A/N - I had a few requests in review and also PM's in regards to 'A Country Wedding' - and as to if there would be a one shot or another short, about Rachel getting her happy ending.
Well here it is! And yes, this will see Rachel eventually get that of her happy ending, after being left just prior to getting married to Sebastian, when he realized he'd never stopped loving Mikki, and also as well that they had had a daughter together that he'd never known about.
This first part is only really short, but it's setting up ultimately what is going to happen for the course of the rest of the story.
As always, the characters from Glee do not belong to me and I am just using them for fun.
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Love,
KJ xoxoxoxoxoxo
Chapter 1
Finding out with less than a week till she was to have been married, that her now former fiancé had fallen in love or rather back in love really as he called it; with his high school girlfriend in the town where he suggested that they get married, after where they were meant to have their wedding in New York had an unfortunate fire, two weeks prior to what should have been their wedding day.
Rachel Berry, left what use to be their apartment; after Sebastian Smythe told her that the wedding was off, telling him to get his stuff out of their in two hours time; and subsequently letting him do that and not wanting to see him anymore and feel what she could only describe as the ultimate betrayal of trust, headed out into the vast city of New York; and the one she had always called home.
Tearily calling up her two best friends Santana Lopez and Cassandra July, and leaving them each a voice message since they were both unable to answer her calls. She then headed around to her to her parents place, and where she at least new her mother would be home and that she would get the comfort from her that she needed in this time of sorrow for her.
"Why would he do that to me" said Rachel, as she sat on the sofa in her parents lavish apartment with her mother Shelby Corcoran who had made her daughter a chamomile tea, which she sat with in her hands but not yet drinking. "It was meant to be my magical day, and now I have to call up everyone and tell them that I have been left before even getting to the altar"
"It's terrible, sweetheart" replied Shelby, with a small nod. "I agree" she continued, looking to her. "But don't you think it's better that this is happened now, rather than at the altar where he could have maybe told you. Or even worse then that, have had married you and still held a candle for his ex girlfriend back in Tennessee"
"Mommy, how could you even suggest that there is a better way" said Rachel, looking to her in disbelief. "This is terrible, and I'm going to be so humiliated among my peers now and they are going to be all thinking poor Rachel, left before she even got married" she continued with a sob. "Sebastian has ruined my life, he and also that little tart of a wedding planner back in that stupid little town"
"Sweetheart" said Shelby, with a small sigh knowing how her by now her only daughter, and in fact only child's outbursts would always be the most dramatic thing she could muster up. "I think I'd rather know that the man I was supposedly marrying, felt as if he couldn't. Rather than keep up some sham, just for the sake of appearances now"
"You think Sebastian never loved me?" asked Rachel, looking up to her mother with tears in her eyes, and Shelby let out a small sigh.
"I think there was love there for him" she replied, looking to her daughter and trying to word her words ever so carefully as to convey in the best way what she was trying to say. "But, he also by what have you have told me" she continued as Rachel looked to her. "Never fully closed up his relationship with the girl in Tennessee"
"She lied to him for nine years" said Rachel, with a scoff. "That's not a way to start anything"
"True, yes" said Shelby, with a small nod having heard all about everything in hysterical sobs from her daughter when she had arrived earlier that afternoon. "But, also as well she did something that is very selfless as well, and let Sebastian get his degree and become what she knew he was always meant to become. Sacrificing her own dreams in the process"
"You're not meant to be on her side" shrieked Rachel, looking to her mother. "You're meant to be on mine" she continued, placing her cup down to the table. "I am going through what is only now the worse thing ever in my life, and you're there defending the little tart"
"Rachel, enough" said Shelby, as Rachel stood up and grabbed her bag which had been beside her on the sofa. "You were not being exactly forthcoming now with Sebastian either, I might add" she continued, as Rachel looked to her mother glaringly. "Asking us to fly the food, flowers and also chefs to I might add out to Tennessee. When I know too well from Santana and Cassie, that you were also trying to make a joke of those who were offering you help there, in order for the wedding to happen in not a lot of time"
"They were all plotting against me" said Rachel and Shelby looked to her daughter with a sigh. "I could tell, they were" she continued, with a small sob for added effect. "You didn't see the way they looked at me"
"Rachel Barbra Berry" said Shelby, standing also. "I tolerate most of your outbursts and also tantrums" she continued looking to her. "But this is quite honestly ludicrous"
"But..." started Rachel and Shelby held up her hand to her daughter.
"I've not finished speaking, Rachel" she said, and Rachel looked to her mother with a nod. "Yes, I am sad for you that this has happened" she continued, looking to her daughter. "However, your attitude right now and even in the past week, has not been the best and certainly not how your father and I raised you to be; and whilst you may have been given all that you wanted when you were a child and we very rarely said no to you. It's high time that I tell you that this I that you need to stop thinking the world owes you and that you will get everything you want in life; because frankly that is not how it works, and it's time that you learnt that"
Looking to her and just giving a small nod, Rachel sat back down on the sofa and placed her bag down again, before picking up the cup of tea once more and taking a sip of it.
"I guess I was doing some things that would have been quite mean for all those where Sebastian was from, if the wedding had gone ahead" said Rachel, and Shelby looked to her with a small nod as she also sat back down in her arm chair.
"Yes, you were Rachel" she said, looking to her daughter. "And as I said, I know this cannot be easy for you right now" she continued, and Rachel looked to her also. "But Sebastian, ultimately; has done the right thing here, because if his heart wasn't in it, then why try and force it to be"
"I know Mommy" said Rachel, with a small nod. "I just feel so betrayed"
"Yes, but they betrayal will go away over time" she replied. "As well as the hurt too" she continued, with a small smile to her. "And out there I am sure, is your prince charming; who is just waiting to sweep you off your feet and make you feel that love you so deserve"
"I'm done with men though, for a little while" replied Rachel, looking to her mother in turn. "I want to focus on my career, and getting my Tony award" she continued, with a nod. "Right now that is the only thing that is important to me and that's what I am going to aim for. Not for the altar, but for the stage, and seeing my name up in lights"
"That's a good plan for now" replied Shelby, with a smile to her and continued to talk with her daughter before she returned home to what was now that of just her apartment, and try to navigate her life as a single woman once more.
End Note: I will introduce Puck into the story in the next chapter - firstly just obviously needed to establish the back story for Rachel, in case there are some who'd not read 'A Country Wedding'. Thanks for reading, and I will catch you all again soon
However, it is recommended that you do, as there will be times when I am referring back to things that happened in that; and this is the best way to not be lost on the story line.
Love,
KJ xoxoxoxoxo