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Chapter Sixteen:

Beth had been living at the Evans' for a month and she was surprised at how easily she'd fallen into their family routine. Whilst Quinn and Sam were at work and Larry was at school she had a lot of free time to herself, which she'd taken to filling with walks through Lima, visiting some friends when they were at home from various colleges and her doctors appointments.

Beth was going through the exact same problem Quinn had when she was pregnant during high school, she lacked money. Her college fund was slowly depleting and she was struggling to pay off her appointments. Shelby wasn't exactly an option anymore since she'd thrown her out. Beth couldn't ask the baby's father as they hadn't ended on great terms, he wanted Beth to 'take care of it' as he'd described it. Termination wasn't an option. If she couldn't give this baby the life it needed then someone somewhere out there could and would love a child, just like her mother had.

Beth didn't need this stress so late into her pregnancy. She knew she'd sort it out, she didn't know when or how, but for now she knew she had to push it to the back of her mind. She focused on the little boy growing inside of her, the little boy who'd be dependent on her for the next eighteen years. The same question kept popping into her mind "Could I handle it?" It was going to be hard.

"Quinn, did you ever think about keeping me?" Beth asked one evening as they sat watching the news. Quinn picked up the remote and turned the TV off. She'd anticipated this conversation. She let out a deep sigh and fixed her eyes on Beth's. "Honestly? Yes. Would it have been the right thing to do? No. I wanted to keep you so badly, you made me to do some major growing up, you made me really appreciate the things I'd taken for granted. You helped me forge some of the strongest friendships, but keeping you would have been too difficult.

Our situations are so different, Beth. I was younger than you for a start, I had two yeas of high school left, I had no idea what I was going to do, how I would have provided for you, and would Puck have stuck by me? That's another difference between our situations, you have family support, you have Sam and I, Puck and you will have Shelby. She'll see the error of her ways. When I was pregnant with you, I had no-one, my family disowned me, and they believed I'd committed a sin. I was lucky that Finn, Puck and Mercedes all opened up their homes to me but I could never have raised a child in their homes, that wouldn't have been fair. Sam and I just really want you to know that we are here for you. We'll support every decision you make." Quinn told her. As she told her, her eyes never left Beth's. She needed Beth to know that she meant every word. She wanted Beth to see the conviction that Quinn's words might have lost.

Quinn could see Beth searching her eyes, weighing up what to say next. "I mean that, Beth. Sam and I want to be there for you, to make up for what I missed out on giving you, for what I couldn't give you."

"Everything you've given me in the last month has been enough. By opening up your home to me, has been enough. I could never thank you enough for that. I know it must be hard on you all, especially Larry; one day he doesn't have any siblings and the next day he has an eighteen year old sister pregnant with his sort of nephew."

"Larry's always wanted a brother or sister." Quinn admitted. "Sam and I can't conceive naturally, we've had tests done and it's just not possible anymore."

"I'm sorry, here's me going on about Larry getting a nephew when the thing he wants most is a brother or a sister." Beth mumbled.

"He has a sister." Quinn replied sincerely. Beth didn't know how to reply to that. She was pleased to have been accepted into their family.

"Have you decided what you're going to do once he's born?" Quinn asked, knowing she'd made a breakthrough with the girl sitting across from her.

"I honestly don't know; that's why I asked if you ever thought about keeping me. I know you gave me up because you loved me and not because you didn't love me. I love this little guy so much but I just don't know if I can give him everything yet. The thing that's holding me back from saying 'Yes I'll put him up for adoption because it's going to be the best for him' is the fact that there's a strong chance I'll never get to see him again.

If you didn't know Shelby before she adopted me, there's a big chance we'd never have met. When I think about that it hurts me to even wonder what my life would be like if I didn't know who my biological mother is. I don't want him growing up wondering that." Beth explained. Quinn nodded fully understanding what Beth meant.

"I get that, trust me, I really do. There hasn't been a day in the past eighteen years that I haven't thought about you. I wondered who you looked like, what you got from me, what you got from your Dad, you know the usual sort of stuff. I'll never regret letting you be adopted though. I believe that everything happens for a reason, getting pregnant at sixteen might look like a mistake to some people but I gave two people a chance for happiness: you and Shelby. I wouldn't change that for one minute but I also wouldn't give the past month back for anything. Trust me when I say, that when the time comes, you'll know exactly what to do and what's going to be the best for you to do." Quinn concluded. She switched the television back on, knowing that Beth was mulling everything over. She had a lot to think about.