"Finn are you sure you don't want to go with us in the limo? There is space for you, really" Kurt was about to leave and Finn was still getting dressed. When he got home from school he was a mess, but he told his mom he would still go Prom, he couldn't leave Quinn without a date.
"I'm sure, Kurt. You'll take too long to get there. I'm pretty sure I'll be there before you" he said as he finished putting his tie on. Kurt looked at him from Finn's door. "Besides, I'm sure everyone is still mad at me for leaving them".
"Nah, they are over it, they know you'll come back"
Finn sighed at Kurt's comment, maybe they were right, but he still wasn't going in the limo. "Kurt, you can go, they are waiting for you outside and you don't want to keep Blaine waiting".
"Okay. I'll see you there then" he said smiling and left the room.
Finn put on his jacket at looked at himself on the mirror, he felt like he was going to pass out in any moment. His conversation with Rachel couldn't have gone worse. He told her he still loved her and she still left without a word to make him feel good.
At least his mom had a late shift so she wouldn't ask him why he looked so bad before leaving so he grabbed his keys, Quinn's corsage and left.
He waited on his car outside school for the two limos to arrive. The first one that got there was the one with Kurt, Blaine, Tina, Mike, Kurt and Mercedes. All the girls looked beautiful and all the guys were..well, acceptable. He stayed in his car, he still had to wait for Quinn and he wanted to wait for her outside.
He was playing with his phone when he noticed the second limo arriving to the school's parking lot. Santana and Brittany were the first ones he saw and they looked.. hot, but they were already all over eachother. Then Puck helped Lauren out of the limo and they both looked good.
But when he saw Sam get out of the limo he felt like he had no air, he was about to help Rachel out and he wasn't ready to see her yet, and when he did, he felt like he was about to pass out again. She was wearing a pink strapless dress. Her hear was in a ponytail and her bangs were covering her forehead. She looked very beautiful and he felt a sharp pain on his stomach when he noticed her eyes were red and puffy, she had been crying, but she must have not told anyone about it because everyone looked too happy, including Sam.
He got out of the car wanting to talk to her before Prom so he could at least try to fix things, but when he was about to call Rachel's name, he heard someone calling his. He turned around and Quinn was right behind him. She looked really good; she had a light green dress and her hair made her look so innocent, it was almost hard to believe this was the same Quinn he saw every day at school.
"Hey" she said smiling when he turned around to see her.
"Quinn.. You look very pretty" he said suddenly feeling nervous. "Oh, here's your corsage" he said opening the little box he took with him when he got out of the car.
"Oh thank you, it's beautiful" she said as he helped her put it on.
"Um.. should we go inside?" he asked her, now that she was here it would be a little harder to talk to Rachel, but he really wanted to.
"Yeah, let's go" she said and waived good bye to her mom who was still waiting in her car.
As he thought, Prom was a total nightmare. As soon as Quinn and him walked inside, he saw Sam kissing Rachel, it was probably to make her feel better and it was kinda his fault that she looked so down, but it still hurt.
Then when everyone was dancing, Rachel actually looked happier until she saw him alone in one of the tables and when he tried to wave at her, she looked away. Quinn had asked him if he wanted to dance but he said he didn't feel very well, so she was now dancing with some other guys from the football team.
He could totally feel how Rachel was avoiding him. She wouldn't look in his direction, when he tried to approach her once, she walked to where Sam was and hugged him, like saying that she'd rather be with Sam than with him.
He was about to leave because he just couldn't take any more when he heard principal Figgins' voice through the speakers.
"Okay children, the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived, it's time for me to announce the Prom King and Queen!" everyone started clapping and cheering and he felt like he was about to throw up.
He looked at Rachel again, and she was also looking at him with a sad smile, like wishing him good luck. He smiled back, she really deserved to win, she looked beautiful and he thought she was definitely star of the night.
"Boys and girls, please calm down so I can announce the King first!" Finn started to pray under his breath that he didn't win, he wasn't in the mood to smile in front of everyone.
"Let's see" Figgins said opening the envelope with the winner. "Well, the winner is.." Finn felt his heart pounding har inside his chest. Please not me, please not me, please not me, please not me.. "Finn Hudson!"
Everyone turned around to look at him and he had to fake a smile as he walked over to the stage to receive his crown and wait for his Queen. At least he had won Sam, but that was like the only good thing about it.
"Now it's time to announce the Queen, the most waited announcement of the night!" he looked at Quinn who had her eyes closed and her fingers crossed hoping to be the winner.
"And the Queen is… Rachel Berry!" What! Rachel won! Rachel won! She won! Everyone started clapping and he searched her in the crowd of people that were in front of him and then he saw her. She had the biggest smile he had ever seen. She had won! Finally people realized she was better than all of them!
She received her crown as everyone cheered her name and his and could see Quinn with a dissapointed look in a corner. Maybe next year could be her year.
" Congratulations to both the King and Queen! Now, it's time for the King and Queen's dance!"once Principal Figgins said that, Finn felt all his blood dissapear from his face, he had forgotten he would have to dance with the Queen and if before he was nervous about talking to Rachel, now dancing with her made him a thousand times more nervous and when he looked at her he could see how nervous she was too.
They walked over to the middle of the dance floor, he wrapped his arms around her waist and she wrapped hers around his neck once the music started. It was a slow song and he could feel Sam's eyes on him when they started moving.
"Congratulations" he heard suddenly a soft voice, looking down he noticed that it was Rachel who had said it.
"Uhh.. Thanks , congratulations for you, too. You look really beautiful" he said and he saw a small smile appear on her face.
"Thank you" they were the only ones dancing, but he felt like they were the only ones in the room. He hadn't hold her like that in a really long time and he had forgotten how good it felt.
"I'm sorry for what happened today" he said after a moment.
"No, I'm.. I'm sorry for leaving like that. You caught me by surprise with what you said"
He knew he shouldn't have said things like that, it was a huge mistake. They stayed quiet for a long time, just moving their bodies along the music.
"Finn, I.. It's not true" she said suddenly, and he could feel the nervousness in her words.
"What isn't true?" he asked a little confused.
"What Sam said, we... we haven't slept together, I'm... still a virgin" when she said that, at first he thought it was a joke to make him feel better, but her face didn't show any signs of it being a joke. "He thought that I would even let him touch me because I felt pressured, so that's why he said it would be a good idea to tell everyone that we had actually done it, like… it would take the pressure out of it and that we would be able to be together tonight.. after Prom".
Finn didn't know what to say, this could be a really good thing, or a really bad thing. "So.. tonight is the night then" he said looking away from her. If she wanted to do it, there was nothing he could do.
"No, Finn. I know why I can't be with him, and it's not because I feel pressure. It's… it's because he's not… you"
Finn looked back into her eyes and he realized that she wasn't lying, "B-but he's your boyfriend" he was praying in his mind that this wasn't a dream, I just couldn't be.
"Sam is my boyfriend.. but that doesn't mean I stopped loving you"
Finn felt like if the whole world dissapeared around them and they were the only ones left in the dance floor. He knew that he shouldn't have, but he needed to do it so he couldn't stop himself from leaning down and crashing his lips against hers in a soft kiss. She reciprocated it opening her lips a little to let his tongue enter her mouth. He had been waiting for that kiss for so long, and it seemed too good to be true.
Apparently it was.
Suddenly he felt someone pulling him away from her and when he opened his eyes, he saw Sam's face pushing him against someone behind him.
"What the fuck do you think you are doing?" Sam yelled at him, standing between him and Rachel. He could feel everyone's eyes on him and on the scene that was going on.
"I.. I .." Finn couldn't say anything, he didn't regret what he had done at all, but he couldn't see Rachel because of Sam, so he couldn't see how she felt about the kiss.
He was lost in his own thoughts when he felt Sam pushing him again, this time harder. Finn shook his head and saw Puck pushing Sam away from him.
"Dude, relax!" Puck told Sam, trying to keep him away from Finn, he was sure Sam was about to punch him in the stomach and Finn was still standing there trying to process everything Rachel had told him.
"Let me go! This asshole just kissed my girlfriend in front of everyone!" Sam's voice was even louder which finally made Finn wake up from his thoughts.
"I'm.. I'm sorry" he said but he couldn't say it too loud, because he really wasn't sorry, but he had to say something.
"Sam, calm down, it was nothing" her soft voice was like an angel's voice and he just wanted to kiss her again, but Sam was in the way.
"What do you mean it was just a kiss? It's so obvious that the guy is not over you!" Sam yelled at Rachel.
"Hey! Don't yell at her!" now Finn was the one yelling and pushed Sam away from Rachel. Who did he thought he was to yell at her?
"What's going on here?" Finn heard Coach Beiste's voice and gave a step back from everyone, he didn't need to be yelled at by her too.
"Nothing" Sam said looking at Finn with a very angry face. "We are leaving" now Finn felt like someone had punched him in the stomach when he saw Sam grab Rachel by her wrist and walk away with her. She looked back at Finn and he could see her whispering 'I'm sorry' before her saw her dissapear in the crowd of people who were still trying to figure out what was going on.
He stood there frozen. She left. With Sam. And now they were probably on their way to some cheap motel while he was there, standing, looking at the door where he watched her dissapear.
He felt like a zombie as he walked back to his car. Puck had tried to make him stay, told him that there were a lot of girls who wanted to dance with him, but he didn't even feel like talking anymore.
He opened the door of his car and stared at his empty seat. Then he remembered he was still wearing that stupid crown. He took it off and threw it with all his strenght against the floor, breaking it like if the thing was made of glass. He was going home, alone, feeling like crap and probably going to sleep for the rest of the weekend.
Finn sat in the car and hit his head against the wheel a couple of times before he started crying. That was it. He had lost her. And now it was for real. Now she was probably in that weird place, and he was touching her soft skin and she was moaning his name and there he was. Sitting alone in his car, crying.
This had to be the worst day of his life.