Promises,

Written by WickedSong.

Disclaimer/Note : In the first chapter. This is from dollFACE who asked for one where Tina cheated on Mike and Quinn comforts him. I was at first unsure because I love Tina and then I also love Fabang and I don't mind Tike. So it was a weird one to write and I tried to keep her character intact while also showing how what she did affected Mike. I hope you enjoy.

"You were away most of the summer! I just needed...someone!"

"And you think I didn't miss you? But I never did and never would do what you did."

Whenever Tina walks past, those last words exchanged are the only ones that ever come to mind. He can no longer remember the good times with Tina Cohen-Chang, they are only marred, like she stepped on them or dragged them through dirt, when he remembers her confession only two days after he returned from a trip visiting relatives. She had sat him down and tearfully explained that while he had been away she had met some guy at the local pool and they had fooled around. It had been a lapse of judgement on her part, she had tried to insist, but Mike hadn't heard her. She apologised and apologised but he refused to hear her then. He felt like his trust had been broken by her. She had been his first love, his first time, his first everything and he felt as if she had completely backed out of some promise they had made to one another.

He felt like a fool.

In the here and now, at one of the first glee practices of the new school year, Tina keeps looking at him, nervously biting her lip or trying to catch his eye. Everyone knows they've broken up but no one, except, he suspects, the majority of the girls and Kurt, know the real reason. Pride's preventing him from filling everyone who doesn't know in but he reasons that their signifcant others have probably already done so. It's weird as well, not to be in a couple now. For a year that was who he was basically. And now he's not so sure what to be without her.

"Mike?"

He looks up and finds Quinn standing beside him, looking slightly concerned. "Are you alright?"

He sighs and shrugs. "Am I?"

Glee seemed to past without him noticing, too lost in his thoughts and now the choir room is almost empty, except for Tina who seems to be hovering around, trying to converse with him. Quinn sidles into the seat beside him so she seems to abandon that hope for now.

"Do you know?" Mike asks immediately. He figures the awkward small talk should be out of the way.

"The entire club do," Quinn informs him. She goes to place her hand on his shoulder but the action seems too much of a big step between them; two people who have hardly said a sentence to one another. So she pulls her hand back and faces straight ahead. "I know what it's like. But I've also inflicted that pain. Too many times to too many great guys."

"You shouldn't beat yourself up. It's in the past. Puck has Lauren, Finn has Rachel and Sam has Mercedes. It all worked out, as fate," the words catch in his throat because he thought he and Tina were 'soulmates', 'meant to be', 'true love,' whatever you want to call it. He clears his throat and finishes, "intended."

She nods emphatically. "And so sooner or later you'll forgive Tina. Because she did a horrible thing to you but she's by no means a terrible person. She made a mistake."

He's doubtful. "I might be able to forgive her, years down the line, but I don't think I'd be able to be with her again."

"You could surprise yourself Mike," Quinn says. "We tend to forgive the people we love a lot easier than we would think."

He gives a laugh, full of bitterness and resentment. "This is karma, you know? Kicking my ass and taking me to the ground." Quinn looks at him confused and he elaborates, "Tina and I got together while she was still with Artie."

"Well, karma is a bitch," Quinn says with a shrug and smile.

Mike can't seem to muster a smile. "Thanks, Quinn."

"Just promise me one thing?" she enquires.

He lifts his head and now he's looking straight at her. "What?"

"Talk to her. Please. You don't want to lose a girl who's great over some stupid mistake."

Quinn takes her books and leaves and Mike still needs to take the time to reflect.

It may have been a mistake and Tina is a good person inside but it's still something he can't seem to shake. So he stands up, puts his bag on his shoulder, and resolves that he will try to get through the hurt and the pain and confusion and find some way to forgive her, for the sake of everybody, but most of all himself.

Plus, he smiles at the reminder that he promised Quinn and he doesn't want to see what'll happen if he backs out of that promise.

Hopefully, this was good but you'll have to give me reviews so I know if it is or not, you see.

Also, I've run out of prompts for this one so if you have any send them my way via a PM or a tumblr message at wickedsong . tumblr . com (no spaces).

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