Before we start… I'm just going to say thank you and give a shoutout to localXmusicXjellybeanX for being my Beta. You rock my friend
I sat on a boring lesson on Thursday, and I had tons of ideas, I've also had a couple of great ones
"What are you writing?" Burt asked, when I sat and read through the new poem for like the fifth time.
"Poem." I held the notebook so he couldn't read what it said. "About Ariel."
"May I read it?" Lex came over.
"Nope." I shook my head. She tried to sneak but I still noticed when she tried to do it.
"Ey." I moved and accidently tossed myself too far- which caused me to fall of the sofa, of course hitting my head in the coffee table on the way down.
"Ow." I mumbled, and stroke my face, next to my eye. Before I had the time to even try to get up in the sofa again, Carole had kneeled down and all three were looking worriedly at me.
"Guys… I'm fine okay." I stroke my head, next to my eye.
"Let me see." Carole reached her hand towards me, grabbed my chin and forced me to move my head so she could look at it. I'd guess she worked in the welfare (A/N: Don't know if that's the word- google translate) Or… well, Lex had told me Carole and Burt had each son- maybe Carole had seen quite a lot of these when hers grew up….
"I'm fine." I said again. Carole leaned back again.
"I'll go see if I can find some ice to keep it from swelling." She stood up and walked out in the kitchen. Suddenly Ariel came running over to me and started licking my face. I giggled.
"Hey…" I pushed her away, then looked up to Burt and Lex. "If it's not too much to ask for I could use some help to get up again." Burt smiled, and came and helped me to sit in the sofa again, just as Carole came back into the room with a bag of frozen peas wrapped in a towel. I held it to my face and then smirked at Lex.
"Now do you get why I don't show people my poems?"
"If stuff like that happens every time you do… yes I do." Lex sat down in the sofa on the opposite side of the table from me. "Though I highly doubt it does so… why can't anyone read your poems?"
"Someone's being sneaky." I said, looked down to Ariel and kept on scratching behind her ears. "I was writing poems as soon as I was able to spell at all. I kept them all in a notebook and in third grade a gang of boys at my school found it. I had been writing tons of poems for this boy named Mick… and those and every other poem spread out over the whole school. You wouldn't believe the nasty stuff some of the people said about them." I drew a deep breath. "Mick was…. The one telling me the worse things. I had never been much for showing people my poems… mostly because I wanted to keep the stuff I wrote about to myself… but since that happened Jonah's the only one who's ever getting to read my poems. He knows all my secrets anyways, so… it's not like it comes as any surprises for him… and even if they're rubbish- with most- every single one of them are- he'll find something good in them."
"I'm sure they're actually really good." Burt told me. I looked around, trying to find something to change subject with. Some pictures on the bench next to me caught my eyes.
"Who are they?" I pointed to the photos. One with a boy with dark- brown hair, with another boy with black hair, another boy, looking very tall and muscular next to a girl that seemed to be about half his size, then a picture of Burt and Carole, and one picture with Lex, Burt and Carole, the brown- haired boy and the tall one.
"That's my son Kurt." Burt pointed to the brown- haired boy. "With his boyfriend Blaine, that third boy is Carole's son Finn, and his girlfriend Rebeccah." I nodded.
"Finn?" I thought out loud. "Nice name." Carole smiled.
"I've been hearing the opposite quite a lot since I named him."
"Really? I think it's pretty."
"That's a nice change for once." I suddenly remembered something and spoke up again.
"Speaking about names… well, I'm born at THE nine eleven, and I've got a cousin with the initials W.T.C." Lex snorted with laughter. "It's not funny."
"Yes it is." I shook my head.
"What's his or her name then?"
"Wilson Tucker Carmichael."
"Carmichael… are you related to An…" I knew who he meant. Andrea Carmichael, local news- reporter at the local station.
"Yep…" I interrupted. "She's my aunt… dad's big sister." There was a knock on the door as the pizzas came. Lex stood up and walked out in the hallway to get them. We were talking a bit more, watched a movie or three, Burt and Carole left the room just after dinner, then, just before midnight I laid in an extra bed in Lex's room. Ariel laid sleeping below the bed, and I was pulling my fingers through her fur over and over again as I was talking with Lex.
"So you haven't told your boyfriend about the accident?" She asked me when I had told her about Jack, I shrugged.
"He knows about the accident, he knows I was hit by a car, he knows I was in hospital for quite some time, but he doesn't know I'm in a wheelchair… without getting the question why I turned my head to look at the red haired teenager. "What if he'll leave me when he knows?"
"If he does he's a jerk, and he's not worth you." I laughed.
"Yeah I guess." I laid my head down on the pillow. "It will show soon I guess… I'll have to tell him sooner or later." I wanted to change the subject and took the first I was thinking about. "Lex… you're adopted…"
"Yep."
"… Do you know that mum and dad were actually going to give me away for adoption when I was born?"
"No I didn't know that."
"That's where my first middle name comes from, the folks that were gonna adopt me were going to name me Sophia."
"Do you know them?" I nodded.
"Yep, I meet them a bit now and then."
"Your first middle name? You've got more names?"
"My full name's Leah Sophia Marilla. Mum and dad gave Jonah some different name- options, he chose Leah. Marilla is my grandmother's name." Lex nodded.
"Me and my biological brother and sister have all got kind of long first names, then we're named after the doctor that was there when mum gave birth to us, and then after the weather we were born in.
"The weather… so have you got a sister named Wind or something?" Lex laughed.
"No, but Maddie's full name was Madelyn Nicole Sunshine, Zeb's full name is Zebastian Nicholas Ralston…"
"And yours?"
"Alexandria Cara Snow." I nodded. "I was actually named after mum… long story."
"How did you meet Carole and Burt by the way?" I asked. "I mean… you don't have to answer if you don't want to..."
"It's fine. My father Brian's an alcoholic, my mother Katheryn left years ago, last year when I still lived with Brian I joined the glee- club, to make a long story short…. Mr. Schue realized what was happening to me, I moved in with him, and then I wanted to learn how to knit because I had this ten things I wanna do when I get away from my dad list. And Mr. Schue can't knit, so he took me to someone who could… Carole… and then Carole and Burt let me live at theirs… and then they adopted me." I nodded. "Changing the subject again… what is Jonah's full name?"
"Jonah Eric Nathaniel…" I yawned, and was having quite some trouble keeping my eyes open. "Good night."
"Night." I turned around in the bed and pulled the quilt up to my chin. Lex didn't seem to have any problems talking about her sister- was that how I was going to be seven years after Jonah would die? Because it didn't matter how much I tried not to think about it- or how much I wished it wouldn't happen. It was soon to happen, and there was no way to stop it.
Sunday afternoon, Sean POV
Curtis- my little brother's father and mum's boyfriend had asked me to come with the others to Breadstix for Sunday dinner today. Who knows why? He usually didn't give a damn about me. But not that I complained- even though I'd rather be with Teddy in the stables now than here.
"So… time for what I asked you all to be here today for…" Curtis stood up, and walked over so he stood next to my mum.
"Eliza." He began- my mother's name. "I love you with all of my heart, and I love that I can spend my life with you… our son… and of course your son too." Curtis' eyes were cold as ice when he looked to me. "That is why I want to make it official." He pulled out a small box from his pocket. Oh no, oh no, oh nono, let this be a dream- a freaking nightmare. "Eliza Angelika Moraiety…. Would you like to… become a Leigh… and marry me?" Curtis sat down on one knee, mum gasped, and tears were rising in her eyes.
"Yes… yes I would love to marry you." I stood up as Curtis was pulling the ring onto mum's finger.
"Sean?" Mum asked. "Was there something you would like to say?"
"Over my dead body." I fizzled between my teeth. Gordon stood up and clung onto my leg.
"What do you mean Sean?" He panicked. "Please don't die, please don't let him day mummy." I kicked Gordon away from me and stormed out of the restaurant with everyone's eyes on me.
"Sean honey?" I heard mum shout, but I just continued pulling my coat on while walking. As I also heard Gordon shout that I had kicked him in the stomach, mixed with the fact that he didn't want me to die.
When I came outside I started running, it was raining and it was getting darker. But I just continued running, through the trees even though branches were ripping the fabric of my shirt and later also cutting the skin on my arms and face, at last I ran up on the driveway to the stable where I had my Teddy. I walked into the pasture, sat down and leaned against the stable- wall, Teddy came running over, he started blowing warm air on me, I had pulled out my wallet and looked at the photos I had in it. The biggest one a photo of my dad and me when I was two, and was horse- riding for the first time.
"Dad… I need you so bad… please come back… just come back." I laid one arm around Teddy's neck and buried my face in his warm fur. He rested his head on my shoulder as I sobbed as if my heart was breaking.
Awww, poor Sean… Sean is a character I really look forward to working with in this. He's… interesting.
Preview for the next chapter
"We have one more person who's being a part of the New Directions this year…" Mr. Schue said. "And his name is…"
I have made a video describing how to pronounce some of the names in this- mostly the Swedish ones. You've got the link on my profile
