So, I'm sorry about the weird chapter update. This is my chapter two! I was surprised who many alerts I've gotten! We finally meet Finn in this, well kinda. )

I don't own glee! :)

It was now the day before her dad's funeral and Rachel finally was feeling well enough to talk to her friends.

"What do you mean you're moving?"

"My dads wanted me to move to Ohio if anything ever happened to them, so i'm going there."

She really didn't care about anything anymore. She looked terrible and she was losing weight, she didn't even sing. She went back to school for a couple days and she didn't request any solos and she didn't even really acknowledge Jesse. She wasn't sorry either. She lost the two most important people in her life and that was all that mattered. She had nothing to live for or so she felt. She knew moping around was making everyone a little mad but they didn't understand her pain. They had never felt this way. She wanted to get out. She needed to get out.

"I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you too Kelly." she smiled small but her eyes were full of sorrow.

"What about you and Jesse?" She hadn't even thought about Jesse. She was sure that he hated her, after all he had been ignoring her because she was ignoring him. He was selfish anyway.

"I'm not sure. I think we are over. I don't care though." her best friend shrugged.

"He wasn't worth it anyway! Are you going to join the Glee Club there?" she asked

"No. I'm done singing."

"Oh! But Rachel, you have the most incredible voice. Don't be sad forever." she knew her best friend was just trying to help. She knew her dads would want her to be happy so she would try her best to be for them.

"Thanks, Kel."

The funeral was really hard for Rachel, her glee club sang a song in honor of them and she cried the whole ceremony. People were sorry for Rachel but they didn't understand her pain. They would never. She tried to smile politely and walk on through. She answered questions like "Where are you moving?" "what grade are you in?" Didn't they get that her dads just died? Jesse had shown up but she and him both knew it was over and she had something else to cry about. She was moving tomorrow and there was nothing she could do about it. She was learning to simply move forward.

"Rachel! Get your butt down here! We have to go!" Rachel took one last look around her room. She would miss the window that looked into the bust streets of New York. She would miss the pink walls and her bed. This room was all she had left. It hurt to leave. She smiled and walked out of her old life and into her new life. Which she wasn't so excited about.

"Coming!" she yelled as she ran downstairs. She was doing a good job of hiding her emotions. She never let her aunt see her cry anymore. She was going to have to be strong even if it meant smiling. She got into the moving van with her Aunt and headed out for a long journey. She put her iPod in and silently cried while she started a new life.

They were driving through the small town of Lima, Ohio. Rachel rolled her eyes at how boring everything was. She was from New York City! She was born a city girl. She scoffed at the only nice restaurant called "BreadStix". She really didn't understand why people would want to live in such a small place. She passed a high school call McKinley High and she assumed she would be attending that school Public School. She had never been to a public school before.

"Thats the school you'll be going too! I know its small and public but I hear they have a glee club so maybe you can join that club!"

She knew her aunt was only trying to help.

"I don't sing anymore. " was all she said and her aunt said nothing more until they pulled into the driveway of a very boring looking house in a boring looking neighborhood. She quickly grabbed her pink suitcase form the front seat and walked to the front door. She saw her Uncle Rich standing in the doorway ready to greet her.

"Hey, Princess. Im sorry about your dads and I hope one day you'll be able to call this place home." she took one look at him and said

"I doubt it."

She walked inside and smelled something fresh like flowers. They also had flowers in their kitchen. She was tired of flowers, like those were supposed to make her feel better. She wandered around and noticed there was a living room and a master bedroom and she walked into the guest bedroom. Which she assumed was hers. The room was small and it smelled old. She could pribablt make it her own. Right now all she wanted to do was sleep. She laid on the bed and much to her surprise it was comfortable.

She woke up to all her stuff placed in the bedroom and she decided to keep her mind busy and she would unpack. She quickly put her hand to her stomach as it growled, she hadn't eaten all day. She walked down the hall and noticed her dinner on the counter. Her Aunt and Uncle were gone. Oh, well. She was about to eat when she heard the doorbell ring. She rolled her eyes and considered not answering it. She ignored it and took a bite of the vegan lasagna her aunt made and it was really good.

She heard a voice. "I know you're in there! Our windows are across from each other." her back went straight up and she was curious to who it was. She walked to the door and opened it.

"Hi! Im Kurt Hummel! I live next door! You must be Rachel Berry! Your uncle talks very highly of you!" she felt her stomach churn inside because she felt guilty talking to her uncle the way she did. "Anyway, I thought maybe we could be friends! You know, so you have someone on the first day of school? I could help you pick out something to wear. Im Kurt by the way." he finaly stopped talking and she thought for a second at how annoying this clearly gay boy was.

"Look, my dads died and I was forced to move here from New York. That is my home. Not here! I don't need any friends. Thanks for the offer." and she shut the door in his very stunned face. She started school wednesday and she was nevous and could use a friend but not Kurt Hummel. Or whatever. She took her plate of food back to her room and looked to the window and saw Kurt Hummel on the phone looking annoyed and a little sad.

Sure she felt bad its over. She put on her iPod and started unpacking and let the music take her.

The next morning

The sun shone through her window and she squinted her eyes and groaned. She forgot to close her blinds. She got up to close her blind and she noticed Kurt in the next room dancing like crazy. She slightly opened her window so she could hear what he was singing. She gasped as she recognized him singing "Popular" from Wicked. She looked down sadly as she remembered her once musical and she missed her dads but she giggled as she heard him sing. For the first time she had laughed.A real laugh. She then felt really bad for being mean and thought she could use a friend. She opened the window. And yelled

"Kurt! Kurt!" she yelled getting annoyed. he finally noticed her banging on the window and he stopped and blushed. He opened the window.

"What do you want?"

"Look, Kurt is it? Im sorry for the way I treated you. My dads died and I am really quite lonely. I heard you singing and you have a great voice, though not as good as mine, but I stopped singing. I would love a friend if you could forgive me. Please?" she said smiling.

Kurt just looked at her and slowly a smile crept on his face and he jumped out the window and into her room.

"I forgive you! Rachel Berry, prepare for the best friend you've ever had! I am gay, so you don't have to worry about me fallinf for you but who could fall for a girl wearing an owl on her shirt. We will surely fix that. I have to go to school but Ill see you tomorrow. We can carpool! See you later." and he quickly jumped through the window again and ran to the truck who was honking.

"Im coming, Finn! Patience."

Rachel made a small smile. She had a friend. Maybe Lima wasn't so bad after all. Rachel had finally finished unpacking her clothes and everything else she brought. Her room was starting to look very Rachel Berry esque. Her dads would be proud. She knew her dads were always with her and it soothed her heart to know that she had two guardian angels instead of just one.

"Love you dads!" she quickly ran downstairs to apologize to her Uncle Rich. She spotted him drinking coffee with her Aunt Shelby. Her Aunt saw her and Rachel nodded and her aunt got up and left.

"Uncle Rich? Can I have a moment of your time?" she asked and sat down next to him.

"Sure, Rach, anything for my favorite niece."

"i'm really sorry about what I said to you the other day. I didn't mean it, I'm lucky I even have a home. As much as I do hate it here, I promise to live under your house and rules and be happy for the most part-"

"Rachel, Honey, your dads just died. I don't expect you to be happy ever. I expect you to cry and be mad and confused. You're such a strong girl and you look better already even thought its been about a week. I love you, and so does Shelby and this town already loves you. You shine brighter than anyone in this town. Don't be sorry!" he put his hand on her shoulder while she silently cried. She pulled him into a hug and let him hold her. She knew she had someone. She was glad it was him.

"Thanks Uncle Rich." she went back upstairs and put on her Barbra Streisand record and just sat in her room and remembered. "My Man" from FUnny Girl were her and her dads favorite song and she laughed while she remembered.

Flashback

Leroy sang to Hiram

Oh my man I love him so

He'll never know

All my life is just despair

But I don't care

When he takes me in his arms

The world is bright, alright

Rachel giggled into her palm while she watched her dads duet with each other to her favorite song. She hoped one day she could find a man that loved her as much her dads loved each other. THey finished and Rachel applauded!

"Oh daddy, papa, that was grand! I hope one day I will find a man worthwhile to sing too!" she said

"Rae, you will. I know that. You will find a boy and you will take him by the hand and sing this song to him. He will love you because of everything you are." Leroy said.

"how will I know?"

"You'll know it when you see him." Hiram added.

Rachel remembered this as her favorite memory. She knew for sure Jesse wasn't the one she could ever sing this too. He was always telling her how her voice could be better. As if! She thought. She was better than him. She wiped away her tears and turned off the music, shed have enough for one day. She looked up from her bed and saw a boy standing in Kurt's window.

He was giant, probably taller than 6 foot. He was just staring at her with no expression at all really. He was wearing a plaid shirt and jeans from what she could tell. Why was he looking into her window? She took one look at him and shrieked, scaring them both. She stood up and glared at him and shut the window, well more like slammed it. That boy was staring at her! Invading her privacy. What was this town? She would never see it as normal!

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