Night 2 Remember:
Just want to give some thank yous. To Sara who only has watched one episode of glee after my persistence for continuing to swoon over Quartie, to HanaDear and our shared love of Pina and to Kristen Alderson, Brandon Buddy and everyone involved in the OLTL musical to which the 'last dance' song (Come With Me Reprise) comes from.
She listened to the young man in the wheelchair bare his soul to her.
Artie? Liking her?
Wow!
She was a big ball of emotions in that moment, listening to him talk. She was still reeling over the fact that she not only lost her boyfriend but said boyfriend along with the person she lost him to had won the title of King and Queen (well ok so it was Puck and Tina but come on that had to be rigged right?)
She looked into his glasses covered eyes and smiled.
She was at her lowest and he was being so sweet and well if she couldn't have her fairytale moment the least she could do was….
And that was when Quinn Fabray leaned over and placed a kiss on the lips of Artie Abrams.
As she pulled back his face flushed a pale pink while she began to turn around.
"I-im sorry Artie," she said, tears welling in her eyes.
Reaching out he gently grabbed her wrist to stop her from running.
"You don't have to apologize Quinn."
She nodded.
"I do, I was taking advantage of your kindness by kissing you when you and I both know that this is all kinds of wrong."
Artie knew of Quinn's reputation to be a bitch and so he simply nodded thinking that this was the part in the conversation when she would forget her own turmoil and call him out on all his flaws.
"I don't want to use you as my rebound…you deserve much better then that."
"Excuse me."
"I only kissed you because you deserved it, you deserve to be happy and you just said you've been crushing on me…but we can only be friends K."
Shrugging his shoulders he figured he wouldn't argue with the wounded blonde one's sudden interest of being his friend and so he smiled.
"K."
She began to turn again.
"Where are you going Quinn?"
'Home, I mean what's the point."
"Well…if you don't mind sharing the last dance with a guy in wheelchair."
She smiled.
"Well…if you don't mind sharing the last dance with a girl who just got her heart broken."
He smiled back as they headed back into the dance.
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Outside the other side of the gym Tina and Puck were standing face to face after rescinding their crowns to Rachel and Finn.
"I truthfully find you to be kind of a freak Puckerman."
He pointed to himself and shook his head flashing his trademark grin that he knew made all the girls (including Tina no matter how much she was lying to herself) go crazy.
"Oh I'm the freak Tina? I mean have you looked in the mirror because you clearly are the freak."
"Really!" Tina exclaimed with ferocity in her voice.
"Really!," Puck spat back as he took a step closer to her, pinning her to the wall.
Their eyes locked on each other as he made the first move and wrapped his arms around the young girls body and planted a long and lingering kiss on her lips.
They stayed in that position for a few minutes before he pulled back.
"So do you still think I'm a freak?" he asked.
"I think," she said, arms still wrapped around his muscular frame, "that we should go back inside and enjoy the rest of the dance."
He shrugged following her lead and headed into the gym once more.
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Ever since they got the crowns placed on their head Rachel and Finn were a fixture on the dance floor. Ok, sure there was only one song that came on since their spotlight dance but that didn't matter.
Rachel had made it to the dance against all odds; landed the man she had been crushing on and won Prom Queen to boot (though she really did feel bad for Quinn and planed to bake her cookies or something for Monday). Finn meanwhile, well he didn't know how to feel. He realized he had been a complete douche to Quinn for taking her to prom only to leave to chase after Rachel and yet at the same time he felt glad that he could have been Rachel's white knight saving her from the side of the road and cleaning her up so she could make the dance.
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"Ok…it's the last dance so make it count," the hired DJ said as a song began to play.
You might just be the boy I've always known
I might be lost in something beautiful
We might have found a secret deep inside ourselves
Deeper than this moment here tonight
Puck twirled Tina around the dance floor.
He didn't care that he was risking his badass reputation by dancing with a chick at prom, a chick like Tina Cohen Change no less.
Ok so she was a freak but hell maybe she was right and he was a freak too!
They say opposites attract though something told him that despite hanging out in opposite cliques outside of glee that they were allot more alike then either of them realized.
In a song
we become one
you and I
right from the boundaries of time
For the second time that evening she found herself 'dancing' with Artie and for the second time…(well maybe more then that considering the kiss wasn't on the dance floor) she felt a moment of happiness.
Sure it was too soon for anything major to happen with her and Artie but she knew that definitely they could and most likely would become great friends. And if said friendship eventually blossomed into more ... well she would leave that in fate's hands.
Come with me where the melody is alive
and wakeing our hearts to
is alive and wakeing our hearts to
the dawning of new light
"So," Rachel said smiling as the song ended and Finn linked his arm into hers, "the rain finally stopped."
Finn let out a laugh.
"Yea it did."
"So, should It's midnight, should Cinderella go into the locker room and change back into her ragged rain soaked mud stained dress."
Finn couldn't help but laugh at the irony that Rachel's current dress was used in a production of Cinderella and wondered if she realized this as she made her comment. Deciding to just shake his head he took her hand and lead her out to his car but not before engaging in one more kiss with her.
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It was definitely a night to be remembered by all even though they wouldn't remember it for the same reasons. Also they all knew that in some way the events of this evening would ripple out and affect them in the not so distant future.
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THE END