Sorry for not updating. This crazy writer's block just won't leave me be.
I've done this twice before years ago. After I'd been bad with updating I wrote one new chapter for each and every story. Then left it until I had finished them all and updated all stories at once. I've decided to do that same thing again and hopefully that will make a change as of how much I'll be able to update more afterwards… I guess only time will show. I hope you like this chapter.
"Then let's go." At the end of the I and Aiden were leaving McKinley. "Time for a shopping round to get you some more clothes. Is there anything else you'd like?"
"It's not my birthday until in July."
"I figured." I pulled on my own jacket. "It would. But we could still get some shirts and some pairs of jeans so at least you'll have enough to stay without having to go naked."
Aiden rolled his eyes at me and didn't seem to find my bad dad- joke funny at all.
"I just have to go into the choir room for one second. You can wait here in the hallway if you want to."
Aiden just shrugged but did follow me into the choir room. Well in there we found all of the New Directions fully into their rehearsal. I went to look at what it actually was Amy and Vee had planned earlier while Aiden pulled up his phone and photographed the piano.
"What?" He questioned when he saw me looking at him. "I'm supposed to be at a music camp. I need something to prove it."
"What do we have here?" Suddenly we had one of the members right by us and with my back against him I recognized the voice, rolled my eyes and knew he had something to say. "You're… You're not Daniel. We met Daniel. He had red hair… Who are you exactly?"
Aiden put his phone away and didn't answer. He looked towards me but I wasn't so sure what to answer either. I would like to have let the thought really sunk in before I told everyone about it.
And if I told Tom Winchester about it everyone would know in a matter of a few seconds.
"Can you at least tell me your name?"
"This…." I patted his shoulder. "Is Aiden. Aiden Del Monico."
None of these would ever know I had been together with Terri Del Monico so I could as well use it.
"And who is Aiden Del Monico?" Tom raised an eyebrow and I noticed that among more than thirty students in the glee club he was the only one who had spoken since I and Aiden came in.
That might or might not be when Tom had started coming no one would interrupt.
He was quite alike Rachel Berry… Only, worse. Way worse. But there must be something else with him and that's why we'd let him join New Directions instead of Duly Noted…
Miracles would happen, but not today.
"Who are you?" Tom asked again, ruder this time. "Are you one of those crazy smart kids that will graduate at eleven." He waited in the silence. "Are you? Because you don't look anywhere old enough to be in high school…"
"Actually." Amy started. "I'd like to know too. And I think all of us in here would like it but… You don't have to tell us if you don't want to… Actually. I think would be quite… cool if we had one of those students at McKinley of all places…"
"Can you blame me for only wanting an answer?" Tom spat. "Don't care about Amy. She's way too kind for her own best… And not that Jonas looks old enough to be a high school student neither…"
"HEY." The younger boy felt very insecure about looking younger than he actually was. "What have I said about saying anything about that."
Tom snorted at the younger boy. But I also knew that Tom could be well rude, and if he wasn't at the start then it was probably close.
"Only one more thing before glee club starts… The only thing I hate more than seeing a person wearing an animal." Tom grabbed Aiden's jacket slightly. "Is seeing a person wearing two animals."
Aiden only glared back at Tom and pulled his shoulder so Tom would let it go.
"They're fake."
Tom snorted at him and didn't seem to believe in him. But before he had the time to say anything Vee had had the time to interrupt.
"YOU SEE EVERYONE." She shouted—she was the only one in here. The only one at the whole school who had found a way to interrupt Tom. "I and Amy came up with a choreography that we just have to show you. And we just have to use it for sect…"
"How are we going to change the choreography now. With only one week left we're going to be mess…"
"Shut it Thomas Winchester."
Vee was always the one who dared speaking to Tom like that. And Tom would never protest against her. Yet no one had ever seen just her get angry or throw a fit…
"You know in the part like this… na-na- na." She showed the dancing as well as she could and Amy came and joined her. "And then na- na."
Siobhan and Jonas had joined and it looked like more of them were about to join. I nodded to Aiden and while the New Directions kept planning for sectionals that was taking place here at McKinley next Friday.
"Just like I told you earlier." I said while I and Aiden made our way through the hallways. "I love this school. I love all of the clubs and especially the glee club. But the new directions will always have a special place in my heart. That's where I started you know. And I definitely started from square one."
"Mum said that was when your relationship started going downhill."
And still, after all of these years Terri would have found a way to blame things on me.
"Our relationship started going downhill way before glee club. For a lot of reasons… Maybe we just weren't meant to be together because none of us were actually really happy together- ever."
"So do you really believe that?"
"That we weren't happy together?"
"No. I meant that there's a meaning with things that happen or don't happen…"
I had to silent for a bit, and meanwhile we had gotten into my car and were on a good way towards downtown.
"I guess…" I started at last. "I guess I do. I guess I do believe that somewhere out there there's a meaning with what we do or don't. I guess I've believed that there must be… what about you?"
"No."
Aiden's look spoke all about how he didn't want to talk about that anymore. And once again I just wanted to ask him about everything. Make him tell me everything that had happened. Call up Terri and ask her what she had done and why…
"Here…" I gestured to one store. "They sell a whole load of things that suits for dancing. Both CD's and clothes and everything."
"I know. I heard about this… I passed a few times but I never went into the store. Too expensive."
"Don't worry about the prices." I led him into the store before he had the chance to protest. "We can deal with it. And after all- I have the first ten years of your life to get back at… See anything you like?"
Aiden shrugged, but watched around and while I went in one direction of the store he went in the other and before anything I found a pair of overall jeans that Lily would look adorable in. Well, she looked adorable in everything we put on her but I looked for a pair that was a size or two too big for her so they wouldn't be too small in a month and then took them in one hand.
Just as I did I saw a pair of jeans that would fit Zach- he had pretty much ragged down all pants he owned or they were too short for him so I took them too.
This was one problem with having more than one child. If I went shopping for one I would always find a bunch of things for the other ones. Even now when Aiden had arrived yesterday and everything I ended up finding clothes for the other ones…
"Hey." At last I found something for Aiden and found him in the mess of shelves and people and held up a black hoodie, he pulled off his own jacket and tried it on. "This one would suit you wouldn't it? See? It's got a print on the back." He took it and pulled up the zipper. "Fits you perfectly." I read the print again.
Boys dance too
"Look." Aiden pulled the hoodie off again and closed the zipper. "I don't exactly want to shout out to the whole world that I like dancing. So please stop trying to make me."
"I…" I stuttered. "I… I wasn't trying to make you. I promise." I hung the hoodie back on its hook. "Can you see anything else you like?" Aiden shrugged and looked around. "
"I like that one." He took another hoodie- checkered in black and white. "And this one." A T- shirt with a print that said MTV.
"Just try on and we'll get what you like."
A few hours later when we arrived home Emma had just arrived and was cooking and I and Aiden had several plastic bags from the mall. Daniel looked quite envyingly.
If anyone would have asked me how people would react if a new brother would suddenly turn up I probably would have guessed for stronger reactions. Daniel obviously wasn't happy and that had been since he found out this morning Aiden had eaten pizza last night, and now I could see the look on his face when we came back…
It probably wasn't so much about the clothes. But all the kids longed for some alone- time with me and Emma. Especially Daniel who had been bullied a lot in school and didn't have many friends, sometimes when we watched TV or just listened to a song together I could see that look in his eyes…
With five kids, whereas one just a baby, a full- time job, Emma spending her days with Logan…
Daniel had every right to be jealous of Aiden.
And even more so when I started again.
"I think that Sam would like to reclaim his sleeping spot on the sofa and we're going to have to find another spot for you Aiden. I was thinking… Daniel, w have a camping bed there to put so you could sleep on it in between us painting and getting you a real bed. Maybe Aiden could use that one- just for now. So that Sam can also stay. Is that okay with you?"
"Yes." Daniel's eyes said something completely different than his words and I hated to admit I ignored it. "Of course that's okay."
"Aiden. That would mean you get some time of your own. And I figure that could be what you need." Aiden nodded. "So for now you'll have to keep sharing with Lily, Daniel, the twins will as usual have their own room and Logan will still be in with us."
I thought out loud and mumbled as I went into our storage room and found the foldable camping bed.
I wasn't even sure why we'd gotten it. The only one who ever stayed with us was Sam and he was perfectly happy with that. Daniel could use his own bed at all times if we just moved it out of his room while we painted and everything…
Speaking of Sam- I could use his help with moving this…
"Hey Mr. Schue."
I was very well surprised when I heard Sam's voice. Well that he was here every other day anyway but for him to just turn up when he was needed…
"Can you help me with carrying this?"
But all the time I did I heard the promise I had made Daniel when he didn't want to move from our old flat and here.
"We can make the attic into one bedroom and you can have that all to yourself instead of having to share with the twins."
Random fact
This story isn't going as well as I hoped and thought it would.
Sixth chapter finished for my update-all-of-my-stories-at-the-same-time-project. Only four left.
