"Finn, I need to talk to you." I said. I was going to wait until after dinner, but this was important.

"What's up Rach?" Finn asked. He was smiling at me and all of a sudden I couldn't do it. Not right now.

"Um not now." I said. "After dinner."

"Sure." he said leading me to the dining room. I felt all eyes on me. I figured it was because I followed Finn in.

"Hi Lauren. Puck." I said smiling, ignoring their stares.

"Hey Berry." Lauren said with a large fake smile.

"So is dinner ready yet?" Mercedes asked Blaine who was glancing down at his watch.

"I hope so." he said with another glance. "Oh and for those of you who were worried, we will be serving turkey."

"Good." Evianna, Santana and Mercedes said at the same time. Everyone laughed.

"Ya'll can laugh if you want to but Turducken looks and sounds creepy." Mercedes said. "Birds being stuffed into other birds is creepy."

"Preach." Artie said from the end of the table. Everyone laughed about that stupid Turducken. I just wanted dinner to be over. I needed to tell Finn about the phone call I heard Evianna on.

"Dinner is served." Kurt's chipper voice said as he pushed the door open he was holding a gigantic turkey.

Dinner was uneventful. Everyone laughed about memories of our old New Directions days and they all warmly welcomed Craig into their little group with open arms. Blaine was happy to have finally met Craig because he was such a big fan. I guess Craig is an ok musician if you like that kind of thing.

"You're being awfully quiet over there Rachel." Quinn said from across the table.

"Sorry. I was just thinking." I said.

"Well ladies, Blaine and the boys are going to do the dishes, so if you'll follow me into the living room." Kurt said rising from his chair. All of the girls followed him but I hung back. I had to talk to Finn. He and I were the last two people in the dining room when I finally spoke.

"Finn."

"Oh that's right. What's up Rach?" he asked setting the dishes he was holding back on the table.

"I heard Evianna on the phone." I blurted out.

"So?"
"With a man."

"What do you mean?" he asked, his jaw clenched.

"I heard her saying she could wait to see him and that you didn't need to know about it yet. I'm not sure if I heard a name but I think it might have been Ricky, I'm sorry I can't remember for sure but she called you stupid Finn. I had to tell you." I explained. He was completely silent. I grabbed his hand. He squeezed mine once and bolted from the room.

"You ok Finn?" I hear Evianna ask as I entered the living room.

"Don't talk to me." he said angrily.

"What?" Evianna asked confused. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Kurt, thanks for dinner. I gotta go." Finn mutter as he pulled his coat on and bolted out of the apartment. Everyone's eyes were instantly on me.

"I blame Rachel." Santana said turning away from me.

"Why? What did I do?" I asked.

"I don't know but I'm sure you did something." she said crossing her arms.

"Rachel come here." Kurt said as he grabbed my arm and pulled me into the empty dining room. "What the hell just happened?"

"Maybe you should be asking Finn and Evianna that." I said.

"I told you to back off."

"And I did."

"Then tell me why my brother just stormed out here and is probably going to ruin his life?" Kurt exploded.

"I can't." I said quietly.

"You need to go." Kurt said looking away from me.

"Kurt?"

"Get out Rachel." he said. "Now." I didn't speak again. I left the dining room, shrugged into my coat and left the apartment.

XXX

I can't believe this. Wait, yes I can. I'm Finn Hudson, of course something like this happened. That's the story of my life. I get something good and for some reason the universe can't let me just be happy. I have to keep paying for the sins I committed in the past.

The hardest part of all of this is that I thought that Evi was different. She wasn't Quinn where I never exactly knew where I stood and she wasn't Rachel where she controlled everything that I did because she had to make sure that I didn't do or say anything stupid. Evianna treated me like Finn. Flaws and all. I had never had that, so maybe all of this is my fault. I know the rules: Finn Hudson isn't allowed to have perfection.

"Mr. Hudson?" a voice said interrupting my train of thought.

"Yeah." I said looking down at the girl behind the counter.

"Here's your credit card." she said with a smile, sliding the card back to me.

"Thank you." I said grabbing the card off the counter. "How long until take off?"

"Twenty-five minutes." she said said happily.

"Thank you." I said giving her a brief smile. I grabbed my things and took a seat. When I sat down I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket.

"Hello?" I said glumly.

"Finn are you ok?" Rachel's voice asked me on the other line.

"Yeah. I guess. I'm going back to Lima. Don't tell Kurt." I said.

"I don't he's talking to me, so that won't be a problem." she said. "I'm sorry about what happened."

"Don't be. I'll talk to you later." I said hanging up not giving her a chance to say goodbye.

Xxx

"What the hell are you doing here?" Burt asked when he opened the door.

"I needed to see you." I said inching past him into the house.

"Is this about what happened in New York?" he asked sitting in his recliner.

"Did Kurt call you?" I asked taking a seat on the couch.

"What do you think?" he asked.

"He shouldn't have done that."

"And you shouldn't have ran away."

"I didn't run away." I muttered. "I left because I heard something and I couldn't stay there anymore."

"What?"

"Evianna is cheating on me." I blurted out.

"How do you know?" Burt asked sitting up in his chair.

"Someone told me." I answered, twirling my thumbs.

"Yeah but Finn, how do you know?"Burt asked.

"What?"

"You said someone told you but did you asked Evi about what you heard?"

"I don't need to ask her." I said. "It was an inevitably."

"Why do you say that?"

"Have you ever been in a situation where you know you should be constantly on your guard waiting for the other shoe to drop but you get blinded that other things and then the shoe finally drops and crushes you?"

"Yeah I have but I didn't run away from what was happening." Burt said. "When I was ten years old me and my buddy Enzo were next door neighbors and one day the most beautiful girl that either of us had seen up to that point moved into the house across the street. Naturally, she liked me." he said with a chuckle. "So me and this girl are dating, and after about a month or so Enzo just kinda disappeared. He didn't come over and he didn't call me anymore and he avoided me in school, so one day after school I went over to the girl's house and her mom told me that she wasn't home and that I shouldn't come back anymore. So obviously I was devastated. I went over to Enzo's to get some friendly comfort you know and when I get there she's in his living room watching TV and holding his hand." Burt said.

"What does that have to do with me?"

"I'm not finished. Come to find out, Enzo was giving my girl cookies and inviting her over to his house everyday and they were dating behind my back." Burt explained. "So when he and I were about fifteen or sixteen, the exact same thing happened, except this time, the girl only dated me to get to Enzo."

"Well, I don't understand what you're trying to tell me and why are you still friends with that guy?" I asked.

" Because he married the second girl and I never let anyone get in between me and the people I loved. And I'm trying to tell you that you were talking about the other shoe dropping but what if something about this situation is different?"

"But it's not."

"But how do you know that? You haven't talked to your wife." Burt said patting my leg. "I'm heading to bed." he said getting up. "You can stay here tonight but you need to go back to New York and work through your problems."

"Thanks Burt." I said.

"No problem Finn." he said with a smile. "I love you, son."

"Love you too, pop." I said with a crooked smile. Burt waved to me and headed upstairs.