She's alone in this city she always said was home. Everything is going right, just like she hoped and her father's had planned. Kurt's here and Santana is too, but when what makes home "home" isn't there, nothing feels warm and inviting.
It just feels empty.
Sometimes she'll walk around Brookland and stop by buildings with giant fire escapes. Sneak her way to the roof and imagine it's theirs. That down below is a one room with a perfect couch and a cabinet full of coffee mugs.
Her perfect and wonderful dream seems so far away.
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He's in a different city, where everything closes at six and a summer job means mowing lawns. Music is in his life and that's great and all. And he's finally has a direction. But he's afraid sometimes that this is where he'll always be.
There are nights when he's lying in bed, his eyes cast towards his window and the sky. Sometimes he imagines the sounds of brushing teeth and the water running in the bathroom behind him.
But the room is dark and everything is quiet.
He doesn't think he'll ever make it home.
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Her phone rings one night as she's pacing back and forth rehearsing her lines. She doesn't pay attention to the number and answers it.
"Hello, Rachel Berry speaking."
"Hey Rach. Can we talk?"
She stops pacing.
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He thought a lot about what to say, because life doesn't have an undo button.
Sleep should have come and hour ago but he's got to say this or he'll never follow through.
The phone rings once.
"Hello, Rachel Berry speaking."
Here goes.
"Hey Rach. Can we talk?"
"Yes. Yes. Of course."
"I want you to know that I'm already home. Maybe not physically but, I'm there. See, you're it for me. I don't care that I'm nineteen years old and shouldn't know what it means to be in love or how it feels. With you, it's real and I can feel it when I think of you or when I hear your voice. So, just know I'm already home."
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She doesn't know where it came from why it was said, but it's everything she needed to hear.
The city is big and the distance between them even bigger. In the mean time, she'll keep moving and when he's finally here, she'll bend the street lights so he'll find his way.
Knowing he's already there with her, makes it all okay.
He's home.