A/N: So I'm going to be somewhat lazy and kind of skid through the next few months to be around the months of April/May and hopefully catch up to June in the next few weeks. School is winding down so I will be writing (hopefully) a lot more frequently. Thanks for reading!

Over the next few months Artie and Quinn skirted around each other and their respective exes. What with preparing for nationals, studying for the AP season, and the general end of the year push both of them were extremely busy. Artie's family calmed down from the anniversary of the accident, his siblings went back to school, and Keith made the Varsity Football team (no surprise there). Quinn's father remained absent and her sister announced that she was having a baby. The news about the baby was not as joyful as it should have been because of what had happened the previous year, but nonetheless tears were shed and baby shower plans were made.

The two still talked but it was mostly about school and limited to about five minutes. But every time, a spark flickered brighter than the sun but was then shattered by the bell, friends, or teachers. At glee rehearsals everyone was so focused on Nationals that no one found time to talk about personal things, even Tina and Mike were focused on something other than kissing.

On the plane home from Nationals however, Artie and Quinn found themselves seated right next to each other because it seemed that everyone had found someone to sit next to except them.

"Hey," Artie said quietly as Quinn sat down than looked quickly down at his SAT prep book.

"Hey." Quinn returned, but instead of looking away she stared at him, head on until he realized that she did not intend to spend the entire plane ride in silence.

"Uh, nice weather we are having," he pointed out the window that was covered in rain. Realizing his mistake he tried to remedy himself by saying, "I mean to a fish it would be nice weather if its not acid rain."

"I don't think that many fish actually realize that its raining when they live in a lake or ocean."

"Yeah, when I was a kid I was worried where they went during those thunder breaks at the beach."

Quinn laughed and said, "I miss you Artie." When he looked surprised she said, "I mean we hung out a lot during our glee project, and that was just a lot of fun. I wish we had more excuses to hang out together."

"You need excuses to hang out with me?" Artie didn't look hurt, he just had a somewhat surprised look on his face.

"No! No, I didn't mean it like that Artie, I mean, I, well, I don't know what I mean," she finished lamely.

"Come again?"

"I wish I spent more time with you these past few months instead of being scared of my emotions and staying as far away from you as possible." She said this all very fast and had a hard time stringing two words together.

"I, uh wow, Quinn, what are you saying?" He too, like Quinn could not get the words to go out of his mouth.

"I don't know Artie, I just really want to get to know you better."

"Why are you telling me this now and not like two months ago, I'm not mad, I just want to know."

Quinn shook her head and said in a timid voice, "I was scared, I didn't want to hear no as an answer."

Artie smiled, took her hand and said, "Great minds think alike."

I feel like my dialogue tends to be short/choppy/fast, if any of you have any tips at all please tell me!

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