No Strings

chapter 22

"Is it ready yet?"

"Ten more minutes." Finn said as he walked back over to her and lit the candles that were sitting around the room and played some soft music.

"Finn, what is all this?" Rachel asked as she let him take her wine glass and pull her up, "First I come home to you cooking, then you take out your best wine, and now you're lighting candles and actually dancing with me. Are you okay?" Rachel joked as she touched his forehead.

"As long as you're with me I'm perfectly fine." Finn said honestly as he looked her right in the eyes.

Rachel blushed and laid her head over his heart, "You're heart is beating fast."

"It tends to do that when you're around."

Rachel smiled and tightened her arms around his waist, Finn sighed and rested his head on top of hers and quietly sung the words to Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud to her. When the song ended Rachel pulled her head back a little and stared up at him.

"I love you." Finn whispered.

Rachel smiled and kissed his lips briefly, "I love you too." Finn's smile widened and he picked her up and spun her around as he kissed her again.

"Is that why you did all of this? You wanted to tell me you love me?"

"Nope.. I really just wanted to do something nice for you for once. You're always doing nice things for me so I decided to return the favor."

"You know I don't do any of that because I need to right? I do it because I want to."

"I know." Finn kissed her lips again, "And I love you for that."

Rachel smiled, "You know, I'm kind of hungry now."

"Why does it seem like I'm always forgetting about stuff when I'm with you." Finn said as he quickly walked over to the oven and took the lasagna out.

Rachel laughed, "At least it's nice to know that you aren't thinking about anything else, but me when you're with me." Rachel smiled at him cheekily.

Finn glanced up at her and chuckled as he continued to make sure the lasagna wasn't burned before putting some on two plates, "Okay, dinner's ready." Finn brought their plates over to the table and poured them more wine before sitting down with Rachel and eating, "Don't get drunk off of the wine this time." Finn joked.

Rachel rolled her eyes, "That was once! And I wasn't even drunk. I may have been a little tipsy, not drunk."

"I would hate to see how you act drunk then if that's how you act tipsy."

"I thought this was supposed to be a romantic evening." Rachel pouted.

"You're right." Finn laughed, "What would you like to talk about love?"

Rachel thought about it, "Well, something weird happened today."

"What?"

"Well, our waitress, she asked me about you."

Finn frowned, "Do I know her?"

"I don't know..I think her name was like Katy or something...something with a K."

Finn thought about it and all he could think about was Kitty, but he didn't want to say anything unless he was positive that that was who Rachel saw.

"No, I don't know a Katy."

Rachel shrugged, "Well she heard me say your name and she asked if I you were my boyfriend and when I said yes it looked like she got angry and left. I didn't want to say anything because she is probably just some fan, but I have been thinking about it all day."