"I'm coming!" Rachel Berry shouted from her room to her boyfriend Jesse. She was getting ready to go out to dinner with Jesse's friends from highschool, Finn, Puck, and Puck's wife Quinn. She finally picked out a blue t-shirt and a god necklace. She walked downstairs and saw Jesse waiting for her with a mad look on his face. He was sitting on her chair, eyes looking up, tapping his foot impatiently.

"Finally!" He said. "I was only waiting here for an hour!" He said dramatically. Rachel rolled her eyes.

"Jesse, calm down, I just couldn't find a shirt to wear. And I was only up there for like 10 minutes." Rachel said, trying to calm him down. Jesse scoffed. He is such a drama queen sometimes, Rachel thought. Well, most of the time. But she was happy. Or atleast she told herself that she was.

Finn Hudson was sitting at a booth in Breadstix with Quinn Puckerman and Noah Puckerman. They were off in their own world together. They were waiting for their friend Jesse and his girlfriend Rachel. Just then, Finn saw a short, very short, brunette walk in. He saw her looking outside like she was waiting for someone, but he really hoped she wasn't. She was very beautiful, and maybe once this was over , he could talk to her. But then he saw a man walk in and they looked like they were together. And- wait, he knew that hair. That was Jesse's girlfriend. Great, now he had to have dinner with a woman that he found very hot, and she was his friend's girl.

Woah. Rachel thought. She should not be thinking about Finn like this. But she had never had this strong of an attraction to somebody. Seriously. She never thought that someone was this hot, not Jesse, not anybody.

"So how did you two meet?" Quinn asked.

"Well, we were bothing working on the Broadway production of Wicked. I was a dancer, but Rachel was working backstage. But I still asked her out." Jesse said, laughing, but Rachel knew that he wasn't joking about still asking her out even though she wasn't a preformer. And she could tell that he was subtly bragging.

"Oh wow!" Quinn said, over-excited. "Rachel, what did you do for the show?"

"I was-" Rachel started but was rudely interrupter by Jesse.
"She was working on the costumes. It was a very good job for her." He said. Quinn and Puck nodded, but she saw that Jesse was subtly insulting her acting and singing skills, and she thought that Finn noticed it too. "Seriously, she didn'tmess up one costume!" Jesse continued, "Well except for that one that ripped during dress rehearsal. But whatever." He finished. She could not deal with him right now. She had to get out of here.

"I need to go freshen up." Rachel said quickly, getting out of her chair.

"Okay, but sweetie," Jesse whispered, "don't take too long like you usually do, okay?" He said, turning back to his friends. Rachel's jaw dropped but she quickly recovered. She walked to the bathroom, rubbing her temples, trying to get rid of the headache that she always got when Jesse was like this. Seriously, why do I put up with this, she thought. Why don't I just break up with him? It's probably because I don't think anyone else is ever going to date me again. They didn't want to in highschool. I- then a knock on the private bathroom door interrupted her thoughts.

"Um, somebody's in here." She said.

"Um, Rachel, can I talk to you'' A strong mans voice said. That wasn't Jesse. Was it-
"Finn?" Rachel asked. She opened the door and moved aside to let Finn in. "Why are you here?"

"Well you looked really sad when Jesse was talking about you, so I wanted to see if you were okay." He said, not wanting to sound creepy, just caring.

"Thankyou Finn, that's very sweet of you. And you're right, Jesse wasn't being very nice to me but, it's nothing I can't handle. She said, unsure of the words herself.

"Okay," Finn said, sounding unsure. "Hey, how aboyt we go to lunch tomorrow? We can just talk, and maybe get to know eachother better without Jesse insulting you." He suggested and they both laughed.

"Ya, I would like that." Rachel said, surprising herself.

" Great!" He said enthusiastically. They exchanged phone numbers and then headed back to their table. When they sat down. Jesse started telling the story of his first Broadway dubut. He was making wild hand gestures, and Quinn was laughing hysterically. Rachel had heard this story so many times, so she tuned out. She looked away and her thoughts were consumed by Finn Hudson. She didn't even stop herself from thinking about how soft his brown hair looked, how she just wanted to run her fingers through it, how good he looked in that white shirt, how his smile was so sweet, and how if she wasn't dating Jesse she would have already kissed him- Woah. what? No I cannot be thinking about him like this. She shook her head, as if that would shake all thoughts of Finn out too. Then, before she knew it, it was time to leave. They said goodbye to Finn, Puck, and Quinn, and Rachel wondered all the way home if she would really cheat on Jesse. Then another thought came upon her, would she even care if she cheated on him, and hurt Jesse in the process?

All the way back to Finn's apartment, he was worried about Rachel. She had seemed very upset about what Jesse said, and he cared for her. A lot. He litteraly just met her, and he didn't want to even think about her crying or being sad. He didn't want to think about Jesse's subtle digs at Rachel, the way he was trying to show people that he was better than her. He really cared for her, and he thought of her until he fell intop a dreamless sleep. The next morning, he called her where to meet him for lunch. This was just a friendly lunch, he kept telling himself. Nothing else is going to happen other than talk. Nothing. But he couldn't have been more wrong.