Chapter 10: Break-Up
On Monday, Finn insisted on going with Rachel to NYADA to find Brody. They found him in one of the dance classrooms.
"What are you doing here?" Brody asked Finn when they entered the room.
"He came to surprise Kurt for his birthday. I just picked him up from the airport." Rachel told him.
Brody knew it was a cover-up. Even if it was Kurt's birthday, Finn knew where he lived and was perfectly capable of getting there himself. But he didn't press the matter.
"What, come back to finish me off?" He said to Finn instead.
Rachel looked from Brody to Finn slightly confused.
"Er, Maybe I better wait outside, Rach." Finn suggested.
She looked at him with an expression that was half scared and half worried.
"Don't worry, I won't be far." He promised.
He left the room, closing the door behind him.
"Wait, Brody what happened to your eye?" Rachel started, momentarily forgetting why she had come.
"Why don't you ask your fiancé?" He accused.
Rachel grimaced. She wasn't sure where she and Finn stood, but that probably wasn't the best term for it.
"Finn isn't my fiancé." She corrected him.
"It doesn't appear to be that way." He scoffed.
"Brody, stop. I didn't come to talk about Finn."
"No?"
"No. I came because, well I…" she walked to him he thought to take his hand, but instead she shoved a roll of dollar bills into his hand. "I was hoping I could have dinner with you tonight. I'm sorry, is it not enough? I wasn't sure what the going rate was these days for male hookers."
"Don't judge me. " He said, shoving the bills back at her and walking away.
"Oh, really? For selling your body?" She yelled, throwing the bills at him.
"Not everybody has doting daddies to pay their bills."
"I'm such an idiot. I'm such an idiot. You told me that if we were honest with each other that anything was possible." She shrieked. "Why did you lie to me?"
"Why did you lie to me?" He accused.
"When did I lie to you?" She exclaimed.
He stared at the door they both knew Finn was hiding behind. "I know you still love him. And I know you slept with him at that wedding."
She couldn't deny either of those things. "Did Santana tell you that?"
"No one had to tell me."
Rachel felt bad. He was right; she shouldn't have lied to him either.
"Look, I'm sorry that I lied about all that stuff, okay," He began. "But I meant everything that I ever said about how I feel about you."
Rachel felt even worse about what she was doing. But it needed to be done. Just because she was having his child didn't mean they had to stay together. It didn't feel right anymore.
"You're right, I haven't been, uh… completely honest with you. I think that there was a part of me that was … using this. Partly to make Finn jealous and, um, the other part to fill my own personal heartache." Her voice broke halfway through the last sentence.
"So what, this is, it's just over?" Brody asked.
"Yeah it, it feels like it is." She admitted.
"Seeing you around is really gonna suck."
She nodded. Finn walked in then.
"How dare you?!" Brody accused Finn.
"You're one to talk." He retorted. "Moving in on someone else's girl when they're not there." He said, reminding Brody of what he had practically walked in on the last time he'd been in New York.
"We were apart for three days." He reminded Finn. "You were gone for four months, with no contact. You could have been dead for all she knew."
"That's one of many mistakes I've made in the last year. I'm paying for it."
Brody opened his mouth to speak again but Finn stopped him.
"Look it's taking everything I have not to punch you right now so just shut up, okay?"
"It wouldn't be the first time."
"Rach, let's just go."
"Wait, Finn, what is he talking about?"
"He didn't tell you he jumped out of a bathroom and went all Frankenstein on me?"
That's the favor Santana had asked him to do, Rachel thought. It was all coming together now. She was touched he had come all the way here to defend her honor like that. Looked like she owed both Finn and Santana.
"Let's go, Finn." She said walking out the door. With one last glare at Brody, Finn followed her.
Once they were out in the hall, he grabbed her hand and squeezed. "You did the right thing." He told her.
She hoped he was right.