Hi every body! I know that some of you want to punch me right now. What can I say, I love drama, but no worries I remain a true Finchel believer… Keep on reviewing, I really love to read you guys. I hope you enjoy this one. Last one before they go back to school…

Chapter 12

Tossing and turning.

The day after her encounter with Finn, Rachel woke up on the couch. Somehow, she was still waiting for him, longing to see him, for his kiss, for his touch. She hadn't changed her mind since yesterday. She still wanted to try to forgive him, to give him another.

She knew that it would be worth it because she knew Finn loved her too. After all, he had told her the day before and Kurt had confirmed it as well. She knew Kurt wouldn't lie about the matter of the heart. He knew how Finn was important to her. However, she was worried about him. She thought that, maybe, something had happened to him, something very serious that had prevented him to come to see her. So, she took matters into her own hands.

First, she called Finn on his cell phone, but he never answered. She decided to leave him a voice message, telling him that they had to talk and that she needed to see him, but he never called back. Few hours after her voice message, she sent him a text message saying the same thing, but he never replied to it either. Then, she started to really worry about him. She finally called at the Hummel household and left a message for Finn, asking him to call her back as soon as possible.

Kurt was watching television when Finn came downstairs after spending all day alone in his room. The tall boy came into the living room to get his coat.

"Finn! How did it go with Rachel last night?" asked Kurt.

Finn ignored Kurt as he put on his coat and opened the door to go outside.

"Hudson? I am talking to you!" Kurt asked again, a bit louder.

"The only thing I have to say to you is; next time you want to play fairy god mother Kurt, shut up…" Finn replied to Kurt slamming the door on his way out.

Kurt heard Finn starting his car and getting away from the house. He knew that something was wrong with his brother. He decided to call Rachel to know what had happened between them to make Finn feels so pissed.

Later that day, Kurt called Rachel to ask her how things had worked with Finn the night before. Surprised, she told Kurt that she had waited for hours but he had never showed up. She also told him she had left him many messages that had remained unanswered.

She finally asked Kurt if Finn was sick. Kurt told her that he was acting weird but he seemed totally healthy, physically at least. Kurt told her that Finn had been giving him the silence treatment.

"So, you guys haven't met or talk?" asked Kurt again, trying to understand why Finn had attacked him like he did.

"No, I haven't seen or talk to him, not since the rink. I wish he'd call me back. I really wish we could talk before tomorrow, before getting back to school. I want really want us to have a fresh start." Rachel replied to Kurt's question. "If you see him could you ask him to call me back?" added Rachel, asking Kurt to intercede in her favour.

"I'll ask him to call you back if I see him, if he deigns speaking to me" promised Kurt to Rachel.

"Thanks Kurt. Tell him that he can call me anytime. I'll be waiting for his call all night if I have too" replied Rachel gratefully.

They hung up.

Kurt was really lost. He couldn't understand why Finn had acted so rudely with him. If he hadn't spoken to Rachel, what the hell had he done last night? Kurt wanted to know and he would take measures to. He decides to wait in Finn's bedroom. That way, he would, first, be able to give him Rachel's message and, secondly, he would know what Finn had been up too. Maybe all of this was just a big misunderstanding...

It took a long time to Rachel to finally surrender to sleep. She kept tossing and turning in her bed, looking at her phone every five minutes to ensure herself that she hadn't missed Finn's call.

She couldn't help herself wondering why he had been ignoring her calls and why he had been acting weird with Kurt. She knew that if they got back together this time, it would be largely thanks to Kurt.

Midnight had rung when she finally fell asleep picturing her reunion with Finn, smiling. Tomorrow, she was sure to see him because tomorrow was back to school day. The day their new era would start. They would return being Finn and Rachel, glee power couple, force of nature. Tomorrow she would get the boy she loved back and become whole again.

Finn entered his house a bit after eleven o'clock. He took great care not the be heard or seen by his parents nor Kurt because he knew that if he did, he would be force to explain himself and explaining was the last thing he wanted to do at the moment. He climbed the stairs quietly and entered his room.

He took his shirt off and opened the light.

"Nice hour to get back home Finn!" asked Kurt, sitting on the arm chair in Finn's room, arms crossed on his chest.

The tall boy jumped seeing Kurt.

"What are you doing here? This is my private space Kurt you have no business being here." replied Finn putting back his t-shirt on.

"Is that a hickey I see on your neck?" asked Kurt, not sure he had seen right, as he walked toward his brother to have a better view to it.

"It is not your business." Finn answered Kurt, roughly, replacing his collar.

"I didn't think Rachel was the hickey type girl, but since you saw her, I can go back to sleep." replied Kurt laughing, getting out of the room.

Finn grinned a little too loud. Kurt turned back his face to him.

"What's so funny?" asked Kurt seriously to his brother.

"Who told you it was Rachel?" replied Finn faking a big smile.

"It can't be someone else Finn. She's the girl you love and she is been trying to reach you all day to talk to you. You guys talked, made up, hickey, it's the logical theory." Kurt replied getting back into the room and walking closer to Finn.

"You did call her back, didn't you?" added Kurt once facing Finn.

"No, I didn't!" he replied dryly to a stunned Kurt.

"She called you many times, she needed to talk to you, so why didn't you call her back?" asked Kurt looking at Finn straight in the eyes.

"I already know what she needed to tell me and I don't care about her anymore" answered Finn, breath loudly, angry.

"What? Tell me I heard you wrong. Did you just say what I think you said." replied Kurt, as if he had been hit by a train.

"Your sweet Rachel is with Puck now." said Finn, looking straight at Kurt.

"No, it can't be true." replied Kurt, still stunned.

"I saw them Kurt, I saw them together, kissing, with my own eyes. I can't be truer to me!" replied Finn.

"Now Kurt, leave me alone. I need to sleep, there's school tomorrow." Finn added, pushing Kurt out of the room.

"Maybe you misunderstood what you saw. There must a logical reason to all this." said Kurt to Finn as he was dragged out of the room by a really pissed Finn.

"I know what I saw and tomorrow she will see me doing just fine without her and with someone else." replied Finn, forcing a smile.

"Santana? The hickey is from Santana! You guys are dating? Since when? You can't do that to Rachel she..." Kurt said.

"I can and I will. Rachel is with Puck and I'm with Santana, end of story." replied Finn trying to sound convincing.

"You can't be serious Finn?" said Kurt trying to reach out to Finn.

"I've never been more serious. Rachel and I are over, period..." Finn said trying to sound convincing.

Now, I am really tired, so, get out." Finn said, pushing Kurt outside of the room and shutting the door.

Kurt went back into his room still shaken. He couldn't believe what he had just heard. Was Rachel really with Puck? No, it was impossible. Finn had probably misread a situation.

He lay down on his bed wondering if he should warn Rachel about the dark cloud hanging over her head. He decided not to wake her up at this hour, but tomorrow, he'd warn her and hoped he would be able to do it before the train crushes her.

Still angry at his brother for bringing up Rachel so soon after his discovery of last night, Finn took his clothes off and put on his pyjama. He lay down on his bed.

Even if he had let Santana play with his body during the entire hour they had spent together, he couldn't stop thinking about Rachel, Rachel with Puck. Anger sex would have been an easy way to get revenge but he didn't have the energy to resort to it. However, Santana had another agenda. She had kissed him fiercely, touching every inches of his body, sucking his neck angrily, to make him flinch but Finn didn't budge.

Santana had given him a way to go through his messy situation honourably. She had proposed him a partnership; a proposal to become the two most influent people in school, the very highest of McKinley high food chain ladder. This way, he would be the star quarterback who dated a hot and sexy cheerleader and not only a loser glee clubber who had lost his drama queen girlfriend to his former bad ass best friend, again. Scared of humiliation, not wanting to lose his reputation and seeing no other options, he decided to agree to Santana's terms. Rachel was with Puck from now on. If his heart was broken his reputation would remain and he would do anything to stay above water, to fly to the top even if it would mean lying to everyone. He would play hot couple with Santana but it would be it. It was going to be an agreement with no feelings involve. No, he would never fall in love with someone else, again.

Even if he was exhausted of the last few days and his lack of sleep, it took him some time to fall asleep. He kept tossing and turning, thinking about a way to fool anyone because he had too. Everyone had to believe that he, Finn Hudson, had decided to be with Santana and to stay away from Rachel the day after the party. He had to forget the truth and jump into the scheme. His only and deepest regret about all this was that he knew that he wouldn't be able to fool himself…