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Chapter 3

Rachel sighed after throwing up again. This morning sickness wasn't getting any easier for her and she knew she'd be happy when it was all over.

As she walked out of the bathroom, Santana walked into the apartment. "Hey. Morning sickness?"

"Yeah," she nodded. "How was work?"

"Don't try to distract me from the conversation you had with Puck. How'd it go?"

"Awful. He basically said I'm on my own."

"What an asshole," she said, sitting on the couch. "So what are you going to do?"

"I called my dads and-"

She was cut off by the buzzer to the apartment. Confused, Santana got up and went to the intercom.

"Hello?"

"It's Hiram and Leroy, Santana," Hiram said.

"Oh come on up," she replied before letting them in. She turned to Rachel. "They're here?"

Rachel nodded. "Yeah my dad said they'd hop on the first plane out here. And they know that I'm pregnant but not that Puck's the father."

"Oh boy," the Latina shook her head as the door opened and the two men walked in.

"Our baby," they said, hugging Rachel.

"Funny choice of wording," Santana smirked.

"It's good to see you, Santana," Leroy smiled. "Thank you so much for letting Rachel stay here."

"Of course. That's why she's lucky to have such an awesome best friend," she flashed a confident smile to Rachel who rolled her eyes.

"Well let's not beat around the bush here," Hiram said as they sat down. "We all know Rachel's pregnant so I guess we need to figure out the best solution."

"Rachel, do you really think you're in the best position to raise a child right now?" Leroy asked her. "I mean you're dealing with so much already."

She shook her head. "I don't know. I mean I understand the position I'm in but…it's my baby. How can I give it away?"

"Sweetheart we understand how you can feel this way but think about this," Hiram told her. "You'd be a single parent since the father does not want to be involved."

"Who is the father anyway?" Leroy asked. "You never mentioned it."

"Uh," Rachel hesitated.

Before she could answer, the buzzer went off again. Santana looked at Rachel.

"Are you expecting someone else?" she asked.

"No," Rachel shook her head before getting up and going over to the intercom. "Hello?"

"Rachel it's me," Puck said. "I know it's early but I needed to talk to you."

"Uh Noah now's really not a good time."

"Please it's important."

She sighed before letting him in and trying to avoid her fathers' questioning looks. When Puck walked in, he stopped when he saw Hiram and Leroy.

"Oh I guess that's why you said it wasn't a good time," he frowned, suddenly wishing he could turn right back around and leave.

Santana smirked. "Oh this is going to be good."

"Santana. It's been a while, how have you been?"

"Better than you will be in a few minutes."

"Noah Puckerman," Hiram said, getting up and walking over to him to shake his hand. "Your mother did mention that you recently moved to New York. How are you?"

"I'm doing okay, just getting adjusted to the city."

"I see you've reconnected with Rachel," Leroy mentioned. "It's good that you two talk, I suppose you know her situation?"

Puck nodded, trying to hide his nervousness. "Yes she's mentioned it."

"Yeah we're trying to figure out the best solution," Rachel told him before turning to her dads. "Excuse us for a moment."

She took Puck by the arm and dragged him into her bedroom as he looked at her. "You haven't told them have you?"

"I was hoping they wouldn't ask but they just did."

"So tell them the truth."

"That the father told me he won't be here and wished me luck? Yeah that'll go over well."

Puck shrugged. "You have to tell them sometime. It's going to come out."

"Why are you even here?" she asked, getting frustrated.

"To tell you I regret what I said yesterday. I was in shock, I didn't mean it."

"Too late, I'm dealing with this on my own. Now leave."

Without giving him a chance to respond, she walked out of the room and went back to talk to her fathers. Puck sighed to himself. Of course Rachel wasn't going to believe him so he had to show that he really wants to be involved. He took a deep breath knowing what he was about to do was potentially really stupid but had to be done.

Puck walked back into the room with everyone else and interrupted the conversation. "I'm the father."

Everyone froze before Hiram cleared his throat. "I'm sorry, what?"

"I'm the father of Rachel's baby. We met up one night when I first moved here and you know what happens after that."

"Noah," Rachel chastised. "This really isn't the time plus you've already let me know how you feel about this."

"Rachel I made a mistake yesterday. I was in shock I mean I just moved here and started this new job and then you come to me telling me you're pregnant. I know I could've reacted better but I'm here to own up to it and I want a say in what happens."

Leroy stepped in. "Okay someone fill us in please? Rachel why didn't you tell us Noah was the father?"

"Because he told me he didn't want to be here and to handle everything on my own," she glared at Puck.

When Hiram and Leroy looked at him angrily, Puck immediately became defensive. "Like I said I was in shock. But this is happening and I'm not going to be that guy who walks away from something like this. If you want to give it up for adoption I'll support you but if you want to keep it, I'll be here and I'll help you any and every way I can."

Rachel looked at him, shocked. "Really?"

"Noah while I don't approve of your initial reaction, are you sure you want to do this?" Hiram asked.

Leroy nodded. "Yeah this is a huge decision that will change both of your lives. Are you two really ready to be parents? You're not even together and are just getting reacquainted with each other after years apart. You two have both changed, do you think you can handle preparing for a child?"

Rachel looked at Puck before looking back at her dads. "This will be hard but I want to keep my baby and I want him or her to have both parents."

"Besides we have nine months to reconnect with each other. Plenty of time," Puck added.

Hiram looked between them before sighing. "You two are lucky we don't believe in you getting married because of something like this. But you are adults and can figure things out yourselves."

Rachel sent them a grateful look. "We can do this."

"Yes we can," Puck smiled at her.

For the first time since she found out she was pregnant, Rachel felt relief. Puck wanted to be involved and her dads supported her. Only thing to worry about now is what would happen between her and Puck within the next nine months.

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After everything settled down, Santana convinced Rachel to go and talk to Puck about everything. Despite coming to an agreement of what to do about the baby, Rachel was still unsure about her position with Puck.

As they walked together, she looked at him. "Okay tell me how you really feel about this situation."

"What do you mean?" he asked, confused.

"You can't be completely pleased with me being pregnant so tell me the truth."

"You're right, I'm completely pleased but it is what it is. I refuse to be like my father so even though we're not together, I still want to be in my kid's life." He hesitated. "But there is one thing I started thinking about."

"What?"

"Maybe you should move in to my apartment with me? I mean I have the room and it would help us get reacquainted."

She looked at him, shocked, and hesitated. "Uh I don't know about that. Living together seems kind of extreme."

"I just want to be there to help if you need anything, I mean Santana shouldn't be the one handling everything if it's not her kid."

Appreciating his concern, Rachel smiled. "Well it's still early I won't need too much for a while. But how about when I'm further along? Say, five months?"

He thought about it and nodded. "Deal. And I want to come to every doctor's appointment."

"Of course." She paused. "Do you really think we're making the right decision? Keeping the baby?"

"Yeah. It would've killed both of us to give it away. I don't know how but we'll figure this out. Hell, we got nine months."

Rachel smiled at him and felt like she was back in high school whenever Puck said something sweet to her. Puck still had the same effect on her that he had when she was younger and she hated it. She had moved on but had a meaningless one night stand that brought him back in her life, this time for good.

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