In the Words of... 12/18
Title: In the Words of
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Chapter 11
“Daddy, you should have seen them.” Rachel said as she sat at dinner with her father, her other father was at work and wasn’t going to be home yet. “And didn’t know what they had planned but they were great.”
“Who did you say that it was again?” Leroy asked, normally it was his husband, Hiram, that had these conversations with Rachel.
“Sam and Noah.” Rachel sighed, she had told him a numerous of times that Sam and Noah had done a great performance during Glee the other day.
“So, this is the same Noah that you dated last year and that goes to temple?” He asked, normally Leroy didn’t go to temple with Rachel and Hiram but he had heard some stories from them.
“Yes, and before you ask, it’s the same Sam that you and dad have met earlier.” Rachel said and Leroy was about to say something more but he didn’t have a chance before she continued. “And I am not dating him, he is just a friend and he will be just a friend.” Leroy just shook his head, there was no chance that Sam was just going to be a friend, he had seen how Rachel was looking at the boy and how the boy was looking at his daughter, the both of them might be in denial but he knew that before this school year, Rachel was going to have a boyfriend and his name as going to be Sam Evans. He and Hiram had after all met, Sam parents at Regionals and they had the same impression as he had, there was no way of denying it and from the look of it this Noah kid had an idea about that too, trying to get Sam to really tell Rachel.
“So are you going to do a solo during this assignment?” Leroy asked and just the look that Rachel had in her eyes told him what she was thinking of what he just had asked her.
“Of course I am, there is nothing that will get in the way for me to perform a great song about friendship.” Rachel said and she took a bit of her vegan lasagna. “I have the perfect song, there is no way that anyone could beat the song choice.”
“So if I can ask you about the perfect song…”
“All I am going to say is that we are going to be watching Beaches, I need to see how it’s used in the movie again but I know that I will kill it as they say.”
“oh, then I know what song you are going to do.” Leroy said and smiled. “Do you think that we might be able to see you perform it.”
“Daddy, you can’t ask me that, there might be a chance if Mr. Schue thinks that it is good enough for National, or maybe I could do a MySpace video with it.”
“As much as I love your dedication for those videos, I would think that it would be better to use Youtube or some other form of social network.” Leroy said, that was about as much he knew about those things, MySpace didn’t have that many users anymore.
“I am perfectly dine with using MySpace.” Rachel said as she walked away from the table with her plate and some of the other dishes. “And I won’t change that until I have been prove wrong.”
////
“Rachel, you have a visitor.”
“let them in.” Rachel sniffed; she was curled up at the couch, watching beaches.
“hi.” Sam said as he walked inside the living room and sat down on the floor in front of Rachel and he took a hold of her hand. “What is it?” Do I need to call Puckerman so that we can go and find someone that needs their ass kicked?” Rachel just shook her head.
“I shouldn’t be watching this movie, I always start to cry when I watch it.” Rachel said and she leaned down so that her head was resting on top of Sam’s.
“If you get up a little, I can sit on the couch and then you can snuggle up against me if you want to.” Sam said and as soon as he had said that Rachel moved so that Sam could sit down on the couch and she was snuggled up against him.
Leroy walked in to the room and saw them, and he knew that he was right about this and it was no question asked, anyone that saw Rachel and Sam as they were snuggled now together would say the same thing, they were a cute couple.
////
Sam walked in the kitchen at his house, he knew that his mother would be there and it was a possibility that there would be some other people there too, his mother’s friends, he shudder at the thought of them but he needed some water before he went upstairs to his room.
“So how was Rachel?”
“Mum, I have told you before, Rachel is just a friend.” Sam said as he opened the fridge to grab a bottle of water.
“I think he protests too much.” His mother said and looked at him. “But how was she?”
“She was fine, we watched a movie and then she had some things to do.” Sam said as he walked out of the kitchen.
“Sammy, what movie did you watch?” Sam closed his eyes and tried to count to ten before he answered the question.
“She was about to start to watch beaches when I got there, so we watch that movie.” Sam said and walked away, he didn’t want to see his mother’s face and her friends faces but he could still hear them.
“Is this Rachel his girlfriend?”
“How long have they been together?”
“I bet they are the cutest couple.”
Sam wanted to yell to them that Rachel was just a friend and there was no chance that he was going to start to date her, she was too good of a friend, he didn’t want to lose that friendship, but he refrained from doing just that.
////
Rachel was in her bed room, the video camera was up and she had the music ready to go, she knew the lyrics to the song that she was going to sing, and she knew that this was going to be great.
She pressed the recording button on the camera, and then play for the music and she waited for her cue to start to sing, she was going to show them how singing would be done on monday in Glee, this was the best song that she could find that represented friendship for her, and Sam and Noah would be happy to hear her sing this for them.
“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.” She started, not the hardest start for a song, but she sounded good. “It must have been could there in my shadow, to never have the sunlight on your face.” Rachel wonder if there was anyone besides Sam that would recognize the song, he had after all been there with her when she watch the movie the last time. “You were content to let me shine, that’s your way. You always walked a step behind.”
She was thinking back to the last couple of months on how Sam had been with her, he had almost always let her be the star that she was destined to be. Noah on the other hand wasn’t as much of an observer but she always knew that he would be there for her if she needed. He had always been her friend even if it sometimes was behind closed doors, ever since the week they had been dating.
“So I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. A beautiful face without name for so long. A beautiful smile to hide the pain.” The lyrics was so right for how her life had been, ever since she had become friends with Sam he had been her strength he had been the one that pushed her to write the original song that had won them Regionals, and she had been the one that had gotten all the praise, this time she was going to let Sam now who he was to her.
////
“Mr. Schue I have a song that I would like to sing for this assignment.” Rachel said as she stood up and looked at the teacher.
“Rachel, you and the other girls did a great group number last week.” Mr. Schuester said as he looked down at some sheet music. “Don’t you think that it would be better if some of the others would get a chance to perform first?”
“I told you that I would be performing this week, and I have the perfect song for this assignment.” Rachel said, she had known more or less that it would turn out like this. “But if there is anyone that has a song prepared to perform, I would gladly let me spot to them.”
“So is there anyone else besides Rachel that has a song for me?” Mr. Schue asked and looked at the boys that had yet to perform, that being Finn and Mike. “Finn?”
“I can’t find a song.” Finn said, Rachel just shook her head, she wasn’t really that surprised most of the time she had been the brain behind their duets, when he had found a song that he wanted to perform he most of the time had tripped over it.
“okay then…” Mr. Schue said and he looked at Rachel. “I think that you can perform.”
“Are you sure that you shouldn’t ask Mike if he has a song that he would like to sing for us?” Rachel asked as she looked at the teacher. “I mean you asked Finn, and from where I am sitting Mike have yet to perform too?”
“It’s okay, I like to dance and that is why I am here.” Mike said, swallowing ratter loudly. “I think that you can sing Rachel.”
“thank you for that Mike.” Rachel said, as she stood up and smoothed her skirt down. “First of all I would like to say that this is a great assignment that you have decided on, Mr. Schue.” There were a few eye roles but Rachel didn’t care. “And I would like to dedicate this song to two of my best friends, you mean the world to me.” Sam and Puck looked at each other not really knowing what was about to come. “Noah and Sam, I hope that you all will like this song.”
Brad sat at the piano with the sheet music in front of him and he started to play, Rachel was smiling. “Did you ever know that you’re my hero, and everything I would like to?” I can fly higher than an eagle, ‘cause you are the wind beneath my wings.” During these last couple of months, even weeks Sam had proven that he was someone that she could count on and she wanted to show him that.
“It might have appeared to go unnoticed, but I’ve for it all here in my heart” Rachel held on of her hands over her heart as she sang and looked at the blonde boy. “I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it. I would be nothing without you.” She was now looking between Sam and Noah, letting them know who much both of them meant to her, she did her best to avoid looking at Finn, he hadn’t really understood her and he hadn’t helped her with the things that Sam had done as her friend.
“Did you ever know that you were my hero?” Rachel focused on Noah this time, he had been her hero for a while before Sam came along and now the two of them were doing their best to help her stay where she was. “You’re everything I wish I could be.” It was true, Noah, was a young man that oozed confident but at the same time he had a side to him that not that many had seen but he had shown her that side. “I could fly higher than an eagle, ‘cause you are the wind beneath my wings.”
She looked at them asking them if either one of them wanted to come and sing the last of the song with her, Puck shook his head, telling her no, and she knew that it was his way of letting her know that he wanted her to shine.
Sam had mouthed to her the same thing and Rachel couldn’t help but to smile as she looked at her two friends, she felt blessed having them as her friends and she hoped that they felt the same way about having her as a friend.
“Did I ever tell you, you’re my hero? You are everything, everything I wish I could be.” Rachel closed her eyes; this song was bring some emotional things that she had tried to hide to the surface. “Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle, ‘cause you are the wind beneath my wings, ‘cause you are the winds beneath my wings.”
Rachel took a few steps forward and she sat down between Sam and Noah and placed her right hand on Sam’s knee and her left hand was resting just above Noah’s knee, as she continued to sing. “Oh, the wind beneath my wings. You, you, you, you are the wind beneath my wings.” She was looking at Sam at first and then at Noah, letting them know that they were the ones that was lifting her up and letting her fly. “fly, fly, fly away. You let me fly so high.”
She got up so that she was standing in front of her peers as she had a few lines left of the song and she wanted all of them to understand what her friends meant to her. “Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings. Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.” And it was in this moment that she wished that she had recruited one or two of the other members so that they could help her with what she wanted to be the big final of her performance but she was going to be on Broadway one day that just meant that she had to do this alone.
“Fly, fly, fly high against the sky.” And Rachel was looking up at the roof, just like she would have done if she had been outside and looking up at the sky. “So high I almost touch the sky.” She walked to Noah, “Thank you,” and then she turned to Sam. “thank you,” and she took some steps back and looked at the two of them. “Thank god for you, the wind beneath my wings.”
When the song was over both Sam and Noah was the first ones that were with her both of them hugging her and she could hear them whisper to her, “Thank you and I hope that you know what you mean to us too.” Rachel nodded, she had a hard time find and forming the words that she was looking for at the moment.
“I think that Rachel once again have showed all of us what this was all about.” Mr. Schue said as the three friends moved back to their seats and he had taken the place in front of the group. “And I want to add, that there is just one more thing left out of this and there is one song that I want you all to perform together as a group.”
“But everyone has been singing well except Mike and Finn.” Puck said as he looked at the teacher. “So I think that they should try and find a song that they could do together.”
“We won’t have time for that.” Mr. Schue said and he got a few looks from the group, it seemed like there was a few of them that was going to manage to get away from this. “And I think that you all will like the song that I have chosen for you.”
“I actually think that it would be better if we all could agree on one song to do.” Santana said, after listening to Rachel’s song she had realized that there was more to it. “And besides that Artie haven’t sung either so it’s not just Finn and Mike.”
“Well it does seem like he does forget about the kid in the wheelchair.” Artie said and looked at the teacher, and Rachel had been right, he had gotten pretty close with both Sam and Puck and they were great friends.
“Everyone will be a part of this song, there will be a few of you that will get some solo parts and I think that you know who it will be.”
“you better not give a solo to Finnessa.” Puck said and glared at Finn, Rachel had no idea what was going on between them. “He shouldn’t be able to have a solo during a group song if he can’t come up with a song that has to do with the assignment.” There was a few mumbles that were agreeing with Puck, and Rachel felt glad that someone had pointed that out and that they were ageing.
“Okay, then I have to make some changes but I can promise that it will be great.”
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Chapter 11
“Daddy, you should have seen them.” Rachel said as she sat at dinner with her father, her other father was at work and wasn’t going to be home yet. “And didn’t know what they had planned but they were great.”
“Who did you say that it was again?” Leroy asked, normally it was his husband, Hiram, that had these conversations with Rachel.
“Sam and Noah.” Rachel sighed, she had told him a numerous of times that Sam and Noah had done a great performance during Glee the other day.
“So, this is the same Noah that you dated last year and that goes to temple?” He asked, normally Leroy didn’t go to temple with Rachel and Hiram but he had heard some stories from them.
“Yes, and before you ask, it’s the same Sam that you and dad have met earlier.” Rachel said and Leroy was about to say something more but he didn’t have a chance before she continued. “And I am not dating him, he is just a friend and he will be just a friend.” Leroy just shook his head, there was no chance that Sam was just going to be a friend, he had seen how Rachel was looking at the boy and how the boy was looking at his daughter, the both of them might be in denial but he knew that before this school year, Rachel was going to have a boyfriend and his name as going to be Sam Evans. He and Hiram had after all met, Sam parents at Regionals and they had the same impression as he had, there was no way of denying it and from the look of it this Noah kid had an idea about that too, trying to get Sam to really tell Rachel.
“So are you going to do a solo during this assignment?” Leroy asked and just the look that Rachel had in her eyes told him what she was thinking of what he just had asked her.
“Of course I am, there is nothing that will get in the way for me to perform a great song about friendship.” Rachel said and she took a bit of her vegan lasagna. “I have the perfect song, there is no way that anyone could beat the song choice.”
“So if I can ask you about the perfect song…”
“All I am going to say is that we are going to be watching Beaches, I need to see how it’s used in the movie again but I know that I will kill it as they say.”
“oh, then I know what song you are going to do.” Leroy said and smiled. “Do you think that we might be able to see you perform it.”
“Daddy, you can’t ask me that, there might be a chance if Mr. Schue thinks that it is good enough for National, or maybe I could do a MySpace video with it.”
“As much as I love your dedication for those videos, I would think that it would be better to use Youtube or some other form of social network.” Leroy said, that was about as much he knew about those things, MySpace didn’t have that many users anymore.
“I am perfectly dine with using MySpace.” Rachel said as she walked away from the table with her plate and some of the other dishes. “And I won’t change that until I have been prove wrong.”
////
“Rachel, you have a visitor.”
“let them in.” Rachel sniffed; she was curled up at the couch, watching beaches.
“hi.” Sam said as he walked inside the living room and sat down on the floor in front of Rachel and he took a hold of her hand. “What is it?” Do I need to call Puckerman so that we can go and find someone that needs their ass kicked?” Rachel just shook her head.
“I shouldn’t be watching this movie, I always start to cry when I watch it.” Rachel said and she leaned down so that her head was resting on top of Sam’s.
“If you get up a little, I can sit on the couch and then you can snuggle up against me if you want to.” Sam said and as soon as he had said that Rachel moved so that Sam could sit down on the couch and she was snuggled up against him.
Leroy walked in to the room and saw them, and he knew that he was right about this and it was no question asked, anyone that saw Rachel and Sam as they were snuggled now together would say the same thing, they were a cute couple.
////
Sam walked in the kitchen at his house, he knew that his mother would be there and it was a possibility that there would be some other people there too, his mother’s friends, he shudder at the thought of them but he needed some water before he went upstairs to his room.
“So how was Rachel?”
“Mum, I have told you before, Rachel is just a friend.” Sam said as he opened the fridge to grab a bottle of water.
“I think he protests too much.” His mother said and looked at him. “But how was she?”
“She was fine, we watched a movie and then she had some things to do.” Sam said as he walked out of the kitchen.
“Sammy, what movie did you watch?” Sam closed his eyes and tried to count to ten before he answered the question.
“She was about to start to watch beaches when I got there, so we watch that movie.” Sam said and walked away, he didn’t want to see his mother’s face and her friends faces but he could still hear them.
“Is this Rachel his girlfriend?”
“How long have they been together?”
“I bet they are the cutest couple.”
Sam wanted to yell to them that Rachel was just a friend and there was no chance that he was going to start to date her, she was too good of a friend, he didn’t want to lose that friendship, but he refrained from doing just that.
////
Rachel was in her bed room, the video camera was up and she had the music ready to go, she knew the lyrics to the song that she was going to sing, and she knew that this was going to be great.
She pressed the recording button on the camera, and then play for the music and she waited for her cue to start to sing, she was going to show them how singing would be done on monday in Glee, this was the best song that she could find that represented friendship for her, and Sam and Noah would be happy to hear her sing this for them.
“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.” She started, not the hardest start for a song, but she sounded good. “It must have been could there in my shadow, to never have the sunlight on your face.” Rachel wonder if there was anyone besides Sam that would recognize the song, he had after all been there with her when she watch the movie the last time. “You were content to let me shine, that’s your way. You always walked a step behind.”
She was thinking back to the last couple of months on how Sam had been with her, he had almost always let her be the star that she was destined to be. Noah on the other hand wasn’t as much of an observer but she always knew that he would be there for her if she needed. He had always been her friend even if it sometimes was behind closed doors, ever since the week they had been dating.
“So I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. A beautiful face without name for so long. A beautiful smile to hide the pain.” The lyrics was so right for how her life had been, ever since she had become friends with Sam he had been her strength he had been the one that pushed her to write the original song that had won them Regionals, and she had been the one that had gotten all the praise, this time she was going to let Sam now who he was to her.
////
“Mr. Schue I have a song that I would like to sing for this assignment.” Rachel said as she stood up and looked at the teacher.
“Rachel, you and the other girls did a great group number last week.” Mr. Schuester said as he looked down at some sheet music. “Don’t you think that it would be better if some of the others would get a chance to perform first?”
“I told you that I would be performing this week, and I have the perfect song for this assignment.” Rachel said, she had known more or less that it would turn out like this. “But if there is anyone that has a song prepared to perform, I would gladly let me spot to them.”
“So is there anyone else besides Rachel that has a song for me?” Mr. Schue asked and looked at the boys that had yet to perform, that being Finn and Mike. “Finn?”
“I can’t find a song.” Finn said, Rachel just shook her head, she wasn’t really that surprised most of the time she had been the brain behind their duets, when he had found a song that he wanted to perform he most of the time had tripped over it.
“okay then…” Mr. Schue said and he looked at Rachel. “I think that you can perform.”
“Are you sure that you shouldn’t ask Mike if he has a song that he would like to sing for us?” Rachel asked as she looked at the teacher. “I mean you asked Finn, and from where I am sitting Mike have yet to perform too?”
“It’s okay, I like to dance and that is why I am here.” Mike said, swallowing ratter loudly. “I think that you can sing Rachel.”
“thank you for that Mike.” Rachel said, as she stood up and smoothed her skirt down. “First of all I would like to say that this is a great assignment that you have decided on, Mr. Schue.” There were a few eye roles but Rachel didn’t care. “And I would like to dedicate this song to two of my best friends, you mean the world to me.” Sam and Puck looked at each other not really knowing what was about to come. “Noah and Sam, I hope that you all will like this song.”
Brad sat at the piano with the sheet music in front of him and he started to play, Rachel was smiling. “Did you ever know that you’re my hero, and everything I would like to?” I can fly higher than an eagle, ‘cause you are the wind beneath my wings.” During these last couple of months, even weeks Sam had proven that he was someone that she could count on and she wanted to show him that.
“It might have appeared to go unnoticed, but I’ve for it all here in my heart” Rachel held on of her hands over her heart as she sang and looked at the blonde boy. “I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it. I would be nothing without you.” She was now looking between Sam and Noah, letting them know who much both of them meant to her, she did her best to avoid looking at Finn, he hadn’t really understood her and he hadn’t helped her with the things that Sam had done as her friend.
“Did you ever know that you were my hero?” Rachel focused on Noah this time, he had been her hero for a while before Sam came along and now the two of them were doing their best to help her stay where she was. “You’re everything I wish I could be.” It was true, Noah, was a young man that oozed confident but at the same time he had a side to him that not that many had seen but he had shown her that side. “I could fly higher than an eagle, ‘cause you are the wind beneath my wings.”
She looked at them asking them if either one of them wanted to come and sing the last of the song with her, Puck shook his head, telling her no, and she knew that it was his way of letting her know that he wanted her to shine.
Sam had mouthed to her the same thing and Rachel couldn’t help but to smile as she looked at her two friends, she felt blessed having them as her friends and she hoped that they felt the same way about having her as a friend.
“Did I ever tell you, you’re my hero? You are everything, everything I wish I could be.” Rachel closed her eyes; this song was bring some emotional things that she had tried to hide to the surface. “Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle, ‘cause you are the wind beneath my wings, ‘cause you are the winds beneath my wings.”
Rachel took a few steps forward and she sat down between Sam and Noah and placed her right hand on Sam’s knee and her left hand was resting just above Noah’s knee, as she continued to sing. “Oh, the wind beneath my wings. You, you, you, you are the wind beneath my wings.” She was looking at Sam at first and then at Noah, letting them know that they were the ones that was lifting her up and letting her fly. “fly, fly, fly away. You let me fly so high.”
She got up so that she was standing in front of her peers as she had a few lines left of the song and she wanted all of them to understand what her friends meant to her. “Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings. Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.” And it was in this moment that she wished that she had recruited one or two of the other members so that they could help her with what she wanted to be the big final of her performance but she was going to be on Broadway one day that just meant that she had to do this alone.
“Fly, fly, fly high against the sky.” And Rachel was looking up at the roof, just like she would have done if she had been outside and looking up at the sky. “So high I almost touch the sky.” She walked to Noah, “Thank you,” and then she turned to Sam. “thank you,” and she took some steps back and looked at the two of them. “Thank god for you, the wind beneath my wings.”
When the song was over both Sam and Noah was the first ones that were with her both of them hugging her and she could hear them whisper to her, “Thank you and I hope that you know what you mean to us too.” Rachel nodded, she had a hard time find and forming the words that she was looking for at the moment.
“I think that Rachel once again have showed all of us what this was all about.” Mr. Schue said as the three friends moved back to their seats and he had taken the place in front of the group. “And I want to add, that there is just one more thing left out of this and there is one song that I want you all to perform together as a group.”
“But everyone has been singing well except Mike and Finn.” Puck said as he looked at the teacher. “So I think that they should try and find a song that they could do together.”
“We won’t have time for that.” Mr. Schue said and he got a few looks from the group, it seemed like there was a few of them that was going to manage to get away from this. “And I think that you all will like the song that I have chosen for you.”
“I actually think that it would be better if we all could agree on one song to do.” Santana said, after listening to Rachel’s song she had realized that there was more to it. “And besides that Artie haven’t sung either so it’s not just Finn and Mike.”
“Well it does seem like he does forget about the kid in the wheelchair.” Artie said and looked at the teacher, and Rachel had been right, he had gotten pretty close with both Sam and Puck and they were great friends.
“Everyone will be a part of this song, there will be a few of you that will get some solo parts and I think that you know who it will be.”
“you better not give a solo to Finnessa.” Puck said and glared at Finn, Rachel had no idea what was going on between them. “He shouldn’t be able to have a solo during a group song if he can’t come up with a song that has to do with the assignment.” There was a few mumbles that were agreeing with Puck, and Rachel felt glad that someone had pointed that out and that they were ageing.
“Okay, then I have to make some changes but I can promise that it will be great.”