A/N; I just wanted to thank all of the wonderful people who have reviewed/alerted/favorited this story. I never expected to get such a positive response on my first story and I am VERY grateful!

I have a bit of a problem with over-suspension of reality. It happens on school assignments all the time. I'm slightly worried that this chapter will feel a bit unrealistic and please know that I tried really hard to make it believable, hence the delay of the Finn/Rachel break-up explanation. I hope it works out as well as possible

After their karaoke, Finn and Rachel were mobbed by the tipsy patrons of the bar.

"That was wonderful!"

"I can't believe I am this close to Rachel Berry!"

"You are outstanding!"

"Truly Amazing"

Finally, the pair pushed their way out of the bar.

"Come up to my room with me." Rachel gave Finn a weird look. "I mean, we can talk and it'll be quiet."

"Oh, that's fine I guess."

They were silent in the elevator on the way up. After they entered his hotel room, Finn felt his phone buzz in his pocket.

"4 MISSED CALLS from Kurt!" Finn sighed and clicked view later. "3 NEW VOICEMAILS from Kurt!" Ignore. "5 NEW TEXT MESSAGES from Kurt!" Delete. Finn then called his obviously anxious step-brother.

"What's up?"

"Where have you been? Why didn't you answer my calls? I thought you were like dead or something!" Kurt screeched.

"Chill Kurt! I'm not dead; I ended up going to the bar in the bottom of the hotel with someone and just came back to my room."

"Someone? A girl?"

"Yes Kurt, a girl." Finn said exasperatedly. Rachel giggled from the chair she had made her way to.

"Oooh. Nice going brother! She still with you?"

"Really Kurt? You sound like Puck" Rachel giggled again. "What's so funny?" She pointed at him and he rolled his eyes.

"She is still with you! AHAH! It's about time man!"

"Whatever Kurt. I've got to go" He hung up on his protesting brother.

"Same old Kurt?" Rachel asked.

"Yep. "

"What does he do now? Is he the reason you're in the city?"

"He's junior fashion editor at Vogue and yep I'm visiting him. I could have stayed with him but the early and rambunctious wake-up call is so not worth it. I'd rather shell out the money for this place and have him only able to bother me by calling and eventually pounding on the door."

"Wow. He's done well for himself."

"That's what he tells me."

"And what about you." She asked hesitantly.

Finn felt some of the awkwardness fade as he talked about his work and the glee club and surprisingly he found himself confessing that he had been fired. Rachel was wonderfully sympathetic but changed the subject easily once he was ready. They talked easily about their lives for a long time though Finn could have sworn it was only minutes before the all-important question came bursting out of him.

"Why Rachel?" she sighed

"I don't know how to explain." She said softly.

"Hmm, let's review," Finn said, standing up. "Halfway through our freshman year of college you just started ignoring me, you never picked up the phone, you never called me back, you never answered your email! I thought I did something horribly wrong but I didn't know what. I asked Kurt and Puck to try to call you. I even called Quinn, I called my crazy ex-girlfriend to try to get to you and you didn't respond to them either! Why Rachel Why?"

"It wasn't on purpose." Rachel said weakly. Finn angrily cut off anything else she was going to say.

"How was it not on purpose! You can't ignore a hundred phone calls by accident!" He was shouting at her now.

"Finn, just hear me out! It's a long story and I never meant to hurt you or anyone. I Promise!" She was crying now as she pleaded with him.

"Gee where have I heard that before? No one ever "wants" to hurt me but they do!"

"Finn, LISTEN! My freshman biology professor was like obsessed with "group projects" and there was a guy in the class who was like, how do I explain this, a Jacob Ben Israel type stalker and he was like a tech genius." Finn rolled his eyes at the mention of Jewfro but he had calmed down slightly and had sat back down. "So this guy, Dexter's his name, got assigned to a project with me and we ended up working on it in my dorm. I didn't find out until MUCH later but he bugged my cell phone, dorm phone and laptop while I wasn't paying attention. So he changed my number somehow so I wasn't getting calls from anyone, but him of course, and got into my email and controlled which ones I saw."

"Ok, but that doesn't explain..."

'I'm not done yet. He also controlled somehow my outgoing calls so that when I would call you it always rang as busy and I assume my emails didn't get through either. "

"So why didn't you call me when you found all of this out?" Rachel moved quickly to his laptop and typed something into Google.

"I did, twice. You didn't answer" Finn slapped his forehead. He remembered that. Thinking she had moved on and was too cowardly to tell him, in a fit of anger he had ignored her calls and deleted the voicemails. He sat there shocked by her story.

"Then I saw this online." She said pointing at a picture on the screen. He looked at it then turned away and slammed his fist into the table.

"What?" She had jumped at his violent reaction. Finn felt ready to cry, so it WAS all his fault.

"Rachel, I…It, I…" The words to explain this treachery didn't want to come out of his mouth. "Rachel, we had just won a big game and I was like a hero for being a freshman and a starting quarterback, and well everyone had been bugging me because I never went on dates and stuff and even though I said I had a girlfriend, all the guys were like…you know. So this popular cheerleader, who was a junior, she came up to me after the game and asked me to go to this party with her and well I hadn't heard from you and I thought you were mad at me and I just wanted to get the guys off my back so I said sure. I figured it was no big deal but…obviously it was. Gosh, Rachel I'm SO SORRY!"

"Finn, oh Finn. I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have assumed and I should have figured it out sooner and I should have called you." Both of them had tears freely falling now.

"Rachel, I just want you to know, she meant nothing! I never, in five years I never had anything serious. I never wanted anything serious with anyone but you!"

"Me neither Finn."

"I love you Rachel." He said softly. "I've loved you from the first time we sang, really sang together and I never stopped."

"I love you too Finn." She choked out through her tears and smiled at him, a real genuine Rachel Berry smile for the first time in 5 years.

For a smile they can share the night

It goes on and on and on and on

"I should go home." Rachel said suddenly. "It's late."

"Its 3:30 am! You can't go alone through New York!"

"I'll be fine."

"No." He said obstinately. "Why don't you stay here?" Seeing her blush, he explained quickly. "There's an extra bed, the hotel was out of single rooms" She laughed.

"Okay Finn."

They continued quiet conversation on and on into the night and the next morning neither his phone's angry buzzing nor the pounding on the door woke Finn for his planned day with Kurt. That was ok by him; he'd rather spend an unplanned day with Rachel instead.

A/N: So? It took me a long time to find a suitable reason for them to break up. Rachel had to be almost blameless, Finn couldn't have too much blame, and I wanted to resolve it rather quickly so you get a Jacob Jewfro-ish tech genius stalker named Dexter, it works I guess.

So sweet made-up Finn and Rachel, can I get a big AWW?

I know exactly what next chapter is about so it will probably be up tomorrow. Does anyone have any Brilliant ideas for Rachel's show? I can do it without but if you have a title, 2-3 sentence summary and a character name for her and the leading man I will work it in and the winner can have a sneak peek…

Really long author's note So? Thoughts? Suggestions? Rotten tomatoes? Let me know what you think.