So this is PART 2 for the 'Christmas Chapter'. This is the longest chapter that I have ever written! 2,000+ words! Thank you all soooo much for your wonderful reviews, favorites, alerts, and ideas! This chapter is dedicated to my good friend iluvglee444. She's so sweet and so nice!
I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT: AUDREY, MIA, AND HAYLEY!
"Audrey," said Mia trying to wake her cousin up, but Audrey didn't respond. "Audrey! Wake up! It's Christmas morning!" again Mia protested. Audrey finally started to wake up, "Are your Dads up yet?" Audrey asked. "Yeah everyone is! They're all waiting for you to open presents!" said Mia. Audrey quickly got out of bed to join the rest of her family. Audrey took Mia's hand and both girls headed downstairs to celebrate Christmas.
"Merry Christmas sleepy head," said Finn as Audrey came downstairs with Mia. Finn and Rachel were sitting next to each other on the couch and Kurt and Blaine on the other. Audrey laughed, "Sorry to keep you all waiting. Merry Christmas," she said as she exchanged hugs and kisses with her family. Audrey and Mia sat on the floor by the tree and began to open their presents. "Did you already exchange gifts?" asked Rachel. "Yeah we had a shopping trip. That was our gift to each other," said Kurt.
Audrey mostly received clothes, gift cards, and jewelry. Mia grabbed one from under the tree, on the tag it read To: Mia From: Santa. After she read the tag she couldn't tear off the paper fast enough, soon she screamed with delight. "She's so pretty!" said Mia as she admired her new American Girl doll. Kurt and Blaine eyed each other as at six year old was in awe. Finn got up from the couch and walked towards the tree and grabbed a present from under the tree. He sat back down on the couch and handed it to Rachel. "Merry Christmas," he said to her as she opened the present. "What's this?" she asked holding up a small voice recorder. "I know it isn't much but it's for you well really it's for the baby. It's for when you can't be around him or her and you can record your voice or you singing a song or something like that," said Finn. Rachel smiled at the gift, "I love it," she said right before she gave him a kiss on the lips. "Ewww!" said Mia. "Oh Mia it's not ewww, it's sweet and romantic," said Audrey. Rachel smiled again as their lips separated, so did Finn. "Thank you, and now for your gift. Audrey sweetie could you hand me that present right there?" said Rachel as she pointed to another one of the presents under the tree. Audrey got up from her place on the floor, grabbed the present and handed it to her Mom. "Merry Christmas," she said handing him the present. Finn opened it to find a sterling silver watch. "Oh it's beautiful Rachel. Thank you," said Finn as he gave her another kiss.
"Audrey there's one more for you," said Mia pulling out the last present from under the tree. "Really?" said Audrey as she scooted over towards Mia. There was a small card taped to the top of the box. She opened the card which read:
Audrey,
Merry Christmas, we love you so much words couldn't express it. We hope you enjoy this, you deserve it.
Mom and Dad
Audrey smiled and closed the card. "What is it?" Audrey asked. "Well open it and find out," said Finn jokingly with his arm around Rachel. The five observed her as she tore open the wrapping paper. Audrey opened the box to find two plane tickets for New York City. "Oh my god, are you serious? When am I going?" "Spring break, you're going to stay with Uncle Kurt and Uncle Blaine," said Rachel. "Wait but who's the second ticket for?" Audrey again asked. "Well who do you think it's for?" said Finn. "Hayley?" Finn and Rachel both nodded at their now jittery daughter. "Does she know?" "No but Sam and Quinn do and they said yes," Rachel responded. Audrey smiled as she bit her lip and dashed over to her Mom and Dad to give them a hug. She had an arm around each of their necks and she was in between them. She whispered in their ears, "Thank you so much." "You're welcome," they both said in unison. Audrey got up and wiped away her tears. Audrey laughed a little, "Sorry, this just means so much to me," Finn and Rachel both smiled at their daughter, "We know it does sweetheart," said Rachel. Audrey smiled and headed over to her Uncles. "Thank you both too." "You're very welcome Audrey," said Blaine. "We can't wait to have you both over," said Kurt. Audrey smiled again. This Christmas couldn't get any better for Audrey.
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Soon Burt and Carole arrived and everyone exchanged their Christmas greetings. Then Beth and The Evans' showed up. "Merry Christmas!" said Audrey hugging her best friend. "Merry Christmas to you too!" said Hayley. "Here," said Audrey as she handed Hayley one of the plane tickets. "What's this?" said Hayley as she looked at the ticket. "New York? You're taking me to New York City!" screamed Hayley. "Yep, Spring Break!" screamed Audrey. Everyone turned to face the two excited girls. "I think she told her," said Finn towards Rachel. "But wait, I have to ask my parents first." "You don't have to," said Quinn from behind her. "You can go," said Sam. "Really? Thank you so much!" said Hayley hugging her Mom and Dad. When she let go of her parents she turned to Audrey and said, "Thank you so much Audrey." "What are friends for?" responded Audrey. Hayley smiled and gave her another hug.
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Then it was time for Christmas dinner. The eleven of them sat down at the large dining room table and began to eat.
"Hey Rach, do you think your Mom is going to come?" whispered Finn. "Yeah I invited her but I doubt she'll show up this late," said Rachel just before the doorbell rang. "I'll get it," said Audrey as she got up from the table. Audrey made her way to the front door. She opened it and said, "Grandma Shelby! You came!" said Audrey hugging her Grandmother. "Hey sweetheart. I wouldn't miss seeing you for the world," said Shelby. Audrey hadn't seen her Grandmother in quite a while so Audrey was thrilled to see her. "Am I too late?" Shelby asked letting go of her Granddaughter. "Not at all we just started eating," said Audrey as she took her Grandmothers hand and led her into the dining room.
"Mom, Grandma Shelby is here," said Audrey. "Mom, you came!" said Rachel as she got up from her chair. "Yeah, sorry I'm late everybody, the traffic was terrible." "Thanks for coming," said Rachel as she gave her Mother a hug. "You look great sweetheart," said Shelby. "Thanks Mom." Rachel led her back to the table to join everyone. Shelby sat down at the table and enjoyed Christmas dinner with everybody.
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After Christmas dinner everyone gathered in the living room to relax and talk. "So Rachel when are you due?" asked Quinn. "The doctor said May 30th," responded Rachel with a smile as she touched her bump. "Boy or Girl?" asked Beth. "Well this time we want to keep it a surprise," said Finn as he looked at Rachel. "Any names yet?" asked Carole. "Well if it's a boy then definitely Christopher after Finn's Father but if it's another girl we were thinking Lily," said Rachel.
As everyone was all over Rachel about her pregnancy, Audrey was listening from afar. She had left the living room earlier saying she had to get something from her room. No one was really talking to her so she decided to leave the conversation. Audrey soon dashed upstairs and headed to her room. Kurt had caught a glimpse of her running upstairs so he decided to go up and talk to her.
Before her entered her room he could hear her crying. "Audrey can I come in?" "Yeah sure Uncle Kurt." Kurt opened the door to see the crying girl sitting on her bed wiping away her tears so that Kurt couldn't notice she was crying. "Ok Audrey what's going on? Christmas is your favorite holiday so I know it isn't about that so it's obviously about no one talking to you down there," said Kurt. "How did you know?" Audrey asked. "Audrey Hudson, I have known you since the day you were born and you always want the attention," said Kurt. Audrey didn't respond, "Listen Audrey you have got to get over this, the attention isn't always going to be on you everyday twenty-four seven, especially when your brother or sister comes." Audrey looked up at her Uncle, "You're right and I'm sorry. I don't know why I do this, it just makes me look bad." "Well you're just like your Mom in that way, in high school she had always wanted the attention but then she got over it," said Kurt. Audrey giggled as she gave her Uncle a hug, "Thanks Uncle Kurt. I knew you were always my favorite Uncle," said Audrey as Kurt smiled. "Alright we better get back down there before people start thinking that you ran away again." Audrey laughed, "If it's ok with you Uncle Kurt, I would like to take a little walk," said Audrey. "Yeah that's fine," said Kurt as he left her alone.
Audrey put on her red coat and her white knit hat and headed outside. She was thinking about what Kurt had said to her. She really needed to get over this, she had to stop wanting the attention all the time. When Audrey was outside in the cold Christmas air she pulled out her earphones and pressed play on her iPod and began to sing aloud with the song as it began to snow.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the yuletide gay
From now on your troubles will be far away
Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of your
Faithful friends who dear to us
Gather near once more
Through the years we all will be together
If the fate allows
Hang a shining star up on the highest bough
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more
Through the years we all will be together
If the fate allows
Hang a shining star
Up on the highest bough
And have a merry little Christmas now
When everyone had left for the night and the Hummel-Anderson's were asleep in the guest room, it was just the three Hudson's in their living room together. "I don't know about you two but I am exhausted," said Finn as he sat down between Rachel and Audrey. "Did you have a good Christmas Audrey?" asked Rachel as she played with her daughter's wavy brown hair. "Yeah I loved it," said Audrey. "This time next year there will be four of us here," said Finn. Rachel smiled at him and gave him a kiss. "Can we do this again next year? You know having everyone over and spending time with our family and friends?" asked Audrey. "Of course sweetheart. We wouldn't have it any other way," said Rachel as Audrey smiled at her Mother.
Soon Audrey had fallen asleep on the couch. "I got her," said Finn as he got up to carry Audrey to her room. "Are you sure Finn?" "Yeah Rach, she isn't that heavy," responded Finn. When Finn picked her up Audrey put her arms around his neck as he carried her up the stairs. Rachel watched the scene reminding her of when Finn would do that when Audrey was a little girl, she smiled as she followed Finn up to Audrey's bedroom.
Finn placed Audrey on her bed and pulled the covers over. "Merry Christmas Audrey," said Finn as he gave her a kiss on the forehead. Rachel came over to her sleeping daughter and said, "Merry Christmas Audrey," also giving her a kiss on the forehead. Finn waited for Rachel to finish, they closed the bedroom door to leave Audrey with her wonderful thoughts and dreams.
I would love to mention the three people who really helped me put this together my friend Heather for Rachel's gift, iluvglee444 for Finn's gift, and Olivia Marie 20 for the Kurt and Audrey scene!
In the next chapter it will be January and there will be love in the air for Hayley and soon there will be conflict between the two best friends.
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