Hey guys! I'm back. The camping trip was great and it gave me some time to come up with a few ideas for this story. I've been up almost all night trying to get this chapter out to you guys as soon as I could. So sorry for any typos. Anyways, enjoy!
We Came Back Stronger
"Stop kissing me, Sam!" I shouted as I stormed off stage. I made my way to the bathroom and rushed into a stall, locking it behind me. I couldn't help but hear footsteps leaving meaning that everyone who was in there quickly made their way out of the door. I was grateful, the less people to hear me cry, the better.
I just didn't know what was his problem. Sam's problem. I told me straight up that I love Finn and I didn't want any other guy, yet the blonde still had the nerves to kiss me. Not once, but twice. After Finn tackled him, I thought that Sam would have backed the hell off. I didn't think that he was stupid enough to kiss me again, especially if Finn was anywhere around. That's when it clicked. Sam kissed me in front of all the people in audience, including all of the competitors. Which included, Finn.
The thing I hated the most about when Sam had kissed me was the way it got to me. I could slap him and Finn could hit him but it didn't help as much as I would want it to. Whether or not it was my fault. Whether or not Finn forgives me for it. The two kisses made me feel so guilty. Even though I didn't want it or kissed back, I felt guilty. It was like I'm hurting Finn unintentionally, but he keeps forgiving me. I'm so glad that Finn forgives me for it but it doesn't make me feel any less guilty.
All of my thoughts and crying were interrupted when I heard the bathroom door swing open and footsteps. The footsteps grew louder and came to a complete stop in front of the stall that I was currently locked in.
"Quinn, it's us. Open the door." I recognize the voice immediately as Santana's. I slowly opened the door to be faced with all of the New Direction Girls. I walked into Santana's opened and waiting arms and hold onto her tightly. I let a few sobs escape into the Latina's shoulder. "Why is it, that every time Trouty Mouth plants one on you, you end up crying? One day I'm going to go over and kill him!"
"Did Finn see it?" I whisper, barely able to keep my voice in control.
"Oh yeah. Your man saw it alright. You should have seen it, Finn practically jumped Sam as soon as Shue ushered us off the stage. It took Mike, Puck, Matt, and two other security guards just to hold Finn back! He was so pissed." Santana informed her.
"Yeah. And when everything was settled, we all came in here to check up on you. There has to be more to it than Sam just kissing you to make you cry. What's going on, Quinn?" Mercedes asked.
"After Sam kissed me, I felt so guilty!"
"Well, you shouldn't. You broke both of the kisses before they even went anywhere." Tina reminded me.
"I know. But I still felt guilty. I feel like I'm unintentionally hurting Finn. I mean, you guys didn't see his face the first time I told him that Sam kissed me after we went to Breadstix. His face went from concerned to hurt to angry. I can't help but feel like that's my fault."
"Quinn you can't beat yourself up for something you're not at fault of. It's not going to do you any good. You need to be strong not just for yourself, but for Finn and Beth, too." Rachel said. She and I aren't the great friends but we were getting there. Just like I had with everyone else in glee club.
"Wait. So what happened to Finn after everything settled down?" I asked concerned.
"Shue lectured the two of them about how they shouldn't be fighting. Especially after we won Sectionals and were heading to Regionals. . He tried to convince them that it was a time to be celebrating our win instead of fighting."
"Then, I think that the guys took him to wait on the bus and tried to calm him down. I don't know about you guys but Finn looked as pissed as he left as when he and Evans took some serious blows to the body." Santana added.
"Is he ok?"
"He should be. But we should go check on him just in case. Like I said, Sam wasn't the only one who took some seriously hard blows."
Soon all of us were walking out of the building and onto the bus. We noticed that Sam and Shue weren't on the bus yet. Then I soon noticed that Finn was sitting in the back with the guys. I took note of how his head and face looked. Finn's eyes were closed and he was holding an ice pack on his head. He looked to have a couple small cuts on his face, but there was a very noticeable gash right above his eye.
I ran over to him and immediately engulfed him in a hug. It took him a couple seconds to register who I was, but when he did he wrapped his arms tightly around me. "Are you ok?" I looked at him concerned. He nodded. "Tina could you go to the front of the bus and hand me the first aid kit, please?" Seconds later, Tina was back with a first aid kit in hand. She handed it to me with a smile before walking over to join Mike.
By this time, everyone had taken a seat and were talking to their significant others. I carefully climbed onto Finn's lap and opened up the kit. I pulled out an alcohol wipe and slowly, but carefully start to clean the cut above Finn's eyes. When I noticed him wince once I started, I slowed down a little more and was more careful. Then I applied a little of Neosporin to the cut and put everything away.
"There you go. All finished."
"Thanks, Quinn. And I'm sorry if you're upset or disappointed in me for getting into a fight with Sam. My blood just boiled when I saw him pull you into a kiss right in front of all of those people. Once off stage, I couldn't hold myself back anymore. I just exploded. I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize. I'm not upset of disappointed in you for fighting with Sam. I'm just really glad that you're ok, Finn. There's nothing scarier in the world to me than you or Beth or anyone else that I truly care about getting hurt. Just be careful next time ok?"
"Ok, I will." I smile, then kiss his forehead and lips. When I pulled away I rested my head on Finn's shoulder with my arms loosely wrapped around him. He had one arm that was also loosely wrapped around my tiny frame. These were the moments that I loved the most with Finn. Nothing ever needed to be said, just that we were there enjoying each others company.
It wasn't long before Sam and Mr. Shue finally showed up and got on the bus. Sam came in also with an ice pack, but his was resting on his shoulder. The cuts on his face also seemed to be worse than the ones on Finn's face. We made eye contact for a quick second, but he broke the stare down just as soon as it started. I took that as a good sign.
"Ok guys. Even though we had some trouble going on after our great performance. I want to say that I'm very proud of you. You guys did a fantastic job and also landed us a spot at Regionals. The duet went amazingly. Santana your solo was terrific. I'll have to keep in mind to try and award the solos evenly so that we see all of your talents. Brittany, Matt, Mike the choreography was hypnotizing. Like literally. When I saw you guys jumping over each other, flipping over each other and stuff like that, I couldn't take my eyes off of you guys for long moments. So great job. Everyone else you did a great job as well!" Shue acknowledged.
"Regionals here we come!"
The days and weeks that followed our win at Sectionals were going ok. Everything seemed to be going normally. We were still getting slushied and whatnot. But they weren't going to ruin our mood. Christmas was coming to McKinley and our spirits just haven't gone down one bit.
We had gotten a medium sized tree for the choir room and were starting to decorate it along with the rest of the room. Our mission was to get into the Christmas feeling. It wasn't hard we sang a song now and then. Told each other of our past memorable Christmases. It was really fun.
Later Mr. Shue came in and told us that we were going to help raise money for underprivileged kids. We were going to try to go classroom to classroom but that didn't work out too well. So we were deciding to maybe sing for the teachers who seemed to have a little more respect for us than the other students did.
We went into the staff lounge and were decorating the room before we put on our little caroling show. All the faculty was supposedly going to show up so we wanted the place to look good. We really only had to add to their decorations.
"I think what we're doing for these kids is actually pretty cool." Puck admitted. "I mean I now how it is to have a pretty shitty Christmas."
"It's so sad that some kids don't get presents on Christmas. Not even from Santa because they can't get a tree." Brittany added. Nobody made fun of the fact that Brittany still believed in Santa Claus. Why ruin her fun especially when we all used to be like that.
"Yes, Britt. It really is sad. That's why we are going to help some of those kids get presents."
"So I'm having another party at my house on Christmas Eve since my house is so huge." Finn mentioned. "All of you and your families are invited to come and even spend the night too. So that when we wake up on Christmas morning we're all together. And yes Rachel, I know that you and Puck don't really celebrate Christmas and instead celebrate Hanukkah. But you're still welcome to join us all." Finn said as if he was reading the diva's mind.
"Sounds good, bro. You know my mom was actually wondering if she would be able to hang out with your mom on the holidays." Puck told him while grinning from ear to ear. I could tell that he really liked that Finn's house was big and we were all gonna have another party. So it was decided that we were all going to ask our parents about going no matter what holiday we celebrated, whether Christmas, Hanukkah, or even Kwanzaa.
"Well if everyone is probably going to go since our parents rarely say no to us hanging out together. Why don't we do a Secret Santa?" Mercedes suggested. We all seemed to nod in agreement. So I walked over to the counter and wrote down all of our names and put it into one of the top hats placed nearby.
"Ok everyone come up and pick a name. And keep it to yourself. NO cheating."
After we all chose our names out of the hat, some happy some not so much, we got back to decorating the room. I sat at one of the tables with Santana, Tina, and Mercedes. We were quickly wrapping up some empty boxes to fill the space under the tree.
"Have you guys realized that this is the little kids' first Christmas?" Tina asked. She was referring to her baby brother Ricky, Santana's baby brother Carlos, Mike's baby sister Claire, and of course my daughter Beth.
"I know. It's freaking crazy. I hope this year's a good one. I wouldn't want any of them to have a bad first Christmas."
"I wouldn't want that for them either." Mike added to Santana's comment.
Just as I was about to say something, someone pulled me out of my chair and into a tight hug.
"Finn! What's going on? I was helping wrap up the presents."
"Sorry. It's just that the guys and I finished with the room and I was happy to be done with it. I just wanted a little hug from my girlfriend." I rolled my eyes just a little bit.
"Ok." I go over and wrap my arms around his body. I pull my head away and look at him. "Do you want a little kiss, too?" He nodded furiously which caused me to let out a giggle. I placed a peck on his lips before pulling away to help the girls finish up.
It wasn't long before we finished decorating. We quickly put on our sweaters and scarves that we were supposed to wear. Everything was set and the staff began to file in. We had a little donation box up front. Once everyone took a seat, Finn took a step forward.
"Hi, everyone. We're all here because we want to help those who are less fortunate than us. In the past, I'm pretty sure that we all have had at least one bad Christmas, but these kids have them year after year. We want to help change that. Please help the kids by donating some money so that they could afford a tree and a few presents that they could all share. Because most would say that the true meaning of Christmas is love and being with the people you love. Let's spread the love by showing the kids that there are people who care." Finn finished and stepped back as the music began playing.
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"Thank you." Mr. Shue stepped in front of us. "We want to you all to enjoy your time with your family on winter break."
"Merry Christmas!"
How was this chapter? Did you like? I really hope you did. I also hope that none of you are offended that this chapter and the next one are about Christmas instead of Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or any other holiday. I hope you understand that I don't mean to offend anyone by it, if you are offended. So please don't be offended. Next chapter is going to have the whole Christmas bonding and I have a pretty surprise for you guys. If you really want to find out what it is, you're going to have to review! Thanks for reading!