Hello! I've been a bit stumped on my other story Daddy and as I was going through my work I found this again and saw that I had written a bit more of it. I'll try to update this story more as well as my other one. Hopefully you all will like this update. Sorry in advance for any mistakes
They spend the entire night talking to each other, appearing as if no time had passed since the last time they met. They both end up falling asleep on her bed in each other's arms, but are woken by some pounding.
"What is that?" Jesse asks groggily
"I don't know, maybe a really big woodpecker," she mumbles, pulling herself closer to Jesse.
"Urgh. I don't think that's what it is," he groans and realizes that there is no way they're going back to sleep.
"Let me go check then, maybe the neighbor's installing an in ground pool," she says getting up and making her way down stairs. She opens the door and sees the realtor nailing a sold sign onto the retail sign. Rachel stands there a numb until Jesse comes downstairs and takes her back inside.
"Hey what's wrong?" he asks
"They sold it. My dads sold the house," she says in disbelief.
"From what you told me last night, it had been on the market for a while. Why is this a bad thing?" Jesse asks
"You don't get it I was sabotaging the sale. I didn't want them to sell it," Rachel says, causing Jesse to raise his eyebrows in surprise. She continues to describe the ways she sabotaged everything and stops when she notices him laughing. "What?" she asks
"Nothing," he says walking over to her and wrapping his arms around her. "I just can't believe how much I missed your drama," he says laughing and she smiles.
"I thought you were going to tell me that I was insane," she says.
"Well you are a little but I understand. You're not ready to let go of this, of your home, your childhood and I get you trying to do everything possible to slow this down," Jesse says to her softly. She smiles at him and gives him a soft kiss.
"Thank you for understanding," she says to him.
"My pleasure. Come on, its getting late and you have to get ready to go to McKinley," Jesse tells her as he leads her up back to her room.
"Will you join me?" she asks as she grabs her clothes to get ready.
"If you want," he says with hesitation as he's putting on his pants.
"What is it?" she asks.
"I'm just worried. How are your friends will take this? Take you and I being together?" he questions as he looks over at her, shirt in hand. "I mean, at one point or another they have all hated me."
"Hey," she says walking over to him and taking his hand. "We've all made mistakes in the past, for the most part they've all grown up and if they see that I'm happy, they'll be happy for me," he reassures him.
"I hope your right," he sighs. She gives him one more reassuring kiss before heading to the bathroom to get ready.
They head into McKinley together and go to the teacher's lounge to get some coffee. Rachel is still worrying about her house being sold, as Jesse pours them the coffee, when Sam walks into the room.
"Morning!" Sam exclaims, he then catches sight of Rachel still looking depressed. "What's wrong? Are you still upset about getting egged and stuff?" he asks sitting down next to her.
"No, she's upset because her fathers have finally sold her house," Jesse points out walking towards the table with two cups of coffee.
"Jesse?" Sam asks in disbelief.
"Hello, Sam," Jesse says smirking at Sam's shock, as he sits next to Rachel and hands her a cup of coffee. "It's good to see you stopped dying your hair."
"What? Why?" Sam stumbles out.
"I'm assuming you stopped dying it because it became too much of a hassle," Jesse shoots out before being elbowed by Rachel. "Ow! Not nice, Rachel."
"You picking on Sam isn't nice either," she snaps back at him causing him to sigh and turn his attention back to the younger man.
"I'm sorry Sam. I can get mean when I'm nervous," Jesse explains.
"It's fine dude, I think I remember that," Sam says thinking back. "But anyways, what are you doing here? I mean here in McKinley, with Rachel?" he asks still confused. Rachel looks at Jesse and takes his hand before turning to face Sam.
"I…I've decided to give Jesse another chance. Neither one of us was truly ready for a relationship with each other in high school but," she takes a deep breath before continuing, "I think we both are now. And I know it might be hard for you or the other guys to accept this but...this makes me happy."
Sam looks at her and sees that she really does look happy, happier than he's seen her in… ever. He realizes that he had never seen her this happy before, even with Finn. He wonders if this was how she was when they had first dated but decides to put that aside for now.
"Okay," he says simply shocking the other two adults.
"What?" Rachel asks.
"I said it's okay. If he makes you happy then who am I to stand in the way of it. But I am warning you dude, you hurt her and you'll have to answer to me and the other guys," Sam says looking seriously at Jesse.
"I promise you that I won't hurt her. If I do you and Puckerman and anyone else in the group have my blessing to beat me up," Jesse tells him completely serious.
"Cool. Then congrats dude," Sam says holding his hand out.
"Thanks Sam," Jesse says smiling and shaking his hand.
"So what were you guys saying about Rachel's house being sold?" Sam asks changing subjects.
Both Rachel and Jesse explain the situation to Sam and he gives his opinion about the situation. When Rachel and Jesse leave, Sam calls all of their friends and tells them to meet in an empty classroom.
"Hey, guys, hey. Thanks for coming," he says as he walks into the classroom, closely followed by Kurt.
"Oh, for the love of all that's sacred, what now?" Kitty asks as she joins the group.
"Well, uh, I called you here because of Rachel," he explains.
"Seriously? I just finished mentoring that girl," Mercedes points out.
"I know but there's somethings you guys should know about," Sam starts.
"Well what is it?" Blaine asks.
"Well the first is that her dads sold her house and she's having trouble accepting that," Sam explains, trying to hide the fact that he's more nervous about telling them the second thing.
"So, why don't we make her a party to help her say goodbye to her home?" Artie suggests. They all seem to agree but Kurt notices that Sam is hiding something much more important.
"There's something else you're not telling us Sam," Kurt interrupts their party discussion. He sees Sam fidgeting and trying not to look at them.
"Um there is. Rachel's… well Rachel's seeing Jesse St. James," Sam spews out trying to get it over with. He looks and sees shock in the oldest New Directions members, with some confusion from Kitty and what appears to be understanding from Blaine.
"Wait. Jesse St. James? As in THE Jesse St. James?!" Mercedes asks in disbelief.
"I appreciate the 'the' in front of my name but I don't think I've earned it yet," they all hear a voice say as they turn to the doorway and see Jesse leaning against the door frame. "At least not in a way besides infamy. I went back to the teacher's lounge because I forgot my phone near the coffee machine and overheard Sam calling one of you to organize this meeting," he explains as he walks in, "I had a feeling that I was going to be the object of discussion and I was right," he finishes as he sits next to Sam on one of the tables and crosses his arms.
"Wait. You're seeing Rachel? Since when?" Artie questions in disbelief.
"I am, since last night," Jesse tells them.
"How did you two even get back in touch with each other," Mercedes asks in disbelief.
"I think they got reacquainted yesterday," Blaine begins to explain as they all turn to face them. "When Vocal Adrenaline started egging us, Jesse grabbed Rachel and covered her to make sure she didn't get egged again."
The original glee members are left in even more shock at hearing this. Jesse St. James, NOT letting Rachel get egged. They all turn to face him and see the regret in the young man's face.
"She should not have gotten egged in the first place," Jesse says completely in shame looking at his lap. "I know I hurt her and that's something I can't undo, no matter how much I wish I could. But just like I hurt her she hurt me and both of us have moved past that," he points out finally looking up at them. "I know you all hate me but…" he sighs deciding to take a leap of fate and be completely honest, "I love her," he admits causing everyone to freeze. "I love her and all I want is for her to be happy, no matter what that entails."
"You're different," Mercedes points out. "You're not the same St. James that you were before."
"And you're a different Mercedes, you've actually learned to value practice and hard work," Jesse returns, making them see that they've all changed.
"She looked happy guys," Sam tells them. "Happier than I've seen her in a long time."
"Well I say that if he makes Berry happy then let them be," Kitty speaks up.
"Kitty's right. You only get one more shot St. James," Artie tells him. They all notice that the young man hasn't broken eye contact with Kurt.
"I won't hurt her again Kurt. I promise you both that I won't," Jesse vows.
They all realize that he's talking not only to Kurt but to Finn as well. They all wait to hear what Kurt says.
"My brother hated you," Kurt points out and Jesse nods. "But we knew that if there was someone besides him that would make her just as or even more happy it would be you. Just don't mess this up St. James," Kurt warns
"I won't Kurt," Jesse promises.
Kurt then gets up and hugs him. With this the group accept him and together they start planning Rachel's party. The rehearsal is about to start when Jesse meets up with Rachel again.
"Where have you been? You just disappeared on me," she tells him right outside the choir room.
"Sorry, I forgot my phone in the teacher's lounge and started talking with Sam," he explains.
"He wasn't too hard on you was he?" she asks concerned.
"No, he just gave the talk you would assume," he says wrapping his arms around her.
"The others are here," she tells him.
"I know they are, but don't worry everything will be just fine," he tries to reassure her.
"I hope you're right," she sighs. "Let me go in first to try to explain to them."
"What about if we just walk in together and completely forget the explaining," he suggests.
"I'm going to have to explain stuff to them Jesse," she reminds him.
"I know but that can wait. Right now I say we both walk in like we own the place and get this group ready for sectionals," he says with a smirk, causing her to smile.
"Okay, we'll do that," she says.
They take each other's hands and walk into the choir room. To Rachel's surprise none of her friends say anything and just smile at her. Her students however have a mixture of curiosity and awe on their faces with the twins having their mouths open. Jesse just smiles even more before kissing her cheek and walking to a seat.
"Alright guys let's get started!" Rachel says cheerfully.
"Wait, wait Miss Berry are we not going to address that we're in the room with a legend?" Madison asks with her brother nodding in agreement. The other members are just confused, except for Jane, who also recognized him.
"I think I like her already, Rachel," Jesse says to her. She just glares at him before sighing and turning to introduce him.
"Guys this is Jesse St. James and he will be joining us to try to prepare for sectionals," Rachel explains.
"Um, why did Madison call him a legend?" Rodrick asks.
"Have you guys really not heard of him?" Jane asks in disbelief. "He's Jesse St. James, four-time consecutive National Show Choir champion. His Bohemian Rhapsody number has been the best performance in over a decade! No offense to you all," Jane quickly adds at the end.
"I am definitely liking your group," Jesse says with a smirk.
"Alright now that we have that out of the way," Rachel says, with a small playful glare at Jesse. "We need to get started. This week's assignment is called Buckeye Bullseye featuring all artists from Ohio!"
"Actually there's been a change of plans," Kurt interrupts.
He goes on to announce the lesson of "transitioning" and explaining to everyone that this is being done to help Rachel let go of her childhood. The party is also announced by Sam