Love that wont let go

Rachel sat in the audience, fuming with jealousy as she watched Haley and Finn grow closer each week of performing together. Mr. Shuster seemed to enjoy having them perform together, more than her and Finn.

As Haley's voice rang through the choir room Rachel blocked it out and thought how she would sound singing that song rather than listening to Haley.

Finn rounded the corner in the corridor one Friday afternoon and bumped into me.

I looked up at him and smiled slightly.

"Sorry about that, I was looking for you anyway." He said and I wondered what he was going to say.

"Um, well Kurt is having Blaine over tonight for dinner and I was wondering if you would also like to… come for dinner tonight at my house that is." He said it quickly, his nerves taking over.

I was surprised, Finn had been a great friend through out this whole moving to a new school thing, actually the whole glee club had been amazing, but perhaps not Rachel but no one seemed to like her anyway.

"I'd love to." I replied, my smile growing.
A smile spread across his face and all nerves were washed away.

"Ok, so we eat at around seven." He informed me, I nodded and he walked away not knowing what else to say.

That Friday night I walked up the path way to his front door.

I rang the doorbell and Kurt opened.

"Oh hi Haley I thought you would be Blaine. FINN!" He yelled across the house.

Finn appeared at the door and smiled at me. He was dressed casually so I felt stupid for having put a dress on.

"You look beautiful." He stated clearly and then he grinned and welcomed me in.

"Thank you." I replied.

"When I saw what you were wearing I thought I dressed up too much." I said, a shy laugh escaping my mouth.

"You won't stand out; Kurt will probably dress up more than you did." He chuckled and so did I.

We sat down in the living room and Burt, Kurt's dad joined us.
"Burt, this is Haley." Finn said with a nod and Burt introduced himself to me.

"So nice to finally have one of Finn's girlfriends around for dinner!" He said with a warm smile. Kurt's head popped around the corner and he said, "yeah, he dated Rachel and Quinn and he never invited them over for dinner!" Then his head vanished.

I could see Finn's cheeks growing red and he automatically changed the subject.

"Would you like anything to drink?" He asked.

"I would love that." I said, then feeling stupid for having said that.

He disappeared into the kitchen and returned with two glasses and Kurt and Blaine behind him.

"Haley, this is my boyfriend Blaine!" Kurt said with a smile and Blaine hugged me.
"It's so nice to meet you, you're in glee club too?" He already was onto the glee club questions.

"Blaine's transferring to Mikenly so we'll have another member!" Kurt said excitedly, then he took a sip of his coke.

Carol, Finn's mom and Kurt's step mom entered the room with a similar warm smile to Burt.

"Welcome to our home, Haley." She said and hugged me.
"It's nice to meet you." I said awkwardly then sitting back down.

"You all look lovely!" She stated looking around at us all.

"Dinner will be served in ten minutes!" She said with a clap then disappearing again.

"So, Kurt told me that you auditioned with Where you at by Jennifer Hudson. He said he almost cried!" Blaine joked and I laughed and Finn shifted uncomfortably, we hadn't said much to each other since Blaine arrived.

"I'd love to hear your rendition of the song, it's a beautiful song, heart breaking but beautiful." He added wisely.

"Um…" I started.

"Not now Blaine, I told Carol and dad that we'd do a performance for them after dinner." Kurt said, straightening out his suit pants.

"We're doing what?" Finn asked, confused and unaware about this news.

"I told you yesterday morning Finn, you clearly weren't listening to me!" Kurt rolled his eyes.

"That's so exciting! What song will we be doing?" Blaine asked curiously while Finn stared in stunned silence while I was just silent.

"You will find that out after dinner." Kurt winked at the end and then dinner was served.

After a delicious meal of roast chicken, roast potatoes and veggies of all sorts Kurt cleared the table with my offered help which he refused at first.

"We sang this once at practice Finn, so you can just catch on, Haley if you mind starting, you and I will sing the high notes while Finn and Blaine will sing the low notes. This song is called NO AIR." The music started playing and I had to rack my brain for the lyrics to the song but once they were seen I started to sing with Finn joining in the next verse.

Blaine forgot the words at one point as Kurt and I belted out the back ground lyrics but he got back on track with Finn's help.

At the end of the performance Carol and Burt clapped with a standing ovation asking for more.

Blaine looked up at the time, "Shoot I better get going." He said suddenly.

It had gone five past eleven.

"I should get going too…" I said once we'd all said goodbye to Blaine.

I thanked the Hummel's for the dinner and Finn said he'd walk me home.

On the walk home Finn started talking.
"I'm sorry that we couldn't talk much tonight, I wanted to get to know you better." He said and I laughed.
"Well you have the chance now, you have 21 questions GO!" I stated and he laughed and started asking questions. Every now and then our hands would brush against each other, tempting us to hold hands but we never did.

Finn had one question left and chose it wisely as we neared my house.
"What do you plan to do with your future?" He asked, needing to know he wasn't wasting his time. He didn't want another Rachel fiasco.

I hesitated as we stopped outside my front door.

I thought hard how to answer the question.

"Um, well I don't usually think about the future, I live more in the now." I replied. I saw him exhale with relief for some reason, he then leaned in to kiss me but I moved my face so his lips met my cheek.

"Thank you for tonight, your family is amazing." I said and he smiled.
"I'll see you on Monday." He replied, still smiling when he walked off.

On his way home he was glad that he hadn't given up on love or the feeling of love. Love was beautiful and should be shared by two people, Haley could just be that person.

When I entered the house the light in the living room was on and I entered to see my mom sitting on the couch.
"So how was your date?" She asked curiously with a worried expression on her face.

"Mom I told you it wasn't a date, just a friendly dinner."

"It didn't look like that to me!" She said, raising an eyebrow.

"You were spying on me? We talked about that mom I need privacy!" I said rolling my eyes while putting my jacket down.

"And we talked about what you must not get yourself into Hales, in your condition!" she exclaimed.

I exhaled and sank into the couch.

"I know, Haley can't be happy is that right?" I asked her, folding my arms in frustration.
"No, Haley you can be happy I just don't want anyone else to be affected by this!"
"MOM!" I cried out, "I know, I'm sick I've gotten used to that but I have to live a normal life, who knows how long I have left…" The tears fell and my mom got up and sat next to me, comforting me while I cried.

"But you can't let Finn fall for you because of that fact, we don't know how long you have left, you can't do this Haley, you have a certain country charm about you that guys fall for, but you can't let it happen now, you don't want to break Finn's heart do you?" She asked, hugging me tightly.

All the escaped from my mouth was a sob.