"Santana did you ever decide what you were going to wear tomorrow?" Rachel asked as she stood in front of her closet looking at her best dress clothes. She had narrowed down her choices to a knee length red dress or the dress that she wore the night Santana proposed.
"Yeah. I am wearing my pin stripe pants and a cream button down blouse." Santana responded from her position on the bed. She was tired because it had been a long day of working on the last sign for Peter which was now nearly done. All she had left to do was some touch ups here and there. It was similar in size to the one that she had done for the children's home, however this one was just for Peter's production building. That meant it wasn't nearly as creative since Peter wanted to keep a clean and crisp look to it.
"Okay, so that means I am going to wear...my engagement dress." Rachel grabbed the dress and held it up in front of her spinning around to face Santana. She loved the black material and how the silver rhinestones glimmered in the light.
"It's perfect." Santana said as she raised up and propped her head up on her hand.
"What time are your parents getting here?" Rachel wondered curiously. Santana had told her they were coming, she just hadn't mentioned the time yet.
"They're going to meet us at the court house. So noon. Then I figured we could all go out to dinner afterwards." Santana stated with her eyes closed. If she stayed in this position much longer she was definitely going to fall asleep.
"We should probably call ahead to where ever it is we are going. You know make sure they have room since there will be so many of us. Mom and Cassie, Dad and Bayani, your parents, Quinn, Puck, Beth and Davis, then us; that's eleven and a half people." Rachel exclaimed with wide eyes. This was supposed to be a small quick thing so that they could get the adoption underway, but it didn't appear to be turning out that way. Santana started laughing loudly at Rachel's use of a half of person to count for Davis.
"I wish the girls could be there. With them and Davis they would make a whole person so we would have an even twelve." Santana sighed wistfully. Maybe if they got lucky the girls would be able to attend the wedding in December and even be flower girls.
"I do too. But at least we get to see them this weekend since we have to start moving the paintings over to the studio for the show. I can't believe it is almost time for it already." Rachel shook her head in disbelief. It felt like it had only been yesterday when Santana came home with the news about hosting the art show.
"Life is about to get even more crazy busy. We have the art show and finishing up the decorating at the new home and then we to help them move and set the rooms up. Plus the adoption and wedding. How are we ever going to find time to get everything done?" Santana asked as she flopped back on the bed.
"We will find the time. We have found it this whole time while we have been busy and we will keep finding it." Rachel declared as she crossed the loft floor to join Santana on the bed. She snuggled close reveling in the warmth that Santana always seemed to radiate. Rachel felt like she was going to start purring like a cat when Santana began to run her fingers through Rachel's long dark locks. Closing her eyes, Rachel was content just lay there a while with Santana. Their lives were so busy it felt like they never got a chance to just be together anymore without interruptions. For the moment they were going to take full advantage.
Santana jerked awake to the sound of her alarm clock going off. She fumbled around for a moment before finally finding the offending item tucked under Rachel's pillow. How in the world that didn't wake up Rachel, she didn't know. The shorter woman simply turned over, blindly searching for Santana in her sleep. Santana smiled, Rachel had the cutest pout on her face and her hair was a mess. Also, add in the fact that they had fallen asleep in their clothes and it was definitely a picture worthy moment. Santana thought better of that idea, Rachel wouldn't appreciate the sentiment one bit.
The current time was seven thirty and Santana knew they had to get up and start getting ready soon so that they could head to St. Lawrence. Hopefully things would go smoothly today and they would be able to get married, if not they would have to wait until probably Monday to see a different judge. That would really put a damper on things. However, not one to be discouraged so easily, Santana had plenty of hope that someone would be able to marry them.
Thinking back, Santana remembered during this time three years ago how she had nothing like she had now. It was a lonely life, at the time all she had was Dax. Day in and day out she and Dax spent all their time working on the cabin or tree house. Puck would stop by every two or three days to make sure that she hadn't worked herself to death. Artie only came around when he had orders for her to fill and everyone else only really saw her when she went into town.
Now, she was getting married and about to adopt two babies. If only her Abuelo could see her now. Santana smiled thinking about him. Man did she miss him. He was always her proudest supporter, the most vocal about following your dreams and setting out to accomplish something in life. His favorite saying was make sure people remember your name and all the good you done, long after you're gone. To this day, everyone in McKinley knew who Santana's Abuelo was.
Santana sighed as Rachel shifted again, this time instead of moving closer to Santana, she moved back and looked up. Rachel noticed that Santana's eyes were closed but the woman definitely wasn't asleep. She had a content smile on her face. "What are you thinking about?" Rachel asked sleepily.
"My Abuelo. I miss today." Santana opened her eyes to look down at Rachel.
"He'll be with you. He's always with you, just like I know my Daddy will be with us today too. They wouldn't miss this for the world even if it is a court house wedding." Rachel giggled as she buried her face into Santana's chest.
"Well, let's just hope a judge is still there. I mean if there isn't one we will have to wait until Monday unless someone else we know can marry us. Either way, we can definitely get our license today, which is a huge step."
Rachel looked confused. "There will be a judge there. That was one of the things I asked when I called. He hangs around a lot on Friday's for weddings in particular."
"Really?" Santana waited for Rachel to nod. "Oh, thank gosh. I was honestly a little worried."
"Everything is going to go fine today." Rachel placed a quick peck on Santana's lips. "We will go get our license and then skip over to the court house and tada; get married. You over think stuff sometimes and create worries in your head that don't need to be worries, love. I told you from the start that we could handle this." Rachel snuggled back down against Santana. "Now, let's go back to sleep for an hour before we have to start getting ready."
Santana looked down at her watch checking the time once again. They had been standing in front of the county clerks office for ten minutes now and her parents weren't there yet. "Were are they? I knew they wouldn't actually come." Santana whispered to herself. Had she put too much faith in her parents? Probably. It wasn't the first time she had expected them to be somewhere only for them to not show up.
"They'll be here San. It's only twenty till twelve." Rachel frowned and rubbed Santana's back trying to sooth her. Everyone was already here, dressed to the nines in semi-formal clothing. Shelby and Cassie wore slightly matching outfits of blue dresses, while Leroy and Bayani were both dressed in black dress pants and different colored button downs. Leroy's being purple while Bayani's was a pastel green. The Puckerman-Fabray men were dressed in nice jeans and fitted vests. Technically Davis's was just a shirt, but it still counted. Quinn and Beth were matching in sun dresses, a classic Fabray look. Now they were just waiting on Santana's parents to show up.
Suddenly Santana heard someone calling her name. She turned her head to the right to see her parents quickly walking up the sidewalk. Her father was waving his arms trying to get her attention. An involuntary grin broke out on Santana's face. They made it, for the first time it what felt like her whole life, her parents had shown up when she needed them.
"We're so sorry, we're running behind. There were two taxi accidents in the city this morning with no way around them. Your father drove as fast as he could." Maribel looked around at everyone. "Oh no, did we miss it?" She asked panicked.
"No, Mami. You're right on time." Santana wasn't sure whether to hug her parents or not. She hesitated a moment before she felt a slight nudge in her back, pushing her forward. It took a moment before Santana actually wrapped her arms around her mother, but when she did the dam behind her eyes broke. Santana released a sob that she wasn't aware that she even had in her. For once in her life her parents hadn't let her down, they were actually here and they wanted to be here for her.
Rachel stood back as she watched the scene unfold in front of her. Santana stood weeping in her mothers arms as her father came up and wrapped both of them in a hug. He too had tears in his eyes. "We're so sorry mija. It's time for a change." He mumbled brokenly.
Still not comfortable with huge displays of emotion, Santana soon broke the hug and stood back wiping her eyes. "Uh, Mami, Papi. Before we do this, I suppose we should introduce you to everyone." Rachel had taken some tissues out of her person and was trying to clean up what little make up Santana had decided to wear.
"We know Leroy and of course Noah and Quinn. Oh goodness, Noah...are these your babies?" Maribel asked with her hand over her heart.
"Yes Ma'm. This is Beth and this little dude is Davis." Puck placed one hand on Beth's shoulder and held up Davis in his car seat with the other.
Maribel pulled back the blanket that was covering Davis. "My gosh, how old is he?"
"Five days." Quinn answered proudly.
"We better get going then. He doesn't need to be out for long periods of time." Maribel responded worriedly. Yes her maternal instincts were kicking in.
"Mami..." Santana trailed off as she shook her head, seemingly telling Maribel not to start anything. "Quinn and Puck know what they're doing. Davis is okay. Anyway, Mami, Papi, this is Leroy's fiance' Bayani." Santana waited for her mother and father to exchange greetings before she turned to Cassie and Shelby. "This is Rachel's mother Shelby and her wife Cassandra." Shelby smiled politely and shook hands with Santana's parents as Cassie did the same.
"It's really lovely to meet all of you." Maribel smiled politely as Marcus also shook hands with everyone.
"Yes, yes lovely smovely. Let's get this show on the road, I've been in here waiting for twelve hours now." Everyone turned around to see Sue Sylvester standing in the doorway of the county clerks office. Santana just laughed and shook her head, she wasn't even going to ask how Sue knew about this. Rachel probably told her if the grin on the shorter woman's face was any indication. It was nice to have Sue here, especially if Santana's parent's hadn't of showed up. For the longest time Sue was the only family Santana had, so of course she should be here.
"You heard the woman, let's get married." Santana grabbed Rachel's hand and cheered, encouraging everyone to join in. Slowly they began to file into the building, this was finally happening.