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New York

Rachel came back to her New York apartment at 2 am. It was the last week of summer vacations before she had to go back to NYADA. She was excited, of course. This year she wanted to make it! But the bigger part of her was sad because the summer was over, not just because of one special boy. When she stepped inside everything was silent. Kurt and Santana were probably already asleep. She hadn't told them she would come back today. She hadn't told them anything the last 5 weeks. No, they didn't have a fight or anything! She just wanted to spend her vacations away from everything. Away from New York, away from NYADA, away from Brody, away from Broadway and her busted dreams. The last year was tough, but she wanted to look ahead and make this year go better.
"RACHEL!" Kurt made her jump with his sudden attack.
"Oh my god, Kurt, you scared me!" He laughed and pulled her into a big hug.
"I'm sooo glad you're here! Where do you were? Why didn't you call? Or at least text me? I already wanted to call the police, who knows what could have happened! But your dads said I should just wait until the end of summer. But even they didn't really know where you were!" She saw the concern in his eyes and was immediately sorry. She didn't really thought about that when she had put her cellphone in the drawer next to her bed and climbed into the green truck.

Flashback:

"Are you sure about this? I mean, if we let our mobiles here and something happens, we can't even call help..." She was unsure about this whole idea. Climbing into a truck and driving anywhere without a plan? Not really her imagination of the perfect summer!
"Babe, nothing will happen! And if, your not alone! I'm there to fight every stranger and hold your bag if you have to pee. So nothin' to worry about."He smirked and raised the last bag into the trunk of this car. She couldn't help but smile.

"I'm so sorry, Kurt! I didn't mean to scare you or anything, I just had to get away from everything!"
"Yeah yeah, I understand. I'm glad you're okay, I just wish you would have let us know that sooner." He smiled and hugged her once more. "But now: what did you do? Where did you go? You have a lot to recount, Honey." He grinned and pulled her onto the couch.
"Hold it, I want to hear everything!" Santana walked into the living room - in her red pajama pants and a white top - and sat next to Rachel.
"Santana!" Rachel was really happy to see her best friend again after a month. The girls friendship was stronger than ever - after all they had been through: love sickness, escort-boyfriends, pregnancy scares, shattered dreams...
"I could tell you that you're a little bitch for leaving me with this yellow-belly the whole summer and that I was really furious about you not telling me anything about your plans, but I just skip that and come to the good part: I'm glad you're here again!" The latina smiled and hugged her bf before continuing. "So, what did you do the last 5 weeks? It has to be something more exciting than sitting in New York, taking some lame dance classes and listening everyday to the creepy ideas of Kurt what could have happened to you!" Kurt gave her an angry look, but Santana just shrugged. "It's true! I mean, why should aliens come to earth, take Rachel into their spaceship and make her to the new Superstar from Mars. Seriously, she would totally get on their nerves after 5 minutes and they'd just shot her back to earth!"
They all laughed because they knew it would be true. Rachel could get really exhausting sometimes!
"Anyway: tell us about your summer!" Both looked at her and Rachel suddenly didn't know what she should tell them. The truth?
"There isn't much to tell..." Santana threw this I-know-you-are-lying-look at her and Kurt raised his eyebrows. "Okaaay I... I just traveled around, you know. Visiting some cites and other things..." They hadn't expected this answer.
"You traveled around? Seriously? With whom?" Santana asked.
"Um... with... with Noah."
"WITH PUCK?" Kurt and Santana both yelled. They couldn't believe what was coming out of her mouth. She'd spent her summer traveling around with Noah Puckermann? How the hell did that happened?

Flashback:

Rachel was in the synagogue with her dads one day before they would fly to her aunt Sara to Canada. She wasn't really in the mood for visiting her relatives, nor for flying to Canada. She'd been there before and she could say: the village they lived in really sucked! She liked her aunt, but there was nothing she could do. Next to the fact that her cousins Aaron and Jemin were two teen assholes which she never liked. So tree weeks? No thanks.

"Sup' my hot little jewish american princess?" She turned around and found Puck standing behind her with a grin playing on his lips.
"NOAH!" She smiled and hugged him. It was nice seeing him again, the last time they met was at the wedding... well, the canceled wedding or whatever.
"What do you do here? Shouldn't you be dancing around Broadway and terrorize Satan and Kurt?" She smacked him gently on the belly and he smiled as she did.
"No, they can terrorize themselves alone! ..and I didn't get the part for Fanny in Funny Girl, so..." It was her big chance to get on Broadway, but sadly she lost the part to the blond millionaire's daughter. Her bad.
"Oh yeah I heard about that. I'm sorry... but you'll get it the next time. I mean everyone who don't begs you to play in his show has to be deaf or just dumb!" She giggled.
"Thank you, Noah. That's really sweet!"
"Na, just the truth!" He smiled hesitantly. "Sooo, any other plans for this summer?"
"Well, I'll probably fly to my aunt to Canada..." She sighed.
"That doesn't sound really happy."
"Yeah well... it just... it sucks!" Rachel laughed and and brushed a strand of hair out of her face.
"Hear, hear! Rachel Berry just said the s-word!" He poked her in the side.
"Oh shut it!" They laughed. Puck knew that Rachel wasn't the behaved, little girl from next door. Never was and never will be!
"And what are your plans, it all?" She said as they walked out of the building.
"Las Vegas, California, Seattle, Chicago, Miami... just gonna see where my heart will drag me!" He smirked and looked out for his mom.
"Well that sounds like a great plan..." She said ironically. Rachel would never do that! Just get in the car and drive anywhere. She always wanted to have a plan, at least for the next 3 days!
"I don't need a plan to have fun, Berry. You should try it sometime."
"What? Get in a car without preparation and money and drive anywhere till I notice that this can't work? Yeah, I'm sure that would be great." He looked at her and stopped.
"No! Just doing something because you want to, because you feel like it. And not planning everything down to the last detail. Just... letting go!" He looked into her deep, brown eyes and wondered once more how eyes could be so bright and shiny. He really loved her eyes! They could calm you down in every situation and you could always see what she was thinking. Okay, maybe not everybody could read her like this, but Noah could.
"Noah?" She asked, not taking her eyes of his.
"Mhh?"
"Do you mind a second passenger in your truck?"

The next morning Rachel didn't want to get up. Last night she told Santana and Kurt that she was tired and wanted to go to sleep, but they just let her 'cause she promised to tell them everything about the trip the next day. She could hear Kurt singing in the Kitchen and Santana in the shower. Today's gonna suck!

Ohio

When Puck stumbled with his bags into his college room, his roommate was still asleep. He had one case and two bags - he would thank his mom later for that!
"FUCK!" He cursed when one of the bags fell off his shoulder onto his left foot.
"Puck?" A sleepy voice asked.
The tall boy turned around in his bed to see where the noise came from. He rubbed his eyes and gave him his goofy smile.
"Hey, Puck! Whatcha doing here this early?" Finn stood up to greet his best friend 'home' again. "Haven't seen you in a while!"
"Yeah, there were holidays , ya know." He smirked and put down his bags next to his bed.
"Where have you been?" Finn asked him, putting on a jeans and a fresh shirt.
"Here and there..." Puck said, because he didn't really want to tell his best friend that he spend the last 5 weeks traveling around with his ex-fiance.
"Party all night and sleep all day? I see." Finn said and Puck laughed because this wasn't really untrue. At least a few nights.
"You can't be in Vegas and not party!" Noah said without really thinking.
"You were in Vegas? With whom?" Finn asked. He was a bit jealous of his friend because he just stayed in Ohio, learning for college and visiting relatives: boring! They always said they would go the Vegas one day - together.
"Um...with... with nobody! I just wanted to... um you know, have fun. The woman there are crazy!" Puck wasn't sure if Finn would believe him what he just said, but then: it was Finn! Of course he would believe him.
"Well then... I guess you had a great time!" He smiled and Puck nodded.
"Yeah... I had an amazing time." And that was no lie, not at all.

Flashback:

"So you have to drive 4 kilometers straight on the Interstate 75 and then take the exit to the Interstate 80... I don't really get that!" Rachel hold the unfolded map in front of her face and tried to read it.
"I wish I didn't let you take the map with you!" Puck murmured but Rachel didn't hear it anyway. She was busy in a fight with the map. Puck had to laugh; she just looked so cute.
"Oh yeah right, we have to follow the road and then... what?" Puck grinned as she crossed her arms.
"Babe, we said no planing! We do it on my way or we don't do it at all! I already let you take the map with you, so be thankful." She put the map away and sat there in silence, staring out the window for a few minutes. She didn't even know how this happened. Two hours ago she told her dads that they would have to fly alone to Canada and now she was on her way to California in Pucks old truck. It was a spontaneous decision. If it also was a bad one? She wasn't so sure at the moment.
"Sooo, Satan told me about your callboy-boytoy." He broke the silence.
"Okay first: he was my boyfriend. And secondly... yeah well he was an escort but... whatever."
Rachel didn't want to talk about the whole Brody-debacle. It was bad enough to see him everyday at NYADA, now she didn't want to talk about him in her vacations. That's one of the reasons why she came back to Ohio.
"That's gross! Seriously...taking money for sex is one thing, but having a girlfriend that doesn't know about it is another!" She smiled slightly as he turned to face her. No she wouldn't cry! Not anymore.
"Chocolate pretzels?" He held out a fresh bag and grinned. Maybe this trip isn't going to be that bad...

New York

"Morning." Rachel said tired as she came into the kitchen. Kurt smiled and gave her a cup of hot, steaming coffee.
"Good morning, sunshine. Did you have a good sleep?" He asked, but before she could answer Santana came in, with a towel on her head.
"Of course she had! This was probably the first night in weeks were she did get sleep at all and Puck didn't fuck her brain out!" She laughed, but Rachel choked and put down her coffee cup before giving Santana a serious look.
"Wow, so he did fuck your brain out?" Santana asked and sat next to her best friend.
Rachel wanted to contradict, but she couldn't.
"Okaaay... that's... interesting! What else did you two do?"
"Santana! Let her just wake up a bit and drink her coffee." Kurt said, even if he really wanted to know what happened between Rachel and Puck in the summer.
"Oh shush, Beyoncé! You want to know it too." Santana said and stood up to make breakfast. Soon the whole apartment smelled like eggs and bacon.

Flashback:

When it got darker, Puck and Rachel had to find an accommodation for the night. Puck suggested to just sleep in his truck, but Rachel didn't thought that this was a good idea. So they stopped as they saw a sign with the inscription "Mary's bed- and breakfast". Luckily, there was one room left.
"Go along the corridor and then you'll find it on the left! Room 16." The old, little woman said as she gave Puck the key.
"Thanks!" He said, took his and Rachel's bags and went to room number 16. Rachel followed him.

As they stepped inside the first thing they saw was a dark brown double bed made of wood. Yes, one bed! Next to it there was a small cupboard and a bigger locker. On the other side there was a door, probably to the Bathroom, and next to it an old TV on a fragile sideboard.
"Well...it's just one night!" Puck said and carried the bags to the bed.
"Is here just... one bed?" Rachel asked, opening the door to the bathroom. "Jup, looks like it..." She said and sat down on the bed.
"What did you expect? A five star hotel with roof garden and Pool?" He chuckle, knowing that this was nothing she really expected. He threw his bag on the ground and turned to Rachel. "But don't worry, I don't bite! Only if you will sing in your sleep...You don't do that, right?" He looked at her, raising one eyebrow.
She stood up and grabbed her bag. "Dumbass!" She said smiling before turning to the bathroom.

As she came out of the bathroom, Puck lied in only his underwear on the bed. It was no secret that Puck had a great body and Rachel had always loved his arms, but wow... now he was even hotter than in high school!
"Like what you see?" He smirked and Rachel blushed. Yeah, she definitely liked what she saw!
"Oh, don't kid yourself!"She smiled and lay down beside him before switching off the light.

Soooo, what do you think?
Should I go on with this story? And do you have any wishes what should happen between Rachel and Puck?
Please review :)
Oh, and: thanks for reading! xo
-Janina