Chapter 28: Number 16
December 30, 2011
"Hello!" I greeted Kurt and Blaine as they were sitting at a table in the corner. Having ordered my hot chocolate for me I sat down taking a sip. "How are your beautiful selves doing on this wonderful day?"
"What's going on with you?" Kurt asked slowly, sitting back in his seat waiting for a response, I placed my coat onto the back of the chair sitting down.
"Tomorrow early morning I will be on a plane to New York City, remember?" Grabbing a pastry from the middle of the table "My dad's and I will be there until January second an than we'll be back that night!"
"I am so jealous, that's my dream to be able to see the ball drop"
"I'm lucky my aunt has an apartment in the city and we can walk to Times Square, though it's nuts every year so we'll be hanging around there. We manage to find a place to watch and get a perfect view" Shrugging like it's no big deal because for me, it's really not.
"I need to see that" Kurt slapped his hand on the table "When we go to school in New York, we will be seeing the ball drop"
"I will make darn sure you see it" I nodded giggling with Blaine, picking off some of the sprinkles from the pastry "The energy is just so amazing"
"I admire you so much, you've seen New York. You lived in New York, I just don't understand how you are surviving Lima" Blaine complimented, leaning forward on his elbows
"It's my friends" I shrugged answering as if it was the simplest question "I swear if I wouldn't have met who I met, I would have ran to the nearest train to New York."
"I would have ran either or" Kurt winked sipping on his coffee
"Have you looked outside though?" Blaine pointed out the window to the gray skies. The wind was picking up and it was below freezing out, one of the benefits of living right below Canada (but than again I've had this weather in New York as well) "It looks like it's going to snow it's butt off"
"No" I covered my ears, shaking my head quickly back and forth "I refuse to believe the weather man. I am planning on being up at four thirty this morning to go to my plane and make my way to New York. I do not plan to be stranded here while everyone else is enjoying my city. No I will be on that plane tomorrow even if I have to fly the contraption myself"
Blaine looked out the window again and than shrugged at me.
"So how was your Christmas?" I asked Kurt aware that I haven't seen him since the party the other day, I've seen Finn since the party though but Kurt's been with Blaine.
"Well I woke up around nine and Carol and Burt were awake but of course Finn was still asleep. So I woke him up because let's face it this is our last big Christmas before we go off and do things and the baby comes. So I woke him up and he wasn't happy but soon got over it. Carol had made us breakfast and than we had all opened our presents"
"Sounds nice" I curled up into the chair leaning back into drinking hot chocolate "How about you Blaine?"
"My little brother, Liam woke us all up at eight to open presents" I smiled remembering that Blaine had a seven year old brother and made me secretly want a brother or sister really bad. Some little kid to look up to me and play with or teach things to. "We're going to Disney World next month, that was one of my gifts"
"I've never been" Blaine gasped almost spilling his coffee over his t-shirt "What?"
"You've never been to Disney World?" Blaine repeated what I had just said
"Correct"
"Were you deprived as a child?" Blaine said almost breathless "Rachel, Disney World is one of the best places on the earth. It's like one of my most favorite worlds to go to"
"Blaine that makes absolutely no sense, there is only one world..." I shook my head, he had officially lost me but he continued to go on, ignoring my comment.
"Disney songs are amazing, not the High School Musical ones but the classic like the animated movies" Blaine went on and one, Kurt took a sip from his coffee slipping me a playful eye roll. He continued to talk about Disney movie until a little girl from the corner could be heard all around the coffee shop.
"Mommy, mommy! Look it's snowing out" Placing my feet on the ground I stood up basically putting my nose against the glass and looking out the window. Sure enough, it was snowing just a little bit. Just slight flurries but it was still snowing.
"Oh no!" I groaned stepping back and collapsing into the chair "This is horrible!"
"Come on Rachel, brighten up!" Blaine rubbed my shoulder as if that was supposed to make me feel better. "You never know what the ground is going to look like tomorrow"
"With my luck, we'll have a blizzard tonight" Letting out a huge sigh, I continued to drink my hot chocolate.
"Come on, let's go to the mall and get shopping. We're not going to let a little snow ruin the shopping mood. We've got to distract ourselves, especially you over there" Kurt pointed to me "We must not let this one give up!"
Taking separate cars we drove to the mall right outside of Lima and I watched as it lightly flurried. I wanted to just jump up into the sky and clog it so it wouldn't rain, but I secretly knew it didn't work out that way. So instead I was being pushed around in the mall with Kurt who loved to shop and Blaine who loved to complain.
"You should get these" Kurt shoved shirts in my arms from left to right. Along with a few pairs of jeans and leggings. "Have you ever worn these before?"
He was holding up some jeggings for me and I nodded "I have two pairs Kurt"
He put them back on the rack and continued. Silently going through what he had shoved at me I put some of them back onto a rack, because I knew I was never going to wear them. Purchasing the ones that I liked before Kurt could come back over I was handed my bag. Walking over to Kurt I held up my bag and motioned towards the door.
"I'm going to go sit out there with Blaine" Not waiting for a response, I found Blaine on his phone playing a game. Sitting next to him, I let my head rest on his shoulders "You do know that we're going to be stuck in here for hours while he takes us around like a dog on a leash, right?"
"Yeah" Blaine sighed peeking inside of my bags "But he does have a great fashion sense"
"Damned his fantastic fashion sense" I giggled looping my arm with his as we stood up just as Kurt came out, his own bag in his hands and motioning us to follow him to the next store.
About two hours into shopping I could feel myself getting a little delusional, Blaine as well.
"Maybe it's the new clothing smell" He joked but Kurt was still very much into his shopping daze
"Hey!" I held up a puffy vest for the boys to see "Do you think I should get this? Finn and I could be matching this season"
"Ugh" Kurt stuck up his nose "I've been trying to get Finn to throw those things away for two years now. I will not have you buy something like that under my supervision!"
Raising an eyebrow at Blaine I put the vest back onto the rack and sat down in a chair with Blaine soon following me.
"Kurt we are really hungry" I complained, listening to our rumbling stomachs "Do you want to meet us down at the foot court"
"I'm almost done so that's fine" Kurt waved us off and we walked out. Going to the salad stand we both met in the middle and sat down at a table, my arms finally being able to rest from the shopping bags.
"Finally" Blaine dug into one of his tacos.
"I swear you eat just like Finn does" I scrunched my nose watching him devour the first one and moving onto the second one.
"I'm a guy Rachel" Blaine laughed "Just because I like boys doesn't mean that affects my appetite"
"Yeah I know" Laughing as he gulped down his soda and taking another bite of his taco. "It's just your the total opposite of Kurt. You like to talk about relationship things but yet your the total man. You like sports, pigging out and just chilling. Kurt's like a freaking ball of fire."
"Uh guys!" Kurt rushed up to the table just as we were finishing up out lunches "You might want to look outside"
"What" I scrambled up running to one of the entrances, the snow was falling harder and most defiantly landing on the ground. "Oh my god!"
"I know" Kurt stared out in awe "Don't you love it?"
"NO!" I screamed making a scene but I didn't care "This is going to ruin all my plans. I don't even know how to drive in this. In New York I always used taxi's or other stuff in the snow."
"We brought my car" Blaine bit his lip "It's only a two seater"
"This is the worst thing that could have happened!" I sank to the floor in complete misery
"Rachel calm down, you might still be able to go. The weather might not be like this at the airport" Looking up trying to give my best smile at Kurt for being so optimistic but it really wasn't helping much. "Thanks Kurt"
"Do you want to attempt to try and drive home, I mean there probably only like an inch on the ground" Kurt handed me my bags as I scoped out how bad the roads were. I could see people slipping as they walked into the they were slipping I'm sure I would do the same thing in a car. "Maybe I can call my dads or something to come get me. Or Finn, he has a truck"
"A truck would probably be better" Blaine reasoned as I got my phone out from my purse. Looking through my contacts I clicked 'call' waiting for him to answer.
"Hey Rach" In the background I could hear Puck yell 'hey'
"Hello and tell Puck I said hello to him as well"
"What's up? Have you seen the snow outside?" I could hear him smiling over the phone which only made me want to snap, this snow was not good. Why couldn't anyone but me see this?
"Yeah, it's wonderful. That's why I called. Kurt, Blaine and I are at the mall and they took Blaines car and I took mine. I have never driven in snow before and it's really freaking me out that I'm going to have to drive home by myself. So I called because I wanted to know if you could possibly come get me and take me home."
"Uh.." Fumbling could be heard and than mumbling with an occasional groan from Puck "Yeah babe, I'll be there as soon as I can. I'll txt you when I get closer"
"Oh my god you are my lifesaver, thank you so much!"
Finn chuckled "Yep, be there soon"
Hanging up, I stood taking my bags from the two boys. "You can go, the roads are probably going to get worse and I would feel really bad if you got into an accident because you waited too long to get out of here"
"We don't want to leave you..." Blaine looked at Kurt who nodded
"Seriously go ahead, I'll probably go get another hot chocolate and just wait for Finn. Maybe I'll go get another book or something to read"
"Call us when you get home" Kurt hugged me
"You too" I smiled as Blaine hugged me as well "Now go before you get stuck in the parking lot"
Kurt collected his bags as they walked out into the now heavy falling snow. Feeling the breeze I watched as they tried to run to the car. Once out of sight I carried my bags into the thinning mall. Getting a hot chocolate as promised, I decided on a magazine instead and brought it out to the food court to read. It was about an hour later that I got the message from Finn saying that he was outside. Hurrying, I grabbed all five of my bags and rushed out of the mall not wanting to make him wait. Busting out those doors, my breathe was taken away as the wind was making the air so much colder than it already was. Climbing into his truck I threw my bags in and quickly shut the door. Sitting there for a minute I closed my eyes, taking in the heat that was radiating from his air.
"You okay?" He asked slowly, as I turned to him and nodded silently. Finn started putting my bags into the back of his truck as I put my hands over the heat, warming them up. "Why didn't you wear gloves or bring anything. The weather man said it was supposed to snow today"
"Because I have been in denial, my trip to New York is tomorrow remember" I turned around looking in the back and spotted one of his sweat shirts. Taking my coat off I threw that on and than my coat on top of that. "Thank you for coming to get me though, I've never driven before in the snow or ice. That's what taxi's are for in New York"
"It's fine, Puck kept giving me shit over the game we were playing anyway" Finn slowly drove out of the parking lot ever so slowly, but I wasn't going to complain at least it wasn't me driving.
Sliding over to the middle, I secured my seat belt around me and snuggled into his side. Closing my eyes, I rested as he drove because the normal thirty minute drive to the mall was probably going to be much longer. Turning on the radio I could hear Finn humming as he concentrated on the slick roads. About an hour into the trip home, we had gotten off the main high way and into the road to go to town.
"Do you want to go home or my house?" Finn looked over and I shrugged in response
"Doesn't matter" I huffed knowing full well that I probably wasn't going to New York tomorrow, so what was the sense of going home "We can go to yours"
Finn nodded and than focusing back on the road. I was so proud of him for doing suck a great job driving, if it was me I would have like run of the road by now. I tried to be a safe driver but sometimes I wasn't. Not because I don't pay attention but because I didn't really have much experience and I learned in the city.
"Holy shit!" Finn yelled making me sit up in a flash looking around to try and see what he was yelling at. He slammed on his breaks and just watched wide eyed outside.
"What's wrong!" I panicked
"A deer just came out of nowhere" He breathed out "I almost hit it"
"Oh thank god you didn't" I placed a hand over my heart, nearing having a heart attack back there
"I know" He nodded slowly putting his foot on the pedal "I'm just glad I didn't like slide or anything, braking was my first instinct"
I listened to him go on and on, he was nervous I could tell from almost getting us in an accident.
"Finn look out!" I cried pointing to yet another deer who had just leaped out into the front of his truck. Finn slammed his foot on the brake and this time we slid right into the deer. "No!"
I cried taking off my seat belt as the truck finally stopped. Hurrying out of the truck I jumped down, sliding on the road as I ran to the deers aid. "No!"
"Rachel get back in here, your going to get hit" Finn yelled getting out of his truck
"Like you hit this deer?" I yelled pointing to the hurt deer in front of his truck "You killed him Finn"
"I didn't mean to, the damn thing jumped out of nowhere" Finn defended himself, pacing until her pointed to the truck. "Please get back in there, I will call someone to come pick it up"
"Oh my god" I cried "You killed a poor innocent deer! YOU KILLED HIM FINN!"
"Rachel please" He tried to pick me up from the ground "Rachel it's snowing like crazy and your going to get hit if you don't get in this truck right now"
"You get someone on your phone right now and you stay out here with him until someone comes" Finn opened his mouth to protest but I held a finger up "Or I will!"
"Get in the car" Finn sighed pulling out his phone, I got up from the ground and slowly walked back into the truck slamming the door shut. I was so angry at him for not paying attention and basically killing an innocent animal probably just trying to go back to his family.
"His family" I cried just as Finn came into the car "You killed a deer with a family!"
Looking up to me, he looked really guilty and than shut the door and went back outside. The snow had covered the windshield and I couldn't see anything. Opening the door, Finn was standing there shivering as he watched over the deer. Getting out of the car, I wrapped my arms around myself walking over to the deer and Finn.
"Look if you've come out here to make me more guilty, can you like not?" Finn rolled his eyes "I already feel like shit for running it over and your not making me feel any better"
I didn't say anything because if I did, I think I would have said something about how he killed a deer. So I just stood here with him, waiting for someone to come.
"Are you okay?" He asked after a few minutes of silence "I mean did you like hit your head or anything?"
"No, I didn't. Did you?"
"No, just freaked out." His hands pulled his beanie over his head and shoving them back into his coat pockets. "It's freezing out here, go ahead in the car"
"I'll just stay out here with you" Shrugging a little I walked the short distance to him, resting my head on his chest. Putting my hands in his coat pockets with his. "It wasn't your fault that the deer ran out in front of you and I shouldn't have put all of that on you"
"'S'kay I mean it was freaky"
"I'm just glad that the deer is going to be out of harms way once these guys get here"
"They're right here" Finn took his hands out of his pocket and moving me to the side "Go ahead and go get in the truck while I talk to them and get things finished so we can get going."
Taking one last glimpse of the poor deer I hopped into the car. I was kinda of relieved that the snow was covering the windshield because I don't know if I could handle watching the animal be taken away. It was a few minutes later that Finn came into the truck taking his gloves off, and warming his hands with the heat. His nose was red and was shivering.
"Do you want your sweatshirt?" I asked going to take it off but he shook his head
"No you keep it on, I'll be fine in a minute" He sniffed and than turned the car on. "How about we get going?"
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Waking up the New Years Eve morning I looked outside and it was still snowing. About a foot of snow on the ground now, I knew immediately yesterday that we weren't going to New York. But looking out the window just sealed the deal. So now I'm down stairs with my fathers as the try and get their money back for the plane tickets but the odds of that happening are slim to none.
I was really bummed out, this would be the first year in seventeen years that I haven't been able to watch the ball drop. I've always been able to do that, be all cozy in our spot and celebrating with family. Being away from New York on New Years made me really homesick. Curling up on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate and bowl of homemade vegetable soup on my lap as I watched musicals. My daddy was watching them with me, something that we could finally do together.
About six that night, looking out the window it was still snowing just flurrying. My dad's had taken over control of the TV and were watching an action movie. Mostly my dad's choice but my daddy had gotten into it as well so, I lost control of the TV. There was a bang from outside my house and than another one soon followed. Opening my door and peeked out to see what going on.
"Rachel watch out!" Looking over at Quinn as she came out from behind the car pointing to the boys who than threw a snowball. Quickly shutting the door before it hit me, I opened the door again to them laughing.
"I'll be right out, I'm going to go get my snow gear on and than you guys better watch it!" I glared at them, shutting the door and running up the stairs. Getting everything on a running down the steps, grabbing my boots that I had dug out just last night.
"Honey what was all that yelling about?" My daddy asked getting off the couch
"My friends came by and threw snow at me. I'm going to go outside for a few minutes and than I'll be back in" Smiling as I tightened the straps on the boats and stood up
"Okay just be careful, if you get too wet just come in and get dry before you come out. I'll make some hot chocolate for you guys for later and keep it on the stove. I would love to meet your friends"
"Kay daddy, love you both. Be back in later" Running out of the steps, the snow crunching under my feet. Finn and Noah were rolling around in the snow, Kurt sitting on top of a pile that the snowplow had made earlier this morning. Walking in the deep snow I caught up with Quinn who was trying to climb up onto the top. Soon the both of us were on top watching as the now three boys fumbled in the snow.
"I was thinking" Quinn chewed on her bottom lip "We should build an igloo or something along those lines. It's on your list right?"
"Yeah"
"Well than let's do it!" Quinn hopped down and started piling snow. I didn't even know how to make an igloo to be honest but I figured Quinn knew what she was doing. "Winter is my favorite season, it's so pretty. I love snow"
"Me too" I threw some up into the air
"That's not what you were saying yesterday" Kurt smirked
"Don't even mention yesterday" I grumbled stumbling in the snow, my legs were way too short for this activity.
"Oo I heard" Quinn scrunched her face "Finn shouldn't be driving in the ice. Especially after what happened when he was first learning to drive"
"What happened?" Turning my head at Finn who was now glaring at Quinn "What happened?"
"It's not even that big of a deal, I mean it's not even like he ended up with any lifetime injuries"
"He stopped doing his job because of you" Noah laughed, slapping him on the back
"Who?"
"Finn ran over a mailman a few years ago"
"Oh my god!" I gasped holding my mouth "No you didn't"
"I was just learning how to drive and my mom was distracting me, next thing I know there was a man on my windshield"
"How could you not see the man walking in the road Finn!"
"The same way I didn't see the deer, he just walked out of nowhere" Finn shrugged
"I am never letting you drive me anywhere else again. You are an accident waiting to happen on the road"
"Thanks guys, she was perfectly fine not knowing about that"
Everyone didn't answer just continuing to build the cave (well at least that was what it was beginning to look like) Noah kept throwing snow at Quinn and I as we would behind over to go more snow for our cave. Finn, Noah and Sam had gotten bored and ventured their way down the road and than back down. I eventually got bored with trying to keep up where they were going. After what seemed like forever we had gotten finished with our cave. Kurt, Quinn and I all got in and laid down in it.
"This is really cold" Quinn laughed laying her head on my stomach "I think my cheeks are going to fall off soon"
"My dad and daddy made some hot chocolate if you two want come in and get some. I would tell the boys they aren't here, they'll eventually come back" Patting Quinn's head and laying mine on Kurt's looking up at him.
"I'm in!" Quinn got up running towards my house. Grabbing Kurt's hand I pulled him following Quinn into my house. Taking off our outer layer of clothes my dad and daddy came into the hallway area.
"Hello!" My daddy greeted the two of them "I'm Hiram, one of Rachel's dads"
"I'm Quinn!" Shaking his hand
"Kurt"
"So nice to finally meet you guys, Rachel has mentioned you two on numerous occasions. I'm just really happy to finally be able to put a face to a name."
"Well we came in to get some hot chocolate" Directing them into the kitchen where the contents were still heating grabbing mugs I poured the steaming liquid into the mugs. Getting ready to sit down with the two of them there was a hit on the back window. Looking out the guys were standing out there, opening the door I motioned them in. "Go ahead and shed the outer layer, I'll grab everyone a mug."
"We walked down the street and they haven't even plowed anymore today, pretty sure we won't have school for the rest of the week since we're supposed to go back the day after tomorrow" Sam kicked off his shoes, taking a mug from the counter and leaning against it, the other two boys joining next to him.
"Thank the lord" Quinn raised her mug "I don't want to go back and take that stupid elective Mrs. Pillsbury signed me up for."
"Who are these boys?" My daddy came strolling into the kitchen with my other dad in tow, cautiously I put a hand on Sam's shoulder "Well this is Sam, Quinn's boyfriend"
Stepping back I placed a hand on Noah's shoulder "My friend Noah"
Than taking a step back I placed a hand on Finn's arm "This is my boyfriend Finn"
"Boyfriend?" My daddy looked to me and than to my dad.
"Oh this is awkward" Kurt mumbled under his breath, I glared at him before looping my arms around Finn's and leading him forward.
"Yes, Finn these is my dads. Dad's this is Finn"
My dad's eye twitched a little as he shook Finn's hand and my daddy looked to me before doing the same. Finn took a step back, and I soon realized how truly awkward this was. How was it that Finn and I have been dating for almost three months now and he's just meeting my father. I've known Carol and them all for a while now. It only proved to show how little my fathers know about me.
"Well" My daddy smiled "We're going to go finish our movie. It was nice meeting you all"
Taking my dad's hand in his the two left the kitchen in silence going back into the living. Letting go of Finn's hand I dropped it and picked up my hot chocolate again, taking a sip. Not saying at anything I sat on Quinn's lap as Sam took a seat at the table.
"So you've never met her dad's before" Noah laughed hopping up on my counter top "That's lame dude"
"We never really come to her house" Finn shrugged "We usually go to mine."
"You guys know how my dad's are" I whispered leaning in to talk to them all "I haven't really been as close as I have always been with them. It's weird talking to them now about things. Now enough of this talk, get drinking and warmed up to go outside because I have my revenge to avenge"
Laughing I looked around the room to see Finn standing there silently just sipping on his hot boys put on their snow gear and went to make their way out the front door but I caught Finn's arm pulling him back.
"Sorry it was so weird earlier. I didn't even think about it and I know I should have introduced you to my fathers earlier on but you know how it is with them." Placing a light hand on his arm making sure to receive eye contact, which I did
"Yeah I know" He smiled "I get it, it's fine. It was that bad anyway"
Ecstatic at the fact that he really wasn't all that upset that I thought he was I gave him a hug "You are the best!"
"Yeah well that's what they all say" He winked, lifting me up carrying me to my jacket by the front door. The girls were already outside with the boys. Taking a peek around the corner my dad's were focused on the TV so I took the chance by wrapping my feet around his waist. Tightening his grip on me I wrapped my arms tightly around his neck bringing him much closer to me. Just the way I liked it.
"I am totally going to cream you in a snowball fight" I whispered, smiling at him as I leaned my head against his forehead
"No way babe" Finn shook his head "Us boys got this one in the bag."
"You wish" Spanking his butt, his looked up with a raised eyebrow and that playful smirk but I jumped down pulling on all my clothes. "We'll see"
Running out into the backyard tackling Quinn and Kurt to the ground giggling as Kurt complained about how his hair was going to get wet. I would't trade my friends in for anything.
No worries on the dad/daddy/Finn/Rachel they will have more in later chapters. I hope everyone liked this one. It's really long. Oops =D
But let's get real here for a second OH MY GOD THE NEW EPISODE WAS AMAZING! Seriously RIB and the new writers did and AMAZING job with sticking to their word on it being back to basics. I was so proud watching the episode. The relationship/characters were so amazingly written. I was in awe. Just amazing. Their was character development, Wemma, Finchel, Klaine, just everything. No complaints who-so-ever. I loved every minute of it. LOL did you guy's see during YCSTB when there is a shot of Brittany like cross eyed, so funny. The Hummelberry frienship is so cute. Finchel in background :T-Rex eating the Jew was HILARIOUS. Brittany finding 'pepperoni in her bra' that Santana had to explain was a nipple. Oh my gosh, too much for me to handle. Simply amazing. Quinn's character, the fact that Santana referred Q/B/S as the HOLY TRINITY was hilarious. Trolls much? lol Blaine tranferring, Lindsey's number was right on the spot, she did amazing. The food fight, Kurt on the floor sliding covering himself with a tray and Brittany dancing in it. Too much awesome-ness. I must stop.
Thank you for those who reviewed for the last chapter! I am writing a super long one-shot so look out for that soon. Other than that, please review.
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