Fraternizing With The Enemy
Chapter Seven
"Dad? Daddy?" she shouted.
"In here hunny," shouted her dad.
She entered the lounge her hand clutched in Jesse's.
"Dad, daddy this is Jesse St James," she said.
"We know hunny you have introduced us to him before," he said.
"Hiram, Leroy," said Jesse. "Can I take Rachel out for dinner in Akron?"
Hiram and Leroy looked and each other and nodded. "That would be fine Jesse."
Rachel leaned up and kissed Jesse's cheek. "I'll just go and get changed."
The three males watched her disappear upstairs before her fathers turned to Jesse.
"Something's changed," said Hiram.
"I'm in love with your daughter," answered Jesse.
"And she knows this?" asked Leroy.
Jesse nodded. "I told her two weeks ago when New Directions came to Carmel. She hasn't spoken to me since."
"Rachel does like to process things like that," said Leroy.
"I figured," answered Jesse.
"She did lose her voice at the end of last week though," said Hiram.
"I'm ready," announced Rachel.
Jesse turned to looked and her and grinned. She was dressed in a simple short sleeved black top and skirt with black pumps.
"No later then eleven Jesse," said Hiram.
"Not a minute after," he promised, as they walked out of the house.
"I have to ask you something," said Jesse.
Rachel nodded her consent.
"Why do you wearing the outfits you wear to school?" asked Jesse.
"The animal sweaters, short skirts and long socks?" she asked. "I do own jeans and nice clothes but if I'm going slushied then why bother something nice getting ruined?"
"That does make sense."
"It's true at least in Kurt's case that gays are fashionable but in my dad's case not so much," she answered.
"So there the ones who have bought the animal sweaters?" he asked.
She nodded. "Yes. I do like the owl one I have, the poodle and the little rabbits. They responsible for the socks and the argyle clothes as well."
"I confess when I first got to know you I did ask around McKinley about you. Most of them had no idea who you were. The ones that did said you were kind of sneaky hot but that, that quality was cancelled out by a compulsive need to be right and a strange affinity for sweaters with animals on them," he said.
"Wearing what everyone else is isn't going to help me be invisible or not get slushied," she said. "I was slushied before I was even in Glee."
"You should change for you and only you," he said.
"So where are we going?" she asked.
"A restaurant," he answered. "And yes they serve vegan friendly food."
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