Disclaimer: I do now own Glee. Thanks to I'd Rather Be singing for being my Beta and sorry about all the mistakes in the last chapter.
"Finn, you can show her around." Mrs. Hudson said, going back to the kitchen.
"All right, c'mon Rachel." Finn said, taking her arm and showing her where she;d be staying first.
"This is our guest room, where you'll be staying." he said, opening the door. There were pictures of the Cheeri-o's and Quinn all over that walls.
"Is this some sort of shrine you forgot to take down?" Rachel asked.
"No, I just haven't finished taking Quinn's stuff down yet." he said.
"Oh, right, sorry." Rachel said, feeling stupid.
"It's no problem, you didn't know."
"I shouldn't have said anything, it is my fault." she said, her lip quivering.
"Oh, come on Rachel, don't cry." Finn pleaded, hugging her.
"I just feel so stupid. How come I can't do anything right anymore?"
"What are you talking about? You haven't done anything wrong."
"If I hadn't then why am I pregnant? Why did I get kicked out?"
"Those were mistakes."
"Ones that if I were smart I could have avoided."
"Rachel, you have to accept that you aren't going to get everything right. No ones perfect." Finn said, looking down at her.
"I know that already. But I had goals and now that I'm going to have a kid I won't be able to reach even half of them." she said, her voice muffled my his chest.
"That's fine." he said.
"No it's not, I can't be like everyone else!" she said angrily.
"And you aren't, how many people can say they got pregnant at sixteen."
"One-third of American teenagers, and that's not something to brag about. And now it looks like I'm copying Quinn. Look, can we stop talking about this?"
"Yeah, sounds good. Anyway, if you need me my room is down the hall and my mom's is at the very end of the hall." he said, motioning to each door.
"Thanks."
"Finn, Rachel, dinner's ready!" Finn's mom called.
"Be there in a sec., Mom!" Finn called back, "And your bathroom is next door on the left." he said before taking her arm and leading her to the kitchen. There was a little wooden table there that had three mismatched chairs around it and plates with big piles of lasagna.
"You sit there." Finn said pointing to the chair next to where he sat. She sat down and then Finns mom sat down and joined hands with Finn. They began to say grace and Rachel didn't know what to do so she sat there. They finished and started eating and after they finished Rachel went to the guest room. She took down all the pictures of Quinn and her stuff and threw them in the box in the corner of the room that had some of the pictures already in it. Then a bell sound rang through the house.
"I'll get it!" Finn yelled, running to the door. Rachel peeked her head out of the door to the room and saw Quinn standing there.
"I came to get my stuff." she said. Rachel took the box and walked out, handing it to Quinn and walking away, catching bits of the conversation.
"… She… here now?" Quinn sounded hurt.
"Yeah … why … care?" Finn said coldly. Rachel walked into the kitchen and started helping Mrs. Hudson with the dishes.
"You don't have to help me, sweetie, you're a guest."
"No, I want to. I'm used to helping with dishes." Rachel smiled.
"Well thank you!" she smiled. They chatted a little as they worked.
"Mom, d'you know where Rachel is?" Finn asked walking around.
"She's helping me in here, we're almost done."
"All right."
"How did it happen?" Mrs. Hudson asked Rachel.
"How did what happen?"
"You get pregnant?"
"Long story short, Mr. Schuester." Rachel said. She felt safe telling Mrs. Hudson that.
"What, the show choir guy?"
"Yeah, It was my fault though, I wasn't myself that day."
"I know how that feels." Mrs. Hudson said, her face looking distant. Rachel put the last dish up.
"Thanks for letting me help."
"Thank you for helping." Mrs. Hudson said, patting Rachel's arm, "If you need anything tell me." she said and walked away. Rachel went to find Finn.
"What was up with Quinn?"
"She's mad that I'm letting you stay here but it doesn't really matter." he shrugged.
"And I thought we might finally be able to get along." she muttered.
"What?"
"Nothing, thinking out loud."
"All right."
"So why did you want me?"
"I was just making sure you were still here."
"Oh, thank you!" she smiled.
"Welcome." he said. She walked to her room and checked the time, it was almost ten and she hadn't dine anything. She dug through her backpack and got her homework out and did it quickly before getting into her pajamas and getting into bed.
* * * *
Rachel woke up to Mrs. Hudson calling her and Finn for breakfast. She brushed her hair and then walked out, not bothering to dress just yet.
"What do you normally eat, sweetie?" Mrs. Hudson asked.
"Normally my dads make pancakes but I don't really mind."
"Well, we have cereal, milk, yogurt, and some fruit but I don't know if it's still good."
"I'll get cereal." Rachel smiled and got a box, not looking at it's label and poured it then got milk. She ate it quickly and just as she finished Finn came out, half awake, hair messed up. Rachel laughed.
"Morning, Finn." she smiled.
"Huh, oh, hey." he yawned, sitting down and laying his head on the table. Rachel laughed again and walked to her room. She got some clothes out of her bag and got dressed. After that she grabbed her bag and was about to leave when she remembered she didn't have a car. She began to cry again.
"What's wrong now?" Finn asked, walking past her room.
"I got kicked out." she said, then started laughing at how stupid she sounded for crying about yesterday.
"Wait like ten minutes and we can leave." he said and walked away. She fixed her make up and by the time she was done Finn was already in the car.
"Bye Rachel." Mrs. Hudson called as Rachel walked past.
"Bye Mrs. Hudson, have a good day." Rachel said and walked out the door. She got in the car and Finn drove off.
"Are you feeling all right today?" he asked.
"Yeah."
"You sure? One minute you were crying, the next you were laughing and now you're happy."
"It's normal. Wasn't Quinn like this?"
"No, she went from normal to pissed."
"Doesn't surprise me." Rachel mused. Finn didn't bother to answer. He pulled into the parking lot and got out, getting Rachel's backpack and his and then opening her door for her.
"Oh, thank you!" Rachel smiled, taking her backpack and closing the door with her hip.
"No problem." he said and walking to his locker. There were a few people whispering as she walked down the hall that immediately stopped and stared at her as she passed but she ignored it, She put her stuff away and closed her locker, standing there was a football player with a Slushee cup in his hand. He jerked and it went flying all over Rachel before she could do anything.
"Dude! What the hell was that?!" Finn yelled, walking up beside Rachel and pushing her back gently so she was behind him.
"What, you and the dweeb are a couple now?"
"Well, no, but that doesn't give you the right to anyway."
"Tehn I have the right to do this." he said and dumped the rest of the cup on his head, "Have a good morning!" he said cheerfully and walked away, laughing. Finn ignored the fact that it was falling down his face and back and turned to Rachel.
"You all right?" he asked.
"Yeah, fine, I'm gonna go clean up." she said, biting her lip so she wouldn't cry. HE would have hugged her but that wouldn't have done either on them good.
"Yeah, me too." he said and walked away. Rachel stood there for a moment staring at him as he walked away, awed that he did that and then walked in the direction of the bathrooms. She changed and cleaned herself off and walked to class.
Thanks again to my wonderful Beta. She finished the Beta check a while ago but I just got this out today. School work and family and computer troubles have taken over my life. my iPod is on the fritz so I'm upset because now I can't listen to music and spent my weekend trying to finish reading two books so I can give them back to my friends ASAP. It worked, the first two books of the Vampire Kisses series were devouered in record time, even faster then I read Twiligh. I have state testing that starts Friday so I'm not the happiest camper but I have to live with it. Glee's on Tuesday so that'll make things better, they have a sneak peek on iTunes for free download for those of us that our total Gleeks, all I need is a t-shirt from Border's Book Store and I'm good! well, that and I key-chain and the marnets and the pins... but I have to save my money. I'm geting ever growing news about my upcoming trip to France with my aunt and uncle and all of her family and I'm very excited. I've met her brother once and her parents a couple times, bt only when when my cousin had his birthday parties. We missed the awesome cake this year since we moved out of state, it was shapred like a cheeseburger and fries, I'll post a link to the picture on my profile. I can't believe he's six! He's growing up :(. And now I'll barely get to see him unless they come down here often. *Sigh*
-Erin