It is written in the stars!
A/N: Thankyou so much for the reviews on chapter one. I appreciate every single one, as always I own nothing, all mistakes are mine.
Chapter -2-
With a voice dripping with trepidation, and shaky hands tangled into and unconsciously twisting his long beard into knots. Percy the senior clerk at the soul mate distribution centre addresses his junior assistant "Ruben please tell me you didn't go ahead with your plans for the Berry and Hudson babies? I told you your ideas were all wrong."
In a snide tone of voice Ruben answers "It was my decision Percy, the boss told me to continue with and finalize all the jobs we were working on before you were off convalescing after your little mishap, maybe you are becoming too frail and should consider retiring if a little kitty cat can best you. And anyway he had no problems with my judgment."
"Mark my words Ruben you have set in place things that are going to take a lot of hard work and effort to set right, have you even considered the heartache you have brought upon these two young people hmm? Let us just hope that the bond they have already formed at an early age will be strong enough to see them past your mindless mistake and that they will find each other under their own steam. I am going to recommend you be moved from this office Ruben, you apparently don't have the right attitude and are unwilling to listen and fully understand what we do in this office and how important it is."
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All Rachel could talk about at dinner the night of her first day of school was Finn Hudson, her fathers had been told numerous times, "What such a nice boy he is, and he is now my very best friend, and could I please invite him to my 6th birthday party in December, but I don't want to invite that nasty Noah Puckerman 'cause he is mean saying horrible things about me, having to pay Finn to be my friend 'cause no one else wanted to be anywhere near me 'cause I'm a show off and wear weird clothes. But Finn put his arm around my shoulders and said that he would always be my friend even when we are really, really old like our parents. He told me he didn't have a daddy so I told him I would share you two, you don't mind do you? Then he said I could share his Mommy too, seeing as I didn't have one"
Hiram and Leroy just looked at their daughter with moist eyes thinking how proud they were of their little angel. "You must make sure to introduce us to your friend Finn and his Mom darling they sound like wonderful people."
Rachel just beams a bright wide smile and nods her head before delicately putting another forkful of her favourite tofu and vegetable stir-fry into her mouth.
The same conversation was happening in the Hudson home, little Finn was gushing over his new best friend Rachel, Carole Hudson's eyes became blurry with unshed tears at the gleeful look on her son's face and was so happy he had found a friend, she even suggested Finn invite Rachel and her parents over soon for a play date.
With a beaming dimple producing smile Finn proclaims, before shovelling another mouthful of spaghetti and meatballs into his mouth "It so cool Mom Rach has two Dads."
"Oh doesn't she have a Mom?" Carol asks, feeling sorry for the little girl, Finn shakes his head, Carole assumes that the fact she has two dads means the Mr Berry's are gay, not that that bothers her afterall love is love and everyone is entitled to find it with whom ever they like. She just feels for Rachel not having a female influence to guide her. "Well why you don't introduce me to her and her Dad tomorrow at school, I would like to meet them and maybe we can all be good friends."
"Yeah that sounds great Mom" his voice then takes on a dreamy quality as he again says "how pretty Rachel is and how tiny her hand was in his when they shook hands. And how she shared her apple slices with me at morning recess, I tried to give her one of my cheese sticks but she said she doesn't eat dairly prodguts what ever they are."
Carole smiles at Finn's mispronunciation, "No Finny I think you mean dairy products honey, you know like milk, and cheese, maybe she is a vegan" at the puzzled look on his face she explains that people who don't eat any food that comes from animals are called vegans.
"Oh… well as long as she likes that I 'spose that's ok, we were talkin' about things, well Rach was talkin' I was jus' listenin', 'cause she was talking about some girl who is funny and her name is Barbra Stylesand or somefing, I was kinda lost but her voice is real pretty then Noah Puckerman came up and started saying nasty things to Rach an' then Rachie got all sad and stopped talkin to me, an' then the bell went , but I put my arm 'round her shoulder and walked her back to class, I know she was happy then 'cause she smiled a great big smile at me and told me I was very shiverlus, I didn' understand what that meant so I asked her if that was a good thing and she just smiled again an nodded her head."
Carole wipe a stray tear from her cheek before squeezing her little boys' hand and saying gently "Oh Baby you are such a wonderful boy and I'm so proud of you for looking out for Rachel, I can't wait to meet her family."
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Time went on and before too long it was December , Rachel had decided she wanted her 6th birthday party to be a dress-up , she very carefully wrote out the invitations with her favourite sparkly pink gel pen and just for an extra embellishment added a couple of gold star stickers either side of the guests name. She had invited all 23 of her classmates,(even Noah Puckerman at her fathers' insistence) but a couple of kids said they couldn't go because their beliefs didn't hold with birthdays, at the disappointed look on Rachel face as they handed back the pretty pink invite, they said they hoped she has a fun time anyway.
Friday afternoon while their parents are just standing outside in the playground chatting with each other, the kids were standing next to them waiting. Rachel jumps on the spot and digs into her backpack and emerges with a bright pink envelope and as she presents it to Noah with a bright, albeit slightly forced smile she says.
"Noah please accept this invite to my birthday party next Saturday afternoon, the theme is dress up, so you can come as who ever you want, there will be pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey games and yummy food and a butterfly cake and balloons an... "
"Whoop-de-doo, a girly party " Noah makes a less than impressed face and makes to push away the envelope, before saying in a hurtful voice." No I don't wanna go to your girly dress up party Berry, 'The Puckman' don't hang with girls 'specially weird ones like you."
Finn moves closer to Rachel and puts his arm around her shoulders, he has to lean down a little because he had grown since the school year began but Rachel is still just as tiny, she leans into him, a sad look on her face.
"Hey don't talk to my best friend Rach, like that there's nuthin' wrong with her, she's really cool, an' anyway if you don't wanna go you could just say no thanks, you don't havta be nasty you know."
"Noah Puckerman, how dare you speak like that, you know better, now apologize to Rachel and thank her for being nice and inviting you."
"Arghhhh, Mooomm, why do I gotta say sorry? She's a girl an' she got cooties."
"Noah Josiah Puckerman, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Rachel, she is a lovely polite, pretty little girl and I will not have my son say such nasty things. Now apologize you have already lost your TV privileges for the weekend by being mean, don't make it the rest of the week. I'm waiting"
Mrs Puckerman gives her son 'A don't mess me with look' as her foot taps on the ground.
Noah gives his mother a hard glare of disgust before mumbling out a half hearted apology "Ugh... 'M sorry Rachel thanks for the invite but I don' wanna go to your sissy gir... I mean party."
With a sad look on her face Rachel just nods and says quietly before pulling her bottom lip into her mouth and leaning into Finn's side a bit closer, "OK well, that's um fine, I guess Noah."
Mrs Puckerman bends down to Rachel's level and rubs her arm kindly, apologizing for her son's behaviour, but is very sure her party will be a lot of fun. She then takes hold of Noah's hand and walks away to her car telling him how disappointed in him she is for his terrible behaviour.
"It will be ok Rach we can have loads of fun, he would just try an' spoil the party anyway… hey what are you going to dress up as? I bet you would make a real pretty fairy or a princess, ya know like that one in that beauty 'n the beast movie we watched at your house last time. Or maybe I could be a prince charming an' protect you from all the nasty people 'n dragons out there" Rachel brightens instantly as Finn's words soothe her and bring a smile back to her little face.
Carole and Hiram exchange a knowing look and clasp hands hoping that the bond their children have formed will be a life long thing, even though they are only 6 years old both Carole and Hiram can see it goes deeper than a school yard friendship.
Percy watched the scene in the Lima Elementary School yard through his magical soulascope, (a device that gave him the ability to keep a watch over his charges and keep up to date on the status of their relationships). He was saddened to see little Rachel so upset by the Puckerman boys words, but smiled widely when he saw how protective Finn was being towards her, he could see that they have already formed a deep bond or tether even at age 6, and was hoping with everything he had that they would be strong enough get past the troubles that he could foresee, and be happy together in the future. For some reason these two kids were special to him, more than any others and he wanted to see them happy and fulfilled together as he knew they were the perfect match, regardless of what his foolish assistant thought.
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