DISCLAIMER: I own nothing. *Le Sigh*

A/N: Why is it that I ALWAYS become addicted to great shows after they've been on the air already for a season or two? Well thank the lawd for iTunes and having the complete first season of Glee. I downloaded every episode and watched them all in one day and am now a devoted Gleek. Of course I fell in love with Finn and Rachel because they are just so darn cute. Lea and Cory are awesome and so so adorable together. I wanted to try my hand at a Glee fic. Let's see where this Journey takes us and please, Don't Stop Believin' (WOW I'm a total cheese ball LOL!)

Pure confidence and well let's face it, as corny as it sounded, glee, buzzed around Rachel Berry. The now junior at McKinley high was practically glowing. Sure she didn't get to spend much of her summer with Finn, her dads' had whisked her off for a two month vacation traveling around Europe which was amazing and beautiful but she had desperately missed Finn during that time. She just thanked god for email, video chat, and cell phones. But now the summer was over. It was a brand new school year, the glee club had a second chance, Finn had confessed his love to her, in fact many times, and the possibilities were endless.

Walking down the crowded hallway with her head held high and her shoulders back, Rachel made her way towards the object of her affections locker. The fact the she was getting knocked into by the hordes of students, depressingly shuffling by, didn't even faze her. Everything was perfect, everything was incredible, NO ONE but NO ONE was going to rain on Rachel Berry's parade... an all too familiar icy feeling splashed against her bare legs. Rachel stopped cold, both literally and physically. Her big brown eyes finally opened up after a long moment when she heard kids laughing and shouting crude names... but they weren't at her. In fact, quickly checking herself over, Rachel realized that her legs were the only part of her body that had been hit by the offending slushy. When the thrower in question had always aimed specifically for her, they made sure to get face and made damn sure it destroyed her clothes. For once the slushy wasn't thrown at her.

When the realization dawned on her, Rachel looked up to see a tall lanky boy with wavy black hair wiping blue ice from his face as his backpack and a folder full of papers laid scattered on the floor.

"Welcome to McKinley LOSER!" A faceless jock in a letterman's jacket barked out in laughter as he high-fived his moron buddy and walked away laughing.

The tall lanky boy with wavy black hair turned and locked eyes with Rachel. His cobalt blue eyes stared her up and down with an apologetic look. He bent down and began gathering up his things.

"It's always fun being the new kid." He said as he stood back up and threw one strap of his blue stained back pack over his shoulder. "Sorry those jerks got you."

Rachel shook her head, "It's okay I've had my fair share of slushy facials." The boy scrunched up his face, confused. "What?" Rachel asked.

"I don't know, I've been to over three high schools in the past two and a half years and you just don't seem to be the 'type' to get a slushy thrown at or, I don't know, be harassed in any way."

Rachel's curiosity was suddenly peaked. "What's that supposed to mean?"

The boy rubbed his hand over the back of his neck and a blush crept over his cute face. "I-I-I-I-I uh just mean you're really um really pretty and it seems like guys would be hitting on you rather than torturing you."

Rachel averted her eyes and tried to hide her own blush. She cleared her throat and stood up perfectly straight again. "Trust me, I've never been the most popular student here at McKinley, far from it actually and being a member of the glee club doesn't help much either."

The boy's cobalt blue eyes grew a shade lighter. "You're a member of the glee club?"

"Yeah, it's amazing, despite what you might hear from certain boorish students, and we totally should have won regionals last year but we were completely and totally unfairly..." Rachel was cut off from her rant and let out a squeak of surprise as two familiar strong arms encircled her tiny waste from behind and lifted her high in the air, spinning her around. She caught her breath and laughed when she looked up and saw Finn smiling down at her with a sweet goofy grin.

"I have been waiting for this moment for way too long." Finn pulled Rachel against him and kissed her hard but sweet. When he finally pulled back Rachel was staring up at him with a brilliant white smile. A worried look spread across her face when she saw Finn frown and slightly pull away to look down at his jeans which were now wet with cold slushy. His eyes flashed to Rachel's legs and then back up to her face, and the look in his eyes could only be described as the one he was wearing when she told him the truth about Quinn's baby and he walked into the choir room and sucker punched Puck.

"Oh no, no, no its fine no one hit me with a slushy!" She quickly blurted out to calm him. Turning slightly, still in his arms she gestured to the boy with blue slushy all over him.

The boy gave Finn a quick wave. "Hi, I'm Travis the new kid and I guess if I'm not wearing a letterman's jacket or a cheerleading uniform this is how one is greeted." Travis paused for a moment. "Actually, I think if I was wearing a cheerleading uniform I would have been slushied as well." Rachel tried her best to stifle her giggle.

"Sorry about the assholes at this place, man." Finn shrugged. "I'm Finn this is my girlfriend Rachel." Rachel couldn't hide the smile at being introduced by Finn, himself, as his girlfriend.

"It's all good." Travis ran a hand through his hair managing to shake a bit of the slushy out. "Nice to meet two civilized people in high school for once." The bell for homeroom rang and Finn started leading Rachel away by the waist. "Wait! Sorry to bother you and all but could you tell me where the bathroom is. I kind of don't want to show up to homeroom on my first day looking like Papa Smurff."

"It's down the hall on your right." Finn told him.

"Thanks." Travis started walking away but stopped and turned. "Hey Rachel, maybe I'll check out this glee club you mentioned." Finn looked down at Rachel who was smiling, and frowned.

"If you got the talent, bring it."

"Bring it I shall." Travis gave her a funny little salute before walking away."

Rachel didn't realize it as Finn pulled her a little closer than necessary as they made there way to homeroom."

TBC...