Everyone was meeting up at the pub, it was odd for him, but he arrived early. So far Rae was the only other person here. Great. She wasn't his biggest fan since ever, but he took a breath and headed over.

"Hi'ya" he greeted sitting in the chair across from her, she looked up from her book and nodded hello.

"Where's everyone" he asked

"Should be here soon" she didn't indulge him, and returned to her book.

He stared at her with confusion. When Chloe dragged her into the gang a few weeks ago she seemed to immediately click with everyone, but him. he didn't know what her problem was, sure he was a bit of a jerk at first, but now it was like she was purposely refusing to get over it… Archie dumped her, and yet somehow their best mates. all he did was call her May and god forbid doubt her musically taste, does that make him the devil. He wanted to be here friend, he didn't know to much about her, but he felt like they would get on. What he knows is she had a decent taste in music, she drinks snake bites, she lived in France for a couple of months, she lives with her mom, she was funny as hell, and she was always banging on about something which he likes, she had that ability to grab everyone's attention as she told a story, and make everything sound interesting, also her chest…

"Stop staring at me it freaks me out" she spoke up… shit.

"I was just noticing your shirt," nailed it, he saved himself, pointing to her shirt, and nervously scratching his temple with his other hand. She looked down pulling the fabric to look at it, she was wearing a Stone Roses shirt, he had to look up at the table so he wouldn't stare at the obvious two distraction he brought to his own attention. "You like the Stone Roses" he asked fiddling with a coster.

"I wouldn't say I like them. More that I love them, nay worship them," she laughed to herself, he followed with a nervous boyish laugh, as she looked back at her book.

"What else are you into?" he asked, pulling her eyes back to him.

"Oasis, Radio Head, Ocean Colour Scene, Primal Scream-" she listed, and Finn let out a laugh.

"-Wha?" she asked smiling closing her book and laying it on the table.

"Nothing, didn't think you actually had any real taste in music" he shot a flirty grin, resting his elbow on the table and leaned in amused.

"Me? You're one to talk, wasn't it yesterday you put Spaceman by Babylon Zoo on the jukebox" she teased.

"It was better then what you played" he continued there playful banter.

"False, my choice was fantastic" she assured him grinning, but then went to reach for her book. He was enjoying her, this is the most they've said to one another since they met and he wanted to keep it up.

"What's your favourite song?" he asked, as her hand hesitated over her book, but pulled them back to her lap.

"You should be ashamed to call yourself a music lover" her brows narrowed with a smug smile on her face.

"Why's that?"

"Asking someone what their favourite song is like asking a parent to pick a favourite child, can't be done, you need to be more specific." she leaned into the table mirroring his pose, changeling him.

"Okay that's fair," he contemplated what to ask her next "What's that one song that will cheer you up?" he watched as she pondered the question.

"Okay, if I had to choose one, it would be Right Back Where We Started Fromby Maxine Nightingale" she sang a couple bar, he knew the song, but didn't say anything because he wanted to hear her sing some more, her voice was beautiful.

"Odd choice" and was compared to her favourite music she listed earlier.

"Yah, well there's a story behind it" She pulled away from the table.

"Lets hear it," he urged.

"Okay, but it's personal so it doesn't leave this conversation, promise" she held out her pinky to swear on.

"Promise" His picky interlocked with hers. He found himself wanting to interlock all of his fingers and never let go, which surprised him.

She tensed up and hesitated trying to find the words "After my dad left, my mom would date these losers, they would use her and then toss her aside, and after that happened she'd get sad, like really sad, she'd get distant. She did her best to try and hid it from me, but I knew. I was just a kid so there wasn't much I could do but wait it out-" he couldn't believe she was opening up to him like this it took all his willpower not to go over and hug her, but a smile began to crack at the side of her mouth "- After a couple of days I'd wake up to that song blasting threw the house and I'd go downstairs she'd be in the kitchen cooking this huge breakfast, with the biggest smile on her face, every time. I guess it was her way of saying sorry and letting me know she was better. We would dance and sing and just be happy. It's stupid, but it's like the song is a-"

"Memory" he finished for her.

"Yes. Exactly, it's like no matter where you are or what time it is, it takes you back to a different place" she smiled tenderly at him, he felt his checks begin to burn, but was comforted by the fact hers was as well.

"I completely get it," he nodded forcing himself to look away "my mom and I would dance to I got you babe by UB40" he confessed.

"reggae" she winced.

"What's wrong with reggae"

"Well for starters it's crap" she grinned, before he could come up with a flirty response the gang had arrived.

"What we talking about" Chop asked as they all sat down.

"Nothing, Finn was trying to convince me he actually has taste in music, and he was so close, but fell ever so short," she laughed with gang. No one noticed the look Rae and Finn exchanged at that moment.

As the night went on he couldn't stop himself from smiling, they were finally friends. He looked at her as Chop was going on about some chick he slept with or wanted too sleep with, Finn wasn't all that interest. He kept watching Rae's mouth that was pinched up in a smirk, eyes soft as she looked over at him, and his heart skip in his cheat. Now he found himself wanting to be more than just friends.