Quinn stopped walking and looked at Rachel who was standing, nervously, beside her. "You ready?" Quinn asked the brunette. They were almost at the door to the choir room where glee club was already taking place. It was three long days after Quinn had received the news of Shelby's death and this was both of the girls' first day back.
Rachel nodded not really wanting to step into that room. Everyone would be staring at her which normally Rachel would thrive in but this was different. This would be out sympathy rather than out of pure talent. Quinn saw the scared look in the girl's eyes so she grabbed her hand and gave it a light squeeze. "We'll do it together" she said and they took their first step into the room hand in hand.
As soon as the two walked into the room, everyone stared. The majority of jaws dropped open in shock; the sight of Quinn Fabray and Rachel Berry acting like such good friends wasn't something you saw every day. Santana opened her mouth to make a comment but quickly snapped it shut again, clearly too stunned to know what to say.
"Quinn! Rachel!" Will said, nearly shouting in order to cover up the awkwardness lingering in the air. "Glad to have you back" he said still with a confused look locked onto his face. He gestured them to seats and began to speak again. "We were just talking about… about… who was going to sing our opening song at Nationals. Want to offer yourselves?" Both of them shook their heads at this which was an even greater shock to everyone else.
For a while Will just talked to everyone, trying to ignore the fact that everyone in there was more interested in Quinn and Rachel than him. After a few minutes he gave up on the task of keeping their attention so he got them to work in pairs to think about lyrics for original songs. When he was explaining this Quinn leaned closer to Rachel and whispered in a delicate voice, "Can I work with you?" Rachel smiled and nodded.
A while later the girls were working on a verse of a song when Sam interrupted them. "I need to speak to Quinn" he said in a blunt manner. The blonde smoothed down her skirt and stood herself up, a little confused about the mood Sam seemed to be in. Quinn began to walk with him when she stopped in her tracks. She gracefully turned her body around so that she was facing Rachel and, in a quiet(ish) tone so that the whole room wouldn't hear, said, "Are you going to be alright or… do you need me to stay?" Rachel shook her head and waved her arm in the direction of Sam; an indicator that Quinn could leave.
Quinn then turned back around and walked with Sam towards the door attempting to look unaffected by Sam's shunning towards her. They walked in silence until they were out the door and heading down the hallway until they were safely out of earshot of the curious glee club members. For the whole journey there was an awkward silence between that they'd never really experienced with each other before.
Finally they came to halt after what had seemed like, to Quinn, the longest walk of her life. In reality, however, they had only gone about 15 metres. Sam was the first to speak;
"I thought we were meant to be together, Quinn. Why haven't you told me anything that's been going on? We haven't talked in days and you have completely ignored all my phone calls! Y'know, I really thought you meant it all those times when you said you loved me and that you trusted me but to me it seems like you don't trust me at all. You just went running to find help from Rachel. I've been really worried Quinn but it seems you've been having a pretty good time with your knew friend in there."
For a moment Quinn just stood there and stared at her boyfriend. She definitely hadn't expected this outburst and she was feeling, to say the least, pretty furious about it. She looked at the recently cleaned floor to the left and tried to conduct something to say in her head. Quinn opened her mouth and began speaking in a harsh tone, not really knowing what was about to come out of her mouth.
"Why are you being such a jerk?"
"Same to you 'little miss perfect'. I'm fed up of me always being there for you and you just shrugging me o…" Sam shouted, using his fingers as quotations before being interrupted by a very angry looking Quinn.
Holding her hands up Quinn cut him off and said in a quieter voice, "You know what, I don't need to explain myself to you." And with that she stormed off back in the direction of glee club rehearsal.
"Quinn! Wait!" she heard from behind her. Quinn turned to see Sam running towards her. He was about to speak but Quinn got in first.
"No! Leave me alone. You have made it very clear you don't want me so don't try and pretend you care about me because you clearly didn't think about how I felt when you thought up that little speech back there" Quinn couldn't remember a time she'd been this furious with Sam, actually, she couldn't remember ever being mad at Sam.
"Quinn please. Just listen. I… I-"
"No, you listen! Do you know how hard this has been on me? And yes, I am sorry I haven't been telling what's going on but,Sam, I have had just a few other things on my mind. And I have also been trying to help Rachel who is going through a really hard time right now" She paused and let herself breath; calming herself down. "I'm going back to rehearsal now. I don't care what you do as long as it doesn't involve talking to me." Another pause. Another deep breath. "I hope you're happy now." Quinn walked into glee club and fought to keep those common tears behind barriers once more.
Quinn was still mad at Sam by the time she got home, after dropping Rachel at her house, but that didn't mean that she didn't hate the fact they were fighting. Normally at times like this, when she felt this alone, she would call Sam and they would talk for hours or he would come round. She couldn't call him this time though and this just made her feel worse.
After moping around the house for a while then eating dinner with her mother, she found herself sat on her bedroom floor not knowing what to do with herself. Quinn opened her top draw and dug around a bit. She was looking for a bar of chocolate that she knew coach Sylvester would kill her for but instead just found various pieces of scrap paper and an Avatar figure Sam had given her a while back. Despite everything, Quinn had to smile at that and after hunting for a bit longer she discovered a pile of photos.
Taking them out of the draw she saw that the first photo was one of Sam and her. It was after Regional's and Sam was holding the camera out in front of their faces. They both had huge grins on their faces and Sam had held his fingers to look like bunny ears above Quinn's head. She giggled to herself as she remembered the occasion.
As she went through the photos she saw many more of Sam and her as well as some with other glee club members. She was getting to the end of the pile when she found one of Puck and her. She smiled at this one also; Puck really was quite sweet. Just as she was turning to the last photo she wondered what it would be of. The whole pile had just been random photos, not in any particular order so it was anyone's guess as to what this one would be.
She moved the one of Puck to the back of the pile and saw it was one of her holding Beth in the hospital. She guessed Puck must have taken it because it was a bit lopsided and a bit blurry from his shaking hands but she could still make it out. As she peered closer she quickly noticed how happy she looked and that a big smile covered her weary face. In the photo Quinn was smiling down at the baby in her arms and it looked as if everything were a happy ending. However, despite what the photo portrayed, it wasn't a happy ending and this got Quinn thinking about her daughter again and about how she still did not know what had happened to her.
Gently, Quinn placed the precious photos back in the draw and shut it in a vain attempt to lock away all the thoughts she didn't want to be thinking. Again she was at loss of what to do with herself so instead of facing up to anything she swiftly changed into her pyjama's and crawled into her bed. But as she willed herself to go to sleep her restless mind kept wandering. She thought of the time when Sam had spend the night and the time she had been lying in the exact same position whispering to Sam on the phone all night. Quinn tossed and turned but eventually she sank into an anxious sleep.
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