No Strings

chapter 40

"Surprise!"

Rachel jumped in shock and her dropped as she looked around at all her family and friends and then at the banner that said, Happy Birthday Rachel.

"You thought I forgot didn't you?" Finn whispered in her ear.

Rachel looked at him with tears in her eyes, "You did all this?"

"Yeah, I've been setting up for this all day."

"So, you didn't go to the gym or have a meeting?"

"Nope," Finn smiled.

"And when we're on the phone earlier I heard a girl in the background…"

"Oh, that was just Corinne, she was laughing because she pinched my butt. I told her that was only reserved for you though."

Rachel smiled brightly and jumped into his arms as she kissed him, "Have I ever told you I love you?"

"Yes, but it wouldn't hurt to hear it again."

"I love you, I love you, I love you so much."

"Okay, save the PDA for later, let's party!" Kurt yelled before telling the DJ start the music.

Rachel went around and thanked everyone for showing up all the while not releasing Finn's hand from her's.

"Hey, Rach, I'm going to get us some punch."

"I'll come with you."

"No, you stay right here and talk to Quinn and Kurt for a bit," Finn kissed her forehead before walking over to the lunch table.

"Nervous?" Blaine asked as he walked up next to him.

"Is it that obvious?"

"Oh yeah," Blaine laughed, "but, you have nothing to be nervous about, Rachel loves you and you love her and like you said, she been not-so-subtly dropping hints for a month so I'm sure she'll say yes."

"I'm not worried about her answer, I know she'll say yes, it's just, I don't know what to say. I've tried writing something down, but nothing come. To me."

"When I proposed to Kurt I just said everything I was feeling I that moment, even though I had a speech prepared and ready to go. It's always better when you say what you're feeling in that moment."

Finn looked down at him and smiled, "Thanks dude. If it were Puck he would have said 'man the fuck up and propose to her already, dude.'"

Blaine laughed, "When are you going to do it?"

Finn pulled the velvet box out of his pocket, "Now," he stuffed the ring back in his pocket and went over to Rachel.

"Where's the punch?"

"I got distracted, but come on, I have one more surprise for you."

Rachel looked at Quinn and Kurt who looked just as confused as her before standing and letting him lead her to a chair right in front of the stage.

"Sit right here," Finn said before getting on the stage and telling the DJ to stop the music and give him a mic, "Hey, everyone!" Finn waited until he caught everyone's attention before continuing, "I want to thank all of you for making it out for Rachel's birthday tonight," Finn paused, "Sorry, if I seem a little nervous, but I'm not exactly good at this speech thing so bare with me," Finn chuckled nervously and cleared his throat, "Anyways, I'm going to tell you guys a little story of how, what is now known as, 'Finchel', came to be. Well, as most of you may know we met through our best friends Quinn and Puck who are now married. Quinn and Puck had been dating for a while now, and mind you, before Quinn, Puck never went on a second date so when I found out Puck went on a fourth date with this girl without messing around with anybody else I knew I just had to meet this girl. So, Quinn decided to bring her best friend, Rachel and we all decided to meet up at a club one night. When I saw Rachel walk through the door I honestly thought she was the hottest thing ever, that was until she started talking, and talking, and talking," Finn paused to laugh with everyone else, "But as the night went on and Rachel kept talking I decided it would be fun to annoy the hell out of her, and fun it was. Long story short, by the end of the night, we hated each other. So, every day we saw each other we would play a game of who could annoy the other most, and I won every time btw. Quinn and Puck, on the other hand, thought it would be funny to always say that we really liked each other and should just quote, unquote bang each other already, then we both would always give them disgusted looks and roll our eyes before going back to arguing. Then, one day, Rachel got sexilled, kicked out of the apartment she was sharing with Quinn because she was having sex, out of her apartment and came stay with me in my apartment. She slept in my bed because who knows what Puck had in his bed and I took the sofa bed. The second time she slept over, she practically forced me to sleep in my bed with her because she didn't want to kick me out of my own room and I wasn't going to allow her to sleep on the sofa bed and one thing lead to another and...yeah, skip ahead to about a month because if I say what happened within that month I will have her two very scary dads regretting their decision to let me do this," Finn chuckled and ran his hands through his hair nervously as everyone else laughed, "A month later, after her being very stubborn we became an actual couple and everything was perfect until my accident. For those of you who don't know I was shot in the chest and was in a coma for three weeks, I'm really not even supposed to be alive right now, but Rachel doesn't like when I talk about that horrible time so I'll skip it and go back to some happy stuff, but not before saying, even if she doesn't believe it, Rachel is the reason why I'm alive today. She is the reason why I kept fighting and eventually woke up from that coma, I couldn't leave her," Finn stared into Rachel's eyes as she finally stopped trying to stop her tears from falling and cried as she smiled at him, "I don't ever want to be without you baby. I want to be able to see you smile every day. I want to be the one to make you laugh when you're down. I want to be the one you wake up to everyday for the rest of our lives. I want to be the one to annoy the hell out of you all the time. I want to be the last and only person you love," Finn hoped of the stage and took stood right in front of her as he grabbed her left hand, "Most of all I want you to be my wife," he watched as her right hand flew to her mouth as he pulled the small box out of his pocket and dropped down to his knee in front of her before looking her in the eyes, "And with that being said, will you marry me?"