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Finn took longer than normal to arrive that night, which was leaving Rachel even more apprehensive. She began to rehearse mentally a hundred and one ways to tell him about her unplanned pregnancy, once her parents always said that it is risky, in some cases, to simply cut to the chase. She couldn't just let the cat out of the bag.

With Sugar, she had gone straight to the point, but Finn would be the baby's father, would have his life directly affected, and therefore it seemed one of those cases where we should not just say "your cat died", but start with something as "the cat went up on the roof."

The cat went up on the roof... Finn, do you remember when we got back together and we were so aroused that we forgot the condom that we always wore?

The cat went up on the roof... I arrived early from the hospital today, babe. Dr. Addison sent me home because I was nervous. Why? Oh... I've been feeling a little sick the past few days and decided to do an exam and then...

The cat went up on the roof... Babe, I think we need to make some little changes in the guest room. Huum... maybe not really "little", to tell the truth. It wont be a guest room anymore, but...

She should have reached its tenth version of how to start the conversation when she heard the apartment door opening, but it was not the voice of her boyfriend that echoed into the room, but children's voices. She looked at the door and saw a smiling Hudson coming in, with the boy and the girl talking non stop, while hanging their backpacks, lunch boxes and coats on the rack next to the door, after taking from the bags used to go to school a notebook each.

"Greg... Gaby... take it easy, okay?" Finn asked, but he could not stop laughing. "First of all, you'll greet aunt Rachel, the way I know your parents taught you."

"Hi, Ray-Ray." Gregory said, approaching her with his hands in his pockets and a small smile equal to his father's. He was son of an older cousin of Finn named Will Schuester. "You look beautiful tonight." The little boy repeated the phrase he heard the older man use sometimes to praise his wife Emma, with a forced tone, mimicking the adult way.

"Thank you, little man." Rachel thanked the gallantry, laughing and ducking in front of him. "And didn't I get a hug and a kiss for that?" The boy readily embraced her, and when released, he winked at Finn as if to say he had won a contest among males. Hudson laughed, wondering how a little kid of only five years old had learned to try and charm a woman.

"Hi, aunt Rach." It was time for Gabriele to get closer and spontaneously embrace the older woman, having placed in the coffee table her notebook and the one that belonged to her twin brother and he had dropped to the floor. "Greg wants to play videogames and don't wanna do his homework... but Uncle Finny said we have to get organized and there will be time enough to do everything. He will order pizza while we do the lesson and then the boys can play Xbox and we can play with Polly. " She said all at once.

"Of course, baby girl. Did you bring one for me to play too?" The "aunt" went along, thinking that, after all, playing with dolls could become a daily activity to her soon.

"I brought a lot of them!"

Rachel smiled and stood up approaching her boyfriend while the redhead little girl pulled her brother by the hand and made him sit next to her in front of the table to do school work.

"Pizza, Finn? It's not even weekend!" She rebuked, in a low voice.

"I'm an uncle. I can spoil them! When I become a parent, then I'll worry about eating healthy... and lead by example."

"Okay... if their parents will not complain." She shrugged. She had a much bigger problem in the head than food for the twins, which was exactly Finn's ignorance about how close was this future when he would be responsible for educating someone.

"I'm sorry for not warning you they would come. Will called me, asking me to stay with them, at the last minute. Is it a problem if they sleep here?"

"Of course not, babe!" She said, smiling. "They are nice kids."

"YUCK!" Gaby shouted, seeing Finn get closer and finally properly greet his girl. "That's disgusting! I will never kiss on the mouth."

"I want it too, Ray-Ray." Greg said, pouting, and making the adults laugh.

"You're too young for that, man. And even when you grow up, you'll have to find your own girl because Rach is mine already, dude." Rachel poked Finn and shook her head, disapproving what he said, but, deep down, amused. She was feeling less taut to the extent that the four would interact.

"A girl... no! I'll have several, that is much better." Greg said.

"Yuck, yuck, yuck." His sister repeated, covering her ears, as if he spoke the most troublesome thing to hear.

"And to say they are twins." Finn commented, laughing, before going to the kitchen and providing, after all, their evening snack.

Then the lesson was done, the pizza was devoured, the boys played Xbox and the girls dressed and combed the dolls, until the children begin to yawn, indicating that it was almost time to sleep.

Rachel watched in amusement her boyfriend taking the two small ones for the bath, wearing their pajamas, making them brush their teeth, putting them comfortably under soft and clean duvets, and, finally, sitting on the edge of the bed they occupied in the guest room, to tell stories and sing.

Bought me a cat and the cat pleased me,

I fed my cat under yonder tree.

Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Bought me a hen and the hen pleased me,

I fed my hen under yonder tree.

Hen goes Chimmy-chuck, chuck-Chimmy,

Cat goes fiddle-i-fee.

Finn's way with children made her want even more that he would be by her side for the pregnancy and after. Having spent the night with them, Berry saw clearly the same situation in the future and thought, for the first time, that everything would be fine, better than fine, that they could have a wonderful life ahead with the child.

Even if, for now, she had to postpone until the next day the story of the cat going up on the roof and, in the end, be content to hear the three repeat over and over the song "Bought me a cat."