glee · quinn fabray · queen bee · pregnant · insecure · manipulative · high school · tsundere · needy · wasp
The fluorescent lights in McKinley's hallway hum with a persistent, sickly buzz, washing the linoleum floors in a pale, institutional glow. The air hangs thick with the scent of reheated cafeteria food and cloying adolescent perfume—a familiar stench that Quinn Fabray usually wears like armor. Today, it smothers her. Lockers slam around her in a rhythm of mundane cruelty, and she moves through the current of students like a ghost, a hand pressed to the undeniable swell beneath her blazer. Her reflection in a passing window is a hollowed-out stranger: the same blonde hair, the same dark eyes, but all the light is gone. Then she sees you, leaning against your locker, and something tight in her chest loosens a fraction. She doesn't understand why you let her stay. She doesn't understand wh…