My Favorite Song

Chapter 8

Rachel

So it’s lunchtime and I’ve decided to branch out a bit. Things with Finn seemed to go so well yesterday and then again this morning when he drove me to school that I’m going to ask him to sit with us at lunch again, or sit with him. 

I’m waiting by his locker at the moment and a few people are staring at me wondering what I’m doing. It’s actually been funny to see people that have ridiculed Finn his entire life actually stopping to say hi to him now. 

I smile as I see him approaching me and then I see him return my smile I know I’ve made the right decision. ‘Hey’ I say. 

‘Hey. Are you stalking me Berry?’ he asks me then and I cant help but burst into laughter. 

‘Totally’ I tell him with a huge grin. I move away so he can put some books away in his locker and get out his lunch. ‘Just wanted to see if you were going to eat lunch with us again today?’ I ask him shyly. 

‘Are you sharing with me again?’ he asks then. I love this relaxed Finn, he used to be like this all the time when we were kids and he’s like this at home too but to see him be like this at school is great. 

‘That depends on what you have to offer in return’ I counter as we walk out to the table in the quad. I can see Puck's surprised face when Finn sits down with us again. He has been trying to convince Finn to sit with us for ages but he would always refuse and I know how much it used to frustrate him, he wanted to be near his girlfriend but at the same time he hated not being able to eat lunch with his best mate. 

‘What is it that you want?’ he replies then but quietly enough that I’m the only one that can hear. 

‘Haven’t you figured it out yet’ I reply just as quietly but with a big smile of my face. I don’t know how many more clues I can give him. I hope he takes the hint soon. 

Finn

Things continue the same way for the next week. Rachel and I would go to and from school together and I would usually eat lunch with them at their table. I know that people were talking they were all wondering what was going on between Rachel and I. I just wish that I knew. I talked to Kurt about it and he agreed that he thought Rachel liked me from what he observed the other night. He told me to play it cool so I am. 

I walked into my English class on Thursday and took a seat in my usual seat next to Quinn. I felt bad I hadn’t seen her all week. I know that she was looking for me at lunchtime today because I saw her standing by my locker. Just like she had on Wednesday so I avoided it. Things just felt uncomfortable when she sat at lunch with us. 

I felt bad that I had pretty much just ditched her but I knew that she would be okay with it. 

‘There you are’ she says as she walks into the room. 

‘Where have you been the last 3 days. I was starting to worry about you’ she tells me. 

I should also mention that she has started calling the house as well. My mum took the call on Monday night and Kurt last night. 

‘Oh you know just around’ I reply with a shrug of the shoulders. 

‘So we’re still going to that party tomorrow night right?’ she asks me then. 

Crap. I totally forgot about that. I nod my head that I’m still going. 

Rachel

So on the way home this afternoon with Finn we talk about my gig tomorrow. He asks how the new song is coming along and I tell him it’s great and that it’s inspired me to start writing myself. 

‘So did you want to come with me tomorrow night?’ I ask him hoping that he’ll say yes so that I can spend a bit of time with him before we go on stage. 

‘Oh actually I cant. I have to take Kurt and I sort of told Quinn she could get a ride’ he explains. I can’t help feel a little jealous over the fact that Quinn will be riding with him tomorrow night. 

‘So you and Quinn, are you like seeing each other?’ I ask him then, I’m trying to be casual about the whole thing I don’t want to seem too pathetic. 

‘Me and Quinn?’ he asks ‘No definitely not’ he tells me and I cant help but smile. 

We’ve just pulled up out the front of our houses so I reach into the back of the car to grab my stuff. 

‘So you might have a free spot on you dance card still for little old me?’ I ask him throwing a few eye flutters for effect. 

I watch as the grin spreads on his face ‘its very empty maybe you could fill up more than one spot?’ he asks me. 

I grin back at him then and before I know what I’m doing I’ve reached over and given him a kiss on the lips. ‘Count on it’ I tell him. Where the hell did all this confidence come from I can’t help but wonder. As I get to my door I stop and look back and my heart flips because there he is still sitting in the same spot looking all dazed like I kissed his lights out from one kiss. I can’t wait for our next one I think to myself.