Here's chapter 2! Really hope you guys will enjoy it :)

Remember that I still do not own Glee…

Since their meeting Rachel had spent more and more time at her mothers. Which had not been as appreciated by her fathers as it was by her mother.

Shelby had nothing against Rachel being at her place but the closer she got to Rachel the more she was afraid that her fathers would try to take Rachel away from her and she wasn't sure she could handle that again. It was really hard the first time but a second time would just be devastating.

Shelby couldn't stop thinking about it and the more she did she could feel herself tearing up but quickly put her hand up so that Rachel wouldn't notice the tears.

They had cuddled up together on the couch while watching a movie and as it ended Shelby couldn't hold it in any longer. She let the tears fall quickly down her cheeks. This was the first time Shelby Corcoran had ever cried in front of anyone. She never thought that someone would be her own child let alone her sixteen year old daughter.

Rachel looked up and saw that her mother was crying. She didn't really know what to do but she knew she had to do something. She slowly inched closer into her mom and began to hug her. Shelby looked down into Rachel's big chocolate eyes and smiled.

Rachel wanted to ask what was wrong, but she was afraid to. She took a deep breath before she worked up the courage to ask her what was the matter.

"Shelby, what's wrong?" Rachel leaned softly into her mothers shoulder.

"Nothing, sweetie. Nothing you need to worry about anyway."

Rachel really wasn't convinced. She couldn't figure out what it was that was making Shelby so sad and she wanted to know desperately. But she knew something was terribly wrong. She could see it just by looking into Shelby's eyes.

It hurt Rachel seeing her mom cry even though she didn't know if it was because of her, but deep down inside she knew that it had to be.

With those big brown puppy dog eyes Rachel once again looked into her mom's and could see that Shelby knew something was now making Rachel sad and that she wanted answers. After a thirty second staring contest with her daughter Shelby finally gave in.

New tears silently fell as she still held her daughter in her arms. She deeply inhaled and quietly explained "You've been spending a lot of time here with me and I've noticed that your dads aren't as appreciative as I am. I'm just afraid that they'll take you away and I'll never see you again. I'm not sure I could handle that." Rachel had also noticed that her dads were annoyed at her spending so much time with her mother. But what did they expect? They had 16 years to catch up on.

Rachel and Shelby were still hugging tightly when someone knocked on the front door. Rachel moved a bit so Shelby could answer it. On the other side, Rachel's dads looked both happy and sad at the same time. Shelby gestured for them to come in and Rachel got up from the couch.

She was surprised to see them. She already knew she'd spent a lot of time at Shelby's and hadn't been home for over a month. Not that Rachel and her fathers spent a lot of time with each other. They'd had some dinners together and they'd come to a few of her competitions but that was only a once in a while type of thing. She wondered why they both looked so conflicted.

Rachel stood closer to Shelby before she opened up and began to beg "Please don't take me away from her!"

Tears started to build in Rachel's eyes and Shelby put her hands on her shoulders. She was afraid this day would come eventually.

Suddenly her dads looked confused. "Rachel, honey. We're not taking you away from her. We're leaving you with her." LeRoy answered solemnly.

Rachel and Shelby were both shocked.

"Wait what?!" they gasped at the same time.

"Yeah, I've gotten a job in Europe and we didn't think that you would want to come with us." LeRoy addressed Rachel.

They were right about that. Rachel didn't want to leave. She had school, friends, Glee and she'd just found her mother, but she didn't want them to leave either. Her tears started falling again.

"Oh, sweetie it's not that we don't love you!" LeRoy said.

"We do. Very much." Hiram chimed in.

"Honey, can you go to your room for a few minutes so I can talk to them" Shelby asked gently.

Rachel walked into her room and picked up her phone and ear buds. She then lied down on her bed and turned her music on. It always made her feel better no matter what the situation was. However, she couldn't help thinking that maybe her mother didn't want her to live with her permanently.

In the kitchen Shelby sat in front of the Berrys getting quite irritated. They could feel that she wasn't happy. Hiram began speaking.

"We know you weren't prepared for and may not be happy about this."

"Oh no, I'm happy but I'm also very angry. You just knock on my door and tell Rachel that you're leaving her. What kind of parenting is that?!"

"Shelby we all know that you wanted her from the first day she was born but you were too scared to say anything" Hiram stated.

Shelby bit her lip.

It was true. She'd wanted Rachel from the first time she saw her. Hell, from the first time she felt her kick.

Shelby just rolled her eyes. She didn't know how to respond to that.

"Oh, don't eye roll us. We're giving our daughter to you. We're giving you your daughter back. We've got all the paperwork that says that Rachel will now be in your custody, you just have to sign them and she's yours."

A lot was going through Shelby's mind. What was she going to do. She knew that the best thing for Rachel was to have her live with her, but she had no idea how to be a mother. Was she going to screw this up? She started thinking about Rachel again, and the best thing for her was to get away from these men. They were the ones who wanted to leave Rachel, she never wanted to leave her baby but she was forced to. She took the pen LeRoy was holding out and signed the papers. Rachel was now officially hers and the Berry's couldn't take that back now, Shelby was smiling on the inside.

Hiram interjected her thoughts "You can pick up her things tomorrow. We'll be home all day packing."

"Okay, we will be there around 1" She said.

The Berry's left and Shelby went into Rachel's room. She smiled when she found her daughter lying down in her bed listening to music but not any kind of music, her daughter was listening to her, that made Shelby smile even more.

Rachel looked up and took out her right ear bud taking in a deep breath.

"What's going to happen to me?" Rachel asked obviously scared and Shelby could clearly see that.

Shelby sat down beside Rachel and Rachel turned off the music, blushing at the same time because she figured out that her mother had noticed what she'd been listening too.

"Rachel... I signed the papers. You're mine." Shelby looked into Rachel's eyes waiting for a reaction to what she had just told her.

"You did that for me?" Rachel answered with tears but they were now happy tears.

"Of course sweetie. I couldn't let them take you away again plus they didn't seem to want to take you with them either which made me really angry."

"So I'm gonna live here with you now?"

"Yes, you are." Shelby smiled.

"But what about all of my things?"

"We're going to get them tomorrow around 1."

"Oh, okay. Good." Rachel smiled and then jumped into her mother's arms. All Shelby could do was smile as she hugged her daughter tight.