Once she steps into the car she looks herself in the mirror and smirks. Oh yes, she was definitely going to have fun today.
On her way to school Rachel stops by the Pierce's home to pick up Brittany's school bag that she forgot in her haste to get to cheerio practice. Waving goodbye to the Pierces, she heads to school smiling all the way.
However, after parking her car one Finn Hudson decides to talk to her again, officially wiping of the smile that was on her face.
"Rachel? Can we talk please?"
Raising her eyebrow at him she drawls out, "What is it Hudson? And what is with your wardrobe?" She asks the last part while indicating his chosen attire.
He shrugs and clears his throat, ducking deeper into his letterman jacket and pulling his baseball cap down even lower, "Nothing. Don't worry bout that. Can we talk?"
Rachel rolls her eyes and continues to walk towards the building, "I was under the impression that that was what we were engaging in. That's what we call it when two people open their mouths and words come out. Talking."
She enunciates while continuing to keep up her fast pace, not really caring if Finn was actually keeping up or not.
"Wait, what? No, never mind. Rachel I really want to talk to you. Please stop walking."
Abruptly halting she spins on her heals and looks up at him expectantly, "Well? I haven't got all day for you Finn."
He glances down at the floor then he looks back up at her, shrugging his shoulders, "I wanted to talk to you over the weekend, that day I came over, but uh things..."
Folding her arms Rachel starts tapping her foot, "Finn spit it out. I have things to do."
Sighing Finn takes his hands out of his pockets and puts them on her shoulders, "I wanted to tell you that I'd really like to give us a shot...I couldn't tell you that over the weekend, but I figured I'd tell you as soon as I could, which is now. So what do you"
Before you could say Barbra Streisand, Finn was given the hardest slap he'd ever received in his life.
"You vile loathsome...creature! How dare you? After what I said to you, you actually thought you'd ask me that? What is the matter with you? How dare you?"
Any semblance of composure Rachel had started with had officially fled the scene after Finn started talking, leaving the diva yelling and screaming at the towering boy.
"Did it ever occur to you just how wrong that is? Finn I know you aren't the sharpest tool in the shed, but this! This is an all new low, even for you. Quinn is my friend, one of my best friends, and you cheated on her. What possessed you to even humor the thought that we," She points to herself and him, "would ever work? Or that I would even consider it? You hurt her and you think I'm just going to run into your arms? You are highly mistaken Finn. I strongly suggest you stay away from me for the rest of the day, or better yet, for the rest of the week. Don't call me, don't text me, don't IM me, and don't come around to my house. Don't do anything that may be considered communication in any form. I'm going to leave right now before I do something else that might warrant a detention of some kind."
With that she turns on her heal and storms off in the direction of the choir room, leaving behind her a very confused and utterly dejected Finn Hudson, who was trying to decipher the many a word that Rachel had used that he hadn't ever heard of before.
Pulling his cap down further around his head, he shoves his hands back into his pockets and asks out loud, "Did Rachel Berry just shoot me down?"
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