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Chapter 5

Now that everyone knew about her pregnancy, Rachel started to feel more comfortable with the idea of having a child. However, she wasn't feeling comfortable with the way her body was changing.

"Santana," she called from her bedroom. When Santana appeared in the doorway, she turned to her. "Does this look okay?"

Santana rolled her eyes. "Rachel they're maternity clothes. They're designed to make you look okay with a growing belly."

"I know I just can't get used to wearing them."

"Would that be why you've barely worn any of it since Puck's mom got it for you two weeks ago?" Seeing the unsure look on Rachel's face, she sighed. "Look you can't keep wearing the same clothes you've always worn. You're going to keep growing so you might want to get used to it."

Before Rachel could respond, the buzzer went off. "That would be Noah."

After letting him, Puck walked through the door. "Hey you ready to go?"

"Where are you guys going anyway?" Santana asked.

"I thought it would be a good idea to start looking for cribs and figure out what we're going to do about the baby's nursery," he explained.

The Latina raised her eyebrows in shock. "Wow I didn't realize you were being so proactive about this."

"He's not, his mother has been on his case about it so he's finally following through," Rachel rolled her eyes.

"Hey I'm still balancing being the new guy at work, give me a break," Puck replied.

Santana laughed at the two of them. "Well looks like you two are in for a fun day. Make her feel good, won't you? Someone isn't too happy about the baby weight."

Rachel groaned before grabbing her purse and walking out the door. Puck sighed. "These pregnancy hormones are a bitch."

"Like I said you're in for a fun day," she smirked.

He shook his head before leaving. When he got downstairs, he laughed to himself when he saw Rachel unsuccessfully trying to catch a taxi. "For someone who's lived in New York way longer than I have I figured you would've had this down already."

"I do, it can just be hard sometimes. You'd think a pregnant woman would get a cab easily."

"To be fair you're not that pregnant yet. Maybe once you hit six months it'll get easier."

She groaned as he managed to flag down a cab. "Don't remind me of how much bigger I'm going to get. I'm going to look horrible."

"No you won't," he told her as they got in. "You'll look just as great as you did that night that you got me drunk and started this whole thing."

She went to yell at him for the comment but when she realized it was a joke, Rachel laughed and shook her head. "I am clearly in a terrible mood and you somehow manage to still make me laugh."

"As I recall that was a gift I've had since high school," he shrugged.

At the mention of high school, Rachel frowned and went quiet for the rest of the ride. She hated thinking about how he was in high school. It reminded her of how much of a fool she was for having a crush on him then and still having some feelings for him now.

When they got to the store, Puck noticed her silence and looked at her. "You've been quiet the whole way here. You okay?"

"Yeah just…wondering what the baby will be like," she lied.

He didn't think he should believe her but he decided to let her get away with this one. "Well I'm hoping it takes after me."

"Which is exactly why I want it to take after me. Two of you would be a lot."

"Hey two of you would be just as much, especially if it was a girl. I'd have to deal with more storm-outs than I've ever had to deal with."

She rolled her eyes as they started walking around. "So we're going to have two cribs for each of our places."

"I'm assuming you're going to need me to assemble both of them."

"Glad we're on the same page," she smirked.

He shrugged. "That's fine, that's what Finn's for. I'm going to look at the cribs they have."

Rachel nodded as he walked away and she went to look at the baby clothes. So far things were going well with this shopping trip. But the more she looked at the clothes, the more she started to want to know what gender the baby was. As much as she didn't want to admit it, Puck might've had a point about it being easier to know the gender beforehand.

While she looked, she froze when she heard a familiar voice behind her. "Rachel?"

She slowly turned around. "Brody. What are you doing here?"

"Buying a gift for my cousin's baby shower." When he looked at her, he took in her growing belly. "You're uh…"

"Pregnant? Yeah."

"Wow congratulations," he said, still shocked. "You must be excited."

"I'm slowly getting used to the idea. It was kind of a surprise."

"Wow, uh I don't know what to say. Is…is it mine?"

Rachel stared at him in shock and confusion. "What? Why would you ask that?"

"We've been broken up for a few months and you look like you're a few months along."

"We also didn't touch each other the last month of our relationship if you recall."

"Just answer the question. Am I going to be a father?"

She thought about telling him yes to see if he would change his mind about ending their engagement. But then she realized that even if he did, he would only be doing it for the baby, not because he loved her. "No you're not."

"But how-"

"Hey I found a crib that looks good to go in my place," Puck said, walking over to them. He stopped when he saw Brody and looked between them. "I'm interrupting?"

Rachel sighed, hating this moment. "Noah this is my ex, Brody. Brody this is Noah Puckerman. The father of my baby."

Brody shook his head. "Wow. I guess I see why we didn't have sex that last month of our relationship."

"I didn't cheat on you with Noah. If you must know, the night that we broke up I reconnected with him."

"So you had a one night stand and got pregnant. Got to say I'm surprised and kind of disappointed. I thought you respected yourself more than that."

"Hey back off asshole," Puck stepped in. "You two are over, Rachel doesn't owe you an explanation. None of this is your business."

Brody looked at Rachel once more before nodding. "Guess you're right. Just thought I knew her better than that."

As he walked off, Puck looked at Rachel. "That guy's a dick."

"Can we just go please?" she asked with tears in her eyes. "I'm not in the mood anymore."

He sighed and nodded as they left. They walked until they stopped at the park. Rachel hadn't said a word since they left the store and Puck hated it.

As they sat down on the bench, he looked at her. "Look, I know that must've sucked but you can't take what that guy said to heart. He's your ex, you're not supposed to have good things to say about your ex."

"But he's right. I'm not the type of girl who ends up in situations like this. I mean I got pregnant from a one night stand the night that my fiancé broke up with me. Who does that?"

"Rachel shit happens. That's life. We're dealing with it the best way we know how right now and while this may not have happened in the most ideal way that doesn't mean that we're going to be shitty parents to this kid. You're the one who said we can do this so start believing it."

Realizing he was right, she nodded. "You're getting pretty good with your pep talks."

"Well I have five more months to go with your hormones so I'm just preparing for it," he shrugged. "Let's go get some food."

As they went and got something to eat, Puck couldn't stop thinking about what an ass Brody was. It was hard to believe Rachel could have ever considered marrying someone like him.

"Well I definitely feel better," Rachel said, bringing him out of his thoughts. "I guess food is the solution for everything these days."

"How did you ever end up with a guy like that?" he asked.

She paused and stared at him. "Why?"

"I'm just curious. I mean the guy was such an ass that it's hard to believe you were ever going to marry him."

"Well he was actually very sweet when we got together. He was perfect actually."

"Until he dumped you and kicked you out of your apartment."

"To be fair it was his place first. I didn't have the right to stay."

"Why are you defending him? The guy just said you had no respect for yourself and you're sitting here making it seem like you deserve it."

"Maybe I do. I mean maybe I just wasn't good enough for him and now I'm a joke he can go and tell his family about."

"Rachel that guy is a dick. Unless you cheated on him when you were together you didn't do anything. Stop feeling like you did something wrong when you didn't."

"Easy for you to say. You constantly screwed up and didn't care who suffered from it. I'm not like you, I don't just dismiss other people's feelings."

He shook his head. "I've never done that with you."

"The fact that you don't even remember says a lot about your behavior. You just did whatever you wanted and didn't care about how it hurt anyone else."

"I'm assuming we're talking about you so what did I do to hurt you in high school? Please enlighten me because as I recall, you avoided me all of senior year. Even when I tried to get in contact with you, you wouldn't take any of my phone calls so how am I the bad guy?"

Not knowing how to respond, Rachel shook her head and got up. "I need to pee."

As she walked away, Puck sighed to himself. Now he wasn't sure if it was the hormones making her crazy or if she was actually still mad at him for something that happened so long ago. Either way it looked like it was still one of the many issues they were going to have to resolve before the baby was born.

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