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"Yes, mom. I will tell Finn to call you more often." Natalie huffed as she opened the door to her residence hall and trudged her way up the three flights of stairs to the girl's floor. It was just after 8 o'clock on a Friday night and she had just gotten out of her late night biology lab. They were just entering the second month of school and her mother called her at least once a week, and she had already talked to her on Tuesday, so when her phone started going off on her way back to her dorm, she thought something was seriously wrong.
"I'm sorry to bother you, sweetie," her mom said on the other end of the line and she sighed when she heard the regret in her voice, "It's just that he never calls, you know. And I get worried about him being in that big city all by himself."
Natalie sighed again as she finally reached her floor, "I know, mom. And it's okay. I understand." Her mother had been worried about Finn being in a big city, because everyone knew he wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. "But, he has Rachel." Natalie pointed out and she could almost hear her mother roll her eyes.
"Yeah, yeah." It wasn't that her mom didn't like Rachel; it was just that the girl was so damn annoying! Natalie heard some commotion on the other end of the line, "Well, sweetie. Burt's home and we are having date night."
Natalie smiled when she heard the excitement in her mom's voice. Burt had been a blessing to all three of them, not only was their mother finally happy, but both she and Finn finally had a father figure in their live, and the fact that it was her best friend's dad was even better. "Okay, you guys have fun and I will make sure that Finn calls you tomorrow."
"Thanks, Nat. I love you."
"Love you too, mom." Natalie smiled as she heard Burt yell in the background that he loved her, "Love you too, Burt. Bye." She hung up and put her phone in her pocket as she approached her dorm room. She loved her family.
She had just slid her key into the lock when she heard it, the faint sound of a moan coming from the other side of her door. She had told her brother to stay the hell out of her room when he and Rachel were doing stuff. She turned to door knob and pushed the door open.
"Finnegan Christopher Hud-" the rest of the sentence died on her lips as her eyes landed on a topless Kurt grinding mercilessly against a topless Blaine. Neither of them seemed to notice she had even said anything as they continued what they were doing.
She casually walked into her room and slammed the door behind her, pulling the two very flustered boys out of their heated make-out session, "Hey, guys. What's up?" she raised an eyebrow as she motioned to Kurt's lower half that had stopped mid-thrust against Blaine's own, "Besides the obvious?" she smirked and Kurt blushed as he hid his face in Blaine's shoulder.
"Rachel…said…we could…use her room." Blaine panted out as he avoided eye contact with the still smirking girl, "She and Finn are in our room and she gave us her keys. She said you weren't supposed to be back 'til like 8." Blaine furrowed his brow in confusion.
Natalie rolled her eyes and pointed to the alarm clock on her desk, "Yep, and its 8:13."
Blaine slowly nodded his head as if this was the first time he had heard of the concept of time and sighed, "Looks like we are getting kicked out." He nuzzled his nose against Kurt's throat and said boy whined.
"Please, Natalie?" Kurt turned to her and gave her the puppy face that even a tough girl like Natalie couldn't resist.
"Why aren't you in your own room?" she asked as she walked to her wardrobe to pull out a pair of comfortable sweats and an old, muscle shirt of Finn's to change into. She changed in front of the two, turning away from them to slip on a sports bra and slide some shorts on before putting on the other stuff. Hey-her best friend was gay and had a boyfriend; she really didn't mind changing in front of them because she knew they were in no way interested at all.
"Because Noah's in there studying." Kurt stated and Natalie whipped her head around to stare at him so fast he swore her head was going to pop off, "What?" he asked as he stared at his open mouthed best friend.
"Did you just say Noah was studying? As in 'badass' Noah Puckerman is studying?" she stared at him like he had grown three heads as she pulled her shoulder length, dark hair back into a messy bun. Kurt rolled his eyes.
"You know he's changed, Natalie. Besides, he's getting it all done tonight so he has the weekend to spend with Beth." He shrugged and turned to the other side of the bed to dig his own keys out of his jeans, "Here, you can go study with him. At least it will be quiet." He held out his keys to her and Natalie sighed as she took them.
"You two so owe me." She said as she gathered the books she would need to do her homework and shoved them into her book bag along with her laptop. She flung the bag over her shoulders and turned back to say something else, but stopped and rolled her eyes when she found the couple the way she had found them, "Stay off my bed."
Kurt gave a short wave, and mumbled something along the lines of 'yeah, yeah', but didn't bother to pull away from Blaine as she walked out of her own dorm and back to the stairs where she would have to walk up two more flights of stairs just to get to Kurt's floor. Man was she glad they were in the same residence hall.
When she finally made it to Kurt's room, she rolled her eyes at the flashy sign Kurt had hung on his door. It was dripping in glitter and his name was in big, bold, black letters that stuck out from the paper. Only Kurt would put something that gaudy on his door. She turned to look at the multi-colored paper next to Kurt's and smiled softly. Noah's name was printed in large bubble letters and they were colored in with all kinds of colors, with a slew of colorful squiggles around the outside of the letters themselves.
The weekend after they had all moved into the dorms, they were making signs for their doors and Beth had been there. She was upset that everyone else was coloring and having fun, so Natalie had taken a piece of paper and drew the bubble letters and given it to Beth to color. She was pleasantly surprised to see that Noah had opted for using that on his door instead of the one that he had made himself with just his name written in black marker.
She quietly slid the key into the lock and opened the door. She wasn't surprised to be met with the back of Noah's head as he bobbed his head to the music only he could hear from the headphones that were stuck in his ears. She was, however, a little surprised to see a small, sleeping blonde girl curled up in Noah's bed fast asleep.
She furrowed her brow a little as she closed the door behind herself softly and quietly made her way to Kurt's desk, opposite of Noah's. She watched as Noah jumped a little and settled his hand over his heart as he pulled his headphones out of his ears and squinted at her in the dim lighting that his desk light was giving off.
"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to scare you and I didn't want to wake Beth up." She held her hands out in front of her as if she were surrendering and stood there until it seemed that Noah's heart was beating at a normal pace again, "You okay?"
Noah chuckled a little and nodded as he glanced at his sleeping daughter, "Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry, just didn't expect anyone back tonight," suddenly, he scrunched up his nose and looked back at her, "What are you doing here?"
She sighed as she set her book bag on Kurt's desk and flipped the light on, "Apparently, Rachel gave Kurt her keys and they are currently grinding against each other in Rachel's bed," she explained and Noah laughed a little. "So, you are stuck with me for the night." She shrugged and settled into the desk chair as she started taking her work out of her bag.
"Hey, I'm not complaining." Noah smiled as he stood up and stretched a little, cracking his back in a few places. He quietly made his way to the side of his bed and pulled the comforter around Beth's shoulders as he kissed her forehead softly.
"What is she doing here?" Natalie asked as she watched Noah gently stroke his daughter's hair. He really was a good dad and had been involved in her life since Shelby came back to Lima. Even though Shelby was the legal guardian of Beth, she wanted Beth to know at least one of her real parents and Quinn wanted nothing to do with her. So, Noah did things with Beth as much as he could and was super excited when Shelby had taken a job in Columbus, which meant he wouldn't have to drive home to see his daughter on weekends.
Every weekend, Shelby worked late hours, so Noah usually had her, which totally didn't bother him, or his friends. Normally, she would stay in the dorm with him and Kurt. Natalie usually lived in their dorm those weekends too, just so she was around to do some girl stuff when the boys got boring. Beth was the highlight of all of their lives, if anything was going wrong or they were just having a bad day, she would turn everything around with just one smile. Shelby and Noah were working out an agreement, as long as Noah went to school, kept his grades up and stayed out of trouble, he could have her on weekends and see her whenever he wanted. That and the fact that Shelby was already working on filling out the paper work to give guardianship back to Noah when he graduated, were the only things that motivated him to even go to college.
"Shelby took an extra shift tonight and didn't want to get a babysitter when she knew it was the weekend," Noah explained as he walked back to his desk and sighed as he looked over his work. "Hey, are you taking a math class right now?"
Natalie nodded slowly as she stood up and made her way to Noah's side of the room, "I am majoring in medicine. Whether we want to or not, we are required to take like all the math classes here." She stated and laughed a little when Noah rolled his eyes.
"Okay, Miss. 'Smarty-pants'," he gestured to his half-finished homework and sat back in his seat sighing, "Help?" he asked and pouted a little as he looked up at her from under his lashes.
Natalie felt her breathe catch in her throat, but quickly covered it up with a laugh, "Aren't you supposed to be an education major?" she asked as she skimmed over the algebraic equations that covered Noah's paper.
"Yeah, but the only thing math I have to know to teach music is to count the notes on the clef." Noah pointed out and Natalie rolled her eyes. Noah was majoring in music education and honestly, it didn't surprise her. He could play the guitar and the piano and his voice was actually really good. That and the fact that he's great with kids, makes him the perfect candidate for an elementary level music teacher.
"Whatever. Move over." She said was he scooted his chair over and she quietly dragged Kurt's over so she could help him with his algebra.