Rachel was laying in bed trying to take a nap after her long rehearsal when Kurt came into her room loudly.

"Hey Rachel!" she felt him sit out on her bed. "Whatcha doing?" Rachel opened her eyes slowly.

"Obviously not trying to take a nap. What are you doing?" she said sarcastically while rolling over to face away from him.

"Talking to my best friend!" he said cheerfully "And I have a favor to ask."

"What is that? I'm not cooking tonight. It's your night." she still had her head turned and facing the other way and didn't feel like dealing with him.

"Oh it's not that."

"Then what is it Kurt? I've had a long rehearsal and my director is a total ass and I don't feel like playing this guessing game anymore."

"Whoa! Is it your time of the month or something?" she felt him start to pat her back and she instantly felt bad for snapping at him.

"No I'm sorry I'm just really stressed and I had a bad day. What's the favor?" she turned her head and looked up at him.

"Well you know how we're looking for a roommate?" he started out slowly and she nodded her head suspicious of his tone. "Well you know how Finn is coming home from Iraq next week?"

"Kurt you know I can't stand your brother." she said angrily knowing exactly where this conversation was heading.

"I know but he has changed! You haven't seen him since he went into the army. You know the college him. He was going through a phase then."

"Kurt, he threw up on me at a frat party and then laughed. I do not want that living with us." she turned her head angrily away from him and pulled the cover over her head.

"Rachel, he has no where to go! He's getting out of the army and he's looking into fire fighting and they have training here in New York and he needs a place to stay."

"Finn and I don't get along!" she practically yelled.

"Have you ever actually tried getting along with him?" he said angrily jumping up from her bed and slamming her bedroom door shut.

A few tears slipped from her eyes. She did try to get along with him actually and that ended horribly.

...

The next few days it was pretty quiet around the apartment. Rachel avoided Kurt and he avoided her.

She was sitting at the kitchen bar eating some cereal and reading a magazine when Kurt came in. She awkwardly looked down and wouldn't meet his eyes.

"Rachel can we talk?" she felt him sit down on the stool next to hers.

"Sure I guess." she ate another bite.

"I know you're totally against letting Finn move in with us but the thing is he's my family and he needs somewhere to stay." Rachel felt bad. Kurt had no idea what had gone down between herband Finn. All he was trying to do was look out for his family. "Our rent will be split three ways with him moving in and that means you will finally have enough money to get that new phone you want. Money will be easier on us all if he moves in!"

Rachel started to make a pros and cons list in her head. The cons won but when she looked at Kurt she saw how important this was to him and how their friendship would be greatly effected if she said no again. She missed not talking to him the pass couple days. She sighed.

"Fine he can move in but I swear if he throws up on me again he has to go." Kurt squealed and hugged her.

"You won't regret this Rachel!" With that he grabbed his phone and ran off to his room to call Finn.

She had a feeling she would regret this.

...

She has no idea how Kurt talked her into coming to the airport with him to pick up Finn. She moped and watched Kurt hold up a sign that said "Welcome Home Hero!" glad that she talked him out of making her hold up a sign herself.

"There he is!" Rachel sucked in a deep breath when she saw the husky guy walking toward them in a camouflage suit. He looked the same as he did seven years ago but he had a certain maturity to him now.

"Hey Kurt!" he smiled at him as he approached the two people. Kurt jumped up and down and hugged him which Finn laughed at while hugging him back.

"How was Iraq?" Kurt asked while grabbing Finn and pulling him to the luggage pick up. Rachel walked awkwardly after them.

"You know.. Crazy I guess." he shrugged. "I'm just glad to be home." he turned his head then and met Rachel's eyes. "Hey long time no see Rachel." she blushed and looked down. "How have you been?"

"Same old. Same old." she muttered while looking down still.

"She's on broadway now." Kurt informed him proudly.

"Really?" he asked surprisingly which made her blood boil. She absolutely hated this man and she couldn't stand being in the same area of him and their past. He hadn't even done anything to her since getting off the plane it was just his presence that irked her.

"Yes! And if you don't mind I'm going to be in the car." she turned and ran off then leaving a confused Kurt and a regretful Finn behind.

...

"Dude I thought you said she wanted me to move in." Finn said while grabbing his suit case from the long line of suit cases.

"She does! She just doesn't know it yet." Kurt mumbled hoping he hadn't heard the last part.

"Kurt I would have never moved in if I would have known she didn't want me to move in with you guys." They started to walk out the airport.

"I know. That's why I didn't tell you. She'll come around though. Life has been hard on her with her dads dying and everything."

"Wait her dads died?" Finn asked shocked.

"Yeah a long time ago. You didn't know?" Finn could tell Kurt was surprised he hadn't known.

"When?"

"Seven years ago. They died in a car crash. We were visiting you at college when she found out. She's changed ever since." Kurt sighed. "Sometimes I think she's not living for herself anymore. She's living to make them proud."

Finn absorbed everything Kurt was saying. He felt like a complete ass. How could he have treated her like that when she had so much going on at the time? Now he understood why she ran off like she did.

Please let me know what you think. I really like all the possibilities I have for this story. So please review :)