Chapter Eleven

The bodies of my dad's had been flown back to Ohio, and we got back onto the bus, I was numb, but the tears continued to fall. "Rach," said a voice. I looked up and saw Noah looking at me he too looked upset, "We're home," he held his hand out to me and together we walked off the bus. We arrived at school at about midnight, "Well victory party is at my house," said Kurt,
"I'm not sure we'll be there," I said.
"Oh well, no loss there," he whispered to Mercedes, but we all heard.
"You want to say that again Hummel," said Noah.

"Yeah Kurt that was way out of order," said Finn.
"She wouldn't be able to come anyway she would need a babysitter," said Kurt.
"You know what, we'll have our own victory party, at my house you guys can come," I said. "If you want to,"
"Are you sure," said Quinn.
"Yes I want to be surrounded by my family," I said.
"Okay, we'll come," she said. "But what are we going to do,"
"Well I have a big box of home videos I want to take a trip down memory lane," I said.

"Whatever you want to do is fine," said Tina. "Like Quinn said, we are all going to be there for the three of you,"
"I love you guys," I said not caring about the tears and the fact my make up probably looked awful. I buckled the now asleep Darcy into her car seat and we silently made our way home. "I can't believe they're gone," I whispered.
"I know," said Noah, "But they won't have just left us, they'll remain with us always,"
"I love you," I said.
"I love you too," he said.

We arrived home and I took Darcy to bed, she was still in her pink dress, but there was no need to change her. I tucked her in a kissed her cheek, it was hard to believe that come June she would be three. I walked downstairs and found everyone gathered around the TV. "Do you want anything to drink," I said. "I'll make some hot chocolate you can help yourselves,"
"That will be good, but I'll make it you sit down," said Noah. He came in with a tray some minutes later and we all helped ourselves.

I walked over to the video cupboard and found a disc on top of the videos, I hadn't seen it before, but it read, 'For Rachel and Noah'. "Hey Noah have you seen this before," I said showing it to him.
"No let's put it on and see what it is," he said. He put it in and I was met with the faces of my fathers.
"Hey kids, how are you," said my dad,
"Please don't be sad about what we are about to tell you," said my daddy, but by now my tears had already started.

"The reason we've created this is because we are both very sick, I have a brain tumour and your daddy here has leukemia we have decided that we are going to go away together I know that sounds selfish, but we can't live without each other," said my dad. Noah gripped my hand tightly.
"We love you both so much and you blessed us with a beautiful grandchild, Noah you are the son we never had, and in answer to your recent question the answer is yes, and Rachel, well what can we say about you," said my daddy.

"You are the most beautiful person we have ever known, you have such a kind and caring nature, and you should let no one put you down for that, and your voice, it gives us goose bumps, You have raised a beautiful daughter in Darcy, and we hope you carry on being the best parents we have seen," my dad said.
"OH and we also thank the glee kids, for accepting our children for who they are, honestly we haven't seen them as happy as they have been in the past few months, thank you and please watch over them for us," said my daddy. "Noah and Rachel we love you so much, so please don't feel sad, you should just know that we are always going to be with you, just remember we are now among the stars, so when you feel down, just look up and you'll see us, we'll try and shine brighter than all the rest, please don't cry be happy cuz God knows you guys deserve it, we love you goodbye kids," and with that the video went blank.

Almost everyone had tears streaming down their faces. "You okay," I said to Noah hugging him close.
"No," he whispered, "But I will be," we held each other for a while and felt the arms of our friends wrap around us too.
"Okay," I said. "We're not going to be sad any longer, we're going to have a laugh with these home videos, who agrees,"
"Hell yeah," said everyone else.

And that was what we did right up until four o'clock in the morning. I found myself outside then, just putting some garbage out, and when I looked up at the sky I saw two stars shining so brightly, I tried to wipe away at my tears but they wouldn't budge. "Hey babe," said Noah. "I miss them too," he pulled me close and allowed me to sob in his arms. We walked back into the house, everyone was asleep in the lounge so we quietly made our way upstairs and into bed. I stayed as close as possible to him that night, he was my rock, and I knew that we were going to get through this, together.