This chapter is short due to that I used it for an English writing assignment. Next one will be longer.

I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! NOT THE CHARACTERS OR GLEE!

Rachel was standing in front of her mirror looking at her refection. She had always wondered who her mother was. What her name is, what she looked like, if she looked like her, can she sing and, well, just everything about her.

She'd always wanted a adult female in her life. Someone to look up to and have help mold her as a woman. Not that she was complaining about Ms. Barbra Streisand. She was named for her for goodness sake. The difference was that she isn't around in person, to be a mentor. Rachel wanted someone to talk to about her problems, about girl things and boys, of course. That was something she couldn't do with Ms. Streisand.

She hadn't ever found out what her mothers name was because her parents had never told her. When she asked, they would just change the subject like they didn't want her to know. She knew deep down that they didn't want her contacting her.

As she stood there Rachel thoughts were interrupted by her parents.

They had started to worried about their precious little girl and they knew what the problem was. They weren't that naïve. She was missing a female role model and had been for some time. In that moment they regretted making her birth mother sign the contract that said that she was not allowed to contact her daughter, their daughter, until she turned eighteen or unless, for some ungodly reason, her parents were killed. Maybe they should contact her? Instead, they decided to wait, to see how Rachel got through the week. Maybe she could talk to the girls in her Glee club about things.

Rachel stared at them a moment before she asked

"Is there something you wanted?" She didn't sound angry or annoyed, just more curious than anything.

"It's dinner time." LeRoy answered.

"Oh, okay I'll be right there," she replied.

They left her alone and she took one last look in the mirror before going downstairs. She quietly ate her dinner and then went back up to her room to do some homework and work on some songs. Around 10 pm she went to bed.

Shelby's POV:

It was a night like any other as she sat in her home office doing some paper work. She pulled open her file drawer and came across the single most important document in her life. She looked at it often. She came out of her gaze when she felt the paper getting heavier in her hand as she noticed a tear on the paper.

She remembered the day she'd given birth to her baby girl. She hadn't even been able to hold her and she almost didn't get to see her. However, she had gotten a brief glimpse of her when the nurse was cleaning her off. Then her sweet baby girl was quickly whisked away to be taken to her new parents.

She'd tried for so many years to let that moment go but it was too hard.

She knew she only had two more years until she could finally contact her but somehow she hoped that her daughter would seek out to her before that. She didn't know what her name was but she knew that her parents last name was Berry so that was a start.

She leaned back and took a deep breath. Then as she stood up, she turned off the desk lamp and walked out of the office.

It was time to go to bed. 'New job tomorrow,' she thought to herself before she fell asleep. What she didn't know was that her daughter went to the same school she was going to be teaching at.

Rachel POV:

Rachel woke up the next day to her alarm. She got out of bed and went down to the kitchen. Her dads were already awake and had breakfast on the table.

Like the night before, she ate in silence and then went back up to her room. She took out her outfit for the day, which was her usual sweater and skirt with knee socks. She then went into her bathroom and came out a half hour later ready for the day.

She went downstairs and gave her dads a hug before she walked out the door and started walking to school.

First period was science. She'd never understood why she had to take science when she wanted to be on Broadway. She was day dreaming throughout the whole class and when the bell rang she quickly took her things and left. She was day dreaming throughout the other classes too until it reached time for choir.

She was super excited but she wasn't really sure why, she just knew it would be good. She walked in and there was a dark haired woman standing next to Mr. Schue.

She sat down next to Tina and whispered "Who's that?"

"That's Ms. Corcoran," Tina whispered back.

"Oh," Rachel let out as Mr. Schue started talking.

"We have the play and a few other projects that I'll be doing this year so this is Ms. Shelby Corcoran, and she's going to be co-directing with me from now on."

As Rachel gazed at Ms. Corcoran there was just something so familiar, but she couldn't put her finger on it. At the same time she found herself being watched by the woman as well. She quickly looked over to Finn who was sitting right next to her.

Shelby's POV:

The day started out well as time seemed to fly by and it was suddenly time for Glee club. She put her stuff down in the office and then Mr. Schuester was going to introduce her to all the kids. He started out in alphabetical order and pointed at each kid while they were talking amongst themselves.

"So that's Artie Abrams, Blaine Anderson, Rachel Berry…" Her mind kinda went away after he said Rachel Berry. That was it, it had to be her.

Mr. Schuester was still saying names but Shelby was in her own little world. It really is her, or is it? She could see a resemblance but she still wasn't sure. She had known they were living in Lima but the fact that she went to William McKinley High School was a surprise to her, if only she could tell her who she was.

She kept uncharacteristically quiet and quickly disappeared as soon as the class was over and so did Rachel, but she had no idea why.

'Rachel, what a pretty name,' she thought. She drove home and all she could think about was Rachel for the rest of the day. She even fell asleep dreaming about her.

Rachel's POV:

Rachel's parents were still at work, so as soon as she got home she ran downstairs to the basement storage room so she could go through their things before they got home. She went through tons of legal papers until at the bottom of a box she found her birth certificate and a paper that her mother had signed that said she wasn't allowed to contact her child until she turned eighteen or her parents died.

'Holy s***,' she thought. Suddenly she thought to look at the time on her phone and it was getting close to 5:30. Her parents would be home any minute. She stuffed the papers in her backpack and quickly put everything else back into the boxes, then ran up to her room where she took them out again. She looked at the certificate and where it said mother's name, she stared at the signature for a long time before she said the name out loud.

"My mother is Shelby Corcoran… Ms. Corcoran my choir teacher?"

She was confused but she now knew who her mother was and she knew her, personally. Well, kind of. She also realized that was probably why Ms. Corcoran kept staring at her in class. But her mother didn't say anything to her and then she remembered the other paper where it said she was not allowed to contact her.

She smiled and then she heard the front door open. She walked out of her room and greeted her fathers. After talking to them about their day she went back to her room and opened up her computer and typed her mothers name into Google. There were a lot of things that came up but then after she went to the white pages, she found what she was looking for…her mothers address.

She went downstairs and started putting on her shoes as she told her dads that she was gonna take a little walk.

She didn't want to make them upset so she kept where she was going quiet. She knew exactly where the address was and it wasn't that far away. When she arrived at the house she looked up hesitantly at the large green door and began knocking. Shelby opened it after three knocks.

"Rachel, what are you doing here?" She asked quite surprised.

"Can I come in?"

"Yeah, okay sure," she said opening the door a little farther.

Rachel walked in and sat down on her living room couch. She was really nervous but she hoped for the best with what she was about to say. Shelby walked in behind her and sat across from her in her favorite oversized armchair.

"I know that your my mother," she blurted out quickly. "and I'm pretty sure you already know I'm your daughter but due to that contract you signed you're not allowed to contact me." Rachel breath out loud. "It also said if I wanted any contact with you before I was 18, I had to look for you."

Shelby was shocked but also a little relieved. She'd hoped for this day for years.

"Yes, I knew, and yes, your right. I wasn't allowed to contact you in anyway and I had no idea who you were until Mr. Schuester said your name out loud in class," she swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat. "I only knew you lived somewhere in Lima and that your last name was Berry."

"I know." Rachel said sweetly. "I'm not sure if you want this but, I really want you to be involved in my life and I'm totally fine if you don't want to." Rachel added.

"See, here's the thing. I do want to be involved in your life. I've waited to be a part of it for years."

"Are you serious?" Rachel questioned.

"Absolutely, 100% serious." Shelby smiled at Rachel's disbelief.

Rachel got up and walked over in front of where Shelby was sitting.

"I'm gonna hug you now," she said.

Then Shelby smiled even wider and took Rachel in her arms for the first time in her life. It felt so good to both of them that they stayed that way until Rachel remembered something and unwillingly pulled away.

"I forgot. I've gotta tell my dads."

"You didn't tell them that you found me, or that you were coming to see me?" she asked obviously now confused.

"No, I didn't want to upset them," Rachel said sadly.

Shelby sat for a moment looking at her lost little girl. "Ok, I'll come with you and we can tell them together. That is, if you want me to."

Rachel's eyes lit up and she nodded emphatically.

"Yeah, okay."

Shelby grabbed her keys and followed Rachel out of the house and they walked toward Rachel's house. She didn't know why she didn't offer to drive them but she didn't care. She was finally with her little girl and she could care less how they spent that time just as long as she could be with her.

When they walked into the house the Berry men immediately recognized Shelby.

"Ok, before you say anything, I found her. She didn't find me. I been looking for a female role model and I'm pretty sure that you two had started to figure that out. So I went through your things and I found her name.

They looked back at Rachel before Hiram began to speak.

"Yeah, we had pretty much figured that out for ourselves. We were just hoping that you might be able to talk things out with your friends in glee. But if you didn't, we had also thought that we might get in touch with her or at least give you that information." He looked at Shelby who now had a pleasant look of shock on her face. He then looked at LeRoy and back at Rachel.

"And we will talk later, young lady, about you going through our things without permission," LeRoy added.

"Oh, ok. Well, I really want a relationship with her and she seems to want one with me," Rachel countered.

They both looked back at Shelby. "Are you sure this is really what you want?" Hiram asked her.

"I've wanted this since the day I gave birth to her," Shelby beamed.

"Ok then. It's settled. You get to have a relationship with your Mother," Hiram said to Rachel. LeRoy reluctantly smiled at his daughter.

"Thank you, Thank you so much," she repeated over and over to all three of her parents.

"This means I get to live with her too, right? That is if it's ok with you?" she asked Shelby and then back to her dads.

"Yes, if your dads are ok with that," she agreed.

"Sure, than we can do things together without her…" It got kinda awkward after that and Rachel just rolled her eyes.

"That's TMI Daddy," she said and then looked back at her mother. "Can I spent the night tonight? I can sleep on the couch…"

"Sure, I'm fine with that. We can have a little bonding time." Shelby smiled at Rachel and then looked for an ok from Rachel's fathers who nodded in unison.

"Good, then they can do whatever they want," that though almost made her wanna vomit but then she focused her thoughts back to her mom. "And we can start getting to know each other."

She ran upstairs and quickly packed an overnight bag. When they got back to Shelby's house it was amazing how many things they had in common. They spent the night watching movies, singing, and talking. They had a great time just having an all around girls night.