A/N: Okay people! This is my first Glee fic so pleassseee be nice! Anyways just a couple things you need to know!
every Back nine episode is fair game….but it takes place directly after The Power Of Madonna (So yes Jesse 'goes to' McKinley)
Quinn's parents never kicked her out……like I understand that this isn't very realistic but it's for the sake of the story
Reagan= Finn's 15 year old sister, also goes to McKinley, and is a sophomore like everyone else…(will be explained later)
So Enjoy!
Finn Hudson's life couldn't get any worse.
First, Quinn's baby isn't his, of course that was over a month ago, and he has started to get over it, for example he talks to Quinn civilly, he even drove her home when Puck had to go to work right after school. Sure, it was awkward seeing her parents after he let the cat out of the bag about the pregnancy at that dinner, but Quinn assured him that after she had sat her parents down and explained what she had planned for the baby (open adoption with a family from the next county over) her parents were actually okay with it, (saying that it was just a part of her life that she will have to go through and that they hoped that this taught her why she was in the celibacy club in the first place). Her parents even let Finn into the house to help Quinn carry her stuff up to her bedroom, which Quinn said was a step up to how they treat Puck. Apparently, Puck isn't even allowed past the front door. Puck and Finn's relationship has gotten better also, but they're taking baby steps. For example, before, Finn wanted to break Puck's nose, now he doesn't want to break his nose, just maybe chip his tooth, or even for the heck of it, shave his mohawk off. But, now at least they talk to each other, no matter how awkward and short the conversations are.
Second, after sectionals, Rachel was his, no matter how confused Finn was about it; it was obvious that Rachel was his girlfriend. But he had to go and ruin it by claiming he had to find his 'inner rock star', alone, so he dumped her. And it was obvious she was heartbroken, so why did he have to go and flirt with Brittany and Santana during Glee? He didn't protest when she sang 'Gives You Hell' to him because it was definitely deserved. But he was so stupid that he went on a date with the two Cheerios and realized how much he actually wanted Rachel.
But when he actually told Rachel he wanted to try a relationship with her, she had moved on. Sure, he dumped her, but he never expected her to move on that fast, and with the senior male lead of Vocal Adrenaline, Jesse St. James, who was their main competition for Regionals. He wished she was joking, but she wasn't, because he met the senior that had stolen Rachel's affection when he came to a New Directions rehearsal and dropped a bomb. Jesse St. James, male lead of Vocal Adrenaline, had quit Vocal Adrenaline and dropped out of Carmel High, and started to school at McKinley High, and JOINED NEW DIRECTIONS. That's when he felt like bashing his head into a wall, which, actually, is what he did right when he got home from that Glee rehearsal. He had thrown his backpack unceremoniously onto his bed and started hitting his forehead repeatedly against his wall. After a couple of times, someone started banging on his door. "Finn open up!" it was Reagan, his little sister. He walked over to the door, twisted the door knob so the door would open, and face planted onto his bed. He could hear Reagan walk towards his bed, and she sat down. "C'mon Finn! What's wrong with you?" He sat up, scooted backward slightly so Reagan could have more room.
"I need help Ray," Finn said, using the nickname that he had given her when she was four. Reagan nodded.
"I know, I've been saying that for 15 years, but no one listened to me." She said, and they both laughed.
"Ray, I'm serious. I mean, what does she see in Jesse that she didn't see in me?" Reagan could tell that this wasn't a rhetorical question, partly because Finn didn't know what the word rhetorical means, and because Reagan was one of Rachel's best friends, and Finn knew that Rachel, Reagan, Kurt, Tina, Mercedes, and sometimes even Quinn, were the main girls (and honorary girl, as Kurt so proudly calls himself) of their little group (their group being: Rachel, Reagan, Kurt, Tina, Mercedes, Finn and Artie, and sometimes Quinn and Puck) and they told each other everything about boys. Reagan sighed.
"You mean you want me to tell you exactly what she told us?" Finn shrugged.
"Not exactly everything, but enough to make me understand," Reagan nodded.
"She said that he was interested in the same stuff she was,"
"I'm interested in some of that stuff too!" Finn interjected. Reagan rolled her eyes.
"Are you going to let me finish? And, yeah I know that, but he's been singing longer than Rachel has!" Finn nodded, and waved his hand to let his sister know it was okay to continue. "She also said that," Reagan looked at her brother with a look of pity before continuing. "She said that finally she had someone in her life that isn't embarrassed to be with her, and isn't worried about what other people think." Finn wanted to throw something, so he did. He found his cell phone that was lying on his bed next to him and threw it forward, when it hit the wall Reagan stood up and picked it up off of the ground. She handed it back to him as she walked towards the door. "So do you understand now?" She asked one hand on her hip, the other on the doorknob. Finn nodded.
"I understand that I'm a friggen idiot!" Finn said sighing. Reagan shook her head as she opened the door.
"I've also been saying that for 15 years but no one will listen to me!" Finn laughed and threw a pillow at the now shut door. Finn sighed and rolled over on his bed. He wanted to wallow in self pity; he didn't even want to play Call Of Duty, so all he did was lie down on his bed and blink at the wall. And he was pretty good at wallowing in self pity, because he had a lot of practice thanks to baby- gate, and after 10 minutes of it, he could hear Reagan's phone ringing in the next room over. He closed his eyes; at least his fifteen year old sister had a life! His sister is freshman age, because the Ohio public schools have a weird cutoff date, which is Midnight of April 30th, (which technically is May 1st) Reagan was born on April 30th, at literally 11:57, so even though she is the age of a freshman, she is a sophomore with her brother and the rest of Glee. Speaking of the devil, Reagan came back into his bedroom.
"Hey," she said quietly. "Mom just called, said she was going to be working late, so we're on our own for dinner." Finn rolled over and looked at his sister, and right at the same time they said
"Pizza!" Finn stood up and high fived his sister and grabbed his keys. "Call everyone else invite them too." Reagan nodded and pulled out her cell phone. She had the AT&T Quickfire, it has a touch screen and the screen turns upward (like the Sidekick) to reveal a full keyboard. Reagan's phone is mainly white, but the keyboard and some other details are lime green. She quickly went through her phone book and found Kurt's number first. As the phone was ringing She turned to Finn.
"You call Rachel," Finn froze. Reagan rolled her eyes and was going to say something but Kurt had picked up. Finn listened to his sister's one sided conversation. "Kurt, hey, yeah Finn and I were goin out for pizza and we wanted to get the whole group together. Wanna go? Yeah? Kay, yeah can you call her? Kay, thanks see ya! Yeah, we'll all meet there. Kay, bye!" She slid the screen shut then looked up at Finn expectantly. "Well, are you going to call her?" Finn shook his head. "Wow Finn, fine, I'll call her, and you call Artie, Kurt's calling Mercedes, ask Artie to call Tina." Finn nodded and called Artie, after he hung up, Reagan was grimacing at her phone. She had texted Rachel instead of called her, and Rachel showed Finn the text. And he groaned, the texts read:
Reagan: Hey Rach, wat r u doin tonight? Wanna go get pizza with everyone?
Rachel: Sure! But is it okay if Jesse tags along?
Finn sighed and nodded at his sister. "Let him come." Reagan looked at him like he had two heads. "I would rather see her with him than not see her at all." Reagan nodded and texted Rachel back as her and Finn left a note for their mom, just in case she got home before them, and walked out to Finn's truck.
"Finn you drive like Grandma!" Reagan said as Finn pulled into a parking space in front of the local pizza place. They told everyone to meet at around 7:15, and since Finn drives carefully (so he won't hit another mail man) they got there at 7:30. Finn got out of the truck and waved towards their group, the only people who weren't there were Rachel and Jesse. Finn walked over to them, hugged Tina and Mercedes, fist bumped Artie and high fived Kurt (Kurt would rather have it been a hug, but Finn sat down and told him flat out said No hugging).
"Where did Reagan go?" Kurt asked.
"Right here," Reagan grumbled, walking out from behind Finn, who was a whole foot taller than her. Reagan hated being 5' 2" because everyone in Glee makes fun of her being short. The second shortest person in Glee would be Rachel, but she's 5' 3 ½", so she teases too. Kurt hugged Reagan, who then hugged Mercedes and Tina, and did some weird secret handshake that she made up with Artie in English class. Finn checked the time on his phone and sighed.
"Where are the other two? I'm starving!" He exclaimed.
"We're right here Finn chill!" A voice said from behind him. The same voice that made his heart skip a few beats whenever she sang, or even talked. He turned, to see Rachel, walking with Jesse's arm around her shoulders. Finn's heart dropped when he saw Jesse, he was kind of hoping she would come alone. When Rachel saw everybody, she ran over to her friends and Reagan hugged her.
"I love your outfit!" She exclaimed. And Kurt, Mercedes, and Tina agreed. Rachel was wearing a dark jean mini skirt that she borrowed from Reagan, the design of the skirt was called destroyed and it had a few small rips around the pockets, and the bottom of the skirt was frayed, making it look like she cut it. For a shirt she was wearing a white and blue striped T-shirt polo from Abercrombie. She was also wearing flip flops that had a little heel on them, so that gave her a little bit of height. Rachel thanked everyone, and then turned around to see Finn, She waved.
"Hey Finn," She said, awkwardly, not wanting to hug him in front of Jesse, it was okay to hug Artie and Kurt because Kurt was harmless to their relationship, and Artie was Tina's boyfriend. Suddenly, Jesse was right next to Rachel.
"C'mon guys, we should get inside so we can get a table." Jesse said, everyone agreed and walked into the pizza place.
After they all had eaten, they were hanging around the parking lot. It was only 8:45, so Artie suggested that they all go out for ice cream. Everyone agreed, but Jesse groaned. "I really wish I could, but I have to get home." Rachel's face fell. "Sorry," Jesse said to Rachel. Rachel shrugged, Then Finn piped up.
"Rach, you can come and I can drive you home, if you want." Rachel nodded.
"Yeah, I would really like that." Rachel said, and then she turned to Jesse. "Is it okay Jesse?" Jesse shrugged.
"If you want to," Rachel nodded and Jesse smiled "Okay, I'll see you in school tomorrow." Then he bent his head down and kissed her on the lips. Finn's blood boiled, but he felt a small hand on his wrist, he looked and saw Reagan.
Relax she mouthed, motioning to his hands, which were balled up into tight fists. He took a deep breath and turned to stand with the rest of the group, who waited patiently for Rachel. When she finally walked over, the group of teens walked down the sidewalk to the ice cream place that was three buildings down from the pizza place. Everyone got their favorite type of ice cream, and they all ended up tasting each others. Mercedes almost spit out the spoonful of pistachio ice cream that Artie had her try. Everyone was having fun and laughing, except Rachel. She kept glancing at her phone under the table. No one really noticed except for Finn who was sitting next to her in the booth. He was worried about her, so he got an idea.
"Hey Rach, want some of this?" He said, offering her some of his strawberry ice cream. Rachel shook her head. And went back to staring at her phone. "C'mon," Finn urged "it's piinnnkkk" He said pink in a singsong voice that made Rachel smile. She gave in and took her spoon out of her coffee Oreo ice cream and took a miniscule bit of strawberry ice cream out of Finn's. After that she went right back to staring at her phone. As everyone continued their conversations Finn pulled his silver Blackberry out of his pocket. He quickly sent a text to Rachel.
Hey, wats up with you? Ur not acting like urself.
Rachel saw her light pink sidekick light up and she got excited, but when she saw the name on the screen was Finn's, her face went back to being downcast. She quickly wrote a reply.
Nothing's wrong Finn, I'm fine.
Finn stared at his cell phone. Did she really think that he was that stupid?
Rach, u r one of my best friends…I can tell wen ur lying, so spill. U can tell me anything.
Rachel smiled at the last sentence and quickly texted back.
I'll tell you on the way home.
Finn smiled, happy that he was going to get an explanation. So, after awhile longer They made their way back to the pizza place's parking lot, where Artie's dad was waiting for him and Tina to get into the car, so they could go home. After they left, Kurt offered Reagan a ride home, because Finn was taking Rachel home and there were only two seats in Finn's truck. Reagan agreed and she told Finn she would see him at home. As Kurt's car pulled away, Finn helped Rachel into the truck. Then when she was in the car Finn got into the driver's seat. Once they were on the road Finn brought up their previous conversation again. "So what's up with you?" Rachel sighed.
"Well, the thing that Jesse did today, just like saying he had to go home, he said he would text me once he got home but he never did. Finn, he does this all the time. I text him, and he never replies. It's not fair!" Her voice cracked at the end of her sentence. Finn looked at Rachel, she wasn't looking his way, but he could tell that she was crying. Finn did the best thing that he could, he grabbed her hand and drove the rest of the ride to her house driving with one hand and holding Rachel's hand with the other. The rest of the car ride was in silence, until it started to rain outside. "Shoot," Rachel said, as the rain came down heavier and heavier.
"What's wrong?" Finn asked as he pulled up to Rachel's house. Both her dad's cars were in the drive way.
"I didn't bring a jacket." Rachel said. Finn thought for a second, before jumping out of the car, running to Rachel's side, helping her down and giving her his letterman jacket to wear. Rachel looked at him doubtfully.
"Take it!" Finn yelled above the sound of pouring rain. Rachel nodded, and reluctantly put on his jacket and turned to leave, but slipped on the puddles that were forming on the street, and she almost fell flat on her face because her shoes had those heels on them. Finn quickly grabbed her elbow before she could fall. He then walked her up the front porch steps and she smiled at him.
"Thanks for the ride Finn, I really appreciate it." Rachel said smiling up at him. He took a breath; her smile always blew him away. "And, thanks for walking me to the door; it was very chivalrous of you." Finn bit his lip.
"I have to look that up when I get home." Finn said, making Rachel laugh. Finn smiled, and then took a leap of faith. He hugged Rachel. He expected her to push him away and start yelling at him. But she didn't, she reciprocated the hug. And after a second, they both pulled away, but Finn kept his arms around Rachel, and kissed her. He didn't know what he was expecting, but he wasn't really expecting for her to pull away with tears in her eyes.
"What are you doing Finn?" She asked shakily. Finn closed his eyes.
"Rach, I'm sorry, I crossed a line and I really shouldn't have." Rachel nodded. Then turned around.
"I'll see you in school tomorrow." She said before she shut her door without so much as a backward glance. Finn sighed and drove home, mentally beating himself up the whole way. Why would he kiss Rachel? Yeah, he was in love with her, but she had a freaking boyfriend. He really was an idiot. As he got home and walked through the living room, he greeted his mother dully, and once he was in his bedroom he flopped onto his bed and sighed.
Tomorrow was going to suck.
A/N: I kinda felt like that chapter was rushed, but idk….please leave feedback!!!! The next chapter is full of songs… and comedy!
