Back in Lima

AN: Once again thank you for all of the wonderful reviews. And to my twitter posse thank you for keeping me in check in more ways than one. I love you all so much; I couldn't handle half of my life without you guys. I hope everyone enjoyed the season premiere of Glee tonight, even without our favorite quarterback; I can honestly say that these episodes were the first that I have enjoyed in a long time. Welcome back Glee; I still miss Cory terribly and I don't think that I ever will not. He is the reason that I started to write fan fiction and he is the one who blessed me with my twitter friends and I am very thankful for you all.

Disclaimer: I still don't own Glee or any songs that may appear in this story; they belong to RIB and the talented singers, songwriters and producers respectfully. Warning, this chapter will include some angst but trust me, I have promised you all that Finn will have his happy ending in all of my stories and in my world, there is only one woman who can make him happy. I hope that you enjoy this chapter, remember this is a continuation from last chapter. All mistakes are mine.


True to Rachel's words; Blaine, Finn and she are sitting in the Hudmel living area waiting on Kurt to finish getting ready for the party at Sylvester's Club. Finn was starting to sweat it because the current time is 7:45 pm and the guests were going to arrive at eight. He really didn't want them to be late to their own party; I mean come on he's already nervous enough knowing that after tonight his life will change either in an awesome way or in a terrible way. As he is lost in his thoughts he feels his phone vibrate in his pocket. He retrieves his phone out of his pocket and checks the message that has arrived, it's from Quinn and simply says that they are all at Sylvester's and that she has the ring. After another fifteen minutes Kurt sashays down the stairs announcing that he is ready to get his party on.

"About damn time bro, the party is starting right now." Finn huffs at his younger brother.

"It's called fashionably late Finn; everyone who is anyone knows not to be the first at a party." Kurt chirps.

"Not when it's your party Kurt." Finn answers as he guides Rachel toward the front door.

"That just means that they will have to wait on us to start serving the food." Kurt shrugs as he and Blaine walks out the front door behind Finn and Rachel.

Finn drives quickly to the club, the SUV was extremely quiet; everyone is lost in their own thoughts. Finn is thinking about the important event that he has planned for the night; Rachel can't help to think that she's a walking target while Kurt and Blaine are too busy making out in the backseat. As he pulls the vehicle into the parking lot, he all of sudden feels like he's back in high school; he has sweaty palms and he feels like his heart is about to jump out of his chest. Once he let Quinn in on his plans (he's not crazy enough to mention it to Kurt because Rachel would have known within an hour) she took over the planning so he could concentrate on the important stuff, like how was he going to propose to Rachel.

They entered the crowded club and walks over to the VIP section that has been roped off from the rest of the people in the club. They are greeted by their friends and surprisingly no one made any comment about them being late for their own party. Quinn directs them to their seats before handing them menus so they could all order their food. Once their orders have been placed and everyone has their drinks, Puck stands and announces that he would like to offer a toast. Clearing his throat before he starts speaking, he holds up his glass of beer out and toast to their successful tour and the crazy hookups that happened between the two bands. He is answered with a few cheers and a couple of hell yeah.

Their meals are served and the group enjoys their food and conversation about everything but work. Once everyone had finished their meal and ordered dessert. Finn was still fighting as to when would be the perfect time to propose. He knew that he wanted to do it before everyone started heading for the dance floor. Quinn had given him the tiny black box when she had escorted them to their seats, he feels like he has a fifty pound weight in his jacket pocket; he knows that it's time, why should he be nervous; he is one hundred percent sure that he wants to make her his wife.

The waitress has just brought them more drinks and Finn decides that this is the perfect time to ask her so as soon as the waitress left the table; he stands and asks for the table's attention. He bends down beside Rachel's chair; which immediately makes her cry as she looks into his gorgeous eyes as he started speaking to her, "Rachel, I know that we haven't been dating very long, but I also know that we loved each other in high school; I was just too stupid to act on my feelings." He nervously chuckles before continuing, "But I can't imagine my life without you in it." He pulls the ring box out of his jacket pocket and opens it to show her the gorgeous five carat diamond ring. "Rachel, I love you with my whole heart. Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

With a teary smile, she whispers "I would be honored to be your wife, yes I will marry you." As he slides the ring on her left ring finger as the table erupts in congratulations and applause.

"Can I have a dance with my new fiancée?" Finn asks as he extends his hand out for her to take.

"I would love to." She tells him while grabbing his extended arm. As they walk out to the dance floor, it must be fate because "Faithfully" started playing.

After they danced to a few more songs, they were heading back to their table when a female grabbed Finn by the arm, "Hey there sexy, I know who you are and I looovvve drummers. How about giving a major fan a dance?" she purrs.

"Uhm sure, I guess I have one more dance in me." He tells her with his trademark half-smirk. "What's your name?" he asks her as she leads him back to the dance floor. Rachel huffs and walks back to the table by herself. She is so pissed, how dare he not an hour after asking her to marry him, he's out there on the dance floor with some tramp. Well she will teach him. She grabs her purse and sneaks out of the club and calls a cab. She asks the cab driver to take her back to her father's house, since the sale hasn't closed yet and the furniture is still there. She holds back the tears until she is standing in her childhood home, where she let's her tears fall. How could he do this to her? How could he break her heart already? Why did he ask her to marry him when obviously he wasn't ready to give up the single life? She hears her cell phone ringing; she looks at the caller ID and just lets it go to voicemail. She knows that he wasn't going to quit calling and texting her so she puts her cell phone on vibrate as she climbs the stairs to her childhood bedroom where she cries herself to sleep.


Rachel wakes the next morning, first confused as to why she is in her old bed alone, it doesn't take long for her to remember all of the events of the previous night. She fights the tears that she feels that are attempting to fall as she looks down at her finger where Finn had placed her engagement ring less than twelve hours ago. The buzzing of her cell phone pulls her out of her daze; she picks it up off of her nightstand and notices that she has fifty missed calls and just as many text messages waiting on her. She huffs as she puts her phone back down and gets out of bed to walk into the bathroom to take a shower, deciding that she just wasn't ready to deal with Finn just yet.

She showers and gets ready for the day, still not ready to deal with Finn; she heads downstairs in hopes that she may be able to find something to eat. She finally finds a can of blueberries pushed to the back of one of the cabinets, making sure that the date hadn't expired, opens them and eats them straight out of the can. Thank God the can had a pull top because she couldn't find any silverware much less a can opener. After she eats her breakfast, she heads back upstairs to face the text messages that are waiting on her.

She sits on her bed and slides her screen and hits the little envelope that now says sixty text messages. She starts scrolling through them and only stops to open the ones from Quinn or Tana. They're flipping out and are threatening to call her dad, so she decides to call Quinn to let her know that she is okay.

"Where in the hell are you? We all have been worried about you?" Quinn questions when her phone rings in her hand.

"It doesn't matter where I am at, all you need to know is that I am okay. And don't bother threatening to call my dad because I have already spoke him today and he is about to board a plane as we speak. (So what if she lied about speaking to her dad, Quinn's her friend so why is she siding with Finn?) I am a professional, as you know and I will see you at rehearsal this afternoon but do me a favor and tell Finn not to utter a word to me while we are there. I will talk to him when I'm ready." Rachel sneers, she is not in the mood for being scolded by friends.

"Rachel we were all just worried about you! What happen between you and Finn last night?" Quinn asks her friend, puzzled as to why she is acting angry toward her.

"I'm a big girl; there is no need to worry about me. As far as Finn, I'd rather not talk about it right now." She tells her best friend.

"Well, I'm not telling Finn your request. You can tell him that yourself." Quinn huffs as she gets aggravated herself.

"I know that you are sitting right there with him, can you please be a friend and tell him because if he as much as says one word to me; I will leave rehearsal!" Rachel hisses before hanging up her phone.

The Twisted Dreams and The McKinley Stars

Rachel arrives, as promised right before time to start to rehearse. She walks right past the Dreams as she approaches the outdoor stage where the rest of her band was already setting up their instruments. Rachel doesn't speak to anyone; she immediately starts doing a sound check on her microphone before the start of rehearsal. Once she finishes her sound check, she signals for them to start. They finish the three songs that they were going to do and now unfortunately for Rachel; it is now time to rehearse the songs that they were doing with Twisted Dreams.

The first song that is going to be rehearsed is a song that Jake and Santana will be singing, Rachel and Quinn walks off the stage on the right and Finn and Puck walks off to the left. They nailed it on the first try so the rest of the band members went back on stage to perform the rest of the songs that they would be doing together. When they were finished and the guys were getting ready to rehearse their three songs that they would be doing; Rachel, who still hasn't spoke a word to anyone walks away from the stage and climbs into a cab that she had called during Jake and Santana's performance.

As soon as she unlocked the door to her old house, her cell phone starts ringing. She looks at the caller ID and sees that it's Santana so she decides to answer it. "Hello?" she answers.

"So you're speaking to us now?" Santana asks angrily, "Where in the fuck are you Berry?"

"Santana, I just need some time by myself, I knew that if I spoke to anyone at rehearsal you all would have wanted to know what's going on with me and I'm just not ready to talk about it." Rachel whispers.

"No we wouldn't because we already know what's going on; you are doing your famous Rachel storm outs and pouting like a three years old child like you always do when things don't go your way!" Santana practically yells at her.

"I am not pouting like a child; he done that less than thirty minutes after asking me to marry him, like I said I have a lot of things that I need to figure out like trying to find somewhere to live once we get back home among other things so I'm hanging up now." Rachel tells Santana right before she ends the call.

Rachel throws her phone on the kitchen counter before remembering that she didn't have anything to eat in the house so she grabs her keys and heads out the door to walk down to the corner store to grab a few things to eat for the next couple of days.

She thanks the clerk and heads for the door after paying for her purchase; she is stopped when she hears someone call her name. She turns to look at the woman and cringes when she realizes that it's Tracey. With her famous Rachel Berry smile she answers, "Hello Tracey. I didn't know that you lived in this neighborhood."

"Yep, I live right up the street, actually not far from your house." Tracey answers with clinched fist. She still hates Rachel for causing her break up with Finn and even more so because she became rich and famous while she works two jobs and still barely makes it.

"Oh, my fathers are selling their home here in Lima; they are going to stay where it's warm and let some one else run their office here in Lima. Well I'll see you around Tracey." Rachel answers as she walks out the door.

Tracey follows her out of the store, "Why are you even over here on this side of town? I thought you were staying over at Finn's house."

"I am, I just really loved this little store, Miss Charlotte used to always sneak and give me candy anytime I came here with one of my dads." Rachel tells her as she clutches her bags closer to her chest.

Before Tracey was able to respond, Miss Charlotte walks out of the store and tells Tracey that she is needed back in the store. A relieved Rachel turns and walks back to her parent's house. She rounds the corner on her street and sees that Burt's SUV is parked in the driveway. She takes a deep breath as she walks up her drive way and spots Finn standing on her doorstep.

"It's time for us to talk Rachel that is how adults handle things." Finn tells her; always a gentleman reaches for her bags.

Rachel pulls away from him not allowing him to take the bags, and unlocks the door and walks in with him on her heels. "You are the second person today who has accused me of not acting like an adult. What do you want Finn?" she responds as she starts putting her groceries away.

"Really, you want to know what I want. You leave our engagement party without telling anyone where you were going, you didn't mumble a word to me or anyone else at rehearsal and you just storm off when you were finished. We all were up all last night wondering where the hell you had gone. I was shocked when I got back to the table last night and Quinn told me that you had said that you were going to the bathroom but she saw you walk outside. I went outside looking for you and I can only assume that you were in the cab that was pulling away from the curb." He tells her, trying so hard to figure out why she was acting this way.

She shrugs before screaming at him, "You embarrassed me Finn, less than an hour after you asked me to marry you; you put on your charm with some tramp right in front of me."

"Rachel I danced one dance with a fan, one song! I didn't do anything wrong." He tells her as he grabs her arm to prevent her from walking away from him.

"Get your fucking hands off of me!" she screams as she attempts to pull her arm out of his grip.

He lets her go and looks at her with tears in his eyes, "Are you still going to marry me?"

"I don't know." She tells him honestly, even though she still hasn't taken off her ring.

"Why?" he pleads; because one think that he is certain about is the fact that he wants to marry her.

"Because I don't know if I can trust you anymore." She tells him before walking into the living room, leaving him in the kitchen.

He follows her into the living room. "Rachel I haven't given you any reason not to trust me. I promise all I did was dance one song with Erica. Kurt and Artie has pounded into all of our heads that we need to pay attention to our fans." He tells her while sitting down beside her on the couch.

She jumps up, screaming "Erica? You remembered her name, it must been a wonderful one dance since you were able to find out her name. You should have gone home with her; you know and pay attention to your fans instead of your fiancée?"

"She told me her name, what's the bid deal? I danced one dance and came back to the table to find my fiancée, who decided to act like a total baby and leave instead of talking to me." He growls back.

"Just leave Finn, I don't want to talk to you right now." She tells him sternly with her arms crossed over her chest.

"No, I'm not going anywhere until we talk. Rachel you mean the world to me and I love you more than anything on this earth. I would give up everything just to be with you." He tells her before standing up and pulls her into him.

She pulls away from him just as quickly, and reminds him that every guy that she has dated has cheated on her, and like all of the tabloids have said, she is just a diva trying to tame the most notorious ladies man.

"You know that I have loved you since high school. I really have not been a ladies man, but I did go out occasionally but I never felt anything for any of them. Do you know why? Because I didn't have my heart to give, it has always been with a tiny diva who I hadn't spoken to in years." He tells her softly. He is finished with all of the screaming and fighting, he just wants to love her and show her exactly how he feels about her.

"Finn, tell me how am I supposed to trust you when you are out of the road for weeks at a time with your band. It's not like our bands will always tour together. I see how your fans throw themselves at you all, tell me how you will be able to resist that temptation when I won't be with you?" she asks him. She is really concerned about this; Finn is a gorgeous man who can be with any woman that he wants.

"First of all, if we go back out on tour, it will be with your band and secondly, there is no other woman I want, they can throw themselves at me all day long and I won't feel a thing, because I love you and only want to be with you." He tells her before placing a tender kiss on her lips.

"You will just get tired of being with me, everyone always does." She tells him. "Everyone always gets tired of me and they always leave."

"Rachel, when are you going to get it? I'm not like the other men that you have been with. Damn it Rachel I have loved you since high school!" he tells her as he tries to reach for her hand.

She pulls her hand away before he can grasp it, with tears streaming down her face she sobs, "Just like high school, you will always worry about your reputation. Finn, I'm famous, I proved everyone wrong here in Lima; I did make something out of myself but let's face it, you could be with one of the most gorgeous women in Hollywood. Why would you choose me?"

"Are you being serious right now Rachel? Have you listened to anything that I have told you since we've been together?" he whispers as he looks into her tearstained eyes.

"Yes I've listen to what you have told me, but we've been stuck on a tour bus for months and I was convenient for you. You knew how I felt about you, and I don't regret anything that you and I shared but are you really ready to spend the rest of your life with me?" She looks up into his eyes and sees the tears start to fall.

Finn is trying to keep control of his emotions as he reaches for her left hand and pulls it up to her face, "I thought that I had proven that by placing this ring on your finger. You know what Rachel, this talk isn't getting us anywhere so I'm going to head back to the house and let you think about your decision but, while you think about it remember that I love you and I'm one hundred percent sure that I want to make you my wife." He places another tender kiss on her lips, lingering as long as he can because he is unsure if he will ever be able to kiss her again. Once they break apart, he reaches into his pocket for his keys as he walks out the front door.

Rachel has a lot to think about, is she going to forgive and forget and trust him? This is supposed to be the most exciting time of her life, the man that she has loved since he was a boy has asked her to be his wife. She looks down at the beautiful ring that is sitting on her finger; she can tell that he put a lot of thought into the design; the center princess white diamond is surrounded by chocolate and raspberry diamonds sitting on a simple white gold band. She takes the ring off to inspect the clarity when she sees the inscription inside; you are my shining star always. I love you. She slides the ring back on her finger, she's made her decision. She sends him a quick text asking him to come back or meet her at her parent's house early the next morning.

She no sooner lays her phone down to grab her dinner out of the oven before she hears her phone chime indicating that she has a new text message. She picks it up and looks at the incoming message; 'I'll be right there babe.'

Less than ten minutes later, she sees the headlights of Burt's SUV shine through the large picture window in the living room. She opens the door just as he is about to knock. She glances up into the auburn eyes that she loves so much. She didn't give him a chance to speak; she leans up onto his body and smashes her lips against his. "I'm so sorry." she whispers into his mouth before kissing him again.

He wraps his arms around her small body as he walks her into the house, his lips never leaving hers. He kicks the door closed behind him before releasing her lips, "No baby, I'm the one who is sorry; you are right I should have never danced with that fan; that night was our night to celebrate our engagement." He whispers before capturing her lips once again and picking her up bridal style in one swoop and walking into the dimly lit living room. He places her down on the sofa and gives her a quick but tender peck on her lips before sitting down beside her. "We need to talk about this argument babe, we can't start shutting each other out; we haven't even walked down the aisle yet." He tells her as he rubs her legs, which she has tucked in beside her on the sofa, gently.

"I know Finn; I let my insecurities get the best of me. I know that you love me and that you will remain faithful to me." She tells him without making eye contact with him out of embarrassment.

"Rachel, I told you when I slide this ring on your finger that you are it for me." He tells her as he lifts her left hand up and kisses her ring finger right above her engagement ring.

After a few seconds of silence, Finn starts talking again, "I've already spoken to Kurt and Artie; I have told them that either we tour together or both bands were not to be touring at the same time, I told him that I didn't want to be away from my family for even one night." He tells her as he links his long fingers with her petite ones.

"Did he agree to those terms?" she asks, marveled that he had told their management team that.

"They both said that they would make it work. The both said that if only one of us are touring, the other may have to work on new music." He shrugs with his gorgeous half smirk.

"That's amazing! I don't think that I could stand spending more than one or two nights away from you." She says as she jumps into his lap and kisses him passionately.

"Well, there is more news. He promises to give us some time off after we finish this tour. I want to find us a house and start planning our wedding. I want to get married as soon as possible." He whispers before pulling her in closer to her and starts kissing down her neck and lifting her tee shirt up over her head. "I need to make love to my fiancée." He whispers into her ear as he caresses her breast tenderly. He slides her tiny body up around his torso and lifts their bodies up off of the sofa and lies her down in front of the electric fireplace on the floor. He gently kisses on her lips before moving down the left side of her neck starting by nibbling on her ear than alternating kisses and nibbles down her neck continuing down to her breast. He takes her left breast into his mouth as his right hand massages the other. Rachel's moans of love is the most amazing sound that he has every heard. He trails his lips down to her toned body as slides his fingers down to the waistband of her shorts. His mouth travels to her navel as he pulls her shorts down her long legs. After he swirled his tongue in and around her navel his mouth descends down to her sweet bundle. He starts sucking and licking as she squirms, he takes his right arm and places on her belly attempting to still her as he plunges two fingers of his left hand into her.

Rachel bucks her hips, trying to get as close to his mouth as she possible can. She is so close. His mouth is magical; he always causes her to loose control of all of her actions when he goes down on her. She feels it coming, her walls clinch around his fingers as she lets go.

Finn licks up her sweet juices before kissing back up her body, as he enters her he whispers words of love before running his tongue along her bottom lip; requesting entrance. Their bodies and tongues works in sync. Their bodies fit each other like a glove. Their tongues have learned this tender tango. Rachel knows that Finn is getting close to cum, she has learned that his kisses always becomes more demanding; she reaches around his body, grabbing his ass and pulls him in deeper as she moves her tiny hips in small circles around his shaft. He wraps her legs around his back and wraps his arms around her shoulders as he thrusts into her body faster and with more urgency. Rachel tightens her legs around his back and lifts her ass up off the floor to change the angle. That's all it took, she feels his warmth spill into her as he screams out her name.

Finn collapses down, being careful not to place all of his weight on her. He catches his breath and leans up onto his elbows before looking into her eyes and professing his love over and over again. They lay on the floor for a little while, whispering their love and exploring each others bodies before they decide to go upstairs to her bedroom to go to sleep. Finn crawls into Rachel's queen size bed as she sets her alarm clock and her cell phone so they can both get up and get ready to enjoy some of the festival before they were due on stage.


Finn and Rachel are awaken by all of the alarms that are currently going off. They both should have known better than to think that they would be able to go to bed just to sleep. By the time that they were done with their third time of making love (what they needed to make up for the previous night) it was well after three o'clock in the morning before they actually fell asleep. Finn is whining as Rachel stretches and hops out of the bed. She looks at her grumpy fiancée, "I'm going to jump in the shower" she tells him as she reads the text that Quinn has already sent her this morning saying that they all want to meet Breadstix for breakfast before heading to the fair grounds, "apparently we are meeting the gang in an hour at Breadstix; you want to join me?" she asks as she unties the belt around her bathrobe, letting her bathrobe slide off of her shoulders into the floor.

This gets Finn's attention and he isn't as tired any longer, "I'm right behind you." He tells her as he gets out of the bed and follows her into her bathroom. As they climb into the shower Rachel reaches up and places a kiss on his lips, "Good morning sweetheart. Now we have to meet our friends in an hour so no monkey business." She smirks when she notices the disappointed look on his face.

"Hey, that's not fair; can't we do both at the same time?" he asks as he pours her body wash into his bare hands and reaches to wash her breast gently.

Between her moans she stutters, "No baby, stop, we have to get…ready."

"What? I'm just helping you wash your amazing body." He smirks while he reaches in between her legs to wash her pleasure spot.

Rachel jumps back; she knows that if she doesn't stop this now she won't be able to. She shakes her finger at the pouting Finn and calls him a bad boy before telling him that if he doesn't behave, she won't award him for being a good boy when they head back to his parent's house to spend their last night in Lima.

With a pout he tells her okay as he turns around and washes his own body and hair before stepping out of the shower. "I'll be out here waiting on you babe." He tells her as he wraps a towel around his hips and walks in her bedroom to get dressed.

The McKinley Stars and The Twisted Dreams

Finn pulls Burt's SUV into the parking lot, parking next to Puck's mom's car. Finn cuts the ignition off and walks around the vehicle to open Rachel's door.

"Damn it; I'm going to owe Sam a hundred bucks, because you both showed up, and together." Puck says to Finn when he and Rachel walks back around the vehicle.

"What, are you betting on my relationship now dude?" Finn asks Puck, he is now standing next to Puck and Rachel and Quinn have paired off. The girls start walking toward the entrance as the two guys continue talking.

"No, nothing like that; I just figured that if you two had made up, you'd be too busy for breakfast." Puck shrugs.

"So Sam was betting against my relationship then?" Finn smirked.

"No damn it Finn, no one was betting on your relationship; we all know that you have grown a vagina and can't live without her." Puck snickers.

"What was the bet then?" Finn asks with his arms crossed. Before Puck is able to answer Rachel yells over her should at the guys to come on because everyone else is waiting so they can be seated.

"We will finish this discussion later." Finn says as he pats Puck on his back.

After everyone is sitting around the large table in the middle of the restaurant looking over their menus Quinn speaks up, "So Finn are you and Puck still planning on that set before we sing Picture today?"

Finn knows that this is Quinn's subtle way of finding out if everything is fine between Finn and Rachel so with his crooked smile he tells her most definitely.

"Good!" Quinn answers with a smile.

After everyone is finished eating, they decide to head to the fairgrounds to check out the other entertainers and booths. After all of them where able to find a place to park, they met up at the entrance gate, deciding that it's best that they all stay together. Kurt and Blaine skips through the gate with their arms linked together as the other couple walked through the gate holding hands.

They have just walked by a booth when they heard, "Oh My God look Dave, there is the queer squad from high school." Tommy shouts.

This causes the whole group stops and turns before Tommy adds "Look it's Hudson; he finally isn't hiding his true self."

Rachel and Sam grab a hold of Finn, stopping him from charging the booth. Puck walks up to the booth and crosses his arms before asking, "So tell me Tommy, what you do for a living? Who is touring the United States right now and who's working a game booth in Lima?" By this time Jake, Blaine, Artie and Sam have joined him while the girls hold Finn back with them.

"This is just a week-end job idiot; I'm a supervisor down at the mill." Tommy boasts proudly.

"Ain't that great? I'm proud of you for being a super Lima loser while we all live out in Los Angeles with our wonderful partners." Puck tells him as he points to where the rest of their group is standing.

"We are all in loving relationships, relationships that we know that are going to last. I hope that you are able to get off in time to see our show tonight. It is going to be epic." Sam adds before they turn and walks back to their friends.

Once they started walking through the booths, Rachel leans into Finn's body stating that she can't believe that people were still so ignorant.

"I know babe, but unfortunately Kurt is used to it. I'm sure Blaine is too." He tells his petite fiancée.

"Yeah, and Santana really doesn't give a crap what people think about her and Brittney doesn't even know that the hate is there." Rachel adds.

They walk around for a couple more hours, stopping to buy things from a few booths and grabbing lunch. It's about time for them to get ready for their performance so they decide to head on over to the trailers that were set up as their dressing rooms. The guys make the girls not to come out of their trailer or answer the door without one of them being with them, since you know that Rachel's house was burned down and Jewfro was back in town now too.


It's show time. Rachel and The McKinley Stars are being announced as the Twisted Dreams hangs out backstage. Rachel and The McKinley stars perform three of their songs and as soon as Rachel finishes the last note of 'Gone Tonight', she introduces The Twisted Dreams on stage with them. While everyone else takes their place either on a stool on the side of the stage or their instrument; Santana and Jake takes center stage.

Santana: Just gonna stand here and watch me burn

But it's alright because I love the way it hurt

Just gonna stand there and hear me cry

But that's alright because I love the way you lie

I love the way you lie.

Jake: I can't tell you what it really is; I can only tell you what it feels like

And right now there's a steel knife in my windpipe; I can't breathe

But I still fight; why I can fight as long as the wrong feels right; it's like I'm in flight

High from the love; drunk from the hate

Rachel and Finn stares at each other from opposite sides of the stage, Finn notices the bruises on her arms from where he had grabbed her last night. It breaks his heart that he hurt her and makes a vow to himself that he will never hurt her again, even if it was an accident. He needs to realize that she is so much smaller than him.

Jake: Cause when it's going good; it's going great

I'm superman with the wind in his back; she's Lois Lane

But when it's bad it's awful; feel so ashamed; I snapped

Who's that dude; I don't even know his name…

The crowd erupts in applause as the duo finishes the song and the rest of the members joined them back at the front of the stage. They sang five songs together before the curtain fals. The stools are pulled to the center of the stage; everyone besides Finn and Puck takes their seat before the curtain rises again.

"There's no place like home, that's for sure. I hope everyone is having a good time. Puck and I are going to slow things down for the next song. I hope that you enjoy it." Finn speaks into the microphone to the screaming crowd.

Finn sings as Puck plays the guitar

When your legs don't work like they used to before and I can't sweep you off your feet.

Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love? Will your eyes still smile from your cheek?

And, darling, I will be loving you 'til we're 70

And, baby, my love could still fall as hard at 23 and I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways

Maybe just the touch of a hand

Well, me—I fall in love with you every single day

And I just wanna tell you I am

So honey, now take me into your loving arms

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

Place your head on my beating heart

I'm thinking out loud that maybe we found love right where we are

Finn has made his way over to his stool next to Rachel; he holds her hand as he finishes the song.

When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades and the crowds don't remember my name

When my hands don't play the strings the same way

I know you will still love me the same.

Rachel has tears streaming down her cheek. Finn releases her hand just long enough to wipe them away.

'Cause honey your soul could never grow old, its evergreen

And, baby, your smile's forever in my mind and memory.

I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways

Maybe it's all part of a plan

Well, I'll just keep on making the same mistakes

Hoping that you'll understand

But, baby, now take me into your loving arms

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

Place your head on my beating heart

Thinking out loud

That maybe we found love right where we are.

Oh, baby, we found love right where we are

And we found love right where we are.

Once Finn finishes the song, he places a tender kiss on Rachel's cheek before standing up to address the crowd.

"Now we have one more song for you tonight, but before we sing it; I have an announcement to make. All of these months on the road cramped in those tour buses taught me something; if you are lucky enough to feel love, don't run away from it like I did many years ago. I got my second chance with my true love, not everybody's that lucky. I have asked Rachel to marry me and she said yes. I wanted the announcement to come from us and not some dirt rag magazine. And now it's time for 'picture'" Finn speaks before heading back to his stool as the music starts to play

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Finally, sorry for the long delay with this update; my life seems to constantly get in the way. I have put the songs in bold letters so you could tell between them and the dialog. Santana and Jake sung "Love the Way You Lie" by Eminem and Rihanna and Finn sang "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran. Thanks again to my posse for helping me find the perfect song for our Finchel. The next chapter will wrap up things in LA and then the epilogue. (If Finchel doesn't put anymore ideas in my head) Please read and review. Much Love, Melanie