I hope you like it. I'm thinking wedding next chapter but it could change. Enjoy :)
"Oh my god!" Rachel exclaimed as she saw the blood-covered Finn standing in her doorway. She grabbed Finn's wrist and dragged him into the house. "Sit there!" she commanded, pointing to the lounge.
"Calm down Rach. I'm fine," Finn tried his best to convince Rachel that he was fine but she brushed off his comments. When she had an idea in her head she stuck with. "Really, it's just a little cut and a bloody nose. I'll be fine,"
"I know, but you still need to clean up Finn. Who did this to you?" Rachel asked as she dabbed a wet towel on Finn's face. She wiped away the blood little by little. Finn didn't want to admit that every time she touched him tenderly like that gave him butterflies. She was fixing him up the way she used to fix him up after he got injured in his football games.
"You're not gonna like it," he warned.
"Who did it, Finn?"
"Well, okay, but don't say I didn't warn you,"
"Yesss!"
"Jesse St. James."
Rachel's jaw dropped. She stayed absolutely silent. Jesse St. James? Jesse was in Lima? And he was beating up her friends? Rachel couldn't believe that. She didn't want to believe that her ex-boyfriend had followed her to Ohio. Maybe he didn't follow her. Maybe he came to visit his family. "What did he say?" she finally managed to ask.
"He said to stay away from his girlfriend and if I went near you he'd hurt you and me. And that's what he did Rach. He hurt me. He tried to hurt me anyway. But I'm fine Rachel. I'm absolutely fine,"
"He said what? He said that I was his girlfriend? That arsehole! I am not his girlfriend!"
"That's what I told him," Finn replied matter-of-factly. "Then he threatened me. And then I threatened him back,"
"You threatened him back? Finn! Is that when he punched you?"
"Yes."
"Oh my god! This is all my fault... all my fault... all my fault," Rachel was mumbling to herself. She felt entirely responsible for Finn getting hurt and she wanted to fix things. She just had to figure out how.
"It's not your fault Rachel. Anyway, that isn't why I wanted to come and I think you know that Rach."
Rachel stiffened. She'd been dreading this conversation for a while now. She knew it was coming. Apart from Kurt, Finn was the only other who knew. Kurt would've told him. She didn't want to talk about it. It hurt too much. She didn't like the pain. It'd been years but every time she thought about it her body went numb.
"Don't look at me like that, Rach,"
"I don't want to talk about it, Finn. Please don't make me talk about."
"You've got to Rachel. You can't keep bottling it up inside,"
"But it hurts Finn! It's hurts!" The tears began to roll slowly, one by one, down Rachel's face.
"I know it hurts Rach. But Savannah was a big part of your life. Talk to me Rachel. I'm here for you. I promised, remember?"
"I remember. Senior year, you told me that you'd always be here. I remember,"
"Tell me what happened, Rachey,"
"I found the necklace and...and it hurt me so bad Finn. I miss her. She'd be twenty-one, you know. I told Jesse about it and...and he told me it didn't matter. He said I should get over it. I left him then. I couldn't believe that...that he could be so heartless. Blaine all but forced me to leave him when he found out that he'd been hurting me. I don't know what to do, who to turn to. And it scares me, Finn. I'm sad and I'm scared,"
Rachel was crying now. The tears streamed down her cheeks like bullet trains. They just wouldn't stop. Finn moved closer to where she was sitting and took her in his arms. Her tears wet his shirt and he smelt the old familiar scent of her hair. He hated to see her like this. She was so miserable. He knew how much it hurt her. He knew how much she missed Savannah. He wished so bad that he'd been there earlier to save her from these feelings.
"I know, Rachey, I know," he whispered into her hair.
Rachel stayed entwined in his grip for maybe an hour just crying on his shirt. She didn't know what else to do. There really wasn't anything else to do. Finn understood. He knew Rachel was emotional. He was going to stay by her side as long as she needed, as long as she wanted.
While Rachel was crying, Finn was taking in the smell of Rachel. He missed the Rachel smell and he loved having it back. Her hair, styled different with purple streaked through the brown, had the same familiar smell to it. He missed that. He missed everything about her. Hell, he missed her.
"I've ruined your shirt. I'm sorry," Rachel surprised Finn.
"It's okay,"
"I'm sorry," she repeated.
"What are you sorry for?"
"Everything,"
"Everything?" he asked her. She hadn't done anything wrong to apologize. He was more than a little confused.
"What I did to you in senior year, it was horrible. I saw how hurt you were. I saw the pain in your eyes when you left,"
"It's okay Rachel. I've forgiven you. That doesn't matter anymore,"
"Can I ask you something?" Rachel asked hesitantly. Finn nodded. "Do you, maybe, wanna go to the wedding with me? I haven't got a date and I thought since you haven't flown anyone here you didn't have one either. It'd be strictly as friends though,"
"Yeah. I'll go. As your friend," Finn smiled.
Rachel beamed up at him. Finn and Rachel were finally on their way to being best friends again. This wedding was going to make or break their friendship. Rachel hoped for the first. She just got Finn back and she didn't want to lose him. Not yet anyway. It was time to tackle the wedding.
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