Chapter 6

Rachel's POV

I was setting up the perfect surprise party with Brittany, Sam, and Mercedes. (Everyone else was coming later.)

"Hey Rachel, what are these thingys?" Brittany asked.

I looked at her in disbelief. "Those are streamers, Brittany. You hang them on the ceiling." I turned around and saw her wrapping them around a lamp.

I heard my phone buzzing in the kitchen, so I ran over and looked at the caller id. "Oh no." I said. I picked it up and answered it. "Hey Finny Bear!" I smiled.

"Hey! I was wondering if you want to hang out," Finn said.

"I thought you were at football camp?" I said, happy on the phone, but freaking out on the inside.

"It got canceled," Finn said. "Coach thought it might rain tonight."

"Oh, do you have any plans tonight?" I asked, pleading that he didn't.

"Nope, that's why I'm asking you! Do you want to hang out?"

"Uhh, I kinda have plans right now, I'll be busy until 8 o'clock, come over then!"

"What are you doing?"

I freaked out, searching for a realistic answer. "Brittany and Santana are over here, we are about to go to the mall together."

"Really? Cause after football camp got canceled, puck asked me if I wanted to go to the mall with him. I said no because I wanted to hangout with you!"

I smiled, "awe! What are you going to do now?"

"Just texted him and told him I can hangout. We should meet up! That would be so fun!"

I had heart failure. "Uhh...about to leave! Text me okay?"

"Okay bye," Finn said goodbye.

Fifteen minutes later Finn texted me, "Hey I can't find you."

"Me either!" I lied to him, having the perfect plan.

"Where r u?" he asked.

"The entrance, at American Mall!" I said.

"Great. We r at different malls :("

"What mall r u at?"

"Lima mall. The one ur at is 15 minutes away….guess were not meeting up."

"Awe! Oh well, I'll c u later then!"

"Ok bye!"

Good. Everything's going perfect! I thought to myself.

The doorbell rang. I opened it; Santana.

"Come in!" I said, welcoming her in. We continued to blow balloons and hang streamers. There was a big sign so when he came in the house he would know it was his birthday party.

Now more people were coming. Blaine, Kurt, Tina, Mike, Quinn and Artie all arrived. I welcomed the group in and gave them simple instructions for decorating the house.

"Hey Rachel, where are the drinks? And when I say drinks I'm not talkin cool-aid," said Santana, looking for the alcohol.

"There is none," I said, remembering my last house party.

"Wow, this better be one hell of a birthday party then." She said, plopping on the couch.

At 7:40, Noah and Zizes arrived.

"Noah, what's that?" I peered at the one beer bottle in his hand.

"I figured you wouldn't have any drinks…so this is for me!"

I took the bottle out of his hand, "If you get beer than everyone does. We can all share this one bottle!"

Noah moaned and walked into the living room where everyone was doing finishing touches and relaxing, waiting for Finn to come.

15 minutes later, Finns jeep rolled in my driveway.

"Quick! Everyone places!" I screamed.

The doorbell rang and I opened the door. Everyone popped out and screamed "HAPPY BIRTHDAY FINN!"

Finn smiled huge, "Oh my god!" I ran up and pecked him on the cheek. He looked at me and beamed. "You guys are the best!"

"Let's go downstairs!" I exclaimed.

We moved the party to my dad's basement. Everyone was mingling and laughing. I went to talk to Sam and Mercedes. Brittany and Santana joined too.

Finn's POV

Quinn came over and tapped me on the shoulder. "Hi Finn," she said, "I want to show you something."

I looked at her, "Umm, okay?"

Quinn motioned for me to follow her upstairs.

"Where are we going?" I demanded.

Quinn crossed her arms peevishly, "Somewhere where we can be ALONE!"

I stopped abruptly at the stairs, "Should I go get Rachel?"

"I'm not trying to lead you on." Quinn said impatiently. I looked into her cold eyes, and kept on walking.

I followed her into the kitchen.

Quinn stopped and spun around to face me.

"I don't trust you…" I started to say, knowing something wasn't right.

"Cant we just be friends?" Quinn asked me pleadingly.

I shrugged my shoulders and muttered, "I mean, I guess. If you're nice to Rachel. If your not, then no way."

"I'll be nice to her, but that's not why you're here."

Rachel's POV

I was walking towards the kitchen to refill a bowl of chips when I saw Finn and Quinn talking. I decided to listen in on their conversation.

"Why am I here?" I heard Finn test Quinn.

"For this," Quinn said as she grabbed Finn's face and forced it into a full on kiss. I blinked to make sure what I was seeing was real. I didn't realize until the china bowl slipped from my hands and shattered on the hard-wood floor that I had dropped it. Finn pulled back and looked at me, his expression a mix of surprise and confusion. I looked and saw a slow grin spread across Quinn's face. My eyes swelled with tears and I turned and ran.

"Rachel!" Finn cried.

I ignored him and ran out into the pouring rain.

"Rachel! Please Rachel wait up!"

I stopped in the middle of the road with my face in my hands, sobbing. Finn caught up to me and lifted my chin up. I noticed he was crying too.

"Why would you kiss her?" I wept.

"I didn't, I would never!" He stopped mid-sentence and kissed me. I hugged him and got on my tippy toes so I could kiss him back.

"I'm so sorry," Finn said, embracing me.

"Don't be," I said resting my head in the crook of his nick. "It's not your fault that she's a slut."

"C'mon I'm soaked, lets go inside," Finn suggested.

"I like it our here," I looked up so the rain could splash away any left-over tears on my face. Finn picked me up and carried me to the porch.

"Put me down!" I wiggled and squealed; this made him go even faster.

We finally reached the porch and Finn put me safe on the ground. I slapped his arm, and he kissed me back. I smiled and we sat on my porch swing. I was looking at the pavement. How the rain hit it, how it made pretty little designs that quickly faded away as a new rain drop took its place.

"What are you looking at?" Finn asked me, rubbing my back.

"The rain," I said. I looked at him; he was trying to see whatever I saw that was so magnificent.

I got up and took his hand.

"What are you doing?" he asked me.

"Dancing in the rain!" I smiled and pulled him out into the rain.

"Remember last time I was dancing with you?" Finn said.

"I can teach you how to dance!" I said, making him spin me in a circle. I got close to him and wrapped my arms around his neck. We slow danced in the rain until a giant roll of thunder nearly knocked us both over. A huge lightning bolt lit up the sky. We both ran for our lives to the front porch and started laughing. "That scared the crap out of me!" I said, my knees still shaking. Finn hugged me and kissed the top of my head…. "Me too."

We walked downstairs to the basement. I was hoping no one would notice that we were gone, but when we walked downstairs hand in hand, it was like they had been waiting for us forever.

"Where have you two been?" interrogated Mercedes. If everyone wasn't already staring at us, now they were.

"I'm not sure if I want to know what they were doing," Quinn said, disgusted.

"Are you kidding me?" I screamed. "You just got done kissing my boyfriend and you have the freaking nerve to say that?" Now all the attention was pointed at Quinn. She flashed me a look of resentment and hatred. I saw Noah crack a smile. He was loving this.

"What?" I heard Artie say, his voice hushed to a whisper. Quinn looked down, ashamed and humiliated. She got up and ran out of the room. Everyone looked at each other with the same misperception.

Artie turned himself around and began to wheel away.

"Wait!" Sam said. "You have some explaining to do."

"I really, really don't want to talk about it…" Artie said, upset. I knew what happened, and I felt so bad for him. I let go of Finn's hand and went to talk to him. I pulled out a fold-up chair to sit on. I took his hand. The other one he was using to wipe tears. "How long were you guys going out? And why didn't any of us know?"

Artie sat up a little straighter in his wheelchair.

"We actually got together on the night of the last day of school. We wanted to make it a surprise to everyone, and honestly, I haven't seen her that much since. I mean, I just miss Brittany so much. She was the best thing that's ever happened to me. I thought she would be like her." He broke off.

I shrugged. "Well, fortunately I've never had a boyfriend that turned out gay…oh wait, there's Blaine."

This put a little smile on his face. I sighed. "There's nothing like loosing someone you love."

"There's no one else though." Artie looked down, "Admit it, no one wants to date the guy in a wheelchair."

"There is someone else though," I said reassuringly.

"Who? Everyone in glee club has a boyfriend or girlfriend. Even though Quinn is single too, knowing how pretty she is she'll find a guy at the grocery store!"

"Is everyone really in a relationship?" I asked in disbelief.

"There's you and Finn, Brittany and Santana, Blaine and Kurt, Mercedes and Sam, and then weirdly enough, Puck and Zizes."

I looked back, and saw things were going somewhat smoothly again. Finn and Noah were telling football stories, Kurt was talking to Mercedes and Lauren, and I'm pretty sure Brittana was making out on my couch.

"You'll find someone, I promise," I said, talking both his hands.

"Thanks, a lot. You know you're much nicer than you used to be." Artie told me.

I smiled, "I get that a lot."

I wheeled him back to where the rest of the group was. Noah stood up, "I think I have to go, it's getting late," I heard everyone else mutter "Yeah," or "Same here." Mercedes said, "I'm out!"

Noah, Finn, and Sam helped Artie get up the basement stairs.

"Great party Rach, Happy birthday Finn!" everyone said as they left the house.

Finn and I watched Santana get into her little sky-blue buggy with Brittany. I saw Sam, Mercedes, and Artie get in Sam's pick-up truck. I also saw Noah hop into Lauren's big ugly van and Blaine get in Kurt's fancy SUV. Before Kurt got in, he called after Finn, "hey, need a ride?"

"Nahh, it's cool, I got my car right here!" Finn replied, pointing to the red wrangler in the driveway.

When the last car drove away, we walked back in my house. We walked upstairs and into my bedroom. Phoebe was sleeping on my bed. I picked her up and carried her out of my room; Finn's allergic to cats.

We climbed onto my bed and cuddled. I was resting my head on his chest.

"I'm sorry your party was a disaster," I said, sad.

"It was great!" Finn lied.

"No it wasn't." I sighed. "Why did Quinn do that? Now everything's messed up." I looked up at him.

"I don't know," he looked at the ceiling. "But I learned something after she kissed me."

"What's that?" I looked at him with big eyes.

"That you're the only girl I'd ever want to be with." He said taking my hand and squeezing it.

I got up and lay right beside him. He had his arm around me and we were looking at each other.

Finn started to lean in to kiss me and I pulled back. "I almost forgot! Your birthday present!" I said smiling.

"I thought we said no birthday presents!" Finn said.

"It barely cost me anything I said, reaching across his body to open up my nightstand drawer. I pulled out the little box, with gold wrapping paper and a little white bow.

"Open it," I said, handing it to him.

He took out the little note attached to it and read it out loud, "Dear Finn, I hope you have the best birthday ever. I love you," He pecked me on the cheek; "I love you too."

He pulled on the sting and lifted the top off the container.

He stared at it for a minute and then looked up at me. "What's this for?"

I took the condom out of the package and explained, "You take it out of the packaging and then roll it on your..." Finn cut me off. "I know what it is….but are you ready?"

I looked down, "I've been thinking about it for a really long time. And I decided that I want you to be my first time," I looked up. "And hopefully my last time too."

Finn smiled his half smile that melts my heart. "I love you so much."

I kissed him. "Are you ready?" I whispered in his ear.

We got off my bed and I ran over to dim the lights. Finn came right up behind me, putting his hands on my waist and breathing on my neck.

I turned around and looked at him. I unbuttoned his shirt and he pulled down my skirt. We ran over to my bed and got on. I had my hand on his thigh, slowly sliding it up his leg.

"Mailman…" Finn moaned loudly. I giggled and quietly answered, "He can't help you now!"

Finn pulled back slightly, "what am I going to tell my parents?"

Lightning lit up the dark room. "Tell them that it was storming, and I got scared. So we watched movies downstairs and both fell asleep on the couch." I turned my head to the side and smiled at him.

"Sounds good," he said, sweeping my hair to the side and kissing my neck. I threw my leg over his body and swiftly climbed on top of him. I had both my hands on his chest and flipped my hair in his face. He lay me on top of him and we kissed passionately. "I love you so much," Finn whispered between kisses.

"same here finn…" I breathed. He rolled me over so he was on top of me. he began to plant small kisses down my body. "Finn…" I moaned.

"what is it babe?" he asked.

"Im really new at this…" I said, nervous.

"I love you rach, I wont do anything to hurt you…"

I looked at him and smiled…. "okay, I trust you."