AN: Just letting you guys know that due to a rather condescending guest review to my story "The Broadway Geek, the Badass, and the HBIC" that I will now moderate my guest reviews. I don't mind getting constructive criticism and ideas from you guys but this review was literally questioning my sanity and I don't want that to happen as I am proud of everything that write and am in no way insane as this reviewer seemed to be implying. It's a few who ruin it for everyone. I will NOT be taking down any stories because I don't believe in that but seeing as several people have done things that I don't appreciate in reviews I am enforcing the little bit of dignity given to the writer by FF so guest reviews will be looked at from now on.

When I woke up the next morning I wondered why briefly why I was waking up at 6 am, I stopped doing my elliptical workout in the morning when I was pregnant and after Manny was born I continued to sleep the extra 30 minutes I had without the morning workout, and if I showered the night before I got an extra hour of sleep. Anyway I haven't woken up at 6 am in 3 and half years and it wasn't a welcome thing to happen especially when I discovered a moment later it was because my baby boy had an upset stomach and a fever, nothing major but enough to make him feel bad. I pulled my trashcan to the side of the bed and then scooted closer to Noah, as close as I could get, and let Manny lay in front of me facing the trashcan in case he had to vomit or anything. I started to gently rub Manny's stomach and brushed the hair out of his face leaving a gentle kiss on his forehead; I hated when he got sick mostly because there's only so much I can do for him without taking him to the doctor and not only can I not afford to take him to the doctor every time he feels bad but most of the time he only gets things like a mild cold or the stomach bugs that go around the schools so going to the doctor wouldn't help anyway. We just lay there together like that, while Noah slept peacefully beside me for another hour before my alarm for school went off startling Manny out of his almost sleep, causing him to start crying again since he felt his tummy ache again in the wide awake state, and waking Noah up as well in the process. I'd already resigned myself to skipping part of the day to take care of my little man since both of my dads' would have to be at work today, Deborah had a morning shift and Amelia was still with her mom and would be until tomorrow. Anyway Noah immediately noticed what was going on and offered to stay with me and Manny and then drive me to school later once his mom got off and could watch Manny and I was ready to accept his offer except that I knew he really couldn't afford to miss anymore class work in US History, which he had first period and if he left school grounds after that it wouldn't go unnoticed. So sadly I declined his offer wanting him to get the best education possible so he could graduate and go to college, or the police academy(he hasn't decided whether he wants to pursue music and music production or become a police officer yet), and have himself a bright future that I plan to be a part of because he and Manny are my family alongside his mom and sister and my dads.

Finally I get Noah off to school and have managed to get Manny to eat half of a piece of dry toast, to try and settle his stomach. Rachel also found some ginger ale in the pantry and put that into Manny's sippy cup and then let him lay on the couch with her and watch all the cartoons he wanted, not a normal occurrence since she didn't think TV was very stimulating and some of it's content, even on the children's channels was way too inappropriate for kids and led to bad habits on the impressionable youth. Typically Manny watched one cartoon a day during the week and Saturday mornings he was allowed to watch 2 hours of cartoons, since that's how Noah like to spend his Saturday mornings and Noah typically spent Friday nights at the Berry's house. But, being that he was sick Rachel made an exception to her normally very strict rule, but, she also made sure that Manny knew the reason he got to watch so many cartoons today was because he was sick and didn't feel like doing anything else. She'd called Deborah at about 7:30 that morning to leave her a voicemail about Manny and had received a text in reply saying that Deborah could definitely watch Manny when she got off of work. Deborah said she'd grab a quick lunch, since she got off at 11, and then head over to the Berry's house.

At about 9 am Manny got really tired so he took a nap and Rachel decided to join him since she didn't get her normal amount of sleep the night before, since at first she was having one of her freak outs over her dads not being home even though Noah was with her, and then because of Manny being sick. They both sleep until Deborah lets herself in and shakes Rachel awake at about 11:45, telling her that she brought Manny some soup and Rachel some vegetable lo mein and steamed rice from the Chinese food place across from the hospital. Rachel eats her food rather quickly and then heads out to school, not knowing what awaits her and what Noah has been experiencing so far during the day. She gets there just before lunch ends and next period starts, which just so happens to be Spanish with Noah, Finn, Matt, Mike and Sam along with Quinn and Brittany and of course Mr. Schuester so she heads to her locker and then intends to wait there for Noah to meet her, considering she texted him she was on her way before leaving the house. About five minutes after Rachel reached her locker Noah had joined her along with the rest of New Directions, well minus Kurt and Mercedes who were now on the outs of the entire group, especially after their antics at Rachel's house. As Rachel pulled out her Spanish book and notebook along with things for Glee and her other afternoon classes the others chatted lightly with her, mostly wondering either why she missed her morning classes(Santana, Artie, and Tina) or how Manny was doing(everyone else). Once Rachel had retrieved what she would need for her classes the group split up to head to their classes; Tina, Artie and Santana had AP Chemistry while the rest headed off to Honor Spanish 3(unfortunately there was no AP Spanish until you were taking Spanish 5).

It was on the way to Spanish that Rachel got her first clue that something was wrong. Several people called her a slut or a whore while giving her dirty, condescending looks. While the comments and looks hurt it was all those people managed before one of the guys or Quinn would either threaten them or give them a withering look, usually the commenter received both and not just from one member of the group. Rachel was confused about the comments as well, that is until they got to Spanish and a cheerio said something about Jacob Ben Israel's blog before saying what an abomination Manny was and how sorry she was(to Puck) that Rachel trapped him into a relationship so her bastard, abomination of a child would have a father in his life. Finally Rachel understood how people knew but she couldn't figure out Jacob knew so she pulled Jacob's blog up on her Droid Maxx and saw that the entry pertaining to her being a teenage mom consisted of mainly a video with only a few words written by Jacob and title, "Berry: McKinley's Newest and sluttiest Teenage Mom" basically JBI lamented the fact that Rachel would spread her legs for some random guy while she was still in middle school but wouldn't love him and then chose to drag down the McKinley's most badass and there for popular running back. Rachel pulled out some ear buds so the noise wouldn't disturb anyone and watched the video; she quickly realized that the video was shot from outside her living room window but that it was edited to make it seem like she was asking for Joseph to rape her and that Noah was trapped in their relationship, he loved Manny and not her but couldn't leave because of Manny. Rachel was about in tears once she finished watching the video which had Jacob's commentary in it as well, but she never cried at school because she wouldn't give the jerks and assholes at McKinley that satisfaction, and yeah maybe that made her weak and even more likely to be a victim of bullying because she wouldn't retaliate in anyway but she also knew that showing how much the bullying hurt her is exactly what they wanted and she would not and could not be seen as anymore vulnerable by her peers.

Noah was the first but not the only person to notice her phone out and change in attitude after taking the ear buds out; Matt, Sam, Mike and Finn noticed as well. But since Noah was right behind her, he noticed immediately because her back and neck went from mostly relaxed to extremely tense in a matter of minutes. Mike and Matt were on either side of Rachel while Sam and Finn were behind Matt and Mike. Quinn and Brittany who were sitting beside each other and in front of Rachel didn't notice anything. Noah immediately began to gently massage Rachel's neck which relaxed her neck and in turn her back, but the tension still remained to an extent because she knew that the longer she was at school the more people would read Jacob's blog and the more people would tease and insult her about being a teenage mother. As much as Rachel wanted to avoid the insults, the judging looks, and the teasing she knew that leaving school, especially after she was absent all morning was the wrong thing to do and she didn't want to skip class either since she already had to make up work for her morning classes. Basically she was stuck between a rock and hard place; get a good education while enduring the taunts and prejudices of her classmates OR be the teen mom who is a high school drop out, on government assistance and barely see's her kid for having to work so much at the minimum wage she has just to make ends meet. Really her choice was simple, yet painful given Jacob's blog entry and having to miss so much of Manny's life but at the same time the amount of time Rachel missed for school is minimal compared to what she would most likely miss if she were a high school dropout who worked at a minimum wage job constantly just to make ends meet. See she had a deal with her dads that as long as she graduated high school and attended a 4 year university at least part time until she got her undergraduate degree that they would support her and pay for the bulk of Manny's expenses but the moment she failed her end of the deal she was on her own as far as supporting Manny financially went. Even if they still had a place to live buying clothes and food and paying doctors bills for both of them would be too much for Rachel not to mention day care and paying for part of the cable bill and her car and health insurance and cell phone AND if her dads' kicked her out then she would have to worry about paying rent on top of everything else, plus, Manny would have to stop go to a public day care versus having a private baby sitter, as much as Rachel and Manny love Amelia she would too expensive to keep if Rachel had to pay her entire salary.

Finn, being her best friend and all, was the second to notice but from his seat he couldn't really do anything, which he hated because he hated to feel useless just as much as he hated to see Rachel hurting. Sam noticed seconds after Finn and then Mike and Matt noticed after Sam and again because of where they sitting there was nothing they could do to comfort the girl they saw as a sister. And like Finn they hated feeling useless especially when it came to helping Rachel. All 4 guys were about to stand up and go comfort Rachel but then Mr. Schuester walked in, late, from his own lunch so they were stuck in their seats worrying about their sister, in Finn's case best friend, and able to do nothing but try to pay attention to the lesson of the day. It harder than they thought to pay attention but luckily for them the lesson was mostly a review for their upcoming test and Rachel was a wiz at Spanish so she could help them if need be. Finally about and hour and 20 minutes later(yeah Schue was 10 minutes late to class and if it were anywhere but McKinley they could've had a free period after 5 minutes of no teacher, not McKinley though you had to wait 15 minutes and they usually found someone to cover the class) class ended.

Rachel's last class of the day was AP English which she had with Quinn, Santana, Mike and Matt. Noah and Finn were in Honor English because they had to keep at least a 3.0 GPA to stay on the football(both), basketball(Finn), and baseball(Noah) teams and neither was exceptionally good at English so they didn't take AP in order to keep themselves eligible to play. Noah walked with Rachel to her class because he had English at the same and his classroom was two doors down from Rachel's so he could walk her to class and still be on time for his, which Rachel liked because she felt safer walking through McKinley's hallways with Noah but she hated when he was late to class. In English they were currently going over their summer reading project on The Scarlet Letter, which was a horrible book to read in Rachel's opinion, she completely understood what it was about and discuss it with Nathaniel Hawthorne himself if she needed to but the sentences in the book were like a paragraph long each to say things like the community shunned Hester Prynne for committing adultery on her husband and having a child out of wedlock; seriously even Rachel understood the importance of saying one thing in less than 50 words so why couldn't Hawthorne. They spent about half the class discussing the book and their projects while the other half of class was spent watching the movie version of the book, Mr. Page(their teacher) only let them watch the movie so that they could have a broader range of knowledge when it came to the book, especially since the book was written in old English on top of having the paragraph long sentences, and sometimes seeing things acted out helped a person to understand what's going on better than reading about it.

English was worse than Spanish because people would send glares and insults at Rachel all the while seeming to be talking about Hester and her sins. As much as Rachel loved Mr. Page, he was one of the few teachers that actually cared about his students and he rarely showed favoritism(like most of the teachers who cared about the students), he couldn't say anything to the students who were harassing her because they were smart enough to keep the context completely about The Scarlet Letter, he could reprimand them if they used profanities or lewd language but otherwise he was powerless and Rachel could see in his eyes how sorry he was. While he knew that they were ultimately insulting Rachel if he tried to punish them for it, it would just turn into a case of he said, she said and with the majority of the class making the comments he was smart enough to not put Rachel through that because ultimately the majority would band together and win the argument of what actually happened even if he went to bat for Rachel along with Mike, Matt, Quinn and Santana that would still only be 5 students a teacher against 15 other students and the school board was notorious for doing what would cause the least drama meaning they sided with the majority because no matter how much Rachel protested and threatened them, with good reason too, it was still less drama than 15 students each doing the same thing, the backlash from 15 students doing something like that would draw attention from both the local and state news stations if not draw the attention of the national news stations. To put it simply Mr. Page felt extremely guilty for doing nothing but his hands were tied at least figuratively speaking, because he wanted the best for Rachel and as bad as it sounded doing nothing was for the best.

Given the situation after class Mr. Page asked for Rachel, Mike, Matt, Quinn, and Santana to stay behind to talk to him. He made sure he smiled reassuringly at Rachel when he made the request so she knew it wasn't about her being in trouble or anything. He then explained to her why he didn't and couldn't say anything and why it really was in her best interest. Rachel while hurt by the actions of her classmates was actually quite touched that Mr. Page actually cared enough to think through what would be in her best interest instead of trying and failing to serve justice to help her out. She in turn gave him the simple explanation of how she came to be in situation of standing with him, her brothers, and 2 cheerios who had only recently become her friends listening to him explain why he didn't reprimand her fellow classmates for their cleverly hidden insults in class. Mr. Page told her that since there was evidence online that he could have Jacob punished for his actions and that Rachel could sue him for invasion of privacy and trespassing on private property, which really surprised Rachel because she never really expected to get such advice and support from a teacher who wasn't Mr. Schuester and she's not sure that Mr. Schue would've given her that advice anyway he probably would've said he was there if she wanted to talk and remind her that he was there for her if she needed it and then be done with it.

Finally glee practice is there and Rachel can relax because even though Kurt and Mercedes will there she also has 10 people on her side plus Mr. Schue won't let them get too out of hand, although he could honestly do a better job of keeping them in line because whenever anyone else is insulted or belittled Mr. Schue jumps in the minute the insult starts but with Rachel he doesn't. Mr. Schue is all about them being a team and a family and being there for each other and he even told Rachel that he personally was there for her if she needed it but given his actions in the past she thought he was a bit hypocritical and wasn't completely sure that he would be there for her like he said he would be.

Glee actually wasn't that bad mainly because they spent the entire time working on their songs for Sectionals and there was no time for socializing, which really meant time for Kurt and Mercedes to insult Rachel more than they already had. Rachel's favorite part about Sectionals, as weird as it sounds, is that for once they were showing off the talents of the rest of the New Directions members. Santana had a solo and Mike and Brittany got to show off their dance skills during Santana's solo and Quinn and Sam had a duet and their voices sounded amazing together, of course they had nothing on Noah and herself but still Rachel was really proud of Sam for being able to sing lead one of their competition songs especially since he just got brave enough to sing his first solo at the end of last year, he of course sang the song to Quinn and they've been dating ever since then. Then for the group number they were singing a Journey's Don't Stop Believing with Finn, Santana, Noah and herself on lead vocals and Matt was the one who came up with the choreography for that number which also made him the lead dancer and of course Mercedes threw in some of her powerful vocals because she wouldn't be denied that but honestly it sounded good with Mercedes' added vocals, no matter how reluctant Rachel was to admit that.

They finally got done with practice and Rachel was literally exhausted, emotionally and physically, she'd never had a more complicated and trying day, at least not one she could recall. Noah of course didn't have an easy day either but he knew that his day was nothing compared to what Rachel went through, especially because Mike told him about what happened in English and he was honestly surprised that the insults and bullying went that far and were that harsh(yeah he knew the students at McKinley were assholes and class A douche bags but he also thought they had boundaries, like no bullying in classrooms, but obviously he was a fucktard to believe that). Noah decided that what Rachel needed after her day was copious amounts of her favorite vegan ice cream, a hot bath and a massage all courtesy of her loving boyfriend, so on he told her he had to pick some stuff up after getting Arin from her friends house and that he'd be over after that. He picked up some flowers and a card for Rachel at the florist before heading off to pick up the up the ice cream and some of Rachel's favorite bubble bath and matching body lotion. Ok, so maybe it made him a total pussy and completely whipped but he didn't care one bit because his girl was fucking sad and upset and this shit would cheer her up and loved her more than his badass reputation, and anyone who knows Puck knows that that's a whole fucking lot. He also makes sure to pick up some soup and shit for Manny since the little dude was sick this morning, plus Rachel would totally love that he cared enough to take care of her son while he was sick like this. Finally after getting all the surprises for Rachel Noah headed over to Evans house, Arin and Stacie were about the same age and Stevie was a little older than Arin but she was still friends with both of them although Noah liked to keep his eye on Stevie, he was 13 and starting to look and act like the teenage boy he really was(thankfully Arin didn't seem interested in him and Stevie seemed to think of her as more of a little sister, like Stacie only not related, so that was good but still you could never be too careful). Anyway Noah picked up Arin and thanked Sam for watching her while he was running errands to cheer Rachel up.

Finally Noah reached Rachel's house and scribbled out a quick but loving note to Rachel on the card before gathering everything and heading inside with Arin, he noticed his mom's car was still there but Rachel's dads' weren't home yet so he figured that was why she hadn't left when Rachel got home from practice. He walked into the kitchen to put away the ice cream and soup and found his mom but not Rachel, which was actually a relief since he wanted to surprise her and her standing in the kitchen when he walked in wasn't his idea of surprising her. He asked his mom how long she was staying and when she said she was staying for and making dinner he told her the soup was for Manny, it was Chicken and Stars, and that he though Rachel would enjoy spaghetti since that was a comfort food and school was rough for her today, and of course his mom agreed and then offered to take Arin home and let Noah stay over again, she had the next day since she'd just worked a double shift and then baby sat Manny she was tired but at the same time she wouldn't change it because she thought of Manny as her grandson and loved Rachel just as much as she loved Arin and Noah. With that conversation out of the way and Arin already doing her homework at the kitchen table Noah headed upstairs to check on Manny and Rachel; he checked on Manny first and found the little boy sleeping in his bed looking pale and utterly exhausted, from being sick, and he was snoring since apparently his nose was stopped up he had to breathe through his mouth and thus the snoring. Seeing the little boy, his little boy, like that literally broke his heart but when he went to check on Rachel his heart broke even more because she was lying on her bed literally bawling like a baby and on the verge of a panic attack. Noah simply walked over to where Rachel was laying down and settled down so that her head was facing her chest and pulled her to him so she was crying into his chest and tried to comfort her to the best of his ability. Finally Rachel's tears stopped so Noah picked the flowers and card up off the nightstand where he'd left them when he lied down next to Rachel and gave them to her along with a promise of more surprises to come.

Rachel, baby, I know that my words may not do anything to help you but... I just want you to know that you did NOT trap me and that I DO love and I DO love Manny. Those pansy ass bitches at school don't know what the fuck their talking about ad their just jealous of our relationship and your talent. They wish they could kick ass like you do and that they had a badass boyfriend and fucking awesome dudes who totally make their pansy asses eat the words of hate that they spew at you. Baby, I fucking our family. Me, you, Manny, your dads, my mom, and Arin is our family and one day I'm going to buy you a house so that me, you and our son can live together and we can raise our kids together. Rachel read the sweet, if slightly vulgar words that Noah had written to her in the card and started crying because he as soo sweet and he'd gotten her, her favorite flowers, babies breathe and carnations. When he told her that there were more surprises to come she really couldn't believe it, she already felt like the luckiest girl alive and like she had the best boyfriend anyone could ask for. I couldn't even fathom what else Noah had in store for me but I did know that if they were even a fraction as amazing as the flowers and the card then I would be crying for a completely different reason at the end of the night.

Noah just held me until Deborah called out for us to come downstairs. I was surprised to find that not only did I NOT have to cook BUT that Manny had his favorite soup waiting on him and Deborah had cooked my favorite comfort food, spaghetti. Next thing I know Deborah's grabbed her a plate to go along with Arin's plate to go before heading upstairs to help Manny eat his soup. Noah was just as surprised as I was, his mom was not only an avid supporter of their relationship but this time she was preparing a homemade, romantic dinner for them to share, just the two of them since she was taking Manny with her and Arin once he finished his soup and they were going home to enjoy their spaghetti and give Rachel and Noah their privacy. Their dinner was even complete with candle light and sparkling grape juice in place of wine, but really they didn't care because it was the gesture itself that mattered. Rachel would've thought Noah was behind the entire thing except his surprise was genuine and not forced.

Once they were alone Noah explained that he was behind Manny's favorite soup being in the house and the fact that his mom had made Rachel's favorite thing, spaghetti. They sat down across the table from each other and held hands, well they held hands after Noah had poured them both some sparking grape juice and served the spaghetti. They talked about Glee mainly but also about the football team and their chances at even getting into the State playoffs that year, they did have a new coach which seemed to be a positive plus Karofsky joined the team as a full back and he was actually pretty good at, especially since he was a hockey player at heart. They also talked about the possibility of Noah of joining the baseball team again that year. After dinner Noah insisted that he would clean up and for Rachel to go relax in the living room. Fifteen minutes later Noah was walking into the living room with a gallon of Rachel's favorite vegan ice cream along with a couple of spoons. He explained he bought when he picked up the flowers for her earlier that day. He further explained that he also bought her favorite scented bubble bath and the matching lotion so she could take a relaxing bubble bath and then he would give her a massage using the lotion and that while they, mostly her though, were eating the ice cream that they would watch a movie, her choice with no complaints from him. So basically he was asking her if she wanted to watch the movie first OR bubble bath and massage first and then the movie and ice cream.

Rachel decided they would watch the movie first and she picked out her go to musical for when she was upset, West Side Story. Something about West Side Story just always made her feel better, maybe it was that she always cried when watching it and the crying was cathartic OR maybe it was just the powerful message of love and what opposites Tony and Maria were yet they still loved each other more than most people would realize and Tony reminded her of Noah and she'd always had a deep, personal connection with Maria which only deepened once she and Noah started dating(he was her real-life Tony after all). Noah stayed true to his word and didn't complain about having to watch a musical and he also didn't complain that this was the like the 20th time he and Rachel had watched West Side Story together; he often complained that the story wouldn't happen in real-life but then he always talked about how badass Tony was and how fucking awesome it was Maria rebelled against the wishes of her family t be with Tony because she loved him(he was fucking tired of watching movies where the guys looked like pansy ass wimps because they were the ones who had to fight for the girl). Once the movie was over he could tell Rachel was exhausted and her eyes were all red and her cheeks all puffy from crying during the movie, it never failed to make Rachel cry after all, so he decided that Rachel should just go to bed and they'd both skip tomorrow because Manny seemed like he had more than the 24 hour bug and he figured Rachel would want to take him to the doctor and both of her dads' and his mom had to work and Rachel always liked to be the one to go to the doctor with Manny, even if he or one of her dads or Amelia went as well Rachel had to be there as well just to make sure for herself that everything was ok. Anyway he decided he would save the bubble bath and massage for tomorrow night since she could enjoy them better then plus he wasn't sure how tomorrow would go so she might be stressed at the end of the day and a bubble bath and massage would be a good way to help her relax.

As Noah cleaned up the slight mess from the movie and locked up the house for the night Rachel stayed on the couch just admiring Noah and thinking how lucky she was. When he came back in the living room after turning off all the other lights besides those going upstairs and the ones in the living room he found Rachel half laying and half sitting on the couch with her eyes barely open. He chuckled lowly in his throat because his girl was so cute and so exhausted at the moment that he couldn't stand to wake her up so she could walk upstairs so instead he picked her up bridal style and carried her up to her bedroom. Once there he gently placed her on the bed and then proceeded to pull out some thing for her to wear while sleeping. When Rachel didn't wake up he decided it would be best for him to change her himself so he first took the pajama pants and slide them on underneath the skirt she'd worn to school that day before taking the skirt off then he took off her shirt and slide her bra straps down her arms before putting one of his tee shirts that she'd taken from him on and then completely removed her bra. Lastly he made sure the lights were off out in the hall way and changed into a pair of pajama pants himself and removed his wife beater and shirt before putting all the clothes into Rachel's hamper to be washed before climbing into bed behind her and turning off the bed side lamp he'd turned on earlier.

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The next day...

Rachel woke up to an empty bed and the smell of someone cooking breakfast and the sound of the TV quietly playing Bob the Builder downstairs so she knew Manny was home and probably still feeling sick since Noah and respected the TV rule. Rachel fixed her hair before heading downstairs to find Noah making biscuits gravy for breakfast while toast was making for Manny and coffee was brewing. She also noticed the orange juice sitting out which she grabbed a glass of while she watched him finish their breakfast. While Rachel feeds Manny his toast and he sips his orange juice from his sippy cup Noah fixes her some coffee and a plate before he calls Manny's pediatrician to set up an appointment for the day.

Once done with his breakfast Manny is tired so he falls back asleep so Rachel checks his temperature again only to find that it's increased since she checked it last night. When Rachel walks back into the kitchen Noah can see the concern written all over her face and immediately informs her that he already called the pediatrician and they have an appointment in 2 hours at 10 a.m.. Rachel eats her breakfast and sips her coffee quietly after she had thanked Noah for setting up the appointment but otherwise was quiet because she was worried about her little boy and Noah understood that so he didn't bother her. Once breakfast was over Rachel went upstairs to shower and get ready while Noah cleaned up, since he would take less time to get ready. Once she was ready Rachel headed back downstairs to sit with Manny and let Noah know he could go get ready. Finally at 9:30 they were both ready and headed out to Rachel's car. Noah drove while Rachel rode in the passenger seat; it only took them about fifteen minutes to get there but Rachel always liked to be early in case they needed to fill out any special paper work, update Manny's file, or anything along those lines. They get called back to see Dr. Smith after about 20 minutes of waiting as protocol requires they ask what the problem so Rachel explains while Noah holds a still half asleep Manny on his lap. After doing some quick tests they determine that Manny has the stomach bug but it's not one of the 24 hours ones that often go around and being 2 years old he was more likely to get sick since his immune system wasn't very strong yet. He tells Rachel that since it's a virus all they can do is to treat the symptoms which while annoying is also understandable since antibiotics are out of the question. Dr. Smith also tells Rachel that since Manny is young he will bounce back quicker than if like she or the doctor himself got sick because kids have that ability even if they have a harder time keeping from being sick.

Once done at the pediatrician's Noah treated Rachel and Manny to lunch at a Rachel's dinner, well they got it to-go since Manny was sick and contagious but still it was a special treat that didn't happen very often for Manny or really even Rachel. Usually Rachel and Noah would hang out at one or the others house and eat home cooked meals and they would go out occasionally but their dates were usually to the movies or bowling, things they could do with Manny if needed to but usually at least one of the parents or Amelia could watch Manny for a few hours while they went out, especially since they normally went on once a month or less.

AN 2: That's it for now. This took a while to write. Next time I'm not exactly sure what will happen but it will probably include Noah spoiling Rachel with the bubble bath and massage. If you guys have any ideas please PM me. I might have Jesse reappear next time as well, not sure yet.