Just imagine my surprise/When I looked into your eyes and saw through your disguise

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Who? Tina Cohen-Chang & Quinn Fabray
What? Babysitting and awkward, unusual bonding?
When? 5:00pm-ish, Saturday January 8th (back-dated like WHOA)
Where? Cohen-Chang house
Rating: PG

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Quinn had taken the long way to Tina's house, which had only served to extend her normally five minute trip to a ten minute (and that was pushing it) and had done nothing to ease her nerves. She sat in the car outside of the girl's house, ripping the key out of the ignition hastily and reaching for the handle before she stopped, letting her hand idle over it for a few seconds and then pulling it back. Tina was harmless - a bunny, really, despite her dark clothing and generally off-putting aura - so her fear was entirely unnecessary. But that's exactly what she was experiencing - fear. She was afraid. But not getting out meant Tina would know she was too scared to do this. And Quinn Fabray would never let anyone else think she was scared.

So she heaved herself out of the car as delicately as possible, trying not to move too quickly or irrationally and upset the thing growing in her stomach, and pulled her coat tight around her frame as she made her way to the door. She focused on the dog barking in the distance, and how nice Tina's house was, and how someday, when she wasn't knocked up with some abomination, she'd like to have a house like this and a husband and a family and have kids babysitting for her. Tina opening the door was the only thing that ripped her back into reality.

"Hi," she offered quickly, smiling awkwardly at the girl. Smiling at Tina wasn't necessarily the most familiar of concepts. "I hope I'm not late," she offered quickly, though she knew that no matter how long of a route she'd take she would never really be late - it took fifteen minutes to get across the town of Lima.

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Tina jumped to her feet when she heard a car pull in the drive. She took a deep breath and walked slowly to the front door, trying to calm her nerves.

She shook her head after opening the door for Quinn. "Uh, n-no, you're fine. My aunt and uncle actually left a little early because my cousins tend to cry when they leave and she didn't want to leave us with screaming kids right off the bat." She smiled sheepishly. It suddenly dawned on her that Quinn had smiled at her a moment ago. Mucho weird, but she tried not to dwell on it further.

Tina moved out of the doorway to let Quinn in, carefully shutting the door behind her as the girl entered. "Um, want me to take your coat?" She offered.

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Quinn nodded in understanding, an awkward smirk tugging at the corner of her lip as she stepped inside. "So they're sleeping. That makes sense - I was expecting to hear screaming and have windows missing and a small fire in the front yard."

Quinn shrugged off her coat, offering it to the girl with an appreciative nod. "So...what's up?" Quinn had never really been socially awkward, but this situation definitely had the potential to change that.

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Tina laughed and shook her head. "No, no, Christmas is over and Easter is still a ways off, so we're safe until the next time all my cousins get together."

She took Quinn's coat and hung it on the nearby set of hooks at the door. She looked at the girl, wondering if she was asking to be polite or if she wanted an actual answer that wasn't less than five words. "Um....not much...Well, okay m-maybe some stuff but it'll probably s-sound really boring to you..."

She laughed nervously, shuffling her feet a little as she led Quinn to the living room. She had the baby monitor sitting on the coffee table, so at least they could try to be responsible and sit comfortably until the kids woke up.