Tag to 1x1: Pilot. Just some of Rachel's thoughts as I start watching this show and trying to get more into her character.
For you, Mariah.
Rachel wasn't sure how she felt about all of this.
Yes, Finn was good. Yes, he was good enough to sing with her, and that meant he was really good.
But he was a football player. There was no way he actually cared about anything happening here and Rachel knew that it would all come crashing down.
Then it did. Mr. Schuester quit and Finn was gone like the wind. She talked to him and it was useless.
So they'd do it without him.
She stood on the stage with her team, the only other members of New Directions, barking orders at them, biting back any emotion that wasn't frustration that they couldn't get this right.
They had to get this right. Or everything that she'd worked for...gone.
Was that a tear, was she building up too much?
She would not cry. Never.
And then the door opened. Finn was there.
She felt an entirely different emotion start to build. Excitement. He was talking, he was promising them things, he was telling them what the plan was.
She'd never felt this way. Never had this much anticipation build up inside her.
She would actually be something in high school. She might actually have a go at this famous thing.
And Finn could be the reason why.