The banging at the door woke me up. I rolled out of bed and hurried to answer it.

"Really Berry?" Santana asked when I swung the door open.

"What?" I asked. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Apparently you learned nothing from me." Quinn said as she, Mercedes, Santana and Tina entered my apartment.

"What are you talking about?" I asked shutting the door.

"Cut the bullshit Rachel. We all know you kissed Finn." Mercedes said.

"Yeah. What were you thinking?" Tina questioned.

"It just happened." I said brushing past my old friends. "I know it was a mistake."

"Do you?" Quinn asked.

"Yes of course I do." I said.

"You better be for real about that Berry because Evi doesn't play that shit." Mercedes stated.

"Yeah I got that feeling when she came over here a few days ago." I said flopping down on the couch, the other girls around me.

"Can I just ask why?" Tina asked. "Why would you kiss him?"

"I thought I saw signs. I just misread everything." I said quietly.

"Damn right you did." Santana said. "Honestly I'm surprised you're still standing."

"I don't understand."

"Let me tell you a little story, ok. Once upon a time in a little place on the wrong side of the tracks, a little place called Lima Heights Adjacent." Santana began. "Many, many years ago little girl named Evianna who had loaded parents moved to fair LHA. They moved next door the the Lopezes."

"You already knew Evianna?" I asked.

"Yes."

"Why didn't she go to McKinley?"

"Her parents sent her to Crawford County Day School." Santana answered.

"Oh. Well all of this is just a big misunderstanding." I said.

"It better be Rachel." Mercedes said.

"You guys don't have to keep saying that. It better be. It was. I made a mistake. Am I not allowed?" I asked indignantly.

"Rachel when you make a mistake terrible things happen." Tina said with a shrug. I just looked at her. That's wasn't the truth. People just always blew everything out of proportion.

"Look we just wanted to tell you that whatever game you're playing to just stop while you're ahead. It will only turn out badly." Mercedes said patting me on the arm.

"Yeah." Quinn said. "Anything that you think you're feeling is definitely one-sided and it's not worth the blow up that will happen if you pursue them."

"I know all of that." I said. In fact, I did know all of that, but I also knew something that they didn't know. Finn was beginning to have feeling for me again an no matter what the girls, Kurt or Evianna said I was going to get back together with him.

"Good. Why don't you get dressed and we'll all head back over to Kurt and Blaine's." Mercedes said giving me a hug.

"Ok. I'll be ready soon."

XXXXX

When we got to Kurt and Blaine's we could hear the boys from outside.

"Finally!" Kurt said opening the door pulling us all inside. "There is way too much testosterone in here."

"Brittany's here." Santana said shrugging out of her coat.

"Who do you think started the arm wrestling contest?" Kurt said pointing to the living room as they walked by.

"That's my girl." Santana jokes.

"Hey Rachel." Sam called to me before I entered the kitchen with the rest of the girls.

"Hi." I said. "You look really good."

"Thanks." he said a light flush rushing to his cheeks as he stroked his beard and pushed his rectangle frame glasses up the bridge of his nose. "Uh, can I talk to you for a sec?"

"Yeah sure." I said walking into the dining room with him. "What's up?"

"You gotta stop perusing Finn." he blurted out.

"So I'm assuming everyone knows." I said.

"Yeah so I'm telling you to stop." Sam said.

"I'm not perusing him. I made a mistake." I said folding my arms across my chest.

"Rachel save that for someone who doesn't know you. You don't just give up on things. I saw you chase after Finn back in high school when he was with Quinn." Sam said. "I'm just saying that now things are different."

"Do you really think I'm that horrible?" I asked not expecting an answer.

"No, but your past speaks for itself." Sam said with a shrug. "Just back off ok."

"It's not even an issue." I said. He patted me on the shoulder and left me alone. Why couldn't they understand that I wasn't going to try to take Finn. I was just going to try to get him to see that he made the wrong choice. What was so wrong with that?