Chapter 15

It'd been about a week since Rachel last spoke to Finn. She's tried calling, but he wouldn't pick up. It killed him not to answer when her name popped up on the caller ID. He didn't know what to say though. After about 48hours of no answer, she stopped calling.

...

"Mommy?" Alyssa walked over to the kitchen table where Rachel was sitting having some coffee and reading over the newspaper.

"Hey baby girl, what are you up to?" She smiled over at Alyssa. Before answering, Alyssa handed Rachel a picture frame. "What's this?" Rachel's voice trailed off a bit at the end when she saw the picture of Chris, Alyssa, Finn and her outside of the theater after one of her shows...

"Mommy I miss Chris. And Finn. When are they coming back?" The look on her face when she said this made Rachel nearly break down right then and there.

"Oh Alyssa, I miss them too. So much. But mommy already told you. Finn and Chris are gonna move soon and so we need to get ready to say bye." She grabbed the tiny girl, placing the picture frame on the table and holding her in her arms, "I promise you'll get to say goodbye though okay?"

"But why do they have to move? I thought Finn was gonna be my daddy. I like him as my daddy." She pouted a bit.

"I liked him as your daddy too. But, grown ups have other stuff they have to do and worry about. Finn needs to be a good daddy to Chris first and moving is going to do that for them."

"I'm sad." The little girl shrugged her shoulders and hugged her mom tightly.

..

"Dad?" Chris walked over to the kitchen towards Finn who was cooking up some dinner.

"Hey Bud. What's up?" He turned away from the pot of mac & cheese to look at his son.

"What's for dinner?" Chris took a seat at the table resting his head on it.

"Mac and Cheese."

"Again?" Chris made a face as Finn rolled his eyes and walked over placing a plate down in front of him. "Can't we go to Rachel's and Alyssa's? Rachel makes yummy food, please?"

Finn sighed and took a seat, "Bud, we talked about this. I'm not with Rachel anymore."

"But dad I don't get it, you said you really liked her? And she was gonna be my new mom." The look on Christopher's face when the thought of not having a mother, again, hit him, shook Finn to the core. It took everything not break down right there. "I miss my friend dad. I want to go play with Alyssa."

"It's gonna be okay bud. And hey, we might be moving and who knows what will happen when we get to our new home, okay? Eat your dinner."

Chris nodded his head and picked at the bowl in front of him. He missed his best friend so much.

...

Rachel pushed through the door's that led her to the nurses office.

"Alyssa, my love are you okay?" She ran in grabbing her daughter's face in her hands. "What happened?"

"Hi mommy. I fell off the bike in the play ground."

"Oh baby girl come here." She grabbed her daughter carefully hugging her.

The nurse walked in and over towards them, "Ms. Berry?"

Rachel jumped up quickly shaking her hand, "Hi. Is she gonna be okay?"

The nurse smiled handing Alyssa an ice pack, "Everything looks good, she took quite a fall, she might get some abdominal bruising you'll notice, completely normal. If the pain doesn't go away in the next few days though I would highly suggest a visit to your physician, but other than that she should be just fine. Thankfully no broken bones."

"Thank you so much." Rachel smiled at the nurse who handed her some paperwork to fill out.

...

Rachel sat in her dressing room getting ready to head out for a quick rehearsal before the show that night. It'd now been three weeks since she'd spoken to Finn. But not a minute went by that she didn't miss him.

"Knock, Knock."

Rachel turned quickly to see Josh standing there. "Can I come in?"

"Hey Josh." She nodded.

"Everything okay beautiful? You look upset?" He walked over behind her placing a hand on her shoulder.

Too tired and upset to even shoo him away she simply shook her head, "I'm fine."

"You don't look fine? Rachel, I know you don't presumably like me, but I'm your friend and I really care about you. If something's bothering yo.."

She cut him off quickly, "Josh, it's really sweet of you to care so much, and worry, but I really don't feel like talking about it. But thank you."

She stood up and made her way to the rack of clothes that hung, "I actually should finish getting ready I have to be on stage in about eight minutes."

Josh looked over and sighed, "Of course, anytime though. Okay?"

Before Rachel could respond, her phone began to ring.

"Hello?.. Wait Brooke, you're speaking way too fast. WHAT HAPPENED?" The blood on her face flushed away leaving her pale. "Oh my god, I'm on my way."

She quickly hung up the phone and began to grab things shoving them in her purse.

"Rachel is everything okay?" She looked up at Josh who she'd forgotten was still there. "Rachel?"

She began to cry as he ran towards her grabbing her in a hug, "What happened?"

"It's Alyssa, she's.. they're at the hospital.. I have to go." She pushed away from him grabbing her keys and sprinting out the door.

"I'll drive you. You shouldn't be driving like this." He ran after her. "My car's just right here."

She didn't argue and followed him.

"Rachel?" Brooke's eyes widened as she saw her best friend running towards her, "I don't know what happened? We were just at the park and she fainted.."

"Where is she?" Rachel looked around as Brooke pointed towards the double doors.

"Mam I'm sorry you can't be in here." A nurse stood from her post as Rachel looked around for her daughter.

"My daughter they brought her in..She fainted and.." Rachel panicked and stumbled around looking for Alyssa.

"Ms. Berry?"

"Yes, where is she?"

The nurse directed Rachel towards the hallway, "We just had Dr. Fell check her, we're going to have to do emergency surgery, we were just waiting for you to get here."

"Surgery?" Rachel's voice hitched a bit as the nurse explained what had happened.

"Yes, Alyssa has a ruptured spleen, the doctor's will need to do surgery right away in order to keep from the internal bleeding to increase. It's what caused her dizziness."

Rachel buried her face in her hands, how could this be happening she thought to herself.

"Ms. Berry, has Alyssa experienced anything that might have caused this to happen? Any injuries, like falling down, car accidents?"

"She, she fell down off of one of the bikes at school a few days ago, the nurse said she was okay, we had an appointment set up for next week to get checked..."

"That will do it. Luckily we got her here right after her episode... She's in room 311 getting prepped as we speak."

Rachel followed the nurse into the room.

"Mommy!"

Rachel ran up to the bed, "Baby girl, you're gonna be okay."

The doctor smiled and nodded towards the nurse, "Thank you Nancy." He looked over at Rachel, "Ms. Berry, My name is Martin Fell. I'm gonna be doing the surgery on Alyssa in a few minutes."

Rachel wiped her tears and shook his hand. "Is it really serious, what exactly are you going to do?"

"Well.."

"Alyssa?"

All heads turned towards the door.

"Finn!" Alyssa smiled brightly as he made his way past the doctor and Rachel and over to her side.

"Hey beautiful girl. What happened?"

"I fainted. Is Chris here?" She smiled at the thought of her best friend. Finn smiled kissing the top of her forehead.

"He's right outside."

Dr. Fell cleared his throat, "Dr. Fell, and you are?"

Finn stood up quickly taking his hand, "Finn Hudson."

Alyssa smiled, "He's gonna be my daddy."

Both Finn and Rachel looked at each other nervously as Dr. Fell laughed, "Pleasure to meet you. I was just explaining to your fiance? About the surgery... it's nothing to be too worried about. It happens very often, we're just glad we caught it sooner rather than later."

He continued to explain what the procedure would entail as Rachel looked over at Finn who was taking it all in. She was really happy he was there. Shocked none the less. But she felt happy and safe.

"We're gonna go ahead and take her in now, if there aren't any more questions?"

"No. I think we're good? Rach?"

Finn looked over at Rachel who shook her head, "I think so. I, just want her to be okay."

"I promise you both, she will be just fine." He patted her shoulder and looked over at Alyssa, "Alright missy, say bye to your parents, we're gonna take you to the back now okay?"

Alyssa nodded, you could tell she was a little scared, "Mommy are you coming with me?"

Rachel shook her head, "No baby girl, mommy has to stay out here, but I'll be right here when you get back okay?"

"And you too Finn?"

Rachel looked back at Finn who grabbed Alyssa's tiny hand in his, "Of course. I'm not going anywhere."

"Okay. Tell Chris I'll see him in a little while."

Finn smiled, "I will."

Dr. Fell called in for the nurse and they began to wheel Alyssa out of the room. She waved back and the tears came streaming down Rachel's face again. Finn noticed, pulling her towards him, "Shhh, she's gonna be okay Rach. She's gonna be okay."