Rachel turned down the ringer so it wouldn't wake her dads. Her phone still flashing Finn's name demanding for her to answer. A million thoughts going through Rachel's head as to why Finn would be calling so late. Was Kurt hurt? Was Finn hurt? Why else would he be calling?
"Hello" Rachel whispered into the phone. Silence.
"Hello" Rachel said again a little louder than the first. Silence. Rachel looked at her phone maybe she had actually missed the call, no it said the call was still going.
"Finn? Are you ok?" Rachel said into the phone. Again no answer. She decided to hang up, if it was important he would call again. She placed her phone on her night table once more and rested her head on her pillow. Staring at her phone wondering why he would have called. Should I call him back? Rachel thought to herself. No. Maybe his phone dialed while in his pocket he had just text her not so long ago. Before she could give up on Finn's call her phone began to ring once more. She looked at the caller ID again Finn.
"Hello" Rachel answered quickly in case she had missed the first call.
"Hey Rachel, sorry did I wake you?"
"No, is everything Ok Finn?"
"Yes I am sorry about the first call" Finn whispered into the phone.
"What happened? I answered but I couldn't hear you."
"I know Rachel I am" Finn started to say.
"Your what? Finn are you hurt?" Rachel asked. No answer. She could almost hear a noise on the other side of the phone. "Hello, Finn?"
"Who is this?" a female voice said into the phone. Quinn, Rachel thought. Instantly Rachel ended the call. He was with her and he called her? Rachel's phone began to ring again making her jump in her bed. She couldn't bare to answer she knew better. The phone was saying Finn but she knew who would be at the other end and she was not ready to deal with Quinn Fabray. Rachel turned off her phone and just to be safe she placed her it on her top drawer of the dresser furthest from her bed. She climbed back into bed and tried to go back to sleep. This is what she feared the most. Quinn coming after her for being Finn's partner. Rachel didn't understand why Quinn disliked her so much, ever since the first day they crossed paths freshmen year. Rachel laid in bed remembering that day as if it was yesterday.
First week of freshmen year, Rachel trying to find a place of her own a place she would eventually fit into. She had just finished putting her things in her locker as she headed down the hall to the bulletin board to find a new adventure, a new thing she can finally call her own. Before reaching the bulletin board she got distracted and ended up bumping into someone, bumping into her, into Quinn.
"Watch it" Quinn said turning to look at Rachel like she had just hit her on purpose.
"I am so sorry" Rachel said moving away from Quinn.
"What is her problem?" Rachel heard Quinn ask her followers. As she headed to the bulletin board she could see the many choices, the many clubs she could join. She looked at the one list she knew she did not belong.
"Don't even think about it"
"Excuse me" Rachel turned around to find the young blonde girl standing behind her.
"You wanting to join cheerleading, don't be serious?" Quinn said moving Rachel aside to write her name on the list.
"I wasn't planning on it" Rachel lied.
"Good because there is no way you would make it anyway." Quinn answered looking up and down at Rachel.
"Excuse you" Tina barged in pushing Quinn out of the way. "There are other people wanting to sign up and you are on my way."
"Oh don't tell me you are trying out for cheer leading too?" Quinn said with a laugh causing her pose to laugh next to her.
"No way I actually have a brain to join such a thing as cheer leading." Tina answered back. "I am sure that she is smart enough also not to join your cult specially if you are any part of it." Tina said as she signed up for drama class.
"Well if little miss gay beard is smart she won't join." Quinn turned to look at Rachel "Maybe you should tell Kurt to join I am sure we need a mascot."
"Isn't that what they have you for?" Tina answered stepping in front of Rachel.
"Come on ladies" Quinn said to her group of girls. "Let's leave the losers to themselves" she said walking away.
"I guess every school has that one group of girls" Tina said turning back to Rachel.
"Yea the popular girls. Thank you for stepping in but you didn't have to."
"I know but girls like that need people to stand up to them. I'm Tina"
"Hi I am Rachel" Rachel answered observing Tina for the first time. Even at that moment looking at Tina with her deep black hair with blue highlights a punk yet edgy look to her, Rachel knew Tina was a sweetheart deep down. As Rachel continued to remember her first encounter with Tina and Quinn she let herself fall asleep.
The next morning Rachel woke to a knock coming from her door.
"Sweetheart" LeRoy called from behind the door. "Sweetheart its Kurt on the phone for you."
Rachel got out of bed and hurried over to the door.
"Good morning dad" she said greeting her father with a hug. LeRoy handed her the phone and closed the door behind him.
"Hello" Rachel said into the phone as she walked over to her bathroom to brush her hair.
"Rachel where have you been?" asked a frantic Kurt on the other end.
"Home, what's wrong Kurt are you ok?" Rachel said beginning to panic after remembering Finn calling her last night. "Is Finn ok?"
"Finn?" Kurt asked "How did you know I was calling you about Finn? Wait since when are you worried about him?"
Rachel didn't know how to answer. She herself couldn't figure out why she was worried about him.
"Rachel" Kurt screamed breaking her thought. "Are you there?"
"Yea I am here. Sorry. What's going on?"
"I have been calling your cell phone all morning. It keeps going into voice mail"
"Sorry I turned it off last night." she said hurrying over to the drawer to turn on her phone.
"I have been worried sick. Finn came home last night and he woke me up telling me to tell you he was sorry."
"Me?" Rachel asked confused.
"Yes, I do not understand why. He just said to apologize. What am I apologizing for?" Kurt asked.
"I don't know" Rachel said as her phone finished turning on showing she had a voice mail from Finn.
"Did he do something to you?"
"No"
"Wait did he come over last night after we left?"
"No. Kurt I don't know why you are apologizing for. He called me last night."
"He called you last night?" Kurt yelled into the phone.
"Yes but we didn't really talk. He just said he was sorry."
"Sorry for what?"
"I don't know" Rachel said again. "Kurt can I call you back? I am going to get in the shower and then we can meet up at the park by the school."
"Ok text me when you are leaving. I will meet you there."
"Ok" Rachel said hanging up staring at her cell phone as she saw she still had the voice mail. She placed her cell phone on her night stand and went to take a shower. Once she was done she finished getting ready, she grabbed her cell phone text Kurt and headed out the door. As she came down stairs her fathers were watching a black and white movie in the living room.
"Dads I am going to meet Kurt at the park by school. I will be back later." She said walking towards the garage.
"Do you have your phone with you?" Hiram called out.
"Yes, I am taking the bike. Bye" Rachel climbed into her bicycle and headed out to the park. She arrived at the park and headed to her usual meeting spot with Kurt. A bench under a tree close to the pond in the middle of the park. Kurt and herself had spend a lot of time in that bench that they had carved both of their names into it one late night after Kurt's mother passed away. As Rachel took a seat on the bench she took out her cell phone she was carrying in her pocket. She took one deep breathe and went to listen to the voice mail.
"I do not know who you are but I am Finn's girlfriend. If you ever call or text my boyfriend again. Shut up Finn. If you ever invite my boyfriend to go see another movie with you. Trust me that you will regret it. You better erase this number off your phone do not call it do not text it or else. Step off"
Rachel sat at the bench trying to process what she had just heard. She looked at her cell phone one last time before deleting the voice mail. She quickly went to her contacts and found Finn's name. Before she could hit the delete button she received a text.
It was Kurt "Sorry" it said. She looked at the name once more. It was Kurt, why was he apologizing for. She dialed Kurt's number. Two rings and then voice mail.
"He sent me to voice mail?" Rachel said out loud. She listened until Kurt's greeting was done and waited for the beep. "Hummel you better have a damn good excuse for sending me to your voice mail. Where are you? I am at the park and what is this non sense of you being sorry. Sorry for what? You better be getting here in the next minute or"
"Or what?"
Rachel looked behind her startled. "I am going to kill you" Rachel whispered into the voicemail before hanging up.
"What are you going to do to him if he doesn't show?" Finn asked walking around the bench.
"Finn what are you doing here?" Rachel asked getting off the bench.
"Kurt was on his way out and I asked him if he had talked to you. He told me he was on his way to meet you here so I asked him to let me come instead."
"Look Finn"
"Please Rachel, sit. Please let me apologize."
"You have nothing to apologize for" Rachel said picking up her bike from the ground. Finn got off the bench and hurried to her side grabbing the bike's handle bar before she could leave.
"Rachel please." He said looking at Rachel with pleading eyes. She stared at his soft hazel eyes pleading at her. She inhaled deeply before releasing the hold on her bike and taking a seat back on the bench.
"Thank you" Finn said slowly placing her bike down and walking around back to the bench taking a seat next to her. "Rachel I need to apologize for the calls last night."
"Finn its fine."
"No its not fine. I was with Quinn when I got your text so obviously I had not saved your number in my contacts. She flipped when she saw the text. I had left my phone on her bed to use the rest room and when I came back she had already dialed your number. I called you back and was going to apologize if she said anything but she took the phone away from me. Rachel I am so sorry for anything she said to you."
"She didn't say anything to me. She asked who I was and I hung up. I figured she saw my text and she is your girlfriend so I understand that." Rachel lied.
"So she didn't say anything to you? I saw that my cell phone had 3 calls to your number."
Rachel thought about the voice mail. "No, nothing. She must have called back since I had disconnected the call previously but I turned off my cell phone. Did you tell her it was me?"
"No, she didn't give me a chance to say anything. She was furious and I hate dealing with her when she is like that so I grabbed my phone off her hands and left. I almost drove to your house last night."
"You did? Why?"
"I had to make sure she didn't go crazy on you. She can be intense at times."
"Finn you don't have to worry. I was fine."
"I am happy to see that you are. I just wanted to make sure you were."
"Well I am."
"You are still going to be my partner right? My intense girlfriend didn't scare you off, did she?"
Rachel laughed. "To tell you the truth I am actually ready to go look for Mr. Rogers house to beg him to change me partner."
"No please don't be serious Rachel. I would really like to be your partner to get to know you."
"Why?"
Finn sat there silent unable to think of a way to tell Rachel of why he wanted her as a partner. Since he moved into the Hummel house he heard Kurt talk about her so much. How great of a friend she was to him. Kurt told Finn about their friendship of how Rachel has been the only person to stand by him after middle school, how she comforted him after his mother died. He had always wanted to meet her but had never found the right way to go up to talk to her. This was his one chance to get to know Rachel Berry.
"You are my brothers best friend. It would be nice to know he is in the right hands."
Rachel turned to look at Finn with a frown. "What are you trying to make sure I am not a serial killer?"
"Yea something like that" Finn answered causing Rachel to laugh at his side. He listened to her laughter and was unable to contain a smile form in his lips. "So can I keep you?" he whispered.
"Excuse me?"
"Can I keep you as my partner" Finn asked nervously.
"Sure I guess it would be nice to know my best friend's brother isn't a psycho"
Finn chuckled. "Alright then."
They both sat in the bench listening to wind blow in the leaves, admiring the scenery of the park, in the distance they could see some young children trying to fly a kite.
"Want some?" Finn said breaking the silence. Rachel turned to look at what Finn was holding in his hand.
"Reese's?" Rachel asked.
"Yup. Better take note because peanut butter cups are my favorite type of candy. I don't normally share but I can give you one."
Rachel took a peanut butter cup from the package of two.
"Then should I consider myself special?" She said taking a small bite letting the peanut butter melt in her mouth.
"Yes because you are" Finn said smiling at her before taking a bite of his own piece. Rachel felt herself blush. They both continued sitting at the park bench in the middle of the park both enjoying their peanut butter bliss.
Hey guys! Hope you are liking the story. I know it seems like its moving a slow but I will try to keep the chapters coming. Rachel and Finn are about to get to know a little more about each other :)
Until the next one! Big hug to all of you!
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