I ran as fast as I could down the dark hallway, towards the sound of a screaming child. I threw the door open and the little girl jumped into my arms.
"Mummy I was so scarred" Charlie cried
"You're ok now baby" I say trying to soothe the still trembling girl. "Do you want to come and stay in Mummy's bed?" I ask, Charlie threw her arms around my neck and wrapped her legs around my waist.
"Please Mummy" she asked resting her back down onto my shoulder, I carried her back to my room before, putting her in my bed and tucking the sheets up around her, and getting in myself. I didn't go back to sleep that night even though I knew, I would be getting up at 7.30 like every other morning, dropping Charlie off at school, work, after school activities, then dinner. Our daily plan never changed Charlie still did ballet on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Fridays, Saturday we both did cheerleading practice, and Saturday night was always the game night, on Sunday was Church before a day of relaxing, then on Monday and Wednesday I had my cheerleading and Charlie went to my office and helped my assistant. It felt like we never had time for anything anymore.
I could hear the birds outside chirping and the slight sight of light, I knew it was time to get up but I didn't want to so I shoved my head under my pillow and put my hands on top of that. Why couldn't I be normal and be tired not just lazy. It was Monday morning, and if my Monday morning brain was working correctly today was the day Charlie had yet another bring your Daddy to school day. I had told Mercedes hoping she would somehow tell Puck but, I got the feeling if he was coming he would already be here (sigh) great Charlie gets to go through that again.
I sat up slowly and carefully climbed out of bed, trying not to wake Charlie. I went downstairs and got myself a Caramel Latte, I hated coffee but, I needed the wake up. I didn't want to have to go up and wake Charlie, I knew she would be a grumpy bum, and if she tried to pretend sick I think I would let her.
"Morning Mummy" I jumped at the sound of my 8 year old daughters voice
"Did you sleep well baby?" I asked her as she rubbed her eyes
"Yeah I had a dream that Daddy came to my Daddy day today" Charlie said, the hurt obvious in her eyes
"I'm sorry he's not here baby" I said bending down to hug her.
"Mummy why doesn't Daddy come still?" Charlie asked hugging me back
"He must be busy at his work" I told her shrugging "but tonight you can call Aunty Mercedes, while Mummy's at her cheer practice" I added, Charlie shrugged
"Will you come to school with me today?" Charlie asked looking up at me through her eye lashes
"Sure baby" I say smiling at her. "Now what do you want for breakfast?" I ask as Charlie started laughing.
The drive to school for once was quiet, I knew it was because Charlie was upset, this was the last bring your Daddy to school day she would have, and her Father hadn't been at either. Charlie was wearing a light blue skirt with green leggings underneath and a green shirt, and black and pink flowery shoes, and her tiny cross. I on the other hand was wearing a white boob-tube dress, with a piece of green ribbon wrapped under my boobs and tied up off to one side, the bottom was decorated with flowers, it ended just above my knees, and of course Charlie's favourite on my shoes, the stilettos with wrapped up around my calf, and how could I have forgotten my cross necklaces.
We walked into school Charlie was holding onto my leg. I stood next to her while we lined up to go into her class, just as all the other Dads did
"Mummy I don't want to do this" Charlie complained
"I'm sorry baby" was all I could say before the teacher was ordering the students to go in. The other Dads and I waited outside for the kids to go in
"I see Charlotte's dad is still a no show" one of the girls named Tabatha's dad said, I turned around the look of disgust apparent on my face
"Excuse me but what would you know about it?" I bitch
"You think you're so special don't you?" he asked
"What the hell are you talking about?" I ask confusion setting in
"Miss my life is so hard because I'm a single parent, doing only nothing to support my daughter, I bet you don't even know who her Dad is" he said, that was when I lost it, I slapped him straight across the cheek I think everyone heard
"I do know actually, and my daughter knows who he is, and that's all that matters, you need to back the fuck off, before I do something a lot more painful" I say almost smirking. I turned to see most of the other fathers watching and smiling. Then the teacher cleared her throat, and I blushed. Most the other fathers went in before I did
"Well done" I heard the teacher say as I walked past her "He's always been a jerk, he had his other 3 kids come through this" she told me, and I smirked, before going to stand at the back of the class next to one of Charlie's friends Dads Hamish, and a couple of other Dads that I knew
"Nicely done Quinn' Hamish told me, and I tried not to start laughing.
"Ok good morning class, we'll do this by going through the roll, so when your name gets called you bring your Daddy up here, and your Daddy can tell us a bit about their job, and then you tell us about your pets, and brothers and sisters, ok?" the teacher said, the class nodded and I couldn't help the smile it was just too cute.
"First up can we have Tabatha?" the teacher asked, Quinn toned out after this, until she heard
"Charlotte you're up" the teacher said and Charlie stood up, I walked up the front with her, and she grabbed my hand
"This is my Mummy" Charlie told the class "My Daddy was meant to come but he lives in Ohio, and couldn't come because of work" I smiled at her, she was so confident, even when she was upset. Then it was my turn to speak
"Hi I'm Charlie's Mum, I'm a Actor, Dancer, Model, Cheerleader and Dance teacher" I tell them "Charlie's Dad doesn't live with us, he lives in Lima Ohio, and didn't get the time off work to come today so I came instead" I say
"Charlotte, do you have any pets or brothers or sisters?" the teacher asked
"No but Mummy said for my birthday which is in, 2 days we could go to the SPCA and get a kitten" Charlie told her class now trying to hide behind me.
"You lucky thing, how old are you going to be?" the teacher asked
"9" She said simply
"Okay Charlotte you have anything else you want to tell the class?" the teacher asked
"No" Charlie said shrugging. Then she went back and sat down. I walked back down to the back of the class, and just waited once again. I looked over at the playground hoping it would be playtime soon, only to be stopped in my train of thoughts by someone standing outside the classroom door who looked oddly familiar. He was smiling back at me when he realised I was looking at him. I grabbed my phone and texted him, just like when we were 16.
-Get your ASS in here!- I send, he looked up from his phone and smirked, totally Puck like.
He slowly walked forward and knocked on the door, I saw Charlie look up from the ground, and smile, the teacher walked over to the door, and opened it, and Charlie jumped up and followed.
"Hi" the teacher said when she answered the door
"Charlie" he said his smile getting even bigger but the teachers seemed to falter, Charlie pushed past her teacher and jumped into his arms
"I missed you Daddy" Charlie said putting her face into the crook of his neck.
"Sorry I couldn't get off work last night so I drove up this morning" Puck told the 8 year old sitting in his arms
"But you still came?" she asked
"Yeah, my boss said I could have the weekend of your birthday off" Puck also added
"Mummy already did your speech, but she did it about her" Charlie told him
"Oh well, you better go and sit with your class and I'll go stand with Mummy" Puck told her putting her back down, and then walking back to me. I gave him a quick hug before turning back to face the teacher, Ms Fright, I think.
"Okay so Macy you can continue" Ms Fright said sitting back down, Macy is Hamish's daughter.
It was just before the bell rang when Puck lent over to me "Whose that dude who keeps staring at me?" he asked, I turned to see, it was Tabatha Walshwood's Dad
"Mr Walshwood, I slapped him earlier today" I told him
"High five, sweet cheeks" he said holding his hand out; I rolled my eyes and turned away from him. The bell rang loudly through the whole class, the kids sitting on the mat started to buzz with excitement, while waiting for their teacher to dismiss them.
"Okay guys you can go" she says smiling, and Charlie ran outside with her friends, even I thought that was adorable.
"I can't believe how grown up she is" Puck said watching her swing herself on the swings
"Yeah she is, she's excited about her birthday" I told "are you coming down for that?" I asked, as we slowly walked over to the playground not wanting to go to close and disturb the girls playing
"I'll try but Burt only gave me this week off" I nodded feeling a slight wave of disappointment "I'll try" he added noticing my change
"It's not me I'm worried about, you don't have to give a shit about me, but you can't keep doing this to her, she only just met you. You're her Daddy, she misses you" I told him, I hurt to tell him this but he made this all happen he hadn't been to see Charlie since he met her.
"Quinn I didn't know you were cheerleading again" I heard Hamish say as he walked up to us
"Yeah I started just after Char turned 6" I replied smiling not turning so I would see Puck's face
"How's Char doing at her cheer I know Macy loves hers?" He asked, Puck was glaring at him I could tell, but he was a friend I wasn't going to turn my back on that to make him happy.
"She loves it, also Macy doesn't have ballet tonight Donna told me to tell you" I had gotten the message last night, Donna, the other dance teacher at 'Lady Blair Academy of Ballet' and one of my greatest friends.
"Great the girls are stretched too thin, their teacher gave them 5 pages of homework last night, I felt horrible making Mac do it all" Hamish said "and tonight dinner" he added, Puck I could tell was angry.
"Sounds great" I say, at least once a week Macy, Hamish, and Lauren (Macy's Mum) and me and Charlie have dinner, normally, after Ballet or Cheer
"I'm so sorry" Hamish started looking behind me at Puck "I don't believe we've meet, I'm Hamish Macy's Dad" he said holding out his hand
"Puck, Charlie's Dad" Puck said, Hamish made a slight face when he said his name
"So Puck?" Hamish asked
"My really names Noah Puckerman, Puck, I'm sure your smart enough to figure out where it came from, so how do you know Q?" he asked
"Char and Macy are really good friends, they do Cheer and Ballet together, Quinn takes both girls on Tuesday and Friday for their ballet classes, and we have a small tradition of having dinners, your welcome to attend" Hamish offered winking at me, I shook my head quickly. 'Please say no' I thought
"I would love to come, Macy sounds like an amazing little girl, just like Charlie" Puck replied fake-ness dripping from his voice.
"Awesome so I guess I'll see you there' Hamish said shaking his hand again, and giving me I quick hug before kissing my cheek "I have to get back to work" he said before walking out of school
"Speaking of work, I got to go to" I say and just as I was going to walk off to see Charlie, his hand wrapped tightly around my elbow
"Quinn care to explain?" he asked
"He is a friend" I say shortly
"He was so flirting with you and right in front of me, does he know anything about you or me, it's gross using your daughter to get into someone's pants" Puck whines
"Macy is a friend of Charlie's, and I get along well with Hamish and his wife, and our children like each other double bonus" I say now walking again
"Ohh" was all Puck said before catching up with me "I still don't like him" he said, I rolled my eyes
"He is really nice, you should like him, he's actually really like you" I tell Puck who was still following me like a puppy dog
"But he was a I'm so professional and shit" Puck complained again
"No he really isn't, he hates anyone and everyone who hurts his family, he spent time in juvie, he and his first girlfriend had a baby it was adopted, then he got married and had another kid, all before he was 18" I said "his daughter has him wrapped around her finger, and he can be really sweet and caring, he thinks of me and Char as family that's why he pulled the whole big Daddy act, and used big words and stuff" I finished "Your more alike than you care to think."
"Fine' he said with a big sigh.
"Charlie?" I call and she came running over to us "I have to go back to work, but Daddy will stay, and after school you get to drag him to Aunty Mercedes, while Mummy does her cheerleading ok baby?" I ask/tell.
"Ok Mummy" she gave me a tight hug and kissed my cheek as well, "come on Daddy lets go play" she said with a huge smile
"Wait what?" he asked while being drug of to the playground. After a huge day of ballet and acting, I was ready to go back home. I drove to Charlie's school completely forgetting about Daddy day, so I was a little surprised when I drove past a truck that looked so familiar. The school bell hadn't rung yet so I waited by the door, not realising still that Puck was here, or that I was the only one standing there.
When the bell finally rang and everyone came running out I was texting Mercedes, Britt and Satan
"Q?" I heard Hamish ask
"Yeah" I answer not looking up
"Why are you back here?" he asked again, and I remembered, I started laughing
"Oh My God I forgot Daddy day" I said burring my face in my hands "Well that's too bad because I just finished making after school plans for Charlie" I add, realising that either Puck was going to have to go with her or they would stay home.
"I'll see you later tonight Q" Hamish said hugging me "Later dude" he said to Puck doing that weird clap sort of hand shake that Finn and Puck always used to do.
"You came back?" Puck asked not getting it
"Yeah I forgot" I say blushing again "How was school baby?" I ask bending down to be face to face with her, Charlie had the biggest smile I had ever seen
"Good Mummy we made pictures and did lots of games, turns out Daddy isn't very good at anything but making a mess" Charlie told still wearing a huge smile "and he's good at outside games, he even tackled Tabatha's Dad when we were playing Football, and then got told off, it was so funny" she kept going laughing at her own memory.
"Ok baby girl sounds like you had fun" I stand back up, and she lifted her arms up to me, I try not to roll my eyes, I was trying to get her to be more self-supported but turns out when you grow up with it being okay to be picked up it was hard to break out of. I lift up my little angle "You can follow us home, and then you have San, Britt, and Merc coming over" I tell him he pouts
"Was this planned?" he asked
"No, this is what she does ever Monday when I have cheer" I tell him finally reaching my car and putting Charlie in, luckily for me she was a light 8 almost 9 year old.
"Couldn't we come with you to cheer?" he asked smiling and leaning up against my car
"No" I say simply "When I get back around 5 have her ready to go out for dinner, she is allowed to wear whatever she wants, and I'll do her hair" I say walking around to the other side of my car and opening the door, Puck stood there with his hands in his pockets. He could tell something was up I normally wasn't this rude. "Follow us home ok?" I say getting in my car and starting it up as he walked over to his car.
I was nervous to say the least; I didn't know how this would go, it could only go 1 of 2 ways, good or bad, I hope for the former. His truck was just as big as I remembered, and black, I had never really seen him driving outside of being in the truck with him so it was kind of funny to look in the rear vision mirror and watch.
"Mama are we going to show Daddy our house?" Charlie asked me while shifting in her car seat
"Yeah baby, he's going to stay home with you until I get back" I tell her while she swings her legs after finally getting comfortable again. I pulled into our road that had the gates in front of it, and I watched as he pulled an uncomfortable face.
"Hi sweetie" the guy in the toll box said and I smiled rolling my window down
"Hay Mark, he's with me" I add nodding my head back towards Puck
"Ok sweetie go on in" he said opening the gates with his special card, and we drove down the road a little before I realised Puck was totally out of it, I knew the houses where huge, but I didn't think that much of it. The look on his face brought me back to when I brought our house. I pulled into the drive way and pressed the remote to open the gate. Puck parked behind us, and we all got out somewhat simultaneously.
"Jesus the house is big" Puck said barely being able to clos his mouth
"Come on Daddy!" Charlie said grabbing his hand and dragging him inside I smiled she was so cute, with the gates out the front and the toll both in the road I never had to lock my front door and Charlie knew this, she opened the door still dragging her Dad.
Puck was still amazed at the house it was clean (thank God Charlie wasn't a messy person) and HUGE. I waited in the kitchen while Charlie showed Puck around, making her afternoon snack, a cupcake and half an apple cut up. I looked up to see Charlie dragging Puck back in through to the kitchen he looked happy.
"Ok Char eat your food then you can go play, I have to go now" I say putting her plate on the table as she climbed up "I love you baby" I add hugging her "give me kiss" I add and she turned her cheek towards me to kiss, I laughed and gave her a big blow fly kiss before going to walk out the door. "San, Britt and Mercs will be here soon" I say before really walking out.
Cheer practice was long and hard, but I really didn't mind I loved it, and Charlie got to spend time with other family members (San and Britt and Mercs more than said "Daddy"). Put tonight I really didn't feel like going over to Hamish's and Lauren's, so while I was sitting in the car watching Char play with her Daddy I called Lauren.
"Hay Quinn" she said as she picked up
"Hay Lauren, can we do dinner another night Charlie's at home playing with her Dad and I don't want to cut their time short I think he's going home tomorrow" I say kinda quickly
"Yeah I totally understand if Macy had the same story I would so do the same thing, anyways good luck with your little family, and we'll do dinner another time" Lauren said she was really understanding thankfully
"Thank you so much for understanding and we'll do dinner tomorrow after I get the girls from ballet" I offer
"Yeah hun that sounds great, love you guys and we'll see you soon" Lauren said before hanging up, I walked inside after getting off the phone and putting it in my bag.
"What are my little monsters doing?" I ask coming into full view of what I could sort of see from my car Puck was lying on the ground with Charlie lying fully across his stomach, and then it would change so Puck was on the ground next to Charlie tickling to her until she cried/laughed. I smiled "Ok monster dinner time" I say picking her up off Puck, they both pouted and I laughed again "go start the bath and Daddy will be in there soon" I say putting her back on the ground. Charlie ran off down the hall, "Go help her" I say walking into the kitchen to start dinner.
I should have realised that I was setting up for a water fight and I should have realised the mess they would make but I simply didn't think about it, Charlie was fully and totally happy.
I heard all the noise and decided as dinner was done I would go investigate, right as I walked in someone splashed and I got completely soaked, and by the time I opened my eyes but Charlie and Puck were looking guilty so no help there, then I saw the state of the rest of the room, and puck who probably had more water on him then was in the tub. I giggled
"Ok Monster and Monster Man time for dinner" I say pulling Charlie out of the tub and pacing her on the mat and pulling her hooded towel down over her head "go get your jammies and Puck I think I might have some clothes you can wear" I say watching as Charlie ran down the hall I had pinned her towel together at the sides since it was miles too big for the tiny girl and she loved to be in her towel for ages. I gave Puck some of his old clothes I wore during my pregnancy.
"Hay aren't these mine?" he asked I smiled nodded blushing just a little
"Yeah I wore then when I was pregnant" I say walking out of the room so he could get changed, but he grabbed me by the waist and drug me back into the room, he kissed full on start on the lips, as I felt his tongue run along my lip I knew I needed to stop this (well at least until Charlie had gone to bed). "No I cant not while Charlie's up" I said sliding my hand down his front the pushing away from him.
My period was late, 2 weeks to be exact, I was never late I had a very regular period, I decided to take a pregnancy test, the thing that would make or possible break my life. I called Puck later that day, he answered quickly after the first ring, I wonder what was going through his mind when he saw my name flash up on his phone.
"Quinn what's up is something wrong with Charlie?" he asked
"No" I answer shortly trying not to show I was crying
"What then?" he asked slightly confused
"I'm pregnant."
I'm so sorry its a cliff hanger but i had to there will be another couple of chapter to sthis story. AND PLEASE REVIEW tell me what you think should happen our maybe what you want to happen. But PLEASE i'm an attention whore i love good and Helpful messages.
Maci