Disclaimer: Glee belongs to Fox, and the characters to Ryan Murphy and Brad Fulchuck. I'm borrowing them for the summer.

Author's Note: Well, I didn't get any reviews on the prologue. But I'm hoping that will change, because a lot of people did put this story on alert. You know who you are, thank you for doing that. . . otherwise I wouldn't have even continued this story.

I should tell you one more thing, I usually only write Glee stories in the summertime. . . and after the season finale. My big love is "the Mentalist", which honestly doesn't have a big enough following considering how fabulous it is.

Anyways, onto the chapter. . . try not to hate on Finn's fiancée too much. Yes, her name is Lucy. But for the diehard Gleeks, I wasn't copying Quinn's old name, I was thinking about "While You Were Sleeping" with Sandra Bullock.

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Chapter 1

"Open mine now!" Lucy White said, sliding an envelope towards her fiancé with a huge grin on her face.

Finn Hudson nodded and cleared his throat as he did what she asked. His mouth dropping open when he saw exactly what the envelope held. "Luce!"

"She's playing Lima Heights Theater this weekend," Lucy replied. "You own all her CDs and live concert DVDs, so I thought that you might like to actually see her live and in person."

"You told me that they were all sold out though!"

"I work at a radio station, remember?" Lucy reminded him. "They want me to go and try to get her to come on my show for an interview with her while she's in town for the weekend. I pulled a few strings and got an extra ticket for my favorite man."

"You shouldn't have!"

"But I wanted to because I know how much you love her."

You really have no idea, Finn thought to himself as he stuffed the tickets back in the envelope.

The truth of the matter was that Rachel was one of his best kept secrets. Lucy didn't know that at one point he had been engaged to the famous singer, in fact she didn't even know they had ever dated. The only girls from his past that he had ever told her about were Quinn and Santana, but then again, the only significance they had really had in his life were driving him to Rachel's arms.

"Are you okay Finn?" Lucy asked, breaking into his thoughts.

"Yeah," he replied, smiling at her. "Thank you for the tickets, I really appreciate them sweetie."

She beamed. "I thought that you would!"

"I can't wait to go and see her," Finn said for good measure as he tried to figure out a way in the back of mind to get out of having to go backstage for the meet and greet with Rachel later. There was no way that he could see her again, not after the way things had ended between them.

"Honey, are you okay?" Lucy asked again, her face concerned.

Finn smiled again. "I'm fine; I'm just trying to figure out where to take you before the show that night."

"We could just eat at my house. It's free if we actually meet at home," Lucy said, giggling.

"But I like treating you to things," Finn told her. "You're my favorite girl."

Puck rolled his eyes and muttered something under his breath. Mostly to remind him that there were other people at the house, and mostly to stop the flow of words coming from his best friend's mouth.

"Shut up man!" Finn whispered, nudging him in the ribs.

"Is there something you wanna say Noah?" Lucy asked, shooting him a look of mock disapproval.

"Just that everything was delicious Luce," he replied as he beamed at her. "But Quinn and I really have to get home now. We're close to the due date now, and the doctor says that she should be in bed by a reasonable time."

Lucy's face fell. "But we haven't even had cake yet."

"Save us a piece," Quinn suggested with a smile as she rested her hand over her expanding tummy.

Kurt took this as his opportunity to jump up. "I have to go too. Rehearsals for Wicked start tomorrow, and my train for New York leaves in an hour."

"I really wish that you'd stay Kurt," Lucy said.

"Next time," he promised, blowing her an air kiss, before turning to his stepbrother with a grin. "Happy Birthday Finn, I hope you have a fabulous time at the Rachel Berry concert."

"Thanks. . ." Finn said.

"Happy Birthday Finn," Quinn echoed as Puck helped her to her feet and into her sweater, she turned to Lucy. "And thank you for having us over tonight."

"No problem," Lucy said.

"Mom, dad. . . are you leaving too?" Finn asked.

"We really should," Carol answered, giving Burt a sideways glance. "But everything was lovely Lucy. Thank you for opening your home to us this evening."

"I don't think your friends and family like me very much!" Lucy proclaimed when she had closed the door behind the last of their guests.

Finn stared at the chocolate cake in front of him. "They like you okay."

"I don't want them to like me okay Finn! I want them to love me, okay! This relationship is going to be forever, and I don't want it to be miserable."

"They like you Lucy!" Finn snapped. "You don't always have to take things so personally!"

Lucy's mouth dropped open. "Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not in the mood to argue," Finn said, getting to his feet. "I have to open the shop for Burt tomorrow, and I still have a car that isn't finished yet. Maybe I'll just go too."

"I'm sorry Finn," Lucy said quietly. "I just want the people in your life to accept that I'm going to be in your life."

"And they have. . ." Finn replied, trailing off, not wanting to bring up Rachel. Not here, not now, not with the tickets to her concert right at his elbow.

There was no way Lucy would understand what he had with Rachel. There was no way she would understand Rachel. She might even feel inferior to his ex-fiancée (Lucy always felt inferior, it was just who she was.)

"Is there something that you aren't telling me?" Lucy asked, looking at him as she started to clear off the table.

Finn glanced at his cake. "What I'm not telling you is how much I'm looking forward to having a piece of your cake. It looks delicious."

She beamed. "I'll go get a knife."

And Finn sighed in relief, another potential disastrous conversation averted. He knew that he would have to tell her about Rachel sooner or later, but he would have plenty of time to think about what he said when the time came up.

TBC. . .

Author's Note II:

Please tell me what you think of this. The story alerts are FANTASTIC! But I need feedback, even if it is just to tell me how terrible this is. I'll try and get into this community a little bit this summer, if that helps anything.

And don't forget about my fan fiction Twitter account, BEyesParker22.

Next time, Rachel will show up! With some 'friendship/womance' between her and Quinn, stay tuned!

Holly, 6/15/2012_