"Finn!"
"Five more minutes mom."
"Finn! Do you even know what time it is?"
"Time for me to sleep..." Finn said groggily.
"Don't get wise with me mister." Carole shouted as she pulled the bed sheets off of Finn.
"Mom, it's not even 7:30 yet!"
"What are you talking about? It's 7:50 already!"
"No! I set the alarm from 7:30 it hasn't even rung yet."
"Finn, look at the clock."
Finn did as told and saw that his mom was telling the truth. "What the-how?" Finn asked confused
"Did you set your alarm 7:30 am or 7:30 pm?"
Finn checked and his mother was right as always. He had accidently set the alarm clock for the 7:30 in the evening instead of the mourning.
"Oh shi-"
"Don't finish that sentence, hurry up and get ready so I can drive you to school."
Finn rushed off from bed and began to get ready. He quickly ran downstairs, grabbed the toast his mom made from him and rushed into the car. They started to drive to school.
Carole sighed. "Honestly Finn, this is the second time already. If this is any indication of how your mornings are going to be like, I'm telling you it's not going to be easy."
"Sorry mom, I'll try to wake up earlier."
"What were you doing up late anyways?"
"Ugh...Studying?"
The truth was, after the whole fiasco with Puck and the football team, Finn just wanted to crawl into a hole and disappear. He spent all night distracting himself by playing Halo so that he wouldn't have to think of all the disappointment.
Carole rolled her eyes obviously knowing better. "Finn don't eat so fast hun, you're going to choke."
"M-Mooo moblem" Finn said with a full mouth.
"Don't talk with your mouth open, you're going to drop jam all over your shirt."
They finally arrived at Finn's school.
"This is it hun."
"Bye mom!"
"Bye honey, I love you" Carole said blowing Finn a kiss.
Finn looked around to check that nobody was looking, and then when the coast was clear he blew her a kiss back. He blushed like crazy and shut the door so that no one would know just what he did.
Despite his efforts, Finn was still late as he showed up to homeroom.
He flung the door open and everyone stared at him. "Ughh...I'm Finn"
"Finn Hudson, I presume." The teacher said questionably
"Yeah..."
"So nice of you to finally join us for science 101. I'm Mr. Goubert please take a seat anywhere."
Finn sat at the only empty seat in the front row.
"Now as I was saying..." Mr. Goubert continued on his lectured about school procedures.
"I thought this was grade 9 science...not science 101... am I in grade 101?" Finn asked the brunette girl beside him.
"You're in the right class I can assure you" the girl said in an overexcited tone.
"Oh. Thanks..."
"I'm Rachel Berry by the way."
"I'm Finn-"
"Hudson. I know. I was watching you earlier."
"You were watching me?"
"Yes. When you were up in front of the classroom speaking."
"Oh..."
"It's nice to meet you Finn." Rachel held out her hands for Finn to shake.
Finn shook her small hand into his whole. Finn watched as Rachel eyes began to dilate at the touching gesture. Finn got a bit nervous and tried to let go of his hands but found that Rachel kept squeezing onto them tightly. 'For a small girl she has a tight hand grip' Finn thought to himself.
Finn made an awkward face, which caused Rachel to notice her squeezing.
"Sorry!"
"It's okay" Finn gave a reassuring smile.
Rachel melted at Finn's smile and looked up at him dreamily.
"Um...Rachel...you can let go of my hand now."
Rachel snapped out of her dreamily dazed and let go of Finn's hand as told. "Sorry! Again I don't know what came over me, it's just that. Your hands are really really soft."
"Thanks...I think? Your hands are soft too..."
"Really?"
"Um...yes?" Finn looked kind of nervous and confused at the enthusiasm Rachel was showing him.
"Thank you! It's obvious that I would have soft hands because you see I use a specialized moisturizing cream which was shipped from Morocco. That country is famous for its hand lotion products, however the nation itself is in a political crisis and although I try not to purchase products from such corrupted political nations, I have to say their lotion is just exceptional, which means I have to make an exception. But that's ok because the country is getting better, which is good because then I don't feel as bad purchasing my lotion from there."
"Oh." Finn didn't really understand what the girl was saying because she was talking so fast, but he thinks she said something about buying a political nation Morocco lotion, which is a really long name for a lotion.
"How about you what products do you use?"
"Um. My mom's lotion? I think she gets it from Wal-Mart..."
"Oh. That's nice. I respect Wal-Mart, normally people would say that the corporation is an overrated economy sucking social norm. But I believe some of their products have quality."
"Yeah...Wal-Mart has some pretty nice stuff I like-"
"You have jam on your shirt."
Finn looked down and saw the stained strawberry blob on his white shirt.
"Maybe we should go to the restroom and clean that up." Rachel suggested excitedly
"We?"
"You two! Be quiet or you'll get kicked out of my classroom" Mr. Goubert shouted.
Finn and Rachel did as told and barely spoke throughout the class. All through class however Rachel kept staring at Finn and throwing him these long glances. Finn was kind of confused and paranoid. Whenever he caught Rachel staring at him he would cover his face with book. 'I bet she's staring at my jam stain' he thought to himself.
As soon as class ended Finn rushed out of class before Rachel had a chance to talk to him. It wasn't that he was trying to be mean to Rachel, he still thought she was really nice, it's just that all that staring that Rachel did really did kind of freak him out, so he didn't really want to deal with her right now.
Finn had gym next, so he wasn't really worried about the jam stain on his shirt since they had to change into their gym clothes anyways. When he entered the gym, he spotted Puck chatting with Mike and Matt from middle school. Finn wanted to go there and join the conversation too, but after the events of yesterday with the football team, it was too awkward and there was still too much tension. Finn didn't want to deal with that yet.
"Alright boys! Get into teams of three. We're playing basketball" Mr. Kera said.
Puck, Mike and Matt formed a team.
Finn knew Mike and Matt from middle school. Finn wasn't best friends with them, but he was still friends with them. They knew each other well enough in middle school.
Mike and Matt were still confused as to why Finn wasn't talking to Puck; they had found it strange the two former best friends had yet to converse with each other.
Finn noticed that Kurt was in this class too.
"Hey Kurt."
Kurt looked at Finn with resentment. "Oh, so NOW you know me?"
"I'm really really sorry about the whole dumpster thing." Finn said genuinely.
Kurt looked Finn over, and saw the sorrow in Finn's eyes. "Whatever. It's fine."
"No, it's not. What I did to you was really uncool, and I wish I could take it back I really do, and maybe if I-"
"It wasn't it your fault. There was really nothing else you could do to change anything"
Finn hung his head low with guilt. "I know, but...Again I'm sorry."
Finn gave a pleading look to Kurt.
"I accept your apology." Kurt said meekly.
"Really?"
"Really."
At this point Kurt smiled despite himself and Finn grin his signature toothy grin which Kurt had grown so accustom to. Their moment of silence broke when Kurt noticed Puck and two other guys play fight over a basketball. Kurt turned to Finn curiously.
"Why are you not with your buddy Puck over there?"
"Ugh..." Finn stumbled with words on how to explain the situation. "Let's just say, after you left things didn't really get any better for me..."
Kurt nodded with understanding. "Ah...Well if that's the case. Would you like to join in our team?"
"Yeah sure, who's the third person?"
"Me!" A kid in a wheelchair rolled up. "Kurt and I sit together at lunch along with Mercedes and Tina."
"And now all of a sudden this weird girl Rachel Berry wants to sit with us..." Kurt said with an irritated tone.
'That name sound kind of familiar' Finn thought to himself.
"I'm Artie by the way!"
"Hi!" Finn waved.
"Hi!" Artie waved back.
"Ok you three, versus, you three" Mr. Kera pointed at Finn's team and Puck's team.
It was awkward playing basketball against Puck, none of them talk much they just played. Obviously Finn, Kurt and Artie lost because well, they were at the disadvantage of having to wheel Artie, and Kurt isn't really one to play basketball much either.
Finn quickly headed to the change room to change back into his normal clothes after gym was over.
"Hey!" Kurt said as he sat beside Finn.
Finn was glad that he had fully dressed himself before Kurt saw him. "Hi."
"You have jam on your shirt."
"Oh yeah! I was gonna go wash that."
"Yeah, washing that with water is just going to spread it more." Kurt rummage through his bags and pulled out a loose red tee. "Here I have a spare shirt anyways"
"Thanks"
Finn was about to put it on until he noticed Kurt was still staring.
"Um..."
"Oh right, sorry I didn't know you were changing right now. I'll just meet you outside then."
"Cool."
"Wait before I go, I need to tell you. My offer still stands from before, you can still eat lunch with us if you want."
Finn hated to admit it, but Kurt was the only friend he knew at this school. Puck probably didn't want to sit with him since he wasn't even talking to Puck.
"Sure."
"Awesome!"
After Finn changed he met up with Kurt and Artie and the three guys headed to the lunch table. There Finn was reintroduced to Mercedes from before, and he met a new Asian girl named Tina.
"H-H-H-Hi"
"Hi..."
"She has a stuttering problem" Kurt informed Finn.
"Oh!" Finn said still a bit confused.
"Hi lunch buddies! It's me your star! Rachel Berry!"
Rachel was about to sit down on the table when she noticed Finn was there too.
She was shocked and screamed with delight. "OH MY GOD! Finn I didn't think I get a chance to see you again are you sitting with us today?"
"Um...Yeah"
"You two know each other?" Kurt asked
"Yes! We're in the same science class. We were having the funniest most interesting conversation this mourning right Finn?"
"Umm...Yeah" Finn redundantly agreed
Kurt gave Finn a curious look, Finn just shrugged his shoulders. He really didn't know what else to say, Finn was still learning how to adjust and deal with this Rachel girl.
"This is great Finn! We're going to be great lunch buddies. I think we're going to be great! We're going to be really close friends. So close, who knows maybe something more might develop..."
"Sit down Berry!" Kurt said annoyed.
Rachel moved to sit close to Finn. She was so close to him she could taste his air. Rachel took in a deep breath to breathe more of Finn's air within his personal space. Finn got a bit nervous.
"I think I'm going to go pee." Finn said looking for an excuse to leave. This was getting too weird and awkward.
"Me too!" Kurt said
"Oh me three!" Rachel said getting out of her seat ready to follow Finn.
"You just got here. You should sit down and eat" Kurt said pushing Rachel back into her seat.
"But I wanna go with you guys..." Rachel said sadly
"We're GUYS. We're going to the boy's washroom, you can't come in." Kurt said sternly. "Come on Finn let's go" Kurt grabbed Finn by the arms and lead him out of the cafeteria.
At first Finn was embarrassed by Kurt touching his arm because it seemed like a 'gay' thing to do. But he was relived Kurt did it so he could get away from that weird Rachel chick.
"You didn't really need to go pee did you?" Kurt asked with a knowing smile.
"...It was just kinda...overwhelming in there..." Finn chuckled awkwardly
"That's fine. Maybe one day you'll get use to it. I blame that Berry girl though, she's kinda psycho."
"Yeah. She's in my science class...She's a bit...weird"
"More like annoying ..."
Finn laughed. "Hey do you wanna go outside to get some fresh air?"
After the whole Rachel breathing his air thing, Finn felt violated and needed to just go out in the open and get some NEW fresh air.
"Sure" Kurt answered delighted.
Finn and Kurt went outside for a walk around the school. It felt weird walking with Kurt. Whenever Finn would take walks with Puck it would feel normal. But this walk with Kurt felt awkward, especially the way Kurt was standing so close to Finn and how he was staring at him. Finn tried to keep his distance and avoided looking at Kurt.
"Well, well look at the two gay butt buddies walking around."
Jeff and his football guys emerged out of nowhere to confront Finn and Kurt. Finn was scared of what Jeff would do to him and Kurt. Finn tried to make out Puck's face within the football team but he was nowhere to be seen. 'shit I'm screwed' Finn thought to himself.
"What do you want Jeff?"
"Oh. Nothing. Just bored. Just trying to have some fun is all" Jeff said with a devious smirk.
Jeff walked in between Finn and Kurt swinging one arm across each other's shoulder. "So? You guys wanna play a game?"
Finn curled his fist ready to punch Jeff. Before he could however all the football guys rushed in to hold Finn back.
"I don't think you wanna do that Hudson."
"Screw you Jeff!" Finn tried to wrestle his way out of the footballer's hold but there were too much of them.
"Fine, if you wanna play rough, I'll show you rough."
The footballers carried Finn and Kurt into the back football field and locked them into separate porta potties. They knocked it over. Poo and piss poured all over Finn and Kurt, the two of them were stuck in there screaming and crying from disgust. The footballers laughed and left Finn and Kurt there.
It was only until near the end of the 3rd period did Puck find Finn and Kurt and then unlocked the porta potties to free the two.
Finn and Puck shared a moment of silence as Finn watched Puck pull him out of the porta potty.
"I'm sorry dude." Puck said as he walked away then disappeared from the scene.
Finn and Kurt went back into the gym shower and wash away all the disgusting waste from their body.
After they got out of the shower Finn had to wear his old jam stained clothes again.
"Sorry Kurt, I ruined your shirt..." Finn handed Kurt the ruined tee.
"It's okay."
"I'm also sorry for getting you into this mess. And, I'm so sorry if I ever made you feel this...shitty" Finn said with sadness in his eyes.
"You made me feel like a friend today Finn. It's not your fault."
Finn gave a weak smile.
"What time is it by the way?" Finn asked
"We have 15 minutes of 4th period left which means 15 minutes until school ends."
"It's been a pretty crappy day huh?"
Kurt laughed at Finn's remark. "Crappy indeed"
Kurt and Finn shared a smile.
"I'm going to go back to 4th period, are you coming?"
"No. I think I'm just going to skip it. Whatever it's only the first day I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything important."
"Ok then. I'll see you around?"
"See ya" Finn waved.
Kurt gave Finn an assuring smile and walked back to class.
As soon as Kurt left for class Finn was left alone in the hallways. He was tired and ready to go home.
As Finn was going to his locker, the bell rang to indicate that school was over. Kids were crowding the hallways and people were busy moving and bustling. As Finn was going to his locker he bumped into a very petite blonde girl.
"Ow! Watch where you're going!" The blonde girl said fiercely.
"Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!" Finn said frantically as he was helping the girl collect her books.
As Finn looked up he noticed it was the same pretty blonde girl he had been hoping to see again all day long ever since orientation.
"Hey! It's you!" Finn said excitedly with a wide goofy grin.
The blonde girl looked up. She recognized his voice. As she looked up, she saw the same strange cute boy staring straight at her with his signature goofy grin. "Frankenteen right?"
"Actually, my name is Finn"
"Finn?"
"Yeah! Finn Hudson!" Finn said happy to have finally properly introduced himself to the pretty blonde girl.
The pretty blonde girl bit her lip and shook her head in disbelief. "That's so interesting."
"It is?"
"Yeah...It is..."
Finn stared at the girl in awe for a moment, before realizing he was holding onto her books.
"Oh! Right this is for you" Finn handed the girl her books.
"Thanks." She said with a genuine smile.
"It's kind of heavy watch out" Finn tried to ease the girl into holding the book as he was doing this he saw her struggle with them.
"Actually where are you going? I'll just carry your books for you." Finn said.
"That's very chivalrous of you."
"Chivalrous? That's a good thing right?"
"Very..." the girl said with an approving smile.
"So where were you heading too?" Finn asked.
"I was about to go sign up for the Cheerios"
"Cheerios...that's the cheerleading team right?"
"Yeah"
"Cool!" Finn looked at the signup sheet for cheerleading. The line was so long it continued all the way down the hallway. "Oh wow, that's a long line up..."
"Well...I wouldn't have to wait that long line up if SOMEONE hadn't bumped into me and I had gotten there first..." Quinn said in a teasing tone.
"Sorry..." Finn looked down at his feet feeling very apologetic.
"It's okay, don't worry about it. Let's just go line up before the line gets any longer."
"Okay!" Finn said excitedly following the girl to the back of the line.
"You don't have to stand here with me" the girl said as Finn stood next to her
"Why not?"
"Because, you're not obligated to"
"What if I want to be obligooted to?"
"It's obli-GATED not obli-GOOTED"
"Yeah that!"
"Do you even know what obligated means?" the girl said with a mischievous smile.
"No...what does it mean?"
The girl chuckled at his naivety "It means a lot of things" she said ambiguously.
"Well if one of those things means standing here holding your books, then I want it"
"You want stand around like an awkward giant, holding heavy books that aren't even yours. For someone you barely know."
"I know you"
"Oh really?"
"Yeah, you're the girl who almost ran me over" Finn said with a teasing grin
"Correction, you're the boy who stupidly ran into on-coming traffic"
"I wouldn't say I was running INTO the on-coming traffic, more like... across the road with on-coming traffic coming into me..."
"That's the same thing"
"No it's not!"
"Yes it is."
Finn thought about this.
"Oh yeah! You're right. It kinda is..." Finn said a bit embarrassed
The girl shook her head in disbelief with a smile plastered on her face. "Just give me the books" She said in a light tone.
"No." Finn said in a playfully childish manner
"They're MY books. You realize that right?"
"I know! I just don't think I should give it to you."
"Something tells me you don't do much thinking at all..." The girl with knowing smirk
"I do think! I think that if I give you the books and you leave, then..." Finn desperately scrambled for an excuse.
"Oh! I got it!" Finn said as his face brighten
"Well...What is it?" The girl said waiting
"I think that if I give you the books, you will lose your spot in the line up" Finn said with a satisfied smirk from having come up with a valid excuse to not give the girl the books.
"True. OR" the girl said raising a finger up to indicate another option "OR you can hold my spot in the line and I'll go carry my books to my locker so neither of us will have to carry it."
Finn thought about this idea for a moment. "Nawh. I still wanna hold your books."
The girl chuckled. "Why?"
"Cause I don't wanna hold your spot in line." Finn said with a teasing smile.
"So you would rather stand here all day and hold my heavy books, instead of holding my spot in my line for two minutes then leaving and continuing on with life" The girl asked questionably.
"Yup. That's pretty much it." Finn said with a nod. "Plus! I think I look very cool standing here holding your books. It makes me look more manly and strong and...and...scary!" Finn explained
"Scary?" The girl questioned with her eye brow arched.
"Yeah. Scary. Like...big strong bear, or a lion, or...a dinosaur! RAWR!" Finn roared with his arms bent and his faced squished together looking like a dinosaur.
The girl laughed at Finn's attempt to be scary. "You're an idiot." The girl chuckled out.
"Hey! I'm not an idiot I'm just... that word you said earlier...Chiva-"
"Chivalrous"
"Yeah! I'm that!"
"You don't even know what that means."
"Yes I do. It means something good."
"How do you know that?"
"Cause you said so." Finn said with an assuring smile
"How do you know I'm not lying?" The girl said with a devious smile.
"Are you lying?" Finn crooked his eyebrows to question her.
"Maybe..." the girl said with teasing smile and a shrug.
"Hey! Awww come on don't do that" Finn said jokingly with a smile growing too wide for his face.
The girl flashed him her most mischievous yet innocent smile. "Do what?"
Finn his breath caught in his throat when he saw her genuine beautiful smile. Once his heart stopped racing he finally was able to say "You wouldn't lie to me."
"How do you know?"
"Because I know you."
The girl's heart skipped a beat at hearing this. "Fine. You can foolishly believe whatever you want to believe."
"Ok. I'll keep believing in you then." Finn said with a toothy grin.
"You don't even know my name" the girl pointed out to Finn feeling victorious having leaving him speechless.
Finn realized that what the girl was saying was true. After all this time, this girl that Finn was falling head over heels over, he didn't even know her name.
"What's your name?" Finn asked seriously.
"You're only NOW asking what my name is?"
"Yes..." Finn said sternly.
"This coming from the guy who claims who knows me so well" the girl said with a mocking tone of voice.
"I could always try to know you better..." A moment of silence passed between them as they stared into each other eyes.
"So what's your name?" Finn asked pessimistically breaking the silence.
The girl shook her head smiling in disbelief. "Finn. Finn. Finn. Finn. Finn." She scoffed out disapprovingly.
"Wait...Finn's a boy's a name. You're a girl right..." Finn said a bit confused at her answer.
"Very well spotted Finn" The girl said sarcastically with an eye roll
"Is that a yes?" Finn said a bit confused
"Do you really want me to answer that?" the girl said with an irritated look and an accusing tone.
"No?" Finn said a bit panicky and confused.
The girl gave a playful roll of her eyes and began to turn away from Finn.
"Look! Just please please please! Tell me your name!" Finn desperately begged
The girl examined Finn. She stared at him long and hard. Finn was getting a bit nervous and was worried she might be thinking that he was a loser or something.
Finn shifted his figured under her hard gaze. Her eyes stopped and focus on his lower left shoulder.
"You have jam on your shirt" The girl stated nonchalantly.
"Oh!" Finn looked down at his shirt and realized that he had been wearing the stained shirt all this time. Finn blushed at the embarrassment and tried to explain himself.
"Yeah. You see this morning I woke up late, because I set my alarm for 7:30. Yeah I mean 7:30 is a great time to wake up for school and all, but the funny thing is I set it for 7:30 pm not 7:30 am. It's actually not really a funny thing since no one laughed. Actually everyone was really mad, I was kind of mad that I did that. So yeah I guess it's not really funny but I was late and when I was late I ate toast in the car. And you know how when the car is moving the..."
The girl was amazed at Finn's ability to ramble about nothingness all by himself. She quickly reached into her bag to take out a sticker as he continued to ramble.
"So yeah you see that's why the car moved and the jam spilt on my shirt. I think that's what happened... I don't know I didn't actually see the jam spill on my shirt. If I did I would make it not spill on my-"
The girl quickly cut Finn's ramblings short. "Here" She took the sticker and stuck it over Finn's stained spot.
"Perfect! Now no one will even know that stain was there, except for me of course. You can't fool me" The girl said with a mischievous smile.
Finn looked down on his shirt and read the words on the sticker. "Hello my name is...Quinn..."
"Fabray" The girl finished confidently
Finn was a bit confused. "But my name is Finn..."
The girl rolled her eyes playfully at Finn's slowness. "This is a sticker my teacher gave me for first period. It's one of those lame get-to-know-you kind of thing. I was wearing it earlier today and was going to throw it out, but now it actually has some usage" The girl smiled kindly at Finn.
Finn was still confused and didn't quite understand what was going on. "I don't get it..."
The line had moved up really quick since they were talking and they were now in front of the signup sheet. The girl quickly turned away from Finn so that she could sign her name on the signup sheet for the cheerleader try-outs.
She turned to look at Finn still confused about the whole situation. She didn't really understand why, but somehow she found his stupidity completely adorable.
"You're getting there." With that, the girl gave Finn a pat on the back. She picked up her books from him easily as he was still in a state of shock and confusion then she turned on her heels and quickly fled the scene.
Finn still didn't quite understand what the girl meant, until he read the name on the Cheerio cheerleader try-outs.
'Quinn Fabray'.
He looked down back at her sticker and finally made the connection.
"HER NAME IS QUINN FABRAY!" Finn practically shouted after realizing the truth.
