Oh my gosh so many reviews:) You guys are awesome did you know that? ;) For those Fuinn haters, don't worry I'm on your side. Fuinn needs to die and never be resurrected again. I really want to punch Finn for getting back together with Quinn. Urghh it just makes me angry. I scream at my computer screen (I watch it live b/c I live in England) at Finn, saying break up with Quinn, get with Rachel and admit you still love her, and that you will never break up with her (and mean it), then have sexy Finchel scenes for the rest of S2 and S3 :D
PaochiCute: I like them more as friends too but you'll just have to see whether they end up like that… As for Fuinn, I hate them with passion.
RockerPrincess83: Jealous Finn, my favourite type :)
tazzziemae: Pretty much. I used them because he could send them to Rachel without thinking about it. I think the x's just show that deep down he still isn't over Rachel no matter what he says.
musikgurl: I know! There wasn't much Finn vs. Jesse. I wish they had that sing off. Hmm maybe a future fic of mine… ;)
[no name]: I thought that before but actually, the storylines are leading towards a certain event, but I can't say anymore else, I really will give it away.
Arghh so many (kind of) spoilers in my reviews replies… *tries to edit them so they don't give away the plot*
Uh oh.
Rachel stared at her phone screen with intensity. Reading the words repeatedly. Maybe she read it wrong. Maybe it said 'Oh ok I'll tell Mr Schue' or 'Say hi to Jesse for me.' Ok may be not the second one but still. Rachel blinked only once after receiving Finn's text. What was she supposed to do? Do what Finn said and stay there. No. Why should she do what Finn says? Why should Finn rescue her? Rachel is perfectly capable of protecting herself. She doesn't need any quarterback to help her. Rachel, yet again, deleted the text and put her cell in her pocket. Out of sight. She looked up at her ex boyfriend and smiled before sitting in the front seat, after Jesse had opened the door for her.
"Do you mind?" Rachel asked Jesse after he sat in the driver seat, as her hand hovered over the radio dial.
"Go ahead."
She pressed the button before turning up the volume to hear You Belong With Me, by Taylor Swift, playing.
'Oh lovely.' Rachel thought as she turned her head to the right, looking out towards the green bushes that lined the car park. Covering it from the front. The border between Finn and her. 'Does this song really have to play now? A song about a girl who has a crush on this guy, who has a girlfriend who doesn't understand him at all. Kind of like Finn and Quinn. Where did that come from? No. Stop thinking of Finn. Concentrate on the fact that I'm listening to a love song while I'm in the car with my ex boyfriend. This wasn't going to be awkward.'
Jesse paused for a split second, after realizing what song it was and how he was in the car with Rachel, before placing his keys into the ignition.
Finn shoved his phone into his pocket as he jumped from his seat and started to jog-half-run down the cramped bus aisle towards the front. The rest of the Glee clubbers looked at Finn's back quizzically as he passed them, row by row.
"Finn where are you going?" Tina asked him as she noticed him going towards the front of the bus.
"Huh?" Finn spun around to see Tina and her boyfriend looking at him with their eyebrows raised towards their hairline. "I-I." Finn began but turned back around and continued to make his way toward the bus door. "There's not enough time to explain." Finn shouted at the confused Asians, so they could hear him.
"Whoa, Finn what are you doing? We're going now." Mr Schue reminded the quarterback as he saw him jumping off the bus.
"No…Rachel she's not here." Finn told his director as he took one-step away from the yellow bus.
"Yes I know. You told me she's getting a ride back."
"She's-she." Finn stuttered as he tried to find the right words. He couldn't exactly say 'Oh Jesse is giving her ride. The dude that threw eggs at her. I'm just running towards her so he doesn't lead her into another trap where he could do something worse to her.' Mr Schue would just say he was mad. Plus, when Finn left Quinn on her own and got off the bus, she opened the window calling for him to get back on the bus. She'd think that he still had feelings towards Rachel, which was true, but if Quinn knew, she would scream at him.
"Finn what are you doing? Come back." the blonde student called from the bus window.
Finn looked at Mr Schue in desperation. "I just need to go back. Fifteen minutes, I swear." he pleaded as his director rolled his eyes while sighing.
"Fine. Be quick. We need to get back to school as soon as."
"Thanks Mr Schue." Finn grinned at Mr Schuester before running back into the building.
Finn first went to the green room, remembering how that was the last place he saw her. Though she did then ask Mr Schue to stay behind for a quick second before going towards the stage for some reason. When Finn arrived at the stage where, half an hour ago, he and the rest of the group were performing their original songs. The quarterback scanned the seats in front of him, checking Rachel wasn't sitting there making out with Jesse. Finn shuddered at the thought of the two kissing. Even thinking about the two staring into each others eyes, made Finn's blood boil. He checked behind the curtains before calling her name several times.
No one responded to him.
"So…" Jesse began as he started to reverse out of the parking spot. "How have you been since I last sa- Oh no. No."
"What?" Rachel asked as she followed her ex boyfriend's eyes to the back of the car. "What is it?"
"Urghh." Jesse groaned as he stopped the car and pulled his keys from the ignition. "Flat tire. Must have gone over a pin."
"Oh. Do you need any help?" Rachel unbuckled herself, as did Jesse, before getting out the car.
"Yeah." Jesse responded as he crouched beside the back left wheel. "Could you open the trunk and get out the spare tire." Jesse handed her the keys, his fingers brushing against hers.
Rachel swallowed the hard lump that was quickly forming in her throat, at the skin-on-skin contact she just experienced with Jesse St James, before unlocking the trunk and carrying the black wheel towards her ex boyfriend. "Here." she dropped the tire next to him before walking back towards the trunk to close it.
"Thanks. Before you close the trunk, could you pass me that jack that's in the white bag I- you know what just pass me the whole thing. I need some other stuff in it."
"Why? Do you think I won't know what the names of the tools would be?" Rachel asked as she grabbed the bag then throwing it at her ex boyfriend, which felt quite therapeutic.
"No, it's just I need other stuff from it and I thought there was no point asking you to get me all of them when you could just pass me the bag." Jesse explained as he lifted his hands to catch the incoming, flying white bag.
"Oh." Rachel gazed downwards in embarrassment. Though she didn't really need to be that embarrassed. It wasn't like she had done something as bad as throwing eggs at a vegan. Rachel shook her head, trying to forget about the dead birds that coated her clothes and hair.
Rachel quickly got bored watching Jesse change a tire and so climbed back into the car, changing the radio channel from the adverts.
"What a great song, right? Get in touch with me and tell me your thoughts." The radio presenter began as Rachel stopped switching. "And now, our most requested song from the 80's, REO Speedwagon's number one power ballad, Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore."
'At least Jesse isn't sitting next to me.' Rachel thought.
He was going nowhere. Finn sighed in frustration as he frantically searched the stage wings for the brunette girl. He still wasn't able to find her. Finn glanced at his watch to see that he only had five minutes left. Five minutes before he was supposed to be on the bus. Five minutes to find Rachel, get on the stupid yellow bus, and sit next to Quinn. He wouldn't find her. Finn sighed in defeat as he sat on a sofa with his face buried into his hands. How was he supposed to fi-. The jock jumped onto his feet as he produced his phone from his back pocket.
He'll call her.
The quarterback impatiently punched her number into his keypad, pressed the green phone, and then held his cell next to his ear. The dial tone was the only thing Finn could hear for a couple of seconds, but it felt more like a lifetime.
"Finn?"
A wave of relief swept Finn, as he smiled. Her voice calmed him down. "Rachel? Where are you?"
"Fi-What? It doesn't matter where I am. You should be on the bus not looking for me."
"No, they're waiting for me. For us. Look Rachel where are you?"
"No sorry Finn. I can't impart that kind of information to you. Goodbye."
Finn placed his phone back into his pocket before clenching his fists in frustration.
'Why did she have to be so difficult?' Finn asked himself as he began to make his way back to the bus. 'Why couldn't she just tell me? Can't she see what a douche Jesse St Jackass really is? She's in his car, listening to him talk about how he misses her. Urghh. I hate him. I hate Jesse. She probably wanted to cut the conversation short so she could make out with him while playing songs in the background. Urghh.'
Finn trudged passed a couple of doors before hearing a similar sound.
And I'm getting closer than I ever thought I might
And I can't fight this feeling anymore
I forgotten what I started fighting for
It's time to bring this ship into the shore
And throw away the ores…
Finn shot up his head at the sound. He half chuckled at the song and what the meaning of it was, before continuing his trek back towards the bus. Only when Finn realized he had heard the song recently did he stop. It wasn't recently as in a couple of days ago but as in a couple of minutes ago.
'That was the song in the background. The song I could hear while talking to Rachel.' Finn thought as he spun on his heels, facing the corridor he just came down.
'Oh my God. She's near.'
"There." Jesse smiled as he wiped his hands from the dirt he got from the wheel. "Changed it."
"Well, that didn't take long." Rachel muttered sarcastically as she looked at her nails.
"Hey." Jesse started as he placed the flat tire in his trunk. "That was pretty quick for me seen as I rarely change tires because I am such a good driver."
"Yeah, that's why you drove over a pin." Rachel joked, facing her ex boyfriend as he sat in the seat next to her.
"Touché." Jesse smiled at the brunette before starting up the car again. "Right shall we see if I put it in properly?"
"You don't know whether you put it in properly?" Rachel asked as her eyes widened in shock.
"I'm kidding."
"Oh." Rachel sighed as she turned to see the back of the car, which was easy seen as it was Jesse had the roof down on his convertible. "So what happened to your four by four my mom bought all of you?" the brunette asked as she spun back to face the front.
"Oh that." Jesse began while putting his right arm around the back of Rachel's seat, trying to see the back, as he reversed. "I sold that. It was too expensive to manage."
"And a convertible isn't?"
"Ha." Jesse chuckled at Rachel's question. "Well it isn't as expensive as that four by four but I still need to drive in style."
"Obviously because that is the main priority of a car. To look stylish."
Finn ran towards the source of the music being played until he reached a door. Without even hesitating, Finn twisted the doorknob and opened the door to see his ex girlfriend…and her ex boyfriend, who had his arm casually around Rachel's seat. Finn narrowed his eyes at the sight of Jesse and his expensive car.
'Urghh, look at him. Laughing and smiling with Rachel. You wouldn't have thought that he threw eggs at her a couple of months ago.'
"Rachel!" Finn called as he ran towards the car. "Rachel!"
The brunette turned around at her name being called to see her ex boyfriend waving his hands in the air.
"Oh no." Rachel muttered as she spun back around, facing the front. "Oh crap."
"What's it?" Jesse asked before turning around to see a quarterback chasing after them. "Oh my gosh." the UCLA student slammed his foot on the break peddle while the jock continued to approach the two.
"Finn?" Rachel began as she stepped out of the car. "What are you doing?"
"I've come for you." the quarterback responded as he finally reached the pair. "We gotta get back; they're all waiting for us."
"Correction: You have to get back. Not me. I'm going with Jesse." Rachel informed her ex boyfriend, who shook his head slightly.
"No. Rachel can't you see who it is?" Finn asked, pointing towards Jesse.
"Yes Finn I am fully aware who it is. I can see too, you know?"
"Then you'd see that it's the same guy who threw eggs at you. Who dated you then dropped you like a…like a bar of soap." Finn paused, thinking about the simile he just used and how irrelevant it was. Why was he bringing up soap now?
"Look, Finn." Rachel started, ignoring his soap analogy. "I can't believe I'm hearing this. What about you huh? You forgave Quinn. A girl who cheated on you and was stupid to actually get pregnant by him, then trying to pass the baby as yours by using that pathetic excuse, that you impregnated her via hot tub. You forgave a girl who did that. I'm pretty sure throwing eggs at your vegan ex girlfriend cancels that out. Don't you?"
"But yo-"
"No Finn. You can't start telling me to come back with you. To leave Jesse and not forgive him when you've so clearly forgiven Quinn. No, that is called hypocrisy. You are being hypocritical Finn. Have you even wondered why Quinn wanted to get back with you so quickly? She's using you to become prom queen. She probably only talks to you about prom and how you two should campaign." Rachel blurted out, instantly wishing she could turn back time and take it back. She gazed up at his face, noticing his facial expression and how it changed. He looked hurt.
Finn sighed, she was right. At the forgiving bit. He wasn't sure whether the Quinn part was right. He was being a hypocrite though. He was telling her that what Jesse did was so unforgivable, when Quinn did something that was pretty much to the same level as Rachel's ex boyfriend.
"Even though she was only pretending to be my friend, Quinn was right about one thing." Rachel started as she interrupted Finn's thoughts. "She told me to move from you. That it was time for me to finally stop thinking about you. No wonder she was pushing me towards Noah. At least he tells it how it is. He doesn't hide around corners. He isn't a hypocrite."
"Quinn pushed you towards Puck?"
"Yeah, even though he really isn't my type, he was still honest with me."
"Rachel please, just come with me?"
"No Finn. Just get on the bus. You wasted yours and everyone else's time by coming down here. Goodbye." and with that Rachel spun on her heels and walked back towards the car.
"Do you want me to talk to her?" Jesse asked Finn, as he took one-step back.
"No, leave it." the jock took a deep breath before heading back to the yellow bus.
As Finn climbed back on the bus, he already felt Quinn's stare burning through his very flesh.
"Why did you go back?" Quinn asked the jock as he sat next to her. "Finn? Answer me." she demanded after the quarterback ignored her. He just sat down with a blank expression set upon his face.
"Huh?" Finn snapped out of his daze after Quinn shook his right arm. "Oh, ermm…I thought I forgot something." he lied as he gazed out the window.
"What?"
"Huh?"
"What did you think you forgot?"
"Oh ermm…" Finn paused; his mind went completely blank, like his facial expression, as he noticed a gray drop top convertible passing by. With a certain brunette and her ex boyfriend in it. "My tie." he responded as his eyes narrowed at the sight of the car.
"You're wearing your tie, Finn."
The jock looked at the blonde, who had her left eyebrow raised in suspicion, before checking his shirt. "Oh, well there it is."
"Hmm." Quinn muttered in disbelief before looking out the window too.
Finn threw his head back to rest on the seat. He couldn't stop thinking about what Rachel had said. "…she was pushing me towards Noah." Quinn pushed her towards Puck because she said that Rachel should move on. Quinn. The girl that comforted him when he felt down. The girl that was there when Rachel wasn't.
'She didn't.' Finn thought as he mentally shook his head. 'She didn't push Rachel towards Puck. This was Quinn we're talking about. Yeah sure, she's been known to do some pretty devious stuff in the past but nothing like this. No. Surely, Rachel just blew it out of proportion. Maybe Quinn just suggested it and Rachel took it the wrong way. Quinn wouldn't do that. What did she mean when she said Quinn 'pretended to be my friend'? Quinn only pretended to be her friend. But they were so close. They aren't anymore but that must be because Rachel found out that Quinn told me about the condom thing. Right? Though Quinn and me did date quite quick after that. It was like…wait when Quinn and me start dating? It was just too quick. We just suddenly started calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend.'
Finn looked at the blonde sitting next to him. Staring at her hair, thinking about what Quinn had told her.
'She said that Rachel was interested in Puck. But Rachel said that Quinn was pushing her towards him. Wait does that mean-'
"Finn I was thinking, should we do cakes or badges for our campaign." Quinn asked her boyfriend as she smiled at him.
"Campaign?"
"For prom."
"She probably only talks to you about prom and how you two should campaign."
'Did she plan this?'
R-r-review:) Finn's growing suspicion on his girlfriend. Will he confront her or just ignore it? Why am I asking that question? I already know ;) Questions, suggestions and constructive criticism are always welcome.