The following week, and Kurt was finally back at school. Finn and Kurt had both spent the past week at the Hummel grandparents' house, due to the honeymoon. Rachel laughed at her friend as he moaned about his grandfather's lack of cleanliness, and the fact he couldn't practise singing in their tiny bungalow. However, now that Burt and Carol were back, they insisted on Rachel visiting the new house.

"Kurt! It's so much bigger than I expected..."

They had pulled up outside and were making their way inside the hall.

"I know it's perfect! Have you seen these colours- yes picked by moi!"

After a ten minute call for dinner, Rachel went upstairs to wash her hands. She was about to turn into the bathroom when she heard singing from the room opposite. She didn't mean to be nosy but the voice pulled her in as she pressed an ear to the door. The voice seemed to be singing "Don't stop believing" by journey, not perfectly to her well trained ear, but it was close. You could hear the passion seeping through, and she couldn't help but join in. After a few lines of the duet, Finn opened the door to find Kurt's best-friend Rachel standing there singing with him. Finn loved to sing, but this was something that he was pretty sure no-one else knew, so naturally he was surprised when another voice joined him.

"Er..."

"Oh hi!" Rachel stammered, flushing more and more as the seconds progressed. "Sorry, I heard you singing... and well, you were really good Finn, I mean it. You know we need new members for glee club...you should consider joining..."wrapping a piece of hair around her little finger and looking up at him with big brown eyes.

"Maybe I will..." Finn pushed a piece of hair out of Rachel's eyes, thinking about how silky her hair was. They were still gazing at each other when Kurt shouted upstairs, causing them both to jump and smile nervously at each other.

"Well I guess we should be heading downstairs, come on". Finn reached out and held Rachel's hand, leading her downstairs. "Sorry it was my fault she had to wait for the bathroom" letting go of her hand as soon as they reached the kitchen.

The dinner passed with Finn silently watching Rachel- not in a creepy way or anything...He couldn't understand it, why was he so interested in her? It would never happen anyways- she's Kurt's best friend, the rest of the meal was spent daydreaming about Rachel.

"Yes he plays the drums don't you Finn?" Finn looked around to find Kurt dabbing his mouth with the napkin as he looked at him with questioning eyes. Finn suddenly realised he had no idea what was going on.

"Really?" Rachel smiled as she looked down at her ice-cream.

"Yeh- I'm not great or anything". He watched as the friends left the table to prepare a song for glee club. He'd never really payed attention to glee before but now, well now he was certainly interested.

"So how is it with Blaine hm?"

Rachel and Kurt were walking to rehearsal, linking their arms as usual. Blaine Anderson was Kurt's new love interest, who happened to be in a rival show choir. Just as they were about to turn the corner, Finn walked past them, whispering a hello to Rachel as he passed. She tried to calm herself down, telling herself it was nothing- just being friendly...

"Rachel! Rachel! Have you been listening to me at all? The only time I've seen you like this was when we won those Barbara tickets, and you couldn't speak for a whole day!" They sat in their usual seats in the choir room waiting for Mr Schue.

"Sorry Kurt I just had something on my mind...So are the two of you dating now or..."

"I think so! We should go on a double-date- don't worry we'll find you someone"

Mr Schuester, late as usual walked in with a big smile on his face. There were five glee members: Rachel, Kurt, Mercedes, Tina and Artie, and although they loved their little group, everyone knew they'd need more members to compete.

"Now I know that recently we've been lacking a little something, but I think I have the answer. Now this is the sheet music for a new song were trying- you've all heard of don't stop believing right?"

"I'm sorry Mr Schue but if neither I nor Artie are singing the male lead with Rachel then who is?" Kurt's signature look with one eyebrow raised critically.

"You would be right Kurt, neither of you are singing the lead, but instead is our new member...Finn Hudson!"

The room was full shocked faces, Kurt looking completely confused, and Rachel with her mouth hanging open, blinking to make sure it wasn't a dream.

"Hey guys." Finn smiled as he walked in to take a sit next to Rachel.

"Finn you like to sing? Since when?" Kurt's face a picture of confusion and shock.

"Well you mentioned something about needing new members" winking at Rachel "and Mr Schue heard me singing after football practise...so here I am!"

Practise went faster and better than usual, forcing Mr Schue to realise their true potential. Rachel was packing up her things on the second day of rehearsal, waving goodbye to Kurt who had a dental appointment, much to his protests about how perfect his teeth were. This meant that Rachel would either have to walk home or catch a lift off Mercedes.

"Hey Rach wait up".

She turned around in the car-park to find Finn running towards her, slightly wet from the rain that was beginning to fall.

"I wondered if you wanted a lift? Come on you can't walk all the way home in the rain- my truck's just there" pointing over to the maroon truck.

Rachel sat nervously on the passenger side of the seat, blushing at the thought of sitting so close to Finn.

"So...what does Quinn think of you joining glee?"

"Let's just say she's not too happy about it...But she can't always boss me around and not let me do what I want..."

The rest of the journey was spent listening to the radio. Both Finn and Rachel had realised how comfortable they were with each other, singing along to the music with each other, laughing when they forgot the words.

"Well this is me, thanks Finn. I told you you'd be great and you are" smiling shyly over at him. Just as she was getting out of the car he grabbed her hand.

"See you tomorrow then" he whispered softly to her as she ran into the house. After an interrogation from her dads she flopped onto her bed, remembering every last detail from the past two hours...

Finn smiled as he saw his brother walk through the door, complaining about Lycra being a new fashion trend. As they sat down for dinner as a family, they began to talk about their days. Carol spoke about work at the hospital, and Burt about work at the garage. Kurt mentioned how perfect his teeth were according to the dentist, but was still shocked at Finn joining glee.

"So how's your girlfriend son...Quinn is it?"

Burt was trying to be polite as Carol and Kurt sat with grimaces on their faces at the mention of Quinn.

"Oh er...she's ok I guess. I mean I haven't seen much of her so yeh..."

Carol looked considerably better at this comment.

"Just be careful with that one sweetie, all I'm saying is please don't rush into anything..."

Finn grimaced at the speech and looked to Kurt for support.

"I'm sorry Finn I just don't like he. What more is there to say, you know she calls Rachel names right- has done for years."

Burt and Carol shook their heads whilst Finn looked angry that he hadn't noticed this before. Finn had been dating Quinn for four months now, the blonde cheerleader who most guys would love to date. And yeh she was great, but recently he ended up wondering why he was even with the girl.