"Are you paying any attention?" Rachel asked looking at Finn, her long brown hair sweeping across the books.

"Yeah. Totally. Completely. " Finn said half asleep. He looked at her presenting his million dollar smile.

His completely adorable smile, Rachel thought. "You're such a liar." She said laughing at his adorably rumpled hair.

"And you're a genius." He said, touching his finger to her nose.

She brushed away his hands playfully. "Flattery gets you nowhere darling. Now focus."

"I told you, I don't get this stuff. It's pointless." He said frustrated.

Rachel looked at him with the same pity eyes everyone seems to be giving him nowadays. "It is not."

"Please tell me why I'm going to need to know why the first permanent English settlement was founded in 1607? How is that any way related with what I want to do with my life?" Finn said.

"You know why history is important? It's so we're not doomed to repeat it." Rachel said, simply quoting a line from her favorite tv show.

"How cliche."

"Look, the only reason i'm doing this is because your mother practically begged me to. So I'd appreciate it if you didn't mock me." Rachel said slightly annoyed.

"I'm sorry." Finn said, looking at her. His hands reaching for hers.

Rachel looked at him skeptically. "Are you really?"

"YES!"

She pushed his hands away. "I told you, you're a bad liar."

Finn let out a deep breath. "Listen. I want to be a drummer. Not a social studies teacher. This is pointless." He looked at Rachel, willing her to get it.

"And how can you get into college with a D average?"

"Who says I need college?"

"Everyone needs college."

"Says, you."

Rachel sighed. "Okay, look. Maybe not college. But education is important, and I'll be damned if I see you disappoint your mother again."

Finn scoffed. "That's why you're helping me? For my mother? Yeah. Right."

Rachel lifted her head from the books to look at him, brushing her bangs out of her eyes."What other reason would I help you?"

"Cause you like me."

Rachel looked at him like he had three heads. "Flirting won't help you pass your midterm."

"Rachel. This is sweet of you and everything, but I'm fine. I don't need this."

Rachel slapped the book closed. Finally looking him dead in the face. "Damn it, Finn! Can't you just let me try and help you for once?"

"I don't need help."

"You were right." Rachel said.

"Huh?" Finn said, his face adorably scrunched in confusion.

"I'm not just doing this for your mother, I'm doing it because I believe that you have the potential to do something great in your life." Rachel confessed, taking his hands in hers.

"Rachel."

"Not just be some drummer who dropped out of high school, because he felt that he was too dumb to get an A on his history midterm."

"Rachel."

"I believe in you, Finn."

"Rachel."

"I believe in you."