AN- The song that Shelby sings to Beth in the beginnig to Beth is "For Good" from Wicked. I OWN NOTHING. I DO NOT OWN GLEE OR WICKED. ALL RIGHTS GO TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. Be sure to leave a comment and tell me how i did :). Feel free to critisize, but this is my first story so try to keep it constructive.
Chapter One
"Arrgghh…", Shelby groaned. It was the 5th time in one seemingly endless night that Beth had torn her away from her dreams with her screaming. Shelby got up to soothe the distraught baby. She stumbled, half asleep, through the narrow hallway into the dark nursery where Beth was located. Gently, she picked up the wailing infant. She quietly situated herself on the plush, fabric rocking chair in the corner of the cheerfully decorated room. As the baby lay in Shelby's arms, she slowly started to relax, and Shelby began to sing softly:
"I've heard it said
That people come into our lives
For a reason
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
Because I knew you
I have been changed for good."
As the last few lines were gently released from Shelby's mouth, Beth drifted off into a peaceful slumber. Not wanting to wake her up again, Shelby slept in the cozy rocking chair for the rest of the night. The last thought that she had before she fell asleep was, "I love you so much Beth."
The next day, Shelby dressed Beth in a petite, pink dress so small that it could be mistaken for a leg warmer. Today was a special day. They were going to see Beth's biological mother, Quinn Fabray. Beth seemed to sense that it was going to be a good day, because she spent the entire morning giggling and blowing bubbles. "Well I'm glad that you got a good night's sleep." Shelby said with a laugh. As soon as Shelby had, had a quick bowl of oatmeal and had fed Beth some banana, baby food, she strapped Beth into the back of her black mini-van and headed to Quinn's house.
On the ride there, Shelby contemplated how lucky she was to have everything she wanted in life, well, almost everything. She had the two-story house, the cliché "mom car", a great job (she was back part-time coaching Vocal Adrenaline two times a week), and the most perfect baby girl in the whole world. The only thing that she didn't have was somebody to love. There was no special man in her life to come home to her every night, no one to hold her or kiss her. It was just her and Beth all alone in that fairytale-like house.
All of Shelby's thoughts vanished as soon as she pulled up to Quinn's mom's house. Quinn had moved back into her mom's house after her glee club's sectionals. (Directly after their performance, Quinn was rushed to the hospital where she shortly gave birth to Beth). Her father wasn't living with them, because her mom found out that he was cheating on her with some young tattooed freak.
Quinn must have been watching out her living room window, because as soon as Shelby pulled up, she came dashing out to meet her biological daughter. Quinn knew that taking care of a baby and finishing high school would have proved to be too much for her, but she couldn't help but feel a twinge of jealousy towards Shelby. Shelby had her baby. But at least this way she was able to see Beth every few weeks and wasn't totally cut out of her life.
Before Shelby could even utter a "hello", Quinn had opened the car door, unstrapped Beth from her car seat, and was holding her against her hip. "Hey Miss Corcoran, what's up?" inquired Quinn once the baby was in her arms.
"Quinn, honey, I've told you a thousand times just to call me Shelby." She sighed as she got out of the car. Visiting Quinn always made her nervous. She wasn't positive, but she was pretty sure it had something to do with the possessive way that Quinn looked at and held the 4 month old baby.
