Author's Note:
I'm so fucking late on this.
SORRY, DARLINGS.
Been super busy and actually got *gulps* writers block for this until today, when a beautiful idea screamed at me.
Rachel sat up the next morning, Finn's arms secured tightly around her waist as his head nudged deeper into her shoulder as he tried to subconsciously pull her back to her laying position. She giggled under her breath slightly, but untangled herself from him. Rachel needed to get ready for the rest of the day, and if she was sharing a bathroom with Kurt, unless they both woke up at the crack of dawn, one of them was going to have to rush through their morning routine.
Rachel sighed happily to herself as she entered the shower, the warm water pounding against her skin. She was glad that her plan had seemed to have worked its magic on Kurt and Blaine's tension after the shooting. They seemed to be completely back to normal.
Today, Rachel was going out with Quinn, Tina, Mercedes and Blaine to shop and have lunch and bond. Finn was going with Kurt, Puck, Mike and Artie to hang out and talk. Rachel smiled to herself at the fact that Finn worked in some brotherly bonding time, as well as bonding time with his best friends. Rachel knew that Kurt didn't always feel so included with the guys, so she was proud to see Finn arranging time to make him feel more welcome.
Rachel finished her hair and makeup an hour and a half later, glancing at the clock to see that it was 9:00 in the morning; she still had an hour(at least) until Finn woke up. Smiling at this, she skipped down the stairs, her mood nothing less than carefree, and started making breakfast. Carole was sitting in the kitchen, reading a magazine and sipping on a coffee. Blaine was awake, as well, and Rachel heard the shower go on and the sound of Teenage Dream playing loudly, so she knew that Kurt had woken up by now, too.
"Oh, hello dear! You don't have to make breakfast, I can make it in a few minutes." Carole said as Rachel grabbed ingredients from the fridge. Rachel smiled and shook her head.
"That's okay, Carole. Really, I want to!" Rachel responded cheerily. Carole smiled and Blaine looked over the counter to see what Rachel was making.
"Are you making your sausage and gravy with biscuits?" Blaine asked excitedly. Rachel nodded, not looking up from the bowl of ingredients. Blaine smiled.
"Finn's going to ask you to marry him once he tastes them, you know." Blaine informed Rachel sarcastically. Even though it was a joke, Rachel beamed inwardly at the idea of marrying Finn one day. The future seemed so bright that it nearly stung her eyes.
"I'm excited to hang out with everyone later. Are we still going to dinner with everyone else after shopping and stuff?" Rachel asked as she watched the food that she was cooking. Blaine nodded, taking a sip of his coffee before answering.
"Yeah, it's going to be our one last hurrah together before we head back to New York. I'm going to miss them, actually. A lot." Blaine said, his eyes growing slightly misty. He blinked the emotion away and turned back to his coffee, a slight smile on his lips. Rachel was about to say something else when she heard loud footsteps clambering through the 2nd floor of the house and the timer went off for breakfast.
As Rachel prepared his plate, Finn stumbled into the kitchen, smiling sleepily and pressing a lazy kiss to Rachel's cheek before sitting down beside Blaine.
"G'morning." Finn said, making himself a cup of coffee and perking up slightly as Rachel set his plate in front of him.
"Sausage, gravy and biscuits. She made it for me once. It's so good, Finn. I swear, she got the recipe straight from God himself." Blaine said, grinning widely as Rachel set a plate in front of him, as well. Finn nodded happily before taking a bite and moaning loudly, eliciting a blush from Rachel at how the noise reminded her of something that she should not have been thinking about with Finn's mother in the room.
"I think we should elope." Finn announced as he shoveled more food into his mouth. Blaine, his mouth as full as Finn's was, pointed at him and looked at Rachel.
"I told you!" Blaine said after he swallowed what was in his mouth. "I knew he was going to say something like that! A key to a man's heart is food."
Rachel was about to make a witty remark in response, but she was surprised to hear more footsteps coming down the stairs. Kurt wasn't usually ready until at least 11, but in he strolled, dressed in a casual pair of jeans and a Marc Jacobs sweatshirt at 10:00 in the morning. Rachel gaped.
"What?" Kurt asked, taking in her shocked look. Rachel gestured towards his outfit and stuttered.
"Oh, please, Rachel. I'm hanging out with a bunch of guys today; I don't need to look like I stepped off of a catwalk. We'll end up lounging around here as I kick their asses at COD, so what's the point in looking as handsome as I always do?" Kurt asked, plopping down on a stool in the kitchen and grabbing a plate of food that was meant to be Carole's.
After they had all eaten breakfast and gotten ready, Rachel and Blaine kissed their partners goodbye and headed to meet Quinn, Mercedes and Tina at the mall. Rachel silently congratulated herself on her outfit after receiving compliments from each of the girls on her striped sundress with the matching blue cardigan and white sandals. She had opted to put her hair in a side-braid today, and also received a few compliments on that. Kurt would be proud of her.
Finn, Kurt, Puck, Mike and Artie were all sitting in Puck's living room, staring at his flatscreen television and cursing at each other. The ones who had died already were in the middle of a conversation, but stalled it at times to high five their teammate or flip off their opponents. Kurt and Puck were still alive, but Finn had been killed a few minutes ago, so he was chatting with Artie as his teammates dodged bullets from Mike.
"So, how serious are you about Rachel?" Artie asked. Finn was glad that he and Artie had become such good friends; Artie was a brutally honest person, but Finn found it to be a useful trait when he wanted a straight answer or question.
"I'm very serious about Rachel, actually. More serious than I've been with anyone else. Even when Quinn had that pregnancy scare and I thought I was in love with that foreign exchange student, I've never actually wanted to see a future with them. But with Rachel, I feel like I could plan out everything." Finn answered honestly. That was another good thing about Artie; he never made fun of anyone for being too emotional or mushy. Artie was a serious, sophisticated person underneath everything. He was, in a way, the glue of all of the friendships.
"Good. I think she's pretty serious about you, too." Artie replied. Finn was about to respond when he was cut off by a slew of cusses exiting Puck's mouth in a yell.
"I fucking hate you, Chang." Puck growled, throwing a glare at Mike who merely shrugged and went back to playing the game. Kurt chuckled.
"Nice going, Puckerman. Looks like I'll have to finish him off by myself. God, you're a fucking idiot sometimes. Couldn't you see his target? We have Airplane Mode on!" Kurt exclaimed, not looking up from the television. Puck glared at Kurt for a few minutes, but seeing as Kurt was distracted and that it didn't phase him in the slightest, he turned it on Finn.
"You must have taught him lessons or some shit. This is horseshit. Thank fucking God that he's on my team, but I'm still shocked that he can kill all of us with no practice. You must be practicing daily. Even Blaine can't beat him, and that's saying something, considering he uses his fucking puppy eyes and makes us feel like we have to let him win. Not that he couldn't kick all of our asses." Puck muttered, glaring at Finn harshly who let out a guffaw.
"Kurt only plays video games with all of you guys or when we come back home. We don't have an Xbox at the apartment and I don't think he'd waste his time with this shit anyways. I sure as hell am not teaching him. He kicks my ass every single time we play, I don't need to be teaching him, he should be teaching me. And Blaine is a little shit. If they paired up and faced all of the guys from the football team and everyone in this room, they would still kick the shit out of us in Xbox." Finn responded. Kurt grinned devilishly at Puck before turning back to the game and defeating Mike, ending the game completely.
"You should see Rachel play; her cousin came to visit earlier last year and he brought his Xbox. I didn't play, but I watched as she learned the controls and then proceeded to murder them at their own game." Kurt commented offhandedly. Puck grinned at this and clapped his hand on Finn's shoulder.
"Maybe instead of getting lessons from Kurtsie, you could get some private lessons from Rachel." Puck said, waggling his eyebrows in a way that was supposed to be perceived as sexual, but just looked like he was a cartoon character from SpongeBob. Either way, Finn blushed slightly at the idea of being 'taught a lesson' by Rachel. They had had sex before, but to be kinky was an entirely different adventure that Finn hadn't thought about before, but now that he had, the idea couldn't get loosened from it's death grip on is brain and his groin. Thankfully, Kurt interrupted Finn's thoughts before they could lead to an uncomfortable situation.
"I'm fucking starving from kicking all of your asses at COD. Let's order a pizza. Make it a meat lovers." Kurt ordered. This didn't come as a surprise to Finn or any of the other boys. Kurt always ate extremely unhealthy when he was with them and they were just lounging around. Finn had the prediction that his casual eating habits arrived only when Kurt was dressed in casual clothing, was in McKinley, was completely sick, or was surrounded by men who stunk and swore and ate like pigs.
"That sounds good. Get some wings, too!" Puck added, earning a high five from Kurt.
"Yes, I haven't had wings since I got drunk with Santana and we got super fucking hungry." Kurt said, grinning as Artie switched the game back on, challenging Kurt again.
"You and Finn versus me, Puck, Mike and one computer enemy." Artie said, daringly. Kurt lookedd over to Finn, who shrugged.
"Why not? I'm always the first or second one dead anyway." Finn replied, shrugging. It was an act, the getting killed before the first 3 minutes; Kurt had taught Finn every trick that he had learned earlier this morning and now Finn was practically as amazing at the game as Kurt was.
"Awesome. Bring it, bitches." Mike said, setting up the round to take place in Nuketown. Finn spoke up.
"Hey, you should enable the dogs instead of the Airplane Mode. Makes it more interesting and less sneaky." Finn commented. Mike nodded and switched the settings.
This should be fun.
This was fun.
That was all Rachel could think to sum up the shopping spree that she had with the girls and Blaine at the mall. They all exited the mall carrying at least 4 bags each and were giggling about a story that Tina was telling them about her younger brother.
As they walked across the parking lot to go to the restaurant, Rachel let her thoughts wander to Finn. She thought about how much time they had spent together and how strong of a bond that she had grown with him and sighed happily to herself. She thought about the way he smiled and how it brought butterflies to her stomach in a way that she had never felt before.
"You're thinking about Finn, aren't you?" Blaine asked, gaining her attention and shaking her out of her Finn-filled thoughts. Rachel blushed.
"Am I that obvious?" Rachel asked. Blaine smiled and nodded.
"It's good to be that obvious. I would have heart eyes for hours when I thought nobody was paying attention. It just means that you've stumbled across something very special." Blaine explained, smiling warmly at Rachel. Quinn snorted.
"You stumbled across love, is what he's trying to say. Blainers just needs to spit it out already. You love him." Quinn stated. It wasn't in a questioning tone, it was completely confident. Rachel felt her face heat up monumentally.
"We haven't said that yet. It's too early." Rachel murmured, talking to herself more than anyone. She really didn't want to freak Finn out by saying such a serious thing way too fast.
"You keep telling yourself that, Finn, but I see the way she looks at you. She loves you." Kurt said, matter-of-factly. Finn sighed slightly. They had been having this conversation for a little over 15 minutes now and Finn could feel his brain start to contemplate the idea of telling her.
"Seriously bro, if you don't tell her that you love her, I'm going to tell her that you love her, but I'm going to use a sexual innuendo until she figures it out. That's not too romantic, last time I checked." Puck interjected. Artie nodded in agreement and Finn let out an exasperated sigh.
"Fine. But if I tell her and she flips out or dumps me, I'm going to be crashing here for a few weeks or months or years. I haven't felt like this about anyone. I can't fuck this up." Finn said.
"You won't mess it up, I swear. He loves you, I know he does. He's never looked at anyone else like that. I used to be Finn's girlfriend, you know. He never had a sparkle in his eye like he does with you. He never looked so amazingly ecstatic by a simple brush of the fingertips. Never did he act so content with his life, like all of his problems were nonexistent." Quinn stated. Rachel sighed again, a little less wearily and a little more dreamily.
"Really?" Rachel asked timidly. Mercedes nodded vigorously and Tina smiled encouragingly at her. Blaine swallowed what was in his mouth and turned to Rachel, taking her hands.
"Look, Rach. Finn and I are pretty much brothers. I'm one of his close friends and we talk about tons of random shit together. Ever since you two have started going out, he rarely even pays attention anymore. He gushes about you in the weirdest way, he sighs like a teenager anytime that anyone ever mentions your name in a casual conversation and I can hear him moaning your name in the shower. Well, granted, you were in there with him, but he was doing that before you two were active." Blaine said, ignoring the embarrassed blush that painted Rachel's face red.
"Alright. So, I'll tell him. But, when?" Rachel asked.
"Make it super romantic." Puck suggested to Finn, who nodded.
"Wait for him to make a super sweet gesture and say it when the time feels right." Tina interjected. Rachel smiled and inwardly took notes.
"Just, make sure you're as honest as you can be about it. She really loves musicals and sappy romantic movies, so if you watch one of those the night before and try to recreate the scene and the honesty by adding some of your own things in with it, she'll fall into your arms." Kurt explained to Finn.
"Say it with as much emotion as you can and don't be too hesitant. Don't be cocky or too straight-forward, either, but don't look like you regret saying it, even if he has a meltdown. Show that you are confident." Mercedes instructed.
"Never doubt yourself, Finn."
"But,"
"Most importantly,"
"Mean it when you say it."
Author's Note:
OHHH YAYYY ROMANTIC SCENERY IS ROMANTIC
I CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT CHAPTER.
Again, I apologize for taking so long to update.
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