"Rachel! Rachel! Rachel! Hey! Listen to me! What did I do?" Finn chased after Rachel through the hallways of McKinley as Rachel walked as fast as she could towards the door leading to the high school student parking lot.

"Rachy! Tell me what I did! Come on, baby! Please!" Finn was still chasing behind her… damn, she was fast.

Rachel spun around suddenly. Finn collided with her and they both were on the floor. He jumped up quickly, trying to avoid the possibility of his weight hurting her small body. "Sorry, Rach! I didn't mean to!"

"Finn. Shut the hell up!" Finn held his hands up. Rachel wasn't the one to burst out like that.

"Rachel…" Finn lowered his voice. "What did I do?"

"Finn… she's like, 40, and you were undressing her with your eyes…" Finn couldn't figure out what Rachel was talking about.

"Wh… What are you talking about…" Rachel threw up her hands.

"Ms. Holliday!" Finn suddenly realized what Rachel was talking about.

"No… no, no, no, Rach… I would never. I was just having fun. I love you… I wouldn't even think about…"

"Finn! You didn't see your face, I did. Don't lie to me." Rachel hugged her binders to chest and started crying.

"Rachel, baby… I didn't. I promise. I don't care about her or any other girl in this school… I love you and you only. You said it yourself… she's like, 40. That's Puck's deal… older women." Finn kept walking up to Rachel slowly. "I've always liked younger women…"

He ran his hand through a few strands of her hair and kissed her forehead. "Like you…"

Finn smiled. "Please, believe me Rach. I didn't even think about Ms. H like that… I was just having a good time."

Rachel shook her head slowly and laid her head on his chest. "I still can't believe you love me when you could get any girl in this school…"

Finn grinned and kissed the top of her head. "Well…"

**GLEE**

It took only one day for Finn to make Rachel's book. The day after their argument at school, right before Mr. Schue's class (the one they could be late to and not get into trouble), he gave it to her.

Rachel stared at the book made out of college ruled notebook paper. Blue twine held it together, threaded through the roughly made holes down the left hand side of it. It was written in black Sharpie. There was a picture of her and Finn smiling while sitting in the Ferris wheel this year at the Lima Fair glued to the front of the page messily. Above the picture, written in Finn's rough, compacted cursive, it read 32 Reasons Why I Love Rachel Berry… Rachel began to cry as soon as she started reading.

1. She's really pretty…

2. Her smile is one of the most beautiful things in the world.

3. She was obviously sent down from heaven… she had the voice of an angel.

4. She's really tiny and it's kinda awesome.

5. Her teeth are really pretty.

6. She has eyes that are some cool mix of a whole bunch of colors that make a wicked brown.

7. She's really caring.

8. She's really cuddly and I like being close to her.

9. She shows me a side of her that no one else knows about.

10. She likes sex, and that's always cool…

11. She leads the sex, which is ever cooler…

12. She's like, extra super duper sexy.

13. She's really cute when she sleeps.

14. She always does my homework for me.

15. She gives me the answers to Mr. Schue's Spanish quizzes during class.

16. She cooks awesome food for me.

17. She made her dads like me.

18. She loves my mom and my mom loves her back.

19. She doesn't care what anyone else thinks.

20. She would do anything to defend one of her friends.

21. She makes me feel like the luckiest person on Earth.

22. She invites me over for the weekend every time her dads go out of town, no matter what her dads told her she could or couldn't do.

23. She's already planning our wedding, and it's kinda cute, because she asks my opinion, even though I don't care, because it will be perfect because I'm marrying her.

24. She wants to name our son Finn… which is awesome.

25. She wants to name out daughter after my mom, which is even awesomer because that would make my mom happy, and my mom deserves to be happy.

26. She lets me kiss her any time I want to.

27. She kisses me back any time I kiss her.

28. She bitched Santana out for making fun of Kurt for being gay… and I know from experience, making fun of Kurt being gay is not cool.

29. She watches The Hangover with me, even though she hates it.

30. She doesn't force me to watch musicals or romances, even though I want to because it makes her happy.

31. She draws little hearts and writes my name in the corner of her papers, just to prove I'm hers and no one else's.

32. She the most beautiful, talented, sexy, cute, funny, loving, and wonderful girl to ever walk this Earth and she deserves to be loved… by me and me only.

Rachel closed the book and smiled at him through falling tears. "I love you, Finn… soooo much."

Rachel hugged Finn's waist, her arms barely making their ways around him. "But, is that really all you could think of? 31?"

Finn laughed and kissed her head. "No… but, I ran out of notebook paper."

Rachel giggled and kissed Finn's chest. "I love you… more than you could ever know. Never leave me, okay?"

Finn ran his hand through her hair and down her back. "Never, Rachel. Never."