Sorry for the late update. I've been really trying to figure out how I wanted to make this chapter. I've been a little busy and couldn't sit in a quiet place and write.

Rachel's POV

It was the beginning of the school year and Rachel Berry was little more than anxious to start her first day of senior year. Even though she knew Quinn was more than okay, she wanted to see it for herself. Rachel never made a single visit to Quinn. She only heard what Finn told her on the phone casually. She always felt like she should have reached out more to Quinn even before she got into the car accident. She never wanted to hurt Quinn even with all the drama that happened with Finn. Rachel felt like she should try and make things right, but that didn't mean she had the guts to do so. The girl spent all morning picking out an outfit and decided on her favorite plaid skirt and a regular t-shirt seeing as it was too hot to wear anything else today. She got in her car and took her time driving to school. She didn't know what to expect, if she was going to even see the blonde today or if she would even be at WMHS.

Rachel parked her car in her old spot and and got ready for a long day. She slowly jumped out of her car and started walking up the steps of McKinley high school. She was so wrapped up in her thoughts walking down the hallway she didn't realize she was about to run into someone. She fell backwards and her books and sheet music fell everywhere.

While trying to pick everything up she tried apologizing, "Oh! I'm so sorry.. I wasn't watching where I was going."

The other girl helped Rachel with picking everything up, "Uhm.. It's okay. I've been horrible at watching where I've been going recently."

Rachel's head snapped up and Quinn's green eyes met her own. She noticed the blonde's eyes were softer since the last time they ran into each other in the same hallway. She wanted to hug the girl as tight as possible and never let go. Now she knew for a fact that she was in one piece but she also knew that Quinn didn't know anything about her or the drama they shared. Rachel didn't know what to do so she put her head down and grabbed the rest of her things as best she could.

"No, no.. Really. It was my fault. I'm sorry for running into you.. uhm. yeah, bye." She hurried away and tried not to die of complete embarrassment. She told herself she was going to try and make things right but she's just making it too easy for Quinn to hate her again. Rachel tried to calm herself down but when she turned around she was met with a red slushy thrown straight at her face.

Quinn's POV

Quinn got her phone and checked the time.

"six o'clock.Well, now's a good time to get ready.", she thought with annoyance.

She pushed herself out of bed and made her way to the shower. She hadn't slept all night and when she did it was just the terrors of school haunting her. Quinn didn't know what to expect. Santana told her again and again that they ruled that school last year and there was nothing to worry about, but she felt like it was going to be torture. She was repeating her senior year without Santana. That was already the worst thing that came to her mind. After washing up and choosing a simple blue sun dress she made her way over to her new car and stared at it in disgust. The last thing she wanted to do was drive but that just happened to be the first thing on her parent's list to have her get over with and learn again. She slowly started the car and made her way to school. She wasn't thinking and realized she was going down the street the car accident was. Quinn started having a panic attack near the intersection where her car got hit and had to pull over. She paced back and forth and eventually called Santana.

"Hey, what's wrong Q?"

Quinn was sobbing when she answered, "I can't do it Santana.. I can't."

"Where are you now?"

"The crash site.."

Santana took a deep breath before saying, "I'll be on my way."

Santana was there within a few minutes with Brittany in the passenger seat of the car.

The latina pulled Quinn in for a hug, "What happened?"

"I don't know.. I was driving to school and I wasn't thinking about the accident and I'm just an idiot I guess."

Quinn took a few deep breaths and ran her fingers through her hair a few times, "I'm fine. I'll try to be alright."

Santana rubbed the blonde's back and gave her a tight embrace, "There's the tough Quinn I remember. Brittany will be in school with you so you can go to her if anything happens okay?"

Quinn just nodded her head and wiped the tears she had running down her face.

"Yeah.. You're right. I'm sorry for being a mess. I can do this.", and with that they both got into their cars and drove to school.

Quinn parked her car at the back of the school so she could avoid seeing as many people as possible in the parking lot and made her way up to the steps of McKinley. She went to the office and got her locker assigned to her and started making her way down the hallway when she ran into someone and stumbled backward a little bit.

"Oh! I'm so sorry.. I wasn't watching where I was going.", the brunette was trying to grab everything on her own but Quinn knelt down and tried picking up some of the music sheets that scattered all over the floor.

She was bright red from embarrassment and eventually looked up to talk to the brunette, "Uhm.. It's okay. I've been horrible at watching where I've been going recently."

Quinn watched the girls head snap up and look at her with an surprised expression. She looked at this girls face and wondered if she knew her from somewhere. Before she could say anything else the brunette got all her things in a hurry and tried to leave as fast as possible.

"No, no.. Really. It was my fault. I'm sorry for running into you.. uhm. yeah, bye.", But right after she finished that sentence and turned around, a jock threw his red slushy in her face, laughed, and walked away.

Quinn didn't know what to do and just stayed kneeling on the floor, afraid that he would give her a slushy to the face also. The blonde was shocked to see the brunette go on like it happened all the time and hurried into the girls bathroom. She got up and followed her to try and help clean off the sticky syrup.

She entered the restroom and started to put down her bag and reached to help, making the girl jump in surprise in the process, "I'm sorry.. I just wanted to make sure you were okay and help clean this stuff off."

The brunette didn't say anything but kept looking at Quinn as if she'd seen a ghost.

Quinn kept trying to wipe off as much syrup with a paper towel as possible while talking, "Have we.. met before? I'm sorry if I don't remember. Things happened over the summer.."

The brunette looked like she was trying to find the right words to say but all that came out was, "I'm Rachel"

"Well Rachel, I hope that we run into each other again. Not literally. Uh. I feel like we've met before? Maybe not, but hopefully I'll see you later.", and with that Quinn walked out of the restroom and headed to class.

Rachel's POV

Rachel stood there in a daze and said under her breath, "I'm Rachel Berry and I missed you so much these past few months."

She put on the extra t-shirt she had in her bag and continued to class hoping the shade of red on her face would pass as a slushy stain.