A very Glee christmas The Sequel Chapter 26: Falling off a cloud, a glee fanfic

Chapter 26

Falling off a cloud

A month after Glee club wins at Regional's and his passionate night of love with Rachel, Finn hadn't received any new from her. He had sent her few letters that had remained unanswered.

He knew that nothing bad had happened to her because, if it had, Rachel's dads would certainly come to him. He wondered if he had done something wrong or maybe he had been too quick during their love making session and it had repulsed her away from him. All Finn wanted was time to explain himself, but he couldn't do it without talking to her. He desperately wanted to know what he had done wrong.

To put his mind elsewhere, he tried to put all his heart in glee, preparing the group for Nationals, in NYC, where he could see Rachel... He worked a lot with Mr. Shuster for song selections.

In the football area, Coach Beast was still benching. He kept trying to help the team even if he wasn't their leader or captain anymore, but his teammates were not very welcoming.

People were still making fun of him behind his back, but everybody had stopped starring at him, laughing had become whispers. He hoped that silence would come eventually.

One day, Kurt arrived in the choir room saying he had a big surprised for them. He took out a cylinder box from his hand bag and removed the rolled paper from it. Kurt unrolled it before their eyes. It was a poster. On that poster, they could see Rachel and a guy, holding each other, looking at each other lovingly. Above them were big white and black letters: WEST SIDE STORY.

"It is such a great picture." said Kurt enthusiastically.

"Yeah, that guy is such a hunk; he must be so good in the sack." said Santana, taking a look at Finn.

Hearing those words, he realized that he could be a possibility. Maybe she was with him. Obviously, he was good looking, they were sharing a stage, they lived in the same city and Finn was sure that the other guy was more experienced with women than he did.

For the rest of glee practice, he tried to act natural, to do as if nothing was wrong. He waited for the end of the rehearsal and went to the locker room. There, he put on his gym outfit and did some laps. Running, he tried to get rid of the images flowing into his mind, images of Rachel and Matt making out or even having sex.

After one hour running, he came back into the locker room, took a shower and went back to the hallway. Walking toward his locker, he saw Mr. Shuster displaying the poster of WEST SIDE STORY on the school bulletin board. He waited few seconds for his teacher to walk away from it and he got closer to it.

He looked at it carefully. He caressed Rachel's face on the poster. She seemed happy, way more than the last time they had left each other. The night he had spent with Rachel had been a bliss, but maybe it hadn't been the same for her.

"Seems like Berry found herself a man in NYC." said Azimio, walking toward Finn.

"No questions why she stays there." said Karofsky, smiling. "I bet he is not as quick as you are, Mr Mailman." he added, hi-fiving his friend.

Then, Finn couldn't hold himself anymore. Without warning, he punched Karofsky as hard as he could. The bully fell onto the ground. Then, he saw Azimio charging him. He took the bully's head into the abs. After, he saw Karofsky lifting from the ground and coming from behind him, grabbing his arms and holding them in his back. Then, Azimo gave him a few punches: one in the abs, two in face. Finn defended himself by kicking Azimio's face. Then, he got rid of Karofsky and started to punch him repeatedly, eyes injected with rage. He stopped hearing footsteps.

"Guys, stop this right now!" said Mr. Shuster, placing himself in between them.

Then, Mr. Shuster took them all to Mr. Figgins office.

The director wasn't happy. He suspended all of them for a week; for fighting on school's grounds. It meant no football for them and no glee for Finn.

Azimio and Karofsky tried to blame it all on Finn; saying that he can't control his temper, that he was the one who had viciously jumped on them. They tried to sound like sweet little victims of a rage attack. Finn didn't say a thing, didn't even try to defend himself.

After his meeting with the principal, Mr Shuster brought his student to the infirmary.

There, Finn told him what had really happened; he told his teacher about the prank, the insults, the attacks and how he saw red and couldn't hold himself down.

He told Mr. Shuster that he was sorry about not being able to make it to glee one whole week, but he certified his teacher that he'd work on song selection on his side and that Kurt could be their middleman.

The nurse healed his wounds quickly and Finn went back to his locker to take his stuff and go home.

When Finn passed near the bulletin board on his way out, he snatched the poster and put it into his bag; that way, no one else could vandalized it.

When he arrived home, he went to his room and displayed the poster on the wall above the head of his bed. Then, he let himself fall onto his bed. God, he didn't know how he would break the news to his parents.

As he had thought, his mother wasn't pleased about his situation, but it calmed down when Finn told her that he would take this free time to study and Kurt immediately agreed to give him a hand. Finn told his mother that he wouldn't have done what he did if they hadn't pushed him to. Carole Hummel knew her son and she knew he wasn't a scum, she believed him, but she grounded him for the week.

Two nights after his suspension, Finn was studying Kurt USA History's notes when he heard knocks coming from his window. At first, he thought he had hallucinated, but he went to his window and saw Puck pressed against his car. Finn looked at his friend who was gesturing him to come downstairs.

"I can't! I am grounded." said Finn, opening the window.

"Come down Hudson. I've got something for you." said Puck, getting on the driver side of the car.

"I can't. I can't risk making things worse." said Finn, trying not to speak too loudly.

"Come on Finn! Your parents aren't home, we won't be out late; they won't even know you went out." said Puck, walking toward the house, placing himself under Finn's window.

Then, Puck saw Finn's disappeared from his window and appeared by the front door. He got out of the house.

"We better make it quick." said Finn, walking toward Puck.

They both got into the car and Puck drove off.

When Puck parked his car, Finn couldn't believe where his friend had driven them; they were at McKinley High, on school grounds.

"What, wrong with you? You know I am not allowed to be here." said Finn surprised

"Come down Hudson, no one will know." said Puck, taking a bag in the back of his car and getting off it.

Then, he started to walk to the gym outside door where he had come with Rachel so often and where he would initiate Finn's tonight.

Finn followed him silently, but he had a good idea where they were going. He knew he was right when he entered the auditorium doors.

Finn looked at Puck as he went on stage. The bad boy laid down his bag on the floor and pulled out a video camera.

"You are not going to tie me down and record my humiliation, are you?" said Finn to Puck unsure.

"We're way passed this Hudson, Don't worry!" said Puck, pressing the power button of the camera.

"What are you planning to do with the camera?" said Finn, sitting in the front row.

"No, you come right here Hudson, you are the star, I am the audience." said Puck, getting off the stage as he showed Finn the way on stage.

"I use to come here with Rachel during the winter school break almost every night. Every time, she sang to you and it helped her passing through the hard time she was having. I told myself that maybe it could help you. And you can always send it to her as a gift like the DVD she sent to you." said Puck adjusting the camera and looking at Finn.

"Why are you doing this for me?" said Finn sincerely, looking at Puck.

"I am doing this for you, you and Rachel; it hurts me to say it, but you guys are so made for each other, you only need to stay in each other's life and your epic story will end right." said Puck, kindly at Finn.

Finn starred at Puck, smiling to him.

"What should I sing?" asked Finn, affected.

"I don't know, I am not in your head; and I certainly don't want to be." said Puck, slightly laughing. "Close your eyes and sing what comes first to you mind. It used to work for Rachel." added Puck, more seriously.

Then, Finn closed his eyes and found a song.

"Are you ready?" asked Puck.

"I want to say something first." said Finn to the camera.

"Action", said Puck, bringing his camera near his eyes.

Then, Finn looked at the camera and started to talk.

Rach,

It's been a long time since I last heard from you. Just so you know, I have the poster of your play in my room; you are beautiful on it, but you are always beautiful, I am sad I haven't told you more before, maybe you wouldn't have gone miles away if I did.

I know I am being selfish saying this, but I am kind of selfish and I am even more with the song I am about to sing to you. Just know that I love you, through our break up, our reconciliations, our fights, our kisses, our single, but so blissful night together and even now, miles away from another, in different city, in someone else's arms, I love you, so please come home...

Then, Finn started to sing.

Hello world
Hope you're listening
Forgive me if I'm young
For speaking out of turn
There's someone I've been missing
I think that they could be
The better half of me
They're in their own place trying to make it right
But I'm tired of justifying
So i say you'll..

Come home
Come home
Cause I've been waiting for you
For so long
For so long
And right now there's a war between the vanities
But all i see is you and me
The fight for you is all I've ever known
So come home

I get lost in the beauty
Of everything i see
The world ain't as half as bad
As they paint it to be
If all the sons
If all the daughters
Stopped to take it in
Well hopefully the hate subsides and the love can begin
It might start now..Yeahh
Well maybe I'm just dreaming out loud
Until then

Everything i can't be
Is everything you should be
And that's why i need you here
Everything i can't be
Is everything you should be
And that's why i need you here
So hear this now

One hour and a half later, Finn was back into his house where he had sneaked back in without anybody noticing. He went straight to his room. He stripped down to his boxer and shirt. He took a quick look at the poster had pinned onto his wall. He kissed two of his fingers and deposed it on the picture, on Rachel's face. Then, he let himself fall into his bed. Tomorrow, he would mail his tape to Rachel. This way, she would have to see, to witness his love for her and he knew she would understand his feelings and maybe, if he was lucky enough, she would come home sooner than later. Then, he let himself being drawn to sleep where Rachel had come home to see him.

Song: Come Home by One Republic