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Finn smiled as he turned on the TV, happy to relax after a long hard day at the shop. Sure it wasn’t eight Broadway shows a week but it was hard work, there was a lot of heavy lifting and now that Burt had retired early, the math behind the books was confusing Finn.
A rerun of Ellen was playing on the TV and checking the date on the screen, Finn realized that it was only a couple of days old; not that he really cared. Ellen wasn’t really the sort of thing he was inclined to watch. He made to switch the channel when something caught his eye.
“Our next guest is a beautiful and talented actress as well as a good friend of mine, please welcome, Quinn Fabray.” The audience went wild and Finn turned his attention fully onto the TV. He knew Quinn was in movies now, he’d even seen most of them but it was still odd to turn on your TV and see your ex-girlfriend on The Ellen Show.
She walked out and she looked absolutely stunning. Her hair was still resting on her shoulders in curls, just like she’d worn it in high school yet her dress looked about ten times the price of anything she’d ever worn to walk the halls of McKinley High. “Hi!” She grinned excitedly and settled into the seat next to Ellen after greeting the other blonde.
“It’s so good to see you, how’s Rachel? How are the kids?” The talk show host smiled and Finn furrowed his eyebrows. He knew about his old friends’ successes but he wasn’t fully invested in their personal lives.
“Rachel’s fantastic, her new show just opened. I took Harmony to see it a couple of nights ago actually which was so fun. She loves watching Rachel perform, she’s such a little diva herself.” Quinn laughed and Finn frowned. Quinn and Rachel? This couldn’t be a coincidence. He quickly googled Quinn Fabray and Rachel Berry and gasped at the results. Pictures of the two of them kissing, wrapped in each other’s arms in the middle of red carpets and walking around the big city with a mini Rachel and another little boy in tow. Intrigued, he turned his attention back to the screen.
“I saw a video on Instagram of Harrison walking! I can’t believe it! It’s seems like yesterday Rachel was here sporting that pregnancy bump.” Ellen laughed and Quinn nodded, her happiness evident in her eyes.
“Yeah, he just started walking. We knew it was going to happen for a while now but those first few steps were just amazing. The big grin on his face in that video just sums it up perfectly.” Quinn smiled and an image came up on the screen behind them of the little boy grinning widely in Rachel’s arms.
“How’s Harmony coping with that?” Ellen asked and Quinn laughed, throwing her head back slightly.
“Well with Rachel as a mother, I was expecting the worst! No, she’s been alright. She’s very clingy to Rachel and I now which isn’t something we’ve really experienced with her before; not since she turned 5 anyway. I’m not complaining because obviously, I love hugging my baby girl. We try and divide the attention as much as possible though. She likes to put on little shows for us and we give her special ‘Mommies’ time whilst Harrison is napping.” The blonde beauty smiled and giggled slightly as an image came up on the screen. Harmony was dressed in a little pink tutu and was apparently, twirling around the room.
“Now, you’ve been getting some pretty horrible negativity at the moment in regards to something that got posted on the internet a few weeks ago.” Quinn heaved a deep sigh and sat up a little taller at that comment.
“Yeah, um, one of our really good friends posted a throwback Thursday on her Instagram. It was of a silly funk number we did in Glee club and we’re dressed really stupidly and we’re dancing around but it’s pretty evident that I’m sporting a rather large baby bump. Everything kind of blew up from there. I had parents tweeting me and sending me messages on all forms of social media about how I shouldn’t present myself as a role model to children without them knowing all the facts. I had messages telling me to go die because God was going to punish me for my sins anyway.” Quinn explained, a serious expression coming over her face.
“So what did happen?” Ellen asked and Finn realized that Quinn was about to tell the whole story on national television.
“When I was 15, I got drunk and I lost my virginity to my boyfriend’s best friend. As most of these stories go, I was stupid and drunk and I believed him when he said trust me. Next thing I know I’m at a doctor’s office and the doctor confirmed I was pregnant. I lied to my boyfriend and told him it was his which was perhaps even more stupid than believing the father. When we were having dinner with my parents, my boyfriend let it slip. My father set the timer on the microwave and told me that I had thirty minutes to get out of his house. My lie about the father unraveled rather quickly after that and when I had the baby, I put her up for adoption. Out of a stroke of luck, Rachel’s birth mother, the surrogate that her fathers used, was looking to adopt and now Beth lives with her. I see her as often as I can and I love her with all my heart but giving her up was definitely the right option.”
“I know that some of the concerns that the parents had were that you were condoning teenage pregnancy. Is that true?” Ellen asked, looking at the blonde inquisitively.
“No, of course not. I gave Beth up because I had no way to support her and that child would have been raised in a bad environment. Sure, I love her and I would have shown her that but there would have been limited money, I would have been having to deal with a baby and school and everything else in a teenager’s life. We shouldn’t be condoning teenage pregnancies but to do that we need more information for these kids. They need to know about contraception and consent. Teenagers will have sex and there’s not really anything we can do to stop that but we can help them do it safely and without compromising the rest of their lives.”
“And that is what this new charity you’re founding is about?” The presenter asked and an image came up on the screen of Quinn addressing a room full of teenagers.
“Yes. Rachel and I have recently founded a charity and we’re really proud of the work that is starting to happen. We’re giving more sex education in schools and handing out contraception free of charge.”
Finn tuned out as Quinn continued talking and he thought back to high school when he was under the impression that he was the center of everyone’s universe. That so wasn’t true. They’d all moved on to bigger and better things whilst he was stuck in Lima changing tires at his stepfather’s shop. He felt ridiculous.