Disclaimer: Though I wish at 11:11 every day and night I still don't own Glee =(
Authors Note: Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you for sticking around. As promised this story does have an ending and head's up it definitely won't be as long as my other fics. I'm trying something new with this piece and another one I'm working on, I call it short and to the point. Hahaha honestly my English profs say I struggle with being concise. So thanks again for sticking around and if you were ever to review this would be the one.
Noah tries not to push her too much about what happened with Finn. He tries and he fails. One day of understanding was really all he had in him. When he'd agreed to pick her up from Santana's he hadn't really clued in that that meant he would be spending the night alone. And when he did realize he still didn't get it. It wasn't until he woke up in the middle of the night and reached out to find himself alone that he really got it. Rachel was endgame. She was the thing his life had been missing, everything he hadn't thought he deserved but would work like hell to earn. And not sleeping next to her was not a feeling he wanted to get used to. So when he picks her up from Santana all he wants to do is eliminate everything that could keep them apart. Dealing with Finn asap it was. Except it wasn't.
She couldn't believe he'd ambushed her like that. Like the second she got in the car, really? She doesn't know what to say because she hasn't even really figured it all out for herself so how could he expect her to explain it to him. So she shuts down, tells him its off limits and somehow just makes it out the door behind him as he storms off. Then its all angry words about Finn and being good enough and endgames and overcoming obstacles and she has absolute no idea what half of it meant. Which she makes perfectly clear and thankfully he slows down. He's still going a mile a minute but it's digestible now, adorable really. He's put a lot of thought into them.
They go back inside, she explains… no she talks out loud and he tells her she makes little to no sense but somehow its enough. Everything about her is enough for him, nearly perfect for him. He just wants her, just Rachel the way she is. So even when she has no grasp on her own mind he gets it. He wishes she would let him talk to Finn but gets why that's off limits but now her talking to Finn without his knowledge is too. They actually work through a lot, which surprises her by how little it surprises her. The last few days her relationship with Noah has progressed in a way she had never expected and yet it made sense, sort of.
They decided then and there in his car parked in her driveway that they were together, that they both plan on staying together and there was nothing that they would not handle together. Yet, they were allowed to put things on hold. Finn was being put on hold because really he wasn't as important as they're romantic development. Her birth mom was being put on hold because there was nothing really either of them could do about it. Her dads would be home in ten days and since she refused to move in with him, he needed to soak up as much nightly alone time that he could.
She watches him sleep again, and as ludicrous as his suggestion of living together seemed at the time it's making more and more sense to her now. Her fathers are extremely new age , they may have been okay about it had they been dating a little longer than three days. However she's practical, so no matter how much she would love to fall asleep in his arms every night for the rest of her life starting now, they just aren't ready for that. She thinks about them in great detail, she thinks about who they are as individuals and who they are capable of being as a couple. She thinks about what it's going to take to survive high school together and whether or not they can make it through the long distance thing because Noah is deadset on staying in Ohio until his sister graduates and she's all about New York. She thinks, and thinks and thinks, until he moves.
Sometimes he swears he can hear the gears turning in her mind. He's pretty good at ignoring it but when they're in such close proximity it's kind of impossible. So he lets her be herself, let's her think until he's sure its too much. He taps her hip to let her know he's awake. Kisses the back of her neck just because he can, and then he tells her it's time for bed because he just wants her to be thinking about him and them and dreaming.