Hello all! I have recently come across the Finn/Puck pairing and have fallen completely for it. Unfortunately there is not enough of these fics out here so, I thought I would add one to it. Please let me know what you think.

Also a HUGE thank you to flyingsoftly and Amorelle for putting up with me and my antics during this entire process! I Love You!

Thank You for Reading!

Noah groaned and glared at his alarm clock that had decided to make itself useful and go off at the correct time. He rolled out of bed to turn off the blaring sound, ignoring the thumping on the wall from next door. He dragged his feet into the bathroom and turned on the shower to and get the lukewarm water to start circulating as he brushed his teeth. He spat out the mint foam and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand before wiping it on his black and grey plaid pajama pants. He rolled his eyes and turned on the little radio so that is was loud enough to cover the sounds of the couple next door enjoying each other's company just a little too much and a little too loudly in the bathroom next to his, but not loud enough that he would receive a noise complaint. The water was just above freezing when Noah stepped into the spray and shuddered as he quickly washed his body and Mohawk, which he still hasn't shaved off even though his manager, Mercedes, has told him countless times that it went out of fashion years ago. Less than three minutes later he was walking down the hall back into his bedroom, trying to warm up his lean body in his very cold apartment. He threw on a thick black long sleeved shirt, followed by his uniform black polo shirt, which he tucked into his khaki pants before fixing his collar, wrapping his scarf around his neck and making sure that his beanie was snug over his ears. His feet found his way into his non slip shoes as he slid his wallet, cell phone and keys in his front pockets. He grabbed his black peacoat, and in turn checked that his gloves were still in the pockets before walking out of his room , hearing the locks latch into position, testing it to make sure it was locked properly, before making his way into the common area of the apartment, and out of the main door, into the even colder stairwell.

The icy blast of air hit Noah in the face as he opened the peeling green door and he buried his head further into his jacket and muttered, "Damn It!" before turning the corner at the end of the block and heading down into the subway. Going down the mostly empty stairs, he got out his iPod and stuck the headphones into his ears and grabbed his MTA metro card out of his wallet so that he can get through the turnstiles quickly. There was one good thing about opening at work, and that was that it was so early that the subway system was mostly empty. He made his way down the stairs and headed toward the platform nodding his head along with the beat of the music flowing through his ears. He leaned against the curved wall until the correct train arrived and stopped for the brief moment to let him embark into the car. He made himself as comfortable as he could in the seat facing the side and thought about all the things that the day could bring him as he watched the station start to blur into the darkness of the tunnel. Luckily the train had jolted when it stopped at the next station, which Noah was glad for since he had fallen into a light slumber without realizing. He shook his head and stood up, grabbing onto the handle to help keep his balance as the train started to move again. 'Can't fall asleep if I'm standing up now can I?' Puck thought to himself. His iPod played a few more songs before his train came to a complete stop at the Times Square 42 Street Station, where he got off and headed toward the exit of the platform to walk up the stairs onto the streets above him. He quickened his pace, as his subway car started to move out of the station thus causing a lot of cold air to blast around him, and turned the corner to get to the stairs. It somehow seemed to have gotten colder as the morning went on. It took Noah all the strength he had no to turn around and get back on the subway and to continue down the street towards his place of work.

When he got closer to the store he saw his best friend Rachel Berry waiting outside, trying to keep herself warm. Her eyes lit up as her eyes landed on his manly frame. "Noah! Thank God! I have been standing here for a good ten minutes, and you know it's going to be Mercedes opening today, and even though I know the three of us are the best opening team, she is just always late arriving and with it being winter in this city, and almost five o clock in the morning, being able to go inside would be an amazing idea. " Puck chuckled at his best friend and draped his arm around her shoulders. "

Rachel! Calm down. She will be here any minute."

Rachel leaned into him trying to get warmer. "Noah, I would appreciate it if you would just let me whine and pout to you."

"So I'm gonna take a guess and say that you didn't get the call back then?" He said into her hair.

She looked up at him, "What? How? Noah! What! How did you know that."

"Because well, One, you're here today and not practicing your ass off, and Second, you're in your cuddly mood, which clearly means that something is bothering you, usually over an audition, but that you're sort of ok with it since it is just a chorus position."

"That is just creepy Noah Puckerman, just creepy."

Noah laughed at her, "That is a reason, you call me your best friend!"

"Yeah, Yeah I know…"

Rachel and Noah just chit chatted about monologues and audition songs that they have been working on until Mercedes, in all of her glory, came bounding down the block. "My bad you guys, I had to literally beat down the blonde bitch who just wouldn't get out of my way." She said as she unlocked the door. "Ok guys, we have twenty minutes before I am forced to open the doors for the entire world, so Rachel if you can get all the pastries ready and Puck, load the coffee machines and check the cup stocks, I'm going to clean."

Noah nodded and Rachel smiled. "The BEST Opening Team is already hard at work!" she giggled, causing Mercedes to laugh. "Hey Puck!"

"What Mercedes?" He called back with his head in the espresso machine, trying to figure out, why no one ever cleans it.

"I hung out with Finn last night…and I sort of maybe brought you up."

Puck's head shot out of the machine and he looked at her with wide eyes. "Uhh…what do you mean….how?"

"Well we went out to the bar last night and we got talking about work and I know that he has been looking for somebody to date, so I casually brought up names of some of my gays, and his eyes perked up, when 'my boy Puck with the mohawk at work came up'" she said smiling.

"What makes you think that I have any interest in him." Puck said defensively.

Rachel snorted as Mercedes stopped what she was doing and spun around with her hand on her hip. "Oh do NOT even go there PUCK, you know that you drool over him every time he comes in…don't even deny it."

"And the fact that you have all of his coffee choices memorized for the different days of the week, what he has when he is with certain people and what he orders when he wears that special coat." Rachel interjected, ignoring the fact that Puck was glaring daggers into her.

"My case is rested." Mercedes said smirking, as she went back to cleaning.

The rest of the morning went by as usual, they were quiet in the store for the first forty five minutes, then they all dealt with the rush, with relatively no problems, except for running out of the new polar bear cookies, and then once the rush died down, they would be quiet again, before they had the mid afternoon shopping rush. Noah smiled when he saw the familiar face walk through the door.

Opening the door, Finn entered the Starbucks he has begun to think as his own, with his friend from home at his side, he walked up to the counter to order the drinks that they had been craving all morning. He walked in waved to Mercedes who was on the phone probably ordering new pastries for the next shipment. His eyes lit up as he saw Puck, who apparently was playing for the same team as him, according to Mercedes, and well Mercedes knows all, so he took her word for it. He leaned over to Kurt and whispered, "That's him" and proceeded to smile and look at the boy who made the mohawk work, Kurt elbowed him in the ribs slightly. "Well then you need to stop drooling like he's a piece of meat, even though, I wouldn't mind sinking my teeth into that!" Kurt said quietly. "Back off, I saw him first" Finn bit back playfully, as he rubbed the spot where he got elbowed with his palm.

Puck saw the two boys enter and start whispering things into the other's ear. 'Great, now Mercedes let my crush slip when he was already seeing someone, and now they're making jokes about the poor lovesick boy' Puck thought to himself, making his good mood deplete to nothing. He pushed the already-made Grande Green Tea Frappachino, with an extra scoop of green tea powder, off the counter and into the trashcan. "Welcome to Starbucks. What can I get started for you today?" Puck said in a tone that clearly said, he was just doing his job. He smiled a little to himself when he saw Finn's smile falter slightly at his frosty welcome.

Kurt stepped up to the counter, "I would like a Tall, non fat Café Latte and Finn here will have a Grande Green Tea Frappachino and that's it." Kurt said smiling up at his friends love interest. "With an extra scoop of green tea please." Finn interjected as Puck was writing the order on the side of the cup. Puck smirked to himself when Finn interjected his modification 'Guess you don't know much about your little boyfriend do you? Puck: 1 Short extremely gay boy: 0' Puck thought with a small inward cheer. "Yeah, no problem," Puck rambled off. "Thank You….Puck?" Kurt said trying to figure out what the barista's defiled nametag read as it had a large NOAH crossed out by a sharpie with the word Puck written on top of it. "No worries…that will be $9.47." Puck said making eye contact for the first time. Frowning, Finn handed over exact change and ignored the look Kurt was giving him and stared back at Puck. "Hey are you alright?" Finn asked quietly.

"Who? Me?" Puck asked confused

"Yeah" Finn replied concerned. "You're usually more upbeat."

"No, I'm fine. Perfect actually." Puck replied nonchalantly, ignoring the scoff coming from Rachel.

"Oh, well…good…uh…thanks for the coffee." Finn said in a confused manner with the cute little furrow of his forehead. He frowned slightly and reached out for the drinks and turned to Kurt. "Come on" he said and made his way over to a table by the window and sat down. Kurt had maybe been in his seat for fifteen seconds before blurting out, "That is the guy you like?" he asked with his eyebrow raised.

"He's usually, a lot more happy? Flirty? I don't know…Mercedes said that she thinks he is interested."

"Well judging that exchange, things have changed." Kurt responded before taking a long sip from his latte. "So is this a normal outing for you?"

Finn chuckled, he was wondering what was bothering Puck, but as he didn't really know the guy, he couldn't really do anything. "Yeah, I usually come to this Starbucks, the drinks are always made right, Mercedes works here, and it's in a convenient part of town." Finn shrugged. "…and it has nothing to do with the boy standing behind the counter?" Kurt said smirking. "Hey! When you get accustomed to living here you will find your own spots you like to go to." Finn replied. "You didn't answer my question." Kurt pointed out. Finn shrugged before he turned the conversation toward upcoming auditions, occasionally glancing up at the counter to look at Puck.

Rachel walked over to Puck and smacked him hard on the arm. "Noah, if you keep acting like a spoiled brat that never gets his way, then no one will want to date you. End of story."

He rolled his eyes at her and bit back, "He's obviously already with someone, so what is the point of even trying."

"You know Mercedes said that he wasn't seeing anybody, so -"

"Well obviously Rachel, he is, look at the way they are interacting, obviously there is more to it than that." Puck snapped leaning on the counter looking at Finn.

"Well get over it then Noah, and don't take it out on me, I'm here to help you." She snapped right back and went into the back.

Puck ignored the sound of the swinging doors flapping, and started to sing along to the song that was playing on the radio over the Starbucks speaker system, glancing occasionally at Finn and Kurt talking. Finn's interest was piqued when he heard someone singing, glancing over to see Puck singing softly under his breath, he just couldn't look away, he was slightly memorized by his voice. He finished up his drink quickly as there were only them and an older couple sitting across the room playing checkers, he walked up to Puck, cleared his throat and shook his cup a little. "Hey do you think I can get another one?" Finn smiled at him.

Puck, his mind still wandering, still in tune with the song walked over and started to make his drink and just said, "Sure, Grande Green Tea Frappachino with an extra scoop of green tea powder and just a little bit of whipped cream, even though you really want extra, right?"

Finn's eyes widened slightly, but he leant up against the counter and watched Puck make his drink. "Should I be worried by the fact that I come here so often that you can rattle off my entire order by heart or flattered?"

"Take it how you want to." Puck smiled and handed him the finished drink after adding the extra whipped cream. Grinning at the extra whipped cream he handed over the money, brushing Puck's fingers slightly. "Keep the change." He smirked as he turned to leave, but Puck grabbed his hand and put the cash back in it and closed his fingers around it with his palm. "Don't worry about it, it's on me…just don't tell your boyfriend over there I don't wanna cause you guys any drama…well...much" he winked.

Finn grinned at Puck's grasp before frowning and looking over at Kurt. "Boyfriend? Who him? He's…not my boyfriend, just a friend from back home who just moved here. I don't have a boyfriend." He said looking back a Puck and taking a sip of his drink. "This is so good."

Puck smiled over at Finn, "Good, I'm glad." He smiled and ignored Mercedes as she commented on the situation with "I told you dumbass!" "Well, then I owe you an apology for being a dick when you came in earlier, I might have been, could have been a little bit jealous."

Finn blushed slightly as he learned that the cute barista was jealous of Kurt, chuckling softly he spoke up, "Nah, It's alright. Most people make that mistake. We grew up together and so are just really close." Moving back over to the counter he leaned his hip against it, taking another sip of his drink, "So....you were jealous?" he smirked

"I said I might have been." He smiled shyly, "and that's cool about growing up together I mean, me and Rachel here did the same thing, she's the tiny brunette that never shuts up around here..." He laughed, but sent an appreciative smile over to her as she took another customers order and proceeded to make the drinks to give Puck time to actually have a small conversation with Finn. Chuckling he thought fondly on the as she worked on her order. "Yeah, she's a bit of a chatterbox. Her and Kurt would probably get along well, I can't get him to shut up half the time." Puck laughed at this statement. "I know exactly what you are talking about! That is probably a disaster waiting to happen! But I'm sure it would entertaining, especially if she has had a few drinks in her" He laughed even as he received a swift kick from her, "just like I'm assuming tonight will be when we head to see a show that she is bitter about...meaning the show that someone else got the part she was auditioning for. I'm sure it will make Hairspray a bearable show at least." He chuckled at her.

Finn smiled and laughed "Well, it's a good thing that she didn't get it, because its closing….finally. I mean I love the show, but it's not a very deep show." Puck looked at him with a strange look.

"That is exactly what I think!" then laughed loudly.

By this time Kurt had made his way over to the counter and made his presence known, "Hey, I am actually, for once, really sorry to break up this little pow wow, but if we don't leave soon Finn, we won't make it to the-" "You are absolutely right Kurt we do need to head out." Finn cut across Kurt. "Well, Puck it was nice to finally have a conversation with you after all this time. I will see you soon!" he said as he waved shyly to Puck.

"Catch you later then Finn, Kurt." Puck replied with a laugh and wave, before getting back to work, promptly ignoring the looks of 'I told you so' on Mercedes and Rachel's faces.

Once they were outside Kurt rounded on Finn. "Is there a reason you cut me off mid sentence, I'm not going to try and steal him, it's obvious that he likes you!"

"What makes you say that?"

"Please, he had lovesick puppy written all over his chiseled face. Now answer my question."

"He's going to see Hairspray tonight…and he is not a huge fan of the show." Finn smiled.

"Well then that is perfect…oh! Oh! FINN that is so good! I can't believe my little Finny is growing to be as devious as me!" Kurt squealed, and then stopped suddenly. "What the hell is written on your cup?"

Finn looked confused until his eyes landed on the neat scrawl on his cup which read Puck and then a ten digit phone number under it. Finn grabbed his phone out of his pocket like lightning and stored it into his phone, then slid it back in with a smile so bright that it could rival Times Square.

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