"When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."

John Lennon

A/N: I own nothing and all credit for the idea goes to finchel-prompts on tumblr.

Rachel took a sip of her water as she waited for Ryder to come get her. The two had met in her music appreciation class and had instantly hit it off with one big exception; Ryder had a huge crush on her. Although she was very flattered Rachel just didn't see him in that way at all. Rachel had suffered her fair share of heartbreak in the past and she wasn't too keen to get hurt again, which is why she chose to focus on making her transcript look spectacular in hopes that she would have a better chance at getting into NYADA next year.

Her thoughts drifted back to the stranger that had trampled all over her beanie babies and her thoughts. She had to admit he had quite an impressive physique; the perfect male specimen. Except for his mouth; other than looking thin and kissable the words that came out of it had immediately brought her from her ogling and filled her with rage at his assumptions. Just because she had beanie babies did not mean she was a prude! Rachel declared under her breath as Ryder made his way over to her.

"Who's a prude?" He asked wrapping an arm around her in an effort to give her a weirdly awkward side hug. "Oh no one." She gulped hoping he would let it go. She wasn't ready to share the story of last night's hunky asshole that she had been thinking about all night. "So I finally get to meet the guys huh?" she smiled at him as he wrapped an arm around her. He was always finding ways to touch her and although she did mind it she sometimes just let him have his moment. Ryder was in a band called the quarterbacks with some friends of his from the universities football team and she was finally going to hear them for the first time now that Ryder had decided it was time for her to come meet the guys at their rehearsal. To say she was excited was an understatement. She knew from class that Ryder had a killer voice and although he said they rotate who sings what in the band she knew that if he was a part of it they had to be good and one could never have too many musically inclined friends.

"Excited are we? You know I have to warn you most girls find me irresistible after they see me preform." He joked lightly giving her that ever present smirk on his face.

"Oh so that's what happened with Marley!" she grinned rolling her eyes at him as she stepped forward slightly in an effort to remove his grasp from around her shoulders. Marley was another friend of theirs they had met in music appreciation and she had been hopelessly crushing on Ryder since day one. In Rachel's opinion she was a far better match for Ryder than she was but of course Ryder just wouldn't accept that fact.

"Ha you're just a regular comedian." He glared at her playfully leading her through a front door of the house that she assumed belonged to the friend he had called Puck that shared the house with his girlfriend and their daughter Beth.

After grabbing himself and Rachel a beer from the refrigerator Ryder led her through a hall way and into the garage that held three other guys, a beautiful blonde woman, and a sort of instruments ranging from a drum set to a keyboard. All eyes turned to her as Ryder began introducing her to the group.

She had come to learn that the blonde was Quinn, Puck, the bass guitarist was the one with a skunk-like patch of hair on his head, Sam the electric guitarist, and Blaine was the keyboard player. "Where's Finn?" she heard Ryder ask from his position next to her and wondered who Finn could be – did his parents like fish or something?

Rachel was immediately brought out of her thoughts when a distinct grunt could be heard behind the group from a male figure that was bent over fetching something out of his bag. Her eyes nearly bugged out of her head when she got a better look at the ass that was encased in the dark denim jeans. She knew that ass! Her throat went dry when the owner of the ass confirmed her suspicions as he stood to his full height.

"You!" Finn excitedly croaked out taking a step closer to her. "Knew you would come begging for me eventually, took a little longer than I thought you would though." He remarked arrogantly his eyes never leaving Rachel's even as they glared right through him.

His focus was only interrupted by Ryder who was looking between the two of them with a worried expression on his face. "Um you two know each other?"

Finn opened his mouth to reply but Rachel had already beaten him to the punch and her response was defiantly amusing. "No, I've just seen him naked!" Rachel bit out placing her hands on her hips as Finn said the only thing that his Neanderthal brain could think of "Ditto."

A/N: Bare with me on the punctuation I am horrible with it. I hope you like the second chapter and reviews would be amazing. Please and thank you.