Chapter Tres

Finn had a whirlwind of emotions crowd his mind. He was stunned, angry, flustered, and most of all confused. Finn knew he still cared for Rachel, and yet it almost seemed like she didn't care for him.

He slowly picked himself up off the ground and walked into his room to find Rachel face down lying on one his pillows, sobbing. He used his hands to slightly turn his face towards one side of the bed and laid down next to her, putting his hand on hers.

"I'm sorry Rac-" He started to say but Rachel cut him off.

"I'm sorry Finn. I really am." She pulled her hand out from under his to wipe her own tears and then turned back to him. "I lost you, and now I'm losing him and I don't know what to do."

Finn suddenly got very angry. Who was 'him'? Did Rachel get another boyfriend that quickly? Was Finn that easily disposed? He calmed himself down a little before he spoke. "Who are you losing Rach?"

"My….My…my…." More tears. Finn watched her eyes and could tell she was trying to stop, trying to be strong, and finally she spoke, "My dad."

Finn was shocked. He rolled over closer to her, not saying anything and just put his arms around her. It felt so…comfortable. He didn't even say a word then. This indeed was a situation much larger than him. He needed to forget his own personal issues and let Rachel deal with her own. But then she spoke again.

"I'm sorry Finn. I really a-."

"Shhh. Don't finish that. It's okay. Don't worry about me."

"No." Rachel said teary-eyed. She pushed just a little away from him and looked into his eyes. "I should worry about you and I do. My dads are the only ones in my life that care for me unconditionally and I'm going to lose one of them, Finn! They are the only people that accept me, for all my flaws and all my problems and I just can't do this anymore! I thought that you would be maybe one more person to love me like that, but I was wrong and I lost you and now karma is coming back to bite me to make me lose another."

Finn almost smiled but he knew it was inappropriate. She did care for him. He was right. He was just about to answer when his phone rang.

"Get it." Rachel said pulling away and pointing to his phone. "It might be your mom."

Finn sighed and reached behind him to get the phone. He talked a little to his mother until Rachel heard him hang up.

"Was that her?" Rachel asked.

"Yeah. Yeah, it was." He sat back down on the bed. "You're going to stay here tonight, alright? My mom has the night shift at work so she won't be back until the morning, but she said tomorrow morning she'll drive you to your house for fresh clothes and then to the hospital to see your dad." Finn then realized that his mother had known all along that Rachel's dad was in the hospital, he never told her and yet she seemed to know all about it. He got slightly annoyed that he never knew anything about this before this point.

"Okay." That's all Rachel said, sitting up on the bed.

"Sorry to say but we may be stuck alone together for a while. I think Blaine took Kurt out for a bit and Burt is at the shop." Finn almost hit himself for saying that. 'Sorry to say'? What a jerk he was.

"Oh. Okay." He could tell she was just a little hurt. She started to take off the sheets from around her body and Finn instinctively wrapped his baseball blanket around her shoulders. She was shivering. "Are you coming with me?"

"I'm sorry Rach, but I have glee rehearsal. I stormed out from todays and I missed about all of it. Mr. Shue would be so mad if I missed again. He reached over and patted her hand. "Do you want me to tell the glee kids any-"

Rachel cut him off., "No. I don't want them to know just yet. Or ever. Tell them my family went on an unexpected vacation for break and I didn't have time to tell anyone about it. Tell them you called and I told you where I was. I don't know. I don't want their pity. They're not my frriends."

Finn looked up into her eyes, noticing they had started to tear up again and become puffy. "Rachel, they love you. You know they do."

"Funny joke Finn. They barely even like me. Do you think they'd want me around if I wasn't a good signer? No. They wouldn't. Even with that they don't really want me around. The Glee club is better off without me."

Finn started to panic. He didn't know what to say or do to make her feel better. her self confidence was so low he didn't know what to do with himself. "Rachel, how could you ever say that? We need you."

Rachel didn't even look up. It was like she hadn't even heard him. He tried again, "I need you."

That caught her attention. She looked up into his eyes and Finn almost melted. He always had a thing for big eyes. He felt engulfed my warm, comforting chocolate every time he looked at Rachel. It made him so happy. His heart started beating a million times a minute.

And that was when he realized just how much he missed her.

It was 8:00 when Finn and Rachel sat down to watch a movie. Rachel's cut had stopped bleeding, but for some reason she was still shivering uncontrollaby so Finn wrapped his arm around her. Rachel smiled, turning her face away, too embarrassed to let him see.

"So what do you want to watch?" Finn pulled out a bunch of movies from the small side table next to them. Rachel looked through them, laughing when she came across Marley & Me.

Finn noticing this, said "Hey! Don't laugh. It's a good movie!"

"Uh huh, Mr. Quarterback. Mr. Macho."

"Hey!" Rachel started laughing and couldn't contain herself. She kept making little jokes at Finn and he got up and started tickling her. He knew that was her weak spot. "Finn!" She said between laughs. "Finn! Stop I can't breathe!" She kept laughing and rolling over until eventually Finn stopped, looking at her and smiling.

"Hm. I must've convinced you with that huh?" Finn sat back down right next to Rachel, practically on top of her.

Rachel said really quietly, "It's still not a good movie," trying to taunt Finn and win the little battle.

"That's it!"Finn said and started ticking her again until she finally admitted it was good just to get him to stop. At that point, Finn was practically on top of Rachel and they were staring into each others eyes, still slightly laughing. They sat like that for awhile, in each others arms, neither one of the two wanting to move. They started moving closer to each other, their faces just inches apart, when they hear keys in the front door.

They instinctively jumped apart awkwardly looking around the room when the door opened and they heard,

"Finn? Rachel? What are you guys doing?"

It was Kurt.

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This was sort of a filler chapter because I plan to have a lot going on soon in this story but I tried to make it as long as possible and to also set it up for chapter 4 :))) A lot of finchel-ly things happened- if that's even a word- and I thought the last scene was cute.

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