Chapter Seven

We arrived at one of the nicest places I had seen for a while. It wasn't far away from a beach and on a day like today, it looked stunning. Our hotel was situated in a small town, it wasn't the Ritz by anyone's standards but it was clean and wasn't too grand, it just belonged there. "Okay guys, here are your keys," said Emma, "Rachel, Noah and Darcy you are in one suite, is that okay with everyone,"
"Of course," said Quinn. "Can I go with Finn," Emma looked hesitant,
"Emma what Figgins doesn't know can't hurt him," I said. "Let everyone else got with their boyfriends, girlfriends whatever,"
"Thanks Rach," said Santana, who was holding Matt's hand.

"You're very welcome," I said. "Now since our performance isn't until five o'clock tomorrow evening, I would say that we should spend today on the beach, which will actually help us to relax,"
"Good idea," said Noah. We walked up to our sweet and it was wonderful, I was however thankful that the balcony had a huge rail that had glass around it, so there was no way for Darcy to fall. I got changed into a gorgeous green bikini, and Noah into shorts. Darcy had a sweet little swimsuit that was bright pink and also had a little skirt.

I put a kaftan and shorts on and we made our way back down to the foyer, where Will had arrived. "Hey guys, the others are already on the beach, but we waited for you," he said.
"Have you got my bucket," said Darcy.
"Yes sweetie it's in the bag," I said. "Come on," We walked out of the hotel and down the street towards the beach. Darcy was grinning all the way, although she had seen beaches and the ocean, we had never really been to one, only once when she was a baby, but obviously she wouldn't remember that.

"Oh Rach she looks so cute in that," said Brit. We put our towels down on the sand and I took my shorts and kaftan off, all eyes were on me.
"Oh my god how have you got such an amazing body," said Santana.
"Yeah you lucky girl," said Quinn.
"I wouldn't really call it great," I said. "But I exercise and eat healthily and that is pretty much it, of course there will be times when I eat junk but I don't care,"
"How come you don't have a scar," said Kurt.

"What do you mean," I said.
"Well don't people have scars if they have babies," he said.
"Only if they have a caesarian," I said. "I gave birth naturally,"
"Why would you do that," said Kurt. "I mean it's gross to have to push out a baby when you can have an operation and it's all over,"
"It actually takes longer to heal from a caesarian than a natural birth and that's what we're meant to do isn't it," I said. "Personally I think you should only have a caesarian if you really have to,"

"Anyway can we change the subject," said Finn. "No offence but I don't really want to discuss birth,"
"Mommy can we go to the sea," said Darcy.
"I think so," I said. I began blowing up her water wings and Noah put them onto her arms, "You guys coming,"
"We'll come down in a bit," said Quinn.
"Aren't you afraid for your hair," said Kurt. "Salt can damage it,"
"So can adding to much hair product," I threw back, causing a few snickers. "And no in answer to your question, I am going to have fun with my daughter and boyfriend,"

"That was awesome," said Noah.
"I suppose so," I said. "Okay Darcy you've got to stay close to us," We had now reached the water's edge and I held out my hand to her which she grabbed. Noah held her other and she jumped the smaller waves. "It's cold," she said.
"It is a little," said Noah. Our friends came down and we spent more than an hour or so swimming in the water, I held Darcy close to me as we went deeper and she took great pleasure in splashing her dad.

On the way back we found some shells and so picked up a few for Darcy to look at. "You look like you had fun," said Quinn.
"Yeah we did," I said. I was getting hungry, and so was everyone else so we walked back to the hotel and got changed before walking to the restaurant that the hotel owned. After our meal, we spent some free time in the game room the hotel owned, it was great fun for Darcy, and Noah won her a huge dog out of a claw machine, she was very happy with that.

As eleven approached, we walked upstairs to our room, since it was way past Darcy's bedtime, she held her dog tight and fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. Myself and Noah sat out on the balcony, and it really was a wonderful view, we could hear the ocean, and see all of the lights of the town. The stars were also much easier to see hear this close to the coast. "It love the stars," I said. "There's something so peaceful about them,"
"I wouldn't say peaceful, but I do think they are amazing," he said. "Plus I know how much you love stars, you add one after your name,"
"Well that's just me," I said. "It's getting a little cold, shall we go to bed,"
"Yeah I guess," he said. "I have a way of warming you up, but we can't cuz Darcy's in the room,"
"Well we can just simply cuddle," I said.
"Yeah I guess we can," he said.

We lay in the bed for half an hour or so, and since I'd left the door open, I fell asleep to the relaxing sound of the ocean, tingling with excitement for tomorrow's performance, I just had this feeling that we were going to shine, perhaps even as brightly as the stars in the sky.