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William Schuester was strolling in the hallway to look for Finn. He didn't think it was a good idea to tell Finn about the twist of the plan. When he made up his mind to tell all the truth, he found Finn coming out of the locker room.

"Hey, Finn." Will called out to Finn, waving his hand in the air.

Finn looked around to find out a person whose voice belonged to. "Oh, hey, Mr. Schue. I was just about to go to the choir room. Is something wrong?"

"No, no. Nothing's wrong. I just wanted to talk about Regionals. Can you come to my office now?"

"Okay." Finn followed him into the office.

"All right." Will made sure that Finn took a seat before he started to talk deliberately. "Rachel told me that you agreed with her about writing an original song. She also said that you should've supported her at the meeting."

"Yeah, she was really mad at me yesterday." Finn shrugged and looked down uncomfortably.

Will declared, smiling to try to get rid out of Finn's nervousness. "And she was here until just a minute ago, uh, to prevail on me to change my mind."

Finn looked up with a half grin. "That's so Rachel."

"She's really something, right?" Finn smiled, nodding. "She was so determined."

"Well, she always is."

Will laughed at Finn's sentiment and continued. "Listening to her, I came to realize that she's was right about Regionals, too. I should've listened to her carefully and gotten the other guys to have a real talk with Rachel at the meeting yesterday. If so, it could've be easy for you to support her."

Then Will recited Rachel's monologue, the reason why New Directions would need to do this, sharing a laugh with Finn at her excessive passion. "Anyway, I'm putting this on the agenda at today's meeting and trying to elicit positive responses from the team. And-," he handed a piece of paper. "Here. You must read."

Finn leaning forward and took the paper, which filled with Rachel's loopy handwritings and the usual gold star on the bottom.

When he attempted to read it from the top, he caught sight of something. "What the hell is this?" Finn didn't know if he should be mad or disappointed.

"About that," Will smiled weakly, full of empathy. "I told her that she should talk to you about it first, but…" He tried to convey the reason precisely, why she decided to resign, why she didn't tell Finn first.

Learning Rachel's intention, unexplainable feeling began to rise up within Finn. His heart sighed with sweet sorrow, remembering the conversations they've had as much as he could.

"She meant well, you know. I think she did, people might not think so though." Will added, conjecturing that Finn was emotional. "She didn't want me to tell everything about this plan. She even wanted this whole plan to be mine, which I don't know what to do yet. But I thought that you had to know and understand her intention."

Finn nodded, "Thanks, Mr. Schue. But I think I have to talk to Rachel about it anyway."

Will stood up and walk toward Finn, patting his shoulder. "All right, let's kicking their butt for Regionals!"

After Will and Finn earned so many groans from the team, finally they managed to get everyone in a mood to be combat ready with OOS against Sue and the rivals of Regionals. Especially the hot steam named Mercedes' enthusiasm seemed to be just about to burst out of her ears, since she was so confident of getting a solo.

"All right, guys. So, Mercedes, Santana and Rachel will try a solo. No boys?" Will asked, glancing over at the team. All boys shook their head. "Okay. Other than Finn and Quinn for a duet? Artie? With Brittany? Puck and Lauren? Mike and Tina? Or, Sam and Santana, you guys can try for a duet."

"Not gonna happen. Ever." Lauren folded her arms across her chest, snorting. Puck had his arm draped over her shoulder, smirking, giving his approval. The other members didn't move, only staring at Will.

He sighed, "Then Brittany, Tina, Artie, Mike, Sam, Puck and Lauren will write a group number. All good?" The girls clapped their hands, Puck, Mike and Artie shared fist bump.

"Songwriting is not easy task." Will passed out rhyming dictionaries and continued to speak. "I'll ask the Jazz Band to help you guys with songwriting, especially with music composition. So if you need to help, you can ask them."

Quinn noticed that Finn's mood was suddenly changed, especially compared to when he and Will had been prevailing on the team to try OOS.

"What's going on?" Quinn asked, frowned her eyebrows.

"Um… nothing." Finn smiled at her and kissed her cheek, hiding his disappointment.

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