Here's chapter 7! Sorry for the delay! I was busy doing a project for my French class over the weekend, so I didn't have to time to finish this chapter. Besides that, thank you for all of the reviews, favs, and alerts!

I don't own Glee. I only own the character Cory Hudson.

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Rachel sat by the living room window as she quietly did her homework, watching the snow fall from the sky. It was now January, and she hadn't heard anything from the colleges she had applied for. She was starting to get worried; what if she wasn't accepted? She knew she wasn't going to get a letter from NYADA until next month, but she wondered about her application to Ohio State. If she didn't get there and got accepted to NYADA, what was Rachel going to do? Or more importantly, what were Rachel and Finn going to do? They needed to raise Cory together, and if they didn't there would be complications in their relationship.

"Mama," Cory's voice alarmed her, waking her up from her daydream. He walked towards her without anything on his feet, which worried her. It went away once he grabbed her arm and hugged it gently.

"Thank you Little Cor," she gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Where are your socks? You should always wear them around the house."

"Ask Dada," he replied with the same smirk his dad always owned with pride.

"I told him yesterday when his grandpas' were watching him that if he was good, he could walk around the house without his socks on," Finn explained, walking into the living room towards Rachel. He then got down on the floor and sat next to her.

"It's snowing outside Finn! He's going to get a cold!" she said, sitting her son down in front of them. "This one time won't hurt, though." She let out a sigh as she continued her school work.

"Are you ok?" he asked, placing his arm around her.

"Not really. I'm really worried if I'm going to get an acceptance letter for Ohio State or not. What if I don't get accepted, and I get accepted into NYADA? What will we do about Cory?" she asked, looking into his eyes.

"We'll cross that bridge if we need to," he answered, giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"I really think we should talk about it now. I mean," Rachel looked at Cory. "Look at that face! I'd miss his face every day if I couldn't see him. Wouldn't you feel that same way?"

"No kidding," Finn answered with a sigh. "I even miss him when we're at school. I don't know how I'd be able to handle not seeing him for a whole day, let alone longer than that."

"Well, I could take him for the summer months, and right before school starts I can bring him back to Ohio..." her suggestion was bad, and she knew it was before she even said it. It was the only think she could think of, though.

"That wouldn't work...the only time you'd' see him are on holidays, and that's sounds like what divorced parents do," Finn sighed. They sat in silence for a moment until they heard a knock on the front door. The brunette shot up from her seat and jogged over to the door. She opened it, and standing in front of her was Quinn.

"Hey Quinn, how's it -"

"I remember."

"You what?"

"I remember."

-more-than-words-

Quinn scanned the aisles of the drugstore aimlessly, searching for cough syrup for her parents. A cold was spreading around Lima, and her mom and dad happened to catch it. She was forbidden to see them; they didn't want her to her sick. Once she found the aisle, she felt her phone go off in her pocket. She took it out of her pant pocket, and she saw her mom texted her.

"Once you pick up some cough medicine, can you get your father and I some soup at the store? Your dad would like tomato soup, and I'd like some chicken soup," Quinn read silently. She didn't like to make more than one stop in the wintertime, but it was for her parents. The blonde grabbed a box of daytime pills and nighttime pills for a cold. At the cash register she grabbed a pack of Reese cups. For some reason, she had developed a huge craving for those lately. She shrugged it off, ignoring why she was having such a desire for a certain type of food. It was natural for anyone to get food cravings.

She got into her car quickly, and slowly began to drive to the store. There was a ton of salt on the road, which relieved her. When Quinn reached the red light, she fiddled around with the radio until she found something she liked.

"Shut up and put your money where your mouth is. That's what you get for waking up in Vegas. Get up and shake the glitter off your clothes now.That's what you get for waking up in Vegas," Quinn sang along with a Katy Perry song she knew really well. She saw the cars up ahead of her slowly start to move again, so she did the same. A few seconds later though, all the cars stopped. The blonde almost rear-ended the car in front of her, but she hit the breaks and it caused the car to stop abruptly. The back of her head hit the back of her head rest, and it swiftly went back into the same position as before.

"Ow..." Quinn whined, rubbing her neck. That really hurt. Flashes started to appear in her mind after she blinked a couple times. One was of her and Puck before they had sex, a pregnancy test in her hand, yelling at Rachel before Regionals, and singing at Nationals in New York. The last one she was a car rushing towards her car, and that was it.

"Oh my god..." she whispered as all the flashes played in her head again as if they were on repeat. They finally stopped when she heard the car behind her honking it's horn. She drove once she heard it, but she quietly cried as she made her way to the store. She remembered nine months of her life in just a few seconds. It was too intense for her now. She had to talk to someone right now or else she'd probably break down in the grocery store.

-more-than-words-

"Woah..." Finn said as he sat on the chair in the living room with Cory on his lap. Rachel walked back into the living room with a cup of tea in her hand for Quinn once she finished the story. "You remember everything that happened from January 2011 to September 2011, everything that you lost?"

"Yep..." she answered, taking a sip of her tea. "Rachel, I'm so sorry I said that stuff to you. You two are doing a wonderful job raising your son."

"It's alright. That's all water under the bridge now," the brunette said, rubbing her friend's arm. It had been almost a year since that happened, and sure it hurt her, but she got over it.

"Now that I remember the events leading up to me having sex with Puck, I really wish I hadn't done it. One good thing came out of it though: Beth. Otherwise, I think I should have waited," she leaned back into the couch, breathing softly. She heard something outside and cautiously got up to go towards the front door. She then realized the mail arrived, seeing as the mailman was walking down the driveway. She opened up the mail slot from inside to find a late Happy Holidays card from one of Finn's relatives, a couple of bills, and a letter from Ohio State. She threw everything on the side table except for the letter. Quinn asked, "What is it Rachel?"

"It's a letter from Ohio State," she gazed at her boyfriend and fried for a moment. "I don't want to open it. I'd rather wait and open it hen I get my NYADA letter."

"You have to open it, Rach," Finn spoke up. "Our family's fate is in that letter. If it's bad news, we need to start thinking about what we're going to do about Cory."

"You're right," the brunette ripped the letter open like a dog, but took the piece of paper out of the envelope nonchalantly. She read the letter quickly, looking up at everyone in the room.

"Well?" Quinn asked breathlessly.

"I got in," Rachel said with a grin. Finn and Quinn cheered for her quietly, which was the complete opposite of how everyone reacted to Finn getting in. Her son's ears were sensitive, and they didn't want to ruin them. She was happy that she got into Ohio State, but it didn't feel right. She felt like she belonged in New York, not in Ohio.

Songs used:

Waking Up in Vegas - Katy Perry.

Are you happy Rachel got into OSU? Or are you hoping she'll still go to New York if she's accepted into NYADA? Post what you think in the reviews!

Coming up in chapter 8: Finn and Rachel schedule a double date with Lila and her new boyfriend. Rachel notices something different about her friend, which causes her to become concerned.