Chapter 21

No directions

When Rachel left McKinley, New Directions became more No Directions, but Finn decided to take charge of things and secured his captain spot. Even if he missed Rachel dearly, he had decided put his mind into Regional's; there were still a lot things to do to assure glee's salvation and encouraged him to think that Rachel would be proud if he succeeded.

He recruited an exchange student from Canada named Kevin Adams who agreed easily to join glee to be their twelfth member. The guy was talented enough, but he wasn't the female lead he was looking for.

He knew that Rachel would be pretty difficult to replace, but they had Mercedes and Santana as potential female lead. He largely preferred Mercedes to Santana. However, the latest being his girlfriend, it would have been an awkward to say that he preferred someone else. So, he decided to take matters into his own hands and break up with Santana; time was come for the masquerade to stop. He was sure that he could find a way to make her understand that their bargain was leading them nowhere. He just hopped that Santana would see it his way.

One night, a week after Rachel's departure, he sent Santana a text message asking her to come to his house this very moment because he needed to see her.

She quickly answered him, saying that she would come to his house right away.

When he received her answer, Finn sighed.

"Step one accomplished! Now, step two. Don't flinch, Hudson!" he told him, throwing his phone on the far side of the bed and letting himself fall on his pillow.

Santana arrived ten minutes later. She entered his room promptly and closed the door behind her. She jumped on Finn. She straddled him and began to pull off her shirt.

"What are you doing?" asked Finn loudly, keeping her from undressing.

"You said you needed to see me; I assumed you needed my expertise, Finnocence." replied Santana twisting her pelvis on Finn's waist.

"I wanted to talk to you." said Finn, taking her off him and sitting on the edge of the bed.

"I don't do talking Finnocence." Santana replied getting of the bed and stood in front of Finn. She caressed Finn's head with her breast.

Finn didn't know what to do to get her attention. He didn't want to be too forceful on her, but Santana was leaving him no other options. So, he pushed her away, stood up and faced her. He took her wrist strongly.

"I think it would be better if we break up." said Finn, trying to sound convincing, but his voice shook slightly at the end of his sentence.

"You are not meant to think Finn" said Santana snatching out of his grip.

Finn sat on the edge of his bed.

"Listen, I don't love you, you don't love me, we don't even like each other that much so why the hell are we staying together?" said Finn sincerely. "You don't need me to be top dog, you are it, Santana; you're scary, bossy, you can control them all without me!" he added looking at her.

"People don't break up with me Finnonsence." said Santana, looking at him angrily.

"Say you broke up with me, make up a reason, I don't care. Let's just break up okay." said Finn sighing.

"Okay, I break up with you" said Santana, almost smiling.

Then, she left Finn's room, his house and his life. Finn thought it was too good to be true. He should have think a little bit more...

Going out of Finn's room, Santana had thought of a plan that would kill Finn's reputation. She knew just how much boys were sensitive about their sense of performance.

People didn't break up with her and Finnoncence would learn it the hard way...

The next morning, Finn entered the school as a free man. Walking in the hallway, he saw a lot of people starring at him, in a strange way. Nobody said hi or hi-fived him; he just got starring, whispering and laughing. He really wondered what was wrong. Then, he remembered; Santana.

When Finn saw Santana walking in the hallway, he walked toward her.

"What did you told everybody? What kind of story did you make up?" asked Finn eagerly to his ex girlfriend.

"I didn't make up anything. People wanted to know why I broke up with you and your little quicky problem slipped, I am so sorry." Santana replied, smiling widely.

Then, Finn took a look around and he saw that everybody was looking at them. He knew that gossips were spreading faster than leprosy; he knew that everybody knew about his little mailman problem.

Finn ran as fast as he could into the choir room where he stayed hidden until his first period. He hopped that people would forget it, and fast.

For a few days, people kept starring and laughing at him. Some people even started to call him Finn "the mailman" Hudson.

As much as it was hurting him and his dearest reputation to hear those things, he knew that breaking up with Santana had been the right things to do.

Luckily, he had Glee club where he was still Finn.

After few days, Finn thought that things were about to change. An important football game was coming soon and he knew that if he won it, he could get back onto his feet and redeem other's respect. Unfortunately for Finn, two bullies didn't see thing that way.

The day of the game, Finn arrived one hour before the game. He put on his uniform. He was reading the play book for the third time when he heard two people approaching him. They came from behind, put a sock into his mouth and a black pillow case on his head. They forced him to sit on a chair and tied him up onto it. After, they brought the chair in a closet and closed the door.

Finn spent all night in the closet, trying to untie himself by shaking the chair as strongly as he could. He finally succeeded hours after.

Once he had untied his legs and arms, he pulled off the pillow case of his head and spited the sock.

When he got out of the closet, he came face to face with coach Beast.

"Where were you Hudson?" she said, angrily at him. "You're lucky Evans won the game for us. Prepare yourself for benching, big time." the coach added in the same tone.

Then, Azimio and Karofsky entered the room.

"For once, you are late, really late, Mr. Mailman boy." said Azimio glancing at Karofsky.

Finn made a step toward them; he really wanted to punch their face off.

"Come down Hudson or you will stain your boxers." said Azimio laughing.

"Don't worry, he isn't as quick with his fists as he is with his... gun..." replied Karosky, hi-fiving his friend.

Finn knew it was them that had staged the prank and he wanted to make them pay, but he knew he had to wait, he couldn'tact now with the team around; he was willing to take this one for the team, not knowing that they had change their mind about his leadership.

Finn learned a sad new on Monday afternoon, during football practice. Coach Beast was really benching him for their next game. That day, Sam became the new Titan's quarterback.

Finn went to coach Beast's office to explain to her that he had been played that was why he wasn't at the game.

She believed him. She even said she would talk to the rest of the team and severely punish those who were responsible for the prank, but her decision remained the same. Sam had won a game, so he would continue to play until he'd lose.

That night, lying in his bed, he thought about Rachel. He remembered how much she could make him better at the end of a bad day. He wished he could see her, talk to her about the bad days he was having.

He closed his eyes, hopping that Rachel would meet him in his dream.