Ok so I know it's been entirely to long and I'm very sorry for that. Thank you to everyone who is still following the story. I've been working on this chapter for a while and it's been a very slow progress. I wanted it to be longer and finish off the 4th of July party in this chapter, but if I wait I'm not sure when I would have a chapter out :/ I have 2,000 words written for the last chapter of the party so hopefully I will be able to finish it quickly.
They pull into the Chang's driveway at 10:29. Santana opens the door and jumps out before the car is even fully in park. As much as she wants to dart in the house, she doesn't want to be reprimanded for not helping unload the car. So she quickly moves to the back of the SUV and opens the hatch gathering as many things as she can carry at one time. She puts a bag on each arm, balances the cookies on top of the Crockpot and proceeds to try and pick them up.
Quinn and Rachel join her at the trunk of the car. Quinn laughs and stops her attempt. "Just go in, I'll get the rest."
Santana smiles and kisses Quinn on the cheek. "Thanks babe," she places a quick kiss on Rachel's temple before nearly sprinting to the front door, not bothering to knock and wait for someone to answer; just letting herself in.
"Have you noticed she seems a tad bit more..." Rachel pauses for a moment looking for the right word.
"Spastic?" Quinn offers with a smirk while grabbing the bag of extra clothes Rachel had packed knowing they probably won't make it back home tonight.
Rachel slaps Quinn on the shoulder lightly: "No, I was going to say eager."
"That too," Quinn shrugs.
Rachel shakes her head and closes the trunk door. "Ok, as long as it's not just me."
They walk to the front door. "Oh no, she definitely is waaay more enthusiastic this year. But she did say they bought twice as many fireworks as they did last year so she's on like cloud 9 right now I'm sure."
Rachel nods and holds the door open for Quinn. "I guess you're right, I just hope she stays that way"
They walk into the kitchen and see the two bags Santana brought in practically thrown on the counter and the door to the basement left open.
"I doubt he will show Rach," Quinn sits the Crockpot on the counter next to an outlet before grabbing the bag of refrigerated items from the counter and putting them away.
Rachel finishes unbagging the remaining items and turns around leaning against the island. "You don't know for sure Quinn. I don't want him to show up and ruin her favorite holiday. I should have just gone back to the table and told him outright he wasn't invited," she sighs crossing her arms over her chest.
Quinn moves to stand in front of Rachel, placing her hands on the diva's hips. "You know as well as I do that her reaction in Lima was about more than just seeing him. She was working through her own insecurities then. She's doing better now."
Quinn brings her right hand up and brushes a fallen strand of Rachel's hair behind her ear before cupping her cheek to make the brunette look at her. "Besides I don't think even he would be able to pop her bubble today," she moves her hand that is still on Rachel's hip to her arm and rubs up and down.
Rachel eyes meet Quinn's again. "But-"
Quinn cuts her off placing her finger against her lips. "Shh, no buts baby. Let's not let something that hasn't happened yet ruin the day. Alright Rach?"
Rachel nods her answer. She knows Quinn is right, but it's difficult for her to sit back and wait for the potential chaos to unfold.
Quinn smiles happy Rachel has agreed to drop the subject for now.
Quinn kisses Rachel on the lips before stepping back and holding her hand out for Rachel to take. "Now let's go find everyone else."
Rachel takes Quinn's hand, grabs the bag with the pool supplies from the counter and follows after the blonde. They stop in the doorway seeing Tina, Oliver, and Olivia in the pool facing the opposite direction and watching Brittany make her way down the diving board.
Quinn brings the camera hanging around her neck up and catches a shot of Brittany in the air mid back flip.
She shows the photo to Rachel who smiles. Quinn has always had an incredible eye and impeccable timing and is able to capture even the most fleetest of moments.
"Happy Fourth," they say in unison when they get closer to the pools edge.
"Aunt Quinn! Aunt Ray Ray! Come swim with us!" Olivia screams out splashing around in the water.
They wave at their friends in the water. We will Liv, but first we have to put on our sun block, you don't want Aunt Quinn to look like a lobster tomorrow, do you?" Rachel laughs at her own joke and pulls out the tube of sunscreen and sits down on one of the lounge chairs.
"Okay, but hurry!" Olivia replies before turning her attention back to her brother.
Quinn pulls the beach towels out of the bag and lays them on the chairs. "Where are the boys?" she asks the adults in the pool.
"Hey! I'm a boy!" Oliver calls out defensively causing a round of laughter from the others.
Quinn takes the tube of sunscreen from Rachel and rubs some on her hands before applying it to the brunettes back. "I know that O, I was talking about the bigger boys."
"Oh," he shrugs and throws the ball to Brittany. "They are downstairs setting up the fireworks. I got bored and decided to come out here."
"Did you really need to ask that Quinn? Santana has been calling here all day making sure no one messes with her share. Where else do you think the big kids would be?" Tina teases.
Quinn shrugs in defeat handing the sunscreen to Rachel so the diva can get her back also. "I thought that they would be done by now."
Brittany is out of the pool drying her legs, "Yeah right. You should see the room when it's filled with those things. They've got 6 boards set up already and still plenty left for more. You coming Oliver?"
"Yes!" The excited boy calls out swimming quickly to the steps.
"Where are you all going?" Rachel asks while applying sun block to Quinn's shoulders.
"No running around the pool Oliver Jacob!" Tina scolds.
He slows to a fast walk, stopping in front of Brittany. "We got a new paddle boat this week!" he exclaims.
"Yeah and last one there is a rotten egg!" Brittany declares before sprinting towards the lake that is at the bottom of the yard.
"Hey no fair! Your legs are longer than mine!" Olivier whines trying to catch up with his perky blonde aunt.
Quinn watches on with a smile while Rachel finishes smothering her back, shoulders and arms with half the tube of sun block.
Rachel sees where Quinn is looking and laughs. "Go on you big kid."
Quinn turns to look at Rachel. "What?" she fails to keep her smile from forming.
Rachel shakes her head laughing. "Go. I know you. You're dying to take that thing out for a spin."
Quinn smiles wider. "It's a paddle boat, I haven't been on one since I was 12!" she leans in and kisses Rachel on the lips before springing up to her feat and running down the slight hill. "Wait for me!"
Olivia shows Rachel how long she can hold her breath under water, when she pops up after 25 seconds and sees Tina climbing out of the pool. "Where are you going mommy?"
Tina rings out her hair when she answers, "I have to start cooking lunch sweetie. Rach, are the Schuster's eating lunch here?"
Rachel shrugs her shoulder and starts to spin Olivia around in the pool. "I talked to mom earlier and she said they had some things to do, but I'm not sure if they will make it in time for lunch. Do you need me to call her?" She comes to a stop, but her world is still dizzy.
"Again, again!" Olivia begs.
Rachel rubs her eyes wishing herself not to hurl. "I need a minute sweetie," she wades to the steps and sits for a minute.
Olivia follows her. "But I wanna spin now!"
Tina is drying herself off when she hears her daughters tone. "Olivia! You do not talk to your aunt that way. Or any one for that matter," she looks at Rachel and immediately can tell she's about two shades lighter than usual.
She makes her way to the pools edge. "Rach, are you okay?" she asks, placing her hand on her shoulder.
Rachel who had blocked everything out, is trying to regain her balance and mentally will herself not to throw up in the pool, is brought out of her head when she feels Tina's hand on her arm. "Huh? What? Oh yeah I'm fine... Just got a little to dizzy that's all."
She stands up and wavers a bit before grabbing the handrail. "Are you sure you're okay? Tina asks.
"Just have to get my land legs again," Rachel laughs it off. She successfully gets out of the pool and grabs one of the towels Quinn had set out earlier.
"But I wanna keep swimming!" Olivia pouts, arms crossed sitting in the highest step at the end of the pool.
Tina turns back to her stubborn daughter, "We can swim some more later. You're gonna turn into a raisin If you stay in any longer."
Olivia looks at her hands. She's been in the pool for almost three hours. Her fingers are pruinier than she has ever seen them. But she loves the water and wants to swim more still. "Promise?"
Tina laughs. "I promise now come on before you shrivel up completely," she holds a Frozen beach towel out in front of her, waiting on the little girl to finally get out of the pool.
"Ok!" Olivia jumps and immediately wraps herself up in the offered towel.
Rachel smiles at their interactions knowing in a few short years that will be her and her kids.
Tina picks Olivia up and props her on her hip before walking over to Rachel. "You good?"
Rachel rolls her eyes. "I'm fine. I was just dizzy from spinning."
Tina looks at her skeptically.
"I swear I'm ok. See!" Rachel stands up and walks a few steps away and then back in a straight line as if she were taking a sobriety test on the side of the road, to prove her point.
Tina adjust Olivia on her hip. "Ok, ok. I was just making sure... Since you're ok, can you call and find out if they will be joining us for lunch, so I know how much I need to make."
"Yeah sure," Rachel grabs her phone from the lounge chair. "What on earth?" She tries to unlock her phone. But is met with a black screen that has a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark in the middle and reads 'iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it'.
"Oh yeah, you can't leave it in direct sun light or that happens," Tina informs like it's the most common thing before walking inside with Olivia still in her arms nearly asleep her head resting on her shoulder.
"Thanks for the heads up," Rachel says to herself, before placing her phone in the shade and grabbing Quinn's who's was already there.
She tries to use her finger print to unlock it but since her fingers are to pruned from being in the pool for the last hour and a half, she swipes right to bring up the number lock screen before quickly entering the numbers '0524'. Quinn had switch her pass code from hers and Santana's combines birthdays to the day they found out Rachel was pregnant.
Smiling to herself and placing her free hand on her belly lovingly. She finds Shelby's cell number in Quinn's recent calls and stands to wrap the towel around herself before following Tina inside.
She walks through the back door to see the mother laying a sleeping Olivia down on a kids sized Frozen fold out couch. She watches as Tina expertly removes the matching towel from the sleeping girl and replaces it with a dry matching blanket. All without waking up Olivia.
Tina folds the towel into a make shift pillow and props Olivia's head up so her still wet hair won't soak through her favorite place to nap.
"I can't believe she fell asleep that fast," Rachel whispers when Tina walks back towards the kitchen.
Tina laughs. "You don't have to whisper Rach. That child could sleep through a freight train zipping through the house. But yeah the pool wears her out every time. I'm honestly surprised she lasted as long as she did. We were out there for about an hour before you all got here."
Rachel's eyes widen. "Wow, that is a long time. I already want to take a nap!"
Tina laughs again and starts grabbing things out of the fridge. "Well that has a lot to do with your two little hitchhikers," she says while she puts the ingredients for potato salad on the counter before bending down to grab a pot so she can begin boiling the water to cook the potatoes. "I can't imagine being pregnant with twins. I was exhausted all the time with one."
Rachel grabs a bowl and peeler to start pealing the potatoes. "Yeah, it's definitely takes its toll. I have to take several breaks while shooting. But we are trying to get all my scenes done before I start to show too much," she shrugs.
Tina grabs a second peeler and helps Rachel to make the job go faster. "More power to you. I don't know how you do it," she shakes her head in wonderment.
Rachel sits the peeled vegetable in the bowl with the others before grabbing a new one. "It's not easy, but it has to be done."
Tina nods, "I get that, just be sure you are listening to your body and taking enough breaks. I don't want anything happening to my nieces or nephews."
"I promise I am," Rachel smiles.
"Good," Tina stands and grabs the bowl of peeled potatoes and runs them under cold water before bringing them back to the island and grabbing two cutting boards and knives so they can begin cutting them in to smaller pieces. "Did you get a hold of your mom or Will?"
Rachel munches on a cut piece of raw potato with salt, but nods. "They won't be able to make it for lunch, but they should be here for dinner," she informs, before sprinkling salt on another piece of potato she just cut.
Tina nods. "Save some for the salad Rach," she teases.
Rachel finishes making the potato salad while Tina preps the burgers. They continue catching up while they work.
"Mike can you come start the grill please?" Tina yells down the stairs to the basement.
"Sure thing, just a sec," Mike calls back up.
Tina shakes her head and closes the door. "They are worse than the kids on Christmas Day, I swear."
Rachel smiles from her chair, "I know right!"
Tina joins her before jumping up from the stool, "Oh you know what I want?!"
Rachel holds her hand to her chest, "My goodness you scared me!"
"Sorry," Tina grabs the blender from its spot when not in use and sits it in front of Rachel.
"Oh how I'd kill for a Margarita right now!" Rachel says with a pout.
"I'll make you a virgin one," Tina says over her shoulder while standing on the step ladder to reach the margarita mix and tequila from the top shelf.
Rachel makes a face. "No thanks, it'll just make me want one more," she rests her chin on her hand and continues to pout more.
Tina grabs the bucket of ice from the freezer. "Yeah, that is probably the worst part of pregnancy..."
Rachel shrugs. "It really does suck, and I know I only want it more because I can't have it," she laughs. "Just 7 more months."
Tina nods and pours the alcohol into the blender. "It'll be worth it when you see their beautiful faces"
"Dude it's gonna be epic," Sam tells Mike as the door opens.
They high-five. "We'll win for sure," Mike adds
Tina and Rachel share a look before playfully rolling their eyes.
The boys say a quick hello to Rachel before heading outside to start the grill. Quinn walks in as they are leaving and dramatically sits down on the stool next to Rachel laying her head on her arms.
Tina leans her elbows against the counter resting her chin on her hands. "Had enough of the paddleboat there Quinn?"
Quinn groans not bothering to lift her head and nods before turning to rest her cheek against the coolness of the granite. "I don't know how those two are still out there. Now they are racing the next door neighbor kid around the whole lake. I barely made it up here. My legs feel like jello."
Rachel smiles trying not to laugh. She rubs Quinn's back with one hand and moves her hair out of her face tucking it behind her ear with the other. "Poor baby."
Tina grabs the blender and pours a drink for Quinn. "Maybe this will help," she slides it in front of the blondes face.
Quinn opens her eyes and brings her hand up holding the stem between her middle and pointer finger. She slowly sits up pulling the drink closer to her. "Certainly won't hurt," she takes a sip and rests her head against Rachel's shoulder. "What have you two been up to?" she takes another drink feeling the effects of the alcohol pretty quickly.
Rachel begins to twirl Quinn's ponytail in her fingers. "Just talking. We just finished the potato salad and Mike and Sam are firing up the grill, so lunch should be ready soon."
"Sounds good. I'm starving," Quinn nods.
By the time it's 1:30 and lunch is ready, everyone, but Santana is out at the patio table making a plate.
"I'm gonna go tell San lunch is ready," Rachel tells Quinn who is standing next to her holding a still sleepy Olivia.
Quinn nods and kisses Rachel's cheek before laying her head back down atop of Olivia's.
Rachel stops at the bottom of the stairs leaning against the door frame watching Santana. The Latina is completely immersed in what she is working on, she doesn't even realize anyone came downstairs.
Rachel watches on for a few seconds, before descending the last step and walking fully into the room. "So this is what has been hogging you all day."
Santana drops the wire strippers she's holding. "Dios mio, you scared me," she quickly stands up moving in between Rachel and the table, resting her hands on the divas waist. "S'up babe?"
Rachel's brow furrows. "S'up babe?" she crosses her arms. "You've been done here since the second we got here and that's all I get?" she shrugs her shoulder dismissively and repeats, "S'up babe?"
Santana quickly glances back over her shoulder. "I'm sorry baby. This is just taking longer than I thought it would and it's kinda stressing me out."
Rachel looks into Santana's eyes and slowly uncrosses her arms. "No I'm sorry. I know you're down here getting ready for tonight, I just didn't think you would be spending the whole day hold up in the basement. I miss you," she pouts.
Santana lifts Rachel's chin up and kisses her on the lips successfully getting rid of the pout. Resting her forehead against Rachel's, she slowly opens her eyes and kisses the tip of the diva's nose.
Rachel wraps her arms around Santana's, moving closer to her. "I love you," she whispers, her eyes nuzzled into Santana's neck.
Santana kisses the top of Rachel's head, "I love you too."
Their moment is interrupted by Brittany calling down the stairs. "Quinn said to stop getting your mac on and come eat some lunch."
Santana laughs. "We're coming," she takes Rachel's hand and leads the way.
Everyone sits down and shares a quick lunch before breaking off into groups and enjoying more of the day.
After a couple of hours, Oliver finally stops begging everyone to go out on the paddle boat with him. Mike and Sam brought the table tennis out from the garage per Tina's request and now she and Quinn are in the middle of a friendly marathon battle. Sam and Mike are tossing the football around and Rachel and Brittany are floating in the water. The kids are playing some game they invented at the shallow end of the pool. The music is going and everyone is enjoying the beautiful day, except Santana who hasn't come back up from the basement since lunch.
It's a little after 4pm when Quinn closes the door to the basement having just checked on Santana. She catches the tail end of Tina's conversation as she walks by.
"Okay, see you soon," Tina ends the phone call.
"Who was that?" Quinn asks being nosy.
Tina looks up surprised, she didn't realize anybody was around. "Oh just one of the moms from PTA. She has a daughter in Olivia's class and they are going to come for the fireworks."
Quinn nods, "I bet Liv will be happy."
Tina smirks, "I know she will, speaking of Olivia, I'm gonna go find her and tell her the news."
Quinn follows Tina out the back door and spots Rachel lounging by the pool. She snaps a quick photo, which alerts Rachel to her presence.
Rachel looks up from her phone and smiles. "Hey baby."
Quinn leans down to kiss Rachel. "Watcha reading?"
Rachel looks guilty. The script changes for the next scene. Michael just emailed them over."
Quinn sits down next to Rachel on the same chair. "Rach we promised no work today."
Rachel looks at her phone in her hands sitting in her lap. "I know but I have to be off book with the changes. We start shooting on Monday and with my pregnancy brain lately, I haven't been able to commit changes to memory as easily."
Quinn adjusts herself on the chair pulling her left leg up under her and rests her arm against Rachel's legs. "Baby, it's your day off, you're suppose to relax and not think about work."
Rachel sits up. "I know but I have to get these changes memorized," she reiterates.
"Rachel, we are at a party with our friends and it's your first day off in 10 days," Quinn slowly starts to take Rachel's phone out of her hand. "You don't need to be stressing about work right now. Stress isn't good for the babies, or you," she puts the divas phone on the little side table next to her camera.
"But-" Rachel is cut off by the blonde.
Quinn puts her finger to Rachel's lips. "Shh no buts. Let's enjoy the rest of the day and tomorrow I'll spend the whole day running lines with you if you want. Not that I think you need that long... Ok?"
Rachel wants to protest, but says ok.
Quinn smiles. "Good," she stands up pulling Rachel with her, before sitting back down gently pulling Rachel down with her to lay against her chest.
Rachel giggles at the unexpected position change. "What was that for?" she asks looking to her right where Quinn's chin rests on the brunette's shoulder.
Quinn shrugs. "I wanted to be able to hold you," she kisses Rachel's cheek quickly wrapping her arms around the brunette, her hands coming to rest atop the baby bump.
They've been lounging for the past half hour watching their friends enjoy the day with Quinn occasionally snapping a few pictures from where she sits.
"I can't believe Santana is missing this," Rachel pouts.
Quinn sits her camera back down and nods her head in agreement. "I didn't think she would spend the entire day in the basement."
"Maybe the way she was acting earlier was just an act," Rachel sighs worried about the Latina.
Quinn doesn't respond right away wanting to make sure she says the right thing. She too is starting to worry about their girlfriend.
"Maybe we should both go down, maybe then-" Quinn starts. But is cut off by a cold bottle against her shoulder.
"Hello beautifuls," Santana announces her presence handing one of the bottle of Mikes to Quinn giving her a quick peck on the lips before handing Rachel the bottle of Pierre water and mimicking her previous actions.
Rachel thanks the Latina before gulping down half the bottle in one drink.
"We were wondering if you were gonna show your face sometime today" Quinn teases and takes a swig of the refreshing alcoholic beverage, finishing with a sigh of pleasure. "Black cherry, my favorite."
Santana rolls her eyes at Quinn's comment, before straddling the bottom of the chair and sitting down in between Rachel's legs. "I know, that's why I made Tina buy a 24 pack of just those instead of the variety one. And I had to make sure everything was set up perfect for tonight. The timing had to be just right for the finally it was a little tricky but I think I got it, I hope at least..."
Santana moves her sunglasses to the top of her head and pushes Rachel's shirt up to expose her visible baby bump. Placing her hands on the divas stomach smiling, but it quickly turns to a face of worry. "You don't think it'll be too loud for the little bugs do you?" concern evident in her voice.
Rachel smiles and places her right hand over Santana that is splayed out on her stomach. "No love. They'll be ok."
Santana smiles and kisses Rachel's stomach twice. Quinn and Rachel watch on with love. Rachel reaches for Quinn's hand with her left and with her right, locks fingers with Santana's left still on her stomach. Happy that she has both of her girlfriends with her.
Santana starts to talk to Rachel's stomach telling her all about how her firework displays are the best an how her set will blow Sam's and Mikes out of the water. "There's also something special in it for your mommies."
"Oh my god you're pregnant?!"
"You're pregnant?!"
Kurt and Finn say over one another.
The girls look up at the sudden outburst.
"Oh my god Kurt you're back!" Rachel scrambles to get up from the chair pulling her shirt down in the process.
"I can't believe you're here!" she practically runs towards Kurt nearly tackling him with a hug. "Why didn't you tell me you were back?! Where's Blaine?"
"We wanted it to be a surprise. He's inside catching up with Tina. Enough about that," he waves his hands in the air dismissively before moving them to Rachel's stomach. "How come you didn't tell me you were pregnant?!"
"And how were we suppose to do that lady face? You and hair gel weren't exactly reachable during your three month honeymoon," Santana challenges before pulling Kurt into a side hug.
"She's got a point..." Quinn comments while moving in for a hug of her own. Both of them nodding their heads in Finns general direction as a greeting.
Kurt puts his hands on his hips, "We checked emails every once in a while."
Rachel puts her left hand on her hip tilting her head slightly. "Do you really think I wouldn't tell one of my best friends I was pregnant with twins-"
"TWINS?!" Kurt screeches cutting Rachel off.
"Twins?" Finn whispers who has been standing their watching still trying to wrap his head around the fact that his high school girlfriend, former fiancé, who he still isn't over is pregnant.
Rachel glances at Finn hearing his voice. She had actually forgotten he was there over the excitement of Kurt being back. She doesn't acknowledge him any further though admittedly she's a little peeved that he actually came. It's not like he's kept in contact with Sam of Mike or anyone other than Kurt really she supposes. Shaking her head getting back on topic, she rubs her stomach lovingly. "Yeah, now do you get why I didn't want to send an email that you may or may not have read."
Kurt rolls his eyes. "Fine but I'm here now and you have to tell me everything!"
"Hey what's everybody talking about?" Puck comes up behind Kurt and Finn slapping Finn on the shoulder before squeezing it and putting his other arm around Kurt's neck.
"Rachel's pr-pregnant," Finn stutters out.
Puck looks at Finn when he's starts to speak then to Rachel, then to her stomach. "Oh my gosh! Jewbabe, that's amazing!" he pulls Rachel into a hug lifting her off the ground about a foot.
Rachel is surprised to say the least. "Um, thank you Noah, but can you please put me down. You're kind of crushing me."
He obliges quickly putting her back on the ground worried he may have hurt the tiny diva. "Oh baby mama I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you."
Rachel settles in-between Santana and Quinn. "It's alright Noah. But please don't call me that again."
Santana smirks and wraps her arm around Rachel's waist. "Yeah, she's our baby mama"
Quinn giggles under her breath while Rachel sends Santana a warning look.
Santana is quick to catch Rachel's look and moves to stand behind her wrapping both arms around her. "I mean only in the most colloquial sense," she kisses Rachel's cheek before resting her chin on the diva's shoulder.
Rachel just shakes her head fighting the smile that's trying to form.
"I still can't believe you have tamed Satan, Rachel". Kurt teases.
Puck can't help but laugh. "No kidding, had you told me freshman year Rachel Berry would have both HBIC whipped and wrapped around her little finger, I would have thought..." he pauses trying to think of something as outrageous as his earlier statement before shrugging. "I don't even know what to think," he finishes chugging down a beer.
"We are not whipped. We just know a good thing when we have it." Quinn wraps her arm around Santana's waist. "Isn't that right S?"
"Damn straight, we aren't letting this one go." Santana tightens her grip on Rachel and kisses the crook of her neck with Quinn kissing the smaller woman's cheek.
"Okay enough of that," Kurt's moves his hands in the air acting as if he's pushing the trio apart. "I want to hear more about these miracle babies."
Rachel blushes. "I promise I'll tell you everything. But first I need to speak with Santana and Quinn privately," she pulls herself out of the duo's embrace grabbing each of their hand. "If you'll excuse us," she leads her girlfriends to a secluded corner of the yard.
"Rach," Santana stops walking making both Rachel and Quinn stop as well. She pulls on Rachel's hand making her turn around.
Rachel's starts to speak, but Santana stops her, shaking her head no. She looks at both Rachel and Quinn, taking a deep breath and releasing. She grips each of their hands tighter. "It's fine. I'm fine. I'm not going to let anything ruin today."
"I can't believe he even-" Quinn starts to talk but stops when Santana grips stops her.
Santana nods her understanding. "I will admit, I am pretty surprised he showed up, but he's here now and there's nothing we can do about it-"
Rachel cuts her off this time pulling her hand away. "He wasn't invited, I will tell him to leave," she crosses her arms and stomps her foot.
Santana smiles and cups Rachel's cheek, brushing her thumb across it before moving her hand to her forearm and squeezing lightly and shaking her head no. She pulls her girlfriends closer to her. "I promise I'm not gonna let him being here get to me."
Rachel looks to Quinn and back to Santana and nods.
Quinn nods to, "I'm ok if you both are."
Not wanting anything to ruin today, Santana smiles and wraps an arm around each of her girlfriends pulling them into a three-way hug.
Well... What did ya'll think? Hopefully it starts to make up for the wait...
If any of you have ideas for chapter names for the previous chapters let me know... I'm eventually going to try and have them all named.
Big thanks to Forevergleek9615 for being patient and sticking with me and making the story better.