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The glee club (New directions) will be in the next chapter and in the future. I will write them and everything, but I got some help from my friends x snow- pony x for names, ages and celebrity look alike's.

This chapter like really is weird because it's like. What on earth will happen to Aiden when Will goes to work? Or will he just stay home? And.. Small things like that who one wouldn't think actually matters but it has to matter really. And in the middle of it all Aiden just turned up and this is really a whole big mess. I hope you like it.

One hour after Aiden had turned up and he had told me who he was we still sat at the bench in the hallway staring onto one another.

"They're all in bed now." Sam said as he came out from Daniel and Lily's room. "I guess…. Do you want me to stay until Emma's back?"

"Actually…" I looked to Aiden, thought about myself, looked to the clock and then looked at Sam. "Actually, can you stay for a moment. I'll tell you if you can leave but…"

"That's okay Will… Hey. I'm Sam, Sam I am." Sam held out his hand to Aiden who didn't take it. "No? Well. You said you were Aiden, and you're Mr. Schue's son and… I'm confused."

As if I was confused any less.

"I was together with your mum quite a while ago Aiden. And. Sam, I moved away from her during the first year of glee club, it's quite a long story but…" I counted on my fingers. "…it doesn't suit."

Suddenly another time passed in my mind, that time I was out with the flu and Terri came to "help". That I had said it was a mistake but it was already done.

"Is that her who was going to do as Sue Sylvester told us and just crash a whole concert and get us the wrong plane tickets…. And then ended up paying for the right ones for us all?"

"That's her."

Now thinking about it, she must have been pregnant at the time. I knew some women who were pregnant barely showed at all but she must have showed a lot less than she did with that fake- pregnancy- pad.

Now her moving away made so much more sense.

If I had ever known.

Well, I knew now. But what was I supposed to do?

But one thing I knew, Terri would not have agreed to this. Not in a million years.

I wanted to know my son. What was I supposed to do?

"Have you told your mum about coming here?"

I knew that look on his face very well…

"So where does she think you are?"

"At a music- Christmas- camp and living at Aunt Kendra's and Uncle Phil's."

"And where do they think you are?"

"Do you think I'm willing to live in the same house as Kyle, Josh and Max for a month?"

Not that I did but…

"I'll call her tomorrow. Okay?" Aiden said- I wasn't quite happy with that answer. "Look! I know very well that if she found out about this she'd pick me right up and never let me out of her sight again. But that music camp she was okay with. I can find a way to trick her. Please?"

How on earth was I supposed to say no to those puppy eyes?

"Okay." I said at last and Aiden breathed out. "But what date is this "camp" supposed to be?"

"Until a concert on New Year's Eve."

"What are you supposed to do then?"

"Have the flu… I'm quite a good actor you know."

He got that from his mum. While that musical side- from me.

Five minutes must have passed when I and Aiden just sat there and stared each other into the eyes, barely knowing about Sam or anything else in the world around.

"You guys." Sam said at last. "You can't sit here all evening. You've eaten dinner Will but you… Aiden… is there anything I can do for you?"

"I'm hungry. I haven't had anything to eat since yesterday."

Thank God! That would be something that couldn't cause a thickness in the air that could be cut through with a knife.

"I'm vegetarian."

I guess it could.

"Do you eat, like eggs and cheese and milk?"

"Yes, yes and yes. I'm vegetarian. Not vegan."

I showed him into the kitchen and Sam went after.

"Should I take your jacket and shoes, do you want to keep your bag?"

"NO." Aiden shouted and span around towards the older boy. "My jacket and my bag stays with me. Okay?"

"No worries." Sam held up his hands in surrender. "But you should at least take your shoes off." I looked down and had to agree, his sneakers looked as if they had been white but were ragged and muddy and the mud would be spread all over the flat- I didn't like it but Emma would freak out.

With a sigh Aiden sighed and left the sneakers right where he stood, I looked to Sam for some help, he sighed, shrugged and took the shoes and took them into the hallway. No point with making a fuss today already.

Especially not any worse when I found both the fridge and freezer, along with all the cupboards were as good as empty.

"Here." I grabbed a menu from Breadstix from a shelf (too high for the children to reach). "Order what you want. But don't tell the kids about it."

Don't tell the kids.

How long until he was one of the kids? One of the kids I loved more than anything else in the world but… he was as much a kid as Daniel, the twins, Lily or baby Logan.

Everything seemed weirdly silent again when we sat by the kitchen table and the only sound were Aiden chewing and the wheezing from a cola bottle. These weren't the things I let the kids have more than on the weekends but this was an exception.

This was a very strange exception.

"Hello." Emma came in smiling and stopped abruptly. She looked to Aiden, with his mouth full of pizza and cola he nodded at her and she turned to me in confusion, confusion as if it was contagious in this place.

"Emma, this is my son Aiden. Aiden, this is my wife Emma."

Emma didn't look any less confused. And neither did I feel.

"Terri's his mum… it was before we met."

Emma seemed to relax slightly, so would I had I come home to the surprise she had had a child for years that I didn't even know about.

"Well, Aiden? Emma smiled politely at him, then sat down next to me. "What brings you here today?"

"'e iff…"

"You'll have to swallow before you speak."

"He is my dad." Aiden pointed at me, and even after this whole evening the words made me feel uneasy. "I thought maybe I could come here and finally meet him without you throwing me out on the street."

"Of course we won't throw you out on the street." I promised. "Not tonight at least." I blinked- even though I didn't feel like the joke. "Not ever… This whole thing was just a great surprise. I didn't even know you existed until an hour ago."

He had my eye color…

"Well, I guess it's sorted for tonight." Emma told me, acting like Aiden wasn't in the room at all. "What about tomorrow and Friday?"

I hadn't even thought about tomorrow since I left work early today to take Daniel to his basketball practice...

Quickly, I went through the glee clubs, concerts for Christmas, everything that was coming up.

The answer I gave and ended up made me feel bad. And I tried to comfort myself with that my other kids had come with me to work since they were newborns for a reason or the other.

"I can't miss work this close to sectionals…"

I suddenly saw in front of me how I would sit in one part of the sofa and him in the other and no idea what to say. And stuck on the same spot at the end of the day as in the morning.

Maybe it was just for the best if we got out instead of being awkward towards one another.

And besides, except for my family, the school and how I had built it up was the most important in my life.

"Wait…" Sam looked around. "Where'd he go?"

Now I thought about it, I hadn't even noticed Aiden leaving the table. But the plate with the pizza crusts laid on the table with the glass.

"Maybe he went to the bathroom or some…"

I would have continued that sentence if I hadn't heard the sound of streaming on a guitar from my and Emma's bedroom. There was one guitar in the room and besides that Logan who was sleeping in his cot.

Well, babies could always sleep through a third world war, a storm and an earthquake all at once but I didn't want to wake him up now he finally slept.

"Don't…" He looked up from the guitar when I called out for him coming into the bedroom. "…Don't touch that guitar. There are two in the music room, you can use those all you want but not… not this one."

"Whose are these?"

I took the guitar and ran a hand over the so-called autographs written all over it.

"Autographs from my original glee club members… Or from the ones from all the first three years… Rachel, Kurt, Santana…" Sadly I ran a finger on one clumsily written at the bottom. "...Finn. Come here." I put the guitar down and showed Aiden out of the room, through the house and to the music room. "You can practically beat on the drums as hard as you can and it won't be heard anything out to the rest of the house… So at this time of day when the kids are asleep, keep it in here." I gestured over the whole lot of different instruments of guitars, a piano, all kinds of computer programs and watched him as he took it all in.

"I'm sorta tired." He said at last. "Can I sleep in here?"

"No." I had to laugh. "You'll have to sleep on the couch for tonight, tomorrow we'll sort something else out if we can. That does mean…" I found Sam in the hallway where he was taking his jacket on. "…That you're taking Sam's place." I patted his shoulder. "See you tomorrow."

"Dude." Sam looked down on the younger boy. "You have the best dad ever."

"Aw." I laid a hand over my heart and pushed him jokingly. "You're making me blush…" Sam left without another word but glancing at Aiden. "Well… We have the spare bed sheets here so we'll just put them on the couch. Do you have a pyjamas with you?"

Not until now it hit me that whatever Aiden had brought with him it must have fit into the backpack he carried. And it didn't even look full.

"No."

"Hmmm…" I looked him up and down, he might be short for his age but Daniel's clothes would still be too little. "Can you borrow a T- shirt and a pair of shorts from me for tonight and we'll sort out something else tomorrow?"

"Okay… As for the clothes. And yeah…" he suddenly had a weird look in his eyes. "The sofa's fine. You don't need to cause a big fuss over me. I'll be fine sleeping on the floor even."

"You won't have to." I got the spare sheets from a cupboard in the hallway. "You're my child and that's enough for not making you sleep on the floor." Aiden didn't answer. "Is there anything else you'd like to say or ask?... actually. I have one question- did Terri ever have any other kids except for you."

"No…. Just me… She had a couple of boyfriends but… anyway. I noticed I have quite a few siblings here. What are their names? How old are they… oh… and I just wanted to say that if you want a DNA test done to make sure I'm your son then I'll do it."

With those curls and those eyes I could be pretty sure without a DNA test.

"I'm sure we can do without that… And as for your siblings there's Daniel at seven and a half, the twins at six, Lily at two and Logan three months."

Aiden looked thoughtful as he helped me put a sheet over the sofa cushions. But now I thought about it he actually had looked like that through all the evening.

All of a sudden I couldn't wait to know this kid. I hadn't gotten to know the first ten years of his life. I hadn't known his likes and dislikes, his personality away from us, what he wondered about and what he knew like the back of his hand.

"I always wondered what it was like having a twin" He said after some thinking. "Always being mentioned at just that- the twins. The same birthday and everything…"

"The names are Zach and Joseph. Well, Zachary actually but we only call him that when he's in trouble."

I smiled but Aiden didn't. Suppressing another sigh I went into my bedroom and got a pair of shorts and a T- shirt of the biggest and softest sizes I had.

"Is there anything else you'd like? A shower maybe?" Aiden shrugged, then nodded- I was pretty sure from the smell only and picked out a towel from another cupboard.

"It's late. Have a shower and then go to… sofa. And if there's anything you need tonight…" I showed him to the bathroom. "Don't be afraid to come and wake me up."

Something flashed by in his eyes too.

I had seen the look in his eyes before… Not in his eyes but that look.

As if whatever happened I could make anything and everything in the whole wide world go away and protect him.

"My god." I mumbled to myself. "What happened to you? It wasn't Terri, was it?"

I'm not sure if it makes sense that Mr. Schue goes to McKinley and lets Aiden stay in his office rather than stay home. But it's just the way it has to be.

Random fact

It really does seem weird that they keep saying such every- day- things like food or telling one to take his shoes off inside. But you also have to remember that there are a lot of words spoken only in the way they look at each other and I hope you can see it in front of you like I can.