Finn could absolutely not study in the apartment. It was too cluttered and too small with just too many different distractions. It was kind of like his room back home in Lima, which is exactly why he hated studying in high school. He was determined to not fall back into that old high school slump that he had back then, there was absolutely no way that he could flunk out of this school. New York meant too much to Rachel. And Rachel meant too much to him.
He wasn't going to let her down.
So Finn always made it a point to head over to the nearest coffee shop or bookstore or go to the nearest park to study. Plus, fresh air always made him think more clearly, well as fresh as the air could be in a city. Most of the time he would just sit back, close his eyes and listen. It was kind of soothing hearing the noises of the city around him, cars zooming past, horns honking angrily, people walking by chatting to each other, Blaine calling his name-
Wait, Blaine calling his name?
Finn quickly opened his eyes and looked around searching for the source of his name. To his right he spotted his brother's boyfriend walking towards him with a paper sack in tow.
"Dude, are you like stalking me?"
Rolling his eyes as he stopped in front of Finn, Blaine held out the paper sack that was in his hand. It had Finn's name written on the side of it with a gold star sticker placing as the dot on the i.
"I was on my way out of the door to choir rehearsal when Rachel stopped me and told me to bring your lunch to you since it was on my way."
Whoops, Finn had completely forgotten to grab his lunch before he went to class that morning. It was a Wednesday, those were usually the days whenever he would head straight from class to the park to study or do homework or something related to school. Rachel would make him lunch so he wouldn't have to go back to the apartment and end up not studying, this way he could just sit down study and snack down on some awesome ham and cheese sandwiches. Finn loved it.
"You also left this." Blaine waved his hand in front of Finn's face and the object that was in his hand was-
Crap.
Finn had forgotten his cell phone that morning also. No wonder his pocket hadn't been ringing like it usually was most days. Who knows how many missed calls he had from Rachel now.
"Thanks, man." He said while he scrolled through his missed calls and texts.
7:42
You forgot your lunch! I even put a little treat in there for you. - Rachel
7:50
Be sure to get your lunch! - Rachel
7:56
Rachel told me to text you to tell you that you forgot your lunch. Of which I'm sure you already know. - Kurt
8:07
Have you picked up your lunch yet? - Rachel
8:33
I condone texting in class but this is serious, PICK UP YOUR LUNCH. – Rachel
8:48
I just got a text from both Kurt and Rachel telling me to remind you that you forgot you lunch back at the apartment? - Blaine
9:14
I wouldn't eat your lunch now; it's probably bad. - Kurt
9:16
Seriously don't do it, I know what happened to you last time you ate a sandwich with mayonnaise that had been sitting out for a bit. – Kurt
9:17
Finn, why aren't you responding to any of my texts? Did you forget to charge your phone again? – Rachel
10:39
I came back home and heard this weird ringing noise keep going off and I walked into the bathroom only to find your phone sitting by the sink. Seems your lunch isn't the only thing you left. – Blaine
10:44
Blaine told me that you left your phone in the bathroom. Finn Hudson! - Rachel
10:41
Wow, Rachel sure does text you a lot. – Blaine
11:58
Rachel made you a new lunch as soon as she got back and I am now being forced to deliver it to you on my way to rehearsal. I'm also bringing your phone. – Blaine
11:58
Why am I still texting you? Your phone is in my pocket. – Blaine
"Trust me, she can text a whole lot more. That was kind of light."
Blaine let out a chuckle and shook his head. "I can definitely see that. You know, Kurt's the same way also.
Finn definitely knew that was true, he had been witness to one of Kurt's little freakouts whenever Blaine didn't answer his phone when he was out with some of his friends from choir practice. He was hysterical and for certain that Blaine was shacking it up with that guy Zane whose red hair was so obviously from a bottle.
Turns out Blaine's phone just died.
Honestly, Finn had no idea how Blaine handled his brother, he knew how Kurt was and there was just no way. Both Rachel and Kurt were extremely high-maintenance so much so that sometimes they were practically the same person but if Finn had to choose, he could choose his girlfriend every time. Texts about forgetting his lunch were as about as bad as it could get.
But with Kurt?
Seriously, Finn had no idea how Blaine dealt with it.
"Anyway, it's nearly one o'clock, I better get going. I have to pick up the-" Blaine just shook his head before he finished his sentence. It was probably something that Finn would've had no idea what he was talking about anyway. "Ah, whatever. I'll see you later Finn. Okay?" He raised a hand in goodbye towards Finn who nodded in his direction.
"Alright dude, later."
Turning back towards Finn, Blaine pointed at the brown sack from Rachel. "Oh and Rachel made her special fig and date cookies. Don't go overboard on those things. I know how much you love them." He finished with a playful smirk on his face before turning around and practically sprinting away, leaving Finn with a grimace on his face.
Opening the bag Finn looked inside to find Ziploc bag with a ribbon tied around it. Joy. It was Rachel's fig and date cookies.
Vegan, of course.
Really, he loved her to death but baking was not her specialty.
It had been about two weeks ago. Almost so long that he had nearly forgotten about it because he had so much on his mind as of the late.
It was about three weeks ago as he sat down for class with five whole minutes to spare before it started, (usually he was always running five minutes late for class) when his friend Cameron threw a crumpled up piece of paper at his head as he sat in the chair beside Finn.
"So Hudson, I saw that in the quad and it had your name written all over it."
So much had gone on since that day that Finn had just thrown it in the back of his mind. That is, until dinner in the apartment that evening.
"Someone called for you while you two were out Finn."
Rachel and Finn who were currently throwing bad lettuce at each other from the salad Rachel was making, both looked up at Kurt.
"Who was it?" asked Finn who was racking his brain as to who he would have given the home phone number and not his cell number to. Maybe it was someone from the take out places they called, he never gave out his cell number to those people. But why someone like Andy from the Chinese place would be calling him is weird.
Elbow deep in the custard he was making for dessert, Kurt just shrugged. "His name was Logan or something like that. He said he would call you back later and to tell you that you were starting Friday."
Finn froze up.
Wait. Does that mean?
No…
But he did say at the audition that he would not be calling back if he didn't-
Seriously?
"Finn, what's going on?" Rachel looked up at her boyfriend who had just about every emotion running across his face. She hadn't seen him this speechless since he had gotten his acceptance letter last spring.
Taking a step back away from the counter, a grin slowly started making it's way across Finn's face. He wasn't really sure when he had been planning on telling the rest of the apartment about this new adventure but now seemed a better time then ever. He had just wanted to be sure that he was really going to get it before he got everybody excited for it, himself included. He had taken another audition before back in Lima and that didn't really go so well. He hadn't ever told Rachel about it either and this time around he just wanted to make sure something good was going to come out of it because he wanted her to be proud of him.
Now?
He'd gotten it and he was excited fairly about it so surely there was no way that she wouldn't be proud of him. He had finally found something he was passionate about and he was going to pursue it. She knew a little something about that and would definitely understand.
"The other week Cameron showed me a flyer he found in the quad and it was about auditions for drummers for his friend's band and well… I auditioned a couple of weeks ago and I-I guess I got it." A butterfly was slowly starting to form in his stomach. He loved playing the drums. It was a shame that he didn't figure out before that it was something he was truly passionate about.
"Got it? You mean you're going to be in a band? As their drummer?" Kurt slowly put down the wooden spoon in his hand and looked at Finn with a curious look.
Biting his lip, Finn tried hard to conceal his smile. "Yeah, I guess so."
"Finn, that's amazing!" exclaimed Kurt before running over to his brother and wrapping his arms around him. "I'm so proud of you! Now me and Rachel will be on Broadway winning Tony's left and right and you'll be touring around with your Grammy winning band!"
It was bit soon to be predicting that Finn would be touring with a Grammy winning band especially considering that the call had came that he'd got the gig but he liked how Kurt dreamt so big.
He knew Rachel was thinking the exact same thing as his brother and couldn't wait to see what she had to say. There was nothing that he wanted more then to see Rachel proud of him.
As Kurt let go of him, Finn turned to look at his girlfriend knowing that he would see that twinkle in her eyes that she got whenever Finn did something right. But instead all he saw was a slight look on worry on her face.
Wait, that couldn't be right. Maybe she just didn't hear him.
"So Rachel? What do you think?"
She didn't jump in his arms like he expected her too. She didn't even smile like he thought she would. Instead she just looked up at him with a look that reminded him of their sophomore year and said, "You're not seriously thinking about taking it are you?"