Finn Hudson had spent most of his weekend trying to work out exactly when Rachel had stopped caring about him. He had his suspicions that it might have had something to do with the fact that he slept with Santana last year and lied about it, but Rachel had lied to him too! She said she slept with Jesse St. Jerk, when she hadn't! Finn honestly thought that Rachel was still in love with him, even though they had broken up in a spectacular fashion. And regardless of what was going on with him and Quinn, he still wanted Rachel to be in love with him. Call him mean, call him whatever you wanted, Finn was determined to make Rachel fall head-over-heels for him again. Finn grinned as all these thoughts rolled through his head, and as he began hatching his plan, he almost let out his evil mastermind laugh, but stopped when he remembered that Kurt was in the room with him.

Rachel had spent most of her weekend either texting and talking to Thad, or fending questions from her fathers about her new 'romantic interest' as they liked to call Thad. Hiram was convinced that Thad wasn't like those other boys that Rachel had been involved with before, and whilst Leroy wasn't as confident as his husband, he was certain that there was something special going on between the two.

"So, what time is your curfew on Friday?" Thad asked, ignoring Trent and Blaine as they made ridiculous kissing faces at him. Kurt, his only hope of sanity in the room had retired early, mumbling something about his moisturising regime and reminded them that they all had to be up early for school in the morning.

"I haven't spoken to my dads yet, but it won't be too early," Rachel replied, stretching out on her bed. She giggled at Blaine and Trent's impromptu rendition of Puppy Love, trying to picture the scene that was playing out in Thad's dorm room.

"Will you guys shut up?" Thad hissed, his hand pressed tightly over the speaker of his cell. Unfortunately for Thad, Jeff and Nick overheard the singing and came rushing into his room to join in, along with a good majority of all the other Warblers. Thad groaned, cursing loudly as Trent wrestled the phone from Thad's grasp and put the call on loudspeaker, so Rachel could hear the performance clearly. Puppy Love quickly faded into silence, before Blaine began leading the rest of the group into Silly Love Songs. Thad had no choice but to join in, and he hoped that Rachel wouldn't be too pissed that their conversation had been taken over by his loveable, but sometimes annoying, friends.

Rachel couldn't have pulled the grin off her face if she had tried. She knew the Warblers were New Directions competition, but at that moment in time, she really couldn't have cared less. They sounded absolutely flawless, even through her cell phone speaker. She bit her lip to stop herself from singing along, afraid that if she added her voice to the mix the performance would become tainted somehow. As the song came to a close, all the Warblers, with the exception of Thad called their farewells to Rachel, who shouted a goodbye in return. She heard the faint click of the loudspeaker being turned off, and settled herself into returning to their conversation.

"I'm so sorry!" Thad apologised, "if a Warbler starts singing at Dalton, it's a sure-fire guarantee that the rest of them will join in."

"Don't apologise, Thad!" Rachel exclaimed, "that was amazing! You guys sound so polished, it's incredible." The pair continued chatting uninterrupted until Hiram and Leroy poked their heads around Rachel's door to say goodnight to her. After noticing Rachel was on the phone, they called out a goodnight to Thad, who chuckled before reciprocating the gesture.

"How did they even know it was me on the phone?" Thad wondered, a small smile playing on his features. He knew it was because they had taken to talking to each other on the phone every evening, not in a weird "we're in a relationship and can't cope without talking to each other every day" way, they did it just because they were friends. After another ten minutes, Rachel bid Thad a goodnight, leaving Thad alone to be pounced on by Trent and Blaine, who had obviously been listening to his conversation through the door.

Rachel's Monday at McKinley was just like any other Monday at McKinley. She ignored the dirty looks the Cheerios sent her, steered clear of the football players, and kept her head down in her classes. She planned on eating her lunch in the choir room, safely away from anyone that could attempt to antagonise her, yet Tina had caught her arm and dragged Rachel over to eat lunch with her and Mike. The three spent their time chatting over their predicaments for the upcoming Regionals performance. Mike and Tina thought that writing their own original songs was a good idea, but they hadn't been able to come up with anything they felt was good enough for New Directions to sing.

Glee practice soon arrived, and Rachel was surprised to see that Santana, Mercedes and Noah had all written songs that they wanted to perform for the rest of the group. Santana started with an ode to Sam called Trouty Mouth, which no-one really got behind but didn't dare say to Santana's face. Mercedes' song was definitely better, it was catchy, yet the lyrics could definitely use some work, in Rachel's unshared opinion. Noah then got up; handing everyone lyric sheets for a song entitled Loser Like Me. As soon as Rachel scanned over the lyrics, she knew that this would be a song for Regionals. Thankfully everyone else shared her opinion, and all congratulated Noah on writing such an excellent song.

Mr Schuester dismissed the group, and Rachel quickly hurried to her locker to gather her things, making a mental note to e-mail Tina about Santana's song as she knew her friend had been struggling to not laugh out loud during Santana's performance.

"Hey," Rachel nearly jumped out of her skin at Finn's words; he was the last person she had expected to see standing next to her locker.

"Hello, Finn," Rachel replied, trying to leave a friendly tone to her voice.

"So, I was thinking, as we're co-captains of Glee, and we really need to write another song for Regionals, that maybe you and I should hang out together," Rachel decided to not look at her ex-boyfriend and focused on gathering her things to take home. "How about we go to Breadstix on Friday night, I know you love their vegan meatballs."

Rachel slammed her locker shut a little more forcefully than was necessary, slinging her bag on her shoulder before replying.

"I can't do Friday, I'm afraid. I already have plans."

"With Thad?" Finn questioned, pushing himself off of the locker to stand in front of Rachel.

"Yes, with Thad," Rachel confirmed, crossing her arms over her chest. "Not that it's really any of your business. Why would you even want to go to dinner with me? You have your...whatever you have with Quinn, and I'm spending time with Thad." With those words, Rachel turned her back on Finn and began stalking down the hallway.

"It doesn't matter," Finn called out to her retreating figure, "I know you'll always love me, Rachel."