Chapter Five

Rachel's leg shook herself awake after a bad dream and she looked at the clock, 5:00 am. Damn her internal clock. Rachel looked up at the sleeping giant next to her and snuggled into his side. He accepted her body tiredly and half kissed, half licked the side of her face in one sloppy motion.

Rachel suppressed a giggle and closed her eyes again, thinking about the previous night.

Santana threw her fork down, "You guys like this shit?" She complained and picked up another piece of naan, "The only thing that is good about this are their pitas."

"Those aren't pita's" Sam explains, "That is naan."

"I don't speak that bullshit language. Tastes like a pita, I'm calling it a pita." She looked at Puck, "You sure have changed, I thought you ate burgers for breakfast, what happened to that dude?"

Puck laughed, "Living in LA kinda widens your horizons."

Finn nods in agreement, "It totally does, and it's pretty good once you get used to the fact that it looks like goop."

Rachel giggled and leaned up to kiss his cheek, "You're so cute."

"You done the deed yet, or what?" Puck asks in his snarky voice and rips off more of his 'pita' with his mouth.

Sam scoffs, "Really man? Just cause you and Satan like to promote you sexcapades doesn't mean they should."

"Finn would if Rachel weren't here." Puck argues.

Blaine rolls his eyes, "I know you've never met one before, Puckerman, but Rachel is a lady. She doesn't need to put up with your bullshit."

Rachel was flattered, "You guys don't need to stick up for me, I can speak for myself."

"Hold up, so Rachel is the lady and what am I? A tramp?" Santana practically yells.

Sam almost spits out his drink, "If she looks like a duck and she squawks like a duck… she's probably a duck."

"What the fuck, man?" Puck yells at Sam.

"I'm just saying." Sam slurs out, "You need to think before you bang."

"You need to think before you speak, or else my fist is going to make its' way up your ass." Puck growl and Finn stands.

"I think we're done here." Finn almost pleads that the rest of the group follows.

Puck grabs Santana's hand, "We are out. We're going to go bang without thinking."

"I'm just saying, the last Lima chick-" Sam starts before Puck cuts him off.

"Say one more word, I fucking dare you." Puck has his finger in his face.

"You scared, Puckerman? You scared your secrets going to come out, aren't you?" Sam yells and Puck picks the drunk blonde up by the neck of his shirt.

Puck cringes, "Say it, just fucking say it."

Finn and Blaine push the two apart and Rachel grabs Santana and they back up towards the door. It's not long before the six of them are kicked out and Finn is yelling, "Someone better tell me what the fuck is going on." He's yelling and Blaine is holding Puck back as Sam grinned smugly.

"Just say it, and I won't skip a beat to tell him your secret." Puck shouts towards Sam, "Bastard."

"Who?" Finn yells between them.

"Puck was sleeping with Quinn when you too we're together, that is why she left you. She got pregnant and left to have the baby." Sam blurts out, eyes stone on Puck's face.

"Wait… what the fuck?" Finn felt like this world was coming down on him.

Puck spit Sam's way before speaking up, "When she came back three months ago to get you back? Her and Sam started hooking up after you turned her down and spilled the whole thing to him." Puck yelled and Finn backed up and ran into the window.

Finn didn't know who to be angrier at and he saw Rachel's eyes searching for answers in him, "Rachel," He breathed, "We're leaving."

She nodded and hugged Santana who held onto Rachel for dear life, when the broke Santana looked in Rachel's eyes and whispered, "Quinn Fabray?"

Rachel nodded sadly and Santana looked like she was going to pass out.

"Let them at each other, Blaine." Finn requests and Blaine refuses.

Sam tries to grab Finn's arm but he shakes him off, "Please, Finn. I'm sorry. Y-You, you deserved to know."

"Sam, she was fair game for you. But, you lied to me. And you knew what hell she put me through… and you still… wait." Finn thought for a moment, "She left you too? That is who you are so messed up over?"

Sam nodded awkwardly and Finn turned to Puck who was shaking to get out of Blaine's arms. Finn swung and sucker punched Puck who let out a gasp of air and fell his knees. Blaine let him fall and Santana ran to his side. "How could you?" Finn muttered before walking away.

"You don't get it, Finn." Puck yelled to Finn as they walked, "She was everything to me. You don't get it."

Finn grabbed Rachel's hand and tried to run but Rachel's shoes held them back. She stopped kicked them off and took them in her hand. Finn shuffled quickly as Rachel ran by the side of him hand in hand, "Finn…" She breathed out heavy.

"Not right now, Rach." Finn sighed out, "Not yet."

Rachel woke again at 8:00 to a Finn's phone vibrating on his side table and she reached to it and picked it up, "Hello?" She asked groggily.

"How's he doing, Rachel?" Blaine's worried voice filled her ear.

She looked at Finn who was rubbing his eyes awake, "He just woke up, Blaine. But, he was doing better… after a while."

"I didn't know anything about it, he has to believe me." Blaine begs.

Rachel sighs, "I don't think he knows what to believe, but you had to know something was going on?"

"Of course I knew something was up, but I didn't know what. I swear to God." Blaine says again.

Rachel giggles and Finn slides her closer to him, "Trust me, Blaine. You're the least of his worries. Just… don't worry about it. I'll have him call you later."

"Okay, tell him I'm here for him." Blaine requests.

"I will." Rachel encourages.

"…and tell him… I love him." Blaine said awkwardly.

Rachel smiles at his sweet gesture, "He knows you do. But I'll tell him."

"I'm glad you're here for him, Rach."

"Thanks Blaine. Talk to you later."

Finn grabbed the phone from her and pressed end before tossing is aside, "How about we never leave this apartment?" Finn requests and hides in Rachel's sheet covered chest, "Can we just stay inside all day?"

Rachel nods and tries not to think that she has one more night here with Finn before having to leave. "We can do that today." Rachel nods.

Finn thought for a moment, "Unless there was something else you wanted to do in LA…" Finn remembering it was her last day. "We can go to Hollywood… or to the beach."

Rachel shook her head, "No, let's stay in for now. Maybe we can see Hollywood tonight." She snuggled into his neck, "You don't have work?"

"The band is basically my only work right now." Finn reminds her, "I mean, I've had some acting gigs. Nothing right now. Next month I'm going to New York to film a movie."

Rachel gleamed, "You can act?" She asked with a huge grin.

Finn laughed, "Yeah, I'm pretty good… I'm type casted as the stupid guy… but it works."

"You're not stupid, Finn." Rachel argues.

Finn leaned down to kiss her and she leaned in and allowed it, "I'm so sorry for everything last night… I just wanted to have fun and everything just got so… fucked up."

Rachel shook her head, "No, Finn. Please don't apologize."

"Damn, I've got a lot of baggage." Finn groaned.

Rachel scoffed, "You call that baggage? That's like a suit case. I've got a trunk in the living room that I've been dragging with me all weekend." She teased and Finn looked at her, thankful for understanding.

"What's your middle name?" Finn asks sweetly.

Rachel seemed confused, "It's Barbara… why do you ask?"

"I just want to know everything about you… it seemed like a good start." Finn said sincerely.

Rachel's hear melted and she drew herself in closer to Finn. "My favorite color is pink, and I have a thing for gold stars." She added, breathing into his chest.

Finn chuckled, "My favorite color is blue and I was drunk when I got this tattoo." He points to his tribal tattoo that he has on his arm.

Rachel nods and puts her hand over the tattoo lightly, "My favorite movie is Funny Girl." She tells him with a grin.

"I have no idea what that is, but my favorite movie is Jurassic Park." Finn kisses the top of her head.

Rachel thinks for another minute, "I wear skirts almost every day and I used to be one of five people in a Glee club that never performed."

"I wear v-necks every day, but only after Blaine had a 'plaid-ervention' as he called it." Finn chuckles, "Why didn't you perform?"

"Never enough people." Rachel frowned. "My favorite slushie flavor is grape."

"Mine is blue raspberry."

"I work out every morning at 6AM."

"I work out three times a week with Sam."

Rachel thinks for a moment, "Should we get heavier?"

Finn reached under her chin to lift it up, "It's up to you." He said softly before kissing her forehead.

"How many people have you slept with?"

Finn cringed, but reluctantly answered, "19." He answered honestly.

"3" Rachel answered back.

"3 plus me?" Finn asks.

"No, that number includes you." Rachel admits, "Is it 19 plus me?" Rachel asks.

Finn shakes his head, "No that is including you. Who else… I mean besides Jesse."

"Some jerk in college that got me drunk and we did it in his dorm so he could take my panties…" Rachel admitted, "It was some dare for his fraternity pledge."

"What a fucking douchebag." Finn growled in frustration.

Rachel put her finger to his lips, "It's in the past." She thought for longer, "When is the next time you'll be in Lima?"

"I have a plane ticket to be there for Thanksgiving… but something always comes up." Finn admits, "So we'll see." Finn hesitates before asking the next question, "Are you going to leave Jesse?"

"I don't know." Rachel shifts awkwardly under his hold.

"Are you going to tell him?" Finn whispers in her hair and Rachel let a tear fall down her face and onto Finn's chest.

"I don't know." She admits.

"What do you know?" Finn asks in all sincerity.

Rachel looks up as the tears spill over her lids, "I know that you are the perfect guy for me…" She says honestly, "But, I've already promised myself to someone else."

Finn slides out from under Rachel and sits on the edge of the bed, grabbing his shorts and sliding them on, "Why should that matter? You just said it… I'm the one who is right for you?"

Rachel feels her tears streaming down her face and doesn't attempt to stop them, "Finn, please don't." She cries and Finn stands up and turns to look at her.

"When are you going to see it, Rachel?" Finn growled, "I can give you 20 times more than him." Finn knocked the lamp off the side table in frustration and Rachel jumped at his anger, "Hell, I already have."

Finn walked into the bathroom and slammed the door, leaving Rachel on the bed crying. Finn puffed air into his cheeks and breathed out. He was angry, at himself, at Rachel, at this douchebag Jesse who definitely didn't deserve Rachel fucking Berry.

What was going on with him? He's letting himself be torn apart by a woman again? He swiftly turned to the door as he saw Rachel open it slowly and he let her fall into his arms. Damn him for being so emotionally attached to her so quickly, "I'm sorry, Finn." She cried. "I'm so sorry. Maybe I should-"

"You're not leaving." Finn said gruffly, "We're spending the rest of the time we had together… and we'll… we'll just to go from there." Finn breathed out a shaky breath and Rachel nodded against his chest. "Just promise me one thing."

Rachel looked up at Finn with big red eyes and she shook her head, "Anything."

"Promise me you will do what's right for you. Not anything else." Finn said gruffly and Rachel shook her head, "Now, let's not waist anymore minutes on crying." He wiped her tears.

"Take off those clothes, I've seen enough clothed Rachel today as I can stand." Finn grinned seductively and Rachel laughed, grateful for his change in tune.

Finn was in the kitchen a couple hours later making three PB&J's, crust cut off and making sure to look at all the ingredients to see if it was all vegan. He went into his room and gave Rachel her sandwich and took two for himself. "Nothing had animal products in it, and I talked to my mom about the jelly and she said it only had grapes and sugar in it."

"You called your Mom?" Rachel laughed, "You're so cute, you didn't have to do that."

"I wanted to," Finn assured her, "What are you watching?"

"The Last Song." Rachel smiled and took a bite of her sandwich, "It does taste better without the crust."

"This movie is awful." Finn complained but watched it anyway.

"Will you plug my phone in so I can call my Dads and Kurt later?" Rachel requested sweetly before eating more of her sandwich.

"Dads?" Finn repeated while he got up and looked through his clothes from the day, "You have two Dads?"

Rachel realized how much Finn really didn't know about her. She explained her home life and, that she had two Dads and she didn't know which one was the biological father. She told him she has been singing and dancing since she was a baby, but never went anywhere because it never worked out. Rachel explained to Finn how when Kurt left it reminded her that she failed at her dream. Rachel told Finn that she was disappointed in who she had become. She loved the people in her life, but she just knew she could have been more.

"Sing for me, baby." Finn requests and she sat up in bed, keeping the robe wrapped around her as to not distract from her voice.

"What do you want to hear?" She grinned.

"Something old school?" Finn requested, "Like… Journey or Fleetwood?"

Rachel thought for a moment,

"For you," Rachel started off a little shaky, "There will be no more crying. For you, The sun will shining. And I feel like when I'm with you, it's alright." She sings out in her best voice and Finn watches her, entranced. "I know it's right."

"To you, I'll give you the world. To you, I'll never be cold. 'cause I feel that when I'm with you, it's alright. I know it's right." Finn reached out his hand to touch hers and she grabbed his hand tightly as she belted the chorus. "And the songbirds are singing, like they know the score. And I love you, I love you, I love you." Rachel shut her eyes tightly at this part, "Like never before." Rachel breathed out and decided to leave it there.

"Wow." Finn breathed simply. "That was…" he put his hands on his heart, "my heart is beating so fast."

"Really? You liked it that much?" Rachel grinned and threw her arms around his neck, "You are amazing."

Finn smiled into her hair, "You have so much potential, Rachel. You deserve to be a star. You are … so talented."

Rachel felt a tear falling down her face and Finn pulled them apart, "Hey, I said no more tears."

"It's a happy tear, Finn." She grinned. "I need to leave Jesse… I need to pursue my dreams. I think I need to… be with someone who will support me."

"Someone like me?"

"Not someone like you. You." Rachel whispered and let Finn's lips attack hers.

"You mean that?" He asked between kisses, pushing her back on the bed.

"100%" Rachel whispered against his lips.