(A/N: Thanks for the reviews guys! So yeah this is kind of late, but IM SORRY!)
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Rachel was helping Quinn into a wedding dress samples. As her maid of honor, Rachel was the only one allowed in the dressing room with Quinn, her mother used to be allowed in, but she started crying every time Quinn tried a dress on. So now it was just Rachel in there helping Quinn tie or zip the dresses and telling her if she should even bother showing the rest of her bridesmaids, Kurt, and her mother and Mrs. Puckerman, who were sitting outside the room. "Rachel I don't like this one either!" She whined as she looked through the mirrors, standing in between the three mirrors. The dress was beautiful, strapless, an off white cream color with a teal sash (color scheme that she finally chose: teal and white) and glittering beading going completely around the chest part, it ended right above the knee.
"Q, that's the seventh dress you've tried on today, what's wrong with it?" She shrugged.
"I don't know," She said, twirling a little bit. "It just isn't me; I'm more of the traditional girl you know?" Rachel nodded, and went to look through the rack of samples that the store clerk brought her. They continued their search, until they found one that they thought looked nice, but wanted the other's opinions. They all smiled when they saw it. It was a satin A line halter dress with beading all the way down the middle of the dress. There was a blue sash that was the same length of the train and that and the train had beading all over it (A/N: Dress #3 in the poll) It was a hit with everyone else, and Quinn smiled at her reflection, definitely loving how she looked in that dress.
"I definitely think that's a keeper Q," Reagan said as her phone was ringing. Quinn smiled, and then frowned.
"Tell Jesse that you've been inseparable for two days, and he can chill and let you go wedding dress shopping with your best friends." She said, still twirling in the mirror.
"It's not Jesse!" Reagan said indignantly. "It's your fiancé!" Quinn grinned as she answered the phone. "Hey Puck, yeah, yeah I'll ask her hang on." She turned to Quinn. "He wants to know how many times he can drop the f-bomb in the vows." Quinn stared at the phone in her best friends hand as Tina, Mercedes, Kurt, and Rachel started laughing, and Mrs. Puckerman rolled her eyes at her son's behavior. Quinn shook her head and Reagan laughed a little. "Idiot, what did you think she would say? Yeah I think that counts for everything else."
"Tell him if there is any profanity in his vows he's sleeping on the floor during the honeymoon." She said smiling a little. Reagan nodded.
"Yeah, yeah you heard her right man, well I don't care if you have to rewrite the whole thing, and tell Finn to stop laughing in the background, because if his vows suck, not only Rachel will kill him, I will kill him, so will Kurt," she added the last part when Kurt elbowed her in the gut. She listened for a second. "Fine whatever, I'm hanging up now goodbye." She said, blushing. Everyone looked at her.
"They said I have to help them with their vows because I'm the poetic one. Anyway, Q, you getting that dress, it's beautiful." Quinn smiled.
"I don't really want to make up my mind right now, but I'm definitely keeping this as an option." Everyone agreed and they left once Quinn was out of the dress.
The next day at her apartment, Rachel was sitting with a pen and paper in front of her. Rachel and Quinn had an agreement that Rachel was going to go get her dresses after Quinn had picked out hers, because they were going to be each other's maids of honor they wanted to support each other, and their weddings were a month apart, so they had enough time. While Quinn was picking her dress, Rachel was choosing her other things, like venue, and then her vows, which she was doing right now. Or trying to at least.
She wanted to be as romantic as she could be without being sappy, and trying to put their eight year plus relationship into words that wouldn't make her sound like she was rambling, or she was conceited. The floor at her feet was covered in crumpled pieces of paper. She was really getting worried that she couldn't do this one task. She, being Rachel Berry, started over analyzing everything about their relationship, if the many times that they broke up in high school made a difference to their relationship now, and if she was too work oriented, and she just stopped thinking about anything all together.
She started panicking, and jumped when she heard a key in the lock. Finn walked through the door. "Hey babe, Stacie the stage hand just got married and said that this book helped her a lot with the process of plan- baby, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" Rachel raised a hand to her face and felt the tears on her cheeks; she didn't notice she was crying. She shrugged, tossing the pad of paper and pencil onto the table and covering her face with her hands. She whimpered, and Finn took her hands off of her face and put his arms around her. "Babe, babe, shh, it's okay."
"No-No it's not!" She cried into Finn's shirt. "I can't write damn vows, I've been trying but I just can't I should be able to but I put the pen to paper and nothing happens, Finn. I can't find the right words and- and I don't know it's just harder than I expected!" She felt Finn kiss her head.
"Baby, listen, I don't expect your vows to be perfect. Nothing's perfect, hell, my vows are going to be way less than perfect, but I'm not going to call off the wedding if your vows suck, which they won't!" He backed up when Rachel stared at him. "But listen, our relationship isn't perfect, it has never been perfect, but that's what made it so great for us, it was always a surprise every day, Rach, what I'm trying to say is that your vows will be amazing whatever they say because you wrote them. I love you, and I'm marrying you to be with you, not based off what you wrote on paper." Rachel looked at her fiancé.
"I just, don't want them to be like too long or something or like too much about Broadway, or I don't know Finn."
"Babe, you can make your vows as Broadway centered as you want it to, because that's part of you and your personality. And I love that about you, never forget that okay?" Rachel smiled and nodded.
"I love you so much Finn."
"I love you too baby." He said before standing straight. "Chinese take-out tonight?" Rachel smiled and nodded. "I'll call the twenty four hour place tonight during intermission." Rachel smiled and kissed him.
Around two hours before he had to be at work, Finn was standing in front of the flower shop next to Reagan. His sister looked at him. "Listen Finn, the idea you explained to me was a really good one, but it won't work unless you go into the store." Finn smirked a little bit.
"But I was thinking but I don't really know that much about-" He started.
"But you see, that's why I'm here isn't it?" She said chuckling. Finn smiled and nodded, so Reagan opened the door for her brother and they were greeted with the smell of flowers, and the smiling woman standing behind the counter.
After the show that night, Rachel walked into her dressing room and gasped. There was a bouquet of flowers on her table. She picked them up and studied them. Five roses. One orange, one yellow, one pink, one red and one lavender. There were also small sprigs of Forget Me Not's. She bent her head to smell the flowers, when she felt something brush her foot. She looked down and went to pick up the card. She opened it.
Rachel, you were stressed out earlier, so these flowers represent something you should know.
I love you (red), my best friend (orange) whose enthusiasm (orange) I admire (pink), and I fell in love with. I also fell in love with your enchanting (lavender) personality. So please don't forget that…
Love Always,
Finn.
When Rachel went back to her apartment that night the first thing she did was jump into Finn's arms and kiss him senseless. "So you like the flowers?" He asked as she hugged him tightly.
"I love them." She said.
"Good," He said before kissing her one more time.
(A/N: Kind of a sucky chapter I know, but I feel terrible for making you all wait for this long for a new update…I promise that I'll try harder to update more often…but PLEASE REVIEW! AND DON'T FORGET THE POLL!
Also please check out that remake of Come What May it's called How To Tell You…I would really appreciate it you guys!)
