This was the first FF I started. I already started to write on the third chapter, but I'm going to wait and look at the reviews before I upload the second chapter.
To those of you, who have already read my other FF, "Finally Finchel", this is the "other Glee Story" that I talked about!

I know that this chapter is really stupid (I practically hate what I did to Finn's part), but I promise that the second one is better! It is shorter, though...

This takes place sometime after prom and one week before Nationals. I will change the end of the second season a bit, so that it fits with the after school life that I have planed for two special glee kids.

Pretending – A Glee Story

Chapter One

Everything was silent in the choir room of McKinley High School. Rachel had arrived about two minutes ago and now she still had about six minutes until the rest of her schools glee club would arrive.

Tomorrow they would all go to Nationals in New York.
Usually she would be all excited about seeing Broadway and possibly singing one of her many solos at nationals, but today she just couldn't picture herself on stage, singing for hundreds of people.

Rachel was still torn up about what had happened at prom. Somehow, she felt like Finn and Jesse both wanted to be with her, but she just didn't know what to do about it.

She looked over to the door, where Finn entered the room. Like always, Quinn was holding his hand.
Her heart sunk. Rachel knew that she and Finn had had their shot and that it didn't work out. They were never meant to be together, but still she just couldn't shake off her feelings for him.
She looked over to the black piano in the middle of the room, where Jesse was standing. He met her gaze and smiled his overwhelming and totally amazing smile.

Rachel tried to hide the fact that she'd been thinking about Finn again by waving at Jesse before looking around to see if everyone had arrived yet.
Everyone but Santana, Brittany and Artie were sitting in the uncomfortable, red chairs. Artie wasn't because he was sitting in a wheelchair, which sometimes annoyed Rachel, when he was rolling into her way in the middle of a performance, and Santana and Brittany just weren't here yet.

Rachel looked back through the room. At one side were the school bands instruments. She hardly bordered, but her eyes were locked to the drums.
She suddenly remembered Finn playing these drums and singing Jessie's Girl to her.

In that moment Mr. Shuester came in and behind him Santana and Brittany. "Since I've finally found our two missing members we're now ready for our trip to New York, right?"

Rachel forced herself to forget about Finn for as long as she could to be excited about their trip. Truly. Boys only ever distracted her. It was their fault that she wasn't able to be happy about her trip to New York. She knew it. One day she would be performing at Broadway. This was her chance.

She almost fell out of her chair, when Kurt pocked her into her side. "What's up with you?" "Er… Nothing…?" She stuttered. Embarrassed she looked up.

Mr. Shue was just finishing his talk. "Okay, guys. Don't you forget that we're going to spend the entire next week in New York City!" He smiled as if he'd just told the best joke ever.

Rachel firmly stood up and walked to the door. "So, Rachel, are you excited about going to Broadway?"
She turned on her heels to see Jesse standing behind her. "Of course. I mean… It's what I've always wanted, right?" She smiled shyly. Jesse's brown eyes met hers and she took a step back, accidently hitting the drum. He caught her before she'd fall to the ground.

Rachel's mind drifted away the moment he touched her. She saw herself, with Jesse holding her hand, playing the leading roles in a Broadway Musical. The audience cheered for them and some even seemed to cry when Rachel, perfectly, hit the highest note. She closed her eyes. In the end, maybe it was better for all of them if she stayed with Jesse.

Finn tried hard to ignore the ache in his stomach. He couldn't be jealous of Jesse, right? He was with Quinn.

He reminded himself of what had happened at prom. He got thrown out after he hit Jesse for getting close to Rachel.

He pulled his gaze away from the two, who appeared to have a moment, over to Quinn at his side.
He faked a smile and hoped for Quinn not to notice.

"So… I gotta go now… I still need to pack my bags for our New York trip." "Sure, Finn. I'll walk as far as your car with you, all right?"
Before he could answer Quinn had taken his hand and started pulling him in the opposite direction of Jesse and Rachel.

She was still the same girl that she had been before the baby drama, but somehow he didn't feel the same. Usually, when he had looked into her eyes, he had felt like the luckiest boy in the entire world, but now he didn't even try to meet her gaze.
She didn't seem to mind, she just pulled him through the hallways.

It took a while for him to realize that those weren't the dark red doors that led to the schools parking lot, but the smaller brownish ones that led to the football field.

He stopped. "Quinn? What are we doing here?"
She turned to him. She had a weird look on her face. "Finn. You know what's next Friday?"

He hesitated, searching through the back of his mind. Had he forgotten something?
"Nationals, but what does this have to do with the football field?"

Quinn's gaze had turned from mysterious to annoyed. "Football means to be cool, to be popular. If you were here next Friday we would have won prom king and queen!"

Finn already knew where Quinn's talk would end up. He looked over the grass and, for a moment, he imagined himself throwing a touch-down.

But then something else came to his mind. He remembered how he had pulled Rachel close, back when she had wanted him to quit football. He had been so confused back then. He hadn't wanted her to go, but his reputation had been so important to him. And she'd understood.

"I'm not going to quit glee club, Quinn." Quinn stared at him with something that seemed like disbelieve in her eyes. "Finn. If you want to be with me…"
"Don't you think that I know what all this is about? It isn't about me not being cool while I'm in glee! It's because you're jealous of Rachel, right?"
Finn shouted at her. He knew he shouldn't because she had every reason to be jealous, but he just wanted to shout at someone other than himself. But Quinn didn't give in. "Maybe that is the reason, Finn. All I know is that you're with me not her. And I don't want her in my life anymore."

He had to admit that she sounded desperate, but somehow she was right. He did like Rachel. Somewhere inside he even knew he liked her more than any other girl he had met.

"I'm sorry Quinn, but…" "No, Finn. I don't want to lose you again! That's the stupid reason for slapping Rachel in the face! You're just too much to lose, Finn…"

Suddenly something in him turned against Quinn. "You did what?" She took a step back. "I…"
But Finn didn't give her a chance to answer. He didn't know why, but he felt like he wanted to protect Rachel.
"You hurt her?" Usually Quinn never looked insecure, but now she actually did. "Finn… Please don't…"

He knew what she meant, but he just shook his head and stormed away without saying another word. Silently he walked through the empty hallways.
He stopped at his locker, because there was a small note pinned onto it. He took it off without reading it and just threw it into his back.
He didn't even think about it. He was just so confused. He turned around and started walking down the hallway to the parking lot.

Finn almost crashed into Rachel, who had just closed her locker.
"Finn!" Rachel took a step back. Her face turned bright red. "I didn't expect to see you again today…"

Finn looked down. He wished he could just tell her everything. She always understood him like no one else did. But he couldn't.

Rachel didn't know what to say. She still loved him and she knew that, but he had made his choice.

She looked down. "I thought you were with Quinn…" She stared at him again and quickly added: "I mean… Right now. Not that you wouldn't be together with…" "Calm down." He said softly. "I understand."
She caught his eyes and, for a single heartbeat, he seemed to look at her the way he used to. Maybe it meant nothing. Maybe he was thinking about Quinn.

Rachel felt like she had to throw up. She turned away from him.

She had just agreed told herself that she would be with Jesse. She had to forget about Finn.

"I'm sorry… I have to go." She started walking away as fast as she could.

That night something ripped Rachel out of her dreams.

It took a few seconds for her to realize that one of her dads was standing next to her bed. She blinked. It was too dark to see anything else. "Is something wrong?" "No, honey, it's nothing. But someone just called and told me he had to talk to you."

She looked at the clock. Who would phone her that early?

She stood up. "Is he still on the phone?" Her dad nodded.
She stepped out of her room. "Good night, dad…" She whispered absentmindedly.

While she walked through the familiar corridor to the phone, she felt like she was dreaming.

She took up the phone and answered.
"Hello?"
"It's you! Great!" She had to be dreaming.
"Rach? Is everything alright?" Finn's voice sounded worried.
"Why? What's up?"
"Please. Just tell me that you're alright!"
"I guess I am…"
"You're sure?"
"Yes. I am. – Why?"
"That's great! Thanks, Rach!" And then he was gone.

She put the phone back in place. What had just happened?

She wanted to go back to her bed, but she just stood there and looked at the picture of her and Finn that lay next to the phone. Her dads had taken it before last year's Regionals.
After all that time it still lay there.
Finn had held her in his arms and kissed her on the cheek. Silently, she wished that they would still be together.

I do not own Glee!

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And please don't bother with my grammar. I'm not really English^