A/n Star: Hey guys! I am so sorry that it has taken so long for me to update… I have been crazy busy doing stuff with school and recovering from being sick…. So I turned 19 today (10/24). I got a guitar, and her name is Beth. J I am happy because I got to spend the time with my Aunt and Uncle, which gives me a lot of down time to just write. It's awesome. I love the reaction you guys are having to this story, and I am really excited that you are liking it. I decided to write it just in Puckleberry view and you will see the other 'families' through different things….
Now, on with the story…
Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Glee. If I did, then Mark Salling would be in every episode, singing lead, and with Rachel…. BTW, TOTAL B.S. that he isn't in these episodes…..
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Arriving at the house, Puck parked the car next to his truck and sat there quietly for a few seconds.
"Do you really think we can do this Rach?" he questioned softly, worry lacing his tone, "I mean, can I actually be a Dad? Mine was shit and I practically raised my sister… but this is different… I mean, I don't have my mom here to help and I just don't know Rach-"
"-Noah," her voice piercing his own, stopping his rant, "We can do this. You are not your father. We are going to have obstacles, and I am almost positive that we will have disagreements and argue, but we will take care of these kids. We can do this and we will be the best parents to them."
Puck sighed after hearing her words, "Thanks Rach, I'm glad that I was partnered with you for this."
After he spoke, Puck quickly exited the car, leaving a stunned Rachel in the passenger seat. Opening the back door to grab his new daughter, freezing when he heard her voice.
"I'm glad we're partners too, Noah."
Puck smiled, straightening, daughter secure against his hip, closing the door softly, going to the other side of the car to wait for Rachel to pick up their son before grabbing her free hand and walking to their house to let them in.
"So," he started casually, "what are we doing tonight?"
"Well, I think that we should start an inventory of all the stuff that we have for the kids and everything that we need to get. Then after dinner we can go get the stuff we need."
"Sounds like a…." Puck started before being abruptly cut off.
"Oh my goodness, Noah!" she exclaimed suddenly, her voice jumping in volume, causing the kids' heads to turn to her in alarm, both fussing in the arms of their respective parents. "I can't cook and I doubt that the kids can eat take out every night like I do at home… What are we going to do?"
Puck couldn't help but burst out laughing at her fear, struggling to keep upright and not disturb the little girl in his arms. Hearing a knock at the door, he walked over and opened it, laughing harder at the look on Rachel's face. Seeing their new neighbors and friends with their son, he calmed down a little bit.
"Hey guys," he chuckled out, "What's up?"
"Well, Tina here doesn't know how to cook, and, honestly, I didn't want to, so I wanted to know if we could eat here tonight?" Mike's question causing Puck to start laughing again.
"Noah," Rachel's shrill voice invading the sound of his laughter, "I do not see how this situation is amusing! None of us can cook and we can't order take out all the time! What do you propose we do!"
At this question, Mike joined in on the laughter before both boys calmed down enough to talk. "Wifey," Puck started breathlessly, "I am laughing because I can cook. Just because I am a BAMF and a jock doesn't mean that you should assume I can't cook. I told you already, I raised my little sister."
Mike was nodding earnestly as the two girls' mouths fell open at Puck's words.
"So, can we eat here tonight man?" Mike asked again, looking away from the shocked girls.
"Sounds good to me. I don't mind cooking for everyone. What sounds good for dinner?" Puck asked the company filled room.
"Dude, can you make your lasagna?" Mike begged, throwing in the puppy dog look. "I love your meat lasagna, it's like heaven."
Puck laughed softly, looking over at the two girls that were slow to recover. "Sound good to you guys?"
"That sounds lovely, Noah." Rachel said softly as Tina nodded in agreement.
"Ok cool," Puck said walking over to the play pen that was in the corner of the room, setting Becca in it, "You guys can put the kids in here and then join me in the kitchen so we can all talk if you want."
Turning on the baby monitor that was on the end table by the play pen, he set it back down before grabbing the other one and turned it on as well, walking towards his kitchen, hearing the other three behind him.
Puck started going through the cupboards after setting the monitor on the counter, turning to see his 'wife' standing behind him and his friends leaning against the counters.
"Do you need any help Noah?" Rachel questioned softly as he turned to face her, "I would really love to learn how to cook because I don't want you to be responsible for feeding us all the time and it looks like a lot of fun."
Puck smiled softly at her, "Sure babe, I can teach you, but I thought you were going to make that inventory list."
Rachel gasped, then smiled, "We can go through everything while it's in the oven. Until then, what do you want me to do Chef Noah?"
Puck laughed, locking eyes with Mike, seeing him smirk knowingly, "Okay, sounds good." He gathered all the ingredients, laying them out on one counter. Then he grabbed all the ingredients for a salad, setting them on a separate counter.
"Mike," he called out in a 'no nonsense' tone, "You know what to do. Teach your girl there."
Mike nodded, dragging Tina over to the second counter, getting her started in washing, chopping, and mixing everything that was set on the counter.
"Now," Puck's soft voice rang out in the silence, as he turned to Rachel. "You put this on," he handed her an apron, walking towards the living room, "and I will be right back."
After checking to make sure that the kids were still doing fine, Puck strolled back into the kitchen to see Rachel looking smoking hot in an apron that said 'Kiss the Cook.' He filled a pan with water and set it one the stove, turning it on high and putting oil into the pot as well. "Ok Rach," he started, "see the packages of noodles? I need you to put them into the pot, and just be careful. Once the water starts to boil, it will sting if you get hit because of the oil."
Leaving her to her task, he pulled out two large bowls and a skillet, handing one to Mike and setting the other in his counter space. He then put the skillet on the stove top next to Rachel and began the process of browning and seasoning the meat.
"Okay Noah," Rachel's voice interrupted the comfortable silence that was settling in the kitchen, "now what?"
"Now you are going to learn how to make the meat sauce," he said as he drained the meat and put it into the bowl on his counter.
Opening several cans of tomato paste, he dumped them into the bowl as well. He picked up different spices and added them to the stuff in the bowl, explaining what he was doing to Rachel in a low tone, not wanting Mike and Tina to learn the recipe that he uses. (A/n Star: Sorry guys…. I can't tell you exactly what goes into it because it's a secret recipe that I learned from my Daddy. J)
After that was completed, he moved to the pot that held the noodles and strained the water from it, running cool water over the noodles, then draining the noodles again.
"Hey Mike - Tina, you guys wanna go check on the kids really quick for me?" he asked as he moved the noodles over to the station that he and Rachel had going.
"Now, just watch how I do the first layer, and then you can do the next ok?"
At Rachel's nod, he coated the bottom of both pans with the sauce, then laid down noodles, more sauce, and cheese, then more noodles. "Get it?" he asked, seeing her nod, "Ok, then you do that pan while I finish this one."
The two worked diligently, then put the completed pans into the oven, setting the timer.
"Okay," Puck said, turning to Rachel, smiling gently, "send Mike in here and you go get started on your list."
Seeing her walk into the living room after removing the apron, Puck turned back towards the counter, starting the process of cleaning up.
"What's up man?" Mike asked walking through the doorway, before seeing what Puck was doing, and joining him, making the clean-up process go quicker.
When the kitchen was finished, Puck told Mike to go get the high chair for Lucas before walking into the living room, smiling upon seeing his new family. "How's the list coming babe?"
"It's going good. We have a good majority of the stuff we need, but they did not buy bedding for the kids, and we have to go and get them more clothes soon too," she explained, glancing up to lock eyes with him. "They figured that we would want to pick out the different things for them. You need to go through the kitchen as well to see what we need."
"Okay, sounds good to me." Hearing Mike walk back through the door, he went and picked up Becca and Eli settling them each onto a hip, and walking towards the kitchen where their high chairs were placed on the linoleum rather than the carpet. He settled both into the chairs, and then turned to see Mike doing the same with Lucas.
"Hey Rach," he called out, seeing her and Tina walk into the kitchen shortly after, "How old are they exactly? I need to know before we feed them."
The girls started flipping through the papers they were holding on the kids, Rachel's eyes going wide at the results she found.
"Lucas is ten months," Tina told him. "I guess he's one of the older babies then."
Seeing the look on Rachel's face, Puck walked over to her, setting his palms on her shoulders, looking her in the eye. "Rach? What's the matter?"
"Becca and Eli are…" she started, before swallowing hard. "They're only six months Noah. We got the youngest kids…. nine months must've been the average age, not the age of all of them," the panic in her voice evident, her eyes reflecting her terror as well.
Worried, Puck pulled her against his chest, hugging her tightly, "We'll be fine Rach. I promise. I just needed to know because feeding patterns are slightly different with ages because there are certain things that they can and can't eat when they are younger."
Pulling back, he placed a kiss against her forehead before turning back to their kids and their friends. He walked over to the pantry and grabbed different kinds of baby food, handing one jar to Mike and taking the others over towards his children after grabbing two of the Gerber spoons that were in the drawer.
He began the process of feeding Eli first (since he was the most fussy of his twins) before he noticed the silence behind him. Turning slightly so he could see the others while continuing to feed his son, he noticed the bewildered, worried, and scared looks on the face of the other three. Sighing softly, he finished feeding Eli before turning back to them again.
"I'm gonna guess that none of you know how to feed an infant," he said in exasperation. Seeing the three nod, he sighed again. "Okay, just watch, and then do what I do, and I will help if you have some serious problems." He then began the process of feeding Becca with even more of an audience than before.
After he finished, he turned back to the group, "Get it?" he asked, seeing the looks still on their faces. "Okay, just try feeding him, and I will help if you have major problems."
He nodded to Mike to indicate that he was the one he wanted to make the first attempt, then grabbed a soft wash cloth, getting it wet with warm water, he began cleaning the twins, keeping his eye on Mike. Seeing him struggling, he finished washing the kids, then he walked over, nudged Tina's shoulder and motioned for her to take over for Mike.
Rachel walked over to his side, leaning against him, a look of awe on her face as she looked at him. "You are amazing Noah." she said quietly, so only he could hear her. "I mean I know you raised your sister, which is why you know how to do this stuff, but you are a natural at being a father." She stood on her tip-toes to press a kiss to his cheek, "Any child would be lucky to have you as their father, and I am extremely fortunate to have to you as my significant other in this project."
Puck smiled softly, feeling tears come to his eyes as Beth's face flashed through his mind before pulling Rachel tightly to his side, turning back to the couple in front of him. Seeing Tina struggle as well, he pushed Rachel forward to take over to see where she stood.
As Rachel went to take over for Tina, the timer went off, so he grabbed the oven mitts and pulled the tin foil off the top of the pans of lasagna before closing the door and resetting the timer. He then turned back to the group to see all three covered in the food.
He grabbed another jar, and walked over to Lucas, grabbing Rachel's hand, guiding her in the process of feeding the young child. Allowing her to attempt it on her own to see that she got it down, he had her switch with Tina, and repeated the process. He then left Tina to teach Mike and went back to the food.
"Rach, can you set the table for me please?" he asked politely, checking the twins to see if they needed to be changed. Noticing that both did, he turned back to the Asian couple to see them cleaning Lucas off as they finally got him fed. "Guys, I'm gonna assume that you don't know how to do this either, so follow me and watch and learn."
He grabbed his kids, walking into the living room, he grabbed a couple dish towels on his way out and laid them out on the floor. "You guys are going to learn the process of changing a diaper." He explained to the couple behind him, setting to work changing Becca slowly so that they could understand.
As they began changing Lucas slowly, he quickly changed Eli, knowing that he could get hit if he was too slow before he heard the cries of disgust behind him. Turning he began laughing as the couple finished changing him, the wet spots on their clothes a clear indication that they took too long.
"I forgot to mention," he began. "You have to change boys quickly otherwise they will hit you. Go home and get changed, and I will watch him."
The couple hurried to follow his instructions, knowing that dinner was ready. As they left, Puck saw Rachel walk in her clothes new, indicating that she had changed, her eyebrow quirked in a silent question.
"They were too slow changing Lucas." he chuckled. "Grab him and we'll set the kids up in their high chairs next to the table."
They got all three kids settled as Tina and Mike walked back into the room, settling themselves at the table around their son.
"Dig in guys," Puck declared setting the last pan on the table before sitting down in between Rachel and Becca, Eli being on the other side of Rachel.
"Do you guys mind if we follow you to the store? We need some stuff, but don't want to be the only teenage couple with a baby out in town." Mike questioned as they all settled into eating and entertaining the kids at the same time.
"I don't care. We are only going to get the bedding and the immediate stuff that the babies need tonight though." Puck answered. Seeing the look on Rachel's face, he began to explain his reasoning. "We need to get that stuff tonight for them to be able to sleep, but it's almost 7:30 right now, and they need to get to bed soon, and we still have to give them baths. So we're only doing that must haves tonight."
Seeing her agree, he looked over to Mike and Tina to see them agree tiredly, realizing that this experiment was already taking its toll on them. 'Thank god they have the weekend to adjust,' he thought, before turning to look at Rachel again. 'Now I just need to work on convincing her that I am serious about her.'
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A/n Star: Hey guys, sorry that took so long, and I know that was tedious, but I thought the fact that they need to learn everything needed to be pointed out. I promise to write again soon, if not another one posted shortly after this one. I have to spend time writing my other story first, then I will get back to this one.
A/n Moon: And by "my other story" she means "our other story." J Hope you guys liked this story, because I thought it was hilarious! ;) HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAR!
Up Next: The first trip out with the kids, and the first night… Possibly more… I haven't decided yet.