[A/N] Hello! Ok we're gonna fast forward now since I'm planning on ending the story :) I was thinking of starting another story, but then again, I still have to think about it.
Reviews are love!
I own none of the characters from Glee
"So when do you plan on doing it Blaine?" Hiram Berry asked him as he sat on a couch at the Berry's hotel room.
"On her debut party. I think I'll do it there, add a little twist to the event," Blaine said, smiling as he told Hiram of his plans.
"Ooooh I do love surprises. Leroy, did we happen to bring our video camera?" Hiram asked, suddenly turning the his partner as he continued to lounge in his chair.
"Of course Hiram, why ever would I forget it?" he said to him, chuckling as he did so.
"Well then Mr. Anderson, you have our full support. Just give us a call if you need help on anything and we'll see you in 5 days time," Hiram said, standing up as he led the way out of their room. "Take care of our baby, ok?" he said, stopping by the door as Blaine went outside, squeezing Blaine's arm as he did so.
"Always sir, always," Blaine said, placing his hand on top of Hiram's.
"Blaine don't be late ok!" Rachel said as she grabbed her bag from their couch. It was her debut as a lead role on her first Broadway show and she was nothing but anxious the minute she woke up from her sleep.
"I won't I promise. Break a leg love!" Blaine called out as he continued to wash their dishes from the kitchen. As soon as he finished washing their plates, he quickly ran to their room and changed into a set of fresh new jeans and shirt.
"8 o'clock. Perfect..." he said as he took his car keys from the fish bowl beside the door.
Everyone was up from their seats, clapping as the cast took their final bow. The show was a complete success, and in the middle of the row, Blaine could see Rachel clapping as she continued to give everyone one of her biggest smiles.
"You were great love," Blaine said, giving Rachel a kiss as he gave her a bouquet of roses.
"Baby! Oh we are so prooooud of you!" both Hiram and Leroy said to her as they made their way through the crowd and towards them.
"Dads! Oh my god I'm so glad you could make it!" Rachel said, pulling away from Blaine's hug and running towards her dads.
"We wouldn't miss it for the world. This is your dream since you were a kid and here you are! Broadway! We're so proud of you baby girl," Leroy said to her as he gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"Mr and Mr Berry! It's so good to see you!" Blaine said, placing his hands on the small of Rachel's back.
"Blaine! It's good to see you too! Long time no see, how have you been?" Leroy said to him as he held his daughter at his side.
After a minute or so of chatting around, Rachel was called by her fellow cast for a photo op, which she immediately rushed into, leaving Blaine alone with both her dads.
"So Blaine," Hiram said, turning towards Blaine after making sure that Rachel was out of earshot. "Everything ready for later?" he said, wiggling his eyebrows towards Blaine.
"Yes sir, everything is settled," he said, giving him a huge smile.
"Then we wish you the best of luck. And remember, we know where you live." he said to him, laughing as he did so. Blaine couldn't help but make a nervous laugh.
"Oh boy," he said jokingly as he looked towards Rachel's direction.
"So where do you guys wanna eat?" Rachel said, looking at both of her dads. She, Blaine, Hiram, and Leroy were seated in a limousine that had been lent to Rachel and were currently making their way slowly through the streets of New York.
"How about we have dinner at the hotel they're staying at? I'm sure your dads are tired, right Hiram? Leroy?" Blaine said, turning towards the two men.
"Y-Yes! I agree! I am quite tired and I'm sure your dad here is too, right Hiram?" Leroy said, giving his husband a glare that was only noticed by Blaine.
"Indeed! The hotel it is! You're ok with that, are you baby girl?" Hiram said to Rachel, in which she quickly replied with a nod.
As they stopped in front of the hotel, Blaine immediately got to his feet and opened Rachel's door for her. As they made their way towards the restaurant, Rachel was surprised to see that the whole area had no lights in it. Then suddenly, a loud popping sound was made and all of the lights were turned on, complete with a chorus of "SURPRISE!" as everybody started clapping their hands at the sight of the four of them.
"Congratulations on your debut love," Blaine whispered to Rachel as she started to take in all of her surroundings.
"Oh my god Blaine!" she replied, flailing her arms around Blaine as she peppered him with kisses. "Dads did you know about all of this?" she asked her parents, each giving them a kiss on the cheek.
"Of course! We were part of the planning!" Leroy said to her, laughing as he leaned towards Hiram.
"Oh thank you! Blaine thank you so much! Dads! I love you three so so much!" she said as Blaine led her way towards the restaurant.
As she started walking across the hall, she was congratulated by familiar faces, most of them being her fellow casts of the show. As she rounded around the many groups of people, she was greeted by a bone crushing hug by none other than her friends from glee club.
"Rachel! Oh my god TWINZIE! Congratulations!" Kurt nearly screamed at her ear as he continued to hug her.
"Congratulations Rachel, we knew you would make it," said Quinn, who was standing behind Kurt, giving her one of her beautiful smiles.
"Oh wow you guys! You really flew to New York for me? Ugh thank you so much! You don't know how much this means to me!" Rachel said, quickly wiping a tear that has escaped from her eyes.
"We wouldn't miss it for the world. And besides, Britt here wants to see the City that Never Sleeps, so who am I to resist," Santana said, smiling as she turned to look at Brittany, who was currently playing with the confetti that were still making its way to the ground from the ceiling.
After thanking everybody that had made their way and congratulated Rachel, Blaine was again on her side and has gestured her towards the centre of the room, where a round table was strategically placed in front of a make shift stage.
As soon as they were seated, Rachel gave a small squeek as her dads appeared on stage, dressed in sequenced coats and smiling at everybody as they asked the crowd to take their respective seats.
"Good evening, good evening! Now everyone, please take you marvellous seats as we are about to start the program. Thank you!" Leroy Berry said, motioning the crowd towards the tables.
"Now as all of you are very aware of," Hiram started, "...or if you have just decided to gate crash this party," he said, earning a chuckle from the crowd. "Today, we celebrated the debut-"dramatic pause"-of our not so little baby girl, Ms. Rachel Berry."
"Now we know many of you here are from Lima, and have flown all the way from Ohio to New York, to support our baby girl, so in behalf of the Berry family, we thank everyone for the love and support." Hiram Berry said, giving everyone a small bow.
"As a very few of you may know, the Berry family live by three foundations: honesty, respect and dance..." Hiram said to them wearing a big smile on his face.
"AND what a better way kick start the night than to live up to just that. Sooo Hiram, would you do me the honor?" Leroy said, turning to his husband.
"Of course Leroy, you've always had my hand as you have always had my heart. Music please!" Hiram said after earning a couple of "aaws" from the crowd. And soon, the DJ, who has just made his presence noticed, started playing one of ABBA's hits, Mama Mia.
"Oh my god it's their favourite song!" Rachel said, gripping Blaine's hands as she looked at her dads dancing to the beat. After a few second of gripping Blaine's hand, Rachel finally took notice of just how cold they were. Suddenly, she turned towards Blaine and found the man having beads of sweat in his forehead.
"Blaine are you ok?" Rachel said, whispering to his ear as he gave his hand a soft squeeze.
"Huh? Oh – y – yeah I'm fine! Look! Your dads are so great!" Blaine said, quickly wiping the sweat off his forehead and putting on a quite obviously fake smile.
Rachel continued to look at him but in the end, shrugged it off as his dads finished their dance number, which surely enough, had the people around them energized and smiling.
"Hooo! That was fun and at the same time exhausting," Hiram said, gripping Leroy's shoulders for support as he struggled to catch his breath,
"Indeed it was! Now, is everybody awake?" he said, pointing the mic towards everyone and smiling as a series of yes were heard from the crowd.
"Now, since we are all energized and quite awake, I think it's time for us to take a little pause, right Leroy?" Leroy gave Hiram a quick nod, " So for those of you who do not know, Rachel was our little start from the moment she took her first step, up until today. one of the biggest moments of her life was when she joined Glee club back when she was still a high school student in McKinley High. Of course, she has gained many friends from the said club, and they were all kind enough to join us here today in celebrating Rachel's debut."
"Another thing everyone has to know about the New Directions is that they are known for their amazing mash ups. And wonderfully, her former glee clubbers has decided to present to us one of their known mash ups back when they were still their tiny high school selves. So, without further adieu, we give to you the New Directions!" Hiram said as Finn started to move in the middle of the stage. After a few seconds, they were all greeted by the opening tune of "I Can't Go For That", and everybody started to sway to the beat.
"Blaine, I can't believe you planned all of this for me," Rachel whispered, looking at Blaine who seemed more calm and composed than he was earlier.
"You know I'd do anything for you. And besides, you deserve it," he said to her, giving her a light kiss as Tina and Rory continued to sing in the background.
"None the less, thank you. It's perfect," she said to him, smiling as he pulled away from the kiss.
"It's not done yet. I have more surprises to come," he smiled to her.
"Well, in that case, I can't wait," Rachel said, giving Blaine a wink.
"You're making my dreams come truuuuue!" Finn ended as everyone clapped their hands for them.
"Rachel, with all the love from your fellow glee-clubbers, congratulations and we wish you the best," Mercedes winked at her and she gave her a small nod. Rachel, in return, blew her a kiss and mouthed the words thank you as her friends made their way towards her seat.
"Now I have to go for my number, I'll see you in a bit," Blaine said, standing up and excusing himself from their table.
"Break a leg love," Rachel whispered to him, giving him a final kiss on the cheek.
"I'll break both my legs for this. See you in a bit," Blaine said, smiling as he made his way towards the back of the room.
"Now, of course, many of you are quite aware that our little pumpkin did not finish her studies here in the United States. She also spent four of her most fruitful years in Italia, studying theatre arts, so it would be very obvious that she has had a second family during her stay there," Leroy said, beaming towards Rachel as she gapped at both her parents. The "friends" in Italy could only mean the three people she had grown very close to: Signore Dimitri, Signorina Aurelia, and Nadia, which she never met earlier as she made her way around the restaurant, and which she never would have expected to spend almost 14 hours on a plane just for her.
"Indeed! So, everybody, we would like you to meet the three people who made Rachel's stay in Italy a bearable one, and which has definitely made Italy her home away from home. Here to sing to us a beautiful song, Signore Dimitri, Signorina Aurelia, and her classmate back in college, Nadia Guicelli!" Leroy said to them, guiding the crowd towards the direction of the three.
"Hi Racheeeel!" Nadia said, waving at Rachel as she continued to smile at her. "Good evening everybody. My name is Nadia, this is Signorina Aurelia, Rachel's "mom" in Italy, and Signore Dimitri, the best street guitar player Italy has to offer. Tonight, on this special, SPECIAL day, we want to sing Rachel one of OUR favourite "broken-hearted-days" songs back when we were still students in Italy. I hope you still remember this love," she said, turning towards Signore Dimitri and giving him a small nod.
"Ay! But before anything else, I do not sing," Signorina Aurelia suddenly said, earning a giggle and a smile from Rachel, "So I am just here to sway and smile. Forgive me for that, haha!" Signorina Aurelia said. The crowd gave a short chuckle as Signore Dimitri smiled towards all of them and began strumming his guitar.
"Been running from these feelings for so long—"
Rachel couldn't help but smile as she recognized the song. It was indeed their "broken-hearted-days" songs, more specifically, her "does-Blaine-like-me?" song, and she let out a small laugh as she knew that Nadia knew what she was thinking about.
"Telling my heart I didn't need you, pretending I was better off alone, but I know that it's just a lie..."
Rachel wanted Blaine to be right next to him. She wanted to tell him that this was her song for him back when she was so broken-hearted that she cried her heart out to both Nadia and Signorina Aurelia. Come to think of it, this whole program had been nothing but some kind of flash back of her whole life. For her childhood, as shown by her wonderful dads, to her college days as currently being shown by Signorina Aurelia, Signore Dimitri, and Nadia, and now the only thing missing was the present, which was Blaine, and she would assume that he would be performing next. As the trio ended their song, everybody was clapping and smiling at just how wonderful and mellow the song was.
Just as the song ended, Rachel's ears were again greeted by a familiar strumming of guitar strings, and she knew just who was playing that guitar.
"This next song, is my personal message to my one and only love. Hi everybody, my name is Blaine Anderson, and Rachel is the love of my life, which she has kindly reciprocated towards me. Love, this song is for you.,"Blaine said to her, giving her a smile as he continued to strum his guitar.
"Lying here with you,
Listening to the rain...
Smiling just to see,
The smile upon your face..."
Rachel recognized the song immediately, and couldn't help but smile. It was one of the most romantic songs she knew, and Blaine's voice was just perfect for the melody. Not to mention the message of the song, this made everything a little more perfect.
"These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive
These are the moments I'll remember all my life
I found all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more..."
Just as Blaine said the words, Rachel almost jumped as she felt a nudge at the small of her back.
"Come..." Hiram Berry said to her as Rachel looked at the direction of the nudge.
"Dad?" she said questioningly, and as she turned towards the stage, she saw that a chair was placed beside Blaine, and he was currently looking at her, smiling.
"Come..." Hiram said to her again, and Rachel immediately felt her feet becoming heavy. She was nervous, for being beside Blaine as he played his guitar in front of a crowd was a completely new territory. Sure, Blaine played for her all of the time, but he never played for her in front of many people.
"Uhm...ok..." she said as she held on to her dad's hand tightly.
"Nervous?" her dad said to her as she stood up from her seat.
"A little. Why do I have to sit there?" she said, taking a quick glance at everyone as cameras started clicking.
"Well baby, you're kinda sitting alone in your table. I think it would be best if you just sat there, right?" he said to her as he continued to guide her towards the middle of the stage. Normally, this would have taken just a few strides, but since Rachel's feet has decided to be as heavy as a block of stone, it took them about 2 minutes to walk towards the chair. As Rachel sat down, her dad took her hand and gave it a quick kiss, earning a questioning look from Rachel, which was only replied by a small smile.
"I could not ask for more than the love you give me 'Coz it's all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more
I could not ask for more..."
As Blaine ended the song, he slowly took off his guitar and handed it to Signore Dimitri, who started playing a song that was all too familiar to Rachel's ears.
"Oh my god..." Rachel said, as Signore Dimitri started strumming the chords to Taylor Swift's "Love Story", which was the first song that they both danced to, and the song that she fell in love with Blaine in.
"This was the first song that Rachel and I danced to," Blaine said, addressing the crowd as he walked to stand beside Rachel, "I actually can never forget that day. I met Rachel in the most unexpected way. I crashed into her while she was walking and I was riding my bike back in Italy, and I've never been the same ever since," he said, turning towards her as she gave him one of her sweet smiles.
"Rachel, I've been with you for the past 6 years, and never have I regretted every single one of those days. I've seen you laugh, I've seen you cry, I've seen your ups, and I've seen your downs. I was there in the past, and I'm here in the present," Blaine said, suddenly turning towards Rachel taking her hands. "And now, all I want is to spend my future with you."
"Rachel Berry, I love you, and I can't think of spending a day knowing that there's a chance that I won't be with you. I want to be there when you get your first Tony, and I want to be there when you finally retire. I want to be with you all my life, so..."
And with that, Rachel felt her breath hitch as Blaine suddenly kneeled to one knee and held her hand as he took out a small box from the inner pocket of his coat.
"Rachel..." Blaine said, opening the box and revealing a ring with a diamond in the middle. "Will you do me the honor of marrying me?" Blaine said to her, looking her in the eyes, tears starting to well at the sides of his eyes.
Rachel felt her heart pounding as her eyes started to water from all the emotions she was currently feeling. It wasn't her debut party, this was her engagement party! She always knew that she would spend all her life with Blaine, but she never expected that he would actually go the extra mile and ask her to marry him. With a shaking hand, she squeezed Blaine's hand and finally let the tears flow.
"Blaine...oh my god. Yes! I'll marry you!" Rachel said, finally letting Blaine's hand go and kneeling towards him as she gave him one of the most bone-crushing hug she could muster. And all around them people started cheering and clapping as they were engulfed in a thousand "Hooray!"-s as the cameras started flashing around them everywhere.
After what seemed an eternity, Rachel finally pulled away to allow Blaine to place the ring on her finger.
"I love you," Rachel said to him, smiling as he finished putting on her ring.
"I love you too," he said, finally closing the space between them as he gave her their longest, most passionate kiss.
As they stood up, the couple was greeted by both of their parents, who enveloped them in the warmest of hugs.
"Oh, welcome to the family Rachel!" a teary-eyed Mrs. Anderson said to her as she finally let her presence be known, as both she and her husband were hiding in the crowd the whole time in order to not give away Blaine's surprise.
"Oh my god, thank you!" Rachel said, hugging both of her future in-laws and giving them both a kiss on the cheek.
And all around them, everyone started to join in the hugging party as everybody wanted to have a picture with the newly engaged couple. The whole night was spent with laughter and cheers as they all wished the couple the best.