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By the time Blaine had finished preparing dinner, Rachel was just finishing her conversation with her dad's. Their reaction had been everything she had predicted and then some; she could have sworn that Leroy actually started sobbing when she broke the news, although he'd never admit to it of course. She smiled at Blaine as she walked into the kitchen and quietly set the table. She could feel his eyes on her the whole time as he laid their food out onto the table.
"What?" she grinned, and once again he swept her up into his arm and kissed her.
"I'm just so happy," he told her, Rachel smiled and glanced at the food on the table. Blaine took the hint pretty quickly and they both sat down to enjoy their first meal together as expectant parents. Blaine watched Rachel eat with wide eyes as she practically inhaled her food. Blaine had never seen her like this before, especially not with his cooking.
"This is really good Blaine, thank you." Rachel smiled, lifting her eyes to meet his. Blaine shrugged and took a bite out of his chicken sandwich.
"I've never seen you enjoy my cooking so much," Blaine stated, "You usually eat half and then make up some excuse about having enough," Rachel stopped chewing as she blushed slightly and playfully glared at him.
"I'm pregnant and hungry, and I've just been on the phone to possibly two of the most excited men in America right now for the last half hour, without going insane." she pointed out, "We've got nine months of this to come." The two fell silent for a few minutes, contemplating the enormity of what she had just said. Even though they were both excited, the news still hadn't sunk in properly.
"I take it they were happy then?" Blaine asked again, breaking the silence, Rachel pushed her chair and walked over him; as he moved his chair back slightly allowing her to sink into his lap.
"You have no idea," she laughed, "I left them discussing baby names." Blaine laughed as his fingers locked around her waist. She sighed happily and placed her own arms around his neck, as he leant forward and pressed their foreheads together.
"We can do this though, can't we Blaine?" He pulled back slightly and Rachel lifted her head to look at him properly.
"This parenting thing?" she nodded and Blaine grinned and brushed his lips against her forehead, "We haven't messed up yet." Rachel nodded, still grateful for his assurance. They remained in their quiet embrace for a while longer, talking quietly. Before Rachel bolted upright, making Blaine jump.
"You still need to call your parents!" she stated, "I need to call Quinn to and Shelby, oh and Kurt!" Blaine chuckled and kissed her again, a technique he had developed over the years to silence her.
"Rachel, we've only known that you're pregnant for two hours. I'll call mum and dad later, we can tell the others tomorrow," Blaine shrugged, "Do you think we should tell Amy tonight?" Rachel bit her lip thoughtfully. She knew that Amy's reaction could go either way; she had been an only child for so long now. She wasn't sure how she'd take the news that she'd suddenly have to share her parent's attention.
"I suppose we should," Rachel nodded, "I think she'd want to be involved, it wouldn't be fair if we left her out of something as big as this." Blaine nodded and kissed her head gently before patting her away gently. Rachel stood up and watched as she started clearing away for their plates. She tried to help him, but he swatted her hands away and ordered her to go and sit in the lounge with her feet up. Blaine was the example of a perfect husband anyway, but knowing that his wife was carrying his child, it gave him a whole new outlook. Rachel sunk down into the couch and smiled as she flicked through the television stations. She knew what Blaine was doing really; he was putting off calling his parents. Although they were on good terms now, she knew as well as he did that they were waiting for the day that Rachel would fall pregnant. They had often overheard conversations between her dad's and Blaine's parents during family parties. When Blaine finally joined her, he sat down next to her and casually swung his arm around his shoulders. Rachel smirked as she picked up their phone and handed it to him.
"I know what you're doing, you know." She told him, when he frowned at her, "Just call them, get it over with." He pouted and Rachel kissed his cheek. Blaine gave in pretty quickly after that and started dialling his parent's number, but hung up pretty quickly when their front door knocked loudly. Rachel giggled and got to her feet.
"Coward," she whispered, crouching down beside his ear, before walking to the door. She smiled when Amy was stood on the other side.
"Hey mom," she grinned, before pushing her way inside. Rachel rolled her eyes and smiled at Grant and Carrie, Amy's friend and her dad.
"Thanks for bringing her home, I hope she hasn't been any trouble." Grant shook his head and smiled.
"A pleasure as always," he grinned,
"Do you want to come in for a coffee or something?" Rachel asked, Grant smiled and shook his head politely.
"Thank for the offer, but we should be getting home," Rachel nodded and exchanged goodbyes, before closing the door behind them. She walked back into the lounge where she found Amy and Blaine sat curled together on the couch.
She smiled and she tapped Blaine's shoulder and stared at him. He nodded as Rachel picked up the remote and turned off the television, despite Amy's protests.
"You're mom and I have something important to tell you." Blaine explained, as Rachel perched on the edge of the couch, placing her hand inside of Blaine's. Amy stared at them both, her eyes flicking between them.
"What is it?" she asked,
"We're going to have a baby Ames," Rachel smiled; Amy didn't say anything straight away, instead just staring intently at her parents. Blaine bit his lip and glanced nervously at Rachel who shrugged quietly.
"Say something Ames?" Blaine pushed.
"But, you're both old!" Rachel rolled her eyes and Blaine stifled a laugh.
"We're not that old!" Rachel protested, "I was only young when I had you!" Amy smirked and stared at her mum, as Blaine squeezed Rachel's hand.
"The point is Ames, we both wanted you to be one of the first people we told." Blaine explained, cutting over Rachel, "So is there anything you'd like to ask?" Amy bit her lip thoughtfully.
"Do I have to share my room? Because I don't want it filled with baby junk." She stated, Rachel glanced at Blaine, knowing that the subject hadn't been tackled yet. Blaine, as calm as ever, just squeezed Rachel's hand and smiled at Amy.
"Well, for the first couple of months, the baby will sleep in our room. Nothing has been decided yet." Amy nodded, and slowly a small smile crept onto her face.
"I guess I've always wanted a baby brother or sister." Rachel smiled at her daughter, and got up and engulfed her into a tight hug; Amy rolled her eyes but laughed loudly as Blaine joined in.
"So, you're okay with this?" Rachel asked, pulling away slightly.
"Yeah, I guess it could be pretty cool," Blaine kissed Amy's cheek, before Amy got up and headed towards her room, "But I am not sharing my room!" Rachel and Blaine chuckled quietly as Amy closed the door behind her. Blaine placed his arm around Rachel again and cuddled her closer.
"That wasn't so bad, was it?" he grinned, Rachel shook her head and picked up the phone from where it was lay on the end of the couch.
"Now, call your parents!"
Later that night, Blaine and Rachel were curled up alone in their bedroom. Blaine loved moments like this, as rare as they were for them. But when Amy was fast asleep in her own room, and they were free just to be with each other, he realised that life didn't get much better than this. Rachel was lay with her head resting against Blaine's chest as he used his free hand to trace patterns on her back. She shivered slightly against his touch, but sighed contently.
"Hey Blaine?" Rachel whispered into the darkened room.
"Yeah?"
"You still haven't told me what your parents said when you told them the news?" Blaine groaned in response and Rachel smiled as she sat up slightly to face him. He snaked his arm around her and pulled her closer to him again, wanting the close the gap between them.
"When I told her, she screamed so loud, I thought I'd actually lose my sense of hearing." Blaine stated, causing Rachel to giggle quietly, "When I finally managed to calm her down, Dad picked up the phone, wondering what the hell I'd said to her." Rachel laughed again and started tracing patterns on his chest softly. "Anyway, Mom then ranted for like ten minutes about how she'd waited long enough, then she went on about your due date, even though we'd only taken the test today." Rachel laughed again and reached up to kiss him, "I love her and everything, but she's a crazy woman."
"You know she only does it because she loves you." She smiled; "Besides, you had to get your crazy from somewhere," Blaine moaned quietly as she kissed his again, she smiled as she could feel the tension draining from his body. They lay quietly again and Rachel bit her lip in concentration as Blaine slowly ran his fingers over her body.
"Amy was right you know," she said quietly.
"What do you mean?" Blaine asked.
"Where's the baby going to sleep, it would be unfair to make Amy share her room." Blaine nodded and kissed her head softly.
"We'll tackle that when we come to it." He told her, "Don't worry about it too much though, okay?" Rachel nodded and smiled at him.
"Goodnight Blaine," she whispered, as she rolled over again. Today had been a long day, and all she wanted to do was sleep. She couldn't help smiling however, when she felt Blaine's arms wrap around her body and felt his hot breath against her ear.
Several days later, Rachel stepped out of her doctor's office and decided to pop in and see Blaine, knowing that he had his lunch hour at around this time. She smiled as she walked through the playground and up to the school's reception.
"Hello Rachel, we barely see you around here these days." Helen, the receptionist smiled at Rachel.
"Yeah, they keep me pretty busy at Brent Brooke," Rachel smiled, "I've actually just dropped by to see Blaine," Helena nodded.
"He should be on lunch right now, I'll call him and let him know you're here," Rachel smiled gratefully as she watched Helena dial the number.
"Hello Blaine, your wife is here to see you." She hung the phone up and smiled at Rachel, "He'll be right with you." Rachel thanked her and minute's later Blaine appeared. Rachel took a minute to appreciate just how handsome he was as he got nearer to her. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in for a passionate kiss, Rachel blushed slightly as she heard a couple of children make disgusted noises from behind them. Blaine smirked at her, thanked Helena and clasped Rachel's hand and led her towards his classroom. He closed the door behind him and sat down on his desk and pulled her closer to him.
"So, what's up?" he asked.
"What, I can't visit my husband at work without there being a reason anymore?" she grinned, Blaine laughed and placed a tender kiss on her forehead.
"Not when you're supposed to be at work yourself, so what's up?" Rachel grinned, knowing that Blaine knew her too well for her to lie to him.
"I managed to get a last minute appointment at the doctors in my lunch hour, I've just got out, we're roughly four weeks along," she explained, "So guess when we're due?"
Blaine noticed the sparkle in Rachel's eye as she spoke, "When?"
"August 20th," she beamed,
"A summer baby!" Rachel nodded excitedly and Blaine hugged her again, having a due date made it seem all the more real now, he glanced at the calendar sitting on he desk and smiled at her.
"That's a long way away yet Rachel," he smiled,
"Well yes, but these 9 months are going to fly by, it's so exciting!"
"You think excessive mood swings and throwing up every morning is going to be exciting?" he smirked at her, and Rachel hit his chest playfully.
"I'll have you know, that when I was carrying Amy, I hardly every threw up!" she stated firmly, Blaine nodded and kissed her again, because yes kissing her was so much easier than arguing with her. "And I don't have excessive mood swings!" Rachel smiled as she pulled away.
"Of course you don't," he grinned, Rachel gave him a satisfied grin and glanced at her watch, if she was going to make it back to work in time, she had to be leaving soon.
"So I was thinking about inviting Kurt and Kyle over for dinner tonight, what do you think?" she asked him as she picked up her purse, Blaine smiled and nodded, as he kissed her again, because seriously seeing her in the day, was just as good as having her waiting for him when he got home.
"I really need to go," she whispered, Blaine nodded just as there was a faint knock at his door, Rachel stepped aside as Blaine shouted for the person to come in. Rachel grinned when Molly sheepishly stepped inside.
"Sorry, Helena said that you were here," she grinned, "Blaine told me the good news, congratulations," Rachel rushed forward to hug her, causing Blaine to smile at the two of them.
"We were just talking about inviting Kurt and Kyle over for dinner, why don't you and Sam join us?" Rachel suggested, glancing over at Blaine who nodded.
"Really? Sure, that'll be great. I'll call Sam and let him know." Molly smiled.
"You call Kurt and Kyle, and we'll meet Sam and come home after work?" Blaine suggested, approaching the two women.
"Now I really need to go!" she nodded, "Love you! See you later Molly!" With a smile and a quick peck on the cheek, Rachel shouldered her purse and headed out into the deserted hallway, leaving Blaine smiling behind her. Molly smirked from where she was stood and Blaine turned around and raised an eyebrow at her.
"What?" he asked sheepishly, Molly shrugged and began shuffling with some papers on her desk.
"Nothing, it's just you two are so perfect for each other," Blaine smiled fondly and nodded.
"I know."
When Blaine arrived home later that night, with Molly and Sam, he was expecting to be greeted with copious amounts of food. Usually when they had Kurt over for dinner they prepared enough food to feed both couples for the next couple of weeks, but instead of food they walked into the lounge to find Rachel and Kyle sat on the couch laughing loudly with Kurt sat opposite them holding up one of his scrapbooks. Blaine glanced at Sam and Molly, with a look of confusion on his face, but they just shrugged in return. Rachel had tears on her cheeks and her make up was streaked down her face, Kyle's face was bright red and also tear stained.
"What's so funny?" Blaine asked as he sat down on the other side of Rachel and kissed her cheek. Rachel and Kyle glanced at each other again and started laughing loudly. Kurt huffed loudly and handed Blaine his scrapbook.
"They're laughing at my latest designs," he shrugged, "I felt inspired when you told me that Rachel was pregnant," Blaine nodded and glanced at the designs on the page. They weren't what he had been expecting, he was still struggling to see what Rachel and Kyle had found so funny. So he handed the scrapbook over to Molly and Sam who examined it with as much detail as he had.
"Rachel, you're going to have to give me a clue here, I'm struggling to see what's so funny about Kurt's designs," Blaine sighed, Rachel nodded and took a deep breath as Kyle sniggered next to her, she elbowed him in his side and handed another page of designs over to Blaine.
"This is what we were laughing at," she explained, Blaine stared at the page in disbelief before a loud laugh erupted from inside of him, despite how hard he tried to hold it in. He didn't want to hurt Kurt's pride.
"Wha-What is it supposed to be?" he asked in between laughs, Kurt huffed loudly and snatched the designs out of Blaine's hands.
"I designed them for the baby, like I said I felt inspired." Kurt huffed as began to file his designs away, "Apparently none of you have my eye for fashion." He then shot a look at Kyle, who was discreetly trying to wipe his eyes, "I thought you were better than that," Kyle sighed and got to his feet and walked over to Kurt and kissed his cheek.
"I'm sorry," he grinned, "You'll just have to try again, you've got nine months to perfect them." Kurt smiled and turned to kiss Kyle again, seemingly forgetting about his now discarded designs, "Besides, the maternity wear wasn't too bad,"
"So, are we going to eat now or what?" Sam asked, who had been pretty quiet up until now, Molly laughed and hit him playfully, "What? We've got months to make fun of Kurt's ugly baby clothes, but I'm hungry now." Rachel smiled over at Sam and nodded and jumped to her feet and walked over and linked arms with Kyle.
"Come on, you can help me cook." Kyle rolled his eyes and followed Rachel into the kitchen, and seconds later Molly joined them. Leaving Blaine, Sam and Kurt alone in the lounge. Kurt sighed quietly and placed his scrapbook full of designs into his satchel.
"You know they didn't mean anything by it, right?" Blaine asked, squeezing Kurt's shoulder.
"Yeah, I mean no offence, but your wife has never had much fashion sense," Kurt stated and Blaine rolled his eyes as Sam grinned at them both, "And I'm marrying Kyle despite his flaws," Kurt smiled as Blaine and Sam glanced at each other as they listened to Rachel, Molly and Kyle laugh loudly in the kitchen, all three of them wondering how they had ended up so lucky.
The next morning Rachel's luck ran out in the sickness department, as she stood stooped over the toilet emptying the contents of her stomach Blaine stood behind, smiling at her, holding her hair behind her head, trying to keep it out of the way. Amy meanwhile, poked her head around the doorway and shook her head in disgust.
"That's really gross, are you going to do that every morning?" she asked, Rachel stood up slowly and wiped her mouth.
"Probably sweetheart, it means the baby is healthy," Amy rolled her eyes and smirked at Blaine.
"That makes no sense, you're throwing up mom, duh" Amy stated as if it were obvious. Blaine balled up his fist and forced it into his mouth, trying hard not to laugh as Amy continued to outwit her mother. Rachel sighed, obviously not in the mood to be having this debate just yet.
"Just go and get ready to school Ames, I'll be in to prepare your breakfast when I'm done." Amy nodded and smirked at Rachel before walking off into the direction of her own bedroom. Rachel sighed quietly and turned around and began to clean her teeth in front of the mirror, trying to ignore Blaine who was leaning against the bathtub behind her. She washed her face quickly and turned to face Blaine when she was finished.
"What?" she asked him, folding her arms firmly against her chest.
"I thought you said you wouldn't get sick," he smirked, Rachel rolled her eyes and grinned as she stepped closer to him, he opened his arms and stepped into them, as he pulled her closer to him. She placed her lips on top of his and sighed contently.
"Keep being smug, and I'll kiss you before I've cleaned my teeth next time," she shrugged, kissing him one more time and heading back into their bedroom to get ready for work. Blaine chuckled lightly as he followed her. Yeah, the next nine months were going to be so much fun.
