Ahh I keep writing more stories! I have a problem =P

Of course, I do not own Glee or the characters. *Cries* ;)

Warning: This story contains spoilers and speculations for Journey to Regional is so if you do not want to know any spoilers for the last ep do not read it. If you do read on =)

Italics are flashbacks.

Rachel peeked through the blue velvet curtains to see the room she would later sing in. it was beautiful, breath taking. The room was already full, people sitting in the reclining seats, smiling and talking but falling silent as the music started. The stage was much bigger than the sectionals one, so much bigger, spotlights beaming on every part of the polished, wooden floor of the stage. The room was bigger as well, meaning more people to watch them, glittering lights that were hanging from the ceiling but more like floating above them. The whole scene was mesmerising, it made you feel small, helpless, like a tourist. The only thing that spoiled this magnificent sight was them. Vocal Adrenaline. Watching them sing Hate That I Love You by Rihanna and Ne-Yo, the lead singer? Jesse St. James. Just watching him made Rachel's blood boil through her body, watching him sing it with another girl. Even though she was fuming with anger, she still loved his voice, Rachel felt like it should be her up there singing with him. She hated that she still loves him. The song was made for them not him and some random girl. When she hears his voice she starts going backwards, she starts to fall for him again, but whenever she starts feeling like that she thinks back to when he broke up with her.

"Rachel" Jesse quietly said while approaching her at her locker.

She turned around and smiled. "Hey Jesse." she noticed he wasn't smiling, he wasn't looking at her either. "What's wrong?"

"I-I have to tell you something." he managed to say.

"Yeah." Rachel's voice started to sound concerned.

"Rachel." he looked up at her, at her big, gorgeous eyes, which didn't make it any better with what he was about to say so he looked back down at the floor. If he was going to say this, he can't say it with him staring at her. "I like you, like like-like you really." he started. "I haven't been honest with you." he sighed.

Rachel at this point was completely confused to what he was trying to say. He wouldn't look at her, just the floor, and he kept sighing. Clearly, something was bugging him. "What do you mean?" Rachel asked.

"I'm not- I'm here because my coach, your mom, told me to." he closed his eyes and let out a huge sigh expecting Rachel to cry or something, but when he realised he hadn't heard anything he looked up, she looked completely puzzled.

"What?" she wasn't sure what he was saying, hell she didn't know what he was saying. "Huh?"

He sighed again. "Rachel your mom sent me because she wanted." he stopped, looking at her, her doing the Finn Face. A couple of weeks ago Rachel told Finn to sing in A minor and he had no clue what that was and pulled a Finn Face, of course Rachel didn't like Jesse calling it a Finn Face but he just does it behind her back.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that your mom only sent me to." he paused; Jesse couldn't bare the thought of hurting Rachel. Even though he was only there for a mission, he still cared for her, deeply. "You mom sent me to make you listen to the tape so that you would know she was your mom." he rushed it all out, saying it in normal speed would kill him.

Rachel didn't quite get what he said at first but then it started to repeat in her head. Mom. Sent. Me. Listen. Tape. Sent. Sent. SENT! He was sent? Sent? Rachel started to gather the pieces. She knew that it couldn't be right. No. She looked at his face for reassurance that she was right, he wasn't sent just for her to find out her mom, but his face was anything but reassuring her. He was looking down, sad, miserable. No. No. It's true? "What?" she asked with abit of annoyance in her voice.

"Rachel I'm sor-"

"-No! No! You can't be?"

He didn't answer. He looked at her, he did just say her mom sent him and not because he wanted too, she deserves to look in the eye of the person who just broke up with her. "I'm sorry." he quietly said. He knew that wasn't enough though. It never is.

"You're sorry?" complete annoyance in her voice.

"Rachel I'm staying till the end of the day then I'm leaving, I'm going back to VA."

'I'm going back to VA' rung in Rachel's ears repeatedly. "What?" her voice started to break as tears were forming in her brown eyes. "You're going back?"

"Yes."

"I…You…But" she stuttered she couldn't get her words out because one she was this close into breaking down and crying in front of him. Two because she was a fool to not realise that he was never into her. "I have to go." she ran past Jesse nudging his shoulder with hers. Her shoulder started to kill like mad but she couldn't just say ow, she couldn't come across as weak. She just tried to ignore the pain that she was feeling in shoulder only to start to feel pain in her heart instead. She ran into the girls toilets crying her heart out.

"Hey Rach you nervous?" Finn asked as he came up from behind her.

She turned around and smiled at him. "Of course not we got it in the bag."

He returned her smile and said "Yeah because we have you."

Rachel's heart could have melted right then. She hugged him tightly then turned back to the curtains. "You know what we can beat them."

"Yep we don't need any help." he agreed as he peeked through the curtains as well.

"Hey you guys come on." Mr Schue called out to the pair.

They both turned around and followed him back to the dressing room.

Another way of Rachel forgetting Jesse when she hears his voice. Finn.

"Rachel are you ok?" Finn asked. They were in Spanish and Rachel hadn't said a single word since she got there, she just stared into space. "Rachel?" he shook her shoulder causing her to leave her thoughts and enter reality.

"Huh? I'm fine Finn." she quietly replied.

"No your not."

"What yes I am." she looked at him, baffled, how could he know?

"Rachel you can't fool me. I know you to well for you to just say 'I'm fine' so what's up?"

"Finn." she decided not to keep saying nothing was up because as he said he knew her to well. He was her friend. Her best friend. Finn was always there for her. Wait. She can't tell him. She can't because he will probably just laugh in her face and say 'Told you so. HA. You thought I was just jealous but he was trouble. Silly Rachel.' then every time he sees her he would just laugh loudly in her face. No. Finn wouldn't do that. She's just overreacting. "Jesse." she tried to carry on but just saying his name made her want to burst out crying.

"Jesse…?" he slowly said trying to get more out of Rachel. When she didn't say anything but just looking at him with her eyes filling up. He knew. "Jesse." he said in an angry Get-My-Revenge-On-Him tone.

"Finn he…" her voice started to break again. What has he done to her? "He was only here because he…" she didn't get to finish off her sentence then because Finn leapt from his chair and stormed off.

Uh-oh.

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