Chapter 1.

"That'll be $5.50 Mrs Adams" Rachel said to one of her regular customers as the elderly woman passed her the requested amount, Rachel placed the money in the register and farewelled the customer.

"Rachel sweetie" her father Hiram yelled from the back office "can you come back here for a moment" , "coming daddy" Rachel replied as she headed towards his office. "yes daddy?"

"sweetie, I'm looking over the orders put through over the last week and things just don't seem to be adding up" he started

"daddy you know how your data system confuses me-"

"Rachel sweetie, you have ordered the same amount of stock that we go through in a month to have it delivered each week for the next 3 weeks, not only that it has all been paid for and its impossible to have refunded"

"I was just saving you time to having them ordered for the next 3 months dad-"

"But Rachel honey, where on worth are we going to put all these things?" Hiram cut her off as Rachel looked down biting her lower lip, "Oh sweetie, I'm sorry if I am upsetting you"

"no daddy, I'm sorry. I guess being away this last year at college I forgot a few things" she replied not looking her father in the eye.

"look, I know it's a little bit hard to get into the swing of things again and the last thing you want to do this summer, look maybe you don't have to help-"

"No!" she shouted as her father jumped "sorry, what I meant to say was I love being here and spending time with you and dad, I'll be back in college in 4 weeks time and I want to spend as much time as possible with you and dad, even if that means being stuck in this old place"

"well ok, but just letting you know this little mess requires you to be here for when the deliveries arrive" he replied "I think we can both agree that this is a fare punishment?"

"that is a fare punishment daddy" Rachel agreed as the bell to the front of the bakery rang "and that is my queue" with that Rachel headed towards the front of the bakery. Ok, so maybe Rachel did purposely order all that stock, but hey a 19 year old woman has her reasons, and that reason was currently standing at the entry of the bakery with a trolley of boxes.

"Good Morning Miss Berry" the tall handsome deliveryman said as he pulled out his clipboard while making sure all boxes were accounted for as he removed them from the trolley.

"Finn, we have been over this a billion times, the name is Rachel, and may I add I am younger then you"

"Sorry Rachel, it's good to see you" he said as he looked back down at his clipboard

"likewise Finn, so what do you have for me?" she asked as she walked in front of the counter and leant against it. Yes she may have put on her shortest skirt which was barely visible behind her apron, but as mentioned earlier she had her reasons.

Finn slowly looked up from the clipboard, his eyes trailing up her legs to meet her face. He swallowed hard as she bit her lip and smiled.
"um, boxes" he coughed to clear his throat, "I mean, we got a last minute order last night from you guys so yeah boxes of stuff"

"yeah, sorry about the last minute ordering, silly me forgot to order a few things last week and didn't realise until yesterday after you left" she giggled "but you guys are the best at what you do so I knew you wouldn't let me down"

"that's ok, that's what I'm here for, to deliver packages" god he sounded stupid Finn thought to himself. Rachel then turned and reached over the counter to grab the order list she made the night prior, her skirt riding up showing her bare ass to Finn which caused him to drop his clip board. The loud sound made Rachel quickly spin around as Finn reached down and quickly grabbed the clipboard ripping off her order slip and passing it to her quickly as Rachel held back a giggle.

"everything ok Finn?"

"yeah, just need to um, I have to go have a few deliveries lined up" he rushed through his words as she noticed he had the clipboard over his crotch. mission accomplished she thought.

"well then I guess I'll see you soon?" Rachel asked

"yeah, I guess I'll see you in a month, that is when the next order is due" he rushed as he opened the door "okay, I better go, you have a nice ass..i mean day, I hope you have a nice day" and with that Finn was out the door as Rachel smiled to herself. She watched Finn walk back to his truck through the bakery window. He stopped and looked back, shook his head and climb into his truck.

"Yep, I'll see you real soon Hudson" she said as she pulled out her phone dialled a familiar number waiting for the other line to answer.

"Hudson-Hummel baking supplies how can we help you?"

"Hi, this is Rachel Berry calling for Berry-Bakery on 56th and 1st street. My mixer has totally crashed on me, brand new, we will need this replaced ASAP. Can I order a delivery for tonight?"

"yes, we are available to have our delivery driver come out to have a look at it and see if it is also repairable, if not he will have a replacement for you" the customer service rep replied as Rachel smiled while thinking that Finn Hudson was good with his hands too "that should be fine"

"Perfect Miss Berry, now unfortunately Finn won't be able to come round until 9pm this evening, he is back to back until the evening but I'm sure he wouldn't mind stopping at that hour ?"

"not an issue at all" Rachel responded while getting final details and confirmation ending the call.