Even at seven years old Noah Puckerman hated when anyone called him Noah. The only exception was his mom, because she's scary when she's angry. And his best friends Finn always forgot, so Puck took off by himself. He was the homecoming parade, why? He didn't even know, he hated this stuff. But his mom thought he would have fun out with his friends. All the older kids were crowded in front and then the really small kids were in back with their parents crying about how they couldn't see the floats.
Puck hated feeling like this. Caught in the middle, he wasn't old enough to be with the kids upfront and he wasn't a baby, so he was definitely not going to go back with the babies.
"Please, move, please." Puck heard a little girl's voice plead and he turned to see a young girl about his age trying to get to the front. There were these jerk teenagers in her way laughing. Puck immediately went over there and shoved the teens aside with all his power. The teens cussed at him.
"What the hell you doin? All the girl wanted was to see the parade." Puck yelled back. He turned to look at the little girl. She was so pretty, she had long brown curls and big brown eyes that were filled with tears.
"Thank you." He hated it when girls cried.
"No prob." He grabbed her hand and tugged her towards the front of the crowed of people and watched with the little girl as the floats went by. He didn't let go of her hand once… what her hand was soft and it felt nice? HE looked over at her and the tears were gone from her eyes. Instead there was another gleam in them as she smiled and giggled at the floats passing by. Puck smiled, proud of himself for being able to make the pretty girl smile.
Then stayed like that until the parade was over.
"Thank you," the pretty girl said, turning towards him.
"No prob." Puck didn't want to leave, but he was getting a ride home from Finn's mom and he knew he would have to go find Finn. HE reluctantly let go of the pretty girl's hand. The pretty girl kissed him on the cheek. His hand raised to his cheek in shock.
"My name is Rachel, Rachel Berry." She said sounding unsure of herslef. Noah looked down at her and smiled.
"My name is Pu-" he paused. "Noah, my name is Noah Puckerman."
"PUCK!" He heard Finn yell behind him.
"Sorry, I gotta go."
"So why does Crazy Berry call you Noah?" Azimo asked for the second time. Puck was sitting at the football table, eating lunch and took a quick look over at the Glee table to see the pretty girl laughing with Tina and chatting with the rest of the group. Noah felt something tug at his , Puck turned and looked back at Azimo, putting on his trademark smirk.
"How the hell should I know man… she's a freak. God only knows what goin through that crazy fucking mind of hers." The guys all laughed, but Noah? Noah felt like a total douche bag. But throughout the rest of lunch, Noah kept sneaking glances at the pretty girl across the lunchroom.