A/N: Okay so I really thought there was too much Brittana/Klaine in the wedding episode so I wanted to write something about Rachel in this episode. The main thing will happen in the next episode and it's basically and idea I had the night after I watched the episode. There's a lot of Satchel in it, and at times it's a little dark. I don't know how long I'll keep it going. May just be a couple of chapters.

All characters and some of the lines are all owned by RIB.

It was getting closer to the wedding day and all of their friends had started to pile back to Lima. Some of them were going to meet up at the Lima Bean for some coffee in about half an hour and Rachel were sitting in her new bedroom in the apartment her dad had bought. It was a really nice apartment with a big kitchen, big living room, just overall big. Now when she had gotten everything together in this new place it didn't feel as bad. The apartment was really perfect. Close to what you could call the city of Lima, very modern and no one had lived there before them. The complex even had a pool and a big yard where the kids could play and everyone else just relax. Just the other week Rachel and her dad had gone full on decorating. They had bought paint and repainted all the walls. Rachel had found a perfect photo wallpaper of New York that they had put up on one of the walls and painted the rest in an off white color. Both Rachel and her dad had really changed everything, they didn't keep any of their old furniture and decided to just get everything brand new. All the furnitures in her bedroom were made in dark wood and she had decided to have a purple theme over it all. It was simply perfect. All last night she had put the finishing touch by putting up photos of her friends, family and places she'd been like a border where the walls met the ceiling. On the three walls that were white photos that described her life sat and she couldn't keep her eyes from them at times. In her nightstand was a book with everything that had been on her wall in the old house. At first she was thinking of just taking those photos and put them up but she changed her mind when she started to look through the book. In the corner of the room stood her dad's old guitar, Sam had just started teaching her how to play and she would say that she was learning really fast. It was still about 10 minutes before he would be there so she picked up the instrument and sat down on her bed playing with the strings.

There was a knock on the door, a special five time knock that could only mean one thing.
"Come in! Your way too early though, when did that happen?" the door opened and closed again.
"Aren't you funny!" Sam said and sat down on the armchair opposite her. "Starting to sound pretty good, must be a really awesome teacher you have."
"Yeah right"
"No, I mean it, it sounds really great." She stopped playing and smiled looking up at him.
"I know it does, I meant the teacher thing… he's not that good really. What?" Rachel put the guitar down. "Don't look at me like that! Sam!" Sam flung up from the chair on top of her and started to tickle her till she cried. "Okay, okay stop!"
"You want me to stop?"
"Yes! Please"
"You know what to say…"
"Okay, okay! I have a great teacher. The best! Saam!" He stopped and fell back on the bed beside her laughing. They laid there for a while both just starring at the ceiling. Rachel really felt happy and safe with Sam. Lately she didn't feel happy really, everything that had happened to her had catch up with her life and had just come running over her. She liked being back in Lima, specially since all her friends were here and she definitely loved teaching glee but she still wasn't happy. Most night she would cry herself to sleep thinking about how easy her life had been a couple of years ago. She thought about NYADA and having her safe place there, yes it was rough but it was still always somewhere she could go. She missed being on Broadway and doing what she dreamt of for so long, and she missed him. But all of this had happened and at this point she couldn't do anything about it. But she really felt good with Sam around. He knew about all of this, they talked a lot. They had been close friends ever since Sam and Blaine had come to New York to visit that time and talked a lot, she thought it was because of Finn. They had this bond and both needed someone to talk to and they sort of found each other like that. It had been really weird and felt really wrong at first, dating, but now it felt like it was meant to happen. Rachel loved how he would sneak up on her in school and text and call her. A few days ago he had called her rather late at night, it was the second night in her new bedroom and her dad had just went away for a business thing over the weekend. She was crying heavily when he had called and didn't answer at first, there was just no way that she would answer in the state she was in, but he hadn't stopped calling. When she didn't pick up the first time he had called again and again and she didn't have another choice. As she answered he had known that something was wrong and they talked for about half an hour before he had stopped her mid sentence. "What's the combination for the entrance door, I'm coming over right away." He had been outside her door in 15 minutes and they had made tea and sat in her bed talking for another hour before they put a movie in and Rachel had fallen asleep.

So Sam pretty much knew everything, he knew that she wasn't feeling very good and needed people around her even though she keep pushing everyone away and saying that she is fine.

"How you feeling?" Sam said breaking the silence and looking at her. She said nothing and kept starring up at the ceiling, ever since that night he had been asking her that a lot. She knew that he was worried about her and all but she never knew what to answer or how to answer. Tears started to take form in her eyes which only made her mad and she started to shook her head cause this was just not happening. Sam sat up and lifted her up and hugged her tight while rocking them both back and forth, she laid her head on his shoulder and cried.

"It's okay" he hushed her trying to make everything better. They sat there for about five minutes until the tears had stopped falling. When she had made sure she looked decent again and Sam had promised her multiple times that she looked gorgeous they went off to the Lima Bean. Rachel had lost count of how many times he had asked if she really wanted to go and that they could just stay in if she wanted to. If she were to be completely honest staying at home sounded really good but the plans were made and it felt wrong breaking them.

They arrived at the Lima Bean a few minutes later and waved at Noah and Tina who sat by a table in the corner of the place.

"Same as always?" Sam asked her and she gave him the same look she always does, 'don't think you're going to pay for me' but she knew that that were going to happen anyway.

"Yes" she said, defeated but still smiled at him.

"I'll order, you go sit with Puck and Tina and I'll be there in a few." She didn't like this idea at all. Not that she didn't want to leave him alone or be with Noah and Tina alone she just felt safer with him. Safer within herself.

"Or I'll stay and we'll go there together?" Sam smiled at her somehow knowing how she felt.

"Of course" he said and winked before making the order. They got their coffees and walked over to the other two. They all hugged each other and sat down again and got to chatting about everything before Kurt walked in and joined them. The conversation were like always, whenever any of the glee kids got together it was like they had never been apart. Besides the whole 'how are things?' they would talk about things like they had seen each other just the other day. They talked about Brittany and Santana and the wedding and both Rachel and Tina were making small complaints about how both of the brides had gone totally insane and were so stressed and making their job as maids of honor everything but easy.

After about two hours they left the coffee shop and went their separate ways. Sam drove over to Rachel's complex and stopped outside. She was exhausted and so ready to take a long nap before doing anything else.

"Call me if you need me okay?"

"Promise. I'll see you tomorrow." she answered and they shared a small kiss before she got out of the car waving before she walked in through the glass doors toward the elevator that would take her up to the top floor.

Once she unlocked the door she walked into her room and laid down on her bed and fell asleep.

It was only two days left now. Rachel and Mercedes had promised Brittany and Santana to help them with the seating arrangements after school today and all Rachel asked for was for this to go smoother than the dress fitting. She drove onto the school parking lot and parked her car next to Sams and walked towards the school building. Once she entered she saw Kurt and Sam talking outside the choir room.

"Hey Rach!"

"Hey" she gave Kurt a quick small hug before moving over to Sam and get a surprise kiss on the cheek that made Kurt laugh.

"Do anything fun after our little group date?" Kurt asked as they walked in to the classroom. Rachel laughed.

"No! I fell asleep the moment I got in through the doors and dad woke me up in time for dinner. I ate we watched Grey's Anatomy and then I went back to bed and slept till my alarm clock went of this morning."

"Intense!" Sam said.

"So LeRoy is back home again?" Kurt asked as he took out some music sheets.

"Yup, he has actually hired a couple of new people so he won't have to do everything by himself, which means he will be home much more so that's great." Rachel said. She had been so happy once her dad had told her this. All through her life she had lived with two fathers who constantly worked and went away on business trips.

The day went by pretty fast, glee club went great even with Santana there telling everyone not to mess anything up. They had gone through the songs and how things would work out. Once the bell rang Rachel helped Santana put all the seating arrangement things on the piano and started to map everything out. Mercedes arrived and then Brittany. Brittany started talking about how to map all the seating with some double formula thingy, Rachel was still trying to get the grip over how this girl all of a sudden was a math genius.

"… so like Kurt should sit with Rachel since they're both sort of annoying. No offence." Rachel just rolled her eyes and the blonde.

"Why aren't Sam and Rachel seated next to each other?" Mercedes asked. Rachel had just gone over this with Santana before the other showed up.

"Carole and Burt are going to be there and I don't want to upset them." she explained. Holding Sam's chair in her hands. After some convincing from Mercedes about how everyones is okay with Rachel and Sam and how Carole and Burt only want her to be happy she agreed to putting Sam's chair next to hers.

"Okay so where are we putting Kurt then?"

They kept at it for about two hours before finally having everyone seated without the wedding ending up in disaster. After they were done Rachel and Mercedes went over the Rachel's place.

"So I have no idea what tea you want so I just brought the whole cupboard" Rachel said and put 15 different coloured small metal tea caddies on the living room table. Mercedes just laughed as she poured up the hot water in two big mugs.

"You are insane."

"Yeah I know." Rachel laughed and opened up a green caddie.

"So how is the very, very cute relationship going?"

"You know, it wasn't easy at first but… I don't know I think I'm actually happy. Like I haven't felt this safe with someone in a long time. After everything I had such a hard time opening up and actually letting anyone in. But he cares, he really does and everything is just really, really great." Rachel stopped. "Are you really okay with it?" She had been asking her this questions a thousand times now but wanted to hear it again.

"Look, I can't sit here saying that I don't have any feeling about this cause that would be a lie. I am a little jealous, you know Sam was the first guy I really liked and all. But I have this really amazing boyfriend now and I have never felt more right you know. Like I know that I have the right person. For a long time I thought that me and Sam were soulmates but now… I think that all that was just a phase." Rachel loved having Mercedes around again and hearing all this made her feel so warm inside. "But hey, don't ask me this again, okay? You know I'm totally okay with it. I mean you guys are so freaking good looking and looks really good together. Like I said, very, very cute." Rachel laughed.

"Fine. But you know I will ask again." Mercedes nodded knowingly and Rachel smiled getting a little flashback. "I'm gonna hug you know, okay?" She saw how her friend got the same flashback and they shared a big hug.