AN: My thoughts and prayers are still going out to Cory's family and Lea Michele. I can't imagine what they must be going through. One another, but related concept, I wrote a story called 'I Miss You' that you should check out. I originally intended it to be a one shot but then saw where at least one person put it on story alert. I was just wondering if you guys wanted me to expand on it?

Also I've cross posted it, 'Whose the Father', and 'The Broadway Geek, the Badass and the HBIC' to my LJ(Gritsgirl24).

Since I forgot when I originally posted chapter 1... Disclaimer: I do NOT own Glee.

Glee club the following day...

Rachel POV:

I came to school today feeling a lot lighter because now 3 more people who are important to my life know about Manny. Yes, they did find out by mistake just like Noah and Arin did but that doesn't change the fact that they know and that they support me. And they were just being nice by coming over to the house to check on me so I wasn't really upset; well besides having to relive how Manny was conceived, but that always makes me upset.

Anyways I came to school and didn't worry about Manny because I knew that Daddy would take good care of him while I was here and I didn't think that I would have to worry about him being called into work. Little did I know I was wrong... Halfway through practice Manny comes walking in with Daddy behind him. "Sorry to interrupt practice but for once I got called into work star. One of the other doctors had to leave early because his wife went into labor early so I have to go finish his shift so I'll be home late tonight. Amelia is still with her mom, Deborah's at work already, Dad has appointments all day(see Dad is a psychiatrist) and Miss Baker is out and I don't know when she'll back. I didn't know what else to do." Daddy explained quickly and sounded sincerely sorry. "It's fine Daddy. I can't ask you not to go to work or Dad to cancel the rest of his appointments. Plus Manny is my responsibility after all." Rachel answered him. "Ok since I'll be home late I probably won't see you until tomorrow star. I still feel bad that this happened though." Daddy said before quickly leaving so he could get to work.

"Momma you and Daddy Noah sing for me?" Manny asked after running over to Noah and climbing onto his lap the minute Daddy had left. "Rae did he just call me Daddy? And we sure will bud." Noah said. "Yes Noah he did. You should know by now that that's how he see's you. You've been in his life since he before he could walk. You've been in his life practically the entire time we've been dating and I know that you've said you want to spend the rest of your life with me so I don't see how this is a problem." I responded while Manny looked excited that he would get to see his Daddy and Momma perform. "It's not a problem baby I'm just shocked and happy that he thinks that about me. This is the first time he's called me that so I was surprised by it." Noah told me while carefully leaning over to press a kiss to my forehead.

"Ok I'm confused. Rach he called you his mom and he called Puck his dad but considering that conversation y'all just had it doesn't seem like Puck's his birth dad. And why don't Matt, Mike and Sam look confused like everyone else?" Finn questioned. "Ok guys I don't want to explain this here and now so let's finish practice then you all can come over to my house at about 5. Noah has to pick up Arin from school and I can cook us all some dinner to eat. But to give a short answer he is son; his name is Emmanuel Berry, but we call him Manny. Noah is not his biological dad but he's been in his life for so long and acts like Manny's and thinks of Manny as his so it's only logical that Manny would call him daddy. And Matt, Mike and Sam found out last night. They came over to check on me last night and Manny answered the door with me." I responded. "I guess that works. But how're we gonna practice with him here?" Finn asked. "Oh Manny will be more than happy to sit and watch and listen to us practice. He loves it when me and/pr Noah sing or perform for him." I informed them.

With that practice resumed but I couldn't fully concentrate because I could feel everyone's curious gaze switching between Noah, Manny and myself. Even Mr. Schue couldn't seem to contain his curiosity, so I figured one of two things would happen; one he would ask me and Noah to stay after practice and explain, the most likely option, OR he would show up at my house with everyone else later on. Considering no one could really pay attention and we were still deciding on our set list for both sectionals and the invitational anyway we ended practice at 3:30 instead of 4:30 like normal. As soon as practice was over everyone left in a hurry but sense we had Manny Noah and I stayed behind; I was sitting at the piano and began to once again absentmindedly play 'You Are My Sunshine', it was kind of something that calmed me down and it was Manny's favorite song, while Manny sat beside me and Noah began to play along on his guitar and then joined me on chorus parts. After we were done Manny and Mr. Schue clapped for us and Mr. Schue asked if he could talk to us for a little bit before we leave. I agreed while Noah simply nodded his consent.

I picked Manny up and balanced him on my hip while Noah put away his guitar and grabbed our bags before we followed Mr. Schue into his office. "What'd ya wanna talk to us about Schue? We do kinda gotta make it fast though. I gotta go get my sis and Rach told the club she'd cook for 'em when they come over later." Noah responded being honest yet respectful. "Ok basically I have the same question that most of the club seemed to have. I obviously know that Rachel is Manny's mom and he see's you as his dad even though you aren't his biological dad. So I just want to know how all this happened. And given that he looks between 2 and 3 years old I'm guessing she was pregnant at least some of freshman year so I'm wondering how no one knew she was pregnant and why isn't his biological dad around?" Mr. Schue said before adding "Oh, and I don't really feel comfortable going to my student's houses unless I absolutely have to plus I think this could be a good bonding experience for the club and I don't want to interrupt that." "Ok. I'll give you the quickest possible version. I don't really like for Manny to hear about this because it not's a happy story but I can't have Noah take care of him outside the room because I need Noah here to lend moral support to me." I said after taking a deep breathe.

I sat down in one of the chairs in front of Mr. Schue's desk and moved Manny onto my lap where I pressed his head to my chest gently so that his ears were covered by my body and my hand so he wouldn't have to hear about the evil that existed in world. Noah sat down in the other chair and wrapped his arm loosely around my shoulders the back of my chair. Then I started to explain...

" April of my 8th grade year I was at this coffee shop in Columbus, we were visiting my Bubbe and Zadie for Passover, just studying while I waiting on Dad and Daddy to finish their shopping in the mall across the street, when this guy walked up to me. I met this guy name Joseph McIntire who seemed really sweet but he ended up rr-ra-raping me. After Joseph just walked away and acted like nothing was wrong. I was so distraught that I called my dads'. They came and found me in a complete mess and on the verge of a panic attack. They took me to the ER in Mount Carmel East Hospital, where Noah's mom was my nurse. The day of 8th grade graduation I found out that I was pregnant and couldn't bring myself to have an abortion and adoption was never an option either considering my own history with not knowing my mom. When I found out I was pregnant I was already 2 months pregnant so when school started back in August I was almost 5 months pregnant. Manny was born early, on December 27th, but he wasn't due until January 5th. The only people I had with me in the birthing room were Daddy, the doctor, Noah's mom and my nurses. I wanted Noah's mom to be one of my nurses but she was off for a few days vacation at the time I went into labor in the middle of night on December 26th but I called her anyway and she came to be with me while I gave birth. Noah didn't have any idea about Manny, his mom never told him because of a confidentiality thing between patients and medical personnel. I know Joseph's name now but at the time the only thing I knew was his last name and that's only because it was on his jacket. I didn't find out his first name until later on.

When Manny was 8 days old we were back in Columbus for his brit milah, or bris, which is the ceremony in which Jewish baby boys are circumcised. After the ceremony my dads' took Manny back to Zadie and Bubbe's while I went to the music store to check out some sheet music and stuff and I meet Jesse St. James there. I never meant to date him but he was so charismatic and charming that by the time Manny was about 2 weeks old he'd convinced me to give us a chance so we started dating.

Jesse never knew about Manny because we only dated for maybe a month and I spent most of that time here while Jesse spent most of it in Columbus but we did go on a few dates. But that's not the point it was during one of our dates that Jesse inadvertently revealed that he knew my rapist and he even mentioned him by name. I broke up with him immediately after he revealed that piece of information and then had my dad's change and unlist our home number effective immediately, and change my cell phone number. Seeing as Jesse only ever contacted me on my cell phone and the few dates we did go on were in Columbus and I would take a train there and Jesse would pick me up from the train station he didn't know where we lived but I didn't want to take any chances. When I say we only dated for a few weeks that's really how few dates we went on but really we were together until Manny was about 3 months old. Noah and I started dating when Manny was 6 months old but even then he still didn't know about Manny. 2 months into dating him we were supposed to hang out one day but Manny was sick and my dad's both had to work and it was the weekend so Manny doesn't have a baby sitter then since I don't have school; anyway I canceled on Noah telling him that I had too much to do at home to be able to hang out. My dads' mom, my Savta, had come by to bring me some food and to check on her great grandson and she just happened to be leaving as Noah and Arin were walking in. See Noah had decided to surprise and his mom had been called in to work so he was watching Arin for her but anyway Savta knew who Noah was but she didn't know that he didn't know about Manny so she let him in. When Noah couldn't find me downstairs and he came upstairs and found me in Manny's nursery. He knocked on the door to let me know he was there and I turned around with Manny in my arms. He was surprised of course but he helped me get Manny to sleep and heat up the food that Savta had left me before I told him the entire story. He wasn't thrilled that I'd been keeping Manny a secret but he also understood that considering I had an 8 month old son as a sophomore in high school that I wanted to protect both myself and my son from rumors. He knew I was looking out for my son by not letting him get attached to the guy I was dating if I wasn't sure that it was going to last, I didn't want my son to be a dirty little secret or anything." I explained.

Surprisingly I kept myself calm throughout most of the quick story but I think that was mostly due to me giving only the basic story and leaving out the details. Noah was rubbing my back gently while he peppered kisses over my hair and forehead once I finished and I remove my hand from Manny's ear and start to caress his hair and place a kiss to the top of his head. Mr. Schue is speechless at first because I'm sure he wasn't expecting that, he also still has some questions, but also I can tell from the look on his face that he's seeing us as a family right now, no matter how it was created.

I give him a minute to see if he'll say anything before saying, "As for how no one at school found out I was pregnant... well I didn't get very big so I just hid it behind baddy clothes and I became pretty good at simply being invisible. At the time I didn't really have many friends because I didn't meet Matt, Mike, Sam, or even Finn until second semester after I'd already given birth. I mean I've known Noah my whole life but we weren't exactly close back then and we didn't have any classes together so he didn't really notice me since our schedules kept us on opposite sides of the school most of time. About the same time I met Matt, Mike, Sam and Finn is when Noah and I reconnected as friends and then slowly worked on building up to being able to date about 5 or 6 months later." I explained what was probably the second most important thing that Mr. Schue wanted to know. At this point I'd explained most of what he wanted to know and he could tell that I was getting uncomfortable so he just let the rest of his questions go. After all if he really needed to know he could find out later or I would volunteer the information on my own time. "Wow. Rachel I had no idea. I don't know how you dealt with all that. I'm glad you had support but now you'll have mine as well and seems like now that Matt, Mike, and Sam know that they're supporting you as well. Plus I'm sure that the rest of the club will support you as well Rachel, we are a team after all. Also if you ever need to bring Manny to practice with you ever again you're more than welcome to. If it makes you feel any better I can ask Miss Pillsbury to be available to help look after him if that does happen and you'd just have to let me know as soon as possible so I could let her know she's needed." Mr. Schue told me. "Thank you Mr. Schue but as long as Noah and/or myself is in the room Manny is fine. He can entertain himself and stay out of our way he just needs one or both of us to feel safe, he's never really been apart from either of us, especially me." I told him before asking "Hey Mr. Schue if you don't mind we kind of have to leave now. I mean Noah has to get his sister and I need to cook soo..." I trailed off at the end with a questioning look on my face. "Of course Rachel. You three go ahead. I'll see you both next week." Mr. Schue responded.

With that I stood up and balanced Manny back on my hip as Noah once again grabbed our things before once again wrapping an arm around my shoulders and leading me out to my car. As Noah put our things into the trunk I buckled Manny into his booster seat. Noah got into the drivers seat while I sat in the passengers seat. Once they were settled in I put in one of the CD's I kept in the car for Manny, this one happened to be a bunch of kiddy songs and Noah gently took hold of my hand before driving off to Arin's school. The drive to pick up Arin was mostly quite except for the sound of Manny's CD and me occasionally humming along quietly, but, it wasn't uncomfortable to Noah and me and Manny was happy to listen to his music.

Once they reached Arin's school Noah got out to keep his eye out for Arin and I turned around to check on Manny only to find that he'd fallen asleep. When I turned back around it was to see Arin running full speed towards the car much to mine and Noah's amusement. Arin completely by passed her brother to open my door and suffocate me with a huge bear hug that lasted for about 5 minutes and just completely changed the mood I was in. After the hug Arin threw her book bag into the trunk of my car and then got in. Arin was sitting behind me and Manny's booster seat was behind Noah; see usually Noah drove us around so Manny being behind him made it easier for me to check on him and IF for some reason I had to drive my car without Noah I just moved Manny's booster seat over so that it was behind the passenger seat. Anyway Arin got in the car and then Noah drove off again but this time he headed for the grocery store that was near my house because he knew I would want to get some things for dinner and he wanted to get a surprise for me. Noah takes a still sleeping Manny with him and heads towards the flowers and the bakery while I head in the opposite direction with Arin. The first thing I do is pick up a variety of fruit for a fruit salad and I make sure to grab extra apples so I can make some applesauce for Manny. Next I head over to get some shrimp, chicken and things to make homemade noodles and homemade alfredo sauce. Normally I'd also go get bread but Arin insisted that she get it so I told her exactly what kind and how many rolls to get. Lastly I got some things to make cherry cobbler for desert and of course if you have cobbler you have to have ice cream to go with it so I get some a couple cartons of Breyer's Vanilla Bean and then meet Arin at the checkout counter. Noah had already gotten what he wanted and taken it and a Still Manny out to my car. I checked out quickly and then carried the bags, with Arin's help of course, out to the car.

After that it only took us about five minutes to get to my house where Noah immediately headed inside with Manny, his surprise and our stuff. Again Arin helped me bring in the bags of stuff for dinner and after unpacking everything I immediately began cooking. First I started with Manny's applesauce, as it would take the longest, since it had to cook in a crockpot. Next I prepared the fruit salad and put it into the fridge to chill and then she started on the cherry cobbler as it had to be cooked and then have time to cool off some. As soon as I had it in the oven she told Arin to pre-heat the other oven(the kitchen had a double oven so the bread and cobbler could cook at the same time) for the bread and then gave her the recipe to make the dough for the noodles while I started on the alfredo sauce. I also had Arin devein the shrimp and cut up the chicken while I had been working on the cobbler so I started to cook them once the cobbler was in the oven. Finally I put the rolls into the oven and then started cooking the noodles while having Arin keep an eye on the cobbler and I kept my eyes on the sauce and the applesauce. Once the noodles were done cooking the alfredo sauce, the chicken and the shrimp were done as well. The rolls were ready shortly after that followed by the cobbler and lastly the applesauce was done. I put everything into bowls and set up a bar so that everyone could fix their own plate, I just didn't put the fruit salad out quit yet ad not everyone was there. And the cobbler was cooling off on the stove. See while I was finishing up Santana, Quinn, Brittany, Matt, Mike, Sam, and Finn had arrived. Since dinner wasn't completely ready yet the guys joined Noah and a now awake Manny in the den to watch some Sports Center while the girls stayed in the kitchen with me while I finished dinner, set out plates, silverware and cups and cleaned up the mess I had made while cooking. Finally about 30 minutes after the first group had arrived, early but that doesn't really matter, Artie, Tina, and unfortunately Kurt and Mercedes had arrived and the food was ready to eat. I pulled out tea, coke, sprite, along with white grape juice(for Manny mostly but Arin also enjoyed it) and everyone fixed their drinks before fixing their plates. I of course fixed Manny's plate along with my own. I fixed him a small portion of applesauce, one roll and small portion of chicken alfredo. After placing down Manny's juice and his plate of food I returned for my own. I had tea, a fairly decent amount fruit salad, 2 rolls, and a medium amount of shrimp alfredo.

After everyone was sitting down and had enjoyed their food for a few minutes the first conversations started. "Rach this is really good. I had no clue you could cook like this? This pasta and the sauce taste like you made them instead of just cooking the noodles and heating up the sauce." Finn complemented and everyone nodded their agreement ever Kurt and Mercedes even if they were reluctant to admit it. "Aww thanks Finn. That's so sweet. It's just an old family recipe and I've been cooking since I was 14 because I couldn't live on takeout any longer and my Savta and Bubbe both have been teaching since then. I don't think it was that hard to cook but guess after 3 years of cooking I find things a lot easier than someone who has little or no experience." Rachel responded bashfully but sincerely. Different versions of you're welcome were chorused around the table. After that Noah said, "Rae's the one who actually cooks most of the time, occasionally I will so she can have a break or to surprise her but if dinner is left up to her dads' it'll either be a frozen meal that can be heated up or takeout, which neither of us is opposed to but Rach is adamant that Manny not be brought up on takeout the way we both were. I mean ma knows how to cook and is a great cook at that but growing up she was usually to busy or too tired to cook most nights so we just ate frozen TV dinners, frozen pizza or takeout mosta the time. Rach cooking pretty much all the time is another reason why I always pick Arin up from school and bring her over here now." Noah said before giving Rachel's shoulder a gentle squeeze and then leaning over to leave a sweet yet lingering kiss to her forehead. After that the conversation flowed and it was light considering no one wanted to bring up why they were there in front of Manny and between the 8 members who actually cared about Puck and Rachel they kept Mercedes and Kurt in line.

After dinner Rachel gave Manny a bath and put him to bed while Noah and everyone else helped to clean up their dishes and put away the few leftovers. Finally Rachel dished up the cherry cobbler and ice cream and Arin took hers upstairs to do her homework in Rachel's room while Rachel and Noah talked to their glee club friends.

"Ok so obviously you know I have a son and you probably noticed that I introduced him as having my last name. That plus the fact that Noah and I didn't start dating until Manny was already 6 months old means that Manny isn't his. So your probably wondering whose Manny's dad and why I was pregnant my freshman year of high school." Rachel started out much, if not exactly the same way she'd begun to explain to Matt, Mike and Sam the night before. "Yeah. I mean we didn't really want to ask, but, why does Manny have you're last name. I mean we get that Manny's not Puck's but why doesn't he at least have his dad's last name, if you don't mind us asking?" Tina asked the question everyone was thinking. "I'll explain everything but please don't interrupt me. I already told Mr. Schue the quick version after glee today and it's hard for me to tell people what happened." Rachel answered before truly diving into explaining how Manny was conceived and how Noah came to know about him and be a dad to him. Once she was done everyone was quite as they absorbed what they were just told. The first to speak are of course Mercedes and Kurt. "Wow what a slut. I bet you begged him for it. Then to keep the poor guy from his little boy. Rachel you really are a loser but now you're also a teenage mom whose ruining not only you're life, but also the life of Puck, that Joseph guy and your son. No wonder no one likes you." Mercedes scoffed while Kurt added, "You give a bad name to divas everywhere. And how can you even expect to go to college much less even have a chance at Broadway with a kid?". Rachel was in tears again after they're insults and none of the others were going to have that. "BEYONCE, ARTHEA WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT SAYING STUFF LIKE THAT ABOUT MY GIRL?" Noah thundered from beside Rachel causing her to flinch in fright. Once he realized this he turned his attention back to me "I'm sorry I scared you baby. I'm just fucking pissed that they even came over and then for them to insult you and cause you to cry. That shit just don't fly." Noah quietly whispered to me before turning to Tina. "Hey, Tina can you and Britt take care of Rae for me? I known for damn sure that San won't do it because she's been waiting to tear into these two since day one and Quinn too and well the guys are just as fucking livid as I am so you two are the only ones who'll be calm enough to calm her down." he asked her and Brittany at the same time. Tina and Brittan wrap me up in a hug and lead towards the kitchen to get some water and more cherry cobbler while I listen to the now softened sounds of my boyfriend, my brothers, my best friend Finn, Artie and two unexpected friends Santana and Quinn tear into Mercedes and Kurt. I realize that I at least have the support of everyone who matters; Kurt and Mercedes have always been jealous of me anyway because I can sing anything they can but better and now everyone seems to like me better than them. They always liked to say that at least they had friends when I would beat them out for a solo but now not even that argument holds. Finally I'm tired of the sounds of everyone fighting so I march in and proceed to kick Kurt and Mercedes out.

After kicking out the two self proclaimed divas I sink back down onto the couch between Noah and Matt. I cling onto Noah to try and keep my composure and Matt gently rubs my back as Noah is holding me to him, rubbing my arm, and peppering kisses to my hair. Finally Brittany seats down on the coffee table, and put her hands on my knee's saying, "They're just stupid poodles.". I couldn't help but to look at her with confused ask "what?". "You know because poodles are snobs just like Mercedes and Kurt are.". I couldn't help but to laugh and be in a better mood after that. "Thanks Britt that definitely made me feel better." I acknowledged before saying, "Ok now that we're rid of Mercedes and Kurt do you guys have any questions?" "You don't have to answer our questions Rach. I hate that you're so upset already and I don't want to make you more so because we're asking you questions." Finn says. "Thanks Finn. But I'd rather answer any questions you guys have now rather than later on." I respond with a weak smile. "Ok well I guess the most obvious one is how did no one figure out you were pregnant? How did you not show?" Finn asked. "Easy I didn't get very big so I could hide it with baggy clothes plus I was good at being invisible. Also even though I've known Noah my entire life he and I weren't close at the time and our schedules kept us on opposite ends of school and I didn't meet you, Matt, Mike, or Sam until second semester after I'd already given birth. Second semester was also when Noah and I became close again which eventually led to us dating." Rachel explained.

"Wow. So you basically went through that all by yourself. I mean at school you had no one to support you. And only 3 people including your dads' knew besides of course the doctor and your therapist? How did you deal with that. I mean I know you didn't and don't want people to treat you differently because I would feel the same way but having people who support you is a major part of being able to get through something like that." Santana commented. "I mean I know that because my mom counsels girls and women who are pregnant from having been raped and also women and girls who have raped. She feels like she can offer a unique insight because she's been there. Well I mean she's been raped but that's not the point after what being raped at a party her senior year of high school mom decided to become a counselor for victims such as herself and those who end up pregnant from rape." Santana explained. "Yeah it was hard to make it through school but I knew that I was doing what was best for both me and my child because not only was I attempting to live life normally which ultimately helps to get over the attack but also I was getting an education so I can provide the best possible life for my child instead of being a high school dropout who works for minimum wage, is living on food stamps and never gets to see their child." I stated. "You're a good mom Rach. I mean I know we haven't seen you around Manny much but from what we have seen and how much he obviously loves you I can tell that you're a good mom." Quinn said and everyone else nodded in agreement sending me smiles of encouragement at the same time. "Thank you so much you guys. You have no idea how much it means to hear that you think that. Most people just assume that because I'm a teen mom that I'm a horrible mom." I responded.

After that the conversation of sort of fizzled out so the guys decided to finish up the game they were playing before dinner while the girls wanted to see Manny's room and just gossip, you know girl stuff. So before I headed upstairs with the girls I gave Noah a kiss and asked that he and guys stay quite since Manny was asleep. The girls and I headed upstairs while Noah pulled the x-box 360 back out and turned on the game plus our various controllers that just so happened to be one for each of the 6 guys. We stopped in Manny's room first so I could check on him and the girls could see Manny's room.

The girls absolutely loved Manny's room. When he was a baby I made his nursery so that it could later be converted into the room it is right now. It was simple really all I had to do was change his crib for a bed, his changing table to another dresser because he would need more room for his clothes since he is a growing boy after all. Lastly I switched the rocking chair our for a comfy chair Manny could sit in by himself and added in shelves and storage for all of Manny's toys that he could reach but also were child safe.

Next we moved into my room where we all sat around and just gossiped for a couple of hours because no one really wanted to watch a movie and since I had to keep my eye on Manny we couldn't exactly play any games so we just listened to some music, quietly while we gossiped. We decided to listen to boy bands both from the 90's and those hotties from Big Time Rush and the amazing music from One Direction and The Wanted. Give us a break we are girls we can swoon over guys we know we have no chance with, and wouldn't want them anyway when the New Directions guys are so sweet anyway. Most of us had boyfriends so we decided to catch up on how our relationships were going. Quinn and Sam had just told each other they loved each other for the first time even though they've been dating for almost as long as me and Noah have; Tina and Mike were headed down the road to Tina giving Mike her virginity; Brittany and Artie were taking things slowly since both had been hurt by relationships in the past; Santana and Matt were moving from their happy lovey-dovey honeymoon phase into a more serious long term type of relationship; while Noah and myself were of course doing wonderfully, especially given my past, he let me lead when we were making out but recently I'd been a bit more adventurous allowing him let his hands roam a bit more and I was getting comfortable wearing less clothes around him although we were far from being in our underwear together, much less naked or making love to each other but progress was progress. I trusted Noah with my life so I knew that one day I could trust him to show me that not all guys are like Joseph but that takes a long time to get there especially after my Jesse detour before finding love with Noah. All the girls seemed surprised over my room because they had always thought it would be like pink and covered in Broadway memorabilia and contain all these stuffed animals and stars and things like that but while I love Broadway and the color pink my room wasn't decorated how they thought. I had playbills on walls but only of the Broadway plays and musicals that I've seen and only my favorites such as 13 and West Side Story and Wicked and of course the playbills were signed by the cast members. I had signature from Ariana Grande and Liz Gilles who were both part of the original Broadway production of 13 and Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel from their production of Wicked. But aside from that and a star on my door with my name under it, like a Broadway stars dressing room, my room was free of the gold star Broadway obsessed girl that so many people at McKinley saw me as. In fact I'm kind of a country girl at heart so my room was mostly decorated to reflect that, I even have an acoustic guitar sitting by my bed. Noah gave it to me as gift for my birthday last year and he's been teaching me how to play it just like I'm teaching him how to play the piano.

The girls and I got tired of talking and listening to music after about 2 hours so we headed back downstairs to see how our guys were doing. We walked into an intense but still relatively quite game of Modern Warfare 3; they were playing as a team but poor Finn could barely stay alive and Sam was barely any better but Noah and Matt were in their words "fucking God's at MWIII" while Artie and Mike seemed to be fairly decent they couldn't keep up with Matt and Noah. We all sat down on our respective boyfriends lap with the exception of Brittany who sat in the chair beside Artie and placed her feet in his lap so he could still see to play the game. We stayed that way for about another hour before the group started dwindling. The first to leave were Finn, Artie and Tina who had all riden togehter since Artie lives across the street from Finn and Tina is around the block from Artie. Next were Matt, Mike and Sam who all live in the same neighborhood that's just a few streets over from my house but Sam had to keep an eye on Stacy and Stevie, his little brother and sister, while both his parent's worked night shifts. Last to go were Santana and Quinn who lived also lived in the same neighborhood but they lived the farthest from everyone so really Noah and I were surprised at how long they'd stayed. Once everyone besides Noah was gone we began to clean up the slight mess left behind by our friends before heading up to my room to sleep.

It was hardly ever that Noah slept over since he had to be available for Arin whenever his mom needed but since Arin was with him she was sleeping in one of the guest rooms. Anyway since Dad and Daddy wouldn't be home until at least tomorrow morning Noah stayed with me and Manny because I couldn't stay home with only Manny and our Labrador puppy, Chance. Noah never complained when I got needy or clingy like I tended to do when I was scared, especially scared of being alone, he would just sit or lie with me and help me calm down until I could breathe normally or fall asleep or whatever the reason I was freaking out over was settled. When I couldn't sleep for fear, kind of like tonight he'd lie with me in bed while soft jazz music played in the background if my lamp was turned off he'd turn it on to provide some light and he'd whisper comforting things in my ear while he simply held me until I calmed down and fell asleep and then he'd turn the lamp off and fall asleep himself.

AN 2: So sorry this update took so long but I just couldn't seem to get the ending right. I worked for like 3 or 4 days on the last page and half to page and 3/4(on MS word) which is the last 7 paragraphs just didn't seem to come to me as easily as the rest of this update.

AN3: So for next time I'm thinking Manny will wake up sick so Rachel doesn't go to school until lunch so Noah's mom, Deborah, can watch him after she gets off work. And the JBI will out Rachel's secret to the school but she won't know until she gets there and hears all the slurs people are saying about her and Manny and how people think she trapped Noah into a relationship so her "bastard" child will have a father. What do you guys think. Also should I make Kurt and Mercedes more likeable. Finn will have an OC as his girlfriend eventually but I don't know that I will write Mercedes or Kurt as dating anyone because I typically prefer writing about Matt and Mercedes dating but I couldn't have them dating in this story because of how Mercedes started out treating Rachel and Matt being like a brother to Rachel, it just wouldn't work out.

AN4: Last one for this update, I promise. I added a poll to my profile so please answer that. I don't know when it'll close because I'll start writing the story after I close the poll but with this plus 2, maybe 3 other stories in the works at the moment I have my hands full. Also my story 'I Miss You' was originally intended as a one shot but since some people seem interested in me continuing it I want to ask you guys your opinion on that. Lastly in my profile I've listed what Manny's room, Rachel's room and Manny himself all look like. So copy and past the links into your browser to check them out.

And as always please read and review. If you don't feel comfortable leaving some of the things I asked for in AN4 then please PM them to me. And please no flames.