I'm so, so, so, so sorry for not updating

Joe POV

Anna and I had stayed in that room at the hospital through the rest of the evening. At last- by midnight the whole IV was in Anna's system and we were allowed to go home- after that nurse whose daughter was in Anna's glee club had helped us to talk a doctor into the fact that Anna was fine now- without her help we would have been stuck in that hospital room for the night.

Anna had a beanie that looked kinda like a teddy- bear, I took it and pulled it over her ears and her eyes. She smiled and pulled it up so she'd be able to see. For a moment she reminded me of who she was when she was little- that time when I was sixteen and she five and I took her with me for her first day at Kindergarten.

Anna pulled her coat on and I took her bag- and then I laid my hand on her shoulder and we walked together out of the hospital. I threw her bag in the back seat of my car and then we drove to the gas station to find food. I bought two frozen pizzas, one big bag of crisps and a big box of chocolate ice cream- Anna hadn't been eating this kind of food for weeks and weeks so tonight was the night to change that. And our parents weren't home so why not?

I put the first pizza in the microwave but Anna didn't want to wait so she jumped up to sit on the kitchen bench with but the spoon and the ice cream and started eating. "Hey." I laughed. "Wait for me." I took another spoon and started eating the ice cream with her. And as soon as the microwave had beeped we continued with that.

At about three in the morning Anna had fallen asleep by the table, I carefully lifted her up. And feeling her ribs through the shirt I couldn't understand how I had missed how skinny she had been getting until today, as I walked up the stairs and laid her down in my bed. I didn't bother changing to PJ:s as I laid down next to her and pulled the covers over us both.

I had already called my earlier boss and told him that I would be back in a few days and get my things. He didn't tell me a word in protest and I felt relieved to only have to go back there to pick up my things and never again. Maybe I could check at McKinley if they had any job, maybe as a janitor. I wanted to be close to Anna as much as possible until she was fully recovered.

I yawned and rested my cheek against the top of Anna's hand while humming on hush little baby. Ever since Anna was little we would do this every once in a while. If someone had been mean to her, or if she had a nightmare so I could hold her and protect her- then beat the crap out of whoever had hurt her if they had.

Lex POV

"So this week are all about one hit wonders." Mr. Schue told us. "Have everyone got it?" I nodded, and there were yes's and nods around the room. "Have anyone got anything they'd like to preform?" The room fell silent. "Okay, see you guys on Thursday then." I grabbed my bag and threw it over one shoulder and started going towards the door.

I got the post and riffled through it on the way home, when I came to a letter with a tag from Johnsdale prison, I stopped, ripped the envelope open and read it. I sunk down on the porch steps and put my hand in my hands. Oh my- what had I gotten myself into- mum and dad would be so mad at me. I heard dad's car pull up on the driveway, but I was so ashamed of myself I didn't bear look up at him and then his steps rushing towards me.

"Lex?" I heard him sit down next to me. "What's wrong?" I felt his palm towards my back as he started stroking it. I didn't answer. "Hey. Is it Tyler?" I shook my head. "No… your friends?" I shook my head again. "Has that Teeghan been on you again?" I shook my head. "What is it then? I can't help you if you want tell me."

"Dad." I said and looked up- but looked past him. "I've done something really bad." He frowned. "I went into the web- page for Johnsdale and…. I wanted to get a talk with Brian… but because I'm under eighteen I would need you or mum to approve it so I… to make a long story short... pretended to be you to be able to do it myself."

Dad didn't make a sound- he didn't give me a lecture, or shouted at me or did anything else for several seconds. "Dad." I whimpered. "Please- shout at me, give me a lecture, hit me if you so want. But don't just look at me like that… please." The disappointment in dad's eyes was something I couldn't- or didn't want to handle- I hated the knowledge of what I'd done. "Please don't be angry with me I…" He held up a hand to silent me and I quickly shut my mouth.

"Lex, I'm not angry." Dad told me calmly, I would have preferred if he was shouting at me. "Come on, let's go inside instead of sitting here in the rain." I stood up and turned towards the door, way too soon I found myself standing in the living room while dad told mum what had happened. My hands were shaking so I shoved them in my pockets in an attempt to seem more secure than I actually was- but it didn't help much.

Living with Brian- at least I had always known how I was going to be punished. Now I didn't- and it scared me so to the point I was shaking from head to toe. I barely knew what was scaring me so bad about it, I knew they wouldn't hurt me… would they?

"Lex." Dad began. "I am not going to shout at you, not going to give you a lecture and you know just as well as I do that I'm not going to hit or in any other way hurt you. Now… are you going to do something like this again…" I shook my head. "Do you think you've learned your lesson?" I nodded. "are you ever going to do something like this again?" I shook my head again. "Lex, you've been living here for over a year and you've barely done a wrong- do you really think we'd punish you for the first bad thing you've done since you came here?" I shrugged. "Well, we're not… this isn't going to affect us in any huge way and one of us would have had to come with you anyway- if it has been something that would really affect us it would have been worse. So just don't do it again okay?" I shook my head.

"Now calm down sweetie." Mum said and embraced me. "Everybody makes mistakes and- this time it simply was your turn to make one. Come on… let's go sit down." I let her lead me over to the sofa where I sat down, and mum sat down by me. "When is it you'll get to meet him?"

"Sunday in one and a half week." I said and sighed. "Will you come?" Mum nodded and told me of course. "Mum…" I exclaimed after some while. "It's your birthday soon is it?" Mum smiled and sighed.

"Nope… I've stopped getting older." I couldn't help but smile. "Well yes… it's the twenty first. And I'll be… twenty seven." I knew what she was turning, but wasn't stupid enough to say it- dad- what a gentleman!

"Oh- we all know you'll be fifty." Mum threw a pillow at him and I just laughed. The letter that laid on the bench in the hallway and my mistake was forgotten- for now.

"Yeah I know…" mum sighed at last and pulled her fingers through my hair. "But it feels like yesterday I was about your age… and came home in the middle of the night after being out with Chris even though my parents told me not to." I laughed.

"You didn't!" I exclaimed, she just nodded. "Well… then I guess my thing with your name wasn't too bad." Mum just pushed my shoulder, we sat there talking for a while, then I had an idea about a birthday present for mum and went up to my room and got up the Facebook chat on my computer.

Hey Zeb, I wrote to my Zeb. Can you help me with a birthday present for my adoptive mum?

Leah POV

"Come on," I whispered to myself. "One step at the time, take your time." I stood up by one end of those rail- things at the rehab. I wanted to try to walk through it without leaning against the rails. Mr. Schue and Coach Beiste were still the ones coming with me but now Jonah was too and he sat in a wheelchair by the other end of it as I started taking first one step, then another, then another.

"WOHO. LEAH!" Jonah shouted at the top of his lungs when I had made it through the whole thing without putting my hands on the rails. He clapped his hands just as Mr. Schue, coach Beiste and Lionel who stood a bit away from us. I turned around and started walking back again but this time I stumbled after about half the way and Mr. Schue and coach Beiste had caught me before I hit the mattress on the floor. I tried to keep quiet, but my back really hurt from the sudden movement and I moaned.

"Are you okay?" Mr. Schue asked, I hesitated for a little while. But decided that I didn't want to do anymore today and told him I thought it would be enough for today now. But- I did- with Mr. Schue supporting- walk up to where I had leaned the crutches towards a wall.

"Hey Leigh." Dad told me when I came home. "You know that friend of yours… Alex or whatever," I corrected him. "Well… why don't you invite her here this weekend for a sleepover here?" I bit my lip and thought of it for a second. "I could make pizza!" I shook my head, dad made the best pizza's ever- and he knew it!

"Well, I'll go ask her." My phone was out of batteries so I got into my room and got out my computer and got Facebook up and asked her.

Hey, how about another sleepover this weekend- at mine this time?

After some while it made a sound with a new message- but it was not an answer to my question.

If I send you a photo of my parents, one of me, one of Finn and one of Kurt- can you draw and make it all into one drawing then?

Oh sorry Leah, I am chatting with Zeb at the same time. I just sent "sure that sounds great "to him when he asked what I wanted my mum to have in birthday present from me. So Sure, that sounds great.

Anna POV

I missed out school on Tuesday because I had been up so long, but on Wednesday I was walking through the hallways with a big ice cream that Joe had given me. He was looking for a job and was just asking principle Figgins if there was anything to take here. Just as I stood by my locker and licked the ice cream coach Sylvester came walking through the hallway.

"Excuse me Annie." She told me. "What are you doing? I told you to be in the gym ten minutes ago and practice jumps. Not to stand here and fatten yourself." I slammed my locker closed, and without hesitating I looked her right in the eyes- and before I had the time to change my mind I told her the truth.

"You know what Sue Sylvester? I can eat whatever I want whenever I want without you interfering with it. I don't have to be in the gym on inhuman hours just because you tell me to because there is nothing I'm worse at than everybody else- I'm going to be eating whatever I want from now on- and I am going to be practicing when the others are doing so- and if you don't like it then kick me out- because if so I can find a better cheerleading squad." I looked her right in the eyes and didn't move at all. "And my name is Anna."

"You're out of the cheerios!" Coach Sylvester told me and then stomped down the hall. I didn't care- I could check with the cheerleading squad for Joe's basketball team- or some other team. I didn't need the cheerios and I sure did not need Susan Sylvester, licking on the ice cream I skipped down the hallway and met up with Joe.

"I got the job." He smiled from ear. "Come on- let's go celebrate with pizza!"

So well, this chapter is a lot about food.

Know a fun thing? I can think of a character and get a feeling about when a character's birthday should be- I did so with Carole- and was choosing between twenty first and twenty second of October- then I found the actress's- six or seven days from it- I know it's just a coincidence but… hey… I'm good!