Hey guys thank you all so much for the reviews they all mean a lot, I'm glad you all like the last chapter and due to popular demand I have decided I am going to continue this story :D doing a sequel is still up for a debate maybe their journey after Mckinely but I will give it more thought once I finish this story :D
The next couple of chapters I want to dedicate to TrustInFaith because of the help she has given me. This is however for everyone else out there to.
I want to say a thank you to everyone who has added this to the Alerts and Favourites list, and everyone else who takes their time to read this story.
I do NOT own glee, I DO own the storyline and the mistakes in it which I do apologise for :D
It wasn't too long after that, that Shelby turned up followed by the rest of the glee club half an hour later. Shelby ran into the room panting, her eyes wide and locked immediately on Rachel's bed to see her being cuddled by Quinn. She let the site of her smiling daughter sink in before she walked over to her. Quinn slid off the bed reluctantly and sat down next Santana with a pout, which made Britt and San chuckle. Shelby takes Rachel in a gentle but happy hug, which gets reciprocated happily.
'God I'm so glad you're awake' Shelby whispers into Rachel's ear.
'You and me both' Rachel giggles, she felt a sharp pain go through her body as she did it, she manages to cover the slight gasp up with her chuckle. Shelby pulls away from Rachel and sits on the end of the bed. Brittany grabs Rachel's hand again once it had returned to close proximity, Rachel turned and smiled at her.
'So how are you feeling?' Shelby asked concern in her eyes.
'Saw... and tired but I'm okay just glad that I'm back, how long was I out?' Rachel asked looking around at everyone in her room.
'Around five days maybe four and a half, god we missed you Rach, the school hasn't been the same and glee definitely wasn't' Mercedes chimed in.
'Well I bet you were missing more than one member' Rachel stated glancing at the three cheerio's with a knowing look, she chuckled when she noticed Mercedes and Kurt nodding their heads in agreement.
Everyone started to talk they didn't notice the time and it felt like only few minutes when the rest of New Directions runs through the door. The all stop and freeze people running or rolling into each other as they see a wide awake Rachel smiling in amusement at them. The rest of the room laughs at them as they flush with embarrassment. They all sit down and chatter to the diva excitedly and Rachel tries her best to keep up.
'Do you know when you can leave?' Sam asks and everyone goes silent, the diva sighs.
'No I haven't been told maybe a couple of days I know they need to make sure I'm all good first' Rachel says with a small smile and a shrug.
Everyone watches her they see the small glint of sadness in her eyes but they leave it because they don't want to ruin the mood.
'But you are okay right? I mean there isn't any danger or anything?' Finn says, Rachel looks at him and shrugs with a shake of her head.
'I don't know, I feel fine so hopefully I'm out of the woods' Rachel explains she looks back to her girls and who are looking at with worry, she smiles at each of them with reassuring smiles, they relax a little but not a whole load.
A doctor comes in to check on her an hour later, they give her a dose of morphine because of the pain but say everything else looked fine. Rachel smiled at him as he left and then the whole room cheered.
They had a celebratory party which consisted of cafeteria food and drink and Puck playing his guitar as everyone sang and had fun.
The party started to die down as a couple of people left, Sam, Finn, Artie, Lauren, Mr Schue and Kurt left leaving behind the three cheerio's, Shelby, Tina and Mercedes. Shelby turned to her daughter with a serious face.
'Rachel where on earth are your father's? Have they even bothered to visit you?' Shelby asked having noticed the two figures missing from today, 'shouldn't they have been called?'
'They probably have been called, then they gave the hospital some work excuse, ignored it and carried on doing what they were doing before, or they just ignored the call and they knew you were in Lima and the doctors knew who you were so let you do it' Rachel said with a shrug hiding the pain and hurt she felt because even though no one had noticed the two missing gaps in Rachel's life, she had and obviously so had her mother.
Shelby stared at her daughter with fire in her eyes 'What does that mean? Where the hell are they? They are meant to be looking after you!' Shelby says getting louder as she goes.
'Mom please calm down, it's okay I'm sorta used to it they've left me alone since I was twelve... I think, they have a separate apartment up in California where they stay for six months out of the year.'
Shelby was shaking with rage, she had trusted those guys with her baby, signed a contract saying she wouldn't contact her, then they abandon her after saying they would look after her, love and cherish her. Shelby couldn't control the pure rage that lit her eyes as she looked at her nervous daughter.
'Since you were TWELVE?' Shelby shrieked 'Why didn't you tell me?' she said a little quieter but still loud enough.
'I sort of didn't get a chance to tell you, and yes since twelve, but i never was really alone until the past two going on three weeks, I had friends over all the time' Rachel said with a shrug, it's been a while now she had sort of gotten used to it now, yeah the pain was still there but she couldn't let it bother her.
Shelby seemed to simmer but stood up 'I have to go Rachel, I'll be back tomorrow we'll talk more then' Rachel nodded and accepted the hug off of her mother.
Tina and Mercedes turned to look at Rachel with raised eyebrows, Rachel smiled nervously at them.
'Why didn't you tell us Rach?' Tina asked quietly Rachel sighed and looked away from brown eyes watching her.
'I didn't really want people to know, I mean come on what sort of person can't keep her parents, the people that are meant to love her no matter what, around. It would hardly be something to spread around about me'
Everyone looked at her, some a little teary eyed at the confession.
'You still could of told us Rach.' Mercedes says.
'Yeah I could of, and I would of if I had been brave enough to do it, I couldn't though I didn't want the embarrassment and to remember the pain and hurt when it first started, and as I say I wasn't really alone until about two weeks ago.'
'What do you mean two weeks ago? Who was with you up until two weeks ago?'
'Uh...' Rachel bit her lip and looked around nervously at the three other girls in the room, they all share a look with each other and then there's a gasp and they all turn back to Tina and Mercedes.
'That's why you never left her side these past four days, why she went in after Quinn, you all knew, but it two weeks ago what happened then?'
Rachel looked at the three Cheerio's, who looked down and away from everyone else, Rachel took that as a yes you can tell them.
Rachel mumbled something that the other two didn't get.
'What was that?' Tina asked, she and Mercedes moved forward.
Rachel cleared her throat and looked them both in the eye 'I broke up with them' she said.
She watched as her two friends eyes went huge 'Them?' Tina asked.
'As in all of them, as in you four were all together?' Mercedes said.
'As in yes we were all together and then I broke up with them a couple of weeks ago, that Friday on the footy field' Rachel told them, Mercedes and Tina sat back in their seats dumbstruck. Then Mercedes sat forwards abruptly and looks at Rachel.
'The girl, the one who was leaving you flowers and notes, you never told us who it was' Mercedes states.
Rachel looks at her with a smile and Brittany's head rises as she bites her lip.
'It was Britt, she was apologising to me, she set everything up, it was amazing' Rachel said her eyes glinting.
'Brittany as apologising, why? You were the one who broke up with them' Tina said confused.
'Yeah but we were the ones that were mean to her, she broke up with us for good reason, we kept hurting her, she couldn't take it anymore, she made the decision and it seemed like it was for the best, I apologised by sending her notes and giving her gifts every day of the week last week except for Thursday and Friday` Brittany told them and there were nods of agreement at the first part from Santana and Quinn.
Mercedes sits back again next to Tina trying to get everything to sink into her head. Rachel yawned feeling tired and worn out.
Mercedes smiles gently at her friends and stands up.
'I think Tina and I will leave you to rest Rachel, I'm glad you're awake we've all missed you' She says giving her friend a hug.
Tina stood up as well and walked to her friends side giving her a hug and whispering 'I've miss you to Rachel and I am so glad that you are back and awake' Tina pulled away and smiled at her, Rachel returned it and said a gentle goodbye to both of them. They left leaving the four Cheerio's by her side. She looked at each one and they looked back with love and adoration in their eyes and smiles on their faces, Rachel smiled back at them.
She turned to Santana. 'Now these two have had their proper cuddles so can I have one from you to?' Rachel asked shyly. Santana raised an eyebrow.
'I thought I got my hug?'
'No you jumped at me in your time of enjoyment, I yelped in pain and you jumped off me quicker than if i was on fire, I want a proper cuddle' Rachel said pouting at the end, it got the girls to laugh which was her aim. Santana stood up and Rachel made space and opened her arms up for the girl.
Santana lay down in the bed and let Rachel wrap her arms around her waist and lean her on her chest as she snuggled in to the girls side, Santana rubbed the girls back soothing and relaxing her into sleep.
The girls all listened as their favourite Diva eases into a sleep, Brittany sighed and Santana kissed Rachel's forehead.
'I'm so glad she's back, so glad she's okay, I dunno what I would have done otherwise' Brittany says as a comfortable settles over all of them.
'Yeah, she's peaceful when she sleeps, but i definitely prefer when she wakes in the morning' Quinn states.
'I'm just glad that she's here with us, that it wasn't more serious' Santana says.
Brittany and Quinn get settled in their seats as they take in the peaceful silence, instead of the stress and the tense atmosphere that used to be in the room.
Santana just side and enjoyed the feeling of having her arms around the petite diva and soaking in the feeling that it gives her. They all fall asleep peacefully.
Santana is shaken awake a few hours later but doesn't understand how then she feels it the shaking in her arms, she looks down to see the Diva in her arms shaking violently, she lets go of the diva and jumps off the bed immediately, she starts yelling for help and pushing the nurses button.
CLIFF HANGER! Ooo don't hate me *raises hands* I will update soon, It would mean the world if you could take the time to review, it's the reason I keep on writing :D I know it's short, it's a little bit of a filler, with important information and helps set it up for the next chapter :D
