-Authors notes-
It's a weekend double whammy. I'm not trying to get hopes up for daily updates or anything but I am a few chapters ahead at the moment and since this one only required some checks from myself I wanted to get my first Rachel chapter up. Yeah it's a little shorter than Pucks but Rach has a lot more chapters coming than Puck so it's only fair right? (Although I do adore writing as Puck, he's my favourite badass)
I hope you guys like it, and thanks to those of you that have already added story alerts. I only put the first chapter up last night and woke up this morning to a inbox full of them.
And while I say no daily updates I doubt it'll be too long to wait. I'm having so much fun writing this. I mean it.
Once again this slightly crazed fan owns nothing of Glee. But glee does own my heart. As does Finchel.
So without further ado. Chapter 2. Can't wait to hear what some of you guys think.
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Rachel sat at the back of the choir room watching in quiet adoration as Finn sang.
He strutted towards Quinn singing the final lines to 'Hello I Love You' and Rachel felt she might have died right there and then had he moved towards her at that moment.
She could kill him she really could. After all it wasn't her fault. She hadn't wanted to like him. She hadn't meant to find out that inside the good looking, popular jock was a genuinely kind and thoughtful boy. She was content with suffering her unpopularity alone but now her head was full of fanciful ideas of friendship and a world where he wanted to be with her as much as she wanted him.
It wasn't fair.
Mr. Shue showered his favorite rock star with praise as he sat back down next to his girlfriend.
She shook her head to clear away her inappropriate thoughts on the Finn matter. Leaping from her chair she raced over to their teacher as the bell rang, "Mr. Schuester, I'd like to run some of my Hello ideas by you".
Behind her the club members began to disperse as Rachel handed her song list to the teacher. Out of the corner of her eye she caught Quinn dropping a book without realizing and then Finn dropping one of his as he picked hers up.
"Well Rachel, I love this Beyonce track but I think you'll be a lot stronger with the Lionel Ritchie song. It's a classic after all".
She snapped her gaze back to Mr. Schuester with a slight smile at Finns chivalry.
"I think you're right, I'll pick up the sheet music later and start working on it right away".
She spun around quickly, sweeping her long hair behind her and he just chuckled softly at her dedication. It was only a weekly glee assignment but Rachel treated every single one like a make or break moment for her career.
If she ever needed to prove that constantly striving for perfection was worth while, her performance at sectionals had done that.
But as Rachel began the short walk home with her iPod shuffling through her monumental music library she considered the situation she had put herself in. Or should she say put her heart in.
It was never going to end well. There would be no rainbows for Rachel Berry and Finn Hudson. He was crazy about his cliche pregnant girlfriend.
Pregnant. She had to keep reminding herself. Pregnant with Finns baby.
Case closed.
"Well no more of this nonsense Rachel Berry" she told herself. Her thoughts had been whirling around faster than normal.
Picking up speed on the street rather than inside her own head she became resolved to commit all her pent up, angst ridden emotions into her music where they belonged. However she still had no idea how to forget about him.
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"But let me start by saying I love you"
His hands played the last notes on the piano and Rachel looked up at him still slightly dazed at the situation she had found herself in.
Was this cute boy really smiling at her? The music stopped and she couldn't take her eyes off of him as he nodded briefly to the small crowd that had formed.
He smiled at her again, she couldn't believe it. She considered pinching herself and her fingers were inching themselves closer to her arm to try it as he opened his mouth to speak.
"We should do this more often" he commented.
Sing? or stare aimlessly into each others eyes?
He continued despite her silence, "How's Friday night?"
Definitely stare aimlessly.
Rachel smiled sheepishly forgetting her heartache at the hands of Finn Hudson. Here was a talented, handsome, confident boy who was not ashamed to be seen with her in public. In fact he'd only just met her and within minutes they were starting impromptu performances together.
She still hadn't answered and only noticed it was her turn to speak when she caught the frown scrunching his forehead as he waited for a answer. It was a rare occurrence that Rachel Berry forgot to speak.
"I would love to Jesse St. James", saying his full name made it all the more real.
His face instantly lit up.
"Honestly Jesse is fine".
They went over the arrangements for Friday and Rachel caught herself holding a breath as his hand grazed hers while exchanging numbers.
He actually had a contact card.
"A business card for those in the business of contacting me", he had told her. For some reason she was close to swooning at that. Maybe Jesse was a distraction, or maybe Jesse was the like minded, talented man she had been waiting for.
Either way Rachel had gone a whole 20 minutes without thinking about that quarterback.
