Shelby wanted to cry. Today was her baby's first day of school. The mother and daughter had walked down to a local park where they met up with the Lopez, Pierce, Fabray, and Hudson-Hummel Families for pictures.

Rachel was excited. Her and her mommy had gone shopping for all new clothes, shoes, and a new backpack and matching lunchbox! They were pink with gold stars all over it, those were her favorite. And then she got to go to the park early where she, Quinn, Brittany, Santana, and Kurt got their pictures taken by their mommies.

"So are you guys ready to start school with us?" Finn, Kurt's step brother asked while, he and held Kurt and Rachel's hands. Kurt nodded excitedly and Rachel looked up concerned.

"It different from preschool?" she hadn't really thought about that until he asked.

"Duh!" Diego, one of Santana's older brothers, said, now walking backwards so he could watch Rachel's reaction, "Of course it's different! Here with us big kids, you Kinderbabies have to listen to everything we say. If a big kid tells you to give him your lunch money or a ball on the playground, you better give it to them or they'll beat you up, or worse, Give you a swirly." Gasped and her lip started to tremble, she didn't know what a swirly was but it couldn't be good.

"Don't listen to him Rach, that won't happen. I'll make sure of it," Frannie, who was also holding the little brunette's hand as well as her sisters. Santana's oldest brother, Ramon, turned around and looked at the little girl.

"Diego is just being mean and trying to scare you. But, if someone is being mean to you, you come tell me, alright? That goes of all you munchkins." Rachel trusted Ramon, he was going into the fifth grade, the highest grade at the school, if anyone was going to protect her, it would be him. Finn and Frannie probably would too, they were going into the fourth grade. She didn't trust Diego though, he was only a year older than them and liked to tease her whenever she hung out with Santana.

Finally, the group arrived in front of the school. Maribel, Judy, and Carol all said goodbye to their older kids, then the five mothers escorted their children to their classrooms. There were two kindergarten classes, Santana, Kurt, and Brittany were in one class while Quinn and Rachel were in the other. Rachel looked around the room it was big and a little scary. They had been here last night for back to school night, but it wasn't that bad because her mommy wasn't going to leave her there, now she was.

"Mommy," Rachel mumbled. Shelby got down to the little girls level and brushed some hair behind her ear.

"You're gonna be fine Baby. Let's go get your lunch box out of your backpack and put them in your cubby. Do you remember where it is?" Rachel nodded, "Lead the way."

"Okay, Mommy is going to pick you up here, in this room at three o'clock. You be a good girl okay?"

"Okay Mommy. I love you."

"I love you too Baby," they hugged and Shelby kissed her daughter's temple. When she let go, Rachel ran off to her seat, she sat at the same table as Quinn, an asian boy, and a little boy with a mohawk. Shelby stood there for a moment looking at her little girl before leaving the room, a tear making it's way down her cheek. When she arrived home she checked the messages, she had four.

"Hi Shelby! It's Hiram! I just wanted to call and wish our baby girl luck on her first day of school, but it seems like I missed ya. Leroy and I will call later to talk to her and see how her day was. Talk to you later, bye!"

"Hello? Shelby! Rachel! Are you still home?" There was a pause, "Apparently you're not. It's Leroy just calling to wish Rachel luck on her first day of school and tell Shelby that it's okay to cry when you drop her off. I'll call back later, bye!"

"Shelby, it's Cass, gotta cancel lunch today the beginning of the year faculty meeting is today. I'll be there tonight to sit though. Hope it well, dropping Little Star off at school. Shit! I'm gonna be late, gotta go. Love ya. Bye!" Shelby rolled her eyes, that woman was always running late.

"Shelby, this is your mother, I wanted to call and…" Shelby deleted the message before the women could continue. Her mother and her hadn't been able to have a civil conversation since she had told her she didn't want to work for her mother's company. Her younger brother ended up working there and will become the CEO soon. She had no problem talking to him, but her mother was dead to her.

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Lunch time rolled around and had found that she liked kindergarten, she was making new friends and was learning a bunch of stuff! The class lined up ad followed the teacher to the lunch room. Rachel sat down with Quinn since they had both packed their lunch, it wasn't long before Santana, Brittany and Kurt joined them. A few minutes later, one of the girls from Quinn and Rachel's class came over.

"Can I sit here?" the five kids looked at each other before nodding in unison, "Thanks, my name is Mercedes." Everyone introduced themselves, "Hows come you all brought your lunches?"

"Um… I don't know, my mommy packed it for me," Rachel said, confused. Was it a bad thing to pack your lunch?"

"My big sister said the food here is nasty," Quinn said.

"Finn likes it!" Kurt said.

"Finn will eat anything though!" Brittany giggled.

After lunch, they went out to the playground, they all decided they wanted to swing, it tuned into a contest to see who could swing the highest. They couldn't declare a winner though because it was time to go back inside.

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At three o'clock Shelby walked into the class room to see Rachel playing with Quinn and another little girl, she seemed to be really enjoying herself. That is until she saw Shelby across the room, her face lit up and the little brunette ran to her mother.

"Mommy!" When she was in her mother's arms she sighed, "I missed you."

"I missed you too Baby. It was so quiet around the apartment without you."

On the walk home Rachel didn't stop talking about her day and the new friend that she had made. Shelby was so glad the girl liked school, that would make it easy to get her to go. Right? It did make her a little scared, her baby was growing up, she didn't want that. She was going to have to cherish every single moment she had with her baby.