"Makes me wonder if the glee kids will eventually find out..."

A couple of weeks had passed since that first rehearsal, and the performance was sneaking up ever closer with tickets having already gone on sale. Will had wondered if the kids would eventually find out about him and Emma being in the show, and as it happened word would start to get around thanks to Kurt Hummel, who was meeting his boyfriend Blaine Anderson one afternoon at their favorite hangout, the Lima Bean.

"So, do you have any plans before you head back to school?" asked Kurt as he sipped his latte. He knew Blaine was contemplating transferring to McKinley High so he could be closer to him, and wondered if it would come to fruition.

"Yeah, I guess you can say I kind of have plans," Blaine replied. "A community production of The Sound of Music is starting on August 15 at the Crouse Hall and my family and I are all going to see it on opening night. My little cousin Melissa is in it, she is playing Marta. She told me herself when I visited her in Lima a few days ago, she had so many stories of what has been going on."

"What kind of stories?" Kurt asked. The show was one of his favorite musicals of all time aside from Wicked, he went to the sing-along version of the film every year.

"Well," replied Blaine, "mostly stories of all the people she's met and the songs she gets to sing. She says the rest of the people playing the children are really nice and they're having a lot of fun. But most of all she likes the two people who are playing the Captain and Maria, she says Will, who plays the Captain, is always singing songs with the kids before rehearsals, and Emma, who plays Maria, gives the best hugs." All of a sudden, Kurt's eyes widened.

"Hold on a second," he said, "you said the leads' names were Will and Emma?"

"I did say that," replied Blaine.

"Holy Elphaba," exclaimed Kurt, "I know who they are! Emma has to be Miss Pillsbury, one of the guidance counselors at school, and Will for sure is Mr. Schuester, our glee director. I knew Mr. Schue was the type to get the role of the Captain, but Miss Pillsbury I never expected to be in a production of this scale. It's incredible."

"If they're your teachers," said Blaine, "then for sure you and the rest of your club have to support them. Why don't you tell the others and get some tickets for opening night? I'm sure all of you can take some time out from whatever you've been up to lately to cheer on two people that have meant a lot to you, just like what you mean to me."

"Blaine, you are a genius," said Kurt. "But I think we should keep our presence a surprise to them." Quickly whipping out his cell phone out of his messenger bag, he went through his address book till he found Mercedes' number and dialled it. Her voice came on the other end a short time later.

"Mercedes, it's Kurt," he said. "You won't believe what I just heard."

At the very same time that Kurt was calling Mercedes to spread the word to the other glee kids about Will and Emma's presence in the show, the two adults, along with the rest of the cast, were well into another rehearsal. They were already doing the second act, and in a few days they would move into Crouse Hall for the final dress rehearsals. Teresa and her team were putting the last touches on the costumes and had instructed the cast to stay behind after it wrapped up so they could do proper fittings. At this rehearsal, after doing the three-group practice they had become accustomed to, Emma and Will were called up front to rehearse their big scene where the Captain and Maria confess their love to one another in both scripted moments and a love duet.

"Now you two," said Paul, "I want you to show us what true love is like. We'll start from the part where the Captain asks Maria why she decided to come back." Emma and Will sat down on the bench that was placed on the floor and began the scene.

" You know, I was thinking and I was wondering ... two things. Why did you run away to the Abbey? And what was it that made you come back?" Will said.

"Well, I had an obligation to fulfill and I - I came back to fulfill it." Emma read.

"Mm. Is that all?"

"And I missed the children."

"Yes. Uh, uh, only the children?"

"No. Yes! Isn't it right I should have missed them?"

"Oh, yes, yes, of course! I was, uh, only hoping that perhaps you... perhaps you might, uh ..."

"Yes?"

"Well, uh, nothing was the same when you were away and it'll be wrong again after you leave. And I just thought perhaps you might, uh ... change your mind?"

At that point, Emma studied Will's face, then got up from the bench and began to take a few steps forward.

"Well, I'm sure the Baroness will be able to make things fine for you."

"Maria?" Will read. "There isn't going to be any Baroness."

"There isn't?"

Will then walked past her and stopped at a certain point. Emma followed.

"No."

"I don't understand."

"Well, we've, um ... called off our engagement, you see, and, um..."

"I'm sorry."

"Yes. You are?"

"Mm hmm. You did?"

"Yes. Well, you can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else, can you?" Emma shook her head, then felt Will pull her close to him and kiss her, eliciting some whoops from some of the cast members. Emma then put her head on Will's shoulder lovingly.

"Reverend Mother always says, "When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window."

"What else does the Reverend Mother say?"

"That you have to look for your life."

"Is that why you came back?" Will read. Emma nodded yes. "And have you found it, Maria?"

"I think I have. I know I have."

"I love you."

"Oh, can this be happening to me?" The piano started, and as Emma looked into Will's green eyes, she began to sing.

(E) Perhaps I had a wicked childhood
Perhaps I had a miserable youth
But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past
There must have been a moment of truth

For here you are, standing there, loving me
Whether or not you should
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good

Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good

"Do you know when I first started loving you?" Will said. "That night at the dinner table when you sat on that ridiculous pine cone." He laughed gently.

"What?" Emma replied, then laughed as well. "I knew the first time you blew that silly whistle."

"Oh, my love," said Will, and then he started singing.

(W) For here you are, standing there, loving me
Whether or not you should

(E) So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good

(W/E) Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could

(E) So somewhere in my youth

(W) Or childhood

(E) I must have done something ...

(E/W) Something good.

Finishing the scene with a kiss, the rest of the cast applauded wildly.

"Now that," said Paul, "is the definition of true love!" Emma and Will both smiled at his compliment.