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The night had just started, for the both of them.
After the little talk Rachel stood up, Brooke in her arms and turned to Brittany, she smiled at her as much as she could.
'Would you like a drink and something to eat?' she asked.
'Yeah, do you have any soda?' Brittany asks.
'Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Pepsi, Sprite, I think that's it' Rachel said and looked thoughtful for a second before nodding.
Brittany smiled at her friend 'could I have Pepsi please?' Brittany asked.
'Of course' Rachel replied with a nod and then set off for the kitchen, once Rachel hit the kitchen door frame she placed Brooke onto her feet and let two fists wrap around her index finger on each hand, she helped support Brooke as her tiny legs moved hesitantly, Brooke squealed though, a huge smile on her face, Brittany, who walked past them, sat on a stool at the counter in the middle of the kitchen and watched Brooke try to walk. They got halfway to Brittany and Brooke stopped looking up and giving her a gummy, toothy, grin, it was mostly gum as the little girl had about four teeth in her mouth.
Brooke carried on walking picking up speed as she made her way to Brittany, once there Brooke let go of one of Rachel's hands and held it to Brittany, Rachel smiled down at her and Brittany slid off the stool to crouch in front of the little girl, Brooke smiled again and made her pincer action, Brittany took the hand and Brooke let go of Rachel's other one, she wobbled for a second before falling onto her bottom. She giggled a little and looked to Brittany, who looked into brown eyes that were identical to her friends, she smiled at the tiny girl and held her hands out to her, Brooke raised her arms and let herself be picked up by the blonde. Brittany held her as they sat on the stall, Brooke hit the table with her hand and Brittany copied causing the tiny girl to laugh.
Rachel got two glasses and the soda's she wanted, pouring Mountain Dew into one and Pepsi into the other, she smiled and watched the two girls on the stool interact. Brooke hadn't really been around anyone else but her and Tara, it upset Rachel to think about it but they did go to the park often to see the ducks, Rachel had also seen the cheerio trio there and sometimes it was just Santana and Brittany, she would hold Brooke between her legs as the girl would sit, or stand, and admire the ducks and pond.
The two girls had moved onto a game of one hand on top of the other, Brooke's hand was on top of Brittany's at the moment and she was smiling up at the girl. Rachel slid the glass over to Brittany, but out of the reach of Brooke and then grabbed a sippy cup for Brooke and put some juice in it for the girl. Brittany laughed when the tiny girl attacked the sippy cup like it was her only life source, Rachel chuckled along with her.
Once they had gotten the drinks they moved to the living room, Brittany carrying a still drinking Brooke. Rachel's living room was surprising, instead of a coffee table in the middle it had mini tables by the sides of the sofas so that you could put your drinks down, in the middle was mats and pillows for Brooke to be sat on, there was also a TV on the far wall, it was massive. There was a case underneath it with a load of DVD's and games, a DVD player, a Wii and an Xbox all plugged into it.
Rachel saw her friends astonishment at the TV and smiled a small smile.
'You can blame Daniel and Steve for that, they left it, some more guilt, although the games and DVDs and the systems were presents.' Rachel said, looking at Brittany, Brittany turned to face the girl.
'I so know where to come if I want a movie night.' Brittany tells her excitedly, Rachel laughs and nods. They sit down and Brittany sets Brooke on the floor, the tiny girl crawls to a pillow and curls up on it then she pulls something up to her and she turns over, she starts to have a conversation with a gold star shaped teddy.
Brittany turned to face Rachel, as if she was to be blamed for the gold star.
'Hey don't blame me, that was my aunt, the whole reason gold stars are my thing is because they remind me of Brooke, I see them I think of her, she keeps me going, I will make it, and I will prove Daniel and Steve wrong.' Rachel told her, Brittany smiled and nodded.
'So the rest of your family know of her?'
'How could they not, I was the talk of the family, my grandparents supported me and when my dad's left they abandoned them, they even make sure they don't come near me, my grandparents know how bad I was affected by them leaving, so they help to make sure I don't get hurt again, and they love Brooke, it's just a shame that we don't get to see them often cause they live in Cali' Rachel tells her, Brittany nods and sort of smiles at her.
'Brooke, she's your daughter.' Brittany asks, well more like states.
'She is indeed.' Rachel says with a smile as she looks to Brooke. Brooke rolls off of the pillow and does an army crawl to some stacking cups, making Rachel and Brittany laugh. Brooke looks up at the two and smiles a cheeky smile at them.
'She definitely smiles a lot.' Brittany says looking at Rachel, who is still staring at Brooke with so much love and adoration in her eyes.
'Yeah, it's not very often she doesn't smile, unless she's hungry, tired, needs a change or unwell, or sometimes when she's in a strange place and she can't see me, she panics and starts to cry, like in the supermarket' Rachel explains. Rachel finally looks away from Brooke to Brittany and she smiles at the girl in front of her.
Brooke gets two cups from her stacking collections and then army crawls over to where her mommy is sat with the blonde lady, she moves and sits up lifting her arms with two cups and offering them to Rachel and Brittany. Rachel moves forward and takes the one in Brooke's right hand.
'Thank you sweetie.' She says and sits back, Brooke smiles at her mom and then looks to Brittany, she just sits there staring at the tall blonde. Brittany smiles at her and moves forwards she places her hand on the cup and takes it lightly, Brooke keeps her eyes on the blonde girl, Brittany feels like she is still being tested.
Brittany moves back and smiles wider at the little girl, 'Thanks Brooke' she says and holds her cup in her hands. Brooke claps and giggles rolling onto her back and holding her toes. She stops giggling but stays in the position and just stares at the ceiling. Brittany raises an eyebrow at the frozen girl and the looks to Rachel who's watching in amusement.
'Don't worry she does it all the time, she's fascinated with the ceiling, and don't get me onto the lights, if you flick them on she will just sit and stare at them as if they hold some secret she is trying to figure out' Rachel explains and Brittany laughs at the information.
'What animals does she like?' Brittany asks as she moves to look at the still frozen child. She chuckles at the unmoving form of the tiny girl.
'She loves the ducks down at the park' Rachel tells her as she watches Brittany 'we go to visit often.' She sees Brittany's eyes brighten at the mention of the ducks and the park.
'Tomorrow can we go to see the ducks at the park together?' Brittany asks
Rachel smiles and nods at her and Brittany claps, their heads both snap to the baby girl as she finally moves from her position, only to army crawl to the pillow she had been on, grab her golden star, lie on her back and letting her arms and legs flop she stares up at the ceiling once again.
Rachel just smiled at the little girl, who was now babbling to the ceiling, Brittany watched with amusement in her eyes, already adoring the little girl, who will soon have her wrapped around a tiny little finger, no doubt.
Rachel laughed when she saw Brittany's face at what had just happened.
'Don't worry it's normal, for her anyway, once she stayed there for an hour having, what looked to be, a very important conversation with the ceiling, it was hilarious, I was trying to watch a film and she was there scowling and babbling at the ceiling as if she was scolding it, then her face morphed into a smile and she was laughing as if she was hearing a joke, it was hilarious, cute and amusing all at the same time' Rachel told Brittany, who smiled and let the information sink in.
'How old is she?' Brittany asked.
'She's just gone over ten months' Rachel told her happily.
'Wow she really doesn't look it, I would of placed her at around seven.' Brittany said, surprise written all over her face, Rachel nodded.
'Most people do, it's because of her size, but it runs in the family, it doesn't help that she takes after me in almost everything' Rachel explains to her.
'Yeah, I can tell the only thing on her face that is different to yours is her nose.' Brittany says Rachel again nods.
'Yeah, which I'm happy about, then she won't get teased like I do' Rachel says smiling.
'Which religion is she?' Brittany asks, wanting to learn as much about the little girl as possible, hoping to gain Rachel's trust and friendship as she sees she can share and Brittany won't tell anyone. She doesn't know why but she just feels like she has to get to know these two more, she feels compelled and like she is meant to be there for them.
Rachel looks at her ad shrugs 'I don't know, my faith went out the window to be honest, yeah I sort of keep up with it in some ways but that's because it was sort of drilled into me, I was taught both Judaism and Christianity, I was thinking I might do that and then let her chose when she's older, but right now, I don't believe in anything, at the moment, especially after what I have been through.' Rachel explains, Brittany looks at her with sad eyes, she just shrugs, it's the way she feels.
After going through what she had to, getting pregnant and the having her father's, the people who were always meant to be there for her, abandon her, it got her thinking, yeah people say god puts up obstacles and you have to climb over them, or he will help to guide you through them, she hasn't had any help, she hasn't had anyone to love her and hug at night when she suffers with the nightmares, she doesn't have anyone by her side, holding her hand when things get to tough, when she feels that it isn't getting any better, really the only person there for her, the only person that keeps her going and the only reason she is still here is Brooke. She wouldn't have been able to carry on without her daughter, so to her god really doesn't mean anything, he had once, but now after being put through hell, she doesn't really think she could believe in him, that doesn't mean she won't be teaching Brooke about religion though.
'I suppose, because I don't know everything that had gone on in your life, I can't comment and if that is the way you feel, then okay, but just don't give up just yet, maybe the big man upstairs has something up his sleeve for you to help you along the way.' Brittany says, smiling at her.
Rachel smiles at Brittany and her positivity 'yeah, well obviously I will teach Brooke both ways, I just, at the moment, I don't know how, I can' bring myself to do it, because really, I've been let down by so many people and him upstairs is included in that.' Rachel says she doesn't like the subject that they are on very much and Brittany senses it. She smiles and looks back to Brooke, 'how about we get snacks and watch some good old Disney movies?' Brittany says happily and Rachel is thankful for the move on subjects and the distraction.
'Okay and what movie is your favourite?'
Brittany looks at her like she's crazy 'Aladdin duh' she says and Rachel laughs and nods.
'That's my favourite to, I liked the monkey and flying carpet' Rachel told her as she got up to get the snacks, she walked back in to see Brittany sitting on the floor with Brooke between her legs and helping to build the cups up. Brittany finishes and then watches as Brooke pushes the cups over and laugh, clapping her hands, Brittany smiles fondly at the tiny girl and quickly restarts building. Rachel sighs knowing her tiny angel already had the blonde under her thumb.
She walks in and places the snacks down on the table next to where Brittany is sitting, then she walks over to the DVD cabinet and picks out Aladdin, she places it in the DVD player and grabs the remotes she needs before joining the other two girls on the floor. Brooke watches her mom sit down by them and smiles her gummy/toothy smile at her before going back to the now rebuilt tower and knocking it over. Rachel chuckles at her daughter's antics, the tiny girl seemed to be testing Brittany.
Rachel turned the TV on and got it onto the DVD player, she pressed play and soon they were watching Aladdin, Brittany who had just finished building the tower again stopped to watch the film, Brooke knocked it down and then looked at Brittany expectantly, when she realised she didn't have the girls attention anymore she to looked to the TV and saw one of her favourite films was on, she looked to her mom's lap and decided she wanted to be in it, so she crawled, or well tried to, over Brittany's leg, Brittany feeling the pressure on her leg looked down to see a struggling Brooke, she could see the little girl was about to whine out for her mother, so she picked the girl up and helped her get into her mother's lap.
Rachel instinctively took the baby girl and leant her against her stomach, she kissed the top of Brooke's head and started singing along with the first song, Brooke smiled and snuggled into her mother. An hour later and Brooke was asleep listening to her mom sing was always soothing to her, and the vibration going from Rachel's body to hers always helped to get her off to sleep. Rachel paused the movie, she stood up, laying Brooke down in her arms and started the trek up the stairs to Brooke's room, she quickly changed the girls diaper, Brooke woke up slightly, winged and then went back to sleep as her mom sang to her, once Rachel was happy she lay Brooke down in her crib and picked up the baby monitor, she walks downstairs and back to Brittany.
Brittany looked up as she walks in. 'I was just thinking, and you would totally be Aladdin' Brittany says.
'Right and how did you come to that conclusion?' Rachel asks looking at Brittany with a raised eyebrow as she sat down next to her.
'Cause you liked the monkey, Abu and carpet, you would also be like smart like him and he likes to sing.' Brittany said and Rachel nodded.
'Okay but that would mean you were the Princess, Jasmine' Rachel said.
'Wait does that mean you're in love with me?' they didn't know why but both got butterflies at that thought, Rachel blushed.
'Uh, I um, no it's just that your beautiful, and you would so have a Raja as your guard and that's kinda like Santana, cause she's like a tiger, and you would so be the awesome princess, who gets wooed by my flying carpet.' Rachel says and Brittany nods.
'But who would be the carpet and Abu.'
'Well obviously Brooke would so be the cheeky monkey, Abu' Rachel said and they both laughed. 'But I don't know about the flying carpet' Rachel said.
'Whatever Aladdin' Brittany says.
'Shall I press play my princess?' Rachel asked cheekily.
'Yes you shall' Brittany says and they giggle, Rachel does indeed press play.
'I cannot believe you said S would be my tiger.' Brittany says.
'Well yeah cause she's like real protective of you, and she is your best friend and cares about you like loads, and she helps you, kinda like the tiger is Jasmine's best friend' Rachel says.
'Yeah and you called Brooke a cheeky monkey'
'Same theory though, she is not only my daughter but my friend, she's always there for me and she is so a cheeky monkey, so it just fits' Brittany laughs and nods.
'Come on Aladdin lets snack and watch films' Brittany said.
'Of course your highness' Rachel said and got the snacks, sitting down on the floor crossed legged and watched the rest of Aladdin and carried on watching other Disney movies. Brittany was right, it was definitely the place to come to have movie nights. This was the first time she got to see the real Rachel, she concluded she definitely liked this girl.
Rachel sat next to Brittany silently as they watched the movies, every now and then joking about by picking characters to go with the glee club kids, they also snacked, Brittany changed positions so her head was resting on Rachel's shoulder and Rachel couldn't help but notice the butterflies that came into her stomach as she felt Brittany's head slide into position, she leant her head on top, she sighed content. She was silent because she was thinking about how comfortable the two had been with each other and the reactions she kept getting when Brittany would touch her, or how her heart would skip every time the blonde smiled or laughed, it was such a beautiful sight.
'The Beast is so Finn' Brittany said, laughing, Rachel laughed along with her, because really she could totally see where she was coming from.
'Yeah and Cogsworth and Lumiere are so Mercedes and Kurt' Rachel said laughing, she felt Brittany nodding and laughing along with her.
Beauty and the Beast finished but neither bothered to get up to change the DVD instead they just stayed in the position they were in, just because they were both comfortable.
Brittany sighed 'You know Aladdin you are rather comfortable, I think I could just stay like this forever' Brittany said and Rachel blushed, luckily Brittany hadn't moved to see her face so got away with it.
'Yeah I think I could stay like this to, but alas I have a daughter to take care of and we need to move if we are to go see the ducks tomorrow'
'Oh yeah, we're going to see the ducks, I can't wait' Brittany said and Rachel beamed, she checked the time, it was coming up to eleven.
'I better get going' Brittany said, moving and getting up, she stuck her hand out and helped Rachel up to her feet.
'You could stay if you want?' Rachel sort of asked.
Brittany smiled but shook her head 'Maybe another time, cause I don't have any of my stuff and I don't think your clothes would fit me, we'll see each other tomorrow'
'Of course' Rachel said with a smile.
'Cool, well I'll see you at twelve tomorrow?' Brittany asked nervously.
'Sounds good yeah' Rachel said smiling at Brittany's nervousness.
Brittany pulled Rachel into a hug and couldn't help but take in the smell of her. Unbeknownst to her Rachel was doing the exact same thing.
They pulled away and smiled at each other shyly, walking to the door.
'We'll have to have another movie night, I'll bring my stuff over and sleepover' Brittany said with a now happy smile, Rachel nodded smiling back at the girl before her.
'Yes we shall, Brooke would love to have you over here to, she has never warmed up to anyone so quickly' Rachel said.
'Well that's good to know, I swear she was testing me throughout my visit.' Brittany said as Rachel got the door for her.
'She most likely was but I think you passed it so don't worry' Rachel smiled and Brittany walked through the door.
'Well see you tomorrow' Brittany said.
'Will do, twelve and we'll meet by the pond?' Rachel asked and Brittany nodded. 'Okay then see you tomorrow Brits'
'Bye Rach' Brittany said walking to her car.
'Bye Brits, drive safe and text me when you get home' Rachel called out to her.
Brittany nodded and waved before getting into her car and driving off. Rachel got ready for bed and lay down in her room, a few minutes later her phone rang out signalling a text.
Got home safe, can't wait 4 2morrow, nyt x Britt x
Good to know, I can't wait either, will be good, night x Rach x
Both girls lay on their beds and read the texts, they sighed put their phones on their bedside table and fell asleep, both looking forward to seeing the other the next day.
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