Hey everybody,
Soooo sorry for the super long wait. I know I had been updating alot at the beginning and it's not that I lost my inspiration I just haven't really had the time to write. I've been so busy with school and stuff and i'm really sorry.
I'm also sorry about switching this to Kychel, I know some people love Finchel and I do too I just had so many ideas with this particular story and it always led up to Kychel. I could tell by some of the comments that some people didn't like this change but the result would have been the same had I chosen Finchel.
So i'm begging you, no hurtful comments about Kychel.
Anyway, on to the story, this chapter was fun to write but we'll see how you guys like it.
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Babysitting
"It might be important," the brunette tells him and he answers his phone, not knowing what to expect.
"Hello?"
" I need you home right now Kyle, you need to babysit," his mom tells him quickly, sounding distracted.
"What? But I thought-"
"I can't watch them, I had to take an extra shift at the hospital."
"But I-"
"Kyle!" his mother yells angrily, "don't argue with me on this, you need to do what I say."
Kyle sighs, frustrated, he had everything planned for this date and now he's just going to ditch Rachel? He put's the phone to his chest and looks at the brunette across from him. She looks worried so he gives her a sad smile, hoping to reassure her a bit. "hold on."
He leaves the table and put's the phone back to his ear, "Mom, I'm on a date, I told you I would be on a date tonight, I even put it on the calendar."
"Well, you can reschedule your date, I can't just leave your brothers and sisters alone."
"I can't just leave!"
"Well you have to!" his mothers yells loudly and he winces away from the phone for a second, he hears her let out a sigh, "look, I'm sorry about your date but you know I have to work and my boss needs me to take these hours."
Kyle pinches the bridge of his nose and lets out a long sigh before speaking, "ok, I'll be home in five."
"Thank you Kyle," she says before hanging up. Kyle hangs up the phone and takes a minute to rub his temples before returning to the table. Rachel has such a worried look on her face and it breaks his heart to tell her this.
"I'm so sorry Rachel," he tells her. "My mom had to take extra hours and I have to babysit everybody," she instantly looks disappointed and I bite my lip, "I'm so sorry, see I told my mom about tonight, I even put it on the calendar but she has to take these extra hours and my dad's working out of town for a while…I'm so sorry."
She is silent for a few seconds before she gives me a sad smile, "it's ok, I understand." He can tell how disappointed she is.
"I'd like to make it up to you though, we can go out tomorrow night, well…If you want." Kyle is getting more nervous by the second, afraid he's lost his chance.
Rachel's smile grows a little, "that sounds good."
Kyle smiles and nods, "ok, cool, so, I…I guess I'll take you home now?" Rachel is again, silent for a few seconds, and seems to be pondering something.
"What if I were to come help you babysit?" she asks suddenly, "I'm great with kids, even though I don't have any siblings, I did babysit a few times and I even volunteered at some children daycares and hospitals."
"Are you sure?" Kyle asks, not believing what he's hearing.
"Absolutely," she says with a smile. Can she be any more perfect? He asks himself.
"Ok, then raspberry, let's go." He says and they leave the restaurant. He makes sure to open the car door for her again, and let's her play whatever song she wants on the radio.
Once they reach his house, he opens the door for her again and they head up the small stairs. He opens the door with his house key, that he received when he was 8 and started to walk home from school, and they walk inside.
They are instantly greeted by Kyle's mom, who is waiting at the door in her nurse outfit and holding baby Erica in her arms, she quickly hands her to Kyle and put's her jacket on.
"Who are you?" she asks when she catches sight of Rachel.
"Mom," Kyle hisses, "this was my date, she volunteered to help me babysit." He makes sure to put emphasis on was.
"Rachel Berry," Rachel holds out her hand with a smile, "it's a pleasure to meet you." Kyle sends his mom a pleading look, praying that she be nice and his mom shakes Rachel's hand quickly.
"Nice to meet you too Rachel, sorry to cut this short but I have to be going now or I'll be late and fired," Rachel nods and the older women turns to Kyle for a second.
"They've all been fed, you know their bed times, Amy's been coughing a lot so let her go to bed a little earlier, you know the rules and call me if there are any emergencies." Kyle nods, and his mother gives Erica a quick kiss on the forehead before leaving.
Once she's gone, Kyle turns to Rachel, "so this is Erica." he looks down at his baby sister, "say hi to Rachel, go ahead."
"Hi Ragel!" the small brunette says eagerly and Rachel laughs.
"She's adorable," Rachel smiles an tickles the little girls tummy. They walk into the playroom and Anna comes rushing over.
"Kyle!" she hugs his leg and Kyle laughs, "Amy sneezed on my lollypop," she pouts.
"Well, Amy's sick Annaboo so she's going to be sneezing a lot." He sees Rachel smile at the cute nickname.
"Ewww! Germs!" Amy shrieks and then turns her head, "who's she?" she points at Rachel.
"I'm Rachel," Rachel answers, bending down on her knees.
"I'm Anna," the little girl smiles, "your pretty." Rachel laughs, as does Kyle.
"Why thank you Anna, your pretty as well." The little girl beams.
"Annaboo? Where's Amy?" Kyle asks as he set's Erica down in her playpen.
"She's watching Dora downstairs," Anna answers as she rolls her curly brown hair between her fingers.
"Ok, you go down there and I'll be there in a few minutes ok?" Anna nods and runs off downstairs.
"Could your family be any more adorable?" Rachel asks him as she stands up again.
"KYLE!" a taller brunette comes racing down the stairs angrily.
"What? What's the matter?" Kyle asks.
"Brian threw my hair brush in the toilet," she pouts angrily.
Brian!" Kyle yells and a few minutes later, the tall for his age blond makes an appearance.
"It slipped!" he yells defensively.
"No it didn't! you're lying!"
"No I'm not!"
"Yeah you are!"
"Enough!" Kyle yells, he gives Rachel an apologetic smile before turning to the blond, "Brian go finish your homework."
"I already did," Brian crosses his arms.
"Even math?"
Brian let's out an "ughh!" before stomping up the stairs angrily.
"What!" Lizzy yells, "he doesn't even get punished? How am I going to brush my hair for picture day tomorrow?"
"You can borrow one of moms brushes, they're fancier anyway," Kyle tells her, "I will by you a new one, just use mom's tomorrow."
"Fine," Lizzy huffs she also turns to Rachel, "is this your date?" she asks with a smile.
"Was," Kyle mumbles under his breath.
"I'm Rachel Berry," Rachel gives a small wave.
"I know, your name is all over the calendar, although at first I thought your middle name might be beautiful since that's written all over it also," Kyle blushes as does Rachel.
"No, it is not my middle name," she says sheepishly, smiling at Kyle who returns it.
"I figured," she looks at her pink watch, "Wizards of Waverly Place is on!"
"Can you watch it here Liz? Just to keep an eye on Erica? I'll have a baby monitor but I'd appreciate it." Kyle grabs the baby monitor from the table.
"Ok," Lizzy tells him and grabs a seat on the couch. Kyle starts walking to the basement and motions for Rachel to follow.
When they get downstairs they see Amy lying on the couch and Anna sitting as far away as possible from her.
"Amy, sweetie, how are you feeling?" Kyle helps the little girl sit up.
"My voice hurts," she says with a cough and Kyle smiles sadly. "Brian pulled out one of my pigtails. "she points to her hair and coughs again, "mommy did them for me."
Kyle panics, he doesn't know how to do pigtails, his mom always took care of that.
Rachel either sensed his fear or read his mind because she sits on the couch, "I can fix it for you Amy, my name is Rachel."
Amy turns to her twin sister, "you're right she is pretty," Anna giggles and Rachel smiles, "ok."
Kyle watches as Rachel remakes the pigtail, with complete concentration and focus, she smiles when she finishes.
"What do you say?" Kyle asks the little girl.
"thank you Rachel," Amy gives the older brunette a small hug before coughing again.
"Let's get you up to bed," Kyle picks her up and looks at Rachel, "can you just stay here and watch her for a few minutes?"
"Of course," Rachel answers and takes a seat on the couch.
"Goodnight Rachel," Amy calls and Rachel smiles.
"Goodnight Amy." Kyle brings her upstairs.
Once they get into the pink room that belongs to Amy and Anna, Kyle set's her in the bed and tucks her in.
"Kyle?"
"Yeah baby?"
"Is Rachel your girlfriend?"
Kyle laughs, "not yet, but I want her to be."
"Why isn't she?"
"Because I haven't asked her yet."
"Well then ask her, silly."
"I wish it was that simple," Kyle gives his sister a kiss on the forehead and tucks her in, "goodnight Amy."
"Night Kyle."
Kyle leaves the room after turning off the light. He makes his way downstairs and sees Erica playing with toys in her playpen while Lizzy watches TV. He smiles and walks down to the basement. He reaches the bottom of the stairs to see Anna and Rachel singing along to one of the songs in Dora and dancing around the room.
He starts laughing and Rachel freezes, "Kyle!" she screeches, "I was just…"
"We were singing!" Anna chirps in, "Rachel's gunna be on Bordaway someday you know."
"I think you mean Broadway, and yes I do know," Kyle says with a smile.
"Great!" Anna jumps back onto the couch, "let's watch Dora!" Kyle just shakes his head and sits down next to Rachel on the couch.
About halfway through Dora, Anna falls asleep and Kyle brings her up to bed. Rachel goes to watch TV with Lizzy while Kyle brings Erica upstairs, who has also fallen asleep.
Kyle goes to tell Brian to go to sleep about half an hour later and that leaves Lizzy on the couch.
At the end of an episode, Kyle turns to his sister.
"Time for bed, Lizard."
"But I'm not tired," Lizzy whines.
"Yes you are, I can see, you have bags under your eyes," Kyle points to the little girls eyes, "isn't that right Rachel?" he gives her a wink, telling her to play along.
"It's true, I see them as well." Rachel nods.
"But I have picture day tomorrow!" Lizzy screeches, "how do I get rid of them?"
"The only way to get rid of them is by going to sleep at an appropriate time." Rachel answers.
Lizzy is off the couch and up the stairs in 2 seconds flat. Once she's out of sight Rachel laughs.
"Have I mentioned your family is adorable?"
"Once or twice," Kyle jokes.
"Well they are, I've always wanted a brother or sister," Rachel sighs.
"Well you can borrow some of mine whenever you want," Kyle starts to clean up some of the toys and put them in the playpen.
"So, why don't you show me your room?" Rachel asks casually. She didn't mean it that way. Kyle has to tell himself.
"This is my room," he answers and holds his hands to his sides.
"You sleep here?" Rachel asks, in awe.
"Yeah, we don't have enough rooms so I sleep on the couch, it folds out into a bed though." Kyle pats the brown cushion.
"I'm so sorry," Rachel tells him, "that must not be comfortable at all."
"It's ok," Kyle shrugs, "I like having this TV here and it's really close to the kitchen…It just isn't very private."
Rachel nods and looks around, "mhhmm."
"Thank you for helping me today, believe me, you made it much easier." Kyle sit's down next to the brunette on the couch. "I'm so sorry about our date, I'll make it up to you, I promise."
"It's quite alright Kyle, I understand that your family needed you, I would have done the same," Rachel says understandingly.
"Well I'm sorry anyway, so…Tomorrow night?" Kyle asks hopefully.
"Of course I will go out with you tomorrow night," Rachel smiles as does Kyle, "but for now, I have to get home, my dads wanted me home by this time anyway."
"Shi-Shoot!" Kyle corrects himself, remembering how Rachel hates swearing, "how are you going to get home?"
Rachel shrugs, "I called my dad before, he should be here soon."
Kyle puts his head in his hands, "I made this the worst first date ever."
Rachel opens her mouth to speak but her phone beeps, and she looks down at it. "My dad's here."
Kyle get's up and walks her to the door, "bye raspberry, thanks again for helping."
Rachel smiles, "anytime and don't worry, this date didn't suck," she gives him a kiss on the cheek before leaving the house with a smile.
Kyle stands there for a while, his hand never leaving the spot on his cheek where the warm lips once were.
I know there wasn't much of a Kychel relationship in this chapter but I really wanted to introduce Kyle's family. Don't worry, their second attempt at a date is coming up!
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