A/N: For once a drabble that wasn't created from any prompt but yet instead is just a lil!Puckleberry twist on real life events. So who else has the Rumour Has It/Someone Like You mash up from this upcoming episode of Glee on repeat on youtube (they really do need to get a repeat function) because it's not available for purchase on iTunes yet? Because I kid you not, this damn song has been stuck in my head all day and I want to own it already! So get with the program already iTunes and make me happy. Haha
Leroy and Hiram Berry couldn't believe how this could have possibly happened to their precious little star and on her birthday of all days. Rachel had been chattering constantly about her birthday party for the past few months. She was so excited to have all of her little friends come from her dance class. She had told them that she wanted an ice skating party for her fifth birthday since they were all a bunch of girls and her birthday was so close to the holidays. They had had no problem with the idea of an ice skating party since it's what she wanted. Leroy had ordered the cake, Hiram had purchased the decorations and they both did their best to buy everything that she had asked for on her birthday wish list.
It was finally the big day and they had everything set up on the tables in the indoor rink. There were pink and purple balloons attached to each chair with matching streamers draped across the ceiling. Their little girl was wearing an outfit picked out especially for the occasion so that she could be stylish and warm at the same time. Her gifts that they had bought her were piled on another table in the corner with her pink ballerina cake just waiting to be devoured by a gaggle of giggling girls. There was only one thing missing from this picture perfect moment.
The guests.
No one had showed up.
"How could this happen to our little girl, Leroy?" Hiram asked his voice distraught. "She must be so heartbroken that no one came after all her talk about how excited she was."
Leroy had a small wistful smile on his face as he replied, "Oh I don't know, Hiram. I don't even think our star noticed that none of the girls she invited from dance class showed up. If anything, I'd say that she's quite happy right now."
Both men watched as their little girl appeared to be having the time of her life out on the ice holding hands with the last person either man had ever expected to show up.
Hiram looked at the two children with a furrowed brow as they skated around the giant oval. "How did he even know? It's not like he was on the invite list."
"Does it really matter?" Leroy asked with a shrug of his shoulders. "He's here and Rachel is happy so I think that makes him the most important guest of all, even if he wasn't officially invited."
The two men hug each other and smile as they watch their daughter hold out her hand to Noah Puckerman and attempt to pull him up off the ice. Although they couldn't contain their surprised gasps as he stole a quick kiss on her lips before he skated a little ways ahead. They can already tell that they're going to have to keep an eye out for that one.