Junior Year

41

The next morning, Quinn slept in. When she woke up, she got up and left her room to go to Beth's nursery.

"Good morning." Olivia smiled at Quinn in the hallway.

"Morning." Quinn echoed.

"Yesterday was really fun." Olivia stated. "I'm glad your friends came over."

Quinn nodded in agreement. "What are you up to today?"

Olivia shrugged. "I don't know. What about you?"

"I don't know." Quinn said. "I'm on my way to check on Beth."

Olivia nodded. "I wanted to ask you, how did you pick the name Beth?"

"Oh, Noah did." Quinn answered with a small smile. "We kept arguing over names and it got to the point where every name one of us suggested, the other would veto it."

Olivia nodded, encouraging Quinn to continue.

"He wanted to name her Jackie Daniels, and I was mad at him." Quinn went on. "In glee club, it was theatricality week, so the girls were doing Lady Gaga songs and the boys were doing KISS songs."

"Beth's named after the song?" Olivia asked.

Quinn nodded. "Noah sang to me and asked if we could name her Beth. We had been fighting a lot because I was stressed and nervous about having her, and he just..."

Quinn trailed off as a big grin spread across her face.

"He's good to you." Olivia noted. "That's so sweet."

"One of the things I love about Noah is how romantic he is." Quinn said. "He's not into cliques and labels as much the rest of the school."

"What about Sam?" Olivia questioned Quinn.

"I love Sam." Quinn replied. "But Sam is wrapped up in images, like how he's on the football team and how I was the head cheerleader. That stuff doesn't matter to me anymore. Or to Noah."

Olivia nodded. "Yeah, Puck seems like he cares about you a lot."

"He does. And Beth." Quinn answered. "I care about him, too, and I probably always will."

"That's sweet." Olivia smiled.

"Yeah." Quinn nodded. "What about you? Any cute guys at school? Or in glee?"

"I think Artie is cute." Olivia admitted. "He seems really nice and funny."

"He is." Quinn promised. "Artie's a good guy."

"Does he have a girlfriend?" Olivia asked.

Quinn shook her head. "He was dating Tina, but he dumped her and then she started dating Mike Chang. I think he dated Brittany, too, but they broke up."

"Oh." Olivia nodded.

"You should totally go for it." Quinn encouraged Olivia.

Olivia looked at her.

"Artie's a great guy." Quinn added. "I might go for him myself if I wasn't in love with Noah."

Olivia froze and looked at Quinn.

"Sam." Quinn corrected herself as her cheeks turned red with embarrassment. "We were talking about Noah so much, I just... I meant Sam."

"Yeah, totally." Olivia nodded.

"I should go check on Beth." Quinn decided as she excused herself and walked away.