Hello everyone! Here is another instalment to my St. Berry one shots. My last two were a little on the sad side so for this one, it's going to be a lot more light and happy. I hope you enjoy it.
I don't own Glee and all mistakes are my own.
Not For The World
She shouted up the stairs to her son. "You better be out of that bed and getting ready for school! I don't want to have to drag you out." She threatened as she sighed tiredly and walked into the kitchen of her New York home, where her youngest daughter and her husband where both at the kitchen table eating breakfast.
She gave her daughter, Lila, a kiss on the head and walked over to her husband, Jesse St. James.
"It's the same thing with that boy every morning." She moaned to her husband.
Jesse looked up his wife with the same love that had been in his eyes since they'd began dating twenty two years earlier. "Sweetie, you should know that by now. He'll be off to college soon and then you'll be missing it." he told her matter-of-factly.
"Don't count on it." she muttered under her breath as she sat in the free chair opposite her daughter.
This is when her son, Dylan, decided to make an appearance, all 5 ft. 11 inches of him, tall, broad-shouldered and, or so Rachel thought, incredibly good looking.
He had a sour expression on his face. "She was hogging the bathroom again." He said sourly.
As if on cue the culprit walked through the kitchen door, his twin sister, Ana. "I have to make myself look good." She said, trying to reason with her brother.
"Yeah, well, it shouldn't take that long." He snapped back, before picking up an apple and walking out of the room.
Jesse and Rachel looked at each other, exchanging a silent conversation. This happened almost every morning; Dylan being late out of bed and then moaning that Ana was spending ages in the bathroom and then, ultimately, all three of their children ended up being late to school. After almost five years of the same routine, Rachel and Jesse were becoming a little tired of it.
"He just doesn't understand what it's like to be a girl." Ana said as she sat next to Lila.
"Just try and be a little quicker in future." Jesse said soothingly to his eldest daughter.
She grimaced and was just about to open her mouth when Lila beat her too it.
"Are we seeing Uncle Kurt and Uncle Blaine soon? I miss them." She asked in a small voice. She was only five, a lot younger than her eighteen year old brother and sister who were both confident and loud, no doubt passed on from their mother and father, so unfortunately, Lila had turned into a shy child and didn't talk a lot. Rachel was sure that she'd come out of her shell more when Dylan and Ana went off to college.
Rachel brighten at the sound of her best friend's name. "He is." She said brightly. "When Blaine and I finish work tonight, he'll go and pick up Kurt from the Vogue office and then they'll come here. How does that sound?" she asked her daughter.
Lila clapped her hands happily and Rachel took it to mean that she was happy with that. She loved seeing Blaine and Kurt – Blaine especially. Even though they both spoiled her rotten, Blaine had a special fondness for the child. Rachel and Jesse guessed it had something to do with the fact that both of their children had now grown up and would be off to college at the same time as Dylan and Ana.
"Ana!" Dylan called from somewhere in the house. "The bus is going to be here in a minute, we have to go."
Ana immediately stood up from the table. "Coming." She called back. She gave her sister a kiss on the cheek. "See you later munchkin." She then walked round the table and did the same to her mum and dad.
"Let us know if you're going out after school." Jesse said to his daughter. He said the same thing every morning.
"I will dad." she replied, with a small giggle in her voice.
Dylan then came through the door, his bag now on his shoulder and his shoes on, and repeated the process. Finally, the door slammed shut.
"Mummy, do I have time to watch T.V?" Lila asked after a couple moments of silence.
Rachel nodded and without another word, she went into the living room.
"Are you going to be home tonight when I get back?" Rachel asked her husband. Rachel had succeeded in making her dream come true and was now a broad way star and worked almost exclusively with Blaine, with critics saying that their chemistry together was electric. Jesse had taken a slightly different route and opted to teach instead and was now a music professor at NYADA.
He nodded. "I should be. I don't have any late classes tonight and I told the nanny that I'd pick Lila up. I'm not going to break my promise to my little girl." He told his wife.
Rachel smiled warmly. Things might not have gone well when they were teenagers but things are different now. She held nothing but love for him and everything that had happened as teenagers had been forgiven. She knew that he felt the same. She loved him for so many different reasons; he still made her feel like a love-sick teenager and not like the thirty-eight year old she is, they both had the same passions and values in life, he reminded her everyday how much he loved her, he was incredibly romantic and thoughtful and he was an amazing father and would do anything for his family.
They sat there in a comfortable silence; Rachel was eating her breakfast and Jesse was skimming the paper before he went off to work. Five minutes later he stood and called for Lila.
"Come on Lila, time for school." He walked into the living room to see his daughter sitting on the living room floor struggling with her school shoes. He quickly slipped them on for her. "Come on gorgeous, I'm going to drive you to school today." He told her warmly, she smiled brightly in response.
When Jesse reached the door, Rachel was there waiting for them. She bent down to scoop her daughter up and give her a kiss goodbye. "Have a good day at school darling and I'll see you tonight." she then put her back down and Jesse opened the door and unlocked his car.
"Get in the car sweetheart and I'll be there in a minute." He told her and she ran off, saying a goodbye to her mother as she went.
Jesse then turned to his wife. "I love you." He said simply, giving her a soft but romantic kiss.
"I love you too Jesse St. James." She replied. He took hold of her hand, gave it a squeeze and then walked to his car.
Rachel watched as he drove down the road and out of sight.
Rachel Berry never expected her life to turn out like this but she wouldn't change it for the world.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter that was filled with soppiness. I enjoyed writing it and I absolutely love this couple, I hope you do too.
Comment if you liked it….favourite it…follow it….up to you. Until next time
