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15. We Are Just Small Town Hicks
She is having a panic attack and he can tell. When he left the bathroom and started walking down the corridors, he saw this big white puffy ball. He approached it and figured out that it was Rachel in her wedding dress. He would be laughing at how ridiculous the thing is, but her sobs silence him.
She muttering to herself and her hands are covering her face. He can hear the music that is her cue to start walking, but she's not going to be walking anytime soon. He kneels down in front of her and puts his hands on her forearms.
She jerks away, looking into his eyes with nothing but surprise. Those honey eyes are staring at her intensely and he has a bandage on his nose, some light bruising around it. She can't focus enough though to ask him what happened.
"Finn?" She weakly says before starting to gasp and breathe hastily again.
"Shh, Rach, it's alright," He rubs her dress clad back soothingly and she finally settles down to a normal breathing.
She's still crying hysterically though.
"W-What did I do?" She cries. "I've r-ruined m-myself. I-I don't k-know who I am."
"Rachel, yes you do," He says. "You've just put who you are away in a small drawer because it wasn't what other people wanted you to be."
"N-Nobody wants me for who I am," She sobs.
"I do," He softly speaks. "Sometimes people just build walls up, not because they want to hide like you think. But because they're begging for someone to knock them down. I want to knock them down."
She sniffs. How can he be so sweet to her right now?
"Finn, I-I don't want to d-do this," She cries hysterically again. "I-I can't. I don't l-love Adam."
"Then don't," He simply says.
"But I have to," She says, scared of the choice she made.
"Rachel," He laughs lightly, trying to calm her. "You don't have to do anything you don't want to."
"No one else is going to want to marry me and have kids with me and grow old with me," She tells him.
He shakes his head, "That's not true. I wouldn't mind my future lying out like that. You know, marrying you a few years down the line. Being just a couple alone for a few more years after marriage and then having our first kid."
He shrugs his shoulders, "It's kind of been my plan since I was sixteen years old."
"But I've been so horrible to you," She sniffs.
"Everyone makes mistakes."
"Not as big as the ones I've made. I hurt you so, so much. I don't deserve you, you shouldn't forgive me."
He shrugs, "You always forgive your first love, right?"
When she doesn't respond, he rubs his hands up her forearms gently.
"I want you. I don't want you to marry that douche bag Adam. I want you for mine and Rachel, you are lying to yourself if you say that you don't want to be with me. So go ahead, marry Adam. But it's not what you want. I'm willing to love you; I promise you I will treat you right. I know back in high school I wasn't a perfect boyfriend, but I will be now. Just believe in me. You always used to, why can't you now?"
"I do," She chokes out. "I believe in you."
She opens her eyes and looks at him with all the love in the world burning right through. He leans down and presses his lips against hers so tenderly, causing her to whimper happily.
They're torn apart by the bright flashing of a camera. Finn quickly pulls away from her and holds his hand out for her to stand up. She takes it and blushes brightly for being caught. Could this night be any worse?
"What the hell is going on out here?" Adam's voice comes shrill behind the two. Other guests had rushed out to the corridors to watch everything that was happening, for it was very eventful.
"I'm not marrying you, Adam," Her voice is deeper than usual. She's certain that this is her, Rachel Berry.
She opened the drawer that she had hid herself in and pulled her right back out. This is the real her.
"You're cheating on me," He points out on purpose, trying to get the paparazzi to take great note of that and turn his embarrassment from being turned down at his wedding to her reputation being tarnished by being some little tramp most people don't want to look up to.
"Yeah, you're right Adam, I did cheat on you. When I was back in Ohio, trying to figure some things out, I almost had sex with the boy I've loved since I was sixteen years old," She says with a strong voice. "But then you called and I left him for you. That was the worst mistake I've ever made. It even tops the time I left everyone behind when I was eighteen to become a star.
"But that's not the point right not. The point is, is that I hate you. You treat me poorly and you lie to me and you're even more selfish than I am."
"All I wanted was to marry you. I loved you," He argues back.
"You're a liar!" Finn speaks up, causing everyone to look back at him, even Rachel.
"In the bathroom you were on the phone with someone and you were saying that you're only doing this as a publicity stunt!" Finn yells angrily. "You're such a sick and twisted man for ever messing with a girl great as Rachel. How could you take her for granted?"
Rachel smiles softly and looks down. He loves her. She knows this and he knows that she loves him. This is an unconventional way of their relationship beginning again, but as long as it happens she doesn't care.
"Oh, here's the little hick boy from Ohio, trying to seem all classy in his vest he bought from Kohl's!" Adam insults.
Everyone gasps, for shopping at Kohl's is outrageous to people who have shopped at Bergdorf's their entire lives.
"Oh please! Like I would ever have my brother where something from Kohl's," Kurt growls.
"No, Finn isn't a hick-boy. He's better than that. Lima is great. You'll never find someone as pure and great in Manhattan. If you do, then I'm sure that person came from a small town somewhere. And if Finn were a hick… then I'm one too," She looks back at Finn and smiles brightly.
Finn goes over to her and takes her hand in his, so glad that he's able to do that.
He watches with excitement as Rachel pulls her engagement ring off of her finger and walk over to Adam to return it.
"I'm sorry, everyone, for making you guys come out for a wedding that didn't even happen," She apologizes. "But you guys can head over to the reception for food and dancing. Enjoy yourselves!"
She tugs Finn's hand and they leave the church and run down the street a ways, getting odd looks from the people of the street. She's giggling and crying at the same time because this is real. This is actually happening.
Finn stops them and leans down to kiss her passionately, loving the taste of her strawberry lips.
"I'm so sorry," She whimpers, hugging him tightly.
He lifts her up so he can hug her more and kisses her again before setting her down again.
"I get it. I get it. And I'm sorry for letting you get away."
She nods her head and holds his hand as they continue on down the street.
"So what do we do now?" Finn asks, looking down at her.
"I want to get out of this dress," She grumbles. "Let's go back to my apartment."
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She opens up the door to the apartment and lets Finn in.
"Wow, this is fancy," He speaks with awe, looking at all the stainless steel.
Rachel smiles, "Yeah. I actually got to design this the way I liked."
Finn smiles back at her. This is definitely Rachel Berry-esque. The walls are brightly painted, there are photos hung up all over (just like her old room), and Barbra CD's are scattered in every room.
She goes back down the hallway to take the stupid dress off, and after she's out of it she puts on a blouse and skirt before going back out to Finn who had made himself comfortable on the couch.
She sees that he's looking at an old photo album. There are just a whole bunch of her childhood photos. She suddenly knows what she has to do.
"Finn," She speaks up.
He looks over to her and smiles, "Yeah?"
"We need to fly back to Ohio. Let's go."
"Do you think we can catch a flight? It's already five thirty," He replies in disbelief.
"If we can't get on a plane I will rent a car and we will drive. I need to go back to Ohio, right now."
Finn gets up and hugs her so tightly, glad that his Rachel is coming back to be herself again.
"No time right now, Hudson," She says seriously. "Let's get to the airport!"