Chapter 9: Winter Formal
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee
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A day before the big Winter Formal everybody was rushing to finish preparing for the big dance. Finn & Rachel both were excited about this dance and have been planning things for it for the last two weeks. They went to the mall together to pick out what they wanted to wear (both in separate stores), Finn had ordered a limo for the big night and also booked a room for the night at the Lima Hilton. Rachel booked an appointment to do her hair and her nails and also bought some excerpts for the dress she chose to wear. Everything was going smoothly and both were happy with the way everything had planned out. Later that day after Glee practice Finn took Rachel home and then he went home himself smiling about how happy they were and how excited he was to be going to a dance that would be the first time him and Rachel would be seen together at a school dance as a couple.
Friday came quickly and school seemed to rush by very quickly and before they knew it Finn & Rachel were at their own homes getting ready for the big night.
"I will call you later before I come to pick you up with the limo." Finn told Rachel that he would call her before leaving his house to make sure that she was ready for him to pick her up.
"Alright, see you later" Rachel said kissing Finn goodbye before they headed in separate directions.
7pm
At 7pm Finn had called Rachel to make sure she was ready to be picked up and she was of course because after all she is Rachel Berry who never is late to anything. She waited in her house before the limo was outside her house and she smiled as she saw Finn step out of the limo looking all handsome in his tux with his hair pushed back. She was wearing a pink gown with sparkles on the cleavage part of the dress her hair was swept up in a perfectly done bun and as she came outside Finn felt his heart drop. He smiled and walked over to her.
"Hi, wow you look amazing." He told her smiling brightly as he gently and carefully kissed her cheek.
"You don't look bad yourself Hudson." She smiled with her lovely smile and Finn's heart began to beat a little bit faster.
He took her arm in his and they walked back to the waiting limo. Finn opened the door "After you my beautiful." Finn said helping Rachel inside the limo before going around to the other side.
The limo took off a minute after Finn got into the limo and a few minutes later they were at the school dance.
"Wow, you two look great" Kurt said as he walked over to the couple.
"Thanks Kurt" Rachel said smiling. "Yes, thank you man" Finn followed up and took Rachel's hand leading her to the main entrance of the school.
"They look gorgeous" Mercedes said to Kurt who was walking together inside the school."
"Yes they do" Kurt said smiling before walking into the school.
The party was just starting and everyone was already living it up and having fun dancing and talking and just having a good time. Finn took Rachel to a table that was near the dance floor on the right side of the gym and they sat down.
"Would you like something to drink?" Finn asked and Rachel said yes. Finn went over to get two fruit punches for the two of them before he could go back to give Rachel her juice Quinn walked over to him and didn't look exactly happy.
"Hello, Quinn" Finn said not looking happy either seeing his ex made him think about everything she had put him throw and it didn't make him happy at all at this moment to see her.
"Finn" Quinn simply said before taking some punch for herself.
"You look nice" Finn said and Quinn gave him a slightly tilted smile before she walked away leaving Finn with his two drinks.
"Thank you" Rachel said as Finn handed her the drink he brought to her.
"Your welcome" He said sitting down in the chair next to Rachel.
"What's wrong?" Rachel asked wondering why Finn looked so sad.
"Nothing" He simply said lying about his encounter with his ex.
"Are you sure?" Rachel asks knowing that Finn wasn't being honest with her.
"Yeah, I just saw Quinn" He said not looking at Rachel because he didn't want to look her in the eyes at the moment.
"Oh" Rachel knew something wasn't right when Finn came back to the table looking really mad/sad about something.
"So what did she do this time?" Rachel asked Finn who wasn't paying attention to what Rachel was saying.
"Ha?" Finn just didn't say anything he just didn't feel it was necessary to talk about Quinn.
"What did Quinn say to you" Rachel asked again and this time Finn answered. He looked at her and said "She just said hi and that I looked nice" Finn stated this time looking at Rachel.
"Oh, okay well that's not a bad thing. So why are you looking so miserable?" Rachel asked wondering why Finn all of a sudden cared about Quinn.
"I-She just looked so sad, she looked good though" Finn said not looking in Rachel's eyes. This told her that he might be regretting how things ended with them.
"Maybe, you should've told her that you were sorry for the way things had ended with her and apologize for not being nice about breaking up with her." Rachel truthfully wanted for Finn to apologize for causing Quinn pain but Finn didn't want to talk about this so he changed the subject by asking Rachel to dance with him.
The danced together in each others arms for the rest of the night and even though Finn felt bad about Quinn he still didn't care about what happened earlier he just wanted to hold Rachel in his arms until they couldn't dance anymore. At 11pm the dance had been dying down and everybody had left the gym and some even left the school. It was a cool night and there was some light snow falling down from the night sky. It was that time of the year that should be happy but for Finn he just wanted to make things right again with Quinn so he and Rachel could be happy together.
