The next day, they entered the school hand-in-hand. He was proud to have her as his girlfriend and he wanted the whole school to know it. And they did, of course. After they were past the main office, they were greeted with red and blue slushes courtesy of the hockey team. Finn pounced on the first one he could reach and slammed him up against the lockers.

"What the heck was that all about?" He screamed.

"We just wanted to wish you guys luck at Nationals. Wasn't it obvious?"

Finn punched him in the face, hard. So hard that Rachel heard his nose break.

"Finn, calm down. Let him go. Please!"

Finn never could say no to her. He loosened his grip on the puck head and slowly let him go.

"Sorry, Rach. It's just that I hate it when they do that to us, to you."

She smiled and kissed his frozen nose.

"Come on. We need to clean up before Spanish."

When they arrived late, Finn gave Mr. Shue a look that told him everything. He continued on with the lesson. When the bell rang signaling that first period was over, Mr. Shue asked Finn to stay for a minute.

"Finn, I need to talk to you about something."

"Well, I kinda figured, Mr. Shue. Why else would you ask to see me?"

"Good point. Well, it has to do with NYU."

Finn's expression was somewhere between confused and curious.

"What about NYU, Mr. Shue?"

"Well, Ms. Pilsbury received a notice that you had not gotten in about two weeks ago. When she told me, I was curious as to why. I mean your grades aren't great, but they aren't terrible and you have a good amount of extracurriculars. And with the adversity that you have overcome you are different enough and would stand out. I even looked over your essay and I thought it was amazing. So I called them up."

"You what?"

"I called NYU. I talked to the admissions office about it. They said that you where one of those applications that they wanted to admit, but they weren't sure about it. I told them about how amazing you are and what a great influence you could be on their school and convinced them to reconsider."

"You what?"

"I convinced them to reconsider your application. They called me back last night and said that they wanted to meet with you and then they would decide. I told them that we were going to be in New York this weekend and that I would be more than happy to get you over there. They said that you might even be eligible for a music scholarship. So what do you think?"

"You what?"

Finn still could not believe that Mr. Shue would stick is neck out like that for him.

"Wow, Mr. Shue! I honestly do not know how to thank you."

"Don't celebrate yet. You still have to impress them in an interview. I want you to meet with Ms. Pilsbury to get some interview tips and then practice them. Okay?"

"Yes, Mr. Shue. Anything to get in!"

"I believe in you, Finn. I know you're going places."

"Thanks, Mr. Shue."

"Well, you better get to class. Hold on and I'll write you a note."

He was about to leave when he thought of something.

"Hey, Mr. Shue?"

"Yeah, Finn."

"Would it be okay if we kept this between us and Ms. Pilsbury. I don't want to give false hope to anyone."

Mr. Shuester knew exactly who he was referring to.

"Sure, Finn. No problem."

That day at glee club, Finn couldn't stop smiling. Rachel found it a bit odd, but didn't ask about it for fear that if she mentioned it, it would stop. She loved his smile.