Hey guys! This is my second chapter and I hope you like it because I'm so excited to write this story! So, please please please PUH-LEASE review and most of all… ENJOY!
-Emma
The next morning…
Rachel awoke to find the other side of the bed empty. She looked over at the clock on her bedside table.
8 AM.
Rachel smiled. Finn had let her sleep in.
She got out of bed and went out of the room, to find Finn in the kitchen, holding a cup of coffee in his hand for her.
"Good morning." Rachel grinned.
"Good morning to you, too." Finn walked around and pecked his fiancé on the cheek.
They walked over to the couch and sat facing each other.
"Can I ask you something?" Rachel inquired, sipping her coffee.
Finn smiled slightly. "Of course!"
"Why did you let me sleep in? The alarm didn't go off."
"Well," Finn said, shifting a little. "You're going to be a little jetlagged later."
Rachel looked completely lost.
"Jetlagged?"
"Yeah, you might want to get packed… we're going home."
Rachel grinned.
"You don't mean…"
"I mean it…"
"We're going back to Lima?"
"Yes, we're going back to Lima. I figured we could spend the summer there and, um, you know, maybe even get married there…?"
Rachel put her coffee down on the table slowly and threw her arms around Finn's neck, burying her face in his neck.
Finn grinned and hugged her back.
Look out, Lima, he thought, we're coming home.
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Rachel and Finn stepped off the plane, carry-ons in hand, headed for baggage claim.
When they'd gotten their suitcases, they heard the cries of quite a few familiar voices.
"Rachel! Finn!"
They engaged pair turned around to see a group of people waving at them.
They grinned.
New Directions.
The group hadn't all been together like this since 2012.
Rachel first hugged Quinn Fabray, a former enemy-turned best friend.
Finn slapped the hand of her boyfriend, Noah "Puck" Puckerman.
Rachel was tapped on the shoulder.
She turned around to see Kurt Hummel, her best friend, and his boyfriend, Blaine Anderson. They had flown in from New York secretly a few hours before Finn and Rachel.
Rachel and Finn continued to hug and kiss their group of high school friends.
"Where's Mr. Schue?" Finn inquired about the whereabouts of their former glee club advisor, who Finn still constantly spoke to, since he was like a father to him.
"He took Ms. P to the restroom… she pees a lot now, you know, since she's pregnant." Tina Cohen-Chang answered, holding the hand of Mike Chang, her high school boyfriend.
Rachel smiled. "God, I haven't seen them in ages!"
Just then, Mr. And Mrs. Schuester joined the group. Finn happily hugged Will as Rachel did the same to Emma, and then they switched.
"Well, this is quite the reunion!" Will shouted over the noise of the bustling airport, laughing and putting his arm around his expecting wife.
"I say we all go out to dinner!" Rachel said, laughing as well.
The gang agreed and all left the airport, having 20 different conversations, as usual.
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Breadstix.
It was certainly a special place for the group.
…
But they needed bigger tables.
The group had to push 4 tables together just so they could all eat together.
During a meal filled with normal small talk, about weather, college, family, all that fun stuff, Finn decided it was time to make an announcement.
He stood up and hit his fork against his water glass.
"We, uh…" Finn didn't know how to tell his friends.
"We have a little announcement." Rachel said.
"YOU'RE PREGNANT!" Brittany Pierce shouted.
Finn laughed, but Rachel didn't. He froze.
His eyes got wide. He shot Rachel an incredibly scared look.
She shook her head as Finn let out a sigh of relief, which had everybody laughing,
"There's a big reason why we came back home…" Finn said.
Rachel threw her left hand out. "We're getting married!
"No way!" Kurt shouted, as all the girls gasped and squealed and cheered.
"Way!" Finn grinned.
All of the girls and Emma ran over to Rachel to admire her beautiful ring and asked Finn how he proposed.
"We went to Sardi's, I brought her some roses, and we ran into Patti LuPone, I asked her, she said yes. It wasn't a very elaborate scheme." Finn muttered.
"Damn, Frankenteen! This is the hottest ring I've ever seen!" Santana Lopez shouted, staring at Rachel's ring, comically mesmerized.
Will shook Finn's hand.
"Congratulations, Finn." He grinned.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Schue…" Finn smiled.
Mr. Schue laughed. "None of you guys are ever going to call me Will are you?"
Finn laughed. "It's never going to happen."
Kurt motioned a waiter over and whispered into his ear.
"Rachel?" Brittany said.
"Yeah, Brit?"
"Who's going to be your maid of honor?"
Rachel stopped smiling…
"Uh, um, well… you know…"
"Don't make her pick now!" Quinn said to Brittany. "We'll be comfortable no matter who you choose…"
"Well, Kurt, I think Finn may want you to be one of his groomsmen."
"Totally!" Finn chimed in, hoping to save his fiancé the trouble of having to deal with bridesmaid drama.
"Um, Quinn, I was actually wondering… would you like to be my maid of honor?"
"Rachel Berry, I'd be honored."
And she hugged her best friend.
"So, when's the wedding?" Emma asked.
"I think I want to get married in about 2 months…" Finn said.
Rachel smiled at her fiancé. "So do I"
Emma, who was 7 months pregnant at the time, grinned.
"Maybe this kid'll be out of me by then." She put her hand on her stomach.
Just then, the waiter Kurt had spoken to came out with a tray of champagne glasses. He handed them all out, except for one, which was sparkling cider for Emma.
"I'd like to propose a toast." Kurt said, smiling at his stepbrother and his best friend. "To Finn and Rachel… I mean, look at them. They are the epitome of happy couples. To most of us, they're just our friends… best friends even. But, to me, these two are my family. Rachel, I'm so glad you're going to be my sister. And, Finn, I'm so glad that you're marrying Rachel. Look at yourselves. If Rachel makes you happy, I'm happy. So, here's to Finn and Rachel! May they live happily ever after… that's the end."
"Here here!" Puck said, raising his glass. "To Finn and Rache- Finchel!"
"To Finchel!"
Finn and Rachel started cracking up and raised their glasses. They kissed and their friends clapped.
When they pulled away, they laughed even more.
This is what it felt like to be home.
There it is, chapter 2. Sorry for the late update, I meant to get this up earlier… Well, chapters 3 and hopefully 4 will be up tomorrow. Thanks for reading and PLEASE review!
PS: I'm sorry for my little mistake in the last chapter, as pointed out to me by GeekyGleek. The work date was during JUNIOR year… oops.
Thanks!
-Emma :)
