This is the beginning of I hope many drabbles and one-shots to come. This first one I wrote for a prompt I saw at the puckrachel_meme. I was browsing through the Drabble Meme's, when I found this prompt in part five.
The prompt was:
Established relationship: Rachel tries to surprise Noah for his birthday.. And everything that can go wrong does. Fire/Flood/order mix ups. –- By linty_goodness
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They had been together for two years and today was Noah's birthday. Rachel had everything planned and settled. She had made his favourite food, had made a nice and romantic set-up in the room where they would be celebrating and at last she had Kurt and Santana who would distract him the whole day. What could go wrong?
The food was almost ready when she got a call from Santana that they were driving Noah home at the moment. Rachel predicted that it would take Noah 5 minutes before he would be home by now.
After five minutes she heard the door open, and when she heard Noah walk in the room, she heard him gasp. After a few moments she felt Noah creep up to her. She turned around with a big smile, and at the same time he asked "Did you do all of this for me?"
"Of course I did. It's your birthday! You deserve a great birthday. Did you really think I sent you to a zoo with Kurt and Santana as a birthday present?". Rachel finally walked up to him, and gave him a big hug.
"Well... Maybe?" Noah said while smiling at Rachel. "I really didn't expect this, Rach. Thank you so much. I already love this evening."
"Happy birthday Noah." Rachel said while she let her hold on her boyfriend go. "I have to set up the food before it gets burned."
"Okay, Rach." He smiled at her. While he walked to closet to hang up his jacket he said "It smell really... Eh... Rachel? Is it normal that it smells like smoke?"
"WHAT? No!" In no time Rachel was in the kitchen. When she ran into the kitchen she saw the thing she really didn't want to happen. The food was on fire.
"Oh my god. Oh my god. No. This can't happen." Rachel kept on repeating while she tried extinguish the fire. Noah took it from her after he walked into the kitchen. He could see that Rachel was panicking.
Rachel had tears in her eyes. Now they had no food. Why didn't she just pay attention? This was all her fault. Now Noah's birthday was all screwed up thank to her.
After the fire finally died down, Noah came out of the kitchen. "Relax, Rach. We can just order some food."
So they did just that, order food. Not some pizza or anything. They ordered some food at the new luxurious restaurant in town. Noah ordered a steak with fries, because he didn't really like the other things they had to offer. And Rachel ordered a vegan salad.
When the food finally came and they paid the man who had brought it, they could finally sit down and have a little nice chat before anything else would happen. But that wasn't the case.
Of course it wasn't. No. Do you know what was there when they unpacked the food? There were two freaking salads. Not one, two. Could nothing go right today? Rachel felt like crying.
Until she heard Noah burst out a laugh. "Why are you laughing? I don't see what's so funny about this."
"Well, my day can't be better. You trying to do this all for me is enough. I don't care it's all messed up. I loved the zoo, and I loved this evening even more."
"How can you? Everything has gone wrong, and I don't have any back up plans any more." Rachel sighed.
"I'll eat this salad. I won't die Rach. And after that we're going to watch a movie. This is the best birthday I've had, even with all the things that have gone wrong. I love you, and I appreciate all the thing you've done for me today."
"Noah," Rachel cried, "I love you so much. Let's just eat this and get over with it. And then we'll watch any movie you want."