DISCLAIMER: I neither own Glee nor the characters. They are the property of Ryan Murphy and FOX. This is purely for fun. Enjoy :)

A/N: Me Voila! The Minsk is back and ready for a new Finchel fic that will delve more into what has been speculated will happen in the back nine episodes regarding Finn/Rachel and her new boy-toy, Jesse of Vocal Adrenaline. So **SPOILER ALERT!!** Hope813 AKA my Finchel soul-mate requested some Jealous Finn, so I'm going to deliver! Enjoy!

Hey Jealousy

Chapter One: Green

"Twenty-Three, Twenty-Four, Twenty-Five. . ." Finn focused all his energy on the muscles in his arms, pumping the heavy weights up and down onto his chest. Before he started another set of reps he placed the weights on the stand and took a second to wipe away the sweat from his brow. He knew he shouldn't push it too hard today because he had a Basketball game this afternoon, but he was in an aggravated state so he loaded another 10 pounds on each side of the barbell and returned to his position. He started his next set of reps, cursing a certain person's name under his breath as his muscles burned and pulled and stretched under the weight of the barbell.

"Jesse. . . sounds like . . . a chick's name. . ." He muttered in-between grunts. He pushed the long heavy barbell and felt the stress and pain in his arms. He welcomed it, it was a good distraction from the tumultuous thoughts raging in his head. He finished the second set of reps on the barbell and returned the weight to its' stand. He breathed heavily from the exertion of energy and headed for the shower. He was grateful that Coach Tanaka had allowed him to use the Weight Room during gym instead of running drills with Puck. Since January he sought refuge in the weight room and decided to work out his aggression and stress instead of letting it eat away at him. It was helping his self-esteem a little bit too, he was gaining some more defined muscle and at 6-foot-3 it's better to avoid looking like a lanky, gangly man-boy.

He dragged himself into the hot shower but found no relief under the water and steam. His muscles ached and burned from the workout and his mind was a haze of a million different emotions he couldn't sort out. He took a deep breath and tried to figure out where exactly he went wrong. Where should he even begin?

Maybe he could have handled himself a lot better after Winter Holidays were over. He was still angry and belligerent and bitter and all he wanted was to be left alone. People realized this and stopped talking to him in Glee. Except for one person.

Rachel had made it known on several occasions that she was there for him if he needed it. She baked him plates of cookies, brownies, even apple turnovers (which were his favorite; that girl sure knows how to bake), but he barely gave her the time of day. He liked her still, his feelings for her had never dissipated, but he pushed them to the side and ignored them. He knew he was being a terrible friend and a horrid co-captain, but he repressed his feelings for Rachel and tried to be cool, popular Finn again. He didn't want to be "Finn the Football Gleek who got Fucked Over by his Friends" anymore. He wanted some semblance of the life he had before he joined Glee. He used to be respected, he used to be the guy chicks wanted to date. Now he was getting daily slushie showers and people called him the "lead homo" for Glee. So he tried to distance himself from the other Glee kids, especially Rachel, and started to focus on getting his popularity back.

So maybe he started to hit on a bunch of girls around the school, to let people know he wouldn't be ruined forever by the BabyGate fiasco. He was still a stud, well, he didn't feel like one but he wanted other people to think he was. And maybe some of those girls he flirted with were cheerleaders. And perhaps one of those Cheerleaders was named Santana Lopez. He only went out with her once, and once was enough. She was everything he was looking for; a popular cheerleader who was sexy and willing to go down on him during the one movie he took her to. He let her. And she "let it slip" in front of everyone at Glee during the very next rehearsal.

Yeah, it might have felt really nice, but it wasn't worth the look of unadulterated pain and sadness on Rachel's face for the entirety of the afternoon.

She hadn't said a word to him since. The daily batches of baked goods stopped, and she barely spared him a glance anymore.

He had stopped trying to be a man-whore after that. He wasn't very good at it anyways, it made him feel awkward. Santana had made it known to pretty much everyone what had happened between them, and it had actually helped up his street cred again because Santana was still popular despite being in Glee. So now he was being invited to more parties and some of his old friends started to call him, but he would have traded it all back just to get Rachel to start smiling at him again.

At first he didn't really worry. He was too confident in himself, he thought that Rachel's feelings were infinite; that he could string her along until he was ready and then she would come running to him with open arms. He didn't take into consideration that she would actually give up on him and move on. That might have been the biggest mistake of them all.

He was the first to admit he manipulated her feelings on multiple occasions. He tried to be friends with her and even flirt with her while he was with Quinn when he knew she had feelings for him. He rejected her and lied right to her face. But she always forgave him, every time. Even when he really didn't deserve it.

This time though, he doubted he would ever receive her forgiveness. He had crossed a line in her mind. To her, it was like he wasn't the same guy she had fallen for anymore.

He wanted to be that guy again. The guy who made her smile and laugh and sing. He wanted things to go back to the way they were before he found out about Quinn and the baby. Sure he might have been in the dark about a serious lie, but he was happy. The team was friendly and happy and whole. Now it felt like things were torn apart from the inside. And in a way, they were.

So he was biding his time, waiting for her forgiveness; not knowing he would never get it. How could he be so arrogant; so blind to her needs? He thought of a million ways he could prove to her that he was still the same guy she liked before, that it had all been a product of his fucked-up head and his horrible logic and terrible choices. He found himself thinking about her all the time, and all the chances that he should have taken when he had the opportunity. The more he thought about Rachel, the more he found himself feeling things that he hadn't allowed himself to feel about her in a long time. He wanted Rachel back, and he thought he would be able to wait until she was ready to forgive him.

Then he experienced a shock so intense, he thought he had been electrocuted. It all happened last Friday at Glee rehearsal, a week after his and Santana's date. Normally, Friday nights the Gleeks (who were never invited to parties) all met at the mall to see a movie. He used to be invited, but he declined every time so they stopped inviting him altogether. But after the Santana episode he wanted to stop distancing himself from the other members, especially Rachel, so he asked if he could go. . .

He saw the group standing by the piano, discussing which movie they were going to see. He walked up to them and gave them a timid smile, he was nervous to ask them, but they seemed friendly about it.

"Hey guys, can I tag along tonight? If you don't mind?" Kurt and Mercedes shared a look of shock and Tina and Artie gave him a small smile.

"Are you serious? You haven't said a word to any of us since Sectionals. We thought you were still mad." Mercedes looked a bit guilty.

"I'm trying not to be Angry Finn anymore, and I can really use some friends right about now." Finn rubbed the back of his neck, trying to ease out the tension he felt at their quizzical stares. Had he pushed them all too far away?

"Sure Finn, it would be cool if you came. We're going to see Avatar." Artie replied. Tina turned around to see Rachel collecting her books and heading for the door.

"Hey Rachel, are you coming to the movies with us tonight? Finn's coming too, it can be like his welcome back celebration!" With that Rachel stopped dead in her tracks. She looked at Finn for the first time in a week and her eyes were guarded. She held herself up as high as she could and she said with a slight tremor in her voice, "I can't."

This was Finn's chance to say something to her, something that would let her know that he still thought about her, that he wanted them to be friends again so they could eventually be something more. He wanted to let her know that he cared, and he wanted to know that she still cared for him as well. Too bad he wasn't as eloquent as he thought he was.

"C'mon Rachel, It'll be fun. My return to the normal world. MySpace will still be around after we see Avatar, though I heard it was super long. I'll buy you popcorn. And Sour Patches."

She shook her head and got a sad, yet determined look in her eyes.

"No, I mean I really can't go. I have a date. I've been seeing someone." It took a second for him to process the information and it left him feeling like he had been hit by a tank. The other Glee kids were intrigued so he just stood there absorbing all the information the other Glee kids got out of her.

"What's his name?"

"Jesse" She said his name softly, like a prayer. She used to say his name like that. Anger encompassed his mind and he saw green in front of his eyes.

"Does he go to this school?"

"No, he goes to Carmel." The other kids gasped, Carmel was their main competition for Regionals! Kurt stepped forward with the question they all wanted to know.

"Is he in Vocal Adrenaline?" Finn scoffed to himself. She couldn't possibly be dating someone from their rival team! This was Rachel Berry, she ate competition for breakfast!

"Yes. He's the male lead." At this her eyes passed over Finn for a split second and he felt a burning hot fire blaze though his body. A fierce feeling of anger and another unknown emotion was flowing through his veins and setting his body ablaze with injustice. Who was this guy and who the HELL did he think he was? She gave Finn one more passing glance then headed for the door.

"Have fun at the movies guys, see you Monday!" She waved to everyone else and left them in the choir room. An unsettling silence passed over the group. They dared to look at Finn to gauge his reaction to the news, but he was so shocked he didn't have a chance to school his features. He saw the Gleeks give him various looks of sympathy, and he told them he'd meet them at the mall later that night and bolted for the door. He texted them later that evening and canceled on them. He spent the night in his room, furious and green with envy.

That was last week. Ever since then, Rachel and this Jesse person were the only things he thought about. He realized now that the unknown emotion from last week, the one that burned like fire through his veins and left him thinking absurd and irrational thoughts, was jealousy. He was so jealous of this Jesse guy he couldn't function properly. He needed to know more about him. What he looked like, what kind of personality he had. What he had done to win Rachel over so easily. What Rachel saw in him. Why she would choose Jesse over him. He thought of nothing else.

He stepped out of the shower and got changed for the rest of the afternoon. He prepared his gym bag for their game this afternoon. He looked at the team's schedule and saw it was an away game. At Carmel High.

He remembered a distant memory from earlier in the year. Rachel scolding the club for their lack of choreography, and how Vocal Adrenaline practices everyday after school. He smirked. This was his chance to find out what was so special about this Jesse person. Once he knew, he would figure out how to use it to try and get Rachel back.

He laughed mirthlessly at the turn of events of his life. In the beginning, Rachel was chasing after him while he had a girlfriend. Now, he was the one who was chasing after Rachel while she had a boyfriend. The turn of events made him sick to his stomach. He'd had so many chances with her and he blew them all. Now she was unavailable to him and it was up to him to fix it. He would get Rachel back, even if he had to chase her forever.

He never thought he would ever know what it was like to be Rachel Berry.

Now he knew.

Salut mes amis!

The title of this story is a song from my favorite 90's Progressive Rock band, The Gin Blossoms. The song is "Hey Jealousy," If you've never heard it, go download it, it's a wonderfully catchy song. The lyrics also relate to my story, which is convenient. YouTube it! It's totally worth it!

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Merci Mille Fois

The Minsk