The rest of the week was a bit more difficult then that first Glee club meeting. All the rest of the students at McKinley continued to stare at Rachel as if she literally had come back from the dead. Her face and body were still covered in bruises which was probably one of the reasons of the staring but now that Santana was her friend she would take none of the bullying from the rest of the kids at the school. "Yeah that's right, you better run!" she shouted at some idiot football player. While continuing to curse at him in Spanish.
"Did he just try to throw-"
"A slushy? Yeah, that's sorta tradition in the Glee club just keep moving" Santana said as she pushed Rachel forward. Kurt was also helpful as he and Blaine continued to show Rachel around the school, hoping that maybe something would kickstart her memories back into place. "Nothing?" Kurt asked after showing her a picture of their first ever sectionals and even playing a clip of her performance of "Don't rain on my parade" while sitting in the Lima Bean drinking lattes.
"It's like I'm watching someone that looks exactly like me and sounds exactly like me perform a song that I don't remember performing. I'm sorry this is dumb" Rachel said while closing her laptop.
"It's not dumb, you just need time" Kurt said. Rachel opened her mouth to try to ask a different question when she fell into a coughing fit.
"Rachel are you okay?" Kurt asked. She nodded, reaching into her bag to get something. It was an inhaler. She put the plastic part of it over her mouth and breathed in. "I'm okay" She finally said.
"Since when do you need an inhaler?" Kurt questioned with his eyebrows raised.
"After the accident I've been having trouble breathing, the doctors said it was because of the all the smoke I breathed in from my car when it crashed. The engine apparently caught on fire" she said simply.
"And I here I'm thinking I might not have to blackmail at all" said a voice. A boy about 16 or 17 came walking towards them, his hair perfectly styled and his teeth extremely white. He wore a black and red blazer and an evil grin.
"Sebastian" Kurt muttered under his breath.
"Who?" Rachel asked.
"Doesn't matter" replied Blaine.
The boy called Sebastian smirked. "Don't tell me it's actually true? The whole amnesia thing? The other warblers thought that maybe playing any sort of trick of you guys was a bit too far after what happened to the young Barbra Streisand here" he gestured to Rachel.
"Why does everyone keep comparing me to her?!" Rachel asked turning to Kurt and Blaine.
"I'll tell you why" Sebastian answered. "Cause she was just as annoying and short and Jewish just like you" he said.
"Sebastian, why are you here" Kurt asked, obviously not in the mood to deal with this rich kid's attitude.
"Because I want to guarantee a win for the Warblers at Regionals. And in case your wondering, Rachel, the Warblers are a Glee club" he said slowly as if she didn't understand proper English. "A glee club that are so much better then the lame New Directions".
"And how do you plan to guarantee a win for the Warblers?" Blaine asked.
"With this" Sebastian said handing an envelope to Rachel. "Agree to not sing at Regionals and I won't post this pic of your boyfriend".
"I don't have a boyfriend" Rachel said while opening the envelope. Inside was a picture of Finn and. Nope she wasn't going to look at that. She put it right back into the envelope. "Why...why would you give me that?" She asked completely disgusted.
"Like I said, drop out of regionals or I post this picture everywhere. So when someone googles Finn Hudson this what they'll see" Sebastian said, obviously proud of himself. "Oh and I hope you get better Rachel, if it makes you feel any better I think the bruising is an improvement to your face" He finished, walking out of the coffee shop.
"Well he's horrible, as always" Blaine said
"We can't let him do this to Finn! We have to tell Mr. Shue!" Kurt said loudly. Then he saw Rachel, who looked confused.
"What did, Sebastian, mean by my 'boyfriend'?" Rachel asked looking up at the two of them. "Finn said at the hospital that he was just my friend. You said he was just my friend!" she pointed at Kurt who looked extremely guilty.
"Rachel, you have to understand how hard this was on everyone. You get into this big crash and wake up with no memory whatsoever, we had to decide what to tell you. What was important for you to know" Kurt tried to explain.
"And not telling me that Finn was my boyfriend, that wasn't important enough?!" Rachel cried and people stared.
"Rachel, he's not, just your boyfriend" Kurt said quietly. "He's your fiancé. You two got engaged about a month ago. Finn didn't want to you to know" he finished sadly. Rachel began getting up from her seat, putting her inhaler and laptop in her bag. "Rachel, where are you going?" Blaine asked.
"I can't stay here, not now" Rachel replied "tomorrow I think I'm gonna have to talk to Finn but for right now I need to go home, and think" she finished.
"Rachel wait" Blaine said but she was already gone.
Flashback
"I need to see Rachel now" Finn said running up to Rachel's dads who had just returned to speaking to her doctors.
"Finn, I don't think-" one of her dads started
"No, I don't care how hurt she is, I need to tell her how sorry I am. This is all my fault" Finn said running his fingers through his hair. All the other Glee club members began to listen in as well, it was one in the morning and everyone at this point needed answers about Rachel's condition.
"She's in a coma" her dad finished before breaking into tears.
"Sorry about Hiram he's sensitive" Rachel's other dad LeRoy said. "The doctors say that she has major bruising all through her body, her left leg is strained, thankfully not broken and she has a nasty cut across her stomach. But that's not it. When the car crashed Rachel's head banged into the windshield, the doctors assume she has a concussion or worse."
"How'd she get into a coma" asked Finn.
"She was thrown from the car itself by the force of crash. The doctor said When there is no blood flow to a major part of the brain stem or loss of blood accompanied with swelling, a coma can occur. And apparently, that's what happened to Rachel" her dad finished.
"Oh my God" Finn said. "This isn't happening. Wait. When is she going to wake up?" He asked looking towards Rachel's dads.
"The doctors said that it could be tomorrow, but it also could be never" LeRoy said.
"Can I see her, please? I want to do what Rachel would do. I want to sing to her" Finn said looking towards Kurt. "Can you join me? Please?"
"Of course, Rachel sang when my dad was in the hospital and I didn't even ask" Kurt replied
"I'll come too" said Mercedes
"And me" added Tina.
"Well don't count me out" Santana said and everyone looked at her but she just raised her eyebrows. So together all five of them entered Rachel's hospital room where was almost unrecognizable because almost her whole body was connected to different machines all making different noises.
"Finn would you like to start us off?" Kurt asked. Finn nodded and took a deep breath, whilst staring at the love of his life in this broken form.
Say something I'm given up on you
I'll be the one if you want me too...
End Flashback
"Finn?" Rachel said as calmly as she could manage. She had rehearsed what she would ask Finn last night in her room. She wanted this to be a mature conversation but she also knew it probably wouldn't turn out like that.
"Hey Rachel" Finn replied as he closed the door to his locker shut. "What's going on?"
"Why didn't you tell me we were engaged?" Rachel asked, the words spilling out of her mouth before she could stop them.
"What?" Finn replied, smiling as if he had misheard her and she had said something rather funny.
"When I was in the hospital and I had no idea who you were, you introduced yourself as a friend. Just a friend. But then I had to find out, from this guy named Sebastian, after he had given me a badly photoshopped picture of you, that we were a couple. That's when Kurt had to explain to me that we were engaged and that you were the one who didn't want to tell me" Rachel said, her voice risen.
"Rachel...I" Finn muttered.
"What Finn? How can you possible explain why you kept this from me?" Rachel asked.
"Because I loved you!" Now Finn was the one that was yelling. The hallway had gone silent and everyone was now listening. "I love you".
"You said that in present tense" Rachel muttered.
"Because that's the truth! I have loved you since the first time we kissed, which you can't even remember! You know why I didn't want to tell you about us?" Finn asked
"Why?" Rachel asked in less then a whisper.
"It was my fault" Finn said. "It was my fault that you got hurt, it was my fault that you were driving that night. And after that I didn't want you to get hurt by me anymore. But I look at you now and I still love you. I always have and I always will. But I know that you don't feel the same way, not anymore".
"Finn" Rachel said as if maybe it'd be comforting.
"Can you look at me right now, and tell me, that you love me?" Finn asked, this time he was the one that had tears in his eyes.
"Love you?" Rachel asked incredulously "Finn, I barely even know you" but the moment the words escape her lips she regrets them. Finn looks at her with a stare that makes her heart break, even though it's true that she doesn't really know him. But then Finn turns around and walks straight down the hallway and away from her, as she's left standing by herself when the bell signals for lunch.