I DO NOT OWN GLEE -although sometimes I wish I did, but if I did it wouldn't be as great as it is right now- it belongs to Ryan Murphy and FOX.
As the plane descended to the ground Rachel sat back in her chair, glad to finally be home, but missing Lima already. When she headed over to baggage claim she turned her phone on while waiting for her bags. She had two new messages one from her dads and one from Finn.
"Hey baby girl, hope your flight went well, call us later. Love You." Her dads were short and sweet about that. She would definitely call them later.
"Hope your flight went well Rachel. Welcome home to New York New York. Text me back we should do dinner.- F" He wanted to do dinner? Tonight? As if she didn't think about him enough already.
She collected her bags and headed out to her cab, once in the back she pulled her phone out again.
"Hey Finn, dinner sounds great. My flight was great.-R" She hit send and sat back, already stuck in traffic.
"I'll have to be at my studio tonight but I'll have the food and I'll tell you the directions later. How does 6 sound?-F" She grinned, she was having dinner with Finn Hudson, and not just the high school crush, but the sexy music producer Finn Hudson.
"Sounds great. See you later-R"
Finn was sat at the sound booth figuring out the best backing track to a song, he'd been working so hard he hadn't realized the time until he heard a faint calling in the background. He stood up and walked out to the front when he looked up he was greeted by Rachel in a black and red knee high dress. He stopped dead in his tracks and tried to compose himself.
"H-hey Rach, sorry I didn't realize the time I was so busy, I need to get something done and sent into this place and well it isn't done yet." He started rambling, he did this when he was nervous and it was a really bad habit.
"Don't worry about it, you're a working man." He smiled and stood to the side of the door. "You wanna see the recording booths? It's pretty sweet."
"I'd love to see it, I want to see how you've built your empire." She laughed as he took her hand to lead her into the hallway, their hands seemed to have a feeling of electricity buzzing in them, and it felt great.
"My empire, I like that, it sounds… powerful."
"Well you seem pretty powerful right now, I mean look at this place."
"You've seen nothing yet Miss Berry. I have three booths in this building, the main one down here and the two smaller ones up-stairs." Finn announced as he opened the door to the main booth, Rachel just looked on in awe of it all. "This is it really. They record in there and we mix the tracks together out here. That's what I was doing when you came in so, just a general idea there."
"Finn this is absolutely amazing. I knew they were wrong in school when they said you'd be in Lima your whole life, I knew you'd prove them wrong… now look!"
"Well thanks Rachel, it pays the bills at least." He squeezed her hand and sighed. "So, how's New York been treating you?"
"Really good actually, really good."
"Well that's good. Now as you can see I wasn't exactly prepared so we have no food…" he stumbled over his words nervously as he looked into Rachel's face.
"It's fine Finn, we could go out if you want to?" She looked up at him and he smiled.
"Sounds great, just let me change quick." He released her hand and ran into another room hidden in the wall. He looked in the small closet in the room and realized he didn't have another suit, only a white t-shirt and some dark jeans, and his dusty old high school jacket. He stepped out of the door not realizing his shit was open and looked at Rachel. "Slight problem, I have nothing fancy or proper to wear."
"That's okay Finn." She said before turning to face him, blushing when she did. He finally clicked and rushed to button his shirt up.
"Sorry, forgot about it. So um, where did you have in mind for dinner?"
"I-it's fine and I'm not sure, you have any ideas?"
"I know a great restaurant down town, it does tofu and weird food too." Finn chuckled, he remembered her like of the healthier stuff and immediately thought of the restaurant.
"Don't be a jerk, but that sounds great." She smiled at him and he warmed up inside, he felt like he had in high school, and he didn't understand it, was he falling for Rachel Berry again? Ten years after the last time?
Rachel sat in the dark leather chair and waited for Finn, she looked at the pictures on the walls or him with big names in the music business. He looked so happy, in each picture she saw his smile and it was contagious, she just ended up smiling along with him. After a few minutes he came out of the room in a t-shirt and jeans, with a familiar jacket over his arm.
"Found this in the closet, it's been in there since I opened this place." He held the door out for her and waited for her to step out into the main lobby. "Do you want to drive or walk?"
"It's a bit cold maybe we should drive." She couldn't help but glance at his chest or his arms, she had to admit, Finn Hudson was now built about three times better than even in high school.
"Sounds good, I have my car round back. You look great too by the way."
"Thanks Finn, you're not so bad yourself."
They stopped by a garage and Finn opened it up revealing a new looking Chevy Charger he unlocked the car and held the passenger side door open for Rachel. She climbed in and sat in silence waiting for Finn to join her. He hopped in and turned the engine on, he put his hand on the back of Rachel's seat as he backed out. Rachel tried to focus on the music playing in the background and recognized the voice. Finn. His own songs resonating from the car speakers, his soft voice singing along to the guitar and drum beats.
"Finn, this… this is amazing. Absolutely spectacular, you wrote this all yourself?"
"Yeah, every single word's my own. You like it?" He flashed her a grin so wide it reminded her of the one that graced his face at regionals so long ago.
"I love it." He took off down the road and not too long after got stuck in traffic.
"I love New York and all but this traffic! And there's so many freakin' mail men here I tell you, taxis are great but I don't wanna pay for one, I have bills to pay." She laughed as he ranted about the traffic, she never really got stuck in it, she walked almost everywhere in the city. But she couldn't miss his comment on the mail man.
"Finn calm down, you're going to end up having a heart attack at twenty-eight." She laughed more when he took a deep breath to calm down before turning the corner.
"Okay, I'm good now… I think. Here can you open the glove compartment and pass me what's inside it please?" she shrugged and opened it up, inside was a bag of sour patch kids, she rolled her eyes and handed him the bag. "Thank you, you know these are good, you want one?"
"Finn, how old are you? And I'll have one later." They laughed as he ate half the bag before pulling up outside the restaurant where the valet was stood.
"Ahh, Mr. Hudson, nice to see you again." He said as he took Finn's car keys, Finn just smiled and held his arm out for Rachel, she held onto it and once again that spark was back. She could just hear Madonna in the back of her head right now. She kept holding on until they found the table in the back.
Thank you guys for the reviews, please recommend this to your friends or whatever and in the near future I could be looking for a Beta. Hope you're enjoying the story so far :)
