"I'm dating Quinn Fabray"
Her dad's bagel falls to the floor and she's pretty certain if this were a cartoon that smoke would be coming out of her daddy's ears right now.
"Daddy?" Rachel asks anxiously, he puts down his coffee cup and looks to her.
"Absolutely not"
"Dad" she pleads looking to the taller black man currently drumming his fingers nervously on the kitchen counter.
"I'm with Daddy on this, Rach"
Tears prickle behind her eyes.
"Why?" she croaks.
The two men share a glance, their baby daughter was really crying about this?
"Do we really need to bring up the past?" Hiram, the smaller Jewish man says gently.
"The past is the past for a reason" Rachel says tersely as she wipes at her eyes.
"I hoped you two would be supportive, especially seeing as Quinn and I are going to value any advice you can offer us on dealing with people in this town. But regardless of you blessing the relationship or not, I'm going to continue to see her. I'll always be your little girl but I'm not a child any more"
The men look surprised; their daughter really was a go-getter and always stood strong.
Leroy sighs and pats his lap, Rachel perches herself there and looks to him through her thick lashes.
"Baby girl, we just want you to be happy, but you have to understand where Daddy and I are coming from. How did this even come about?"
Rachel smiles at the memory.
"We got together to write a song for Glee, she ended up erupting because I mentioned Finn and I got upset and ended up writing an amazing song"
"Yes, but only because she upset you" Hiram stated.
"She inspired me, she always does. I've always had feelings towards her but it wasn't until we became almost friends that I really addressed them. So naturally I started indirectly singing about her in Glee and then I think we came to some kind of understanding because one day she just stared at me intensely, and when Glee finished she was first out of the room. She avoided me, until Nationals"
"What happened at Nationals? You never did tell us why you lost" Leroy frowned.
Rachel blushed slightly.
"We were robbed not even placing, but our group number just wasn't what it should have been. And then something unprofessional happened during our duet"
"Well?" the men asked.
"Finn was determined to get me back and during the song he was relentless in trying to touch me, I noticed Quinn looking completely wound up but didn't think anything of it…until she shoved him out of the way and kissed me on stage in front of everyone"
She bit her lip and smiled, swearing she could still almost taste the blonde.
"On stage in front of everyone? Wow" Leroy breathed, "That takes guts"
Hiram hummed a response.
"Daddy" the girl frowned, "You're being completely unreasonable, did you not hear a word of what I just said? She was so brave taking a chance like that, and sure it probably amounted to our loss but do you not understand that we lost but I won something even better that day. I'm one of the few people she connects with and she's not the girl you might think she is and..why are you smiling?"
"You're gushing" he laughed, "She must really be something if she's the only thing besides performing I've ever heard you so passionate about"
"She is, daddy" Rachel breathed before embracing him.
"When will be meeting her?"
The brunette's smile reached her eyes; she just knew that if they gave her a chance they'd adore her as much as she did.
"She's outside in her car"