Ringing. Hammering. Yelling. A siren going off with no ending in sight.
SO MUCK NOISE. It was like little men dancing on her head. Quinn turned over groaning, attempting to fall back into her dead sleep. Turning her head she hit something a lot rougher than her pillows. Cracking one eye open, she saw what she'd rolled over onto. Paper. Opening her other eye she realized, there, on top of her pillow, was her divorce papers. She sat up, pulling the papers forward to read them. Scribbled in small print halfway down them was Noah Puckerman. He signed them. Finally. The papers were signed and she could move on- with Jesseā¦
Quinn set down the papers and attempted to fall back asleep. She felt like death. She didn't even remember what had happened the previous night and why she was even at her parent's house right now.
Just as her eyes began getting heavy and her bed began to pull her in her door flung open, causing it to slam loudly against the wall. Quinn sat up quickly, looking at her intruder.
"Rise and shine, Quinnie!" Sam yelled, sitting down on her bed with her.
"Sam, it's so early and there are little men dancing in my head. Please be quiet" Quinn groaned, putting the pillow over her face.
Sam grabbed it flinging it against the wall. "No can do Quinniebear. It's 2 in the afternoon" he said, watching as Quinn's face widened in shock.
"I slept that late! What time did I get back?" she asked.
"Like 3" Same said shrugging, "We're pretty sure you drank your body weight in hard liquor last night"
Although she felt like she had, Quinn disputed, "I doubt it. I haven't drank a lot since high school."
"Well last night you did" he deadpanned, "I'm surprised Puck was even able to get you to leave the bar last night."
Quinn's jaw dropped, "What do you mean? Puck brought me home?"
Sam nodded. "You don't remember anything from last night do you?"
Quinn shook her head. "I remember seeing everyone at the bar, some awful person was singing, I ordered a few drinks and I don't remember anything else after that" She admitted.
"You were a mess Q, I've never seen you like that" he responded.
"What do you mean, what the hell happened?" she begged.
Sam let out a breath, "We were all drinking and having a good time. That horrible singer, was Puck's date, Shelby. As soon as you saw her, you threw back a good 3 shots and kept the drinks coming." Sam laughed remembering the beginning of the previous night. "You shoulda seen her Q, her eyes bugged when she saw you there. She's wanted Puck since high school and you were always in her way. She sat furthest from you than anyone else."
Quinn groaned, "So what? I drank a lot. I've had a rough time since being here."
Sam snorted back, "Please. You were jealous."
Quinn gave him her best bitch face. " No I wasn't."
"You don't remember anything, so how do you know if you were jealous or not?" Sam retorted.
Quinn just rolled her eyes, "Because I know I wouldn't be jealous of anything or anyone Puck did."
"If you say so" Sam said, still laughing, "Anyway, you drank a bit and we were all just shitting around. Then, Mike mentioned the football game we won Nationals with freshman year of college. We were all laughing when Shelby asked you if you remember the after party."
Quinn's eyes narrowed as she listened.
Sam was no longer laughing as his face was set in a caring look. "You looked her right in the eye and said, "How could I forget? That's the night Puck knocked me up" No lie it was funny to see her reaction but you looked directly at Puck when you said it. Things were a little tense after that."
Quinn was pissed. She'd always disliked Shelby and she knew the girl had wanted Puck all to herself, but that never happened. Shelby, like everyone knew Quinn had left Lima for good after something huge happened. She couldn't blame the girl for not knowing why exactly, but bringing up her past was never something she liked. Thinking back about getting pregnant, Quinn's expression became somber.
Quinn and Puck had been married 7 months when she got pregnant. It was too soon, but they were both happy. That was until two months later when Quinn miscarried. She was incredibly upset and tried to move on but everything led back to her losing a baby. So one day, when Puck left for work. She packed some stuff and left.
Quinn shook her head, erasing the memories that just emerged. "What happened then?" she asked.
Sam frowned. "Puck yelled at you for broadcasting your business and you yelled back that it didn't matter because nothing ever remains a secret in Lima anyway. You two kept yelling back and forth about things no one else really understood. Finn tried to get Puck to walk away but he kept going. He said something about you being just like his dad and leaving, so you smacked him and said that people left because he was the problem."
Quinn closed her eyes. She knew she'd never say anything like that to Puck while she was sober. She knew how his dad leaving affected him and didn't want to throw that in his face. "Oh my god" she whispered.
"You guys separated after that and ignored each other." Sam said. "Shelby, again, said something stupid to you about leaving. So you turned around and told her if she ever came near you again you'd give her a reason to need plastic surgery. She scoffed and ran to tell Puck what just happened. Apparently she didn't tell him the whole story though."
"What did she say?" Quinn gritted out.
"Just basically that you threatened to beat her up if she didn't leave Puck" Sam shrugged.
"I should have knocked her out senior year when she tried to seduce Puck the first time" Quinn muttered.
Sam laughed, "That's what you said to him last night. Then when he called you jealous, you told him you had no reason to be jealous of a town slut when you were screwing a politician."
"I didn't!" she squealed, covering her mouth.
"You did" Sam said, "Puck was pissed that you said that, we all could tell, but he let it slide."
"Is that all?" Quinn asked.
"Pretty much. After Shelby finally left, you almost hit the bartender for not giving you a drink, so Puck took your keys, threw you over his shoulder and brought you to his car. You were yelling so bad but he just threw you in the car and brought you home." Sam explained.
"He signed the papers" Quinn stated, handing him the papers.
Sam's eyes widened. "Well I'll be damned. I never thought you'd get him to sign them."
Quinn shrugged. "Maybe he realized it was time he moved on like I have"
Sam raised an eyebrow in her direction, but didn't say anything, "Anywayyyy, your fiance Jesse is looking for you."
Quinn jumped up, "What do you mean he's looking for me?"
"Puck woke up and went into town and some guy was asking about you. So Puck introduced himself and said you were at your parent's house." Sam said.
Quinn's eyes bugged out, " Puck! Puck introduced himself? Jesse knows nothing about Puck!" Quinn yelled frantically.
"Relax. I'm sure Puck didn't say anything too bad. The only reason I'm here, is so you have time to get dressed before Puck brings him here." Sam explained.
"Puck is bringing him here?" Quinn asked jumping out of bed.
Sam nodded "Yeah, he just called me to come over her and he was going to drive him the back way so you had time. So get ready."
Quinn rushed into her bathroom slamming the door so she could shower and get ready. She didn't know how things were going to turn out, but it looked like she was going to have to deal with Puck and Jesse, together, in a few minutes.
