Chapter Twenty-One

Sam POV

"Happy Valentines, baby." I am leaving a message for Mercedes. "Come over to Rach- er, I mean, the Berry's tonight around 7. I'm making you dinner and then we'll watch a movie. I love you, Cedes." I hang up the phone and see Leroy walk into the kitchen pouring himself a cup of coffee.

"Hey, Mr. B. How is Hiram doing today?"

Leroy looks up at me with a weak smile, "He's still upset about Rachel not discussing the housing arrangements with us before. But, she promised to come over with Christopher tomorrow night for dinner."

He hands me a cup of coffee and puts some bread in the toaster, "We're going out tonight though for Valentines. Is Mercedes still coming over?"

"Yes, is that still okay?"

"Of course. Of course."

Hiram walks down the stairs and gives me a smile and a "Good Morning, Sam." We sit in silence for a while, "Are you going over the see Rachel today?"

"Yeah, are you wanting to come?" I extend the offer.

"Oh." Leroy starts and gets cut off my Hiram.

"No. She needs to come to us first."

Leroy shakes her heads, "Baby, you can't be so stubburn."

"I sure can." He says getting up and kissing Leroy's forehead, "Happy Valentines Day." He whispers before going back up the stairs.

I spend my morning doing homework and laundry and sending dirty texts to Mercedes who is sitting in church right now. Which makes it that much hotter. Once one rolls around I text Rachel telling her I will see her soon. She texts me back almost immediately.

"Is Daddy or Dad coming with you?"

"No, sorry Mamma."

When I get to Hummel's I walk in and see Finn pacing in the living room with Chris in his arms. "Hey man." He whispers and smiles at me. "Rachel is in the kitchen." He says before shushing Chris lightly and humming under his breath.

"What's he singing?" I ask walking into the kitchen where Rachel is baking cookies in the shape of hearts. She hugs me with a big grin.

"Hi Sammy." She looks in the front room, "I think he's singing Don't Stop Believing'. Chris loves it." She says returning to her cookies.

A reflection on her finger catches my eye. A diamond. On her ring finger. "Rachel?" I ask looking up at her as she pushes her hair behind her ears, revealing that she is wearing the earring I gave her on Christmas. "What's that?" I say pointing to her finger.

"Oh!" She's caught off guard. "Uh-Um," She stammers, "It's my Christmas present from Finn."

"Are you engaged?" I asked surprised. It's been two months since Christmas. Had she just not told anyone.

"Um, ye-yes." She says avoiding eye contact with me.

"Why didn't I know?"

She finally looks up at me looking to see if Finn is listening or can hear us. She notices he's still pacing with Chris and looks up at me with wide eyes, "No one knows." She whispers, "We didn't want to spring all of this on everyone at once. And we're taking our time, so it's not like we need everyone to know." Her eyes are pleading with me to not freak out.

I look around the room confused, "Then why are you wearing it?"

"I wear it around the house when no one is around. I think it's pretty." She grins taking it off and putting it on the chain around her neck and tucking the chain under her shirt.

"Damn Rach." I bring her into a hug just as Finn walks by to take Christopher downstairs. He rolls his eyes and he walks past to the downstairs. "Just take your time." I whisper after Finn is securely downstairs. I help Rachel frost the cookies and after a half hour Finn is back upstairs.

"Are you going to be at dinner tomorrow night?" He asks me.

"Are you?" I look at him incredulously.

He gives me a look, "Um, why wouldn't I?" He asks before kissing Rachel on the forehead and grabbing the milk out of the fridge and pouring himself a glass.

"It just didn't sound like they were expecting you." I shrug wishing I hadn't said anything.

Finn drinks his milk and ignores me for the next little while. Rachel and I talk about all the Glee gossip. I tell her that Santana yelled at Artie to get off her girl at Regionals and Rachel laughed at the image that left her with. Kurt and Blaine almost missed the performance because they were making out in the green room and that Lauren showed up requesting to join the team and Quinn slapped her in the face.

"Why didn't you tell me any of this, Finn?" she asks inbetween laughter.

He takes a cookie and Rachel attempts to slap her hand away, but instead gives up and lets him take it, "It didn't seem important. What chu doing with Mercedes tonight?"

"She's coming over for Dinner and a movie."

"Will my Dads not be home?" Rachel asks nonchalantly.

"Nope, they are going to be out for the evening."

Finn looks annoyed, "Have you officially moved into the Berry's then?"

"It's just easier then going back and forth."

I don't know what has come in between me and Finn this year but it isn't getting any better. I am in a really committed relationship with Mercedes and Rachel had just had his baby. Why is he so jealous? Or whatever he is. Rachel puts half of the cookies on a plate and wraps it up, "Take this for your evening." Rachel says with a smile. Finn sweeps her up into a big hug and leans down to kiss her and she giggles and hits him playfully. "Finn, Sam is right there."

Finn puts his hands up and steps back, "Sorry Rach." He looks down at her hand noticing she took off her ring. "Where's you-" He realized I was sitting right there before he finished.

"Sam knows." She whispers handing me a cookie and handing Finn another cookie. "He saw the ring." She says looking down.

"Good." Finn snaps, "I want people to know. I want to shout it from the God Damn roof tops." He says sincerely.

Rachel rolls her eyes, "Finn, we're not fighting about this." Wait, so this was Rachel's choice, to keep it secret? "Especially in front of Sam." She says between her teeth with a warning tone.

I stand up awkwardly, "I can head out. I just wanted to see Chris, and I guess he'll be sleeping for a while." I say with a shrug. "Thanks for the cookies."

"Come on, man. He'll be up to eat in an hour. Stick around." Finn says changing his tune quickly. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel awkward. I haven't been sleeping well." He turns to Rachel, "I'm sorry to you too, Rach."

She smiles up at him with her big smile, "Well, if you'd just let me get up with Chris once in a while." She says lovingly, "Just because I'm still recovering doesn't mean you have to do everything." She says reaching up to kiss his cheek.

"Why don't we go watch a movie til Chris wakes up?" Finn offers.

We turn on Valentines Day and Finn falls immediately asleep on top of Rachel. She giggles at him and his light snoring. "I'm sorry about him." She whispers. "He's not sleeping. Freaking out about college. He really just became a Dad."

"What do you mean?"

She thinks for a moment, I guess trying to figure out how to explain what she wants to say, "A woman becomes a mother the moment she's pregnant. And a man doesn't become a Dad until they see the babies face. So, I think it's a lot more overwhelming for him. He wants to do so much, be the Dad he could never have. You know?"

"That's actually really cool of him." I say honestly. "He's doing great so far."

She smiles down at him stroking his hair as he sleeps, "He's been truly wonderful."

A small noise comes from the baby monitor wedged in Finn's hands and he jumps up, "The baby." She says getting up to walk down stairs.

Rachel grabs his hand and pulls him back on the couch, "I'll go." she strokes his face. "Go back to sleep, Finn." She says grabbing the baby monitor from him and turning it off as she walks to the stairs. "Come on, Sam."

I look at Finn who is making himself comfortable and we walk down the stairs quietly. Christopher is laying in bed looking up at the ceiling with his whole hand in his mouth.

"Hey there buddy." I say as Rachel picks him up and hands him to me.

"You guys can hang out for a minute before I have to feed him." She says adjusting her shirt, she looks like she's in pain.

"You okay?"

"It's gross Mom stuff." She says with a light smile. "So tell me the real story behind these earrings?" She asks pointing to her ears as Chris grabs my finger and tugs it towards his mouth.

"Oh, we never talked about that, huh?" I say smiling down at Chris. "Well, they were my Mom's. When I was little I would look up at her and I always remember seeing these particular earrings. They were in all my favorite memories, her putting me to bed, dancing with her at a family Christmas party." I said laughing, "So when I found those, I noticed them immediately. They are almost the exact replica of the ones she would wear. I wanted your baby to have those same memories."

Rachel smiled up at me with a tear in her eye, "You're the best Godfather ever." She says before laughing, "Don't tell Noah I said that."

"I wish Finn didn't hate me so much."

She shook her head and looked down, "He doesn't hate you. He loves you, it just bugs him that Daddy and Dad like him more then him."

"They wouldn't like me if I was sleeping with you though."

"What?" She said abruptly and obviously confused.

I laughed, "They are going to hate anyone that you're with. At least at first. He's sleeping with their little girl. In their eyes, he's making you mature, making you grow up."

"I don't know why we never thought of it like that before." She said honestly.

Chris started to stir and Rachel took him from me. "I'm going to feed him, I'll be up in a minute." She says giving me a one armed hug.

"I love you, Mamma."

"Love you too, Sammy." She says with her big grin.