Okay, I've been trying to write this chapter for months, no joke, months but nothing came out. I had a 132 words when I sat down to write today and try again, after updating too late and starting a new berryford story, you should have been there. I didn't think it would happen today either but it did and it's finished. Not long like the first couple, I'm sorry but I wanted you all to know I haven't forgotten this story and am trying my best to finish it if only my muse would cooperate. I want to send a huge thank you to all of you who reviewed, favorite and alerted this story. A special thank you too Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon(Julie who is my best friend on here, an amazing writer and the one that pushes me to write when I don't think I can, Lwrnld who reviews always make me smile for the rest of the day, bloodyblond who's review of last chapter pushed me to want to get back to the story and finally Ravenwolf2089 who's an amazing writer and a friend of mine on here who asked me the other day to get back to this story and it was because of her that I think I was finally able to sit down and finish the chapter. Thanks, Alex! I love you all! and hope you enjoy!
The shopping trip itself wasn't so bad in Noah's eyes. Him and Rachel walked into Macys at the mall and she found a couple of pairs of jeans that she liked on sale so those were added to the keep list. She fell in love with a blue short sleeved button up but when he told her to put in the cart she insisted it was to expensive. Rolling his eyes he grabbed it and threw it in the cart.
"NOAH!" She snapped, glaring a little as she tried to grab the shirt that he had grabbed, again, and was holding it out of her reach, "I don't need it and it's way to expensive. I'll find something more cost appropriate that I love just as much, just give me time."
He rolled his eyes but was glad she had said that, it gave him the perfect comeback, "Yeah, maybe but I don't want to be stuck shopping all afternoon. Time is money or whatever right? So getting this now, is in the long run cheaper."
She was trying not to laugh and he could tell as she said, "That made no sense whatsoever you realize that right?"
He glared at her while putting the shirt in the cart, "It's staying, midget, so deal with it."
She frowned but just shrugged and moved on to the clearance rack, not seeing the tiny victory dance he did behind her that was totally not bad ass but he felt was well deserved.
After that she found a couple more shirts and announced, "That's enough. Let's go pick up Dani!"
Noah frowned but nodded, "If you're sure...You know Mom's going to make you buy half the store tomorrow right?"
Rachel shook her head, "Debbie will do no such thing. She will have me buy a couple more things, I"m sure and some items that are more for girls eyes then boys but besides that it won't be that different."
He smirked, thinking 'she's in for a surprise tomorrow' as he threw an arm around her, leading her to the check out lane, "Sure babe, whatever you say."
She gave him a look, trying to figure out if he was actually agreeing with her or just being sarcastic but couldn't figure it out. Shrugging she made a point to ignore the total when Noah swiped the card so it wouldn't make her feel worse than she already did.
They walked out and Noah lead her to the food court. She followed but asked, "I thought we had to go pick up Dani."
Noah rolled his eyes, "She's fine, Ray. I promise. She's in no hurry to leave Satan's house. She's a demon child, she's right at home there."
"Noah, it's not nice or appropriate to talk about our teammate like that. I'm sure Santana is a wonderful girl once you get to know her with plenty of wonderful qualities."
"If that's true, I've yet to find any and I've known her since we were babies so good luck finding those but in the meantime, I'm hungry so we're going to eat before grabbing the brat, alright?"
Knowing there was no point in arguing, Rachel agreed.
After eating, they finally went to the car and heading to Santana's house. When they pulled up, Rachel turned to Noah, "Do you want me to wait in the car while you pick up Dani?"
"Why would you do that?" He asked, confused.
"I didn't know if you'd want Santana to know that you and I were hanging out. I know you two were an item earlier this year."
He snorted before saying, "Satan and I? An item? No. we were fuck buddies Ray and we're not even that anymore. Besides, even if we were, you're living with me now and everyone knows we're friends and have been for months so stop worrying, get your ass out of the car and meet you're new partner in crime."
She smiled at him, ignoring the foul language and just focusing on the nice parts. "Right, let's go!" she jumped out and was practically bouncing waiting for him to hurry up because despite her reservations about Santana and such, she was really excited to meet Dani.
Noah couldn't help but chuckle at her once again, mood shift as he led her up the walk to the door where he rang the bell and then turned and said quickly, "Don't let anything San may say, upset you alright? She can be a bitch but she is lying 95 percent of the time so just ignore her."
Rachel didn't get a chance to respond because the door opened and there was Santana, eyebrow arched at the unexpected company but she just moved out of the way and waved them both in, "The brats are playing a game so I doubt they're going to want you here yet"
"Too damn bad. We gotta get home." Noah responded before showing himself out towards what Rachel could only assume the girls were at.
"What are you doing here, Berry?" Santana asked, not mean, exactly, just curious.
"Oh, um Noah and I were out shopping and he said he needed to pick up Dani so here we are. If you want I can wait outside..."
Santana rolled her eyes but said, "Not what I meant. Just curious. I never see you outside of school. You and Puck together now or something?"
"She's living with me Lopez. Quit with the 20 questions and help me with the two demon children." Noah yelled.
Santana's mouth dropped, "You're living with him? What the hell did he do? Knock you up?"
"What? No! We most definitely never engaged in anything that would end up in pregnancy. What would possibly make you think that?"
Before she could answer, Noah came in the room, carrying a screaming girl who looked like she was 8 or 9.
"PUT ME DOWN! I"M NOT LEAVING YET. NOAH PUT ME DOWN! I'M GOING TO TELL MOM!"
"Hello Dani" Rachel said, causing the girl to stop yelling and turn her head to see who was there.
"RACHEL! RACHEL BERRY! Oh my goodness! What are you doing here? I love you! You're an amazing singer..." And she would have kept going but Noah set her down and promptly put his hand over her mouth.
"As I said, Ray, she loves you already. San quit with the questions. She has her reasons why she's living with us and you don't need to know them so back off. We're leaving now. Thanks for watching the demon." With that he led a now quiet Dani out the door, Rachel went to follow but was stopped by a hand on her arm.
She turned to Santana who was still looking confused but she said, "Hang on a sec."
She then turned and rummaged around grabbing a piece of paper and a pen. She wrote down something before handing the paper to Rachel. "It's my number. Call me if you want. We'll hang out. Talk."
Rachel looked at her, shock and sadly, suspicion in her eyes as she asked, "Why?"
Santana shrugged. "Because you seem different. Maybe you're not what I thought. I want to find out. Besides, Brit keeps saying she wants to be friends with you. Bout time I let her have her way."
"Really? This isn't some...I don't know trick or something because I'm living with Noah?"
Santana rolled her eyes and said, "Look, I'm not saying we're going to be BFF's and hang out doing each other's hair and nails. I'm saying you can call if you want. You don't have to, damn"
"I'm sorry" Rachel said softly, "I'll call but I better go."
"Yeah, whatever. Later" Santana said, waving though and giving a small smile that softened the not so friendly goodbye.
Rachel waved back, folding the paper and slipping in her pocket before turning and walking out the door, calling a quiet, "Bye" as she heard the door shut behind her.
She got in the truck and Noah raised an eyebrow at her, "What took so long?"
"Santana gave me her number and said her and I could talk if I wanted."
Noah frowned, "Don't trust her, Ray..."
"Santana's nice. Don't be mean to her" Dani snapped, stopping whatever Rachel was going to say and glaring at her brother.
"In what world are you living in kid?" Noah asked but didn't say anything else about Santana and instead said, "As you already know, this is Rachel. Rachel this is my kid sister Dani. Dani, Rach is going to be living with us from now on. Try not to driver her crazy, alright?"
Dani's eyes widened, "You're going to be living with us? Really?" She asked, looking at Rachel.
"Rachel nodded, smiling at the small girl, who suddenly looked so happy and so much different from the screaming child Noah had carried in.
"Does that make you my sister?"
Rachel thought about that for a moment before saying, "I suppose in a way, if you want it to mean that, it does."
"Wow! I can't believe it! I finally have an older sister and it's Rachel Berry. No one's going to believe me at school Monday!"
Noah rolled his eyes but couldn't help the smile on his face. No matter what he said, he loved his sister despite how much of a brat she could be and he was happy that by helping Rachel, they were also making the kid's dreams come true even if he wasn't ever going to get peace again with these two running his house.
Finally Chapter 4 is done. Sorry it took so long. I'm starting on 5 but my sis is coming this week so it may be a bit but it won't be months hopefully! Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for all the support. I can't believe how awesome you all are! Girls day, social services, more mike and Matt to come! Also, noah/Rachel and NOah/Rachel/Dani time so stay tuned!