The next day at lunch, Quinn ran up to Finn as she saw him heading into the cafeteria. "Finn, I waited for you for two minutes when I got out of my math class. Where were you?"
"Sorry, I got out of English a little late, so figured I might as well just meet you here, besides I was hungry. Anyway, didn't you get my text?"Finn asked.
Quinn took her cell phone out of her pocket, "Just now got it. Guess what though? About five minutes ago, I felt her, I felt the baby kick for the first time!" she said as she took Finn's hand and they walked into the cafeteria together.
"Oh my God, that's amazing!" Finn said as he instinctively placed his hand on her stomach.
"Finn, it's not like she's going to keep kicking continuously, so you can take your hand off my stomach for now. Don't worry, I'll let you know if I feel her kick again, so you can feel it."
"Oh sorry," Finn said taking his hand off her stomach. "What did it feel like?" Finn said as he got in line and got a slice of pizza and a bag of chips for both him and Quinn to eat for lunch.
"I don't know. Kind of like something was running across my stomach, I guess."
"So did it hurt when she kicked?"Finn asked looking a little worried.
"No. Finn, it didn't hurt. Like I said it felt like a cricket or something ran across stomach."
They sat down and started eating their lunches and talking about Glee Club, when Quinn felt her kick again. "Finn, she's kicking again" Quinn said quickly grabbing Finn's hand and placing it on her stomach. "Did you feel her?"
"Yeah, that's her! That's my daughter, that's our baby!" Finn said as his filled with tears in amazement that he had just felt his daughter kick for the first time.
"Yeah, that's her, that's my- our baby," Quinn said as the tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Can you let me know when she kicks again?" Finn asked as he took his hand off Quinn's stomach.
"Finn, I'm not going to tell you every time she kicks, I think that would get old quickly for both of us," Quinn said smiling and trying not to laugh.
"Sorry, it's just, I think it's so amazing that I just felt my daughter kick my hand. I mean, we made her, it didn't happen the way most people think it happened, but she's still ours. It's so amazing to be able to feel her kick from inside you! I just can't give over the fact that that's our daughter!"
"Yeah, it is pretty amazing, really amazing actually," Quinn said, trying not to feel guilty.
As they sat talking and finishing their lunches, Quinn once again realized that Finn really would be a good father and she was beginning to think he actually wanted to be one.
"Finn, do you mind turning the TV off? I need talk to you about something," Quinn said later that night. Both Finn and Quinn were sitting on Finn's bed, Finn was watching TV while Quinn was leaning back against him reading a pregnancy book that Carole had gotten for her.
"Uh, sure. Is everything okay?" Finn asked a little worried, as picked up the remote and turned off the TV.
"Yeah, everything's fine. You know how you said that you'd be there for me through this whole pregnancy thing and that you'll always love me no matter what. And you've been so great about letting me make the decisions about the baby. Well, lately I've been thinking about keeping her and after feeling her kick today, I-I really don't know if I'd be able to handle giving her up for adoption, but I know I wouldn't be able to do this on my own. I can't raise a baby by myself. But I don't want you feel like you have to do this though, I mean it's your choice, you don't have to do anything. "
"Quinn, from the beginning I've told you that we're in this together, you have no idea how long I've been hoping you'd say that. I never wanted you to give up our daughter. In fact to be honest, just the thought of having to give her away makes me cry. There were so many times I wanted to suggest the idea of us raising her together, but I knew that wasn't my place. I'm going to try really hard to be the best father I can be for our daughter."
"Finn, you're okay with this then? With us raising her together?"
"It's what I've wanted to do since the day you told me you were pregnant. I'll be honest with you, I'm scared about being a dad, I mean, I'm only 16 and I never even really had a dad, but I know we can do this together."
"Finn, I know you're going to be a great dad. But I'm scared about being a mom. Actually, I'm more scared about the fact that I have to give birth first before I'm officially a mom. Finn, I'm so scared! " Quinn said as she burst into tears.
"Hey, hey, babe, it's okay. I'm going to be right there beside you the whole time. You're going to be fine, I promise," Finn said as he put his arm around her to comfort her.
"That's easy for you to say, you don't have to go through labor! I mean, reading this book and hearing what I'm going to have to go through , It's going to hurt and…I'm just scared of the whole idea of having to go through labor. I mean, she has to come out of my vagina, which it just sounds so painful to even think of her having to come out of there. I don't want to do this! I can't do this!" Quinn said continuing to cry.
"Um, Quinn, I hate to tell you this, but I don't you have much of a choice," Finn said a little grossed out by the image in his head thanks to the description his girlfriend just gave him. "Babe, look if I could, I'd gladly give birth for you, but I can't. But like I said, I promise I'm going to be right there beside you, okay?"
"You promise?"
"I promise. Look, I have to be honest with you, I'm little scared about this whole thing, about being parents and stuff. But Mr. Schue made me realize that we're not doing this alone, we have my Mom, Mr. Shue, the Glee Club; they're all here for us. They're behind us the whole way."
"Well, they're not all going to be in the delivery with us that's for sure though," Quinn said attempting to calm herself down.
"Quinn, you know that's not what I meant."
"I know, but it still doesn't change the fact that I still have to give birth," Quinn said starting to cry once again.
"Quinn, Quinn, calm down. Okay, first of all, they have drugs to help with the pain and stuff right? Second, we still have five months till the baby is born, so why don't you try not to worry about something that is still several months away. If that pregnancy book my Mom gave you is scaring you, then don't read it. Besides, I'm sure if you wanted to talk my Mom about all of this, I'm sure she would love to talk to you. I mean, she did have me, so she knows what it's like to have a baby. You can do this, I know you can, you're strong," Finn said as he put his arm around Quinn and tried to calm her down.
"Finn?"
"Yeah."
"Um, since we're keeping the baby can we please come up with another name for her besides Drizzle?"
"Oh come on, Drizzle is a cool name."
"Finn, she'll hate us if we name her Drizzle. She'll be like, 'What the hell were you thinking when you guys decided to name me Drizzle?'"
"Fine, we can try to come up with some other names, but I'm not ruling it out as a possibility. Besides, I can still use it as my nickname for her."
"Oh, I'm sure she'll love that, especially when she's about twelve or thirteen," Quinn said sarcastically.
"Oh yeah, I can see it now, she'll be standing there with her hands on her hips, rolling her eyes at me saying, 'Dad, please grow up and stop calling me Drizzle. Thank goodness Mom didn't actually let you name me that!'"
"Yeah, she will," Quinn said smiling. "So, we're going to do this. We're going to be parents and raise this baby together."
"Yeah, we are," Finn said as he couldn't help but look at Quinn and smile.
"I'm gonna be a mommy."
"And I'm gonna be a daddy."
"That's just crazy to even think about."
"Yeah, it kind of is. But you know what, in a strange way I'm kind of excited, scared, but excited."
"Finn, you really are going to be a great dad."
"Thanks, you're going to be a really great mom too."
As they both lay there together in bed that night, for the first time they both felt confident that could really do this. They were going to raise their daughter together.
