Chapter One
Graduation came and went in a blink of an eye, McKinley class of 2012. The Glee Club ran out the year on a strong note. Finn dating who he thought was the love of his life Rachel. With Rachel getting offered a lead role in the new Broadway musical of Starry Knight, Finn got accepted into Cleveland State University majoring in of all things Special Education, wanting to teach disabled elementary kids. Rachel and Finn parted ways after high school, realizing that they both needed to grow up and stop running after something as childish as first loves.
As for the rest of the Glee Club graduating class eight years later, Kurt and Blaine moved to New York with Rachel in which they all share an apartment. Kurt works with Rachel as the male lead role and Blaine teaches Julliard. Kurt and Blaine are still going strong while Rachel is independently single but still flirts with her vocal coach Jason. Quinn is married to Puck with a two year old boy Hayden with a baby girl on the way. They live in Columbus. Quinn is a stay at home mom while she runs a day care on the weekends and Puck, who goes by Noah now, works security at IBM as head manager. Tina and Artie got back together senior year of high school and after five years of staying together just got married last year with a baby boy on the way. They live in Ohio City not far from Lima. Artie got accepted to go to ITT Tech where he majored in computer programming; He now works at home as a creator of new video games while Tina works at the local court house as a supervisor. Mercedes and Sam stayed together throughout their last year of high school and went to University of Rhode Island. Mercedes majored in music while Sam studied Sociology getting a scholarship and full ride through college. Both are teaching Elementary school. Lauren went on to wrestle at Ohio State University. She went on to pro wrestler but got tired of that and is now bartending. She's dating a Mike became a professional dancer and was recently hired by Usher for backup dancing. Santana skipped out on college and worked as a waitress for a long time. She came out as being pansexual after graduation, only Brittany knows this though. She soon ended up dating an amazing dentist who takes good care of her. They are planned to wed in six months. Karofsky is working at the local fire department where he is dating the chief. He is out and proud thanks to Kurt senior year when he came out to his parents, who were very accepting. Will went on teaching Spanish at McKinley with the same crew of teachers. He is now dating Emma and she is still overcoming her OCD. Brittany went on to Ohio State where she majored in dance and worked as a hip hop teacher at the local dance studio. She now opened her own studio in the heart of Cleveland called Ducky's Dance Town Academy. She teaches girls and boys from elementary to middle school hip hop, ballet, jazz and ballroom.
It was Saturday afternoon; Finn was taking his morning run through the suburbs of Cleveland. He was living in an apartment with a buddy from college in the middle of town. Finn was running down the sidewalk with his ear buds in his ears blasting a Coldplay song Viva La Vida. All of the sudden as he is rushing through the wind he falls flat on his face tripping over two giant German Sheppard dogs. His ipod crashed to the ground "Holy crap." He groaned as he picked up his ipod and brushed himself off. "Oh my god I'm so so sorry." A woman's voice said behind him as he felt a hand on his back while he stood up. "It's alright, it's fi-" he widened his eyes and looked at the woman he just ran into. Blonde hair flowing down her back in a ponytail, bright pink tank top and white sports bra you could see through her shirt, short blue shorts and track shoes.
"Brittany?" he starred not believing it was actually her. Finn hadn't seen Brittany since they graduated eight years ago.
"Finn?" she smiled really big realizing who he was. He looked different. Toned, certainly not taller, and you could see a sweat stain on the front of his chest indicating he'd been running for a while. She pulled him into a hug as she tried keeping hold of the two dog leashes. "What are you doing in Cleveland, I mean…how've you been?" she asked still in shock.
Finn smiled and hugged her back warmly. "I'm great, yeah, great. I live here teaching at the elementary school down the street." He nodded. "What are you doing here?" he asked feeling excited to see her after so long.
"I own the dance academy by the school." She widened her eyes and laughed at the irony.
"No kidding?" he smiled. "Um…so this might be a bit off but would you like to go out to dinner tonight…I mean just to catch up. It's been a while." He said shrugging.
"Yeah, totally!" she smiled really big. She hadn't seen anyone from high school since graduation except for the occasional Santana visits and phone calls from Artie and Blaine. Brittany's dogs tugged on her leash and she snapped out of starring at Finn. He looks so good she thought.
"Okay awesome, I guess we can meet at that café by the school. Garden Café?" he suggested. It was a nice place that reminded him of Breadstix back in Lima and he thought that would be a good place for the both of them to go.
"Okay I'll see you later." She smiled and felt the tug on the leashes again. She laughed and awkwardly hugged Finn goodbye and watched him continue running behind her and she was being pulled by her dogs. "Okay okay I'm going." She said.