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Summary: Takes place around season 2, starts obviously after the Britney/Brittany episode.

Chapter Four: Apologize.

Rachel was in an extremely good mood and well she had many reasons to thank for that. First off, it was Friday and marked the beginning of the weekend, and she just couldn't wait to get home. Her dads were out of town and felt she was mature enough to stay home by herself, and well they had given her permission to have a friend sleepover. Although she knew very well they met one of the female persuasion, Rachel knew the person she was going to ask. She had wanted it to be a surprise, but the thing was, how was she going to get her boyfriend's mother to allow him to sleepover her house? And unsupervised! Maybe if they said it was a glee club sleepover! But then what about Kurt? If Kurt's home then Mr. Hummel could tell Mrs. Hudson and that would ruin her plan. She could actually make it a glee club sleepover, but she was highly doubting that any of them would want to sleep at her house. Her good mood was slowly faltering with this difficult task, but she tried her hardest not to let it bother her.

Things with her and Finn had been going great lately, she had finally let him touch her boobs and he hadn't even asked that time! She really did love him and she knew sometimes she was a difficult person to date. Although, she had told him she slept with Jesse (even if she didn't), Finn had pressured her into doing the same with him, truthfully he was quite a gentleman. However, she somewhat understood his need to want to touch her chest at least over the clothes. She wanted tonight to be special, she wasn't saying she was exactly ready for that. However, Rachel was feeling they could slowly move into more steps in their relationship, and well maybe she would be able to tell him she herself was also still a virgin. Part of her wondered if he would have been mad or relived? Relived that both of them were on the same level of experience.

As she went to shut her locker her smile faded noticing who was standing in front of her with a creepy smile plastered on their face, "Uh hi?" Rachel said confused as she stared at Santana.

"Hi Rachel," Santana spoke softly, her voice sweet, something very unlike her, "I wanted to say that I am so sorry."

Rachel couldn't help but raise her eyebrow, what was she saying sorry about? Okay, well Santana wasn't always the nicest person to Rachel, "Sorry? About what?"

"About sleeping with Finn, silly," she said smiling brighter, "I feel bad since you guys are now dating and I mean-, I just am so sorry. I know he probably already told you all about this and I just wanted to apologize because I think you two are uber cute together."

She felt her heart stop and was pretty sure her jaw just dropped to the floor, "Ex-excuse me?"

Santana's smile began to turn into a smirk, almost a devilishly one, "Wait, did he not tell you? Oops," she covered her mouth and tried her hardest not to snicker. "It was before you guys were together, I would have thought he would have told you. I mean it was only to make you jealous when you were with that Jesse kid. Well Ciao!" she turned on her heel and walked over to Brittany and the two cheerios began to snicker as they walked away.

"Wow Rachel," a voice from behind her spoke, "looks like you've seen a ghost." Rachel quickly turned on her heel to see Kurt standing behind her, she slammed down her books on the floor and rushed off to the chorus room leaving Kurt looking bewildered.

"No, so really," Finn's voice boomed as he laughed over something he was talking to Artie about. He was about to continue when he looked up to see Rachel marching into the room looking rather... mad? He raised his eyebrow and smiled towards her, "Hey, babe. You gotta-,"

But before Finn had a chance to finish what he was saying he was cut off by his girlfriend, "You slept with Santana?" she yelled out, not even caring that Artie, Tina, Mercedes, and Mike were sitting in the room.

"Oh, this is not going to be pretty," Mercedes muttered from the back row.

Finn awkward stood up, his eyes wide as he headed over to his girlfriend, "Rach-, um maybe we should talk about this another time."

"Another time?" she asked, her eyes filling with tears, she had been hoping he would say that Santana had been lying, "So it's true?"

Finn gulped and wrapped his hand around her arm and led her into the hallway, "I'm sorry." It was the only thing he could think of to say.

"You're sorry?" she scoffed as she reached up to wipe the tears that were threatening to escape her eyes, "You don't know what it was like to hear it from her. Why didn't you tell me? Why did you tell me you didn't do it in the first place?"

This was so hard, he just didn't know what to say and Rachel's reaction was definitely not what he would expect. Okay, maybe it was exactly what he expected but the way she just stormed in, he was still trying to wrap his head around it, "Rachel-," he took a deep breath, "I was going to tell you, I promise you that. I ju- this is not the way I wanted to tell you! In the middle of the school hallway, this was something I wanted to discuss with you privately."

Rachel stared at him, she could feel the tears rolling down her cheeks but she didn't bother to reach up and try to wipe them away. When Santana had approached her she had just.. snapped. Now she was feeling like an idiot, how could she have just stormed into the choir room and asked him that in front of their friends? And the fact that all the hope she had that Santana was lying had just been flushed down the drain, "I need to clear my head-," she took a few steps back from him, "I just-." She bit her bottom lip as she tried to stop crying, "Well you'll be happy to know I lied too, I was never with Jesse like that."

She quickly turned her back to Finn and made her way down the hallway leaving him standing there completely dumbfounded. "What just happened?" he whispered to himself as he reached up to rub the back of his head. Closing his eyes Finn took a deep breath, this was going to take a lot of work to fix, a lot more work than he wished, but he loved her and the last thing he wanted was to lose her. Opening his eyes he saw Santana and Brittany walking down the hall, obviously making their way to the choir room. "Hey!" he called out, anger obviously in his tone as he reached them, "We need to talk- now."

Santana chuckled, "I'm guessing the midget told you I told her... You should have seen her face."

Finn punched the nearest locker causing Santana to jump slightly, "Who the hell are you? Does it really make you feel good to be so evil towards people that have never done a bad thing to you.. ever? Like are you that unhappy in life that you need to make other people miserable?"

"I'm sorry that you weren't man enough to fess up yourself," she snapped her fingers in front of his face causing him grab her wrist, "Don't take your anger out on me. You should be thanking me for making you realize you could do much better than that freak."

Finn pursed his lips and narrowed his eyes as he stared at Santana, "The only freak I see here is you..." He let go of her wrist and began to walk backwards before turning around and shaking his head. Rachel had to forgive him, she just had to.

Rachel went to the one place she knew Finn wouldn't find her, or at least the one place he wouldn't dare go into. Locking herself in a stall she sunk down to the ground and brought her knees up against her chest as she cried. She knew she was probably overreacting in some ways, and maybe it wasn't the fact that he had lie, but the mere fact that she heard it from her. The way the girl smirked as she told her, god it broke Rachel. Sure, she knew she hadn't been perfect with the truth in that department either, but- she just didn't know. She leaned her head back against the stall and let out a sigh. She hadn't even heard the bathroom door open from the sounds of her sobs, but that didn't stop her from hearing someone saying her name.

After not getting an answer she called out again, "Rachel?" Quinn wasn't even sure why she had bothered to come in after the crying girl, it's not like she cared... right? "Rachel, I saw you come in here so please don't try to hide from me." She approached the stall that was closed and knocked slightly, "Are you okay?"

"Why do you care?" Rachel sniffled as she rubbed her hand under her nose, not even caring if she looked a mess right now.

"Rachel-," she groaned, "I know we aren't really the closest of friends or anything, but I want to make sure you're okay."

It was a moment of silence before Rachel finally opened the door and pulled herself to her feet. "I'm fine," she lied, it was obvious just by looking at her face.

"I don't know what happened... and part of me isn't entirely sure I'd even care- but," Quinn sighed as she leaned the palms of her hands against the sink, "I saw Santana approach you and I'm thinking she said something to upset you."

"She told me she slept with Finn," Rachel reached up to rub her eyes, "Apparently it happened when I was still with Jesse."

"Oh," Quinn raised her eyebrow, "Well I mean-," she didn't really know what to say. While she couldn't exactly blame Finn for sleeping with someone else, especially since it was at the time Rachel was in a relationship, but Santana? "You sure she's not lying, she's good at-,"

Rachel cut her off, "He didn't deny it. It's like, I think I'm more hurt that he's not the one that told me. We always said we'd be honest with each other, but then again I should just blame myself." She turned her attention to the mirror, her eyes red and puffy. "I told him I did sleep with Jesse."

"And you didn't?"

Rachel glanced at the blonde standing to her side, "No, I just- it was such a confusing time then, you know?"

Quinn shrugged her shoulders, "He loves you, Rachel. I mean- wasn't it just a few weeks ago you had me approach him for you?" She still didn't know why she did that for Rachel, but for some reason she did. Maybe part of her wanted to know if Finn still cared about her. "When me and him were together we were a mess, I mean I let Puck get me pregnant and then... you guys were always around each other. He feels about you the way he could never feel about me," it hurt her to admit that, but Quinn felt like it was the truth. She didn't exactly know everything that had gone down with Finn and Rachel when she was dating him, but their relationship definitely didn't have the strength hers did with him. "You appreciate him so much more than I ever could and- he never looked at me the way he looks at you Rachel."

"She's so evil," Rachel whispered softly, even though she didn't say Santana's name Quinn knew very well who she was talking about.

"I know," Quinn sighed and gave Rachel a reassuring smile, "But she's just jealous. We all are..." her words trailed off as she looked down at the ground.

"I should let him explain his side shouldn't I?" Rachel's tears had finally subsided, and now she was just feeling so dumb. Quinn just nodded and Rachel finally smiled as she headed towards the door to go find Finn. However, before she could leave she turned around and looked back at Quinn, "I know this doesn't make us friends, and well you'll probably go back to hating me as soon as I walk out of here, I just want to thank you, Quinn."

Finn had eventually wandered back into the choir room after searching for Rachel. Maybe he needed to respect her decision, let her think, but god he didn't want to lose her. When he had come back everyone was staring at him, he figured Mercedes probably dropped the ball over what had taken place only a few moments before. Kurt approached him and when Finn was about to say he wasn't in the mood to talk he held out Rachel's books, explaining she had dropped them by her locker after Santana approached her. "Thanks," was the only words he could mutter as he placed them down at his lap and looked at the floor, not really caring all that much about what Mr. Schue was talking about.

"Sorry, we're late," Quinn whispered as she walked into the room and took her seat.

Finn looked up just in time to see Rachel in walking a few paces behind her. He didn't even care if they were still in front of everyone, he quickly rose to his feet and walked over to her, "I'm so sorry."

She had her arms crossed over her chest almost like she was trying to keep herself warm, "I know."

"It didn't mean anything- I honestly did it to make you jealous and I regret it soo much, Rach," he sighed heavily, he had never thought he could feel so bad over something, but here he was feeling that way. "I love you, I want you to know that."

Rachel didn't speak, instead she just wrapped her arms around Finn's torso and buried her head in his chest. Finn could feel everyone's gaze on them but didn't care, he gently rubbed up and down her back as he held her. "I'm sorry for acting the way I did," she said softly before taking a step back, "This is something we are going to need to discuss," she sighed softly, "But lets wait till later?" He nodded and she slipped her hand into his before leading him over to their chairs. "Sorry, Mr. Schue."

Will nodded to Rachel and cracked a small smile, "It's okay," he cleared his throat and turned his attention back to everyone else, "Okay, now where were we.'

Rachel and Finn stayed quiet most of the class, he held her to him, kissing the top of her head any chance he got. Right now words weren't needed, but eventually, eventually they knew they were going to have to talk about what had happened.

A/N: well there we are! sorry if the chapter isn't amazing! This actually wasn't my plan for chapter 4 but it kind of came to me and I figured it be good to add a little drama to the way she founds out. I started a new story called Not Afraid. It's A/U but I would for you guys to read it! I'm currently coming down with a nasty cold but I am going to start working on the next chapter as soon as I can. Thanks for the reviews guys! Keep em coming, they keep me motivated!