Skipped a few episodes to Bad Reputation. This chapter is quite a change in the story but I will continue with what has already been written in the next few chapters.
"Thank goodness it's friday tomorrow. I can't wait to do nothing all weekend, this little girl is tiring me out."
"Just wait until she's here then she really will be tiring us out." Puck replies. Quinn sideways glances at Puck and opens her mouth a little to say something but stops.
She knows how much Puck wants to keep the baby, and he has been amazing to her since he found out the baby was his. But, she never planned her life to be like this. Quinn always thought she would graduate high school as captain of the cheerios and go on to a good college getting out of Lima and away from all it's losers. But now she feels like a Lima loser, and keeping the baby means being stuck in this town for the foreseeable future.
She's desperate for her life to go back to how it used to be, being popular and respected by others not pushed out the way when she walks down the halls.
Puck and Quinn are the last ones to enter the choir room for their early morning practice.
"Who did it?" Mr Schue says in a demanding tone holding up a piece of paper with the title 'Glist' and half of the ND's names on it with points next to their names. "This is serious, Principal Figgins is threatening to disband the club."
"Why are we playing this game? We all know it was Puck." Santana replies.
"Back off, I didn't do squat."
"Then why's your girlfriend first on the glist?" Tina asks.
"And why am I last? Aside from the fact that I refuse to put out for you." Rachel pipes up.
"Ok enough. No one is accusing anyone of anything. Puck seriously did you do it?" Questions Mr Schue.
"I said no. I'm a delinquent sure I like setting stuff on fire and beating people up I don't know I own that. But I'm not a lier."
"Right here's the important part between this and posting coach Sylvester's personal video on YouTube, you guys are getting a pretty bad reputation."
"Why is that a bad thing? Maybe if we seem more dangerous people would stop flushing my glasses down the toilet " Asks Artie.
"Look things are hard right now. I get it, your under a lot of pressure with regionals coming up and I know winning Sectionals hasn't had the positive effect on your popularity that a lot of you thought it would. But becoming what you despise is not the answer."
"Man this song is wack." Mercedes grumbles as she looks at her song sheet Mr Schue has given her.
"No it's not, it's a terrific song on a long list of top hits that, because of time or some bad press has become a joke and like you guys it's time to start rehabilitating this bad reputation."
Mr Schue begins to perform and dance while all the other ND's join in.
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"So who do you think made the glist?" Puck asks Quinn as they walk out of the choir room.
"Urr, I don't know. Maybe Rachel."
"You think? Would she have the badassness to do that?"
"She wants to be popular right? Why not make a Glist to prove she can be a badass."
"True." Puck replies. Puck's cell goes off and he pulls it out of his pocket and begins to read the text, he is surprised to see it's from Rachel. He looks up very slightly and notices from the corner of his eye that Quinn is staring at him.
"It's from Rachel." He says quickly holding the phone in Quinn's direction so she can see he's telling the truth. She still doesn't trust him 100% since the Santana sexting thing although she is beginning to feel bad for not trusting him as he has changed his ways so much for her.
"What does she want?"
"Um, she wants me to make a video with her for this weeks assignment."
"Fine." Quinn replies in a tone that even Puck can't work out if she's mad or actually fine with it.
"Fine? Did you not want to do the assignment together?"
"I dunno. I guess I might just sit this one out... Tell Mr Schue I've been really tired and busy with school work. So your free to do the video with Rachel." She decides this is a good way to learn to trust Puck.
"Okay." Puck replies a bit unsure of how reasonable Quinn's being.
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During last lesson Puck is called into Mr Schue's office.
"I moved it. Someone put it on Rachel's locker and I moved it. I was being a good man, doing the right thing." Puck says to Mr Schue, annoyed no one is believing him that he didn't make the Glist.
"Puck at some point the lies are gonna stop and your going to start to sing."
"If I did it why would I put myself at number 3? As far as badasses go I'm number wah. I'll say it again I didn't do it!"
Puck exits Mr Schue's office and walks down the hallway. "Good luck in there, Mr Schue's really grilling us!" He says to Quinn as she walks towards the office looking nervous.
"Rachel did it. Think about it, I stole the guy she's in love with, then I stole the guy she dated to get over the guy she's in love with and I'm kinda a bitch to her."
"It just doesn't seem like Rachel."
"She's gone behind your back before, and I mean who's to say that there's only one coprolite."
"Your dismissed Quinn, go back to class." Quinn quickly gets up and leaves the office relieved that Mr Schue had believed what she was telling him.
At the end of the day Quinn is stood by Puck's locker waiting for him.
"Hey" she says with a smile and hugs him.
"Hey."
"Are you ready to go?"
"Yeah let me just grab my jacket." He opens his locker and pulls out his red football jacket "so how was Mr Schue when you spoke to him."
"Angry."
"Yeah he was angry when getting all up in my grill about it."
Quinn stays silent as they walk out of school, she knows she should tell Puck that it was actually her who had made the Glist but she just doesn't know how to. Part of her thinks Puck would say she's a badass and like the fact she made it and another part of her thinks he'd be super annoyed.
"So I'm going over to Rachel's tonight to finish off this video, is that ok?"
"Yeah that's fine."
"I shouldn't be that late do you want me to get you anything on my way back?"
"Maybe some ice cream?"
"More? Didn't you just buy one like 2 days ago?"
"Yeah... But it's the only thing that helps stop this craving for bacon." She says in self defence "I'd ask for bacon but since your mom yelled at me for eating it the other day I think I'll pass and make do with ice cream." Quinn says as she gets out of Puck's truck. "I'll see you later."
"See you in a bit."
"Have fun with Rachel." She jokes, Puck laughs and as Quinn shuts the door to his truck he drives away from his house towards the other side of town.
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The next day has arrived and Quinn is sat next to Puck in the choir room ready to see his and Rachel's project. As the video ends Puck is annoyed at how Rachel has used Finn and Jesse in the video too and sits there shocked while Quinn smirks a little to herself.
"Well why don't we just take a moment to really absorb what we've just watched." Rachel tells the class.
"This is garbage." Finn says raising his voice.
"Finn!" Mr Schue calls out.
"No he's right." Puck says "first of all I need to trust my instincts more because I had a feeling when we were shooting that, that it was not going to be good."
"Why didn't you tell me they were going to be in this too? Jesse asks "I thought you and I were going out? Being triple cast by two other guys to play opposite your girlfriend it's mortifying."
"It was an artistic statement." Rachel tries to defend herself.
"No it wasn't. It was you trying to look like you had a bunch of guys fighting over you so you could stop looking like some kind of outcast and be seen as some hot, slutty girl singer." Finn replies, he stands up and walks towards Rachel "how could you do this to me? To all us guys is your stupid reputation more important than your relationships."
Finn and Jesse leave the choir room.
"Class dismissed." Mr Schue says.
"I knew something bad would come of this." Puck says to Quinn. She can't help but giggle under her breath.
"Well, that's your lesson learned. Next time Rachel asks you to do an assignment with her you will know to pass on the offer." Quinn and Puck walk down the hallway. "My next class is down there, I'll see you at lunch." Quinn stops and Puck leans down and kisses her gently.
"See you at lunch." He smiles and continues on his way.
Quinn is trying to walk down the busy hallway without getting pushed when Mr Schue pulls her aside and asks her into an empty classroom.
"I know your behind the glist." He says calmly.
"You have no proof! I can't believe your gonna pin this on me. I'll be expelled, I mean it makes sense everything else has been taken away from me. My popularity, my body, might aswell throw in my education."
"You know when I realised that you did it? The moment I felt what it's like to walk in your shoes, it takes years to build a good reputation but only seconds to destroy it. A couple bad choices and you go from the top to the bottom. You have lost so much Quinn, which means you had the most to gain from the glist."
"I never meant to hurt anybody." She says quietly beginning to cry.
"I know" he whispers.
"I was captain of the cheerleading squad, president of the celibacy club, I had Finn. People would part like the red sea when I walked down the hallway... Now I'm invisible."
"And you think being seen as a cheap tramp is better?"
"A bad reputation is better than no reputation at all."
"Look I know high school feels like your whole lift right now, but it's going to end. Your going to give that baby to a family who really wants it, who's gonna love it and then your going to go on to do amazing things Quinn."
"You really think I can get it all back one day?"
"No. I think you can get something even better. I mean come on, your Quinn Fabray right?! I mean those people didn't part when you walked down the halls, you moved them with your attitude."
"Thanks Mr Shue your a really good teacher even if everyone is calling you a man whore."
Principal Figgins enters the classroom and Mr Schue pretends he doesn't know who made the Glist saving Quinn's education, she breaths a huge sigh of relief.
"Thank you." She whispers to him and exits the room.
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"Why are you so quiet is everything ok?" Puck wonders as Quinn has been near enough silent since they got home from school.
Quinn looks up at him from the bed where she is sitting and quietly says "I made the Glist." A tear falls down her pale looking face.
"You did it? Why?" Puck raises his voice slightly shocked.
"I just, I guess I just felt like people would think of me as Quinn Fabray again not some stupid, pregnant teenage loser." She says as more tears flow down her face. "I feel like I've lost everything, my home, my family, friends I thought by doing the Glist maybe I'd gain a bit of popularity back."
"Quinn, your something special you always have been and always will be. Since the day I met you I've been in love with you but in all honesty I prefer this Quinn Fabray. The one sat in front of me. You may have lost all of those things but you've gained a lot too." Puck sits on the bed beside Quinn and places an arm around her. "You used to be Queen Bee but you didn't care about anyone but yourself back then now you care for others so much more and that makes you special. I know you don't think of this as your home but it is, you've got me, a beautiful baby girl on the way and since you've helped Mercedes you two have become real good friends. Screw the ones you've lost clearly they aren't real friends if they haven't stuck around, the Glee club all love you... Your not a lima loser."
Quinn looks up and gives a small smile "thank you" she whispers and buries her head into his chest and he hugs and kisses the top of her head.