No Strings

chapter 20

"Babe." Rachel whispered as she stroked Finn's face, "Come get up, you have to go to practice."

Finn slowly opened his eyes and smiled at her, "Good morning baby girl."

"Good morning." Rachel smiled and kissed his lips, "As much as I would love and stay here in this bed and continue what we started last night Michele will be up any minute now and you need to be at the stadium in an hour.

Finn groaned, "I forgot about practice. I think I'm just going to tell coach I'm sick and stay here with you."

"No, we have all next week to be together. Besides, I have plans with Quinn today. We haven't hung out in forever together in forever so after Kurt comes to pick Michele up I'm going to leave and have lunch with Quinn."

Finn sighed, "Okay, I guess I'll go. I'm just so tired. You wore me out last night."

"I wore you out? If anything you wore me out Finn."

"Well, I was a little excited to be making love with you after weeks of not getting any."

"Two weeks Finn. It's only been two weeks since we last had sex."

"Exactly. You just don't understand how much you killed me Rachel."

Rachel laughed softly, "I'm sorry baby."

Finn shrugged, "It just made last night that much more special."

Rachel smiled softly, "Last night was very special to me."

Finn smiled and kissed her lips, "Okay, we really need to get up." Finn grabbed his boxers from off the ground and put them on before standing up and stretching.

Rachel admired his body for a while before grabbing his shirt and putting it on, "I'm going to go make some breakfast."

Finn nodded and walked into the bathroom to start getting ready for practice.

"Good morning Rachel."

"Jesus Puck! You scared the hell out of me." Rachel said as she put her hand over her beating heart and went to the kitchen.

"What are you doing here so early? And when did you get here?"

"About five minutes ago. And I thought it would be nice for me to come get Finn for once and I need to pack some clothes for next week since you guys kicked me out of my apartment."

"Sorry. I just really want to spend as much time with him as I can before rehearsals start and-"

"Okay, one, you're talking too fast," Puck laughed, "too, it's not like I'm ever here anyways so it doesn't really matter." Puck shrugged.

Rachel nodded, "Would you like some breakfast?"

"No, I already ate with Quinn before I left the apartment." Puck paused, "But there is another reason I came so early. I wanted to see how you and Finn were doing. I could ask Finn, before practice, but he is always distracted by texting you and after practice he just leaves without taking a shower so he can get back to you faster and it's kind of impossible during practice because Finn is always so concentrated and never wants to be bothered.

Rachel laughed, "Well, Finn and I are amazing. I'm happier."

"I can tell. I've noticed how much happier you make Finn just by how he smiles like a lovesick puppy at just the mention of you." Puck rolled his eyes.

"Oh shut up! That's how you are with Quinn too!"

"Whatever, but since Finn is my best friend and I'm protective of him, "I just want to tell you now that if you hurt Finn it will not pretty, but since Quinn is my girlfriend and your best friend I won't be the one to cause you hurt too. I'll leave that to Kurt. He may seem nice now, but hurt Finn and you'll wish you never existed or at least ever met Kurt. Trust me, I've seen Kurt go off on one of Finn's exes before...shit wasn't pretty."