Our Love Was Always Forever
Chapter 17 - Party Disasters
"Morning Daddy!" Quinton heard before he turned around from his shaving and smiled at his little angel.
"Morning baby." He answered with a smile as he wiped off the cream on his face before bending down to hug her, "How did you sleep sweetie?" He asked looking to make sure that she wasn't still upset.
After the news yesterday, Lizzy had locked herself inside her room, refusing to come out. Both Jen and Quinton had took turns in sitting outside the little brunette's closed bedroom door trying to talk her into coming out but to no avail. It was after about four hours that Quinn remembered that he had the key to the bedroom door and unlocked the door only to find a sleeping child.
"Mm-hmm, it's my party today. I gotta be happy for it." She said, flashing her Daddy a smile that reminded him so much of Rachel.
"That's good to hear, now come on, let's go downstairs. I still have some people coming to drop some stuff for your party." He said as he picked Bella up in his arms and carried her out of his bedroom and downstairs where Jen was arranging a few things for the party inside the kitchen.
"Morning." Both father and daughter greeted in unison, startling the brunette who turned around to face them with a smile.
"Morning guys." Jen said with a wide smile as she walked toward the two Fabrays and gave each a kiss on the cheek, "How are you feeling princess?" she asked, stroking Bella's hair.
"Perfectly fine." She grinned as she got out of Quinn's arm and sat on the stool.
"What about you handsome?" Jen asked as she wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing his lips.
"Much better now." Quinn said with a sly grin before kissing the girl passionately.
"Ew Q, your daughter is right there." A voice called from behind them, making the couple pull away.
"Aunt Charlie!" Isabella exclaimed, getting off her stool and running toward her aunt.
"Hey baby girl." Charlie cooed as she hugged her niece, "How are you, I missed you." She added as she cradled the girl in her arms.
"I missed you too Aunt Charlie." Isabella said wrapping her arms around the blonde girl tightly.
"Quinton," She said after facing her brother, "how are you little brother?" She asked with a smile which Quinn returned.
"Hello Charlotte." Quinn said trying to keep the grin off his face but it didn't work as he moved to hug his sister.
"Dude put a shirt on will you, not everyone wants to see your body, and speaking of which. Who's the pretty lady?" She asked, raising her brow at her brother.
At the mention of her, Jen got nervous all a sudden. She had heard stories about Charlie and how much her opinion meant to Quinn. What if Charlie didn't like her? Russell and Judy already liked Jen but what if Charlie didn't?
"Chars this is Jen, my girlfriend. Jen this is Charlie, my older sister." He said, introducing the two.
"Does Santana like you?" Was all Charlie asked making Jen scrunch up her brow in confusion.
"Um yes?" She said still confused.
"Then welcome to the family." Charlie finally said as she shook the girl's hand. Jen looked at Quinn for clarification but the blonde just shook his head at his sister's antics.
"What you doing here so early Char?" Quinn asked his sister as he sat down and pulled Jen onto his lap.
"it's not that early doofus, the party is in three hours so we decided to come and get everything ready." Charlie said as she made faces at Isabella who giggled madly.
"We? Who's we?" he asked looking confused.
"Hello dear." Judy said as Russell and Mark, Charlie's husband, carried some things in for the party.
"Where do we put this?" Mark asked. Quinn stood up letting Jen down on her feet before gesturing for Mark and his dad to follow him.
"All right ladies let's get this party ready." Judy announced.
"Aunt Charlie where's Liv?" Isabella asked as the adults turned to leave.
"I'm right here little one." Isabella heard her cousin reply.
"Liv!" she exclaimed before tackling her into a hug, "Hi Ned. Hi Jake." She greeted, waving at her other two cousins.
"Hey Bells." Greeted both boys.
"Ned, come and help us set up." Charlie said, addressing her oldest son.
"Why?" The boy asked annoyed.
"Because I said so, now come on." The blonde woman answered before following after the other adults with her grumbling son behind her.
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"So what time will you be back?" Jesse asked as he sat on the bed while watching Rachel apply her makeup.
"It's only three hours so I won't be gone long." The brunette answered as she started on fixing her hair, she decided on curling it and leaving it down.
Jesse nods his head as he continued watching Rachel get ready. He hopes his plan will go smoothly by the way he has been showering the girl with affection and acting the part of doting husband. So when Rachel told him about her pupil's party, he didn't complain and automatically agreed to let her go.
"Okay all done, what do you think?" Rachel asked, standing up after she put on her shoes.
Jesse stood from where he was seating down and approached the brunette, pulling her close to him, "You look beautiful." He stated before kissing her cheek and smiling at her, "Go and have fun, you never know you might just bump into one of your old friends." he said.
"Yeah I guess." Rachel whispered, feeling guilty. Jesse was being nice and honest to her.
"What's wrong?" Jesse asked, seeing the change of demeanor on his wife's face.
"I-." Rachel thought hard for moment before smiling and shake her head "Nothing, everything is fine." She smiled and Jesse smiled back at her before pulling her into a hug.
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Meanwhile at the Fabrays, kids were running around in the massive backyard playing and screaming, others were by the trampoline, and others watch as a clown put on a show for them.
Santana looked around at all the children screaming and yelling and groaned, "This is like a day care slash nursery, my own personal hell." She stated looking at the other Gleeks.
"It's a kid's party Santana." Mercedes said as she fed Chris his bottle.
"Exactly, which is why it's like my own personal hell." The Latina stated bringing her drink up to her lips and taking a swig.
"In other words she hates kids and seeing a lot them is driving her crazy." Kurt stated.
"Damn straight." the Latina answered.
"What if Brittany wants more than one kid?" Finn questioned with his dopey smile, eyebrow raised up.
Just as Santana was about to answer when Brittany walked up to her and handed her a baby, "Baby please hold Ethan for a few minutes, I need to talk to Charlie." the blonde said handling their son over to the brunette before walking away.
"Hello handsome." Santana cooed to her boy who just smiled at her in return, "Now see I wouldn't mind making handsome babies like this." She said kissing Ethan's cheek, making the others rolled their eyes.
"Guys be careful!" Jen said as two of Isabella's friends ran pass her as she was heading toward the door. When she opened it she saw Rachel standing there "Hi, Isabella's teacher right?" The young brunette asked.
"Yup, she invited me." Rachel answered, smiling a little.
"Oh come on in." Jen said, moving out the way and letting the brunette inside the noisy house, "Everyone's out back." The brunette said smiling
"Um." All the sudden Rachel became nervous, she knew everyone would be here, well Santana and Charlie were really her only big concerns, everyone else she knew she could handle.
"Mrs. St. James you came!" Rachel turned around and smiled brightly at seeing her little girl, dressed up as a princess.
"Yeah, I promised you I would be didn't I?" The brunette said with a smile as the birthday girl hugged her.
"Come on I gotta show you my bedroom." Isabella exclaimed dragging the older brunette with her totally missing Jen's words as she lead Rachel up the stairs. "Isn't it cool?" Bella asked once they stepped in.
Rachel's breath caught in her throat at the beauty of her little girl's bedroom, she knew Quinn did this himself. He had also decorated Lizzy's nursery, "It's beautiful." She finally answered.
"Thank you, this is my favourite teddy bear. My daddy said it used to be my mom's." The six year old said as she held tightly to the brown and white teddy.
Yes Rachel remembered that teddy very well. Quinton had won it when they went to the fair when it came to Lima. She remembered seeing it on the stand and wanting it immediately and her boyfriend, always the good boyfriend that he was, won it for her. "He's beautiful sweetie." She said as Isabella went about to show her other things around her room.
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"Whoa, whoa, Jake where's Bella?" Quinton asked stopping the running boy in his tracks.
"Um, I think she went upstairs with some lady." The eleven year old answered.
"Lady?" Quinn asked raising his brow up.
"Yeah, she looks familiar though, but can't remember where I've seen her." He added before running off again.
Quinton stares up the stairs in wonder before heading up. When he reached his daughter's closed bedroom, he could hear voices coming from inside, so he pushed open the door and found Rachel and Isabella sitting on the girl's bed with Isabella leaning on Rachel's body while the brunette read to her.
"What's going on?" he asked stepping fully inside.
"Hi daddy, Mrs. St. James is reading me a book." Isabella said, eyes shining brightly with excitement.
"Ah, I see that." Quinn said looking toward Rachel as the two ex lovers eyes met, "Baby why don't you go back to the party, your guests are looking for you." He said as the little girl smiled before getting off the bed and walking back to her dad who stroked her hair on her way out.
"What you doing here Rachel?" Quinn asked as soon as Isabella was out of hearing distance.
Rachel sighed before she stood from the bed, "Isabella invited me." she answered.
"And you didn't bother contacting me to let me know?" he asked, slightly mad.
"I knew if I did you would try and stop me, I wanted to come and see her, I've missed enough of these already Quinn."
"You-." Quinn started to say but was cut off.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" The two turned around and Rachel felt uneasy by the person standing there glaring daggers at her.
"Nice to see you too Charlie." She said even though she was nervous.
"Oh really? Do you want me to show you how nice it is to see you?" The blonde woman asked, advancing toward Rachel who flinched instantly.
"Chars calm down." Quinn said, stopping his sister in her tracks.
"What the hell is she doing here Quinton!" Charlie asked angrily.
"I'll explain later, Rachel just go downstairs, everyone is out back." He said holding back the blonde as Rachel passed the two siblings.
"Okay, explain!" Charlie huffed, crossing her arms over her chest while glaring at her brother after the brunette left. Quinton sighed, gestured toward Bella's bed for the girl to sit as he began telling her how he ran into Rachel and everything that had happened up until now.
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"Oh. My. Gosh. Is that Rachel Berry I'm seeing or are my eyes is deceiving me?" the brunette turned around at the sound and came face to face with a pregnant Tina Chang, " Rachel!" The Asian woman shouted, pulling the other woman into a hug the best she could with her pregnant belly.
"Tina, oh gosh, I missed you so much." Rachel said tears making their way down her cheeks as the two oldest friends pulled away.
"I missed you too Rach. I still can't believe you're back." Tina said before hugging her again.
"Oh wow T, I didn't know you were pregnant." The brunette said looking at her friend's big belly.
Tina chuckled before rubbing her baby bump, "This is our second actually." said the Asia woman taking Rachel by surprise, "you see that boy by the trampoline?" she asked pointing toward a small boy about five playing, "that's Mike Jr." Tina finished.
"Tina he is absolutely adorable." Rachel said with smile.
"San, it's Rachel!" Brittany said, excitement showing through her eyes as she nudged her wife's side.
Santana looked up from where she was playing with Ethan toward where Brittany had pointed and instantly got angry at seeing the brunette.
"Here take Ethan for a few minutes Babe." She handled the smiling baby toward her wife before standing up and walking toward where the brunette stood, ignoring the called from her blonde haired wife.
"What the heck are you doing here Manhands?" Santana seethed through clenched teeth while glaring at Rachel.
"I'm here for my daughter's birthday party, she invited me." Rachel said coolly, even though inside she was freaking out. She just had gotten slightly reacquainted with Charlie Fabray, and thank God Quinn was there to protect her like always, but Quinn wasn't there now so it looked like she was on her own with Santana, again.
Santana scoffed before showing her HBIC face, "Daughter? Ha! She just invited you because she sees you as her teacher, she doesn't know who you are Rachel. If she did she probably would have nothing to do with you. Ya know, since you abandoned her and all." Santana said a little loud.
"Santana stop it, kids are around." Brittany said, bouncing a fussy Ethan as the rest of the Gleeks watched the faceoff between Rachel and Santana.
"I'm sorry that you find this hard to get past Santana, but despite what I did I'll always be Isabella's mom." Rachel said, feeling hurt from Santana's reality check.
"Not if we take you to court, if you haven't heard I'm like the best lawyer in town and I can assure you that I'll make sure that you lose any and all custody claims that you think you have." Santana stated as Brittany once again pleaded for her to stop.
"We? There's no we in this situation. Quinton and I made her, not you and him so stop acting like this has anything to do with you." Rachel stated harshly.
"It has everything to do with me, I had to watch my best friend fall apart because of you and I'm not letting it happen again." Santana seethed.
"Oh please, you're acting as if you were the only one to deal with that, Noah was there too but you don't see him trying to kill me for the mistake I made and am now trying to fix Santana." Rachel yelled back, with everyone was watching. The two were lucky enough that Isabella wasn't there.
"Santana let it go." Brittany tried again but it looked like her Latina wife wasn't finish just yet.
"That's because they are too scared to say anything, you don't belong here Rachel. So go back to where you crawled out from!" Santana yelled.
Rachel shook her head and chuckles bitterly, "Don't you see that you're trying to fight something that you don't have anything to do with." The brunette said, "I'm exactly where I belong and there's nothing that you can do to-." The brunette never finished her sentence because she felt the sting of Santana's hand as the Latina slapped her across the face.
Everyone was quiet except for a little gasp that was clear, everyone turned toward the noise, "Isabella." Santana said her eyes showing how sorry she was as the little brunette stared back at her.
"Hey guys look who I found outside." Judy Fabray announced as she turned toward the guests behind her.
"Rachel?" The brunette whipped around and was shocked to see who was standing there.
"Daddy?" Rachel whispered desperately.
"What's going on?" Quinton asked, just now coming down stairs with his sister. He glanced around at everyone, looking toward Rachel, then Rachel's father, his girlfriend, and finally his daughter and all he could think was…Oh shit.
TBC
