaming.

Rachel smiled, and looked right into Quinns eyes.

"Of course." Rachel said as she squeezed Quinns hand. "I would love that."