"Glad to see you, Rachel." he said coldly as he opened the door, revealing an enormous apartment. She was able to hear a woman's voice, shouting from somewhere, but she couldn't hear exactly what she'd said.

"Yes, mom!" Jesse yelled to the woman, who had apparently asked him something. "Sorry, that was my mom, she can be kind of... you know, annoying." he apologized.

"Does she know what you did...?" she asked, not being able to look at him in his eyes.

"No." his voice rose a bit, but he could control it. "And please don't tell her. She'd hate me."

"Well, what did you need?" Rachel impatiently asked. She started regretting going there, but it was too late, so she wanted to make things fast.

"Um, I heard that you broke up with Finn, and that he's dating Quinn, and I was wondering..."

"Hell, no." Rachel cut him off "I mean, apart that you're with Chelsea, I have promised myself I'd never forgive you. I mean, we can talk every now and then, but that doesn't mean anything. I meant it, anything."

"First, I've broken up with Chelsea, I heard he cheated with, um, Finn." he lied. He had told Chelsea to kiss Finn, so 'Finchel' would break up. It was part of his master plan. Now he needed to pretend he was hurt by what his ex-girlfriend did to him, so that Rachel would be sorry for him.

"Besides," he added "I've hurt me enough for doing those kind of things to you. Don't you think it's time to let go the past?"

"No." she said, strongly "Now, if you excuse me, I'm leaving. Don't you ever talk to me again. I mean it."

"You're not leaving." he grabbed her arm, and suddenly Rachel remember everything he did to her. All the words, the hits, the threatens. She was tired of it. So tired. She won't let it happen again.

"SUSAN!" she called Jesse's mom, and then she heard how Susan's high heels made an annoying noise every time she walked. That noise warned Jesse, and he let go her arm, giving her a death glance.

"What happened, dear?" she asked to Rachel.

"No, nothing." she smirked to Jesse "I just wanted to say goodbye. I'm leaving."

"Oh, honey, bye." Susan pulled her into a warm hug "Remember you're free to come whenever you want to." Never again, Rachel thought.

"Thank you, Susan." she said as she made her way to the corridor.


"How come you couldn't make her date you again?" Quinn screamed to Jesse. "It was easier than stealing a sweet to a baby, Jesse. She was sad, her ex-boyfriend was dating her ex again... a girl like that is easy to date."

"Well, I'm sorry Miss I-get-who-I-want, but life's not that easy." Jesse snapped.

"Ugh, you're so frustrating!" she yelled and kicked the small table next to Jesse's bed, and sat on his bed.

"Yes, you can sit, get comfortable." he said ironically, but regretted it "Well, I'm sorry, it's just... I'm pissed." he sighed and sat next to her.

"I understand" Quinn sympathetically said as she pulled her arm around Jesse's shoulder "Now, give her some space, she needs it."

"Th... thanks." he muttered, embarrassed of being seen in that way. Miserable, sad and lonely. "If you ever mention this to anyone I swear..."

"Don't worry. It'll be our little secret." she smiled as she planted a small kiss on his cheek. Suddenly, Jesse felt the impulse of kissing her. And he did. She didn't stop it, though. She gave it back, and he did too. It was a long, soft kiss, and they both enjoyed it.

"So, this means I'm your lover now?" he smiled.

"And it means we have two little secrets." she smiled and kissed him again.

"You're just so weird." Jesse said "One minute you're yelling at me and in the other you're kissing me."

"Excuse me." Quinn laughed "But you are the one who kissed me first."


"Well, he wants to come back with me." Rachel shyly muttered to Santana. She had called her as soon as she was out from Jesse's house, and now, fifteen minutes later they were sitting on Rachel's couch.

"Do you girls want anything?" Hiram shouted from the kitchen "I mean, I could bring you some popcorn..."

"We're fine." Rachel yelled back. "I obviously rejected his 'offer'" she turned back to Santana.

"Of course you had to!" she screamed "Please, Rachel, don't you ever come back with him. He hurted you, he hurted me. People change, yeah, but not that radically."

"Don't worry." Rachel told her "There's no way on Earth I'm coming back with him."

"Great. Because I don't want to see you suffer anymore." they pulled into a hug, and Rachel starting crying.

"Big girls don't cry." Santana reminded her, making Rachel smile.

"Thank you." she said, wiping off the small tears that came rolling down her eyes "Don't you ever leave me again, like you did on the first day."

"Hey." San protested "If I wouldn't have done that, you wouldn't have met Finn. And, admit it, you're meant to be together."

"I, I don't know San..." she doubted.

"Go on, call him. You know you want to." Rachel's half-Mexican friend insisted, making Rachel groan and grab the phone.