Hello, so well, I have been so bad with updating lately I have decided to do something where I update all of my stories at the same time. So well, here's the chapter for this story
So this chapter have got pretty many point of view's. I'm afraid that if it bothers you, you'll just have to deal with it for a little while until I've solved some of the storylines.
Sean POV
When we came home from the hospital I walked into my room and put on a song by Eminem on my laptop and then laid down on my bed with my hands behind my head and rapping along with the lyrics that just seemed so perfect right now. "SEAN" I suddenly heard and looked up to see mama stand in the door and I sat up and turned the music off. "So… what happened?" she came and sat down and laid a bag of frozen peas towards my eye.
"I don't really want to talk about it mama." I said and sat up, she just continued looking at me, with the eyes that I just knew meant that she wasn't really giving me a choice and I sighed. "I… I kissed Marcie." Mama sighed- she knew Marcie from Marcie coming home with me before heading to the stables.
"Oh Sean." Mama shook her head and stroke the bruising on my cheek. "But Marcie didn't do this did she?" I sighed and answered mama, Marcie's boyfriend did. "So… this song… I know what it means when you play it… are you angry at Marcie for liking Ben more than you or at Ben for having Marcie when you don't?" I sighed and shook my head.
"I'm not angry at either Marcie or Ben. I'm angry at myself for kissing her and getting myself into this mess." I laid the bag of peas by me and put my head in my hands. "And now she won't answer my calls and I want to be mad at her because being mad at her just would be so much easier but… I can't be because I know I've got no one else then myself to blame."
"You can't control your feelings Seanie." Mum rubbed my head and pulled her fingers through my long, black curls. "But I know Marcie and I know you do too- she isn't resentful. If things are meant to be then you'll find back to each other- as friends- or as more if that is meant to be." I sighed and pulled my arms around mum and pulled her close.
"Are there any feelings you wish you could control mama?" I asked- I didn't really know why I asked- it was a bit of a too personal question but I had said it before I had the time to decide not to say it.
"Of course there are. Sometimes I wish I didn't love your father anymore. Only because that if I didn't then it would be…. I mean… it might sound like I'm a terrible person because of that but…." I didn't let her finish the sentence.
"I know mama, I know."
And I knew that like mum wished she didn't love my dad anymore, I wished I didn't love Marcie anymore because if I hadn't it would be so much easier to think about that she didn't love me.
Burt POV
We sat around the living room late Monday night, I sat and twisted tresses of Carole's hair around my fingers, Lex sat with her legs pulled up and all of her in one of Finn's hoodies and Rafaél was reading a Spanish book I didn't recognize and didn't understand the title of.
And then there was a knock on the door
"I'll get it." Carole stood up and I turned back to the TV and some bad soap and then heard footsteps coming through the hallway and into the living room. "Rafaél" Carole spoke up just as Mr. Gerardo came after her pulling his hat off and nervously fingering with it holding it in front of his chest.
"Rafaél… son." Rafaél put down his book and stood up, he grabbed his father's shirt and then we heard the front door close after the two Hispanic men as they walked outside. I stood up and walked after them outside, explaining to my wife and daughter that I wanted to be there in case there would be a physical fight.
I stopped at the porch steps and watched the two men standing in the cold, sunny October night talking in a language I couldn't understand. But what I could understand was the shiver in Mr. Gerardo's voice that was just begging for forgiveness, what I could understand was the tears that Rafaél kept on stroking away with lifting his collar up and the shouting, desperate tone.
At last Mr. Gerardo's voice went soft, Rafaél silent with his bottom lip trembling and looked away from his father. Mr. Gerardo sighed and then as Rafaél's short, shallow breaths started turning into snivels and sobs the older man lifted his hand and used it to pull his son's head towards his shoulder and then as they pulled their arms around each other's shoulders and the sound of Rafaél's sobs blended with Pablo Gerardo's voice softly humming on some Spanish lullaby I knew it was time for me to turn around and go inside again.
"You know I love you right?" I stopped on the way back to the sofa and ruffled Lex's hair before I sat down by Carole again and continued to play with her hair. Lex pulled her legs out of the hoodie and then jumped up to sit on the arm rest behind me and leaned her chin against my shoulder from the back.
"Of course we know that dad." She said softly. "We love you too" I lifted the hand that wasn't fingering with Carole's hair and laid the palm against Lex's cheek. There just was something special with hearing her call me dad- of course it was with hearing Kurt say it too but hearing Lex say it, it was just special.
I wasn't saying that I loved either Kurt or Lex more than the other one. But I was Kurt's dad by a coincidence- and Lex's of a choice that we both- all with Carole- had made together- and even though it had been months since Lex started calling me and Carole mum and dad- I could still feel a gust of pride and happiness every time I heard her call me dad.
Rafaél POV
Since padre hadn't let me bring any of my things there wasn't really anything to pack before I left the Hudmel's. "You know Ralphie." God that stupid nickname. "You've got this man to thank that I saw how wrong I was doing. My wife… she… she told me to give you this as a thank you for caring for our son." Padre pulled out a couple of magazines from his messenger bag and handed each of them to Burt, Carole and Lex. Lex sat down and right away seemed to get lost in the paper about girl's fashion. "It's not much but… hey… Women!" Burt chuckled.
"Still need help with that car?" Padre nodded at Burt's question. "Well… come in when we open tomorrow morning and I'll fix it for you." Padre laid his arm around my shoulders and then we said goodbye and left, padre driving us the five blocks away from the Hudmel's and to where we lived.
"Ralphie!" Adelina ran up to me when we came home and for a long while I just stood there with her in my arms before I had to let her down to the floor again to hug my mum. And I was home again.
I was home
Jasper POV
On Tuesday evening- half an hour after Caroline had asked me to ask Aiden to meet her outside school I sat and couldn't help but wonder about how it was going for them when there was a knock on the door. "I'LL GET IT" My little sister Marie shouted. "I THINK IT'S JESSY." She was waiting for her friend Jessy to come over, but then I heard a male voice I easily recognized as Aiden's and heavy footsteps coming towards my room.
"JASPER!" Aiden came storming into my room. "I DON'T THINK IT'S YOUR FAULT BUT I NEED SOMEONE TO BLAME THAT TOTAL FIASKO ON AND RIGHT NOW YOU'RE THE BEST. SO IF IT WASN'T FOR THE FACT THAT I'VE GOT MY HAND IN A BIG CAST I WOULD SO HIT YOU RIGHT NOW." I raised an eyebrow and turned my desk chair to be turned towards him as he started explaining, in a normal tone this time.
"Caroline didn't ask you to ask me to meet her outside school, you know her sister Lacey? She's in our geography class. Well she asked Caroline to ask me to meet her outside the school- I was meeting Lacey the whole time. Never Caroline." He slumped down on my bed and pulled his hand through his fringe.
"But that girls hot…" I didn't get to finish the sentence.
"Well in that case I don't want hot… screw this I'm going home." Aiden left the room before I had the time to say anything else and like ten seconds later I heard the front door slam as he left the house.
So well, we could say that Caroline asking me to ask Aiden to meet her was in fact Lacey asking Caroline asking me asking Aiden to meet him outside school.
Poor Aiden!
Aiden's mum's POV
"Hello?" I asked when I heard the front open and then slam. "Don't slam the door… Aiden is that you?" I silent as my middle son stormed into the room and then hurried up the stairs before I had the time to ask him how the date went. "Denny… are you alright?" I asked and hurried after him
"Denny?" I opened the door slowly to find Aiden lying on his stomach on his bed with his face down in the pillow. "Aiden don't lie on your hand like that you need to move it." Aiden pulled his operated hand out from under his stomach and I carefully laid a pillow under it to hold it high before I sat down on the edge of the bed and reached my hand to stroke his hair. "Aiden what happened?" Aiden mumbled something. "Sorry I didn't hear that, you need to look up to talk."
Aiden raised on his eyebrow and leaned his cheek against the cast. "Caroline didn't ask Jasper to ask me to meet her. Caroline's sister asked Caroline to ask me to meet her- because she knew that if she asked herself- which she's already done- I wouldn't be there." Aiden took a deep breath. "I bet she does this for a reason mum. Maybe Caroline asked Lacey to be there to meet me because she's so shy she won't dare to tell me herself she doesn't want to meet me."
I took a deep breath and lifted my hand to stroke away the fringe from his eyes. "Denny." I began, and for once he didn't sigh at the silly nickname I had had on him since he was a baby. "Do you remember I saw Caroline that time we saw her in the supermarket?" He nodded. "I saw Caroline looking at you- she poured out her whole bag of candy over the rest of the groceries because she couldn't take her eyes of you. That girl is head over heels falling for you but she's just too shy to show it. Today there was some mix up and something went wrong but Denny don't give up because then you'll lose her."
Aiden looked up at me, his eyes were filled with tears- he had always been more sensitive and had closer to tears than either my husband or his brothers. Then he pushed himself up with his good hand and leaned his forehead against my shoulder. I kissed his hair and ruffled the hair in his neck with my hand. "Go for it Denny- whenever you're ready."
Leah POV
On Wednesday we sat in the choir room and talked about what had happened the day before and was what going to happen to the glee club and the duet competition now that two of our members were suspended from school. "So Sean and Ben are suspended from school for fighting this week, next week, then it's mid- term holidays and they're also suspended the whole week after that. Any questions on that?"
The room fell silent, Marcie who usually sat in the front row sat in the back in a corner with her arms crossed over her chest, Rafaél who had been down the last few days now just seemed weird and was mixing up Spanish and English- again! Jonah was just as happy and weird as ever and made everybody else annoyed for being like he always was and Mr. Schue seemed ridden by guilt and looked down instead of looking at us like he used to.
"So because we can't get on with the duet competition anyway…." Mr. Schue began. "I have decided that there will be no glee rehearsals during these weeks. Maybe it would be the best for all of us, to get a break I mean. Any questions?" He glanced over the group. "Okay, if you need me you know where I am. Goodbye for now then."
I stood up and walked out in the corridor with Jonah but soon Lex caught up with us. Holding one of these tubes that looked like the tubes you used to travel fishing poles. "I have gotten the world's best birthday for my mum but anyway… the thing is- I need to get a frame for it and then put the picture in the frame and wrap the present- but I can't do that at home because then mum will see the frame and then she'll kind of know what she gets so I was wondering if…"
"If you can come with us home and wrap it there?" Jonah finished the sentence. "Works fine for me." He looked to me and I nodded. "I also think we've got some frames that mum bought a hundred years ago to have some pictures in but she bought too many so we've just got them lying somewhere. You can have one of those." Lex nodded and then we walked out to the parking lot where dad was as usual waiting for me and Jonah and I explained to him what was going on.
"So here it is." When we sat by the kitchen table Lex pulled a paper out of that tube and rolled it out to show me a drawing made of herself, Carole and Burt- and two boys I recognized as Kurt and Finn from the photos in the Hudmel's living room. "My little brother Zeb's really good at drawing so I asked him to make this for her- it's perfect for her- and it's for free- most perfect present ever." She turned the frame to take away the back of it and put in the drawing. "Can you help me so the paper doesn't roll up when I put it in… thank you."
"So what are your thoughts about Mr. Schue making that choice about the glee club while Ben and Sean are still suspended then?" Lex shrugged while folding the paper around the frame. "I guess… I guess some of the problems he used to put two people together could have worked out better if Mr. Schue had just left it- then nothing would have been brought out before… well maybe it would have been better if it had never been- or maybe it would have been better if it never was." Lex nodded.
"Tyler have been staying home several times the last few weeks- he's so stressed out about this he's gotten sick. Marcie and Sean and Amy and Rafaél are both pairs of best friends and now they don't even speak to each other. And what is happening between Marcie and Ben I guess no one really knows, Aiden's got problems because he's in love and feel pressured to say anything about it before this is over and Caroline's just scared because she's too shy to admit to anyone that she's in love too, Marcie's all destroyed and everyone's annoyed with Jonah cause his usual happiness makes them believe he doesn't care"
"Maybe it would have been better for all of these if Mr. Schue would had just left it and let everything go in its own speed don't you think?" Lex nodded and turned the parcel again. "You can't blame him though…. He's done more good than bad but…. This time it just didn't work out."
Way to go Mr. Schue!
"It wasn't all bad though." I continued. "I finally got to talk to Connor and even though he's ashamed because he's realized what he did I guess that's good. Connor's really a nice guy. " I pulled a certain amount of paper thread and cut it before handing it over to Lex so she could finish the wrapping. "And Anna finally made up with Ben with that- whatever it was." Lex explained to me what had happened between Anna and Ben last winter.
"What kind of person would go on on a person for being adopted like that?" Without any of us my mum had come home and into the kitchen. "No but... What kind of parents would give their child- their own flesh and blood up for adoption?"
"MUM!" I scolded and looked to my- adopted- friend. Lex's eyes had gone from their usual light grey green to almost black. But as she sighed and then looked to my mum just as mum seemed to start to realize who it was that I had brought home with me.
"The same kind of person that will wonder about why someone would give their child up I guess- the people who have no idea what they're talking about or about what they're doing- but some people actually do it because they have to or because it's for the child's best. I'd be with my adoptive parents a hundred times more rather than what I would be with my biological. I gotta go now Leah." Lex stood up and turned around in the kitchen door. "I'm not angry at anyone- you neither Mrs. Carmichael. But I'm asking you that next time you want to bring out your opinion about something- please get the whole picture first."
So this was the third chapter I finished for my update- all- of-my-stories- at- the- same- time- project
Song that Sean plays and raps to- Drop the world- Eminem
