Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I don't own Glee or its characters. If I did Mark Salling would take his shirt off at least once every episode, Finn Hudson would stop being such a whiny bitch, Noah & Rachel would be together and Noah would get a lot more solos.

A/N: This is my very first Glee FanFic. I've written some ff before but I've never shown it to anybody. I'm not the best writer but I hope you like this.

Rachel stiffened when Finn walked into the room. He faltered when he saw her looking at him before quickly averting his gaze and going to sit beside Puck. She hadn't spoken to him since they had broken up last week. Someone had left a note in her locker informing her about Finn and Santana hooking up.

When she confronted him about it all he could do was apologize. Rachel couldn't believe it. She had expected him to deny and she probably would have believed him even if she knew he was lying. But he didn't. He just kept apologizing until Rachel cut him off, called him an ass, and ran off.

Finn shifted nervously in his chair. Rachel was in the front row, as always, and looked extremely tense. He could hear Santana, Quinn, and Brittany talking about what happened and he knew Rachel could hear it too. He felt bad for her. He had never wanted to hurt her. He wasn't even with Rachel when he got with Santana.

"All right guys, sectionals are in a few weeks." Mr. Schue said coming into the room. "Any ideas?"

Most of the people turned to Rachel. She always seemed to have an opinion about everything, but oddly she was sitting in her chair with her arms crossed staring at the something on the wall across the room.

"Rachel?" Mr. Schue asked. "Are you okay?"

She didn't answer. Whispers ran across the room as everyone tried to figure out why Rachel was so distant.

"I like it." Santana smiled continuing to file her nails. "Rachel's voice gives me a headache."

"What did you do?" Kurt asked Finn. "I don't think I've ever seen her this quiet. It's kinda scary."

"He slept with Santana." Brittany blurted out and all the faces in the room turned to her, except Rachel's. "What? He did."

Rachel took a quick breath standing up. "Mr. Schuester, if you'll excuse me, I don't feel that I'm to my best ability today."

"Rachel?" Mr. Schue asked concerned.

"Besides, I signed up for Glee club to express my talents, not to be the subject of pointless gossip." Rachel added quickly, shooting Santana a hard look before hurrying out of the room.

"You're home early." Rachel's dad noted when she walked through the front door at 3:15.

"I'm not feeling very well." Rachel lied.

"Maybe you should take a nap." Her dad came over and felt her forehead. "You don't have a fever."

"It's probably nothing." Rachel brushed it off. "I'll just take some vitamins and get started on dinner in a little bit. I need to take a shower."

"Don't worry about dinner. I'll do it. That reminds me though, Mrs. Puckerman is pulling a double shift this evening and I told her Noah and Becca could come stay over here tonight."

"Noah's coming over? To stay the night?" Rachel suddenly felt her stomach flip. The last time he had been at her house they had been dating.

"Yea. She said she'd send them over around five." Her dad kissed her forehead. "Now go take that shower and try to get a nap in before dinner."

"Thanks, Daddy."

"Why do I have to go over to Berry's house?" Puck complained as his mother was ushering him and his sister out of the front door.

"Because it's Friday and I have to work so I can't make you two a nice meal. Her dad's have kindly invited you over and you're going to be nice and have fun."

"I could just order a pizza for the kid. I don't need a babysitter." Puck complained but when he saw the tired and defeated look on his mother's face he broke. "Fine. We'll go and I'll play nice, but we're not staying very long. The second Berry gets on my case about something I'm leaving."

"I love you." His mother let out a deep breath when he kissed her cheek. "I'll see you two tomorrow. Make sure Rebecca is in bed at a decent time tonight."

Puck dropped his overnight bag in the corner of the guest room of Rachel's house. He had to hand it to Berry. Having two gay rich dads is pretty awesome. The guest room was great. It had a queen bed and the walls were painted some kind of dark green. He would be sleeping here tonight and Becca was going to sleep downstairs on the pull out couch. Puck looked down the hallway. There was only two other rooms upstairs and since he knew the one right across from was Berry's bedroom he assumed the other was a bathroom.

That's kind of dumb, Puck thought. Why in the hell would they put him – a horny, 16 year old teenage boy – across the hall from their 16 year old daughter? There was bound to be some drama there.

Puck hadn't seen Rachel since he had gotten to her house. He was surprised. He figured he would have at least heard her complaining about something even if he didn't see her. Rachel was kind of freaking him out. He wasn't used to her being this quiet and he didn't like it. He knew that she had liked Finn – maybe even loved him – but he never expected for her to take it this hard.

He peeked down the stairs to make sure that her dads were occupied and he snuck across the hall to her door. He didn't bother knocking before quietly pushing it open and slipping inside. Rachel was lying in her bed with the covers up to her chin and facing the window.

"Were you not even going to come say hi to me?" He asked startling her.

She quickly snapped her head in his direction and sat up. "Sorry. I didn't realize you were here." She mumbled.

"What are you doing hiding in your room?"

"I'm not hiding." She insisted. "I'm napping."

"Are you coming down for dinner?" He asked sitting uncomfortably on the edge of her bed.

"I don't know." She sighed pulling the covers up higher on her body.

"Come on, Berry. Finn's an ass. You can't let him get you down." He yanked on the covers slightly but she held on tight.

"Noah!" She scolded him. "I'm not exactly dressed under this."

Puck's eyes opened wider than they ever had in that moment. "You're naked under this?"

"Not completely. I have a robe on. I didn't feel like getting dressed after my shower. It's too depressing."

"Okay, that's it. I get that you were crushin' on Finn and all but I honestly don't get why you liked him so much!" Puck stood up walking around to the other side of the bed so he could face her. "He's a whiny little bitch that never deserved you in the first place. Besides, he's way to tall for you. How did you two even make out?"

"Noah." Rachel said quietly looking up at him. "Aren't you his best friend?"

"So? Doesn't mean I have to like the guy all the time. And I hate seeing you all depressed and mopey over him. He'd not worth it, believe me. Now come on, get up."

"No."

"If I have to go down there and force small talk with your dads then you're coming with me."

"Even if you have to drag me downstairs?"

"Even if I have to drag you downstairs." He smirked ripping the covers out of her hands. "Let's go."

"So Noah? I hear you're somewhat of an entrepreneur." One of Rachel's dads said passing around a bowl of mashed potatoes. He wasn't sure what his name was. He knew that Rachel had introduced them but he hadn't been paying attention. "Rachel says that you run a pool cleaning business."

"I wouldn't really call it a business. I clean a few pools during the summer, but we live in Ohio and it the middle of fall so I'm not getting much business." Noah rubbed his palms nervously down his jeans. He felt like he was meeting some girl's parents. He'd never actually met a girl's parents but he figured it would be somewhat like this.

"A summer job is better than no job." Rachel's other dad chimed in.

"I think he only does it because he likes to be shirtless in front of girls. He has a nipple ring, you know." Becca smiled to the whole room.

"Becs, eat your food and shut it." Noah grumbled at her.

"Sorry." She stared down the plate in front of her.

"It was really nice of you to invite us over." Noah said trying to make conversation.

"You are both welcome here anytime you want." Rachel's dad smiled. "I'm surprised Rachel hasn't mentioned you before. She usually tells us all about her friends, but you've never came up."

"Aren't you in glee club together?" Her other dad asked and Rachel nodded.

Rachel didn't know how to describe their situation. "Well yea but, Noah's a jock and I'm… we just don't interact in the same social circles."

"Rachel's usually too busy criticizing everyone for friends." Puck chimed in but he wasn't sure why. He regretted what he said when he saw Rachel flinch slightly. God he hated his huge mouth.

"Noah isn't the kind of guy you mention to your parents. He's the kind of guy that skips third period to make out with Cheerios in the janitor's closet." Rachel looked over at Noah.

"Excuse me." Puck mumbled before scooting away from the table.

"Rachel." Her dad scolded. "I think you embarrassed him."

Rachel snorted. "Noah Puckerman doesn't get embarrassed." After a few minutes, Rachel excused herself and went to search for Noah. She found him sitting on her back porch. Okay, maybe he did get embarrassed.

Rachel slowly walked past him to sit in the patio chair beside him. She didn't say anything. Instead, she looked up at the stars starting to appear in the dark sky.

"I don't make out with Cheerios in third period. I have English third period and Mrs. Rowling's is pretty hot." He expected her to get onto him for what he said but she didn't say anything. She didn't even give him a disapproving look. "Why are you so quiet?" He asked looking over at her. "I don't like it."

"I can't even look at Finn without thinking about what he did with Santana. And I know I have no right to get mad because we weren't even dating then. But I'm mad. I am so mad that it actually hurts. I'm mad that he screwed Santana; I'm mad that he lied; but most of all I'm that I actually let myself fall for him." Rachel took at deep breath. "I never thought… I never thought that I'd be here… in this situation. I'm supposed to making my way to Broadway to be this big star. I let myself get sidetracked by the first guy that gave me the slightest bit of attention. I feel so stupid."

"You're not stupid." Puck interrupted her. "You're naïve."

"Isn't that kind of the same thing?" Rachel sniffled and Puck smiled.

"Maybe."

"You've been with Santana right?" Rachel asked.

"Who hasn't?"

"Do you think she's worth it?"

"What?"

"Do you think that I was stupid to not go all the way with Finn when he wanted? If I had sex with him when he asked he never would have slept with Santana and I wouldn't be in this mess. Do you think he regrets having sex with Santana?"

Puck studied Rachel. She looked to be on the verge of tears. "Rachel, Finn is probably one of the stupidest guys I have ever met. I can't speak for him, but I know what sex with Santana is like. It's great and I don't know any guy that has walked away from her and not been pleased... repeatedly, but Finn is a dumbass if he would pick sex with Santana over being with you." Puck leaned towards Rachel as he said this last part.

Rachel looked up into Noah's eyes. She could tell he was being genuine. "Thanks, Noah." She smiled feeling a little bit better.

"We should get back inside before you freeze." Puck heard Rachel's teeth chattering and noticed it was pretty cold outside.

"Rachel?" A familiar voice asked from behind her as she pushed her books into her locker in Monday morning. She tried to ignore him but when she turned he was blocking her way.

"I need to get to first period." She insisted.

"After we talk." Finn pressured.

"Fine. You wanna talk?" Rachel's voice suddenly got loud. "How about we talk about how you lied to me? Or about how you hooked up with Santana because you couldn't keep it in your pants?" Rachel looked around to see several people staring at them.

"Rach?" Finn actually looked a little sorry he had decided to confront Rachel. He thought she would be over it by now.

"Look Finn, I get it. You need sex but I am not the girl that is going to give it you." Rachel said much quieter this time. "I understand that you have needs. So tomorrow in glee I will get up and smile and I'll sing with you. I'll pretend like nothing happened and everything will go back to normal. But right now… today, I get to hate you. I deserve that, but when you look at and tell that you're sorry, it makes it hard to hate you. I need you stop being nice to me because I need to hate you. I know it's wrong and I'm probably being selfish, but… I really need to hate you right now." Rachel's words shocked Finn and she took this opportunity to sneak past him rushing to English before the bell rang.