Hello all! I'm back with a computer and a new story! This is based off of the cw show life unexpected which I completely adore. This will be a Puckleberry fic eventually I'm just not sure where at in the time line. Also I'm unsure of how long this will be. I'm thinking no more than 10 chapters. The rating may be changed to M for a later chapter if you've seen life unexpected you may know why but I assure you it won't be the same. So if you enjoy this please leave me a review. Also this takes place in New York City. Enjoy!

It was a cold October morning when Rachel walked along the nice neighborhood and double checked the address on the paper she held tightly in her hand .She hesitantly knocked on the door. A bug eyed blonde haired woman opened the door. "Um Hello I'm looking for a William Schuester. "WILL," the woman screeched, "One of your students is here for you. The woman put on a fake smile and Rachel heard a man's voice say something and her heart skipped a beat. That was her father the one who she had never even meet or even seen. She held her breath until a Justin Timberlake wanna be come to the door and she couldn't help but to roll her eyes.

"Um can I help you with something? I'm afraid I don't think I even have you in my Spanish class." Spanish teacher? She thought, as if you being a teacher isn't enough.

"Actually we've never meet," She said taking a deep breath, "I'm kind of composed of half of your genetic material.

"What," he asked with a confused look on his face.

Rachel let out a loud dramatic sigh and tapped her foot a few times. "I'm your daughter."

"What do you mean you're my daughter, "the curly haired man asked shaking his head in disbelief.

The small brown haired girl in front of him "Well you got someone pregnant 16 years ago and said someone had a kid and that kid is me. Said someone gave be up at the hospital. I was then put in the foster care system. Somehow some of the paper work went unsigned and technically I am still in your and My Mothers custody so I need you to sign this legal document so I can get emancipated." The man let out a sigh and looked as if a realization had hit him and then his eyes went wider than a deer caught in a headlight. "Oh um yeah," he mumbled a reached for the small stack of papers hesitantly. Rachel watched as his head them and he gulped. Rachel grew annoyed she had to get to school but at the same time she needed to get the signature so she could take them to her hearing tomorrow morning. Finally he signed them and she snatched them from his much larger hands.

"Now if you could tell me who my mother is it would be highly appreciated." The man ran a hand through is obviously gelled hair and sighed. He bit his lip for a while.

"Did you really impregnate more than one woman," Rachel asked and watched as her father's jaw dropped and he frowned.

"No. Shelby Berry is your mother." Rachel's heart leaped. Shelby Berry had been Rachel's idol and was only the biggest Broadway star of the last 10 years. Sure Rachel had only been to see her once but there was always youtube and soundtracks that she had managed to steal with her friend Santana back when they thought shop lifting was the best thing ever. Well to them it was at the time it was better than that group home anyway. "I know where she is. I could uh drive you if you want." Rachel nodded her head and he went inside to get his things for work as well as a jacket. He led her to the car and she got in buckling her seatbelt right away. She was very safety cautious.

"So how is it you were never adopted if you don't mind me asking, "Will said nervously.

The young girl moved a stay strained of hair out of her eyes and tucked it behind her ear. "You didn't know," she asked then turned her head to the side to get a better view of his face. She wanted to memorize his face seeing how this was the first and maybe only time she would see was her father anyway and in a way her heart longed for him but it was to late for them and she knew that . He shook his head 'no.' "I was born with this heart thing. I had a hole. A small one but it still required surgery a few actually. I'm fine and healthy now but by the time all was said and done I was nearly 3 years old and a toddler of the operating table isn't a selling point. Besides people want babies so if you're not adopted by age 5 or 6 it's pretty clear that you won't be. I've bounced around a lot because none of the homes seemed to have worked out and they'd pretty much send me back," she explained and she could see the worry and sadness spread a crossed his face. "Don't worry about it really. After I get granted emancipation I'll be getting an apartment with my friends and finally have a more permanent home.

-X-

He didn't say anything they just drove in silence. Rachel understood she wouldn't know what to say if the roles were reversed. When they stopped Rachel was in awe. They were at a Broadway theater you know where shows went on. Broadway fascinated Rachel and it was her dream to beat all odds and be a star but that was a long shot seeing the life she had was anything but high up or normal. They got out of the car and walked through the stage door in the back so they weren't to be seen. It didn't take long to find Shelby. They just followed her incredible voice. It led them to her dressing room. Will knocked on the door 3 times before she yelled for them to 'come on in' in such a sweet voice. Rachel held her breath. This was it she was going to meet not only her idol but her birth mother. Rachel had to remind herself that he mother did not want her and not to expect anything but a few signature. Rachel walked in behind will as if she were hiding. She was shaking uncontrollably and was having a heart time breathing.

"Will what are you doing here," the woman said after audibly gasping at the sight of him. "I uh have something of ours," he said and she looked confused until he moved aside reviling Rachel. Shelby quickly jumped to her feet knowingly. She knew that the small girl in front of her was her daughter. "Shelby this is Rachel…our daughter," he said looking anywhere but either of the females faces.

"Oh my god," Shelby whispered, "The last time I saw you, you were a 6 pound baby girl and now your all grown up. All Rachel could do was nod so it was will who handed the papers to Shelby who read them over. "So you're getting emancipated from the people who adopted you? Why?"

"She was never adopted," Will began and then explained everything Rachel had explained to him in the past 40 minutes.

"I know it is a lot of information to just now be hearing but don't worry I don't want your money or anything like that. I just need you to sign so I can move on with my life and be with my friends in the apartment we plan on getting."

"Other foster kids?"

"One of them yes my best friend Santana is in the foster care system as well but the other two we'd be living with are over the age of 18."

"Oh okay," was all Shelby could manage before re-reading the paper work with a frown and then signing just like Will had before.

"Thank you," Rachel said once the forms were handed back to her. "Now if one of you could take me to social services to drop it off and then to my high school it would be highly appreciated. Shelby instantly without hesitation volunteered and went to talk to a few people then before she knew it she was in the car with her mother. Neither of them said anything for several minutes before Shelby broke the silence. "I'm sorry you were never adopted I swear I didn't know about the hole in the heart," She said sounding like she was about to break down in tears at any given moment.

"It's okay," Rachel said quietly, "I imagine you were quite young."

"16,"she said as she stopped the car at the social services and Rachel quickly dropped it off with her case worker. She came back into the car and Rachel gave Shelby directions to her high school but said nothing more.

Shelby looked at the front of the school. It was covered with graffiti and she was sure she had just seen a security guard break up a fight. Rachel examined her facial features and it almost seemed like guilt on it. Rachel sighed and grabbed he back pack from the back seat. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Anything," Shelby said as she turned to face her daughter. Their eyes locked.

"Did you ever consider keeping me," Rachel asked hesitantly and looked down at her dirty pink high tops.

"No," Shelby said almost instantly and a single tear ran down Rachel's face. "Rachel I'm so sorry." Rachel just shook her head and un-buckled the seatbelt. She got out of the car quickly and slammed the door. Rachel felt so foolish. She felt that maybe her mom would sit there and tell her how much she wanted to keep Rachel and how she thought of her face every day. Rachel watched as her car left and she walked up the 20 steps then in through the double doors.

-X-

The hearing did not go well at all and the reason was they had showed up. The very people who gave her up all those years ago ruined it. The judge found out who the two adults were and had their records pulled. She looked over both of the folders for a good ten minutes before speaking. "Well you both have steady incomes and are indeed not teenagers anymore. Surly you'd be suitable parents if I temporally put your daughter back in your care. Rachel's jaw dropped this could not be happening to her. She was trying to get away from parents not gain her real ones. "Then it's decided. I will not be granting emancipation any Rachel will legally be your two's responsibility."

All three of them were silent as they walked out. "Well what do you want to do," Shelby asked raising a brow.

"Nothing with you," She said flatly and looked to Will who had a frown plastered on his face, "You shouldn't have come. Either of you. You screwed everything up!"

"We couldn't just never see you again after meeting you," Shelby said crossing her arms.

"You left me alone after I was born so it's the same thing. Don't even pretend that you gave a damn about what happened to me. I bet you didn't even hold me." Rachel scoffed and judging by the look on Shelby's face it was true. "And what about you did you want me, "she asked turning to the man."

"I uh um I thought she took care of it."

Rachel rolled her eyes at the two of them. "That's just great! What was I just from a one night stand?"

"Yes," the two adults said at the exact same moment.

"Screw this. I'm better off in foster care where at least the parents want me for the government check, "She said with a sob and stormed away. She heard them calling after her but she ignored them. She was an idiot forever thinking she could be happy. She was an idiot for thinking the stories she told herself were true. When she was younger she'd tell herself that one of her parents would come for her, she'd go to their home and say 'I'm home.' And she'd live happily ever after. She let out another shaky sob as she walked up the steps of her foster home only to find everything she owned on the front porch.

"Telling Nicole off probably should have come after I was emancipated," she said to herself and put her face into her hands. She now not nowhere to go. She could always go to her boyfriend Jesse's but things had been off between the two of them lately and she didn't want to stress. She could go to Santana's but she was in a worse foster home than she was. She grabbed her things and started walking. She only had one suitcase and her teddy bear to her name. She didn't know where she was going but she just kept walking. She walked for an hour before finding herself on Will's door step once again. She knocked on the door and he let her in no questions asked.

He took her upstairs to a boring room with only white walls a bed with a yellow quilt and then a dresser. It was actually really depressing. "This is your room. I know it's not much but my wife is out getting things for you."

"You knew I'd come?"

"No," he said honestly, "I just hoped you would." Rachel took a deep breath and sat down beside her. "I was a really bad guy in high school. I was popular, the male lead in show choir," he started and Rachel couldn't help but to laugh at the words show and choir but it made since. Both of her parents had musical back grounds and she sang her heart out in the shower. "When your mother told me about you. I denied sleeping with her and she just said she'd take care of it. I guess I should have asked what she meant by that. What I'm saying is you…you are wanted Rachel. The second I saw you. I knew. I knew I had to do this," all Rachel could do was nod her head dumbly as he went into his life story by the end of it they were both sobbing uncontrollably. He didn't speak a word about Shelby and Rachel liked it that way. She was so angry that she not once thought of keeping her and never tried to get her back like her fantasies. Rachel told him about all of the horrific foster homes she had been placed in and she hoped he believed her, the social workers never did. The families would always say it was Rachel and not their parenting.

-x-

So it turns out Will's wife is completely nuts. She talks a mile a minute and bought Rachel entirely too much stuff…way to much pink. Of course Rachel was polite and thanked her. She told Terri that she was just going to bed which was a lie. Something was off about that woman but she couldn't put her finger on it. She had been up in her new room for about 10 minutes when she herd the two yelling down stairs. She got out of bed and pressed her ear to the door hoping to hear something good. What? She didn't have a tv in the room.

"What do you mean you don't think we should have a baby now," the woman said raising her voice.

"It just wouldn't be fair to Rachel. She just got here and she's never had parents before."

"How do you know she even yours? What if this Shelby person lied to you?" She heard a laugh from her father and raised a brow but kept listening.

"Shelby Berry was a no one in high school. She wore these weird animal sweaters and had head gear. I hardly think she was sleeping around." The voices started to drift off after that and she herd the front door slam. Rachel then moved to the front of the room where the window was. The window was right over the drive way. Rachel looked out of it and saw Terri slamming her Suv's door and drove off into the night.

Rachel sighed she was causing way to much trouble. She was also confused on her conception. If her mother was a loser why did her father sleep with her? She also found it ironic that he mentioned animal sweaters when Rachel wore them religiously. Maybe she was more like Shelby than she thought. Rachel shook her head. No she wasn't Shelby she wouldn't have done what she did. Her father may have thought that she was aborted but her mother could have told him that's not what she was planning on. Maybe if she would have told him they would have kept her and she wouldn't have been through all of the terrible things she had been though. She sighed loudly again and went back to laying down

-X-

After Shelby was told that Rachel had come back she immediately over at The Schuester household the next morning. Rachel was less than thrilled when Rachel walked down stairs to see all three of the adults sitting around at the table. Rachel was wearing a pair of cupcake pajamas that Terri had picked up for her which surprisingly she loved. Will instructed her to sit at the last seat at the table so she did,

"Rachel I've enrolled you at McKinley. You're far better off going there then that school for criminals," Shelby said with a scoff. Rachel glared at her and her face turned red.

"You can't be serious. I know it's not the best school but west mount is where my best friends go. She needs me and I need her. You can't just make these decisions for me now!"

"Rachel I'm sorry but I'm your mother."

"Ha! What a joke. You're only here because its court ordered that you be around me. If you haven't noticed I'm living here not with you-"

"Rachel," Will interrupted, "I actually agree. McKinley is the school I teach at. Sure it has its problems but there's no weakly bomb treats like at that school of yours." Rachel scoffed again and he gave her a stern look. "Just give it a week. I uh even signed you up for my Glee club. You told me last night you had an interest in singing." At mention of this Shelby smiled softly. Rachel stood up and rolled her eyes "Fine one week."

"Now go get ready I already got you school supplies and packed you a lunch," Terri commented and Rachel muttered something under her breath but put on a fake smile. She started walking up the stairs when she heard a woman let out a small sob.

"I never held her because I knew if I did. I'd want her." It was Shelby's voice and it made Rachel's heart skip a beat. She was still mad and wasn't just going to forgive her though when she'd never done anything for her except show up and the hearing and tear her away from her friends. She sighed as she went through her knew wardrobe. There wasn't a lot in it that screamed her but Terri tried and Rachel would give her that. She picked out a long shelved pink sweater which she paired with a black skirt. She but lotion on her leg s then added a small amount of make-up to her face. She sighed she was hating the way things were going. She didn't wanted this. But she was a woman of her word and said she would try this new school for a week. With a huff she grabbed the new purple and black back pack and she headed down the stairs.

She came down and Will was already in the car grumbling about being late even though he always got there super early. They didn't talk the whole way there and he dropped her off at the office. She was less than thrilled that her last name was now indeed Berry. She looked at her schedule and sighed. She was going to hate this. Starting over and not knowing anyone.

-X-

She was so busy reading the sheet of paper that she didn't notice anyone else was even in the hall way. She noticed when she bumped into a broad chest and fell right on her ass. "Well excuse you but that was very rude."

"Please princess," a somehow familiar voice said causing Rachel to look up.

"Noah," She asked cocking her head to the side and studying his face. He still had that stupid Mohawk he had 3 years ago when they were neighbors as well as best friends. She had completely forgotten about him and given the expression of awe of his face she figured that he had as well.

"Shit Rach," he said as his faced softened. He extended a hand for him to grab and she took it as he pulled her upwards. He looked her over and not so suitably licked his lips. The last time he saw her she was 12 almost 13 and living with the Jenkins in a rougher side of New York. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing."

He laughed slightly. "Ma got a better job right after you uh got a new placement, "he said lowly not wanting anyone to overhear the two of them because he didn't want to embarrass her or upset her. "What are you doing here?"

"I uh found my birth parents," she said emotionless.

"No shit," he questioned with a small smile on his face, "C'mere." He opened his arms to her. Rachel blushed furiously (which had never happened to her before) as she walked into his embrace. For some reason she felt more comforted than she didn't by her own parents. She wrapped her arms around him and took in his musky scent. "So tell me about these parents," he said once he let go of her.

She let out a sigh and looked at him with sad eyes. "Well my father is a Spanish teacher here and my mother is on Broadway."

"Mr. Schue is your dad, "he said throwing his head back and laughing, "I knew that guy was a douche I mean he's gotta be to give you up." At this Rachel frowned and he ran a hand though his hair. "Shit we don't have to talk about it," he said and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, "You look good."

"Thanks. I should really find my class."

"I'll walk you." She smiled warmly at him. Maybe McKinley wouldn't be as bad as she thought. The only thing about Noah Puckerman was he made her remember things. Terrible things about the family she was living with when she lived next door to him. She pushed the thoughts aside and smiled as he led her down a series of hallways. She noticed something. People were staring and whispering. Did they know she was some kind of foster care freak or something? She smiled and thanked him as he dropped her off at her English class room and walked away as he ruffled her hair.