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Chemistry
"Honey, don't you think that we should be going to Ohio a bit sooner if your Dad doesn't know you're here..." Rachel urged as she packed her favourite skirt into a suitcase that would be shipped off in a few days,
"Sounds to me like you really want to see someone..." Alex sang as she jumped up to fit on Rachel's bed as she was packing, automatically Rachel turned a bright red tomato colour that Alex giggled at.
"No.." Rachel scoffed.
"Yes." Alex corrected
"No..." Rachel scoffed again throwing a pair of sunglasses into her suitcases, as Alex raised an eyebrow.
"I haven't seen your Dad in fourteen years; I don't know what to feel..." Rachel admitted sitting on the bed next to Alex, her hazel eyes sparkling.
"Mom, that has to be the single most cheesiest thing you've ever said to me..." Alex giggling as she placed her head on Rachel's shoulder.
"Oh trust me, it get's cheesier..." Rachel uttered, smiling still. "The one thing that I don't understand is, how the hell did you guys actually meet? You didn't really go into specifics..." Rachel giggled looking at Alex.
"Well it's a long story and it basically centres about Mia and her ego but New Directions were up against her glee club and we were both doing a solo and we were both going to sing Don't Rain on my Parade and then after about two days we sort of just...bonded. And then we figured it out because we're smart like that..." Alex declared blowing her chocolate bangs out of her face.
Rachel automatically giggled, "I can't believe you go to McKinley, it's where me and your Dad met you know..." Rachel nudged her daughter in nostalgia.
"I knew it!" Alex gasped, to Rachel's confused face.
"Every time I walk in the choir room, there's a big list of name of people who have been in New Directions, and I knew that your name rang a bell when Mia told me your name, it was because I walk past it like every day!" Alex shrieked almost jumping off the bed
"Wait, your Dad never told you how we met, or anything?" Rachel asked, she was a tiny bit hurt that Finn had never even mentioned how they met; she would've though he would've given her that.
Alex shook her head.
Then it clicked in Rachel's head; it was because of the exact same reason why she never told Amelia about Finn; she was still madly in love with him. Every last part of her existence wanted to be with him and every time she drove somewhere she had to stop herself from driving to Lima, just to see him. Did Finn never tell Alex because of the same reason? Was he still in love with her? Or was she just kidding herself and dwelling on the past? Either way, Rachel needed to know.
"Mom!" Alex said to Rachel, shaking her as Rachel had spaced out.
"Mom, what's up?" Alex asked concerned for Rachel.
"Alex, do you wanna go to Lima, a few days early, I mean we'll still go to the reunion and everything but it think it's best that we both get used to Ohio for a while..." she said, not believing she was going to go to Lima.
Not replying, Alex ran out of her Mom's bedroom and into Amelia's to grab an unready full suitcase of which Alex had packed two hours ago.
"Mom, I've already packed!" she squealed as she ran over to help Rachel to pack her suitcase so they could get the first flight to Ohio as quickly as possible.
Alex was pretty awesome at this mission.
Step 1: Realisation of twins and
Step 2: Make parent/s want to meet each other not just to switch
Completed in 48 hours!
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After Amelia had told Luke, everything seemed a lot easier. He wasn't the pain in the ass that Alex had explained to him...much. Luke covered for Amelia on her weak knowledge around her Dad but most of all school was a lot easier than she anticipated as long as she was with Luke, she just sat next to him in every subject, ignored everyone else and he was basically her guardian angel, all this for just helping him to understand Alex's mind a bit more.
They mainly spent their time in the hallways between classes testing each other;
"Name Alex's pet hates..." Amelia asked, clutching onto her schoolbooks as she dodged the cheerleaders in the hallway giving her evils,
"Liars, Cheaters, People who die their hair..." Luke concluded trying to get his facts correct,
"Well done!" Amelia shrieked clapping her hands slightly at Luke's obvious revision, "Okay, my turn..." She announced as she ran her fingers through her brunette bangs.
"What are the three main go-to songs that Alex sings..." Luke asked, hoping that Amelia would know the answer,
"Don't Rain on my Parade – Barbra." Amelia firstly replied knowing the obvious answer, looking at Luke's response,
"What I Did For Love from A Chorus Line..." she followed up trying to remember the other songs that Luke had told her the previous night.
"And..." Luke helped trying to encourage her to remember the last song.
"I Wanna Know What Love Is – Mariah..." she clapped as she remembered the last song that she had been told jumping up and down forgetting that she was making an idiot out of herself in front of a load of teenagers.
"Stop flirting with Puckerman, Hudson..." one of the cheerleaders smirked as she slid past the two teenagers who were obsessed in getting these key facts right,
"Oh trust me, not this Hudson..." Amelia muttered under her breath making her way into glee club.
Amelia and Luke walked into the McKinley choir to a very odd sight for Amelia, her Dad and New Directions' director Mr. Schuester standing side by side looking over various sheet music for the club, she was positive that both Alex and Luke had told her that her Dad didn't do glee club with Mr. Schue even though he was one of the originating members of New Directions – yes, Amelia was getting pretty good with her knowledge of her Dad's life.
"Okay..." Mr. Schue clapped getting everyone to settle down into their seats, "First of all, congratulations to every single one of you for our amazing achievement at Nationals!" he laughed as he started a round of applause, this glee club was so supportive, and nice compared to her glee club that almost disowned her after she blew the Defying Gravity note.
"And in tradition, I believe that we have a tradition to uphold, the winner of the Nationals MVP award is..." the man continued after the round of applause, holding the choir room in suspense, "Miss Alex Hudson!" he sang holding up an award as Amelia was almost pushed to the front of the choir room by Alex, her Dad giving her a massive beam from behind the piano.
Amelia let out a humble smile as she collected the award as she didn't really deserve it, but the same cheerleader who had made the snide remark made another comment about how she only got the award because her Dad was in the room, like always the rest of the glee club ignored her and they got on with further business.
"In other news, I know this is short notice guys but we've been set a final task by the principal, and Mr. Hudson is here to tell us about it..." Mr. Schue told them as he invited Finn up to the front, who got a wild rave of applause, Amelia guessed that it wasn't just her who found him to be so awesome.
"Hey Guys, Well it's my reunion here are reunion and I sorta need some help in sorting out the music arrangement to make it an awesome night, do you think you can help?" he asked, to beamed emotions,
"Your assignment, is to have a look at the list of songs that New Directions have sung from the years of 2009 to 2012, choose any one song and perform it at the reunion on Friday, I know it's short notice but knowing the standard of the singers, you guys will be great..." Finn winked at Amelia when he mentioned standard of singers, almost instantaneously, each person from the glee club had a flick through the repertoire and then made their way to their next subject as it was only a Lunch break.
Amelia avoided the rush for the list as she knew she could probably sing any song on the list, so she simply made her way to her next lesson, only to be caught up by Luke who was bursting with enthusiasm;
"Mia, can I ask you a favour?" Luke asked, almost tripping up on the flat surface trying to catch up to Amelia.
"Shoot..." Amelia suggested,
"Can you get Alex to sing with me at the reunion?" he blurted out
"Oh, Luke, I really don't know, you know that we're trying to get my Mom and Dad back together but you never know, I'll check with times and stuff but no promises, what song are you thinking about singing?" Amelia asked biting her lip feeling slightly bad for Luke.
"Dammit Janet from Rocky Horror..."
Amelia cringed,
"Do you have another song, I just don't think that's romantic enough..." She admitted.
"There was a Madonna mash up, Borderline and Open your Heart, I think..." Luke said trying to think back to his glance at the list.
"Yeah, go for those. And umm, what lessons do we have?" Amelia asked.
Luke laughed as he knew that Amelia was going to panic when she found out,
"I've got Chemistry with Ms. Samuels while you have Senior Music with your Dad down the hall..." he replied handing Amelia Alex's music textbooks, her face mortified,
"Wait...Alex does Senior Music? I'm pretty sure we're only sophomores..." she whispered to Luke.
"She got moved up because she's awesome, any chance you play violin?" he asked hoping that there would be some continuity in Amelia's portrayal as Alex.
"Good luck!" Luke quickly blurted out before running to get to class before the bell went.
Amelia took a deep breath before entering Finn's classroom that to her surprise was completely empty apart from her Dad who was sorting out sheet music yet again at the piano located at the far end of the classroom by the windows.
Dumping her bag by the door, she made her entrance very apparent.
"Hey Dad!" Amelia sang as she skipped over to the piano next to her Dad,
"Oh, hey Alex!" Finn responded smiling at his daughter while glancing back and forth between the sheet music and Amelia.
"Where is everybody?" Amelia asked peering round the room to the emptiness of nothing but desks and keyboards and a drum kit located by the door.
"Probably out getting drunk, it's ditch day so you can ditch Music, I don't mind..." Finn admitted looking at the notes in one of the sheet music.
"Wow, you are really freaking out over this reunion!" Amelia giggled jumping up onto the piano and sitting on the surface just because she felt like doing so.
"A week ago I didn't even know about it and now I'm organising half of it!" he sighed placing his forehead in his palms before going back to sorting out the music.
"Dad it's gonna be awesome..." Amelia insisted giving a convincing smile,
"How do you know?" he asked with a smile on his face,
"Because you've got me, duh!" She pointed out jumping down and having a look at the list of songs that she could sing for the reunion.
Noting down a few songs, she passed the piece of paper to her father whose heart rate significantly picked up, she had picked the songs that Rachel notoriously sung, that her Mom sung, about him, for him.
Cry
Here's To Us
Firework
My Man
Go Your Own Way
Without You
Jar Of Hearts
The resemblance between Alex and her Mom was become so much more alike, it was scary, Finn had no idea how he was going to cope even looking at her because she reminded her so much of his ex-wife who he still thought about and loved every day of his existence.
"Since I don't have to do any real work, can I practice these?" Amelia asked, her eyes glistening at the very fact of singing for her Dad for the very first time.
Finn nodded quickly, he loved the sound of his daughter's voice, it was almost the echo and shadow of both Finn and Rachel's harmonies that sounded so well together but put into one textured voice that could make a grown man literally cry.
Amelia closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
I can't win, I can't reign
I will never win this game
Without You, Without You
I am lost, I am vein
I will never be the same
Without You, Without You
I won't run, I won't fly
I will never make it by
Without You, Without You
I can't rest, I can't fight
All I need is you and I
Without You, Without You
Ooooh Ooooh Ooooh
Yoou Yooouu Yoou
Without
Yoou Yooouu Yoou
Without You
The song grew and grew and all that Amelia could think about was hitting every note to impress her Dad, and all that struck Finn was the beauty of Amelia's voice and how much emotion and soul was poured into every last syllable, an identical feature to her Mother whom she 'would never know'
As the song finished, Amelia caught her breath and was greeted by a massive round of applause from Finn who had to quickly wipe away his brief tears before his daughter could catch him.
"Did you like it?" Amelia asked sincerely, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Honey, I loved it..." Finn's broken voice replied, pulling his daughter into a massive embrace.
"I'm glad..." Amelia sniffed gently pulling away, "I'm gonna go get some water from the cafeteria." She announced quickly placing her iPhone safely on the piano and then almost skipping to get a remedy for a slightly sore throat.
As Finn watched his daughter skip away, he realised that her phone had started to buzz and vibrate on the surface of the piano, he ignored it for the first few times and went back to work but once it stopped, it went back to buzzing and vibrating the piano, distracting his focus. Deciding to pick up the phone, he got up and grabbed to answer the phone that was being called by "A", Finn had never understood teenagers and the weird nicknames Alex had for people in her phone.
"Hello..." Finn answered to the ring tone that was now gone.
"Dad?" The voice answered, he automatically recognised the voice that had a confused tone in her voice,
"Alex?" Finn asked, the confusion in his voice increasing more and more, just at that second, Amelia walked through the classroom door with a mortified face to see her Dad answering her phone.
"Yeah." The voice and Amelia answered at the same time, with the same tone to their voices.
Finn's head pierced up to see his daughter, struck with confusion as he hung up the phone,
"What the fuck was that about?" Finn asked holding his head; a migraine was coming on.
"N-Nothing, I-I-I just c-called you from the cafeteria using your phone!" Amelia blurted out turning away from Finn and making her way towards the piano.
At that moment, Finn dug into his pocket to feel his phone that he knew was in there, he knew that his daughter way lying but she was panicking, he figured that she was probably planning a surprise or something and this had something to do with it, but it still confusing.
"Alex, are you lying to me?" He asked, leaning on the piano but now facing his daughter, tears gently welling up in her hazel eyes.
"Yeah..." her broken voice uttered, "I can't lie to you but I can't tell you..." she whispered confusing him even more,
"Okay, it is a surprise?" he asked, a slight admirable smirk coming to his face,
"Yeah, hopefully a good one..." she whispered coming into Finn's arms for a hug that she needed.
Finn knew that something up but if he was going to find out soon, why push it?
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Alex got off the phone knowing that she probably did more damage than good in the six seconds she was on the phone, as she pulled the phone away from her ears, Rachel entered the room looking slightly nervous,
"So, your Dad knows now?" Rachel asked sitting next to Alex on the couch,
"You could say that..." Alex awkwardly giggled, blushing a little.
"Is he excited?" Rachel asked keenly, her cheeks turning a bright tomato colour.
"Definitely..." Alex lied, not really knowing what he Dad knew or not, "Are you excited?"
"A little..." Rachel awkwardly giggled back, "Are you ready to go?" she asked biting her lip at the end of her sentence.
"Of course!" Alex jumped up grabbing her bags; she was excited that she was going to be getting her Mom and Dad back together even though one of her parents didn't know that they were on the way to Lima to see them.
Rachel and Alex shared a hug before they left for the airport, both hoping that this trip would end up to be an amazing one...
Thank you for being so patient with me,
The next chapter will be the Reunion with A LOT of Finchel
Please, please R&R, I would love to hear what you thought and what I should do next because again, I'm a little stuck!
I hope you enjoyed it because I worked insanely hard for you guys...
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