A/N: Firstly I just wanted to thank everyone who rated/reviewed my story so far - this is by far the most response I've ever recieved for a story so its dantastic I LOVE YOU ALL. Secondly does anyone know a college that isn't that fantastic but that someone like Puck could get into with lots of help from Quinn and Rachel? I don't live in America so I don't know that many...

Thanks again :D Happy Reading

Disclaimer: I do not own the awesomeness that is Glee. Yet.

Valentines Day; Rachel's least favorite day of the year. She used to love it but now she celebrated alone. Anthony took Mercedes out for dinner, Kurt was still being distant (but he'd be hanging with Blaine anyway…). Shelby was going out for dinner with Mr. Schuester so she stayed home alone (even her dad's went out to dinner).

It was eight and she had finished all her homework. She was facebooking when she got the following chat message:

Home alone?

She answered Jesse's message with

Yes

Suddenly Jesse went offline. She sighed and closed her laptop. She headed downstairs to see if there was anything on television when there was a knock on her door.

It was Jesse carrying a picnic basket

"Facebook mobile is very handy" Was his only explanation

And just like that they spread out the picnic blanket in the living room and sat down to home cooked vegetable lasagna (Rachel's favorite). And they talked. They hadn't really had a chance to talk since the holidays, since Jesse had been so busy with Kurt and Rachel had been so busy with Shelby. It was the best night Rachel had, had in ages.

They were halfway through desert (strawberry cheesecake) when the doorbell rang. Rachel hopped up to answer it to see her fathers. They were pretty surprised to see Jesse there but smiled and greeted him happily. They were heading upstairs but Jesse convinced them to join them.

And all together they stayed up late watching Funny Girl which even her dad's could quote (much to Jesse's amusement). And halfway through the movie Rachel got a text message from Shelby saying

WILL PROPOSED!

And Rachel was happy for them. She felt like her family circle was just as it should be. And there was only one more thing she could ask for… but she needed to focus on Regionals for now… what was the rush? They had their whole future together. And when Jesse smiled at her she was sure that it would be worth the wait. And she knew, just with a glance, that Jesse thought the same thing.

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After Valentines Day they were back to work. Rachel had nearly perfected her song and with just a month before the competition she knew that she, Kurt and Mercedes would have to show each other their songs and work on them together.

They decided on that Saturday. Rachel was very nervous and she knew the others would be too. But what if they were better than her?

That Saturday could only be described as epic. Attending rehearsal was Rachel, Kurt, Mercedes (of course), the other ND members (Finn, Puck, Quinn, Sam, Santana, Brittany, Mike, Artie, Tina, Sam), Mr. Schuester, Shelby, Jesse, Blaine and Mercedes' vocal coach, Penelope.

They had figured out that Mercedes would have the opening act. She told them that she didn't need/want any choreography and that she would start on stage with just a single spotlight on her. She then sang them her song. They were all awestruck. She was just as amazing as Rachel had expected.

Next to perform was Kurt. He was using the ND members as back up dancers and Mike and Brittany had a main solo dance. His song was breathtaking and Rachel had tears in her eyes at the end. It was amazing. Blaine and Jesse had done well.

Rachel was last to perform (she was thrilled to have scored the finale number). She sang her song with all she had and she knew it paid off. The look on Kurt's, Mercedes', Jesse's, Blaine's, Schue's and Penelope's faces said that much. The other ND members had already heard her of course and backed her up with their epic dance routine by Shelby. When it was over they all clapped hard for her and Shelby looked very pleased.

"So we still have to work Kurt and Mercedes into that one" Shelby explained

So they got to work, teaching Rachel and Mercedes the choreography for Kurt's dance which only took about an hour, and then Shelby taught Mercedes and Kurt the dance for Rachel's number (which took the rest of the day).

After practice Rachel approached Kurt

"Hey Kurt" She smiled "I know things have been a little awkward between us since this scholarship thing but I don't want it to be like this. Do you want to see a movie tomorrow?" She asked hopefully

"Sorry, can't." He offered her a small smile before turning on his heel. She sighed deeply. The last thing she wanted was to lose her best friend… but she didn't know how to find him.

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The date for Mr. Schuester and Shelby's wedding was set for a week after Regionals. Rachel, who had appointed herself chief wedding planner was busy juggling exams, glee and the wedding planning. She was a little worn out…

Shelby had asked her to be chief bridesmaid, an honor Rachel had gleefully accepted. Jesse was to be Mr. Schuester's best man. Shelby and Will decided that they wanted a musical wedding, similar, but bigger to the Hummel/Hudson wedding.

The Glee Club would perform as Shelby walked down the aisle, then Rachel was singing their first dance, Rachel and Jesse were supposed to have a duet and the Glee Club were performing again at the reception.

Everything had to be perfect… and time was running out

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