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Onto the next chapter which sets place three months after the last one so Abigail will be about eighteen months hold. Hope that is ok and please don't forget to review

A ray of sunshine

Chapter eleven: First steps

(It had been a few months since Will Emma and Abigail had visited Finn, Rachel and Barbara Eliza in New York and now Will was back at work. Emma had decided to stay at home for a few more months until she knew Abigail would be ok at nursery and so Will agreed with this. Will was now hoping that a few new members would join New Directions and so he had asked Josh to help him. Josh had left McKinley now and didn't have any aspirations to go to college so he had agreed to help Will.)

"So how are things with you and Maria?" Will asked before he stopped himself "Sorry that was really insensitive of me"

"Nah Mr Schue that's cool. Me and Maria well we are back together" Josh grinned widely as Will glanced at his former leading man and hugged him slightly

"I knew there was something at Abigail's birthday party me Emma and Rachel could sense it!" Will grinned "But how are you coping what with her in New York and everything" Maria had gone to New York to emulate Rachel`s success

"It's hard" Josh murmured "But we know we can make it through. Luckily Kevin and Leanne keep my mind off things" he replied. The two had decided to go to college in Ohio, so that they could still stick around. "So how is Abigail" he changed the subject knowing how much Will liked talking about his daughter, to which Will whipped a photo out of his pocket, one in New York with Abigail on his shoulders and smiled

"She`s great Josh" he replied "I mean she`s growing up right in front of my eyes and she`s only just turned one. I don't know what I am going to do when she starts school"

"Maria really likes her you know" Josh smiled fondly "But she`s determined she doesn't want kids until she`s finished college". Luckily the conversation was dropped when a blonde girl entered the auditorium and grinned broadly

"H" Will replied "What`s your name?"

"I`m Brianna and I`m a junior" the blonde smiled "And I'll be singing Wide awake by Katy Perry" she replied

"Oh great choice" Josh added. Brianna smiled proudly at Josh and gave a sharp nod

"Ok Brianna when you are ready" Will replied. Brianna started singing and even though she wasn't as strong as Maria she was still pretty good

"Great work Brianna" Will added. Brianna grinned and skipped off

"I think she was pretty good" Will replied

"mmm" Josh added. Will glanced at him but didn't want to say anything else as the next auditionee came in a brown headed tall male who introduced himself as Keith

"Mama I want some juice" Abigail said as she bounced around in her stroller. Emma glanced at Shannon who had come round for the morning

"Abi mummy is having a conversation with Aunty Shannon" Emma scolded Abigail

"Aw come on Emma" Shannon smiled at Emma who gave a sharp shrug but went into the kitchen to get some juice. Shannon sat outside smiling at Abigail. Emma then came back outside and gave Abigail her bottle of juice

"Tank you" Abigail grinned and Emma sighed walking back to Shannon

"Who`s idea was it to have a child" Emma groaned as Shannon chuckled

"I think you and Will" the brown curly haired female grinned as Emma drank a cup of water before placing it on the table. The sunny weather was not normal for Ohio and Emma planned to make the most of it

"So how is Will?" Shannon glanced at Emma who smiled fondly

"He`s good" she replied "Josh is helping him get new members of New Directions today. Apart from that normal classes don't start till next week so he said he might get some paperwork done later"

"And what about you?" Shannon glanced at her friend who looked curiously at Shannon

"Me?" she replied

"Going back to school" Shannon replied "I mean with having Abigail you didn't want to go back just yet but I think she is ok for you to return. The kids miss you Emma"

"But what about Abi" Emma looked panicked "I mean who will look after her. I mean I don't want her to go to a stranger"

"What about me" Shannon replied "I mean I don't work there now since Sue booted me out" Sue and Roz Washington had booted Figgins out and were the new joint principals. Now they had booted Shannon out, however Shannon had demanded for it to be looked into "Until that happens I have plenty of spare time"

"Are you sure?" Emma looked puzzled. Shannon nodded

"Abigail is my goddaughter Emma. It's the least I can do" she smiled. Emma leant across and hugged her best friend smiling broadly

"Thank you" she whispered as Shannon just smiled. Emma then walked across and unlocked Abigail's stroller letting her crawl on the grass as Emma walked back to the table

"I don't think I can go back to school though till after Christmas. I'll have to go through the necessary paperwork" Emma sighed letting her hands run through her hair "But we will be able to get through the procedures together" she gave a sharp grin towards Shannon who nodded. She then whipped her head around and gave a sharp grin as she noticed something

"Hey Em" she whispered as she nudged her best friend. Emma then noticed the same thing that Shannon had and the smile couldn't be kept off her face. Her hand leapt to her mouth as she jumped up and walked across to the lawn

(Will got out of his car and made his way to the front door of his condo. For some reasons the auditions didn't go as well as he had expected and even though he liked the look of Brianna, Josh for some reason didn't like her. But Will had overruled him and had chosen Brianna, Keith and one of the new footballers who had introduced himself as Michael. However all Will wanted was a cold beer and to see his wife and child)

"Emma?" Will peered into the condo as he couldn't see his wife anyway. However when he saw Emma stood at the kitchen counter he grinned and ran across to her wrapping his arms around her waist

"Oh hey sweetie" Emma grinned "Dinner will be ready in ten minutes" she replied "How were the auditions"

"Ok I guess" Will shrugged "There were a few that were ok. There were a girl called Brianna that was good but for some reason Josh wasn't so keen on her. However she got in" he leant into the fridge and got out a bottle of cold beer "How was your day. How was Shannon?"

"Oh she`s good" Emma grinned "But I have something to tell or show you" she grinned kissing his nose as she went to get their video camera. Will looked puzzled as he sat at the kitchen table drinking his beer as Emma came back with the video camera. She then switched it on and the picture blurred into view as Abigail came on the camera.

"Come on Abi" he could hear Emma`s voice coming from the camera. Abigail climbed slowly to her feet and then started to walk slowly to the camera, stumbling a couple of times and then falling to her feet giggling slightly as the camera faded to black. Will`s eyes grew wide as he saw his daughter walk for the first time and he glanced at Emma who had a guilty look on her face

"I'm sorry you weren't here to see for yourself but Shannon thought we should film it so that you shouldn't" Emma started to say but was interrupted by Will leaning over his wife and kissing her hardly before grabbing her face and grinning

"I am so happy you filmed it. I can't believe Abigail is now walking. She is growing up so fast" he grinned

"I know!" Emma exclaimed softly "We need to keep these moments so when she does grow older we don't forget about her" she replied. Will grinned as he clutched one of her hands and glanced at her

"Chicken for dinner?" he replied as Emma nodded "Great!" he exclaimed as he made his way to the kitchen and started dishing up letting Emma stay at the table

And there you go. Hope you liked it. Next chapter will be Abigail's first bike ride and will be set around Christmas time and hopefully I won't be as late as I was this time updating. However I could be wrong.