It was December, which meant there would be a lot of letters and packages arriving for those lucky enough to have loving families. The messenger walked into our camp with a big grin on his face. He held up the stack of letters. He began to look at the names and handed them out. "Ryder," he called out, tossing two envelopes over.

Ryder shook the envelope and ripped it open. His face lit up with a childish glow when he pulled a candy cane out and read the sparkling card. "Thanks, Mom!" he whispered to the card.

As surprising as it was to see badass Ryder get so happy over a small gift from his mother, it was somewhat cute. "What's in the other one?" I asked out of curiosity, pointing to the second envelope.

He picked it up and ripped it open. A stack of pictures fell out and a small note stuck to one of them. He waved the picture at me proudly. "That's my little sister, Kendall. She did it! She's a model now!"

I looked at the picture. Kendall had Ryder's mischievous smile. She was a little heavy, but she was still pretty. "She looks so happy."

Ryder nodded. "She's been having self esteem issues about her weight for a while. She used to be really overweight. She lost 32 pounds over the past two years. She still may not be a size two, but she feels good about herself now. That's all that matters."

"Yeah," I agreed, looking back up at the messenger impatiently. Some of the guys snickered at the way my foot was bouncing up and down with excitement.

"Oh, I have one last letter here…" the messenger said, dragging out his words, knowing I was about to pee my pants.

"I can't read this handwriting. What is this letter? Is that an E?" he snickered. "Oh, it's an F!"

I jumped up and grabbed the letter right away. Everyone laughed. They all knew who it was from. I didn't care that they were all watching me with amusement as my fingers fumbled with the flap of the envelope. I tore off a sloppy piece of the envelope and pulled the letter out.

Dear Finn,

Merry Christmas! I'm writing this letter from Ohio. I came home to celebrate Hanukkah with my dads. We may have to eat vegan and kosher, but we can still cook great food! Well, I can't. I didn't know how to cook with alcohol, so I ended up burning the vegetables. But besides my embarrassing dinner attempt, we're having a good time together. We found the old dreidel I made when I was six.

I brought some over to Kurt's apartment yesterday. He's really upset. He broke up with Blaine. Apparently Blaine cheated on him with some guy named Eli. I stalked his Facebook profile, and his icon is a lighthouse. I don't know what Blaine saw in him, but he really regrets it. Blaine keeps trying to call Kurt, but he never answers. I really wish they'd get back together, but I can understand why Kurt doesn't want to talk to him right now. I guess Blaine needs some time to think about what he's done, and Kurt needs some time before he can trust Blaine again.

To end on a brighter note, it's only 3 more weeks until you visit! I miss you so much, and I worry about you every day. But we'll be together again soon. And then it'll only be one more year until you're done. Then we can have a future together. I look forward to that so much. I love you.

Rachel Berry


The next day I got up early so I could write back to Rachel right away.

Dear Rachel,

I'm glad you had a good Hanukkah with your dads! I wish I could have gotten you a present, but there's not much I can do when I'm at a camp in the middle of nowhere. We don't really do much for Christmas here. We have a small tree inside our tent. My friend, Ryder, split a candy cane with me. Some of us get cards and presents from our family, but then there are a lot of people who don't really have any. There's not much holiday spirit around here.

Anyway, I had no idea that things were bad between Kurt and Blaine! I guess he never really talks to me that much. But I'm glad he opened up to you. I can't believe Blaine would do that to Kurt. But Blaine's a nice guy. I'm sure he'll do the most he can to win Kurt back.

Now it's only two weeks and six days until I'm going to see you again! You're coming to meet me at the airport, right? I want you to be the first person I see when I get back. I've missed you a lot. This time I'll only be back for a week, but it's better than nothing. I love you.

Finn Hudson


Finally, the day had come. My plane was landing at JFK airport in New York City. I pulled my bag out from above my head. As I exited the plane, I could hear a loud argument going on between a young woman and a security guard.

"Miss, I can't let you past here!" the security guard explained.

"Please! I just want to see my boyfriend. He's been away in the army," she begged.

I craned my neck. It was Rachel. I waved my hand at her. "Rach!" I called out.

"FINN!" she squealed, running towards me. I dropped my bags and opened my arms to her. She jumped into my arms and wrapped her legs around me. We kissed with passion and desire. "I've missed you so much," she whispered into my lips.

"Me too." I smiled at her, tears forming in my eyes.

We walked to the airport parking lot together, hand in hand. "Kurt drove me here so I could see you," she said.

"How's he feeling about the break up?"

"I guess he's okay now, but he buries himself in work."

I frowned. "He always does that when he's upset. I really wish he wouldn't."

"Well at least he doesn't do anything drastic," Rachel sighed.

She knocked on the window of Kurt's car. He unlocked the back doors for us, and we climbed in. "Hi, Finn." Kurt smiled slightly at me.

"Hey, Kurt. I heard about Blaine..I'm so sorry."

Kurt cleared his throat uncomfortably. "It's alright. I should have seen it coming anyway." He started the car and pulled out of his spot. "I mean he transferred for me, and he's always been doing things for me. And then he sent me to New York. What have I ever done for him? Nothing. I ditched him for a job at vogue."

Rachel raised her eyebrows at me. Neither of us had ever heard Kurt say this much since we graduated high school.

Kurt notice the silence and laughed regretfully. "Sorry. I shouldn't have said all that."

"No, Kurt. It's okay," Rachel encouraged. "It's good for you to talk about things."

I nodded. "Yeah, I miss talking to you. Even if it's not happy stuff."

"Plus, it's not even your fault!" Rachel pointed out. "As much as I love Blaine, it was wrong for him to cheat on you, no matter how lonely he felt."

"I guess," Kurt mumbled. And that was the end of the longest conversation we'd had in months.


Wow that took me a long time to update! Sorry, I'm really busy this month. I'll probably be busy until February.

Anyway, I'm thinking about changing my username. I still love heyachele and "5ever" is my favorite word, but I just notice that my favorite authors here have deep or creative usernames. I mean I want people to take me seriously, so I guess I need a serious username. I was thinking about hopelesslydevoted, idlediamonds, and hallemoojah (ha see what i did there). I still have to check if they're available but what do you guys think I should change it to?