Finn sighed as he pulled up at Rachel's house. He loved her, he truly did, but did not appreciate a text message asking him to be at her house in five minutes for a 'surprise.'
The first time she did it, he must admit, he was very curious. He had rushed over, anticipating that in the very least it might involve some of her awesome Banana Bread and in his wildest fantasies it might involve well… her wearing very little. He blushed at the thought.
The problem was that she had subjected him to quite a few surprises over the summer and the majority of these involved musicals. Sometimes it would be last minute tickets to the theatre, others just the renting of a DVD. The thing was Rachel took musicals like really seriously so there wasn't even chance distracting her with a make out session. So the only surprise he had was managing to stay awake until the end number, although with Grease 2 he hadn't quite managed it. It was an awful movie anyways, Rachel had said.
She was out to greet him, before he managed to knock on the front door.
followed by her father, Charles.
"Hi Finn," she squealed, as she kissed him on the cheek. "Daddy's driving us."
Finn shrugged "but I have my car right here, Rach."
"I know that, but if you drove us then it wouldn't be a surprise, would it silly?"
He shrugged and stepped in to the back of the Volvo. So it looked like it was another musical. How many more were they left to see?
She grazed his thigh loosely and smiled reassuringly. "I promise you'll like it, she murmured." He attempted silence for the rest of the journey. After all, if she started speaking then he'd have to look at her and if he looked at her he'd want to kiss and then if he kissed her…..well her dad would probably kick him out the car.
Her dad made a left and finally turned into the parking lot.
"Breadsticks," he asked, "his face breaking out into a huge grin. Then it faded " but Rach there's nothing for you to eat here! I mean I lied before. Uh, when I said the vegan meatballs are okay, I was just trying to make you feel better! They're actually terrible. I mean my mom had them once after watching a documentary on animal cruelty and they were so awful they turned her back to meat eating! She said eating them was human cruelty!"
Rachel laughed, "it's fine Finn, I'll guess I'll just have a salad and breadsticks….. I mean it's all you can eat breadsticks right?"
"It is," grinned Finn, "this is going to be awesome babe" he replied, as he kissed Rachel on the cheek. As he watched her father drive off into the distance, he turned to kiss her fully on the lips and murmured. "Best. Surprise. Ever."
She kissed him back and then whispered sexily into his ear "just wait until later… you haven't seen anything yet."