This is mostly fluff, and next chapter will be the last, I'll take the suggestion of a reader of making an epilogue. But for now, enjoy a little St. Berry fluff!CHAPTER 10 – GOOD MORNING GIRL

"Good morning girl, it's been long, good morning girl, to you this song…" Rachel was smiling even before she opened her eyes, she recognized the Journey song that Jesse was humming so softly, it sounded like a lullaby.

This was the first time in a really long time he'd sung just for her, and she couldn't remember ever waking up and feeling such blissful happiness. She was tucked in Jesse's arms, and he was stroking her hair softly while singing to her, it was just perfect, if not for the fact that Jesse would be leaving in two days.

"Morning…" she said while kissing him. She'd never even considered in the past kissing someone, not even Finn, before having them brush their teeth. But then again, she'd never been in love like this, and everything with Jesse was just different. She'd never made love with Finn more than once in a 24 hour period, maybe twice during those first days of engagement. And after that, having sex once or twice a week seemed perfectly normal. Not with Jesse. She couldn't get enough of him, and it just kept getting better and better.

This was different for Jesse too. Never in his 32 years had he spent more than a night with a single woman. He usually left, or had them leave before sunrise, not wanting to deal with the talking and the awkwardness of getting to know someone you just had sex with. He'd had sex with many, many women, most of them hot leggy models, beautiful actresses, but it was just empty, meaningless sex, more like jerking off to a porn movie, something he rarely had to do. And most of them didn't mind at all that he was blatantly using them, he guessed they were using him too, and that made it even. At least he was fastidiously careful and always practiced safe sex, he knew that the women he slept with usually got around a lot.

After seeing Rachel at the Emmys' rehearsals, he'd stopped sleeping around altogether, and after Rachel kissed him that day, he thought he'd never be able to be with anyone else. So being able to make love to Rachel was more than a dream coming true for him, it was a life changing experience. He'd never wanted anyone as much as he wanted her, and he was pleasantly surprised that she couldn't get enough of him either. He'd never been this happy in his life, and he made sure that she knew that.

Rachel wasn't ready to go back to LA, she wanted to stay more time in Bali, she had fallen in love with island and wanted to stay there forever, and Jesse understood. He was constantly accosted by the press and the paparazzi and he knew that even Rachel had gotten over Finn's sudden death, she was not ready for that yet. And he'd been considering taking a vacation, so he decided to finish the show and go back to Bali and be with her until she wanted to go back, if she ever wanted to go back.

But for now he just wanted to concentrate in just being with her.

"Do you know how many times I tried to contact you over the years? I don't think you know I went to the opening night of your first show…"

"What! You were there?" She looked very surprised. He looked a bit sad and lost in thought as he continued:

"Yeah, I was there. I had pestered Shelby for months to let me contact you, but she didn't want to hear of it. We talked about what happened, how we broke in your auditorium to intimidate you, how we wrecked the practice room… the eggs… I guess I didn't realize how bad it was until I talked about it with Shelby… I was so angry, so jealous, so stupid back then…"

"Well I do remember that you were angry; when you where singing "Another One Bites the Dust" you looked furious! And when you did that thing with that disgusting egg… it's like you were so mad at me, like I had done something wrong, you told me that you loved me and you were just so pissed off… I never understood why you were so mad at me!"

"Oh god Rach, I was so full of myself back then, so stupid… I was angry because I was insanely jealous of Finn, of how you chose him over me over and over… I didn't know back then it was jealousy, and I was just mad at all of you, especially you and him…" He was sorry of bringing Finn into the conversation; it was not the best idea to talk about him while they were lying naked in bed. But mentioning his name didn't seem to have a bad effect on Rachel, so he continued.

"After the egging incident I felt so sickened by what I had done, that a few days later I went to beg you to forgive me, I wanted you to know how sorry I was, but then I saw you kissing him… And I thought I'd been right all along, that you wanted to be with him and not me… I'm so sorry about all that…"

"But Jesse, you should have talked to me. You should have told me what was going on in your head! I loved you, only you! I was stupid too, but at least I thought you knew that I loved you!"

He held her close now. "I was an ass, what can I say…"

"But tell me about the opening night, why didn't you come to say hi?"

"Well I kept hoping that you would spot me in the audience… When you didn't, I went to your dressing room. I remember I got you red roses, and I imagined you would throw them at my face, so I made sure they had no thorns! But I saw you with him again, going into your dressing room, so I just left. I went to see you three more times that week and you never saw me…"

"But no one told me!"

"Shelby thought it was for the best, since you'd gotten engaged. And did you know that I heard you on the night before your wedding telling Shelby you wanted it to be me, that you still cared about me?"

Now Rachel left his side and sat right in front of him. "What are you saying?"

"Apparently you were drunk and don't remember, but you were freaking out on Shelby and she left to talk to you and left the line open while talking to me. I almost went crazy, I'd always believed you wanted nothing to do with me, and to hear you say that you missed me… I remember going to the airport and just buying a very expensive ticket to New York, I had nothing with except for my wallet! And then…"

Rachel interrupted Jesse. "Wait. Hold it right there. I don't even remember telling that to Shelby! Of course I wanted it to be you, but I didn't even admit it to myself, as long as I was concerned, you were history and you wanted nothing to do with me! Whenever I went to an audition I dreaded the thought of running into you, I was terrified that you would just ignore me, treat me as if you'd never even met me…. Jesse, I.. I…." Tears were now forming on her eyes, and Jesse held her close again.

"Shhhh… Please don't cry, I never want to see you cry again because of me… Do you want me to keep going or do you want me to stop? We could go down to the beach.."

"No, no, please tell me, I need to know."

"What else can I tell you, I almost crashed your wedding, if it wasn't for Shelby! Please, Rachel, you have to stop crying! It physically hurts me to see you cry!" he said while pulling her close to him.

"Ok, ok, I'm just thinking that if I'd known back then… that you loved me…."

"Don't even think of that, please, don't" he said while kissing the top of her head. "What matters is that we're together now, and I'll never let you go."

"I'm better now, please tell me, is there anything else?"

"Well, I pretty much gave up on you when you got married, you looked very happy, I saw the wedding article, I saw you at the Tonys… And from time to time I'd ask Shelby, and she said you were very much in love. It was sometimes hard for me to understand what was it that he had that I didn't…"

"Jesse, I'm not going to deny I was happy, because I was… But I blocked you out completely, I didn't even allow myself to think of you, I never listened to any of your songs, it just hurt too much… I never asked Shelby about you until I was offered the show in LA... I did see you in my dreams, I had these very erotic dreams in which we were doing pretty much what we've done for the past couple of days…" she said playfully.

Of course, she omitted the part where she woke up Finn and pretended he was Jesse.

"Really? Well I had these erotic visions of you too but I was very conscious of what I was doing…" he placed a soft kiss on her lips.

She was smiling now.

"Oh Jesse, I guess we needed to go through all of this for some strange reason, I'm convinced things do happen for a reason. All I know is that now I never want to be away from you. I'm curious, at the last rehearsal for the Emmys you thanked me. For what were you thanking me?"

"Because that day, after singing with you again, I realized that just having you close was enough for me to be happy, even if you were with someone else. I had everything I could ask for professionally, fame, money. And yes, it gave me satisfaction, but you gave me hapiness and that sense of well being and peace that I needed. And somehow, and this will sound strange, because it is, you made me feel loved. I couldn't be with you physically but I felt that you loved me..."

"I thought about the same thing, because I felt the same way, like I never really stopped living you, and that it had nothing to do with Finn, I don't even know how toi explain it... BUt I do love you , Jesse, more than anything else..."

Now he sat up and faced her.

"Rachel, I don't want to scare you off, but I've been thinking the same thing, and I don't know if you are ready, but I have to tell you."

"Tell me what? Now you're scaring me…"

"Will you marry me?"

Now Rachel was wearing her biggest smile yet. She had married her high school sweetheart, and now her soulmate wanted to marry her. She was the luckiest girl in the world.

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