"Finn Christopher Hudson, I swear to grilled cheesus how dare you," Kurt screamed. "I'm Rachel's best friend, I your brother, we're practically blood. But no, apparently that does not mean anything, zip, nada, because when you decide to make the most important decision of your life, of you and Rachel's relationship it means nothing." He practically spit in Finns face.
"Kurt honey people are starring" Blaine said trying to calm his boyfriend down.
"And you," he said turning to face Blaine. "You knew, for months and did not tell me a single thing. Traitor"
They were standing in the middle of the airport; Kurt spotted the ring on Rachel's hand a mile away. Once the overall excitement for his best friend has settled down, he had turned to his step brother and his fury unleashed. Rachel had found this quite amusing. "Kurt they didn't tell me either," Rachel mused.
"Well I could have been planning your wedding already, I'm thinking June," he said, turning to Rachel. "Maybe outside, I think we should have it in New York, in a year I think you'll have your figure back sooooo we don't have to worry about the dress." Kurt looked at Rachel expectantly.
"Wait you told Kurt?" Finn asked clearly upset.
"No I didn't." Rachel said looking at him, like he was the ghost of Elizabeth Taylor.
"Oh come on Blaine and I have known for a week, first you did not call either of us on the 7th begging us to pick you up tampons. Your bathroom wall is right next to our bedroom, we hear everything every morning, annnnddd you haven't touched the soymilk for a week." Everyone stood their silenced.
"Well, since we don't have to do that," Rachel broke the tension. "Come on Kurtsie we've got wedding to talk. Are you sure June is not too soon?" She said grabbing his arm, and pulling him away.
"Blaine, be a dear and get my bags." Kurt called over his shoulder; the luggage carousel only had four bags left on it, 3 of which belonged to Kurt, the other Blaine's.
"Congrats dude" Blaine said patting Finn's shoulder who stood there still processing what had just happened. Blaine grabbed two of the bags, and Finn took the other two.
"Thanks" he muttered as they followed their significant others to the elevators.
The doorbell rang, alerting the occupants of Finn's apartment of the guests at the door. After the airport thing, things had calmed down, although Kurt was still not talking to Finn. Blaine and Finn were watching some game, and Rachel and Kurt were in Finn's bedroom sorting through Bridal magazines Kurt magically made appear out of his luggage.
Finn got up to answer the door and was immediately engulfed in a hug from his mother. "Hi mom" he grinned.
"Did you do it?" She looked at him expectantly, "Of course you did! Where is Rachel? Oh you didn't scare her off did you?" Blaine had got up to help Burt with the bags. Burt gave Finn an apologetic pat on the back, as Blaine led him to the second bedroom, to put the bags in.
Kurt and Rachel emerged from Finn's bedroom "Carole, I cannot believe you were in on this too. I mean First Finn, then Blaine and now you." Kurt tisked giving his step mother a hug, Carole continued onto Rachel, who was smiling at Carole.
"Oh let me see!" Carole said pulling Rachel's hand up to inspect the familiar ring. "Oh it looks so great on you; Finn did a wonderful job transforming it." She said giving Rachel a hug.
"Thank you for giving him the ring Carole, it's a beautiful setting. Such a lovely gesture" Rachel told Carole.
"It did not do any good sitting my jewelry box, now did it?" Carole told her. "And I got the diamond set in this necklace." Motioning to the beautiful heart necklace with the ring's original diamond set in the center. Kurt pulled both of them back to Finn's room to look at more magazines. Finn and Rachel had determined to wait until later to tell his parents about the grandchild Rachel was carrying. Burt had asked Finn about how the truck was. The 3 men had made their way to couches and armchairs, and discussed various topics for a while.
Later into the evening Carole and Rachel made their way out to the living room, with Kurt following behind. "Yes Kurt I think June would be a lovely time for the wedding, but I like February much better, so much prettier for pictures and such." Rachel and Finns eyes locked across the room.
"Well the dates are still flexible, we don't even know what state the wedding will be in at this point." Kurt said clearly trying to avoid going further into detail as to why February was not the ideal time for a wedding. The due date calculator they had used online before their parents arrived had predicted, that if there was a wedding in February it would be a question of whether there would be one more tiny guest attending or not, Rachel would be due then.
"Maybe we should go out and celebrate the engagement." Carole suggested.
"Mom, were going out tomorrow night, I thought we were going to just order something." Finn told her.
"But that is for your graduation, not the engagement." Carole pleaded.
"We can celebrate both tomorrow, I know I'm worn out, I'm sure Kurt and Blaine, are worn out from their flight. And the drive from Lima to here is long, so you and Burt must be tired too." Rachel explained from her seat next to Finn on the loveseat.
"Mom just wants an excuse to go out," Finn grinned.
"Fine we'll just stay here." Carole huffed like a child sitting next to her husband. They had ordered take-out and Finn had to go pick it up, Rachel had offered to go help. Truthfully she was trying to get away from talking about wedding details with Kurt and Carole
"If I hear the words taffeta or ivory come out of Kurt's mouth one more time tonight," Rachel huffed from the passenger seat of Finn's truck, "I just might lose it."
"Maybe we should just go to a courthouse somewhere, you know we can wear jeans and sandals all that," Finn said.
"Are you trying to get us both killed?" Rachel asked her fiancé in bewilderment. "Kurt would kill us for denying him the chance to plan the wedding, and feed us to your mother for taking the day her only son gets married."
"She has Kurt," Finn stated bluntly.
"Finn," Rachel countered, "You know what I mean."
"Yeah" Finn sighed pulling into the parking lot of the restaurant to pick up the food.
"Kurt," Carole spoke breaking the silence in the room. Burt and Blaine were focusing on sports center, and Kurt was flipping through some Fashion magazine. "Is Rachel pregnant?" Kurt's head shot up like a deer in the headlight.
"What make you think that?" Kurt asked as nonchalantly as possible.
"Kurt don't play dumb with me," Carole pleaded, "I've been watching all of you, and I've concluded your hiding something. Rachel is much too pale, she seems very worn out. Finn is being very protective of her, much more than usual, when he wraps his arms around her his hands always land on her stomach. And then there is wedding details, I want a February wedding, and by my calculations, if Rachel was pregnant it would have happened when Finn went out to surprise her for her opening night. This would put her due in February, which would be why you are so insistent to want a June wedding, and why Rachel changes the subject every time it is mentioned." Carole smiled satisfied with Kurt's dumbstruck expression. Blaine was even surprised at Carole's intuition.
"I'm sure there is another reason why Kurt wants a June wedding, let's not jump to conclusions, dear" Burt said breaking the tension. "And if Rachel was pregnant what makes you think they would tell Kurt already."
"Please, Kurt is Rachel's best friend and the three live together. Rachel's been so busy that Kurt and Blaine probably knew before Rachel did." Carole said pleased with herself. "Am I right boys" They nodded silently.
"You can't tell them, we told you. Rachel would kill me. They wanted to wait a little longer. They didn't want take away from the engagement or Finn's graduation from college." Kurt finally said. "And this is still pretty new to them, yeah sure these things have a way of falling into knowledge quickly but Rachel only took the test yesterday, and she only told Finn today after he proposed. Sure Blaine and I have had our suspicions for a week now, and we know Rachel had to know something was up. They won't admit it to us but they are really freaked out, especially Rachel. She doesn't want to upset you, and she is already afraid that the people will think the only reason Finn proposed is because he got her pregnant." Kurt sighed.
"Kurt, I'll respect them, but I'm so happy. I don't think that, partly because I gave Finn that ring a year ago, but that's beside the point. I just am so grateful that they still have each other." Carole said. "I won't say a word about you telling me. Ok?"
"Fine," Kurt sighed defeated.
Eventually Finn and Rachel arrived back with food, unaware of the conversation that had happened. They did not stay up very late, because Finn had his commencement in the morning, followed by lunch with a few friends, and then a family dinner. Finn offered his bed to his parents, because it would be weird making them sleep on the Futon in the second bedroom. Rachel had offered to change the sheets, which was embarrassing when Carole offered to help only to find Rachel's lacy bra to be mixed in with the pile of blankets. Kurt and Blaine slept on an air mattress in the living room.
It was about 7:30 in the morning when Kurt tiptoed into the second bedroom. He gently shook Rachel "Rachel wake up" he nudged her.
"Finn," she whined, "Your parents are across the hall."
"Eww Rachel it's me Kurt" he nearly gaged.
"What are you doing here" she said looking up at him from Finns arms.
"Well, I thought you might want to go get breakfast," Kurt explained. "Frankenteen has nothing to eat in this place."
"I think he lives on take out, and pizza" Rachel joked.
"Come on," Kurt whisper yelled.
"I don't have anything to wear." Rachel said untangling herself from Finns arms. "I'm not going into Finns room with your parents in there," Kurt handed her a pair of her pants and a t-shirt.
"I got them for you" Kurt said.
"Wait," Rachel said while slipping off her PJ and putting on the clothes Kurt got for her "We don't have a car" Kurt just held up the keys to Finn's truck, Rachel giggled following him out the apartment.
They returned with breakfast for the rest about 9. The housed was quiet except, the slight sound of the morning news. Blaine sat watching it, still in his PJ's but the air mattress was deflated.
"Hi Blaine" Kurt said cheerfully.
"Hi Blaine" Rachel said equally cheerful.
"Burt and Carole are getting ready in the spare room, and I think Finn is in the shower, you both forgot your phones and took his car, he won't admit it but he was pretty frustrated." Blaine said from his spot on the couch. Rachel sighed grabbing the pancakes she got for Finn, and went to his bedroom.
Finn was out of the shower he was sorting through his drawers. "I got you pancakes," Rachel said cautiously.
"Thanks," he mumbled, taking them from her hand and sitting down on his bed, Rachel sat down next to him.
"Are you mad at me?" Rachel asked.
"It frustrating, Rachel," Finn sighed. "We are supposed to be getting married and you didn't even tell me you were leaving."
"I'm really sorry," Rachel said scooting into him. "But you did not look at your pancakes. " Finn opened the Styrofoam box to reveal chocolate chip pancakes with I 3 U spelled out in chocolate chips, Finn couldn't help but smile.
"Why do you do this to me," He groaned.
"It's because you love me too much to be mad at me." Rachel joked.
"You know grand theft auto is a serious crime." Finn shot back, taking a bite of his pancakes.
"Mhmm," Rachel said as the smell of pancakes and bacon filled the room, she started to feel a little nauseated. "I'm going to be sick." Rachel got off the bed running to the bathroom to empty her breakfast of a bagel and hot tea into the toilet. Finn followed her into the bathroom and pulled back her hair rubbing circles into her back. "I hate this" Rachel sighed leaning her head on the porcelain.
Just then Finn's mother entered the bathroom carrying a glass of water for Rachel. "Oh, hi mom," Finn said nervously, "Rachel must've had something bad with her breakfast."
"I know she's pregnant," Carole blurted out, causing Rachel to choke on her water. Carole put her hand over her mouth fearful of the reaction of her son and his fiancé.
After a somewhat long and awkward conversation in which Carole had to finally come to terms with the fact that the nature of her sons relationship was not as innocent as she would like. Secretly she had this story she told herself where Rachel was waiting till marriage and all they ever did was sleep when they shared a bed. Of course she knew this was not true. I don't know how this happened, Rachel was on the pill." Finn had said. "Birth control, fails Finn." This is where they determined to stop their conversation. Carole had assured them that she was excited and not upset. Things were still awkward as Rachel sat between Kurt and Blaine in Ohio State's stadium waiting for the graduation to start.
"It's so weird," Carole announced to the quiet group, "Thinking about how many times we've all sat here cheering Finn on, and now he's graduating."
"Our little Finn is growing up," Kurt teased.
"My baby is graduating and getting married, and having his own baby." Carole said smiling. "Rachel, I really am happy for you guys."
"In the past few days I found out I was pregnant and got engaged, it's a lot to take in," Rachel sighed "I'm not even sure how I feel yet."
"That's the thing; I'm not worrying about how you're going to do this, like you and Finn are. I just get to be there to love the baby," Carole told Rachel, "and that's all you need to worry about. When Christopher and I got married, we didn't have much, and when Finn was born, he wasn't even there. I think Finn is doing ok, all babies need is love, it doesn't matter what it has or even who is there all the time to love it."
"Oh Carole," Rachel said, "How do you do that?"
"It's a gift," she joked. Rachel switched spots with Kurt and rested her head on Carole, as the music signaling the start of the graduation started.
They were waiting outside looking through the sea of black cap and gowns, looking for Finn. The ceremony was very good, but Ohio State was a large school so the graduation was quite long. Someone came up from behind and wrapped his long arms around Rachel. She spun around, "Congradulations" she breathed kissing him.
"Punny" he smirked and attempted to kiss her but she pushed him away.
"Found him," she called to his family who was still searching around. Carole quickly snapped a picture of their embrace before Rachel blushed in embarrassment.
"Finn I'm so proud" Carole said through her splotchy face.
After many hugs, many pictures, a few parties and a celebratory dinner. Carole and Burt had left, Blaine and Kurt were in the second bedroom for the night and Finn and Rachel lay in Finn's bed.
"Do you feel different?" Rachel asked Finn, snuggling into his chest.
"It's weird I guess," Finn responded. "Thursday I was a college student with a girlfriend in New York. Now I'm an out of work graduate, with a fiancé and a baby on the way."
"A lot of change for two days," Rachel teased, "You know we have something else we have to do before I go home,"
"That is?" Finn questioned.
"Well I texted my dad's to ask them if they wanted to have lunch tomorrow, since they live in the city now, and I figure we have to tell them I'm pregnant."
"Do we have to?" Finn whined.
I thought I was going to have to do one more chapter of this part, but I wrote it and decided I could not get a good solid chapter to I added it to this one. Sorry if it was long. I'm going to be a mess writing the next chapter.
Mady
p.s I write the notes before the next chapter but always add, the next chapter is really good imho. I'm going to start chapter 5 tomorrow but I have a lot to do, and then tues and wed I have a friend over and I have to babysit. So it could possibly be Thursday for chapter four, unless I can chug out 5 when I get up, b/c it's already past midnight.
