For the entire day Rachel wore her imaginary blinders. She would not react to anything that was whispered rather loudly about her by the other students and she simply smiled as her teachers treated her like she was the most pitiful thing on planet earth.

Finally when the last bell rang and it was time for glee club Rachel could feel a weight lift off of her shoulders. She was at least going to be somewhere and doing something that she loved.

As she walked into the choir room everyone instantly stopped their gossiping and Rachel just sucked in a deep breath and was greeted with a huge bear hug from Mr. Shue.

"It is so great to have you back." Mr. Shue smiled and put her back down on her feet.

"Its great to be back."

Brittany bounced over to them and bent over to give Rachel a quick hug and then handed her an oversized card that was made on pink colored paper with crayons and stickers. It was easy to tell that Brittany had made it herself but it was still sweet and Rachel hugged her back and thanked her. Rachel tucked the card in one of her books and was led by Brittany over to the cluster of seats. She sat down next to Mercedes who mouthed a silent 'hey' and sweetly nudged her head against Rachel's shoulder. Rachel didn't even glance over at Quinn who was holding Sam's hand and staring at her with big eyes full of pity and clutching the gold cross around her neck with her other hand. Puck got up from his own seat and sat on the other side of Rachel wrapping his arm around her.

"How's the noggin'?"

"Perfectly fine. I mean there is the occasional dizzy spell and sometimes I forget what I'm about to say..."

"Score!" Finn pumped his fist in the air.

"But there is a chance I may vomit on you." Puck slowly removed his hand from around Rachel's shoulder and scooted a few feet away. "And that has absolutely nothing to do with hitting my head." Even Santana had to bite down on her bottom lip not to laugh at that one.

...

Glee rehearsal went by smoothly, well, as smoothly as it usually went by. Even though Rachel knew what they were all thinking she didn't let it get to her. She even sang a solo that she had suggested to Mr. Shue the week before. The bell rang and everyone gave her little hugs and squeezes as they left. Artie slapped her a high five as he went by making Rachel laugh. The only person who avoided her was of course Finn.

"It is really great to have you back Rachel." Mr. Shue gave her another hug.

"Thanks Mr. Shue." She waited until he finished packing up his things. "You don't think what everyone else does do you, Mr. Shue."

Mr. Shue let out a sigh and turned to face her. "In all honestly Rachel, I thought you might have at first but I know you would never do something like that. You have too much talent to stop the world from seeing it."

"Kurt said something along those same lines."

Mr. Shue laughed and playfully gave her hand a quick tug before leaving. Now that the choir room was empty Rachel placed her books on the piano and took out the big pink card she had stuck in her US History text book. Opening it up there were enormous amounts of heart, unicorn, rainbow, and smiley face stickers all over it. Inside it, in scribbled crayon it said "I'm glad you're not dead and only hit your head... that was the best rhyme I could think of, Love Brittany." Rachel couldn't help but smile at that. It was just so completely Brittany. She put the card back with her books and walked to the door slamming straight into something large and solid. She fell to the ground and her books and her card went flying everywhere.

"Oh my god. I'm so sorry I didn't mean to... I thought everyone was gone. I left my..." Finn was down on the floor gathering up Rachel's books in a flash. He dropped them all back down when he saw her face scrunched up in pain and she was holding onto the side of her head where a faded yellowish bruise still was. Finn easily scooped her up in his arms held her. "Are you okay?" He asked, his voice dripping with nervousness.

"Yeah." Rachel sucked in a breath of pain. "I'm fine. I was just caught off guard. Finn's large hand brushed her small one away and softly inspected the bruise on her head making sure he didn't do any more damage by being a huge towering moron.

Finn's hand stopped moving when he finally realized that Rachel was in his lap staring up at him with those big brown eyes he had missed seeing for so long. "Hi." He said softly. Has hand moved down to cup her cheek. Rachel's eyes grew wide with something almost like fear when she saw him move in closer his own eyes now focused on her lips. Rachel shoved away from him and fell off of his lap landing on the hard floor with a thud.

"Rach I..."

"You were going to try and kiss me."

"Well, yeah. That's what people usually do when they love someone."

This made Rachel angry. She got to her knees and slid her pile of books over to her. "Just stop Finn.

"Stop what?" He asked getting up onto his own knees.

"We both know the only reason you just tried to kiss me is because you feel guilty."

"Rachel, things are different now."

"Yeah, things are different because you think I am insane and jumped off of a cliff." She stood up and brushed off her skirt. "You made it clear that we were officially broken up. Things have not changed, Finn. I'm not going to be your charity case." Rachel walked by him leaving him on the floor.

Finn angrily punched the floor and then reeled back holding onto his hand in pain. That was not a smart idea. Nothing he seemed to be doing lately was a smart idea. All he wanted was Rachel back. He wanted to make things right again. He noticed that his car keys had fallen out of his pocket and he knew exactly where to go to clear his mind.

TBC