The blonde shakes her head furiously, "But I haven't! No really. I feel so broken and messed up almost all the time. Sometimes I don't even know what to do with myself. I try so hard to get over this but it's like every time I think I'm doing alright, something happens and I'm starting all over again. I hate that you guys think that I'm strong and that I'm over it when in reality I'm faking it and I'm still really going through hell on the inside. You say you're proud of me but you're proud of a facade! Because, I'm not okay, I'm still really messed up in here!" She shakes out one of her hands from Rachel's grasp and points to her heart.
All three of the other girls wrap their arms around Quinn as Rachel says, "No you aren't. I know it hurts, God I know it hurts, but you aren't messed up. You're so unbelievably strong. You keep going even though you feel like shit on the inside, and God I cannot explain to you how much I respect and look up to you for that. You're strong for your mom and without you being so strong she wouldn't be able to be strong for you. She loves you Quinn, we love you. And you're going to be okay. I promise you, you're going to be okay. This isn't going to stop you. I mean look at you!"
With that she pulls away slightly to be able to look at Quinn's face, "Head Cheerio, top percentile of all of your classes, you're respected by the entire student body, Quinn, they all look up to you. You're still Quinn Fabray, you're still you. And it's okay that you aren't completely over it. No one thinks any less of you here. You're going to be okay though. No one's going to hurt you again if I have anything to say about it."
Santana squeezes Quinn's shoulder, "If we have anything to say about it. We're going to get you through this...together."
Brittany squeezes her other shoulder, "Because we love you and you don't ever have to go through anything completely alone."
Silent tears continue making their way down Quinn's face, "I don't know why you guys see fit to still be friends with such a blubbering mess of a person." She lets out a chocked laugh, wiping away at the tears.
Quinn's hands get trapped by Rachel's and the diva strokes the back of them with her thumbs, "We love you Quinn. That means through thick and thin, good times, bad times and all the times in between." The brunette then proceeds to wipe Quinn's tears away so gently you would think she was handling the most precious thing on Earth.
Brittany semi whispers, "Does that mean we're all married?"
That causes all the others to laugh at the unexpected question, Santana then pulls Brittany towards her and says in a conspiratorial voice, "Something like that. But married separately."
Both Rachel and Quinn bawk at her but Brittany nods, completely understanding her, "Oh yeah totally. Ray-Ray and Q are like each other's lobsters."
Santana laughs and agrees wholeheartedly. The diva and head cheerio look at each other slightly (read: completely) confused, neither of them sure what is going on.
"Lobsters?" Rachel asks.
Brittany nods enthusiastically, "You're each others lobsters..."
Before she can explain anymore Santana gives her a small smile and a subtle shake of the head, "Yeah you and Berry here are totally lobsters for each other."
Quinn raises an eyebrow, slightly uncomfortable because regardless of who you are, anything out of the Latina's mouth has a high chance of being slightly perverted and may be a dig. The only thing slightly placating Quinn is that it was Brittany who had said it first, "Okay...okay so if Rachel and I are lobsters, what does that make you?"
"Lob!..."
Santana quickly interjects, "Penguins!"
The rest all look at her slightly gaping, hardly believing that Santana had said that.
