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CHAPTER 4

Rachel feels cheated when she ends up taking the kids to the park the next day and Puck and Sam end up staying home and playing videogames. But then she feels that the boys are the ones missing out.

Stevie and Stacy are amazing and watching Sara give advice to Stacy is pretty cute. Stevie is shy and hasn't left Rachel's side since they arrived at the park.

They play hide and go seek and tag before Rachel takes them across the street for ice cream and a loaf of bread to feed the ducks at the duck pond behind the park.

When they get to the pond Rachel is wary when she sees Brittany sitting on the bench in front of the pond.

"Come on Rachie!" Stacy shouts running towards the pond.

No avoiding her now.

Brittany lifts her head and looks over her shoulder to see Rachel approaching with a little boy glued to her side. She smiles in greeting.

"Hi Rachel, who is this?" She asks looking at Stevie.

"This is Stevie, his twin sister Stacy is over there with Sara." Rachel says pushing Stevie forward a bit. "Say hi Stevie." Rachel smiles.

"Hi." Stevie says softly holding Rachel's hand.

"He's shy." Rachel says as she watches Sara tear off pieces of bread for Stacy to feed the ducks. "Is Santana with you?" Rachel asks. She is somewhat relieved when Brittany shakes her head.

"She's visiting family in Puerto Rico." Brittany says and Rachel nods taking a seat beside her.

"Go feed the ducks Stevie." Rachel says and Stevie nods going over to join his sister and Sara. Rachel has nothing against Brittany. She never helped in making her suffer. Brittany was actually nice to her. She waved and smiled at her when they crossed paths and made comments that sounded offensive but Rachel can't seem to find a mean bone in the blonde.

"Isn't that Puck's sister?" Brittany asks and Rachel nods.

"Yeah, Noah is at his house with Stevie and Stacy's brother Sam, they're new in town." Rachel says. She watches Brittany nod but a frown is still marring her face. "Why so sad duck?"

"Duck?" Brittany asks.

"Well, yeah, your favorite animal is a duck right?" Rachel asks. Brittany nods. Rachel smiles. "Plus you're cute like one." Brittany blushes. "So why so sad duck?" Rachel repeats.

Brittany looks at the loaf of bread still in her hands. She has been picking at it for the better part of thirty minutes. "Summer is supposed to be full of fun." Brittany starts. "But it's so boring and lonely. Lord Tubbington keeps reading my diary so I get like no privacy, my parents are working overtime to save up for a trip to Never land and Santana isn't here to spend time with and Quinn is so determined to lose all of her baby weight." Brittany lets out another heavy sigh and stops playing with the bread.

"Never land?" Rachel asks. She knows Brittany says weird things but she doesn't doubt the cat part. Cats are smart and sometimes evil.

"My family is from there." Brittany says. "Which is weird since we aren't related to Peter Pan and even though I think happy thoughts I can't fly. But I don't have a fairy so I guess that's the problem." Brittany says and Rachel feels like hitting someone. Probably the idiots who don't care enough to correct the poor girl. It is best to be honest than lie just so you don't hurt their feelings.

"It's the Netherlands Brittany, Never land is a fictional place in a movie and Peter Pan is a character, they aren't real." Rachel says and Brittany looks down at the bread again. "And fairies don't exist."

"Oh."

Rachel sees tears well up in Brittany's eyes. "What's wrong?"

"I'm stupid." Brittany sniffles and Rachel reels back.

"You aren't stupid Brittany." Rachel says. She means it. While most of what Brittany says is confusing Rachel can see some sense behind it because it makes sense to Brittany.

"Yes I am. I think Peter Pan and Never land exist when they obviously don't." Brittany reaches up and wipes a tear from her cheek.

"Brittany, you see things differently. That doesn't make you stupid. As long as it makes sense to you it doesn't matter what others think." Rachel says and Brittany looks at her.

"Really?" Brittany sniffles and Rachel nods.

"Really." Rachel stands up and holds out her hand. "Let's go feed the ducks."

Brittany smiles and takes Rachel's hand. They join the kids and feed the ducks.

After the last of their bread is gone Brittany ad Rachel are carrying Stevie and Stacy on their backs respectively. Sara is walking between them as they make their way to Rachel's car.

After depositing the twins in the back seat with Sara, Rachel and Brittany shut the doors.

Suddenly Rachel got an idea. "Do you know how to play football?" Rachel asks and Brittany nods. "Meet us here tomorrow at twelve." Rachel says and Brittany grins. "Do you need a ride home?"

Brittany shakes her head. "Nah, I got my bike." Brittany says jabbing her thumb in the direction of a motocross bike.


Sara, Stevie and Stacy are playing at the playground while Puck tries to fit Brittany into one of his old pads.

"Ok, today we will be tackling." Puck says as he sets up the cones.

"Are you sure that's wise?" Sam asks looking at Rachel.

"Jew Babe can handle it." Puck says as Rachel nods.

"Yes, and how are you so sure that you will be able to tackle me?" Rachel smirks.

"Sounds like a challenge." Sam smiles as they pull their helmets on and start a two on two game. The blondes versus the hot Jews, as Puck had put it.

Sam had found it difficult tackling Rachel because in order to tackle her he had to catch up and every time he got close Puck would run interference and sack him or block him. Brittany managed to do it. Four times to be exact.

After the fourth time Rachel calls for a break.


It is only two weeks into the summer vacation. They have a month and a half left.

Rachel realizes Noah has been helping her so she is going to help him. And this conclusion is what brings them to the local library two days later.

"Why are we here?" Puck grumbles as Rachel grabs a few books that is on her summer reading list. She manages to find a few text books and places them in front of him and Sam.

"I am going to help you with your school work." Rachel says as Brittany joins them with Stevie, Stacy and Sara who are holding four books each.

"But Rach, it's summer, you don't do school work over summer." Puck complains.

Sam grabs the book Rachel offers him. "I'm dyslexic dude, I can use all the help I can get to try and do better." Sam says.

Rachel smiles at Sam and hands Brittany a copy of 'Of Mice and Men.' "Brittany, I want you to read this and write down every word you don't understand and if you don't understand something just ask." Rachel says and Brittany takes the book hesitantly.

"We'll be reading." Sara says and Rachel nods.

As she helps Brittany with her list of words Rachel can't help but wonder what Santana was doing. Because they are practically attached at the hip. Santana has to know Brittany is struggling.

"Doesn't Santana help you understand things?" Rachel asks and Brittany nods.

"Yeah, but I don't want her to think I'm completely hopeless. I try to do things on my own but I just can't get a hold on what I'm reading. Sometimes I think I'm reading two different books at one time." Brittany says as she looks over the definitions to the words she had written down.

Sam looks up from his work. "Do words move on you?" Sam asks and Brittany furrows her brow.

"Yeah, they jump around too."

"You'll be reading and a word from the sentence below appears in the sentence you are trying to read?" Sam asks and Brittany nods. "You might be dyslexic like me." Sam says. "Do you learn better with music?" Sam asks and Brittany nods.

"Yeah, I dance so it is the easiest thing for me." Brittany says.

"You should go see a doctor about it." Sam says and Brittany nods.

"I'll tell my parents." Brittany says and Rachel smiles as she returns to explaining a part of the book to Brittany.


As it turns out Brittany is indeed dyslexic and Rachel promises to help her as much as she can with her school work over the summer. Puck groans because he knows Rachel will force him to tag along. Sam asks for help and Rachel happily agrees to help him.

It's funny how in the spam of a few weeks Rachel has more friends than she has had in her whole life and she even gained a family.


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