Chapter Twenty-Eight

Finn POV

I'm running, I'm running into the locker room. I have my football uniform on even though I know it's not football season and I'm running from a heard of wild dogs. Wild dogs in wheel chairs that are directed by Coach Sylvester. Okay, I have to be dreaming. I know it now. I run into the locker room and see the shower is running and I know it's for me. I take off my gear and hope in and I hear Rachel singing so I hum along with her. I notice she's in the locker room now because her humming is getting really loud I look around the corner and I don't see her. I finish up washing my hair and go to grab a towel. There isn't one. Awesome. I look around again and cover myself with my hands to go look for a towel. I can still hear Rachel but can't find her. "Rach. At least hand me a towel." A small hand hands me a towel and I begin to dry off and look to where the towel come from. It's Quinn. She smiles awkwardly and waves.

She lifts one of her eyebrows and looks me up and down, "This is going to be awkward when you wake up." She says. I'm looking at her with wide eyes and I'm almost terrified.

"I said, WAKE UP!"

I shake myself awake half expecting for Quinn to be standing over my bed. She's not, the room is dark and I look to my side and notice Rachel is still sound asleep. I feel my head and I'm drenched in sweat. What is wrong with me? I get up slowly and look at the clock. 5:42am. Well I need to wake up in an hour or so anyway. I yawn and stretch and check on Chris. He's sleeping with his whole fist in his mouth. Man, that kid is weird. I lean down and kiss his cheek before grabbing two towels and heading to the bathroom to take a shower.

As I turn on the water I leave it cold. That dream got me antsy, and I don't even know why. Dream Quinn was right. This IS awkward. Why was she in my dream? Why had she looked at me like that? Why did it turn me on?

Dammit Finn! I am sexually frustrated and I don't even know why. My mind has resorted to dreaming about Quinn. That is low, sleeping Finn. Really low, dude.

"Baby" I hear Rachel's sleepy voice through the bathroom door, "You okay?"

"Yeah," I squeak out, "You can come in." I say and I hear the door open and I hear her yawn. I squeeze shampoo into my hand and start to wash my hair.

"Why are you up so early?" Rachel asks he mouth full of something. I look out of the shower curtain and notice she is brushing her teeth.

"Bad dream. Why are you?" I ask as I lay my head back and let the water run through my soapy hair.

"I don't know." She sounded weird. "I could feel that you weren't there. It woke me up." Rachel says and I can hear the light pout that is probably forming on her face.

"Did you bring in the baby monitor?" I ask sticking my head out of the curtain.

"Of course." She says holding it up.

"Well then get your ass in here." I smile lifting an eyebrow.

"Finn!" She says almost as if she was scolding me. "I can't."

"You can't get clean with me?" I ask innocently.

She walks over to me and kisses my lips and I find myself wishing I had brushed my teeth before getting in the shower. "We can't do that right now." She whispers.

"We can't do that ever." I growl.

"I take care of you." She says proudly.

She does, she tries. But, she hasn't been able to give me what I want. Which is her. I know she's still healing and I don't want to hurt her. But, damn do I want her. Maybe that is why I had that strange dream, I must be feeling deprived. But, no matter hoe deprived I feel I would not want that from Quinn. I can't imagine it would be that good, not to mention not worth losing my Rachel for.

"I know baby." I say dipping my head back into the shower. "Sometimes I just want you, you know?"

Rachel giggled, "That's really sweet, Finn." She says with a smile in her voice. "And you will have me again. Just a couple more days."

My eyes perk open with excitement and I stick my head back out of the shower again and see Rachel is taking off her tank top, "a couple more days?"

"Yes!" She says standing there in just her bra and shorts. Her body is flawless. "I need just a couple more days to get ready."

"Ready?" I ask confused.

"Yes, ready. Don't ask me questions anymore and stick your head back in. I'm changing."

"We're, like, basically married Rachel. I can't see you change."

"No, Finn Hudson. You can't!" She says pushing my head back in. I finish washing my body and just when I lean down to turn off the shower I hear the curtain open and I turn around quickly.

"Rachel Berry!" I say attempting to cover myself.

She hands me a towel and giggles, "We're practically married, Finn." She mocks me, "I can't look at you in the shower." She says winking at me. "Someone's excited?" She asks me.

"Well all that talk about a couple of days from now." I say getting out of the shower and drying myself off. She wraps her arms around me resting her hands over the towel on my ass. "You know, just got me a little excited."

"Mmmmhmmm" She says raising and eyebrow like Quinn had in my dream. I lean down to kiss her and turns away and moves her hand from my ass and grabs my toothbrush. "This first. Kissing later." She says with a wink and kisses my cheek.

Just as I start to brush my teeth we both hear Chris start to stir and she goes to get him. I walk in after a couple minutes to get dressed and Rachel's feeding Chris. I lean down and kiss her cheek and get dressed in my usual jeans and a t-shirt with a plaid button-up over the top. I don't know why Puck always makes fun of my look, it's classic.

We still have a while before we have to leave for school since we got up so early so I go upstairs turn on some cartoons and eat some cereal in front of the TV. Rachel brings Chris up to me so she can get ready and Chris and I play for about an hour.

"You ready for school?" Rachel asks walking up the stairs. Why does she have to wear those short skirts? She's driving me crazy.

"Yeah, let's go." I say getting up and handing Chris to Rachel. "Put him in the car. I'll get you some toast." I say sweetly.

I notice the time is still a little earlier then we normally go, but I shrug it off. After we drop Chris off at daycare we still have a good half hour. "What are we going to do for a half hour?"

"I promised you kissing didn't I?" She said with a wink. She hoped out of the car and I am overcome with excitement. I hop out and follow her as she takes me into the auditorium where she sits herself on the piano stool and pulls me down so I am kneeling next to her. I lean up to kiss her and she giggles, "Coco puffs?" She asks me.

"Oh, yeah... Sorry." I say awkwardly. She leans down and kisses me, softly, sweetly. She wraps her arms around my neck and pulls me in tightly and I let my tongue enter her mouth. She opens her legs to wrap them around me and I feel myself wanting to explode. And then, I do.

"Ohhhh." I belt out turning my head and trying not to let her notice. But, of course she does.

Suddenly a memory flashes into my mind.

"You know, You can kiss me if you want to." Rachel says with wide eyes looking into mine.

"I want to." I don't know why I am so attracted to Rachel, but all I have been able to think about is her lips on mine since we sang 'Don't Stop Believing' the week prior.

I move towards her and we're in close proximity and I put my hands around her waist and push her backwards. I'm on top of her and I feel myself getting more and more excited. Our lips touch and I feel her eyelashes flutter open on my cheek and then close again. I open my eyes to look at her and the reality of the situation has sunk in and all of a sudden I arrive early, like I always do. I stand up quickly and pull down my shirt over the top of my jeans. I am ashamed and embarrassed and I see that she is hurt. I feel terrible but I have to get out of there.

"What's wrong, Finn?" Rachel's voice rips me from my thoughts.

I look down, that feeling of embarrassment and shame back, "I, um, I, uh. I sortof, you know. I-I-I"

Rachel's finger was on my lips, "It's okay, Finn. I caught you off guard." She said hugging me and kissing my cheeks.

"We had our first kiss in here." I whisper.

Rachel nods, "Yes, I'm surprised you remember."

"Of course." I say looking back into her eyes, "You know that what just happened to me? That's the same thing that happened that day." I say feeling awkward.

She looks almost relieved, "I thought you were upset cause of Quinn and stuff." She says looking away, "Cause you were with her."

I think for a moment, "Oh yeah." I laugh a little, "That hadn't occurred to me. She was the furthest thing from my mind." It was true. I was engulfed in Rachel. After that day I did nothing but question things with Quinn.

She smiles widely, "Why are you so perfect?"

"You really think so? Even with my little... problem."

"It makes you that much cuter. It makes me happy and almost proud that I can do that to you, that I have that effect on you." She says with a smile.

I smile back at her bringing her in for another kiss, "Of course you do, you're my everything."