Mikki belongs to KikiJuanita, as I have been given permission to use her. Seb refers to Sebastian Smythe. I have went with the decision to make him straight in this fix, I am sorry if that offends you or if you don't like it. Not only is this Fan fiction but an AU story, where I can write each character as I see fit.
I have the next few chapters already written but they need to be altered and that will take me sometime to do so as most of what I have written will need to be taken out completely and the chapters redone from scratch.
With that being said, enjoy!
Rachel was sitting in the middle of her bed, Beth playing with her toys in front of Rachel as she looked for a song to sing for that week in Glee. Iconic songs was the category. There were so many to choose from, that she was having trouble figuring out the perfect song to sing. Beth's squeal brought her attention away from the screen on her laptop to play with her sister. Rachel more than eager to take a break from the glow of the screen and the agony of finding the perfect song.
"Isn't this quite the scene," Puck smirked, walking into Rachel's room. A scene he could never grow tired of seeing. His two girls.
"What are you doing here? Not that I'm complaining…" She was cut off by Puck's lips crashing against her own.
"My cousin came for a visit; you remember Mikki?" He questioned, picking Beth up, tickling her tummy. He adored hearing the little girl's laughter; it had to be the best sound in the world. Rachel nodded her head, placing her laptop off to the side. It had been a few years since she has last seen Mikki. "I was telling her about Beth, and she wanted to see her, that is okay, right?" He questioned with a pout.
"Of course it is," Rachel smiled, running a hand through her sister's hair. It always warmed her heart to see Beth so happy.
"Sweet," he smiled, heading to the living room, Rachel behind him. Seeing Mikki had to wait as there was a knock on the door.
"Hey Rachel, is your Dad in?" Blaine asked, entering the house, flustered about something.
"No, he went out, won't be home for another hour; Leroy is out back, if you want to talk to him," she informed him, shutting the door.
"I don't think he can help me," Blaine stated with a sigh. He had talked to them to better understand his feelings, and they had helped him embrace those feelings. Now he was confused on what he was feeling and how he should proceed forward with those feelings. As far as he knew Hiram was the only guy, he knew that had gone through what he was currently going through.
"Oh," Rachel replied. "Why don't you stay then, come in and meet Noah's cousin," she offered, following Blaine from the entryway to the living room.
"Dude you okay?" Puck asked, seeing Blaine looking a little pale. Blaine nodded his head, giving Puck a fake smile. "Alright," he said not convinced one-bit, something was off with him. He wasn't the best of friends or even a friend to Blaine, but he could still tell something was off with the guy. "This is my cousin Mikki," he said, knowing better than to use her given name of Mikayla. "This is Blaine," he said, taking a fussy Beth from his cousin. "What does the little one need? Huh?" He questioned with a smile.
"Food, would be my guess," Mikki quipped out with an innocent enough smile. Puck was going to say something, luckily enough for him, his girlfriend's voice rang out.
"Mikki would be right," Rachel smiled, leading her boyfriend into the kitchen to get something for Beth to eat.
"What's with Blaine?" Puck asked, placing Beth in her highchair. Rachel shrugged, saying that Blaine was looking for her father and that Leroy wouldn't be a help to him with whatever was going on with him, while she was getting Beth's food ready. "Weird," he said, making a face at Beth, making her laugh. "They should get on well enough; they both go to private schools," he commented, stealing a bite of Beth's food.
Rachel laughed, putting the banana pieces on the tray for Beth to pick up with her fingers. "You do know that has nothing to do with them getting along, right?" She questioned him, offering him the food to feed Beth, he gladly accepted. Puck rolled his eyes. "I can't believe she is going to be two," Rachel commented.
"Don't even remind me," he hushed her. "We just celebrated her 1st birthday a few months back." They kept it low key, just Rachel's family and Puck's family. A few members of the glee club had sent presents but respected the wishes of it being a family party. They had Skyped with Shelby, not leaving her out.
Back in the living room things weren't so sweet as they were in the kitchen. Blaine went even paler seeing Mikki standing in the Berry's house.
"You know Rachel and Noah," she commented, no need for it to be a question; it was obvious. There was no way that she was going to call her older cousin Puck, she refused to do that, much like Rachel had.
"You happen to be Puck's cousin, my problems are solved saying he will kill me," Blaine dryly laughed. Waiting for someone to jump out and yell got you or the second option of the floor opening up and swallowing him whole. Neither one looked as if it was going to happen.
"My cousin is the least of your worries, what about your best friend, the one that happens to be my boyfriend?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Shit," he cursed. "You told him?" Blaine asked, his eyes growing huge.
Mikki laughed, shaking her head. "As I would be that mean," she stated. "I tell him what happened between us, more than just you will be getting hurt, Blaine. Besides it was nothing, just a drunken mistake. You are gay and I am not, so nothing could happen between us other than being friends," she told him. It wasn't right to keep it from her boyfriend; she didn't have an excuse for kissing another guy, didn't matter if he was into guys or girls, it was wrong of her, and she had to live with that. She was the one ticked off with her boyfriend; she was at fault for what she did, but no way would she come out and tell him, it was one thing he didn't need to know.
"Right," Blaine agreed, running a hand through his curly hair; he left the hair gel out from his brown curls, since it was the weekend. He felt like crap for lying to two guys whom he was close to. "The kiss was wrong and lying to them is worse yet," he sighed.
"You can tell your little boyfriend for all I care, but it is one of those things that mean nothing, and it will remain that way, Blaine. Even so, I will not let my relationship fall apart because I was being stupid," she hissed, poking his chest.
"Do you have that little of faith in your bond with your boyfriend? If that is the case, you shouldn't be with him," Blaine retorted.
"You know nothing, Blaine," she yelled, storming out the door.
Puck rushed out from the kitchen to see what was going on. With a sigh he turned to Rachel, kissing her, telling her, he would talk to her later and went after his cousin to figure things out.
"Care to explain?" Rachel asked, sitting down with Beth in her lap.
"It's nothing," he sighed, falling to the chair, he was closest to. "Obviously, it's something, but I messed up," he told her. "Long story short, I was at a party; punch was spiked; I kissed Mikki, and now I am questioning everything," he told her the key points. "I will talk to Kurt about it, don't worry about that," he tacked on.
"I wasn't worried about that, Blaine. I'm worried about you because you are my friend too," she assured him. "That is quite the problem, is that why you are waiting on my Dad?"
"Yeah, Hiram was with your mom before he was with Leroy, figured he was my best bet," he explained.
"He will be," Rachel smiled. "How are you liking McKinley?" She asked him, seeing that he needed to focus on other things.
From there they fell into an easy fun conversation about school and glee, Blaine already knowing what song he was going with but refused to tell Rachel what song it was, told her it was a song by Prince.
When Hiram walked through the door, they were talking along with the TV as Beth was watching one of her kid shows. Hiram found it quite the sight to see. Hiram invited Blaine to stay for dinner, and afterwards they would have a chat in private.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Puck asked, hearing Mikki's side of the story on what went down with Blaine.
"I was drunk, so I wasn't thinking," she stated in a duh tone.
"You never drink, so what happened, Mikki?" He asked gentler this time. When they got back to Puck's place, the house was empty, a note telling them they would be back shortly with groceries for dinner.
"A fight, and spiked punch," she told him, like he should know that with as many times as he has spiked punch at parties.
"I don't see why you thought it was okay to kiss a gay guy for," he sighed, leaning back on the couch. "What about Seb?"
"For one, it wouldn't go any further than that kiss right there. There is nothing to tell him. The kiss was nothing; I wasn't on speaking terms with Seb at the time, I can't even tell you if I was still with him at that point."
"I'm not making you do shit you don't want to do. Who you tell is your business," he shrugged.
A few days later saw Puck taking Beth to the park Jake joining them. Rachel was going to finish her homework and join them at the park later in the day. She finished her homework in record time since she wasn't chasing after Beth while doing it.
"You're home early," Rachel commented, seeing her brother in his room.
"Looking for something then I'm off to practice with my voice coach," he explained. Rachel looked at him confused, this was the first time she had heard of Clint having a voice coach. "I did what you said to do, I signed up for tryouts and made the soccer team and glee club. Coach wants me to practice with Jesse St. James twice a week," he explained further, dashing out of the house, not seeing the look of horror on his sister's face with that piece of information.
Shaking herself from her stupor, she headed downstairs, getting what she needed to meet her sister and boyfriend at the park. She stopped short pulling the front door open to see Mikki on the other side ready to ring the doorbell.
"What can I do for you Mikki?" She asked.
"Do you have a minute?" Mikki asked, her nerves coming out in soft waves. Rachel nodded, letting her enter the house. Walking to the living room, Rachel sent Noah a text telling him she was going to be a few minutes late and that something came up.
"What's on your mind, Mikki?" Rachel questioned, watching Mikki pace around the living room, running a hand through her hair. Rachel could sense that it was something serious.
"When you lived in New York and you and Noah were whatever it was, did you have the urge to be with someone else?" She rambled out, feeling less like her normal confident self.
"When I was in New York, I was free to do what I wanted with whom I pleased. The thing with Noah was a summer fling. I was under no, ill illusions on what was going on here with him while I was back home. There may have been one or two people I was dating, but it was never serious, not like it is with your cousin. What is this about?" She asked, sitting down, motioning for Mikki to do the same. She was not going to come out and say she knew what was going on, it wouldn't do anyone any good.
"I may have kissed Blaine at a party," she relented, sitting on the edge of the couch, her head in her hands. "The problem is that he is right about everything," she sighed. "He is gay and in a relationship not to mention that I have my own boyfriend, who just so happens to be Blaine's friend. I know what needs to be done, but I don't," she laughed. "If that makes sense."
"It does," Rachel told her, putting a reassuring hand on her arm. "I know it will be hard and scary, but you need to tell your boyfriend what happened, and things with Blaine aren't as lost as they may seem. However, you do need to take a minute and figure your own feelings out," Rachel stated. "It'll be fine," Rachel said, getting up. "Now come on, you can come to the park and enjoy the day with family and get your mind off of everything," Rachel suggested in more of a demanding tone, not going to take no for an answer.
They walked the short distance to the park, laughing about the little things along the way, mostly stories to do with Noah as a child, Mikki had plenty of them to share. The laughter died on Rachel's lips to see the scene in front of her.
"What's going on?" Rachel asked, none too pleased to see Quinn sitting next to her boyfriend. She wasn't jealous. Everything that Noah was when she lived in the city was just that, she had complete and utter trust in him, not to mention the faith she had in her boyfriend.
"She's ready to be a part of Beth's life. She has come to the terms that she doesn't need to fill a roll when it comes to Beth, she just wants to know Beth and how special that little girl is," Noah filled her in.
"I don't want to be anything to her other than a friend, Rachel. I have come to terms about it all. And I am ready to play a role in her life, if you let me," Quinn told her.
"I trusted you once and that came back around to bite me. This is the last chance I am giving you. As Beth's sister, I won't stand by and watch her get hurt numerous times by her biological mother," Rachel stated.
"Thank you," Quinn said, getting up. "You won't regret it this time," she smiled, looking at the playground where Jake was playing with a laughing Beth.
"Go," Rachel told her, sitting down next to Noah, resting her head on his shoulder.
"This is a good thing, Rach," he told her, kissing the top of her head. "What's with you?" He asked, looking at his cousin.
"Telling Rachel stories of how you once wore parts of your potty chair as a hat when you were little," Mikki smirked. She laughed under her breath hearing him growl lowly. "Don't deny it, there are pictures," she laughed.
"Just you wait; I will get you back for that, Mikayla," he warned. "You just won't know when," he smirked with a laugh.
"I am shaking in my boots," she retorted with an eye roll.
"Now, now, children," Rachel piped in with a giggle.
"Do I even want to know?" Jake asked, jogging up to them. Rachel shook her head. "I've got to run," he informed them.
"I'll come with ya," Mikki said getting up. "Thanks for hearing me out, Rachel."
"It was nothing, happy to help," Rachel replied, pulling her in for a hug.
With Mikki and Jake walking off, Noah turned to Rachel, curious to know what was going on with his cousin. Rachel's reply had been girl talk; he left it at that knowing he wasn't going to be getting more from his girlfriend. They turned the topic of conversation to other things all while they listened to Beth laugh as she played with Quinn.