Hi, sorry for the disappearing, but I've been really busy with school and waterpolo and I barely had time to eat in these months. Anyway this is the Christmas chapter of this story and we are going to discover a lot of secrets. I hope you'll like it!

I don't own Glee, if I would the newbies from season 4 would be even in season 6.

Chapter 12: Santa Claus is coming to town

Aubrey's POV:

I've always hated Christmas, the lights, the joy, buying presents, I hate it. I guess it's because when I was little we used to go to my grandma's and all my cousins had a mother and a father while I had just a parent, and I couldn't help but feel jealous, uncomplete and even stupid. This time I have my father, even if I really don't know how to deal with him, I've been alone for 16 years and then he come and pretend to be the best father in the world, I'm really really confused.

"Hey sweetie, how are you today?" Asks my mother as soon as I go downstairs. I've nevere liked her that much, but now that my father came I realize that even if she wasn't a lot at home she has always been there for me. "Everything is fine even if I hate Christmas, but my girlfriend Lily loves it, so I'm going to pretend that I enjoy the lights". My mother smiles, a good thing about her is that she has always supported me for my sexuality, she has always accepted me.

"Why don't you tell her that you don't like Christmas, if she loves you she will understand. Oh and tell her that I want to meet her, so ask her if she's free for tonight at 9.00 PM, we are going to Breadstix all together." Oh my God, my mother wants to know her, I know that Lily is going to freak out. "Ok, I love you bye".

As soon as I exit the door I see him, my father. "What are you doing there? I told you that I didn't want to see you, that you are a stranger for me. You bought me a present? If you had been there during the years you should have known that I hate Christmas, and I hate it just because of you. So now please take again that plane, come back to China and don't bother me anymore."

"Aubrey, how can I tell you? I didn't knew that your mother was pregnant, I realized it just two months ago, when I saw a photo that your mother posted on Facebook and I realized that you looked exactly like me. I came here to see you and I thought that you would have loved me, but I was wrong." How can he be so stupid? How can he expect my love when I haven't seen him in 16 years? "Yes you were, I don't want to see you anymore, please come home, because our family is made of two people, my mum and me, and there's not enough space for you. Leave me because I have to go to school. Goodbye.". I run away from him as fast as I can.

When I arrive at school I'm a mess, my face is red as a tomato, my hair is horrible and I'm all sweaty. I just want to cry, so I decide to skip the first period and I go in the auditorium, when I feel like shit loneliness is the only thing which can fix me. I arrive in the auditorium, I lay on the ground and I close my eyes. After ten minutes I hear some steps. "I know that I could find you there. What's wrong? If you don't want to talk about it I'll just stay here quiet.". That's what I like about Lily, she always understands me. "Lily, I hate Christmas, I'm sorry, I know that you love it, but I can't stand it, so I can't go shopping with you because just the thought of Lima Mall filled with lights and Christmas trees makes me want to vomit." I hope that she doesn't leave me because of that.

"That's OK, don't worry, I'll go with Xenia and Ella and I won't buy you a present, and I really appreciate that you pretent to love Christmas because I love it, but I think that you are here for another reason".

"I hate even my father, I told him to come back to China, that I didn't need him, but he doesn't understand he keeps calling me, coming to my house. I don't want him around me, I want this to be over." She grabs my hands and then she kisses me, I'm impressed I'm always the one who kiss first.

"I'm sure that if we stick together we will find a solution, maybe you should talk about it to your mother, she is the only one who really knows the truth, and you have to know that I love you even more now that you told me your problems.". "I love you too, oh and tonight you have a date with me and my mother at Breadstix at 9.00 PM. Don't be late."

After school I go straight home, I want to talk my mother about my new found father, Lily is right, she is the one who's more involved in this story. I open the door and I see him talking with her on the sofa. "Mum, why is he there?", this makes things more complicated. "Aubrey honey take a sit. You know that he is your father, Henry Lee. I know that you are confused, but what he told you this morning it's true, when I left China I didn't know I was pregnant, I only found out two months after here in Lima. I was sure that I could raise a baby on my own, so I've never told him the truth. It's my fault if you haven't a father Aubrey, just mine, but I hope that you can forgive me because you are the best thing I have and I don't want to lose you." At first I'm reallly confused, but I soon realize that my mother made a lot of sacrifices to raise me and I have no right to be angry with her.

"Of course I forgive you and sorry Henry for how I treated you in these weeks." Maybe now that I know that my father didn't abandoned me I will like Christmas a little more.

Lily's POV

In two hours I'm going to meet Aubrey's mom and I'm really excited about that. I'm now at the mall with Xenia and Elsa. I love Christmas, but this year I feel sad because it's the first one I don't spend with my mother, she is going to be in Italy with the monster and with my little halfsister and I'm going to be here with my father, a man I kind of like even if I really don't know him well.

"So tonight you are going meet her mother... This thing is serious, i?m kind of impressed. Are you excited?" Someone is talking to me, but the only thing I can think about is not being with my mother, she is the dearest person I have and I've never thought we could be separated.

"Lily are you here with us or somewhere else?" Oh my God I zoned out, now they're gonna think I'm crazy. "Sorry I was thinking, of course I'm excited, but I'm afraid that she won't like me, and now that things are serious maybe I will tell my dad, but I really don't know if he's going to take that well. My mother always told me that I was free to be who I was, but now she is far away and I don't know what to do."

"I think you should go home and tell him, if he loves you he will understand and I'm sure that he is a good person, he took Presley with him, a person who cares so much about a girl he barely knows can't be bad with his own daughter."

"Ok, thank girls, you are really amazing friends. I love you two!", my father is not at work now, so he's free to listen me, I hope that he would allow me to stay with him even if I'm not straight how he thinks I am. I knock at the door and my knees are suddenly weak, they shake and I don't know how to stop them. Presley opens the door, I smile at her and I go in my father's room not knowing yet what to say him. "Hi Lily, why are you home so soon, I thought you were at the Mall. Have plans for tonight? Because Presley is out with Raven and I don't want to be all alone."

"I wanted to talk you about that. I know that we don't know each other that much, we have spent ten years parted without talking because Mum didn't allow me to text you. In this year I became a teenager and I changed a lot, last year I discovered a thing and I'm not sure how to tell you because I'm afraid that you won't love me anymore." I'm really scared, I feel tears in my eyes, I want to run away. "I've discovered that I like girls, but in Italy I didn't tell anyone. When I came here I found a girl that really likes me and now we are toghether. I know that you didn't expect someone like me and probably I disappointed you, but please love me anyway because this is my first Christmas without mum and I feel lost." He stands up from the chair and I'm afraid that now he will tell me to leave the house, but he hugs me, with his strong grip. "I love you no matter what, you can't imagine how happy I was when I recieved your message last summer. I've tried to text you, call you when you were away, but your mother didn't want me to have contacts with you. I've dreamed about having you there for such a long time that it would be so stupid to kick you out for such a silly reason. I'm happy you told me. I know that tonight I'm going to be alone, now go and have fun with your girlfriend. I love you Lily Hastings."

"I love you too dad."

After a hour I'm at Breadstix, ready to meet Aubrey's mum. I'm excited, I hope she will like me, I really hope it with all my heart, I'm wearing a long sleveed dress for obvious reasons and a pair of ankle boots. I'm waiting from ten minutes when I see Aubree, beautiful as always and an stunning woman, tall, thin, with blonde hair and blue eyes.

"You must be Lily, the girl who turned my daughter in a serious person. I'm Elizabeth Martin, nice to meet you." She seems really nice, the fear is fading away.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Lily Hastings."

During the dinner everything is fine, Ms. Martin tell me a lot of funny stories about Aubrey and we eat amazing food, I think that she is liking me, I'm being myself without trying too much because I know that when I try to impress someone I always act like a stupid girl, and I'm not one of that.

After dinner Elizabeth goes at work at the hospital, leaving me and Aubrey alone."What about you come to my house and we watch a movie?" I agree, it seems a brilliant idea, but before I tell her that I have to do something else, I grab my phone and I compose my mum's number, I need to hear her voice. "Pronto? Chi sta parlando?" I don't speak italian since I came here, it's beautiful to listen that lenguage agai after all this time. "Mamma sono Lily, ti volevo dire che mi manch tanto tanto e augurarti un Buon Natale, ti voglio tanto bene, ora devo andare scusa"

"Lily, non sai quanto mi manchi, mi pento tutti i giorni di averti lasciato andare, senza di te non c'è più la stessa gioia nel mio cuore. Devo andare anche io, ma spero che richiami presto. Buon Natale anche a te tesoro mio." [A/N: TRANLATION... "Hello! Who's talking?" "Mum, I'm Lily, I just wanted to tell you that I miss you really much and wish you a Merry Christmas, I love you a lot. Now sorry I have to go." "Lily you can't imagine how much I miss you, I regret everyday letting you go away from me, without you my heart is not full of joy as before. I have to go too, but I hope you'll call again soon. Merry Christmas my darling"]. When I come back to Aubrey my eyes are all red. She asks me if everything is ok and I nod. When we enter in her house she starts kissing me with force and passion and she start unzipping my dress, but I'm not ready to reveal the bruises on my body, so I run away, leaving her in shock.

Presley's POV

I'm out with Raven tonight, we haven't spent a lot of time together lately, I was busy with moving in Lily's house and she was busy with school. "I've missed our cinema nights." It's true, I love when we are together and now that my mother isn't around everything will be better. "How is in your new house? I wanted you to live with me, but my parnets said that we hadn't enough space."

"I'm fine, I'm glad that I have Lily, she is really funny, and her father is OK, he's never at house, always working, but he told me that you can come over for Christmas if you haven't nothing to do with your family." "I would think about it. I love you Presley and I'm so happy that now I don't have to fear for your life anymore." She kisses me and I kiss back, feeling happy for the first time in a bit.

After two hours I'm back at home, I enter my room, really tired and I found Lily sitting in my bed. "Sorry Pres, but I wanted to talk, if you want I'll leave, I just need to talk a bit." She seems shocked, her eyes are red, her face is covered by tears, even if I'm really tired I don't want to leave her in this conditions. "No don't worry, I wanted to talk too, what's up?" I'm an horrible liar.

"Today was the perfect day you know, I finally came out to my father and he took the thing well, I met Aubrey's mum and she liked me, I've had the courage to call my mum and she said that she still loves me, but I think I've lost Aubrey forever, and I don't know what to do."

"When I was at home with my mother I was always afraid to lose Raven, because she didn't want me to stay at home, she wanted me to go to the police, but I didn't want because after all I loved her." It's hard to talk about my mother, i feel my ribs hurt, my head hurts, everyting hurts.

"Your mother started being mean after you came out?" I don't want to talk about it, but now I'm a grenade, ready to explode, so saying his to someone will probably help me.

"My mother has never been the caring kind of mother, when I was little and ill, she didn't stay at home, she makes my grandmother come, and when she died she left me alone. When my father left her she started drinking a lot. At first she didn't hurt me, she just laid on the sofa all day without doing anything. In the meanwhile I started liking Raven and we started going out. I idn't tell my mother because I knew how homophobic she was, but unfortunatly one night she saw us kissing. When I came back home she was waiting for me and she started yelling at me and hitting me in the head with all the empty bottles, she even hitted me with her own hands in the stomach. When she finished her job she left me unconscious on the ground, laying in my own blood. Since that moment everything went worse. Everynight she hit me, with more and more power, it's was an abituee hitting me. I couldn't scream because she said that she would have killed me if she end up in jail, so I stayed quiet, hoping that everithing would have ended soon. Fortunatly your father three weeks ago was there for me, because I couldn't take it anymore. I wanted to die, but he saved me and now I can be happy. Why are you crying?" She lifts up the sleeve of her pijama and I see all the bruises she has on the arms, I can guess that the rest of her body is even worse, she looks exactly like me."That's the reason why I left Italy, not to give my mother privacy, but because her new boyfriend was abusive with me. I can't live anymore with this weight, I think that tomorrow I'm going tell everyone in Glee Club, after I tell that I can really enjoy Christmas." I hug her and let her sleep with me, now we are on the same boat.

The morning after Raven says me that she is going to spend her Christmas with us. I couldn't be happier. In Glee Club we decorate the Christmas tree, we are a special group, we trust each other and we really make everything as funny as possible.

This week theme is Christmas of course, but we are not going to spend a lot of tme in there, because school stops tomorrow, we are going to be free for two weeks! When Sam asks who want to sing Lily raise her hand and I follow her, we decided to do this together.

I'll have a blue Christmas without you
I'll be so blue just thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won't be the same, dear, if you're not here with me

And when those blue snowflakes start falling
That's when those blue memories start calling
You'll be doin' all right with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas

You'll be doin' all right with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas

"I wanted to tell something because i trust you and I kow that you are the best Glee mates I could ask for. I thought that this was going to be a sad Christmas because I've left my mother and my loved Italy to come here, but being here with you made me think that I've been so lucky. Here I've found friends, a special girlfriend and amazing teachers and especially here I'm safe. I left Italy because my stepfather was abusive with me, with my mother he was lovely, but when he was alone with me he turned into a monster, he used to hit me and yell at me horrible things, I realized I couldn't take anymore before it was too late. Now thank to you I feel that I can be happy again, thank you, this is the best Christmas present I could have asked for."

As soon as I go out Glee Club I grab Raven and I take her in the bleachers, in our spot, where we gave the first kiss and I start singing to her one of my favourite Christmas songs. Now that I'm sure that noone will ever hurt me again I can start celebreting the best Christmas ever.

NO ONE'S POV

Christmas is always a magical day and when you spend it with your loved one everything become perfect.

Tristan is at home with his father, they are going to eat a lot and then watch an old black and white movie. They are going to be happy because now Tristan is better, now he smiles sometimes and he doesn't feel a stone on his chest everytime he tries to breathe.

Ali is to her grandmother's, she is going to have a lot of fun with her cousins and for the first time she is going to speak with new people because now she hasn't all the shyness she had before, now she feels more confident.

Elsa, Jason and their family are spending holidays all together as they always do. Jason is sad this is going to be the first Christmas without his mother and his father is doing the therapy, but he knows that when Elsa is by his side nothing can hurt him. Elsa is still in love with him, but now she thinks that she must be a friend to him and she is seeing another guy, even if she doesn't like him as she likes Jay she goes along well with Carl, he is funny and nice.

Ella is at home with her family and Liam, this was his second Christmas and she feels joy when she watches in his sparkling eyes. They are eating a lot of Swedish dishes and they have sung all togheter Swedish Christmas songs.

Partick is at Burt and Carole house with his mum, they hed a lunch and now they are watching photos of Finn and remembering a lot of funny things about him, even if they are remembering someone who's dead they have smile on their faces because they are just remembering the good.

Philip is at home with his womanizer brother, he is still happy about his meeting with Anya at Sectionals. He is playing basketball in the playground with his twin and they are having loads of fun, especially now that Ken meet them. The three guys are getting along really well, especially because girls are not involved. Ken is happy because at Christmas he feels a better person, now he has found a girlfriend too and he is busy with her so he doesn't have time for thinking about revenge for his parents.

Xenia went to Costa Rica to celebrate holidays, she loves that place, it's always hot and everyone seems happy, now she has a bestfriend and she is not seen anymore like the genius, she is now part of a Club and she feels accepted by anyone.

Aubrey, Presley and Lily are all together at Hasting's house. Aubrey is enjoyng the day even if she hates Christmas, her parents are together for the first time in her life and she has now a girlfriend who loves her and who's a little broken, but she hopes that she can put back together the pieces of her heart. Lily is enjoying her first Christmas with just her father, she feels safe and loved by anyone. Presley is happy to spend the holidays with her girlfriend and with someone who's not going to hurt her. There are seven people around that table and they couldn't be happier.

Sam and Marley are together at Breadstix, they re having lunch and then they are going to the cinema. They know that they gave birth to an incredible group of kids and now they feel that they aren't more miserable that their friends because for them the joy of these guys after winning "Sectionals" is the best thing they could get.

They are all having a "Merry Little Christmas".

So, this chapter is over and I'm sorry for the big absence. I hope to be more present since now and update every week even if it will be difficult Anyway I hope you liked this chapter even if it's a bit sad, I hope that the next one will be happier.

In the next one there will be four POV, I'll tell you the main storylines but trough PM you can tell me if you have ideas.

Brendan will join the Glee Club

Elsa and her bullying history

Patrick and Ella having a fight

Marley will start having feelings for the new hot Chemistry teacher.

You can suggest me the theme of the week as always and if you have questions about the story or the characters you can tell me.

Merry Christmas Everybody... Love

JoshiferJennoist :)