Okay, so this chapter took a while… I had a bit of writers block, but here it is! Since it's their date, there is a lot of dialog.

Once they arrived at Breadstix, they went inside and got a table. At first when they sat down it was a little awkward, Rachel thought about going to the bathroom to call Kurt but decided she would give it a little bit longer to try to get a conversation going. After the waiter came and took their orders, Finn tried to teach Rachel about football. She tried to understand what he was talking about, but was completely lost. She just nodded and pretended she knew what he was saying.

"So... are you planning on playing football in college too? I mean, you could probably get a scholarship." She was relieved the conversation was getting less weird, now that they were starting to feel comfortable around each other.

"Well…" he hesitated, "I don't really know what I want to do… Everybody kind of expects me to, but I'm not sure if that's what I want. Honestly, I haven't told anyone this before, but I think I want to be a teacher..."

"Finn, if you don't want to do football after high school, then you shouldn't. If everybody just did things because they were expected to, nobody would be happy! And I think you could be a great teacher if you want to be. Why don't you just tell people?"

Finn had to think about that, "I guess, I never tell people, because I don't think anybody will believe that I can be a teacher…"

She reached across the table and placed her hand on top of his. "I believe you can. And if you tell people, and they don't think you can do it, then who needs them? …Okay, so you confessed something to me, now I'm going to be honest too. I really have no idea what you were saying about football… I don't get any of it, it's like a foreign language to me!" Finn couldn't help it, he started laughing so hard that people were starting to stare, Rachel couldn't help but laugh too, his laugh was almost contagious.

When they had finally stopped laughing and caught their breath, the waiter brought their food to the table. "It's alright, maybe if you come to another game sometime, you will pick it up?"

"Yeah I will probably come to the next game, the more I go to them, the more I will understand."

"So... Enough about me and football, tell me about yourself… What are you into?" He grabbed a breadstick and looked up at her expectantly.

"Well, I like music… I really love singing" Rachel stopped herself at that, remembering that Kurt had told her not to mention anything about Glee or Broadway.

"Really? That's awesome! I really like singing too… Well, I only really sing in the shower, and in my car. And I'm not even sure if I'm any good at it…"

Rachel was shocked. She actually had something in common with Finn, and she could tell he was being honest with her. "Maybe I could hear you sing sometime?" She asked hopefully.

"Only if I can hear you sing too." He grinned

"Deal."

They continued talking about music, life, and told each other childhood stories. They had completely lost track of time, when one of the waitresses came over to tell them that the restaurant was closing. "Oh my god! It's that late already?" Rachel asked looking at her phone, seeing that it was 10:30, and seeing that she had about 15 texts from Kurt asking how it was going.

"Damn… I feel like I could talk to you forever… Well we should probably get you home. I'm sure your dads don't want you out any later." Rachel nodded and grabbed her purse off of the table. She was sad she had to go, she was having a really good time talking to Finn.

When Finn pulled up to Rachel's house, he ran around the truck to open the passengers' door for her. She grabbed the hand that he offered, to help her hop out of the truck since she was so short. Neither of them let go while they walked to the front door.

"Rachel, I had a really great time tonight…"

"So did I" she looked up at him and smiled.

"I was hoping… well... I was wondering if you would want to go on a second date sometime?"

"Oh… so this was a date?" She joked, "I'm kidding, of course I would.."

They stood there for a minute, holding hands, until he took a step closer. She could tell that he wanted to kiss her, and her heart started beating faster. She placed her free hand on his chest and leaned in, their lips brushed at first and she felt at tingle down her spine. She didn't want to feel drawn to him but she couldn't help it. She closed her eyes when their lips met, and she almost completely forgot where she was. When they stopped kissing, she took a step back unable to contain her smile.

"Good night Rachel…" He grinned and walked down her steps holding onto her hand as long as he could before completely turning to walk back to his truck. He waved from his truck and drove away, leaving her standing there, struggling to comprehend what just happened.

She ran up to her room, and flopped onto her bed. She had a lot of thinking to do, and could hear her phone buzzing from her purse. Knowing it was Kurt, she pulled the phone out and turned it off. There was no way she could face Kurt now. She stayed up for hours, unable to stop thinking about the kiss.

One final thought crossed her mind before she fell asleep, 'We were so wrong about him…'

So guys… What did you think? Was it rushed? I was afraid the kiss was rushed… If you couldn't tell, she's starting to realize that it was mostly just Puck being mean to them, Finn kind of just follows Puck around and laughs with him. FINN IS ACTUALLY NICE OuO Well, thanks for the reviews! Xoxo, Sydney