DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN GLEE OR ITS CHARACTERS. I ALSO DO NOT OWN PLAIN WHITE T'S 'HEY THERE DELILAH'
Author's Note: Thank you for reviewing! I want to quickly explain what I did with the song Hey There Delilah. I altered the lyrics to be fitting towards Finn/Rachel relationship. The way I altered them is ALL MINE, BUT THE SONG AND OVERALL POINT OF THE SONG ISN'T. This is for entertainment purely. I hope you enjoy, and do me a favor… PLEASE REVIEW!
Hey Rachel Berry
They had broken up about a month ago. It wasn't just one of those 'let's take a break because I saw that you became friends with him/her on Facebook' type of break up either. It was really bad. Like, both were in tears after bad.
He had said things he didn't mean and he decided that they needed to break up. It was a mutual agreement between the two and they hadn't talked in a whole month. Soon they would be graduating for college.
What are they going to do?
-glee-
"Finn!" Rachel squealed, bounding up the Hummel/Hudson driveway and jumping into her boyfriend's arms.
"I missed you so much, Rachel," Finn had sighed against her vanilla scented olive skin toned neck.
"Hey, I thought we weren't going to say that!" She slaps his arm.
"Yeah, I know, but this is it. It's been four painful years of being apart during college and I'm just so sick of it. I can't wait for it to be done so I can move out to New York," He explains.
"Me either," She agrees and pulls away from him when Carole and Burt make their way out to greet her.
She flew home for spring break this year. All the other years they had spent it apart because they were always both so busy with school. But this year, their last year of college, they were spending it together because they couldn't wait to be living together.
Rachel would start auditioning for parts on Broadway and Finn was already being put in for the NFL Sports Draft. Hopefully the Jets or Giants will pick him up. Ever since the falling asleep on the field thing, he'd put out his best effort and was now the first string quarterback for OSU. He has been for two whole years. His coaches say he should have no problem being drafted.
The two had already started to save money so they could rent out a small apartment.
They were ready to start their lives. No more school. They are officially in the real world.
And most importantly, they're doing it together.
-glee-
"It was so nice seeing you," Rachel hugs Burt and Carole tightly. "I can't believe I have to go back already!"
"We've missed seeing our daughter," Burt winks and Carole gives Rachel a kiss on the cheek.
"Of course," Carole agrees. "Next time I see you I hope to be seeing an engagement ring."
Rachel giggles nervously as Carole glances over at Finn.
"Mom," Finn exclaims turning a bright red. "We don't need to be engaged any time soon."
Rachel looks at him with a fallen smile. What did he mean by that? Did he not want to marry her?
After they say their goodbyes, Finn takes Rachel out to the Lima Lake where they just sit on the dock with their feet in the water.
"What did you mean when you said that we didn't have to be engaged any time soon?" Rachel dares to ask, not wanting to break the peaceful moment.
"I don't want to ruin my youth by getting married, you know?" Finn tells her honestly.
She gasps sharply, "Marrying me would be ruining your youth?"
"No, that's not what I mean and you know it," Finn looks at her with a soft smile. "Why would we need to be married anyway? We can start our lives and get married later."
"Well it's not like it's a bad idea," Rachel stares at him. "I mean we are going to be living together. Our parents are already upset that we're doing that without being married."
"What's wrong with living together and not being married?"
"It's kind of amoral," She shrugs.
"Fine, then let's get married," He simply says so and he sounds angry, causing Rachel to flinch.
"I'm not going to make you marry me, Finn," Rachel glares.
"Well it sounds like you want to get married. Let's go right now before you have to fly back to New York."
"No, that's totally cheesy. I'm not going to just go to the chapel one random night and get married," Rachel glares, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"Would it really matter? As long as we love each other, who cares how we get married," He glares back at her.
"A wedding is a very important thing in a girl's life," She rants.
"Yeah, and it really sucks for guys," He retorts. "I don't want to have to wear the stupid tux and I don't want to have to be all careful with your stupid dress."
"Okay, you just said that a wedding was stupid," She gapes at him.
"Yeah," He nods. "That is what I was getting at."
"You know, you don't have to be such an ass. I thought you'd be nicer considering I'm going back to New York tomorrow," She stands up, storming away.
"Rach, I didn't mean to upset you," He backtracks.
"I don't want to hear it Finn. You know, I don't think we should be making this large step in our relationship. The way you are talking is making me doubting that you love me."
"What?" He asks in disbelief. "How could you ever doubt that?"
"Well I do. All the time. I don't trust you, Finn. For all I know you could be screwing the cheerleaders for your damn football team," She spits out.
"Just because you won't put out for me doesn't mean I'm cheating on you," He yells.
"God, you're such an asshole!" She shrieks.
"You know what, you're right. Maybe we shouldn't make that large step in our relationship. Maybe we shouldn't even be in a relationship at all," He suggests out of anger.
"Fine!"
"Fine!" He yells back at her and watches her storm off.
"Let me give you a ride home!" He yells after her, feeling bad and expecting that they'd make up before she flies out tomorrow.
"Stay away from me Finn Hudson. I…I hate you!"
-glee-
He needed to fix things and he needed to fix things fast. After all, he was kind of the one who was being a douche that night. Like, seriously, who tells their girlfriend that marriage isn't anything important? To be honest, Finn had wanted to marry Rachel since he was a junior in high school. He's just afraid of the thought because he doesn't want Rachel to ever leave him. He may be one hundred percent sure about their relationship, but she might not be.
Rachel had left the next day without speaking a word to Finn. He had planned on going over to see her the next morning, but when he arrived at the Puckerman residence, her dads' said that she switched to an earlier flight.
She must have not told Hiram and Leroy because the two invited him in for breakfast. Of course he told them that he had to get going. He had figured that this would have blown over, but here he sits, a month later, without a girlfriend.
He's graduating in three days and she's graduating next week. The time is ticking away and he doesn't want to lose her forever.
So what should he do?
He's at his house right now and he's cleaning the spare bedroom because when you lost the one you love, you need to find a distraction. He finishes up and moves to his parent's room. It's fairly clean in here but he could clean out the junk drawer of the desk.
He moves over and ruffles through, tossing out old bills and stacking the new ones. A small red velvet box slides into view when he pulls out a pair of scissors. He lifts it up and shakes the dust off of it, carefully opening up.
Suddenly, he knows what he's going to do.
His plan is just snapping in his head and he's an idiot for not thinking of doing it before!
He quickly pulls out a scrap piece of paper and starts to scribble down on it.
"Hey Rachel Berry, what's it like in New York City…"
-glee-
"Did you write the part for me or what, Puck," Finn sighs into the phone exasperatedly, interrupting his best buds rant on Super Mario Brothers.
"Oh, yeah," Puck replies, "I'll email it to you right now. I hope you know that it's hard to play guitar."
"Yeah, I know. I know how to play some chords, but I plan on recording it so I can just play it on my iPod when I do it. What did you think of the song?" He asks hopefully.
"Quinn was over the moon for it. She talked about how I wasn't romantic or anything. Way to cock block man," Puck groans.
Finn chuckles, "Whatever, that's your own problem. So a girl likes it, that's good. That means a girl like Rachel will like it even more. Or I hope so."
"Listen man," Puck starts. "You better not be fucking with my little sister, okay? I was so pissed at you when you were a douche to her, so don't do it again okay? We may be best friends, but she's family and she comes first. This could end really badly if she takes it the wrong way, you do realize that."
I sigh and wipe my hand over my face, "Yeah, I realize that. I just hope it doesn't. I didn't mean what I said-."
"I don't give a shit," Puck grunts. "I'm a dude, okay? You can talk about that crap with your mommy."
"Screw you," Finn laughs lightly. "Thanks for the tablature."
"Yup, no problem. See you at graduation then."
"Yeah, see ya."
-glee-
Well, this is it. Rachel Berry is graduating college. She's twenty two years old, ready to enter the real world.
She never thought that she was going to be doing this alone. When she was younger, Prince Charming would marry her and they would take Broadway together. Soon that Prince Charming turned into Jesse, her first boyfriend.
Then the picture changed completely.
Finn was the boy that she wanted to start her life with. She had never wanted to do that with anyone else, she just felt like that was planned to happen. It was different with him because she loves him.
The two would finally live together after having to be apart for so long during college and they would have some small apartment. It would be hard to get by. He'd have to be a trainer at some local gym and she'd have to do Community Theater until she got on Broadway and he was drafted into the NFL.
Once they finally landed their dream jobs they would get married. But all that time before they would be madly in love and engaged. They would plan their wedding over the years until they had enough money to actual put that into motion.
After they were happily wed, they would just be together and be happy that they are together. Later on in life they would have kids, favorably three total, and they'd raise them.
Finn and Rachel would grow old together, and they would do it happily.
However, this is no longer the case.
Rachel Berry is starting her life on her own. She will get a small apartment by herself, and she'll struggle with Community Theater and probably part time waitressing as well until she got on Broadway…
If she still could. She had lost all her hope when she and Finn broke up a month ago.
She shouldn't be so negative on a day like this. It's her graduation day! No more having to live in a dorm, shower with strangers, and eat Ramen Noodles like it was going out of style. She didn't have to pay for tuition any more, buy books, or fly home for every single holiday there is.
She could go out at night and drink. She had been able to do so for a year, but she chose to go against it. Of course she had drunk before, but she decided it'd be best to stay sober until school was done.
Smart choice.
She'd have the freedom of going out and… and finding new people to date. Different people. Someone other than him because he doesn't want her. He made that clear when he told her how stupid it'd be if he married her.
For all she knows, he could be dating some beautiful girl by now. He ought to be. He no longer has to wait for sex or anything else for that matter. He doesn't have to worry because she's not his girlfriend anymore.
It'll be easy for him to move on because he has so many offers.
She, on the other hand, doesn't have that many suitors.
It doesn't matter anyways because she can't get over him. She wants to so badly call him and ask him to have his mom send the video of his graduation to him. She wants to ask him how he feels about being a college grad. She wants to just kiss and hug him. She wants him to fly down here and she wants to go to their apartment that they planned on moving in.
But she can't.
It's silly because she remembers when he told her that she was it for him.
Lies.
Rachel Berry can no longer believe Finn Hudson.
-glee-
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to now present you Julliard's graduating class of 2016," The dean says and starts to list of the hundreds of names to the people who are sitting in their seats outside on the freshly mowed lawn. He watches Rachel cross the stage and he cheers for her, but she doesn't notice it's him.
He's hidden all the way in the back, next to some random family. He wears sunglasses, thinking that maybe he can hide his identity a little. It's kind of cool going around in a disguise, even though this really isn't one…
Anyways he's going to get her back and he's so sure of it. Maybe too sure. He knows that Puck was right when he said that this could end really badly.
Not only would he lose Rachel, but he would lose Puck, Quinn, Beth, Hiram, and Leroy, which would suck completely. It'd be like he never existed and they would hate him so much. But he needs to do this. He's not going to just let her get away.
If she was happy he would let her go. But he knows that she isn't. When he sees her face he can see how she acts happy and acts as if she's totally okay with what's happening. He can tell. And Kurt has been talking to her and he begged Kurt to tell him what was up. Thankfully his brother is team Finchel and easily dished out the facts.
Rachel was as depressed as Finn. They were lost without each other.
Now his plan just has to work.
He's worked on it so hard and planned it out perfectly, getting full approval from Hiram and Leroy. He knew it would mean a lot to Rachel if he asked her dads' for their blessing, so after he wrote it, he went to them and told them that he wanted to do this. He was a thousand percent positive about this.
They told him that they were taking Rachel out to a nice restaurant after her graduation. He would do it there, in front of her family and the other customers, announcing his news.
He's practically a big bundle of nerves when he gets the cab over to the nice bistro. Gosh, he's so nervous. He can see her dads', Puck, Quinn, and Beth walk in. And there she is, Rachel, looking as beautiful as ever in her black tea length dress. She stands out in the sea of other girls who wear short dresses. She's classy. Always has been.
Her bare shoulders are showing and he just wants to hold her.
But he needs to first go to the manager and beg him to let him put his iPod system on the speakers through the restaurant. Thankfully this place has live performances so he can use the microphone. It's small and fits right on his ear, the speaker reaches around his cheek to the corner of her mouth.
He's ready.
He clinks his glass and quiets down the sea of people.
Here goes.
-glee-
"Thanks for taking me out, guys," Rachel thanks her family. "I can't believe that I just graduated!"
"Yeah, neither can we baby," Her daddy coos to her, patting her hand. "Now order whatever you want. It's all on Noah."
"Dad!" Puck shouts and sends giggles all throughout the table.
Rachel hears a clinking of a glass and it's annoying. If a guy wants to make a toast at his table, then do so! He doesn't need to disrupt the whole restaurant by clinking it over the speaker system…
Her eyes wander over to the source of the sound and she freezes when she sees him.
He looks good; dressed real nice in a white button down with vertical skinny black stripes, a leather coat, and a pair of dark jeans with nice shoes. He has a hands free microphone on and he starts to sing, his sweet raspy voice ringing out as clear as she can remember it.
She hadn't heard him sing in quite a long time.
"Hey Rachel Berry, what's it like in New York City?
I was a thousand miles away, but girl you always looked so pretty, yes you do.
Times Square can't shine as bright as you, I swear it's true.
Hey Rachel Berry don't you worry about the distance,
I'm right here if you get lonely, give this song another listen,
Close your eyes. Listen to my voice it's my disguise, I'm by your side.
Oh, it's what you do to me, oh it's what you do to me.
Oh it's what you do to me, oh it's what you do to me. What you do to me.
Hey Rachel Berry I know times are getting hard,
But just believe me girl someday I'll pay the bills with my right arm, we'll have it good.
We'll have the life we knew we would, my word is good.
Hey Rachel Berry I've got so much left to say.
If every simple song I wrote to you would take your breath away,
I'd write it all. Even more in love with me, you'd fall.
We'd have it all.
Oh, it's what you do to me. Oh, it's what you do to me.
Oh, it's what you do to me. Oh, it's what you do to me.
A month has seemed pretty long, but I always knew that we'd belong,
I'd walk to you if I had no other way.
Our friends will all make fun of us and we'll just laugh along because,
We know that none of them have felt this way.
Rachel I can promise you that by the time that we get through,
The world will never ever be the same.
And you're to blame.
Hey Rachel Berry, you be good and don't deny me,
A couple years and we'll be on our own and we'll be making history like we do.
You know it's all because of you,"
He sings out and walks over to their table, slipping his hand into his coat pocket.
"We can do whatever we want to,"
He pulls the ring box out and slips down onto one knee before continuing his song.
"Hey Rachel Berry here's to you. This one's for you.
Oh, it's what you do to me. Oh, it's what you do to me.
Oh, it's what you do to me. Oh, it's what you do to me, what you do to me."
He ends the song and the people are completely silent as Finn starts to talk, the music officially having stopped. He's looking into those chocolate brown eyes that look stunned, but nothing else. She has no other expression and that worries him.
There's no turning back on his plan now. He doesn't want to anyways. He wants to do this.
"Rachel Berry," He speaks clearly with an honest tone. "I know I messed up and I'm so sorry that I said what I said. All I know is that our time apart made me wake up and realize that this is what I want. I want you, all of you, forever. I don't want to spend another moment without you.
"Rachel, I love you more than anything in this world. Like I said before, you are it for me. I need to ask you… Will you, Rachel Berry, marry me?"
She doesn't answer because she's stunned. She's completely and utterly stunned and she feels so special. He wrote her a song to propose to her. He flew all the way out here to propose to her.
She believes him. She believes that he wants to be with her.
Finn shifts on his knee and blushes a bright red, biting his lip and trying not to break down crying. She's going to say now. She's so done with him and he's such a damn loser-.
"Yes," She whispers with tears in her eyes. "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!"
Finn looks at her with a bright smile and quickly stands up, pulling her up with him and holding her body close against his, relishing in the feel of her.
"God, I'm so sorry," He whispers.
"I'm sorry too," She sobs.
"Did you really say yes?" He dares to ask, completely forgetting everything.
"Yes," She giggles.
"Did you guys hear that?" Finn turns to look at the other customers. "She said yes!"
They give a loud round of applause and maybe that was the second time they've done that, but Finn and Rachel can't tell. All they can do is relish in the wonderful feeling of being engaged.
Sure they'll have a lot to talk about and sort through and that stresses them both out. However they are extremely relieved because they're starting their lives the right way.
Together.
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There's how I imagined Finn proposing to Rachel one morning on the bus. The song 'Hey There Delilah' started playing and the image of this happening just popped in my mind. I enjoyed it and decided to put it down in my story! I ALTERED THE LYRICS, HOWEVER, THE SONG IS NOT MINE AT ALL!
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