"It was good movie." Rachel admitted. "The character dynamics were very interesting."
Finn chuckled shoving his hands in his pockets, "Sometimes it's a good idea to step out of what's normal for you, Glee taught me that."
"But normal is safe." Rachel reminded. "And I like safe."
"Your safe doesn't always pay the bills." Finn reminded, he knew Broadway was fickle. "And I will have two little girls depending on me to take care of them so while my present job is safe I will be looking for something a little more stable and well paying."
"What about a football scholarship?" Rachel asked confused.
"No, I'm an okay quarterback, I don't see me getting a scholarship." Finn shook his head.
"Have you thought about what you want to do?"
"No idea, but I still have a few years to think about it so working for Mr. Pierce right now is exactly where I need to be, plus they pay me extra to have the logo on my truck." Finn didn't care, it wasn't his phone number on the doors and the more business that came in the more hours he could work.
"Have you and Santana set up a custody agreement?"
"That's one of those things you don't need to worry about." Finn walked over to the passenger side of his truck unlocking and opening the door.
"Oh, sorry." Rachel murmured climbing in the truck.
Closing the door Finn walked over to his side, sliding in he explained "Santana and I are still figuring things out," putting the key in the ignition he grinned "but we did pick out names, Lily Christine and Lyla Anne."
"Those are beautiful...will they have your last name?" Rachel asked curious.
"Both." he started the truck. "I'll text you the days I'm available when I get I home, then we can set up a date."
"Okay." Rachel smiled.
Santana's eyebrow arched as Brittany stiffened up the moment she leaned against her. "Sweetie, what's wrong?" Santana sat back up.
"Your parents are in the kitchen." Brittany whispered shaking her head and scooting away from Santana.
"I'm sorry what?" Santana's eyes narrowed as she struggled to understand what was going on, it was taking everything she had to be comfortable enough just to cuddle and Brittany was running away from her.
"Your parents are in the kitchen." Brittany repeated "I don't want them to think we're doing anything."
Santana gave a quiet chuckle, "It's okay Britt, I promise."
"Are you sure? I've never been anyone's serious girlfriend before, I don't know what I'm supposed to do when their parents are home."
"Firstly," Santana held out her hand "neither have I and I'm not sure the rules either, what I do know is I wants cuddles and breadstix, think you can help me out?" Brittany hesitated but took Santana's hand scooting back over.
Maribel shook her head amused, a nervous Brittany wasn't something she had ever seen "We decided to order pizza." Luis said sitting back in his chair. "What movie are we watching?"
"Treasure Planet, Santana likes Morph." Brittany said grabbing the bag of breadstix from the table.
"He is adorable." Maribel agreed returning to her seat. "45 minutes."
"Good," Luis nodded before looking back to the girls "Brittany are you okay?"
"Um...yes?" Brittany jerked her attention away from the TV.
"You seem a little nervous sweetie." Maribel added.
"N..no, I'm fine." Brittany shook her head.
Santana sighed "She's afraid you don't like her as my girlfriend."
Luis laughed "Brittany, if there was ever a perfect match for Santana it's you, you make her happy. I mean look at her." Brittany did as Luis said, with Santana smiling at her Brittany couldn't help but smile back. Unable to help herself Brittany leaned lightly kissing Santana's lips earning a blush from the Latina, that Santana of course would deny.
"We've always loved you Brittany, you're family, just no fooling around when we're home and bedroom door open." Maribel laid down the rules.
"Okay." Brittany nodded finally relaxing.
"Oh!" Santana remembered "We picked names." slightly sitting back up she smiled at her mom "Lily Christine and Lyla Anne Lopez Hudson." seeing her mom smile Santana cuddled close to Brittany, she felt safe, she never thought she'd cuddle with Brittany in front of her parents but with her dad grinning like a fool it was easy to relax.
Opening Quinn's door Mike helped her out, "I know it's not Breadstix..."
"This is fine." Quinn assured him, the only Korean food she'd eaten was at Brittany's, Russell Fabray wasn't about to order out for food or go to any restaurant that wasn't high dollar or his country club. She turned to get Beth out of the back but Mike already had the diaper bag and Beth in hand, he was quick. "I can carry something." Quinn offered.
"I've got her." Mike assured Quinn offering his elbow to her, taking his arm Quinn let him lead the way. "Have you ever eaten here?"
"No not on the approved Cheerios list."
"There's a list?" Mike asked.
"We have an approved restaurant list and an un-approved list and if Sue found out you were eating at one it was 5 miles around the track." Quinn explained. "But I'm not a Cheerio anymore so now it's more a to do list." Quinn chuckled.
"I can help with that." Mike grinned.
"So you really like me?" Quinn asked still not believing "As messed up as I am?"
"You're not messed up." Mike shook his head. "And I do really like you."
"I'm a teen mom who sleep with her boyfriend's best friend and lied about it and almost gave my baby to Mr. Schuester's wife and Rachel's mom, I'd say that's messed up."
"You're a teenager that tried to live up to the impossible standards set by your father, you cracked under the pressure but now you're back and on the right track with a beautiful baby girl." Mike stated reminding "I know a thing or two about impossible standards set by fathers."
"But you didn't crack."
"I have my dancing to help me." Mike reminded "You didn't have that, Sue was using you to break Glee apart so it wasn't like you could completely relax in there either, it wasn't until Beth that you started to take care of yourself and stopped stressing."
"But I'm the bottom of the food chain, and being in Glee is not helping that." Quinn sighed. "And I do stress, just now it's about messing up with Beth."
"That's because Beth is the most important thing you have, everything else is secondary." Mike pulled the door open gesturing Quinn in first.
Finn stood, hands in his pockets, with Rachel on her front porch, "It was fun, I mean I didn't understand the whole movie but it was nice spending time with you again. I miss our time together."
"Same." Finn smiled, "I'll text you when I get home."
"Okay." Rachel nodded.
Leaning forward Finn kissed her forehead. "Have a good night."
"Thank you, you too." Rachel beamed as he walked away.
Getting in and starting the truck Finn glanced over, he was waiting for her to go in the house, which she did after giving him one last wave. He missed hanging out with her even if it was usually something Broadway related they'd ended up doing, he'd kept his hands in his pockets to keep from reaching for her reminding himself they needed to take it slow.
Santana glared at her phone on the table, she was comfortable tucked to Brittany's side and it was too far away for her liking, she was thankful when Brittany's phone pinged a moment later. Brittany giggled showing Santana the text from Quinn, it was a photo of Mike with Quinn leaned over the car seat.
Q to S and B: Happy bitches? Now where's mine?
"Not moving." Santana mumbled trying to bury her face in Brittany's shirt "Too comfortable."
Holding her phone out Brittany took a picture of her and Santana, Santana's eyes were closed, she was close to falling asleep again. Brittany didn't care she enjoyed spending time with Santana even if she was sleeping.
Brittany to Quinn: Cuddles
Putting her phone back Brittany happily sighed resting her head against Santana's, taking the little brunette's hand Brittany closed her eyes, any time together with Santana was special.
Quinn chuckled holding her phone over the car seat between them to show Mike the photo Brittany had sent, Brittany was beaming while Santana looked very content "Looks like they're doing okay."
"Good." Mike smiled taking a sip from is water. "They deserve to be happy."
"They do, we all do." Quinn agreed before softly asking "Are you sure you can be happy with me?"
"I know I can, you don't see it but you're perfect." Mike faced Quinn taking her hand "You're smart, caring and always supportive, plus you can dance and you're beautiful." Quinn blushed but Mike kept going "You're always smiling when we sing, even if you're not feeling well."
"Thank you." Quinn murmured, leaning over Beth's car seat she hoped he would get the hint, he hesitated but leaned forward, closing his eyes he lightly pressed his lips against hers. When he did pull away she whispered "You are so sweet, and if you really want to go out with me I will."
Mike grinned whispering back "Consider this date one."
"A baby on a date?" Quinn asked glancing down at her sleeping daughter.
"She's our chaperone." Mike shrugged, Quinn chuckled. Picking up her phone Quinn poked it a few times before showing Mike, she'd updated her status from 'complicated' to 'in a relationship with Michael Chang Jr.' Mike smiled poking the post button before grabbing his own phone and updating his status to 'in a relationship with Quinn Fabray'. "No turning back now, you're stuck with me."
"I think I can handle that." Quinn grinned as he leaned back in for another innocent kiss.
Carole was out when Finn came home so he checked the kitchen calendar as he made himself a sandwich, he was working most mornings but had the weekend off, so he could do a Friday night date if she agreed. Finishing up in the kitchen he took his plate to the living room, dropping down on the couch he grabbed his phone and texted Rachel
Finn to Rachel: My weekend's free so how about Friday night?
His phone pinged almost immediately Rachel to Finn: Of course
Finn to Rachel: Breadstix and movie, new ones come out Friday night.
Rachel to Finn: That sounds lovely
Finn to Rachel: I'll look up the times and let you know, good night Rachel
Rachel to Finn: Good night xoxo
Knocking on Rachel's bedroom LeRoy and Hiram peaked in "How was the movie?"
"It was okay, I mean it was superheroes and they won but I have no idea who any of these people are." Rachel explained still slightly confused, she had her laptop out and was researching the characters mentioned in the movie.
LeRoy chuckled "I'm sure that's how he feels when he watches your movies."
"But I explain them to him and he knows the songs now, he didn't explain it to me." Rachel couldn't understand why he didn't.
"He may think you already know honey, most teenagers, girls included know the superheroes, or at least the big superheroes." LeRoy explained.
"I mean I know three, sorta, but that's because I've seen them on his shirt, he calls them 'The Big Three or The Trinity', I just know it's a guy in tights and a guy that dresses like a bat and a woman. Oh four! There's the guy with claws." Rachel shook her head looking back down at the laptop screen, her dads exchanged horrified glances, they weren't into comic books but even they knew the superheroes she'd described. "But he enjoys them so much, so I need to learn this stuff."
"May I?" Hiram gestured to her laptop, Rachel nodded letting her father take it, quickly typing he handed it back "Start with these three and I'll take you to the comic book store so you can get a little more understanding."
"Thank you Daddy." Rachel sighed.
"You're welcome honey, dinner will be ready in about a half hour." Hiram smiled.
"Okay, thank you." Rachel nodded, determined to understand what Finn was so excited about she began reading the article her father had pulled up.
