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.01 – Flowers for a Ghost by Thriving Ivory

She took a plane to somewhere out in space,
To start a life and maybe change the world.
See I never meant for you to have to crawl,
No I never meant to let you go at all.

"Goodbye," Rachel Berry said as she prepared to go through gates leading to her flight at the airport. Her daddies were already in the plane, politely giving her some time to say goodbye to the Glee club and Mr. Schuester and his newlywed, Miss Pillsbury, now Mrs. Schuester.

So much has happened since their win at Regional's back in 2010. Somehow that has gotten the group even closer and Rachel finally felt like she belonged. Then, in her and everyone else's final year at McKinley High, she had received a letter stating that she was accepted into Julliard. She broke the news to the group and they were ecstatic for her. Kurt then revealed that he also was accepted but he was going the next year because of some arrangements gone wrong.

"We'll miss you!" Brittany shouted. "Won't we?" she asked as she nudged Santana in the side.

The Latina rolled her eyes. "Yeah, sure," she said but even she had a smile on her face.

The whole group gave her one last hug before she left. Rachel was the first to pull away. She grabbed the suitcase and proceeded to go through the tunnel leading to the plane. She turned back and waved before setting off once again. Everyone was quite sad to see her go but also very happy and proud of their friend. Everyone knew she was destined for greater things.

As the students watched the plane set off, Quinn asked. "Hey, where's Puck?" The group looked around in confusion but none of them knew.

Meanwhile Noah Puckerman was sitting his truck outside the airport, watching that very same plane Rachel had gotten in take off. It was too late.

For the past few days Puck had been arguing with himself. His head had hurt with all the indecisions. Should he come to tell her goodbye? Should he just stay away? Eventually he had decided to go but at the last minute, he had backed down like the coward he was and stayed in the car.

Now, Puck mentally slapped himself upside the head. Idiot, he thought.