Chapter 56
The New Rachel
September – Age 21 – Fall, Junior Year
Finn was ultimately had a short day of Monday-Wednesday-Friday's. He was on from 8:50 to 1:30 and he was doing all of his upper level social work classes. This was typically when tours came through. They would typically stay in the back of the class and just observe, but not Tiffany Autumn. This was just a girl on a mission.
"Hi everyone, I'm Tiffany Autumn, remember the name because I'm going to be the one to change the face of social work forever," she announced every class. In addition, she took it upon herself to sit next to Finn in every class.
In Human Judgement, she kept asking questions and answering herself in the same breath. Finn did very well in ignoring her. He really liked this class and wanted to pay attention. During Social work practice 2, she was left to observe Kenny and himself role play scenarios and bounce ideas off each other. When she really did was tell them that of course she had seen this particular scenario before and exactly how she solved it – all while in middle school.
Kenny proposed Finn's personal scenario, just to see how she would react. She gave this whole spiel over how it's the mothers choice, and most dads are deadbeats. Her two moms... blah, blah, blah. Finn reclined back in his seat and shook his head ruefully. "Not how this particular case was solved," Finn said.
"Of course it was," Tiffany insisted. "The mother is always right."
Finn got out his phone and showed her the background photo of Santana and Charlotte. "That's my four and a half year old. I got full custody as soon as I cut the cord. I also won a law suit when her mother – and I use that term loosely – tried to sue me for custody. The mother doesn't always win," Finn informed the pesky shadow student.
"Excellent point, Finn," Mr. Artin announced. "We cannot go into these situations with a bias or a prejudice. We could do more harm than good. We have used Finn's personal case in other classes but with his permission, I would like to go more in-depth this semester."
"Of course, if anyone can learn from it, it will help other, by all means."
From there, the classes changed to Social and Personality Development. She was slightly quieter, still asking questions, but not really going overboard. Finn was relieved. But she was back during General Practice with Large Systems. Tiffany was all about crazy theories about inner city school systems. Finn just took down things his professor said, ignoring her.
After his final class, Finn was father up his bag when tiny Tiffany was standing directly in front of him. "Can I help you?"
"I was wondering if you'd like to go get a coffee or something," she asked. "I'd love to pick your brain."
"I've got to pick my daughter up from day-care, and my Fiancé has late classes, so I'm on dinner duty," Finn replied.
"Oh," she replied, blushing slightly. "Well it was nice to meet you then."
"You too."