Note: Glee isn't mine! Neither is the original story inspired for this one, credit goes to The Minsk and her amazing fic, Lovesick. Read it! It's amazing!
"Hey Kurt, is your friend here yet?" Finn asked as he walked into his brother's apartment. Though he was now living in his own apartment, he still came to Kurt's apartment very often. He did use to live there. Not that he hated living with his gay step brother, but he enjoyed living alone. He always walked in on Kurt and Blaine making out on the couch or dirty phone calls between those two. When he finally found his own apartment, he was super relieved to finally get away from all that. But naturally, Finn was just a more independent personality in general.
"Yes, she is. She's in your room. Well, it's actually her room now." Kurt said. "However, I don't know if you're going to meet her tonight. She's still really….broken." He continued. Finn just nodded his head, understanding what Kurt was saying. Kurt told Finn a lot about Rachel and what she was going through. Finn just felt sympathy for her. To get dumped a couple weeks before your wedding must suck ass. "Her interview is tomorrow. I really hope she'll be okay by then." Kurt said.
"Wow, it sucks what she's going through. What is up with that asshole who dumped her?" Finn asked in an angry, but rather calmish tone. Kurt just rolled his eyes at someone mentioning him. "He's rich, and arrogant. They started dating when Rachel and I were juniors in college, I never liked him because he was always such a cocky narcissistic bastard." Kurt replied. "Apparently, his fucking parents talked him out of marrying her." Kurt added. "Wow" was all Finn could say. He haven't even really met her yet and he just felt really bad for Rachel.
"But enough about Rachel for now. What's going on with you and Quinn?" Kurt asked, kind of teasingly. "Have you asked her out, yet?" Kurt asked. Finn couldn't help but look down and smirk with a huge blush on his face. "Actually, yes. I asked her today during lunch." He replied. "Really? And what did she say?" Kurt asked again with his eyes kind of wide. "She said yes. We're going out to dinner on Friday night." Finn replied. "What the fuck? You're kidding, right?" Kurt asked, shocked. Like, really shocked.
Finn let out 'haha' tease to let his brother know that he was right about everyone telling him about Quinn and her expectations in men. "I seriously cannot believe it. You do realize that you're practically sacrificing yourself for this girl, right?" Kurt said. "I can assure you, I'm gonna make it work. Either way, I get paid on Thursday." Finn reassured him.
Finn didn't care about the warnings about Quinn from earlier. He really thought she was worth it. Kurt stayed silent for a little bit before talking again. "Well, either way, if you really think it's gonna work out with Quinn, then you need to learn how to cook." Kurt quickly moved towards his brother and pushed him towards the kitchen. Kurt grabbed a cooking spoon out of the utensil drawer and handed it to Finn. "Okay, well for starters. This is super simple. You can't mess it up. Just stir the damn pasta. It's so easy. I'm gonna take a shower and will be back in 15 minutes. If you mess it up, there is no way in hell you're gonna last with Quinn." Kurt said to him then walked off to the bathroom to shower. Finn just looked at Kurt weirdly and started stirring.
While stirring, Finn started to think about more positive things. Like his upcoming date with Quinn. Which was happening much sooner than he actually thought. He was looking at the pasta at the same time, trying to make sure that he was doing everything right. While thinking about Quinn, his mind couldn't help but rush back to what everyone was saying to him about Quinn. Though Quinn had agreed to go on a date with him, he just still strangely couldn't get the warnings out of his head. He was so caught up with them, he didn't hear soft footsteps coming from behind him.
"Need some help?" A soft, female voice asked Finn. Finn then turned around to face Kurt's friend, Rachel. He was weirdly so surprised because he wasn't expecting to meet her already. He was so caught off guard that he was trying to drink his glass of water and stir the pasta at the same time. But he freaking failed.
The glass fell to the floor but the pasta still stayed on the counter though it almost fell over. Rachel stepped back with a shocked look on her face as Finn made a complete fool of himself in front of her. There was a huge mess all over the kitchen floor. Kurt was going to murder the living fuck out of him. "Oh shit" Finn said out loud. He just looked down at the floor in panic and looked back at Rachel. "Um, you're Rachel, right?" He asked, kind of nervously. She nodded and even gave him a tiny smile as she grabbed some paper towels to help clean up.
"You must be Finn, Kurt's stepbrother. It's nice to meet you..again." Rachel replied kind of awkwardly. Finn felt really guilty because Rachel was cleaning up his mess. He reached out to softly grab the paper towels from her but Rachel stopped him. "No, please. I'll take care of this." She said. She cleaned everything carefully and quickly while Finn stepped back to check on the pasta.
"You really shouldn't worry about this. Just continue stirring the food. I'll take care of Kurt." She said to him when she was done cleaning. He looked at her after she finished talking. She was so tiny compared to him. She was wearing a simple shirt and sweatpants and cute bunny slippers. While stirring the pasta, he looked at her once and was able to see her face more clearly this time.
She looked like she was at least a foot shorter than him, had olive skin and long, dark brown hair. After getting a better look at her, he started to remember her a little bit. He remembers that they only had like one conversation, that was literally it. She was with Jesse at the time so he obviously couldn't really be into her. He sort of remembers Jesse and what he looked like. He thought Jesse looked a little older than her. He figured that Jesse was also the dicklick of a fiancee who dumped her.
"I'm really sorry about that, by the way." Finn said to Rachel all of a sudden. "Don't worry about it." She shrugged off then stuck her hand out. "It's lovely to meet you again Finn, Kurt has always talked about you. I don't know if you remember me from graduation" She smiled as they shook hands. Finn let out a little laugh. "Likewise. He and I are really close. Any friend of his will be a friend of mine. So I'm more than willing to help you with anything you'd like." He smiled back at her. When their hands let go from each other, Finn started to look at her sadly. "I'm really sorry about your ex and what he did to you. The guy seems like a total asshole." He said to her.
Just the mention of Jesse wanted to make Rachel run in her new room and never come out. She looked down and let a small tear come out. "Thanks, Finn." She replied while looking back up at him. "I'm just really trying to focus on my career from here on out." She added on. Finn nodded at her and smiled at the same time. "What is it that you do?" He asked curiously. "I'm a therapist." She replied. "If there are patients in the hospital who are going through some hard stuff, I'm there to talk to them. It usually really helps them, actually." She added. "Wow, that sounds really sophisticated and important." He calmly chuckled nervously, he thought to himself that there was no way he could ever have the sophistication to do that.
"Yes, it is. I just got my degree and Jesse just ruined it all for me." She said as she started crying again. Just hearing more about Jesse wanted to make Finn go all the way to Columbus to give him a nice piece of Finn Hudson ass kick.
"I don't think you should worry about that, anymore, Rachel. I think you're going to get the job. You seem really smart." He smiled at her and reached his arm out to softly touch her shoulder for comfort. After giving him a quiet but kind thank you, Rachel went to the kitchen to finish the pasta herself, adding some herbs and oils to it, Kurt has told her about how Finn had no idea how to cook, so she just decided to take care of it herself. Finn looked at her like she was an expert at everything she did. When she was done with the pasta, she got out some utensils to set them on the table. While doing so, she was softly smiling to herself. He took out a bottle of beer from the fridge and just watched her set up the table. He just felt really bad that she had to be put through what she was put through. He felt awkward though, because he was currently thinking about a girl who wasn't Quinn. Quinn Fabray, the super gorgeous woman who he was gonna go on a date with and was potentially falling for.
"So what about you?" Rachel suddenly asked, breaking Finn out of his thoughts. "Kurt told me that you work at the hospital as well." Just someone bringing up the fact that Finn now works at a hospital made him really proud of himself, it didn't matter if he was just a porter. "Yeah, I did! I'm a porter. So far, I actually really enjoy it so far. The staff is also really helpful. I actually got lost on the day of my interview and a doctor helped me. She was really sweet. We're actually going out this weekend." Finn smiled at the thought of Quinn. He found it suddenly odd that he was sharing this news with Kurt's best friend, but he didn't really care at the same time.
Rachel just nodded with a simple grin on her face. "Well, have fun. I'm sure she's great." Rachel told him. They just sort of stared at each other awkwardly for a few long seconds, just as they heard Kurt's footsteps come rushing into the kitchen. "Was that a giant crash I just heard?" He asked in panic. Finn looked at his step brother, wide eyed and hesitant, not knowing what to say. "It was just some spilled beer. I cleaned it up." Rachel said for Finn before walking over to the counter, putting some oven mitts on her hands, then carrying the pasta to the dining table. When everything was set up, Finn took his seat at the table, sitting across from Rachel. She looked lost in thought as she ate her pasta and took sips of her wine. The three of them just started to eat in peaceful silence, that was before Rachel cleared her throat to say something.
"I know this may seem kind of silly all of a sudden, but I just really want to thank you guys." She let out a shy chuckle before speaking once more. "Kurt, you're honestly the best friend I could ever ask for. And Finn, just thank you for being so nice and welcoming to me. It actually feels really nice to have you guys around." She smiled and lifted her glass to make a toast. "Cheers" she let out. "Cheers." Kurt and Finn repeated. Maybe Rachel was really going to find happiness in Lima.
