Hi everyone!

So, this is a weird idea I had based on my own life and I know this chapter is pretty boring but it's about to get kinda exciting! There will be four chapters! yay! Um so review and follow and all that good stuff. Oh, and if you're reading my fic "Not the Girl Nextdoor", I am so so so sorry for neglecting it! I have the next chapter written I swear, im just waiting for my beta.

I do not own Glee or The New Normal. (had to use a reference)

1 year ago:

It was Rachel's third shift at the store she was working at, Banana Republic. She liked it there a lot, she had finally met everyone or at least heard of everyone there and they were very welcoming to her. She wasn't used to be welcomed with open arms, she usually was very lonely. Her only friend was Kurt and she was lucky to have him, but some other friends might be nice. She got paid to hang out with these people, she was starting to notice that she was the youngest there. Rachel was 17 and in a couple months, she would finally be 18. She knew that everyone was already in their 20s here, except another guy, he was 19. She had met him, but hadn't really talked to him.

This particular night was really slow and there was only her, the manager Will, and then the 19 year old guy that she had met, but never really spoke too. She was very content on keeping to herself tonight, just folding things and cleaning. She would occasionally watch Finn out of the corner of her eye, just because she wondered about him like anybody else.

They met one night when she was shopping in the store for work clothes and he was getting her a fitting room which was crazy awkward. SHe remembers him telling her that they worked together and she said "oh, you're the only person I haven't met yet!" and he helped her.

He was tall and dark hair and dark eyes. He was cute, but she didn't have to know him very well to know that she didn't want to like him. She had heard things from the other people who worked there, like they were warning her and she didn't know why. It's not like she was going to become his friend. They would tell her that he had major issues, that he's inappropriate and flirty and that she should just ignore him. She knew that she didn't like him by what they were telling her. Rachel knew exactly what kind of people she wanted to surround herself with.

It turned out that Finn was exactly what they told her, she noticed that he was inappropriate. He would say things that he shouldn't out loud, he didn't think before he spoke. He would stare a little too long at gorgeous women that came through the door and he just rubbed her the wrong way. After all, she had a 6th sense. She could tell that Finn was trying though because he would tell her things that she necessarily didn't want to hear, he was pushing her buttons and she was pretty close to hating him. She didn't let him in and she really didn't care about him or his creepy cat obsession. It was okay for her to love cats, but for him, it was weird. He would always ask her if she thought he was creepy and she would always say yes because she knew it would bug him.

She was in the petites room that shift, because she really didn't want to deal with anyone tonight, plus Finn took all of her customers anyway. So, she just sized and refolded the room. She liked to hide and Finn was starting to find her hiding spots and it was starting to drive her nuts how he always snuck up on her. She was fixing a rack in the corner and she was lightly humming to the song that was playing. It was Amy Whinehouse's "Valerie" but she only knew it form her favorite show Sing. They always sang covers of songs and it was pretty much how she knew all these old songs that her dads knew. She hummed away and she was in her own little world and she didn't even hear his foot steps approaching this time.

She looked up to see his amused eyes staring at her enjoying the song, she quickly stopped singing and just stared at him waiting for him to say something.

"The Sing version is better." he said and she looked up at him with her eyes huge thinking he was mocking her but there was no way that he knew anything about her.

He smirked at her and walked away leaving her with a dumbfounded face and her heart racing a million miles per hour. Did she just make a friend?

Now

She rubbed her eyes for the millionth time that day and she was laying in bed waiting for sleep to overcome her. She hasn't been falling asleep so fast lately it takes her hours to fall asleep. She looked at her phone and it read 10:30. Eventually she started to drift into the slumber that she's been waiting for all day.

She's shaken out of her sleep by the all too familiar vibration of her phone. She took three deep breaths and cleared her throat to shake the sleep away from her voice and answered as happily as she could.

"Hello?" she said.

"Hi.." he said back to her.

"Hey?" She said and laughed quietly at their routine.

"You weren't sleeping were you because I can let you go back to sleep." he told her quickly.

"No, no. I'm fine. I want to talk to you, Finn." she smiled.

"Good, because I want to talk to you too!" she could feel the smile on her best friends face.

She turned over on her stomach in an easier talking position. Finn always called her when she was sleeping, he knew her sleepy voice and so she tried to mask it as much as she could so she could keep talking to him.

"What are you doing, Rach?" he asked her.

"Nothing." she said curtly to avoid the word "sleep".

"Rachel, you're my best friend you know that." he said to her seriously.

She smiled and laughed a little,"You're my best friend too."

"No, like I'm serious. You know more about me than anyone and I really appreciate you sticking around through all the crap i've put you through." he said quickly.

She felt a pang in her heart when he said "crap", she agreed it was crap.

"I love you." he said simply and Rachel felt her heart swell with all the happiness in the world.

"And I love you, Finn. But you knew that!" she laughed.

"Finn, i'm pretty tired so can I go to sleep?" she said.

"Sure, oh yeah of curse. I'm in bed too, so Good night Rachel." he said

"Goodnight, FInn." and they hung up.

Rachel loved conversations like those with her best friend. When she settled back into her blankets she closed her eyes knowing that it would be an hour yet, until she fell asleep.

It had taken her a year to finally accept that Finn and her were only friends. When they first met, she was drawn to him and he was drawn to her. They had feelings for one another and they knew it. It was perfect, the feeling she got whenever he was around her or when she thought about him. It was fun to keep their feelings secret from work too. They planned on being more than friends eventually and she knew that she would wait for him because he needed time.

The store they worked at was closing down and she felt her heart slam into her chest when she knew they wouldn't see each other anymore. FInn lived 30 minutes away from her and so she knew he wouldn't make the effort and she knew any chances of them being together were shot. She knew deep down that it was over.

Then she never saw him and he still called her everyday and talked but it felt different. She didn't feel the way she used to feel; confident and sure of the relationship. She was just scared and then she was angry. She was so mad at him for leading her on and telling he liked her and telling her that he wanted to be with her. She started feeling stupid and depressed all the time.

One day she decided to put her heart on the line and ask him where they were going. It took everything in her body to hit send and she sat for two whole days with no answer. One day, she was with Kurt seeing Rock of Ages and she finally got an answer back from Finn, and it was the answer that she knew in her heart. He told her he didn't see them going anywhere and right then she was grateful that his phone wasn't working and he disappeared to her advantage and she walked away from him. She cut off all contact with him and started to rebuild her life again, around herself. She almost forgot about him and yet the pain still lingered deep inside her heart. She was heart and she was never going to talk to Finn ever again.

It was of course, in Finn's nature to return to her after he's disappeared but she thought since he didn't want her anymore he wouldn't come back. He called her on a Saturday for an unknown number and she answered not expecting it to be him. When she heard his voice her heart stopped beating and she wanted to cry. All the work she had done to try to get rid of him was out the window.

Then one night she yelled at him, or more like sobbed at him. She was on the phone with him and she was telling how stupid she felt and how sad she was and how he played her. Instead of arguing with her, he listened. He always argued with her back but this time he knew he had struck a nerve with her. She didn't think she had cried so hard in front of anyone and the weird thing was that she didn't even care all that much. She just cried.

It took Rachel days to forgive him, it took her weeks to realize that she wanted to be his friend even if she still liked him, it took months to realize that Finn was her best friend, it took her months to get over Finn and the bitterness and be his friend, it took her a year to love him so much as her Best friend and its taken her a year and a half to realize that she might be in love with her Best Friend.

Rachel let the single tear that fell from her eyes and quietly drifted off into a sleep lingering with memories of Finn.

Okay so there is chapter one! I love the idea of Best Friend Finn and Rachel, its my favorite to write and yeah. So, let me know if I should keep going because the plot thickens!

Love. Love. Love

Nic