Author: Lao Tse
Pairing: Rachel/Puck
Rating: PG-13/T
Spoilers: All episodes aired, just to be safe.
Word count: 3,000 (~10,000 total over three parts)
Summary: Rachel and Puck have been together for a few months, and the two of them have a fight where Rachel points out a few things one of them being that she always have wanted to feel special. This leads to Puck wanting to show Rachel that she is special to him and he serenades her during one of their Glee practice.
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee or its characters; they belong to Ryan Murphy and FOX. I don't own the song that is used in this (Glad by Tyler Hilton)
I would love to know what you think of this story, love it, hate it, don't care. I'm just going to stop here and let you all read this.
Enjoy!
Glad
[1/3]
It was a just as any other day in the halls of William McKinley High School, the hallways always buzzed between classes and Rachel was followed by her stalker, well maybe not stalker, it didn't really matter what kind of word you used to describe Jacob Ben Israel, he had managed to get something on tape and he wanted to share it with the rest of the school.
When he did, the social cast system that is present in every High School around the country would be back to normal, at McKinley High School, he had probably managed to have caught the break up between Glee Diva Rachel Berry and the Jock and Glee Club member Noah 'Puck' Puckerman.
~Glad~
Rachel Berry had been trying to talk to her boyfriend since five months about what was happening between them, they had gotten together at the end of last week of the previous semester and had been dating all summer and the start of their senior year of High School but now something had happened between them and she needed to talk to him but he was avoiding her, and Rachel had no idea why Puck was avoiding her, maybe because it was that he had gone back to act like Puck and not Noah who was a nice boy who knew how to treat a girl right, but Puck on the other hand had no idea on how to treat a girl like she should be treated.
"Noah," Rachel yelled after the boy as the football-player walked out from the locker room after one of their football practices.
Puck stopped in his steps as he heard the voice of his girlfriend, he had been sure that Rachel should be at one of her dance-lessons or if it was voice-lessons today, either way Rachel Berry wasn't supposed to be in school this time of the day, it had been the only reason that he had left the lockerroom.
"Babe," Puck said as he turned around and looked at Rachel, he gave her a smile, he hoped that it didn't look to fake to her, if it did well then he was screwed and not in the good way.
"Don't babe me, Noah," Rachel said as she walked up to him, Puck leaned down to place a kiss on her lips but he never got the chance to do that.
Puck felt a sting on his left cheek; he blinked a couple of times before he realized what just had happened, Rachel had slapped him, and he had no idea on why she had done that, he couldn't think of anything that would have led in that direction. Puck didn't think that he had missed something important and he hadn't been cheating on her, he was really trying to do the right thing here and not screw this up.
"Rachel," Puck tried to get her to listen to him but he couldn't really see what this was about and if he couldn't figure it out then maybe he could get her to tell him what all of this was about, "I'm sorry for whatever it is that I have done," that should cover it, he was apologizing to her even if he didn't know what it was that he had done.
"Don't," was all that Rachel said as she lifted her hand and pointed Noah on the chest with every single word that she was saying, "you apologize like that, you don't even know what it that you have done."
Puck ran his fingers over his Mohawk before she scratch the back of his neck, Rachel could be a bit scary sometimes, it was like she was penetrating his head and read his mind, he didn't want to be on her bad side that was the only reason for him to apologize, this was normally a situation that Puck avoided to be in but somehow he had managed to get himself into this and he was going to stop this if he could but he didn't know how to do just that.
"I know that there is something that you're upset about," Puck said and he dropped the bag that he had over his shoulder and he placed both of his hands on her shoulders and he looked her in the eyes, "and I also know that you want me to apologize and here I am doing that."
"Of course I want you to apologize," Rachel yelled and slapped his hands away from her shoulders, "but I want you to know what you are apologizing for and you don't know what it is that you are apologizing for."
Puck sighed and he ran both of his hands over his face and he just wanted to shake some sense into Rachel, "But I haven't done anything," Puck screamed and Rachel just glared at him and she turned around and walked away from him, as he saw Rachel walking away he looked up almost like he was trying to talk to God, blaming the man for this.
Rachel stopped before she turned the corner and she looked back at Puck, "Maybe that is the problem here," Puck just looked at the girl, and he shook his head, "You haven't done anything and I thought that I told you what I need."
"you never told me what you needed!" Puck screamed after her, he normally could keep his cool around Rachel, he had made his mind up when they got together that he was going to get his act together and more importantly treat her like she deserved to be treated, and the last part of that was actually the easiest thing to do, just don't treat her like Finn had done, do most things opposite what to what he had done and you would do pretty great.
"Dude!" Puck turned around and he closed his eyes when he saw Finn, quarterback and captain for the team, Puck shook his head to himself, and this day couldn't get any worse than it already was.
"Hudson," Puck greeted as he grabbed his bag and the two of them walked out the school together.
"just thought that we could play some CoD," Finn said and threw his bag in the back of Puck's truck, somewhere along the line, hitting a postman wasn't the best way of keeping your license, at least not twice.
"Mario Kart and you're on," Puck said as he started the car, and the two footballplayers where on their way to the Puckerman house.
"Sure," Finn said and the tall footballplayer was about to say something more but Puck cut him off.
"You do know that you can be either Yoshi or Donkey Kong," Puck said and laughed at the look on his friend, "You do know that Bowser is mine and Rach is Princess Peach and don't try to choose any other character."
"Why?" Finn whined as the two friends made the way to Puck's room to play some Mario.
"Do you want to play or not?" Puck asked and looked at Finn, he could really see Finn as Yoshi, a green dinosaur, and someone that eats whatever is in front of him.
"I wanna play," Finn said and grabbed one of the controllers.
~Glad~
Rachel had no idea on what had really happened yesterday with Puck, if they were broken up or if they just had had a fight like any other normal couple. As she stood by her locker trying to find the binder that she used for her history class, someone walked up next to her.
"Rachel," she turned around and she saw Jacob standing there looking at her with a camera in his hands ready to take some kind of statement from her.
"The Rumor Mill needs a comment from you," Jacob said and leered at her, Rachel shivered at the thought about what Jacob might ask her about and what he was now planning, it was never something good when he was involved in something that had to do with rumors if wasn't for the school paper then it was for his blog.
"What do you want?" Rachel asked, the easiest way to get rid of Jacob was to listen to what he wanted and then just say no, or walk away.
"The rumor is that you and Puck have or is breaking up?" Jacob said and smiled at her, "and when that happens I will be here and lend a helping shoulder or hand for you."
"Jacob, just leave," Rachel said and she grabbed the binder from her locker and closed the locker before she walked away, "Noah and I aren't breaking up or have broken up, where did you hear something like that anyway?"
"I don't have to tell you my sources," Jacob said and Rachel shuddered again when she saw he smile, "but I'll be nice and tell you that a close friend of yours told me that."
Rachel saw how Noah was on his way over to them, and she gave him a smile, not a real smile but a smile at least, it was more of her showface but he didn't deserve anything more.
"Babe, is he bothering you?" Puck said as he stood next to Rachel with his arms over her shoulders holding her close.
"Not really," Rachel said with a smile, "Jacob was about to leave," and she turned to the other boy, "Right Jacob?"
"yeah, I am on my way," Jacob said and hurried away leaving Rachel and Puck alone at the lockers.
"you are sure that he didn't bother you?" Puck asked as he linked his arm with Rachel's as they walked to her class, "you know that you can tell me, I'll make sure that he'll get a slushy or tossed in a dumpster, you just have to say the word."
"That is very nice of you Noah," Rachel said and smiled at him, he was nice when he wanted but this was not really Noah, well it was Noah with a slice of Puck, and that was always nice, "but you know that won't help, you just have to ignore him and not let him get to you."
"You say that," Puck said and he let Rachel go so that she could walk in to her class, "but you know that isn't as easy for all of us."
"Just try," Rachel said and smiled at him, "for me." Puck just mumbled something as he walked away leaving Rachel to attend her class, and he was on the way to his own class.
~Glad~
Rehearsals for Sectionals their senior year didn't go as good as they had hoped, there was something that was missing, mainly in the duet that they were going to perform, and as always, there was this 80's soft rock song that they had chosen, well Mr. Schue had chosen it for them, and it was Rachel and Finn who was doing the duet, but there was something that was missing.
"Rachel," Mr. Schue said as he looked at her, "You need to show more interest in Finn, like you love him."
"Let someone else take my place instead," Rachel said as she heard what the teacher was saying, "I don't think that I can evoke those feelings for him at the moment," even if had been a long time since they had broken up there was still something that made Rachel hold back feelings when she sang with Finn.
"Why should Rachel leave her spot?" Artie asked, he had been talking to Puck, and they Jew had made some points during the time that Finn and Rachel had sung.
"She offered," Finn said and he looked at all of them waiting for someone to agree with him.
"Wheels have a point," Santana said, as she looked at both Finn and Rachel, "and I don't know if anyone would want to sing with you. St. Jackass had a point last semester."
"What?" Finn asked, and he blinked a couple of times a bit shocked, he couldn't really believe what he was hearing, who wouldn't want to sing with him.
"Santana!" Mr. Schue yelled as he heard her, "I'll see you at Figgins' office when we are done here today."
"Yeah," Kurt said as he had heard a bit of the conversation, "you are my brother and all but if we want to win, we kind of need Rachel to sing."
Rachel looked around in the choirroom, this was all too strange to her, she must have reached a different universe, that was the only explanation or she was dreaming, "there was no chance in hell that Santana would be one of them that was saying that she was going to have a solo, if Quinn agreed with Santana or if Tina got a chance to sing a whole song without breaking down, Mike saying something, all of these things would just tell her that she was in a different universe or dreaming.
"But we have a duet, and Finn and Rachel have done great when they have been singing together," Mr. Schuester said and looked at the group of student.
"no offense or anything," Puck said and looked at the teacher, "but we have competed with duets three times, two of them have been Finn and Rachel, those competitions are the ones that we have lost, the third one was a tie," there was a collective nodding going on as Puck spoke up about their different competitions, "and the truth is the only time that we really have won anything is when Rachel have had a solo, and then a group number."
"Finn and Rachel are doing the duet and that is final," Mr. Schuester said as he looked at them. Rachel's hand shoot up from her lap, "yes, Rachel?"
"Mr. Schue if I may?" Rachel said and the teacher nodded his head, and Rachel stood up and she smoothed down her skirt, "I am willing to give up my part in the duet to anyone that is interested in it," everyone looked at her like she had lost it, "Noah, did make an excellent point, but I think that it would be fair if everyone got the chance to sing during a competition," there was a few smiles from almost all of them, "and I personally think that it would be great if you would let Tina or Mercedes take the lead this time," with that Rachel sat back down on her chair.
Rachel could hear how they were whispering behind her back, and she didn't care about that, she just wanted all of them to feel special, and she hoped that her speech might have given Noah a hint about what it all had been about yesterday.
"Schue," the teacher looked up when he heard his name, "Rachel is being a teamplayer right now, and giving up her spot in the duet, at least for audition, and Hudson should do the same," Rachel smiled as she heard Puck saying what he thought, he was stepping up and showing some leadingman potential, she had always known that he had it in him to lead them in a way that Finn hadn't been able to do.
~Glad~
Glee was over for that day and Puck was giving Rachel a ride home, it was what he did, and the drive wasn't as uncomfortable as you might think it would be after what had happened yesterday.
"Rachel, I am sorry about yesterday," Puck said as he let her off, and smiled at her.
"I know that you are Noah," Rachel said and smiled at him.
"So everything is great," Puck said and jumped out of the car, he had planned on going home but change his mind last minute as he looked at her, "nothing to worry about."
This was some strange behavior from him, he was normally not this guy, it must have been something that made him think but Rachel wasn't sure about what it was about and just as Rachel was about to say something, Puck got a call and he looked down to see who it was that was calling and for a second he forgot about Rachel being there with him, and he picked up the phone and answered the call.
"what's up dude?" and that was all it took for Rachel to just walk away from what they had been doing, this just showed her that Noah Puckerman did just whatever he wanted to do and that he was no better than any other boy that she had dated before and that he didn't really care about as much as she cared about him, this was how it always was for her and there was nothing that he could do to change that, and now she was happy that she had given up the part in the duet and that she hadn't done what she first had thought about doing, asking Mr. Schue to give Finn's part to Puck and let him show how good he could be as a lead.
The truth is that Noah Puckerman is a much better leader than Finn Hudson, and that was something that he had shown somewhat earlier today but at the same time he cared about his friends more than he cared about his girlfriend, he could have asked if it was okay if he answered the call when he saw that it was one of his friends.
Just for once in her life she wanted someone to think that she was as special to them as they were to her, but so far the only ones that really had shown her that was her fathers but then again they were her parents and they were supposed to love her and accept her and think that she was special, she just wanted someone else to think the same and just love her for the girl that she was not the girl that they wanted her to be.
The next part will be up in a couple of days, I have the idea on this story made out so all I have to do is write.