The next day was Wednesday, the whole glee- club sat in a circle on the stage in the audiotourium, Hayley was here too, because she was gonna perform a song along with Marcie. Mr. Schue had gone home to get some things he had forgotten, he would be back any minute now.

I looked around, Hayley I don´t think New Directions had ever been so quiet as we all were right now. No one said a word, there was nothing to say. I knew for a fact that the twins felt miserable, as well as Hayley, Marcie, Ben, Ethan, Alice and I, and the rest of New Directions felt miserable because everyone else did.

There was just a few looking up when we heard footsteps coming in from the back. I looked to the floor, when I heard Liam´s voice.

"Alice, isn´t that your brother?" I looked up. Alice sat with her back against where Mr. Schue had come onto the stage, with a boy we all recognized sitting on his hip.

"Yeah right." Alice said with an ironic tone in her voice, while I and all the others jumped up on our feet.

"ALICE TURN AROUND. JOSH´S THERE, TURN AROUND." Came from all different directions on the stage.

Alice pov

I knew they were all lying, they had to be. They wanted to have some laugh by making me believe Josh was behind me, and then laughing at it when I turned around, and there was no one there.

"SHUT UP." I shouted. "IF ANYONE ELSE TELLS ME JOSH´S BEHIND ME. I`M GONNA SMACK THAT PERSON RIGHT IN THE FA…" when another shout echoed through the hall, I stopped shouting.

"AAAAAALIFF" No, no, it couldn´t be him. But it was his voice, I spun around.

"JOSH." And yeah, it was Josh. Mr. Schue lifted him down on to the floor. I jumped up on my feet, almost blinded by tears of joy. But I didn´t dare to believe it, until I held Josh in my arms, and pulled him as close as I could. Then I knew it was true, Josh was right here, right in my arms.

"You´re okay, you´re okay." I sobbed over and over again.

Lex pov

If there had been a dry eye in the room before Mr. Schue came in with Josh, there sure wasn´t one now. I felt salt tears running down my cheeks, but not from sorrow this time. All of us had been very distressed and sad about the fact that one of us was missing a loved one. Especially since Josh is so young. It´s now clear that Josh´s been somewhere where he wasn´t treated well. He was dirty, his hair greasy, he had bruises on his right cheek and a black eye. And he was dressed in to big sweat pants and a hoodie that looked like maybe for nine or ten year olds. Not for a normal length six year old. The shoes he was wearing had holes, but apart from all this, he seemed to be all right. After a while, Alice sat down on the floor. Next to Josh who also sat down, and leaned against his sister as Alice pulled up her phone and called someone.

"Mum! Josh is here…. No he´s right here with me." Alice put her phone to Josh´s ear.

"Mum?... I love you too… okay… she wants to talk to you Aliff." The way he said Aliff was unbelievably cute.

"Yes?... I´m not sure… okay… see you." She hung up. "mum and dad are coming here." She turned to Mr. Schue. "They want to talk to the person who found Josh."

"So… I guess there are gonna be no songs…"

"YES THERE ARE." Hayley stood up. "Mr. Schue, I and Marcie got a song, and I´m not gonna be here tomorrow, or the next day. I need to do this now." It went all silent for a couple of seconds, and then.

"I want to hear it." Josh´s tiny voice broke the silence. Mr. Schue nodded, but instead of walking down and sit in the seats, we all sat down on the floor on the edge of the stage, while the music played, and Marcie started singing.

It went dead silent in the hall after the song, none of us knew what to say, Hayley sat down on the floor too, hugging her legs. The first one to stand up was Josh, he walked over the floor and embraced her.

"It will be okay." He said. "It always does."

Five minutes later, I had walked with Hayley out of the audiotourium, we were both quiet. I spoke up at last, and said.

"I want you to know… that you can call me, or whatever you want to do, whenever you want. I´m here for you."

"How are you gonna understand this?" she said in an angry tone, then she spun around so she looked right at me, in her eyes, there were a mix of sorrow, anger and fear.

"Wha..." I began, but when Hayley spoke up again I silent.

"Your dad´s in prison, he hates you. Your brother and mum just showed up again after years, she left you, she hates you too. And your sister´s dead. YOU HAVE NO FAMILY." My mind went completely blank, I didn´t know what I was doing, I jumped on Hayley, hit every spot I could reach, not caring about what happened around me. I felt someone grabbing me around my stomach and pulling me back, someone else did that to Hayley. Turned out to be Mr. Schue, Tyler and Ethan behind me, I was fighting the hardest, and it took them all three to hold me, and Connor and Liam behind Hayley.

"YOU STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM TALKING ABOUT MY FAMILY." I shouted. "YOU KNOW NOTHING."

I calmed down for a second, that´s when I saw Zeb and Kathryn coming walking down the corridor.

"Go to the audiotourium" I fizzled. I knew the rest of New Directions were all around us. "GET TO THE AUDIOTOURIUM NOW." I loosened myself from Mr. Schue´s grip and walked down the hall towards Kathryn and Zeb.

"You go there too, go after them." I pointed to the New Directions. "This song´s for you … MUM." I turned around, walked with fast steps towards the audiotourium, and walked down to the stage, when I saw that everyone had sat down, I started.

When the door to the audiotourium opened during while I was singing the last verse and three shouts went through it, it silent me.

"JOSH." A woman and a man, I guessed were Alice´s and Josh´s parents had come into the room.

"MUM, DAD" I didn´t stay to look at this any longer, the New Directions were all gathered around Josh and his family, and Kathryn and Zeb were nowhere to be found.

For once, I walked through the streets from school and home alone. I walked slowly, my head down, kicked in the ground slightly a few times. After a while, I walked up on the driveway to the right house.

"Hello." I shouted after coming inside. Both Burt and Carole was home, as Burt tried to take as much free as possible, the days that Kurt and Blaine were here, and Carole had worked the night-shift. Both Kurt and Blaine were home as well, they all sat around the kitchen table.

"Josh is back." I said, and though I was really happy about that, I couldn´t manage to get any feeling in the tone. "Mr. Schue went home to get some papers he had forgotten, when he came back he brought Josh with him. I don´t know how…. I´d guess they will be on the news either tonight, or tomorrow. I… Hayley…"

"Lex, are you all right?" Carole asked.

"Yeah… yeah…fine… ehrm, where was I? oh yeah, Hayley… she… let´s forget about that part. I sang a song to… Kathryn."

"Which one?" Blaine asked.

"Oh… ehrm, bye bye bye. Nsync... But, after like, half the song, Josh´s and Alice´s parents came into the room, I… well, you get it. " I turned around, walked over to the living room and laid down on my stomach, and turned the TV on. I zapped around between the channels, before stopping at some music- video, and didn´t make a sound. Until Kurt came into the room, and sat down next to my legs on the sofa. I didn´t look at him, though I heard it was him as he was humming on some song.

"When my mum died…" he began. I looked up, I had never heard either Burt or Kurt talking about Kurt´s mum before, except that time that Burt talked about himself in short, when I first had moved here. "…I looked at other, I envied them, I asked myself the question, why can they have their mum while I can´t?.." I didn´t let Kurt finish, I turned my head.

"So if I think the same? About Alice getting Josh back when there´s almost no hope, while I can´t have Maddie? Does that make me a bad person?"

"No it doesn´t. It was never that I begrudged others to have their mum, and I know you don´t begrudge other for having their siblings either. It´s just the way you think, why can they have it and not I?"

"Is that why it feels so hard?"

"A part of it… yes. Can you find another explanation? Sometimes it feels better after talking about something."

"It´s like, I had a perfect life… well, not perfect, but I had you, Burt and Carole, Finn, Blaine, Rebeccah, I had a family, I was gonna be adopted, and I was so happy. I had my friends, the New Directions, every problem just seemed so tiny, and then something happens, and everything I´ve built up just keeps on falling apart."

"Lex…"

"Is it always gonna feel this hard?" I sat up half. "Is it always gonna be this much?" Kurt shook his head.

"No…. not as long as you keep on hanging on there. Come on," he stood up and reached out his hand, I took it and stood up too. "You need a night out, try not to think about the problems for a couple of hours."

The night with Kurt and the others actually went better than I thought it would. I had quite fun, and in the end I actually smiled, and when we came home, and Burt turned on the TV, tow watch the news, there was a reportage about Josh, the reporter was in the front of the picture and even he had a huge grin on his lips.

"It is with loads of joy, I can admit that six- year- old Josh Harper have been reunited with his parents and his older sister. Here with me, I´ve got them, and the man who found Josh and brought him to his sister earlier today, History teacher on William McKinley High School, William Schuester. So… Mr. Schuester, how did you find Josh?" The camera tilted a bit so Mr. Schue was visible on the screen, and the reporter held the microphone to his mouth.

"I was on my way back to work after getting some papers I had forgotten, when I spotted Josh sitting on the ground next to the highway, I didn´t recognize him at first, but I stopped to ask him what he was doing there, and when I stopped I recognized him. And I brought him to school where Alice was."

"Over to Josh and his family," the reporter walked, and the camera did it as well, as Alice, Josh , Mr. and Mrs. Harper came into the picture.

"So… Miss Harper, what was your first thought when you saw Josh coming?"

"I didn´t believe it."

"and what about you Mr. Harper."

"Well, my wife called me at work, told me that Alice called her… and I just ran away from a customer right away when I heard what it was, and got in the car." It was clear that Josh wanted to say something, and the reporter held the microphone down to Josh´s mouth.

"I love mum, dad, and Aliff a lot, and I miffed ´em all the time when I waf away."

"Well," the reporter put his microphone to his own mouthed, clearly touched by the emotional moment. "Let´s all take a moment and being grateful for that our loved ones are safe, now, over to the weather."

"It´s a miracle," Kurt said in a low voice. And not even Burt could pretend that he wasn´t touched by the moment.

"It´s fantastic." Blaine said.

"It is." I agreed, and this time, I really meant and was happy about what I said.

Playlist
Hayley/ Marcie- Daddy's little girl- Frankie J
Lex- Bye, bye, bye- Nsync