"A week to go before the wedding..." Blaine murmured as he pulled Rachel into a warm hug. They were still in bed and the sun has just started to rise, the rays entering the small windows in their room.
"Mhmm..." Rachel replied sleepily. "We're scheduled for a flight back to Lima right?" she said, turning so that she could face Blaine.
"Yep, 1 am. We have at least 6 hours to prepare. You all packed?" he asked, kissing Rachel in the forehead afterwards.
"I'm already done packing. I'll just need to contact the seamstress to make sure that they already sent my wedding dress to my dads' house. I can't believe we're doing this Blaine," she said, snuggling towards him and burying her face against his neck.
"Mmm me too baby, but I can't wait for next week. You'll officially be Mrs. Rachel Anderson," he said, kissing the top of her head.
After a few minutes of laying around in their bed and exchanging warm kisses, they both decided that it was time to get up and get ready for the day. Rachel was to contact the seamstress for her dress, and Blaine was to call Cooper for his tux.
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"Hey Coop," Blaine said, tucking his phone between his head and shoulder as he grabbed himself a mug of coffee from their kitchen.
":Blainey! Hey what's up!" Cooper replied from the other end of the phone.
"Stop calling me that, I'm getting married already sheesh! Anyway, we're gonna be flying back to Ohio later. I just wanted to check on my tux. Just wanna make sure you haven't bedazzled it with all your Hollywood tricks," he said, smiling at his own personal joke towards his brother.
"Mmm yeah! I already had it packaged to our house in Wester. Nathan said that he already received it has taken care of all the laundering and ironing of the tux. That guy seriously is the best butler ever," he said to Blaine.
"Wow that's great best man, thanks! So when are you flying down to Ohio?" Blaine asked his brother. From the other end of the line, Blaine could tell that his older brother was currently walking in the street, given by the busy sounds of people walking and the honks of horns in the background.
"Oh yeah, I'm gonna go home 3 days before the big day to do my best man duties. We still have a stag party to do baby bro!" he heard him chuckle and Blaine couldn't help but let out a groan.
"Oh come on Coop, no strippers," he said. And just as he said the word "strippers", Rachel entered the kitchen and gave him a questioning look, mouthing the same word.
"No stage party will be complete without a stripper or two! Hey I gotta go ride the subway. I will see you next week. Bye bro!" he said, and with that, the line went dead.
"Strippers?" Rachel asked as soon as he placed his phone on the table.
"Yeah...stag party," Blaine said, rubbing his temples at the thought. As soon as he said the words, Blaine suddenly realized what he had just told Rachel and was quick on taking back what he said. "I mean NO! No strippers! God no..." he said, looking at Rachel's reaction.
"Baby don't worry, I'm ok with whatever crazy stuff your brother has to give. Anyway, I called the seamstress and they said that they had already sent my dress yesterday and it should arrive later, so I think I'll be able to see my dress later tonight when we land home," she said, giving Blaine a kiss on the cheek.
"My tux is in Westerville already too so I guess that's great news for both of us," Blaine said, giving Rachel a small smile.
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"Dad!" Rachel squealed as she ran up to Leroy, who had been kind enough to pick them up at the airport.
"Hi baby girl! Blaine! How was your flight?" he said, giving Rachel a tight hug before letting her go.
"It was smooth Sir, not much turbulence whatsoever," Blaine said, who was also given a hug by Leroy.
"Oh come on Blaine, in a few days you're gonna be marrying my darling daughter, you might as well get used to calling me dad too," he said, giving him a smile as he helped the couple pull their luggage carts towards the exit.
"Sorry sir, I mean, Leroy," Blaine said, giving him a cheeky grin.
The drive back to Lima was filled with animated conversations, mostly Rachel asking his dad about the preparations in the Anderson rest house, and checking if the wedding planner has already arrived in Lima.
"She visited us yesterday," Leroy said, taking a side glance at Rachel as he continued to drive the car. "She said she'd be back later tonight to have the final details, and then they can start setting up the canopy for the place near the lake. Have you finished picking your flowers?"
"Mhmm. I already e-mailed them to the planner. I want sunflowers, since it is a summer wedding and I want to place to look alive and not boringly white," Rachel said, squeezing Blaine's hand that she had been holding through the entire drive.
"Hmmm dramatic. Yes, I like that baby girl. Why don't you tell me the details later, ok love?" he said, turning and stopping at the garage of their house.
"Sure!" replied Rachel.
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"Ok, operation plan the bridal shower is a go. Everyone here?" Kurt said, speaking to the group that had been sitting around his room. He did not inform Rachel or Blaine that he went home from New York a day before the couple's flight because he wanted to plan a surprise wedding shower for Rachel. Now that he had all of the girls in his room, he began on accepting ideas for the party.
"We should get male strippers, definitely," Santana said, pointing her finger upwards as she said the words.
"Santana Rachel is about as experienced as a pre-teen girl, don't you think she'd freak out by that?" Mercedes said, directing her question to the said girl.
"Yeah but she's getting married. We should jumpstart her sex life," she replied, sniggering as Brittany gave a choked laugh.
"Seriously, bridal showers aren't about sex all the time. Guys focus!" Kurt said from his bed, holding up a notebook and writing down all the plans.
"How about a pub crawl? You know like in that movie 'Maid-of-Honor' where the bride-to-be went to different pubs and the men would put coins in a bucket in exchange for a kiss in the cheek?" Mercedes said as she took a piece of popcorn from the bowl that was being passed around them.
"Hmm that would work if it was tradition here in Ohio so I don't think we can do that," Tina replied to her. "How about we give her gifts and then have face masks and mani-pedis?"
"That could work, but I like the idea of alcohol," Kurt said, his anti-alcoholic-drinks self long gone.
"So we have drinks, gifts, face masks, and mani-pedis?" he said, re-checking his notebook.
"I still think we should have at least one male stripper, you know, for fun," Santana gave them a wink and almost everybody laughed at Kurt's reaction.
After almost 3 hours of planning the bridal shower, all the details have been completed and the girls went to their own separate homes. Upon closing the door, Kurt quickly ran to his room to put everything they planned in his laptop, and sent an e-mail to Rachel, telling her to be ready for the week, for they were to have an awesome bridal shower soon.
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"Squirt!" Cooper said to Blaine as soon as he saw his baby brother sitting in a couch at their living room.
"How many times do I have to tell you to not call me that," Blaine said, giving his brother a glare as Cooper sat next to him.
"Aw come on, you're getting married in a week and my baby brother will officially become a man! Let me soak up on the remaining days, will you?" he said, ruffling Blaine's ungelled curls.
"Soak up meaning throw every possible insulting childhood nickname you could remember? Right," Blaine said, flipping through the channels and settling for a movie on Disney channel.
"For someone who wants to be stopped calling childhood nicknames you sure do love your Disney movies. Does Rachel know about your obsession?" he asked, laughing as Blaine gave him another glare.
"Shut up Cooper," he said, punching his older brother in the arm.
"Anyway, I was thinking about having a stag party, you know? A couple of your Dalton buddies on a strip club with a bunch of shot glasses. What do you say?" Cooper said, turning to his brother.
"Wow strip club. I don't know Coop, the last time you brought me to a strip club, I ended up going home alone and struggling to explain to mom and dad about your whereabouts," he said, scratching the back of his head.
"Well that was then! Now it's all about you little squirt! Come on, what do you say?" he said to Blaine.
"Again with the nickname. Ok, who are we gonna invite? Aren't you supposed to be the one planning this?" Blaine said, turning to his brother who had somehow gotten hold of a can of beer.
"Mhmm yeah I already had it planned. I'm gonna be bringing you to a strip club whether you like it or not. I won't be telling you the date though so you better be prepared all the time," Cooper said, standing up from his couch. "Well, I'll see you later. I have to call them Dalton boys for the party. Be prepared Blaine," he said, giving his little brother a wink.
"Fine fine," Blaine replied, "be prepared."
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[A/N] So the funniest thing happened (well not really). I committed a minor mistake in two of the chapters. I think I told everybody before that the wedding is to take place in the Anderson Lake House and then I told everyone in the following chapter that they've already chosen a church for the wedding, so clearly I forgot about the Lake House. Anyway, I'm going to push through with the Lake House. I love outdoor weddings and I just love parties near bodies of water, so yes, lake house it is!
AND you know that moment when you have this HUGE mental block and you want to kill yourself for it? Yeah I feel that right now. I am SO SORRY guys :'( I swear the next time I post a fanfic, I'll make sure that I've already finished everything before I post it.
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