Roommates

12. Birthday Surprises

[A/N: This part is a special one for Cory Monteith's birthday which was yesterday (11th May). This part still fits with the storyline of this fanfiction, I just wanted to do something special for Cory's birthday. I hope you all enjoy reading, and happy birthday to our gentle giant Cory ❤]

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*1 week later*
Rachel's POV
I've been up since 5am wrapping presents and decorating the dorm for Finn and it's now 8am. It's his birthday today, and I just found out last night from Kurt, so I've been in a rush to put up balloons around the dorm and wrap all the presents I've got for him. He didn't tell me himself - I'm not sure if he forgot, although I doubt it, or if he just didn't want me to make a fuss. But either way now I know and he is in for a surprise when he wakes up.
I get up and place the last neatly wrapped present onto the kitchen table and look around me at the balloons I've hung up around the dorm, some in the kitchen, on the tv, on the door. Finn's family are coming over again today and Finn's mom is bringing the cake she's made for him, and I've also told Finn's friends, Sam and Puck, to come up to our dorm in the afternoon to see him too, and I've also invited Santana to see me while the guys are doing...whatever guys do.
As I take a final look around me, I find myself yawning and decide I'll go back to bed. There's no reason for me to stay up at 8:00, since no one is coming over until 12. I slowly creep back into me and Finn's room and snuggle into bed with Finn who is still fast asleep. I give him a gentle kiss on his cheek and he stretches out his arms to pull me in closer in his sleep. I always feel safe in his arms.

Finn's POV
I wake up and catch a quick glance of my alarm clock which reads 10:30am. I yawn quietly and pull Rachel in tighter to me as I stretch, and she wakes up slowly too.
"Morning beautiful." I greet her, and she smiles as she stretches too.
"Morning," she then leans over to kiss me. "And happy birthday."
It takes me a minute to realise what she's said, and I remember that I haven't told her it's my birthday. She must've found out from Kurt, but damnit I told him not to say anything to her, I didn't want her to make a big deal out of it. But she probably has now anyway. I give Rachel a thankful smile and kiss her back. "Thank you."
We kiss more, and I slide my hand down to her bum and she giggles slightly and moves away. "I'll treat you later, birthday boy." She smirks at me and gets up out of bed. "Come on, I've got something for you in the kitchen." She holds out her hand and I take it, following her out of bed and out of our room into the kitchen. As we walk in I see around me bunches of different coloured balloons spread out all around the living room and kitchen. There's buntig above the TV which spells out 'Happy Birthday' with a letter on each triangle, and I also notice a small pile of presents neatly placed on the kitchen table, which Rachel stands by. "Come on, open your presents!" She's more excited than I am. The idea that she's gone to all this trouble to surprise me for my birthday makes me want to enjoy it, even though like I said before I didn't want her to fuss. I pick up the smallest present on the top of the pile wrapped in striped blue paper and start to unwrap it, Rachel's expression obviously showing how eager she is for my reaction. As I get off the last of the wrapping paper I see that it's a neatly folded blue shirt. "Since you're always moping around in your baggy sweatshirts." Rachel comments and I can't help but laugh. I hold up the shirt as it unfolds and see there's small white x's patterning across the main dark shade of blue.
"I love it, thank you." I say, and I kiss Rachel again.
"Okay, one down, three more to go!" She says excitedly again. I open the next present on the pile and see that it's a new video game of Little Big Planet 3. "I thought we could play it together, rather than your scary ones." She's so cute.

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I finished unwrapping my presents and now me and Rachel are making pancakes together. As well as my shirt and video game, she also got me some cologne which smells so good and a book.
"Hey Finn, pass me an egg please." Rachel says and I walk over to the fridge and take one out. I then decide we should have a bit of fun.
"Here, catch!" I say and Rachel quickly turns around. I throw the egg at her and she barely catches it, but she does.
"Finn! Oh my god, don't you know how much it stinks if you get egg in your hair?!" She says putting her free hand in her hair.
I laugh. "No, not really."
I see her expression change from worry about her hair to a mischievous smile, and before I can catch it she's thrown the egg back at me and it's actually gone in my hair, and Rachel's laughing at me.
"Well you know now!" She laughs.
I grab another egg out of the fridge and throw it at her stomach rather than her hair, and of course it splats, but this time she doesn't care, she's just laughing.
"This is war Finn Hudson!" She grabs a handful of flour and dumps in on my head and my face, and now she's hysterically laughing. "You look like a snowman!!"
I grab her by the waist and start tickling her. "AH! NO!" She exclaims through laughing. "Finn!" She's telling me to stop but I can tell she's not mad in that way. I stop tickling her and pull her close to me and kiss her, and almost immediately her body stops wriggling and she's not laughing, completely caught up by the kiss. I kiss her again and she puts her arms around my neck and I hold my hands on her waist keeping her close. Eventually I pull away, deciding we shouldn't do anything right now because there isn't enough time before my family come. She bites her lip as I stop kissing her, even though she knows what it does to me. I can see behind me there's more flour and I quickly reach over and grab and handful and throw it on Rachel for revenge. She lets out a small scream as I do. "Finn!! Was that for the flour on you or biting my lip?" I smirk at her and she smiles back, knowing that it was both. "Right, come on, back to pancakes or they'll never get done." I smack her butt gently making her giggle and we get back to cooking.