He sat in the dark room, holding the now wilted flowers that were meant for the funeral. There were no tears in his eyes, perhaps because he'd cried every one he had left. He heard a knock on the door, it was probably his mom trying once again to get him to come out of the room.
"Honey, please come out. Everyone wants to see you."
He didn't answer.
"Okay if you won't come out then I'm coming in."
She opened the door and came in, sitting down next to him.
"You weren't at the funeral" she said.
"I wanted to," he said under his breath. "I got dressed and everything, but I just…" he trailed off.
"She would have wanted you there sweetie" she said.
"Oh don't give me that!" he said angrily, throwing the flowers to the ground. "She would have wanted to be alive, that's what she would have wanted!"
"I know honey, I know"
"You know this movie is kind of sad" Finn whispered over to Rachel.
"Shh, my part's coming up" Rachel whispered back.
"Dan?" Rachel's character said coming into the room.
"Hey sis" he said weakly.
"Everyone wants to see you"
"I can't go out there" he said "I can't"
She hugged him and rested her head on his shoulder "If you're not ready then you're not ready. You know, we'll just sit with you… if that's okay."
Finn wrapped his arm around Rachel's shoulder and kissed the top of her head, now covered with thick, shoulder-length hair.
"You were awesome babe" Finn said as they left the theater.
"Really?"
"Yes really. I can't wait for everyone to see it."
"You mean my three whole scenes?"
"Yeah, I liked the part where you threw that vase."
"I actually improvised that."
"Yeah? that's awesome."
"Thank you for coming with me, I know it must have been kind of hard to watch"
"Yeah, the main guy kind of sucked but you were great"
"No, I mean because of everything we've been through these past couple of years. I know that movie probably hit pretty close to home."
"To tell you the truth, all I could think about was how amazing it was just to watch you up there. There was a point where I wasn't sure you know?"
"I know, neither was I" she said quietly.
"You know what? Let's not talk about it, that's in the past where it belongs, right now all I want to do is go to this cast party and take advantage of these rich guys and their free food" Finn said.
"Well, we have to be home early if we want to make the flight tomorrow Mercedes will never let us live it down if we miss her wedding" Rachel said. "The party's going to be pretty boring anyway, none of the reporters are going to want to talk to me."
"Well, you'll talk to them, that's what you do."
"That is what I do isn't it?"
"I'm psyched really, it'll be the first time in months I can have wine from an actual bottle."
"Well, you go nuts, I'm not drinking."
"Why?"
She just smiled at him, "You're a smart guy I think you can figure it out."
The End End
Scared you there for a second didn't I? But no I couldn't bring myself to kill Rachel, although I seriously considered it. Thank you all so much for reading, and stay tuned for my one-shot spin-off starring Puck and Quinn.