A/N: Hello. I'm new to posting my own stories, but not to fanfiction. I have sat quietly in the shadows fangirling over your stories (I'm looking at you tiltingaxis), and now I've decided it's my time to write something that hopefully people can fall in love with. I want to keep finchel alive, and they are always going to live on in my heart.
This is going to be a multi chapter, pretty much AU, based a little bit on real life, but still our dearest Finchel, nonetheless. Just know it doesn't have a happy ending, much like real life.
Day by day I miss Cory more and more. So this is dedicated to him. Wherever you are, you big goof, I hope you're smiling down on us all, especially our Lea. I'm sorry if this is too much, I just miss him, and how can you grieve over someone you never really knew?
"Grief is like the ocean:
It's deep and dark and bigger than all of us.
And pain is like a thief in the night.
Quiet. Persistent. Unfair.
Diminished by time and faith and love.
I see how his absence has affected the people that did know him so I know that he did matter to them.
And I know he was loved.
They say on a good night it almost seemed as though he could fly.
And now he can."
Introduction.
It doesn't get any easier. You'd think as time went on, I'd start to feel something again. Anything, really, that's all I'm asking. A simple giggle from one of the many lame 'knock knock' jokes Santana or Kurt tells in their sorry attempt at making me smile, is that too much to ask?
As much as you'd like to think that time heals all wounds, there are some that are always going to be left; gaping and unleashing the darkest parts of us. Never in a million years did I think I'd ever be here; sitting on dried grass in the middle of a hot, hot summer in Lima, Ohio, staring down at his headstone. His stupid headstone, every word etched into my brain for the rest of my life.
Two years it's been now, and I still miss you like it was yesterday. It doesn't get any easier.
A/N: This will be a multi chapter, this was just sort of an introduction. I will continue if I get any responses. It will start out in the past, and work it's way up to Finn's death, all the way up to the present scene above. Thank you for taking the time to read if you did! I promise it'll be worth it if you enjoyed this one and allow me to continue :)