We all- including Tyler, arrived home at the soon- to- be Hudmel- House. And already at about nine, we had all fallen into our beds, and were sleeping tightly after our trip. But, except for the fact that we all fell asleep quite early, nothing happened, before dad came in after picking up the mail the next forenoon while we were eating brunch. He threw some papers at the table and held two envelopes up.

"Adoption bureau, and this… name thing." Finn said. Dad nodded and opened the envelope from the "name- thing"

"It´s through." He said and looked up. "so… Burt James Hudmel…" He joked.

"Kurt Elizabeth Hudmel." Kurt said, I stood up, too nervous to even sit still.

"Still Blaine Devon Anderson."

"Finn Christopher Hudmel"

"Still Tyler Damien Benton"

"Still Rebeccah Marie Zaine."

"Carole Eva Hudmel."

"And I don´t know yet." I said almost all at once. "So please… just open the envelope." Dad looked at it, and then reached it to me.

"You open it." I bit my lip while opening the envelope, then I got the letter it and unfolded it, and read.

"It got through." My words were almost whispers, to happy, to chocked to even react. Dad reacted more, he shouted lifted me up and span around with me.

"Yeah my girl." He said, while I just stared in front of me.

"It got through, it got through, it got through." I said over and over again, I couldn´t believe it. After everything, Brian, Katheryn, Zeb, Maddie, it was finally through. And I finally had real parents, a real family.

"YES IT GOT THROUGH." Finn shouted and high- fived me.

"LUNCH AT BREADSTIX." Dad shouted. "NOW." Then there was a rush with everyone getting real clothes instead of PJ:s and nice clothes as well, and then we all walked towards Breadstix, on our way there we met a pair- a girl and a boy, both with dark- brown hair and brown eyes, we nodded hi.

"Leah, get up on the sidewalk." The boy told the girl- obviously named Leah. "Stop walking out in the road like that." I shook my head and walked around the corner, and just then a car came speeding from the other direction. It sped around the corner and just then I heard some of the worst sounds I have ever heard.

"CAAAAAR" we heard the boy shout, then the sound of screeching brakes, a shout, a bang, and then it went all quiet until

"Oh my God… I´ve killed her." We all turned around and ran back around the corner. The boy sat on the sidewalk, a hand clenched over his chest struggling to breathe. The driver of the car leaned against his car with his head in his hands, the girl laid on the asphalt in front of the car, blood around. It all took us a couple of seconds to take in all this. As we ran towards the scene.

"Finn, I´ve showed you how to stabilize the neck and back of someone, you show Blaine, Kurt and Tyler how to do that." Mum shouted. "Burt check with the boy, Rebeccah and Lex, just look away, call an ambulance." Oh, no, I wasn´t going to look away now.

"What´s your name?" I heard mum ask the driver.

"I´m sorry, it was an accident… I am so, so sorry."

"I know… but could you tell me your name."

"Harvey James." I looked around and then I finally ran over along with dad to the boy sitting on the sidewalk.

"Hey bud." Burt said. "Try to breathe slowly… just breathe…"

"Po… Pocke…" the boy gasped and pointed to the girl. "Pocke… meds…"

"She´s got your meds in her pocket?" I asked. The boy nodded, I ran over to the boys.

"We need to check her pockets." I told the boys.

"I don´t know if we can… we gotta…" Finn began but I interrupted.

"That boys´ meds- whatever it´s for is in her pocket, can´t you see he´s dying." I almost shouted, Finn bit his lip, but Blaine went into action and felt Leah´s pockets, pulling up a red and white spray- bottle out of one of them.

"Mum?" I shouted. "The boy´s got some meds…. Nitro…. Nitro…ling."

"Nitrolingual?" She asked.

"Yeah." Mum came running from the man by the car. She ripped the bottle out of my hands and ran over to the boy. He opened his mouth while she sprayed something under his tongue.

"Sit down." She told me, I sat down by the boy, and dad sat on the other side.

"Support him, if he starts struggling to breathe again, spray this in his mouth." She handed dad the bottle and we sat down on either side, he leaned against me.

"Can you tell me your names?" Dad asked.

"I´m…. Joe…. Jone…"

"Jonas?"

"Al... most."

"Jonah?"

"Yes... Jo... nah... Car... Michael... she…. Leah… Car… Michael" He spoke slowly, gasped and said as much as he could in every breath.

"Well, Jonah Carmichael, don´t you worry." Dad said. "This is going to be just fine." I bit my lip and looked away- he didn´t know that- no one did know that.

Half an hour later we were back in our house, sitting around the kitchen table.

"You know…" Dad began. "I could run away to the store… buy something to get to celebrate the adoption."

"I don´t really feel like celebrating now." I mumbled.

"None of us do." Tyler said, and ran his fingers through my hair. I sighed.

"Mum?" I mumbled.

"Yes Sweetie?"

"What is that nitro- med- spray Jonah had?"

"It´s a medicine that´s used for heart- failure."

"Poor little fellow" dad said. We nodded agreeing, suddenly Finn looked up and looked out the window.

"Tyler, I think your mum and brother are coming." I and Tyler turned around and looked out the window. Tyler nodded. We both stood up, James was carrying Ned´s hutch as he had been taking care of Ned while I was away. And Mrs. Benton had barely had the time to knock before I opened.

"Hey Mrs. Benton, hey James." I said, James reached me the hutch and I took it.

"Thanks James." I smiled to him, "wait, I bought you something as a thanks for taking care of Ned for me." I walked up the stairs into my room, and pulled some papers away from my desk and pulling away one revealed the scrapbook I was given from Vie for Christmas but still had done nothing with- but I didn´t have the time to think more about that, as I put Ned´s hutch on its place at my desk and grabbed the bags of Skittles and Gummy- bears I had bought on the boat for James.

"Here you go." I reached James the bags.

"Thank you Lex." James smiled at me and then Mrs. Benton, Tyler and him went out the door, as I walked up to my room and continued with unpacking.

The next day I received a thick envelope in the mail, I opened it and pulled out a DVD, with a letter that I unfolded and read.

Hiya Lex, it´s Vie, I hope that you´re alright. I´m alright thanks to you, and I wanted to say thank you to you, Kurt, Blaine, Finn, Burt and Carole, that´s why papa Steve and mama Jenny helped me to do this DVD along with a neighbor and my foster- siblings. Everything´s explained in the DVD. Love from Vie Geller.

I walked inside, and called for the others.

"Vie´s sent me a DVD with something, come and watch it." I pushed it into the player and turned the TV on AV- mode, next thing, Vie was showing on the screen.

"Hey Lex, and you others too if you´re there." Vie said to the camera. "I just wanted to send you this video to let you know how I am nowadays. So… enjoy." The screen went black for a couple of seconds and then a picture of Vie, sitting in a stall with a black pony in it as well. Vie scratched his neck and then a new picture of Jenny and Steve sitting in a sofa turned up on the screen.

"The black pony named Georgie arrived here just before Vie did. Georgie wouldn´t let anyone touch him, but Vie sneaked into the stable and when we found her she was in Georgie´s stall patting him, and he just stood there and enjoyed the moment. So, Vie and him seems to have some weird sort of connection." Steve stopped talking and looked to his sister.

"When Vie arrived here, there were three others living here, and we didn´t really have enough place for anymore, but when we had to be an emergency placement for a couple of twins, we couldn´t say no, so at the moment we´ve got six children living here." Jenny´s voice kept talking while there were was a new picture on the screen.

"Charlotte who we call Charlie´s the oldest, she´s sixteen. She and Vie share room, and they´re the only two girls. Next is Skyler who´s thirteen going on fourteen. Vie´s twelve, Then the ten year old twins Zach and Harry, and then our smallest Johnny Dominic who we call J.D. who´s seven." With every name that was called, another kid was shown on the screen. A teenage girl horse riding, a black- haired boy with glasses reading, two brown- haired identical boys laughing and playing with a cat, and a small boy sitting in a corner with another cat in his lap. The picture flickered again and showed a picture of Vie sitting in the same sofa as Steve and Jenny earlier had sat in.

"I like it here." She said. "No… I love it here. And… Lex… I heard what you said through the train- window already the first time, I just wanted to hear you say it again. It´s the first time I can remember anyone telling me they loved me."

"So where would you be without Lex and the others?" A male voice was heard behind the camera. Then the picture was switched to Vie standing in a paddock holding onto Georgie´s halter. Next to her a man I easily recognized stood.

"Oh my good lord." Dad said slowly. "It's Mason Mackenzie!" About every person in the room under the age of forty raised each eyebrow at him. "Seriously? Don't you guys know anything about real music? Mason was the biggest star thirty… oh I've got to play some of his songs for you. I can't believe you didn't know him at all."

"This is my uncle Mason." Vie said "Well… not really uncle… but that´s what we call him."

"Hiya." Mason waved to the camera. "And Vie… what´s happening today?"

"I´m gonna try jumping higher than ever before." The picture switched back to Charlotte sitting in that sofa.

"Vie´s nice." She said and smiled. "Yeah, she´s very… she wants to learn different things, and really tries to learn and learns fast and so…. Yeah, she´s learnt to ride a horse much faster than what I did." Charlie laughed, and the picture switched to Skyler.

"Yeah." He seemed shy. "She´s nice…. She´s… she looks good and so…" Skyler chuckled, and looked away from the camera. The picture switched to Vie in the sofa.

"Without Lex I´d still live with my mum… and be abused." It switched again to the paddock where Vie was just jumping.

"That was scary." She said when she came closer to the camera. Then the picture switched to the twins Zach and Harry sitting in the sofa.

"Yeah Vie´s nice."

"She is."

"She helps me with my homework."

"Yeah me too."

"We like her." The last thing they said at the exact same time, and the picture switched to Vie sitting in the sofa.

"Without Lex… I wouldn´t have felt how it is to love anyone or to be loved" the picture switched to J.D. sitting in the sofa.

"When I fell and scraped my knee, Vie blew on the wound so it wouldn´t hurt so much." The picture changed again to Steve and Jenny sitting in the sofa.

"Yeah… Vie she really lightens up the day… and that is one of the many reasons… Vie can you come here?" Vie came into the picture and sat down between Steve and Jenny.

"Vie… we think that you really lighten up the day here at the farm, you get along well with everyone, got a good hand with both the horses and the cats. That´s why we´d like to adopt you." Vie gasped and her eyes filled with tears.

"That a yeah?" Steve asked. Vie nodded, and then the picture changed to Vie sitting alone in the picture again.

"…If I and Lex would have never met… I wouldn´t have met my family… neither of them." The picture changed to all the foster- and- adoptive- siblings, Steve and Jenny and Billy standing in the garden.

"I just wanted to say thanks to Lex, Burt, Carole, Blaine, Kurt, Finn and Rebeccah… especially to Lex because without her I would never have met the others. I love you all."

"BYE." Everyone shouted and waved to the camera, and then the screen went black. I had been sitting on the floor earlier.

"Now I have an idea what to do with that scrapbook… I just gotta fix something." I ran upstairs. I invited the whole New Directions about a week later- including Mr. Schue

"Hey." I sat on the steps outside the door when the others arrived at the next Saturday.

"Hey Lex." Some of the others greeted, just as the others- mum, dad, Kurt, Blaine, Finn and Rebeccah came out the door, Blaine was carrying his guitar, Mr. Schue ran up to the boys and hugged them all at once.

"Mum and dad´s away for a couple of days." Ethan said, he was holding the hands of a girl I recognized as Gracie. "I hope it´s alright that we brought Gracie."

"Yeah of course." I nodded and walked over to Gracie and kneeled down. I took her hand.

"Hello Gracie, how are you today?"

"Good." Gracie said with her thumb in her mouth.

"I´m Lex, and I know your big brothers, I asked you to be here today."

"Okay."

"So… why did you want us to be here?" Liam asked. I lifted the scrapbook I had filled with pictures and stickers.

"I…. well, everyone´s here now then… I wanted you all to know that a week and a half ago we got the letter from the adoption bureau…" I smiled. "And… it got through."

"Yes, yes, yes, yes." Mr. Schue loosened himself from the crowd and came over to me, he lifted me up and hugged me. "Congratulations."

"Thanks Mr. Schue," while the others congratulated me and such I reached for the scrapbook I had laid to the side when Mr. Schue came to hug me.

"Thanks everyone… The letter came last Tuesday, but… well… the celebration didn´t go too well, as some of you may have read in the newspaper then… but… I came up with a better idea, so I´m gonna show you all the pages in this." I held up the scrapbook. "Then Blaine is helping me play a song, and then… I´m going around the neighborhood and such to… places that holds memories, kinda say goodbye. And… I would also like to say that if anyone wants to just leave at any part, just do so. Last, I´m going here to eat cake." I smiled, and then walked to sit down on the grass and when the others had placed themselves around me I put the scrapbook where they could see it.

On the front page I had written the word "Families" and when I turned to the first page I had written "The first" with stickers and when I riffled again, it revealed a picture that Katheryn gave me, in the photo, I´m six, Zeb five and Maddie four, we´re sitting on the floor with both Katheryn and Brian who had kneeled down by us, Maddie held something in her hands, and we all smiled.

I looked to Brian, he smiled, but it wasn´t the sort of smile for when some loving parent looks down on the child for the first time, he smiled, but his eyes were cold as ice.

"Who´s that?" Gracie asked, I pointed.

"That is me, that´s my brother Zeb, my sister Maddie, our… mother Katheryn, and our father Brian."

"Where are the…" She began, but Ethan interrupted.

"Gracie… I think we should hold up with our questions and keep on riffling shouldn´t we?"

"Yeah, okay Ethan." I turned the page and revealed two pictures. I heard mum and Kurt gasp, I looked up at them, Finn were holding mum as well as dad held Burt, but they were all crying. As one of the pictures on the page was of mum and Christopher with a new- born Finn, and the other one of dad and Elizabeth with new- born Kurt.

"I recognize Carole and Burt." Marcie said. "Who are the others?"

"That´s mum´s first husband and Finn´s dad, Christopher, that´s Finn. That´s dad´s first wife Elizabeth, and that's Kurt."

"So… wait, Kurt and Finn aren´t brothers… I thought… well… you know." Mariah said, I smiled

"You think we look alike?" Finn chuckled.

"Well… now that I think about it… no."

"I can tell also… that without my boy…" Dad shook his son a little. "I would never have meet my love." He laid his arm around mum´s shoulders. I smiled to them and turned the page again, this time to three pictures, the first of Brian and Katheryn when they were pregnant with me, then of me and them two when Katheryn was pregnant with Zeb, and last with Katheryn, Brian, me and Zeb when mum was pregnant with Maddie. I sighed.

"Ehrm, Lex…" Teeghan began. "Why exactly did you want all of us to be here?" I looked up at Teeghan and smiled slightly.

"I´m gonna show you." I said, Teeghan sighed. Then I turned back to the scrapbook and turned the page to a picture that always made me laugh. I and Maddie were dressed in ballet- skirts, Zeb also had a skirt and he glared at me.

"Poor Zeb." I said with a smirk, then I turned the page to the last of the "the first" pictures to a page of me and Maddie, I was four in the pic, Maddie three, it was probably shot at some kind of party, Maddie had a paper- hat, and it would probably have been a nice pic if our eyes hadn´t been so red.

"I love this pic." I breathed and watched how I held my arm around Maddie´s shoulders and pulled her close. Then I turned the page again to a page with just stickers and letters that said. "The real." I turned the page and revealed a picture of me, Vie, Kurt and Finn, Vie rode piggy- back on Kurt, and I did the same on Finn.

"That´s a very nice picture." Mum said and the others nodded agreeing.

"I also had a pic from Vie with the folks she´s living now. It´s the picture after this." I turned the page and turned to a picture from mum´s and dad´s wedding, with mum, dad, Kurt and Finn.

"Do you remember that Mr. S?" Finn asked. Mr. Schue nodded.

"Yeah." He started humming on "Marry you" by Bruno Mars. I smiled at him, and turned the page again, to a picture of Vie and her adoptive siblings, Steve and Jenny.

"I had a video- tape, a letter and a couple of pictures from Vie." I said. "This is who´s she´s living with now. That´s Steve and Jenny," I pointed. "Vie, Charlotte AKA Charlie, Harry and Zach can´t tell which one´s Harry and which one´s Zack, Skyler and Johnny Dominic, AKA J.D." I turned the page again to a picture with Finn and Kurt, both dressed for football.

"You remember that then Mr. Schuester?" Kurt asked.

"How could I forget?" Mr. Schue chuckled. I smiled, dad had told me about when Kurt joined the football- team in the beginning of his sophomore- year. I looked up to Kurt, smiled and then turned the page again. To a picture of me, Tyler, Blaine, Kurt, Rebeccah Finn, mum and dad from the cruise.

"How did that cruise go by the way?" Connor asked.

"It went really well." I turned the page again to a page with text that said. "The chosen." When I turned again it revealed a pic of me, Tyler, Connor and Hayley.

"That´s a wonderful pic." Connor pointed. "Have you heard anything from Hayley since she moved?"

"Yeah… she started school, she likes it there but of course she misses her dad. She´s also found a boyfriend…. I think his name´s Marcus." Liam looked thoughtful.

"Marley," He said after a couple of seconds.

"What?"

"Mar from Marcus, Ley from Hayley… Marley." I laughed and shook my head, then I turned the page again, to a picture of mum and dad, dad kissed mum´s forehead and she was laughing at something, there was also a pic of me and Tyler hugging. On the next page there was also two pictures, one with Finn and Rebeccah kissing, and one with Kurt and Blaine, also kissing. Ethan put his hand over Gracie´s eyes.

"Ethan." She moaned and tried to pull away Ethan´s hand from her face. "Ethan stop that." I turned the page to a picture of the New Directions, with the trophy from sectionals. Including Mr. Schue.

"There´s only two pictures left, I said and held the scrapbook towards Mr. Schue, "I think you should turn the page." Mr. Schue nodded and slowly turned the page, he gasped and tears filled his eyes.

On the last page I had put both text and photo at the same page, a picture of me and Mr. Schue, and the text read. "the savior."

"Couldn´t leave you out could I?" I smirked. "If it wasn´t for you I´d never had met my real family. Only one picture left." I turned the pic to one pic of me, mum, dad, Finn, and Kurt and with stickers I had around the picture put the words.

"Family is forever." Mum breathed.

"What do you mean?" Liam asked me, I thought about it.

"What I meant is that… whenever I´m feeling good… they will all be there, and so…. But they will also be there when the rough times come…. They won´t leave… and I won´t leave them. And no matter what happens… we will always be there for each other. Neither does it matter… I mean, Finn´s Carole´s son, Kurt is Burt´s, I´m adopted. We will always be a family. No matter what."

So… ending it right there, well… I can tell this isn´t the last we here about Leah and Jonah Carmichael… how and why I´m not telling.
Family is forever comes from a movie called dolphin tale. Good movie, watch it.
Only the epilogue left of SR… "sob" but I will put the first chap of the sequel up at the same time as I put the epilogue of SR up.