Hello, guys!

This will probably be the last chapter of 2013, so I wish you all Merry Chirstimas and a Happy New Year!

Hope you enjoy it...

xoxo

Mari

From the moment they met on Monday, their attitude changed, compared to the two previous weeks. They began to greet more intimately with at least a hug or a long lasting kiss on the cheek. If there were too many people around, they would give baby kisses and caresses, if people who was around were a few friends of theirs, like Mischa, Jesse, Tony, Tina, Rory and Finn's other fellows from Julliard. They also walked hand in hand, when they went together to get a snack from rehearsals or when going to his car, now that he would take her home every day, even when there was no time to hang out because of some commitment.

Finn discovered that on Friday rehearsal would end earlier and immediately sent a message to Rachel. " Tomorrow you're mine after rehearsal. Until Saturday. Don't make any other plans!"

His phone rang a short time later. "Where are we going?"

"It's a secret, but if you wanna know what to wear, it will be something in the same style of last Saturday." Finn read her mind. He could care less about the place, as long as he was with her, but did not want to disappoint on the outfit.

"We'll go to a different place today... somewhere unconventional." Finn said, after kissing Rachel, already inside his car, but before starting the engine.

"What do you mean different, Finn Hudson?"

"Relax, babe! It's nothing dangerous, illegal or immoral... I don't know if you will find it cool or not, but you don't need to be worried. And if you don't think it's a good idea to stay there, we can always go and find another place, ok?"

Rachel nodded and Finn started driving, as she turned on the radio and chose a folder on the ipod connected to it, to let it playing, as he had told her to do. All the way they talked and laughed, when he told her the romantic adventures of bumbling Rory. The worst had happened the previous week when he was with a girl who was convinced he was a leprechaun and left the date when she discovered he was not.

Shortly thereafter, the couple walked into a bar, but it was really something different. It was not a conventional bar, the kind that people their age attend. It was a bar with old and romantic music, the type people dance tick-to-tick. And not only that: there was, in fact, couples dancing to the rhythm of that song so inviting.

Finn looked at Rachel, apprehensive, but he soon relaxed, because she smiled one of those big smiles.

"Finn, what an incredible place! You are always so full of surprises! Who could imagine you would know and like a place like this?"

Finn actually did not know this place, but he knew the musicians, who always talked about the place. He had never really imagined attending the bar, not because he didn't like the kind of music they played, but because he was not a good dancer and had also never dated any girl he thought would enjoy such a place. He had been apprehensive about the possibility of Rachel not liking his choice, but it was actually just not ordinary feeling that he would have, regardless of the place, because it was important for him to please her, make her happy. Deep down, he thought it was the perfect place for them to have their second official date.

"Who would have thought Finn Hudson could dance? But, yes, I can." He laughed, offering a hand. "Will you dance with me, babe?"

"It'll be an honor!" She said, still smiling.

They danced together during several songs. A slow dance that was more like an embrace with movement than true dance. Dancing was not really his thing, as he said, so it was better to do it that way. Occasionally they shared glances, smiles, a caress on his neck, one on her back, a word or two about the music that was playing.

After a while, they went to the corner of the bar, ordered a drink for her and some water for him, as he was driving her home, and they also chose something to eat and waited, sitting side by side, this time on a small sofa.

"And to think we could have danced together long ago, huh? I could have taken you to our prom." He said close to her ear.

"No... You wouldn't want to take me to our senior prom!" She said, laughing.

"And why not?" He asked, genuinely surprised at her statement.

"Finn, we were very different! I was not like I am today. I was a nobody and you were probably the popular stereotype, since you told me it was the quarterback of the football, the captain of the basketball. You must have had a cheerio girlfriend and taken her to the prom... and you would have been elected king and queen, because that's how things work... not you going with the 'weird jewish girl from the drama department' that no one knows even the name of." Finn laughed and so she was the one confused.

"I was popular, but honestly, I've never been the stereotype type that used to put people in the trash can, throw slushies or eggs at them, lock defenseless boys in public toilets. And I stopped bothering about my popularity completely after I met Kurt and realized that almost all popular kids were frauds. There was this guy who was said straight and was on the football team... and he was the one that bullied my brother the most, and one day he just kissed Kurt on the mouth! The guy was as gay as he was an asshole and abused others to hide his condition."

He took a deep breath and continued.

"During the last year, I was thinking about leaving football, basketball, and I only gave up because the guys were also in and they wanted us to be together in our last year. I've had two girlfriends cheerios and several wanted to date me because I was popular and all, but I did not take any of them to prom. If you wanna know, Rach, I did not even go to prom. The king and queen were Puck and Quinn, by the way."

"Really? You didn't go to prom?"

"Yeah. I didn't." He began to kiss her and got it on a while until he realized something.

"Rach... if you didn't know that I wasn't crowned... you haven't been to prom either, right?"

"No, I didn't go. I have been invited only by one guy and I broke up with him some time before, so... " She shrugged and he felt a strange satisfaction because she had not gone.

"Today is our prom, then. We were not there and, for me, it would only have been worth if I had gone with you. None of those girls were worth it and that is precisely why I didn't go."

"I still don't think you would go to prom with me if you had known me... with so many beautiful girls there, I was not... "

"Rachel, you are BEAUTIFUL! So beautiful... I lose track of time looking at you, I'm afraid of looking crazy, paralyzed looking at you. I only don't like to look at you more than I like touching you, kissing you... you know? Everything we do... that is so, SO good!"

He caressed her face and kissed her once more and the two decided to dance more, after eating a salad they had ordered and had just arrived, making the night of the prom they both had lost. And that was what they did, until the moment the band stopped playing and the waiters started to bring bills to the few customers who were still around.

Obviously they spent the night together, this time in her room, on the initiative of Tina herself who was also really enjoying this story because she could sleep with her boyfriend often. In the morning, Finn woke with Rachel missing in bed and listening to the sound of the shower. He realized that she was showering and decided to join her.

"Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard. Their shadows searching in the night" She sang, until someone joins in, singing the next verse and she became paralyzed.

"Streetlights, people, living just to find emotion. Hiding somewhere in the night." Then Finn got into the shower , finishing . "Working hard to get my fill. Everybody wants a thrill. Payin' anything to roll the dice, just one more time. Why did you stop singing, babe ?"

"Finn Hudson! What talents don't you have, huh?" He laughed and she followed him.

"Babe, I have some, modestly, but... " He came to her ear and told the rest punctuating words with kisses just behind the earlobe " ...the talent I like to use the most is to make you cum for me, huh? To do you shudder, groan... " He was now passing his hands all over her body and she has altered breathing, feeeling warmth between her legs. "Why don't I practice this talent now, huh?"

"Okay, babe. This talent is also undeniable. But don't think I'll forget this issue, ok?" She held onto his cock which was already visibly hard. "And another thing: today is Saturday and we will have our third official date. This time, the surprise is all on me!"