A/N: I don't own anything related to glee, except for a number of DVDs, some clothes, calendars, mugs, and games.

From a prompt at the P/R drabble meme:

"Dear whoever is reading this, you're beautiful and someone out there is crazy about you. So smile. Life is too short to be unhappy." –From Michael Cera's Twitter


Puck never considered himself much of a romantic. He was more of the "fuck 'em and leave 'em" type. Only he didn't think of himself as quite as much of a douche as that implies. But no, he wasn't the relationship type, and he definitely didn't do romance.

Except his heart kept doing these weird flip things when he looked at Rachel. And it did this clenching thing every time he saw her crying after her breakup with Finn. His heart. Affected by Rachel fucking Berry. Crazy ass Berry. He considered going to see his doctor; he thought maybe it was just really bad chronic heartburn, or he was going to have a heart attack at an early age of something. There was no way he could ever have feelings for insane, animal sweater, "diva storm out" Berry.

Until he saw her crying again. He didn't know what came over him, but he couldn't handle it anymore. How the fuck an ass like Hudson could land the kind of girl who dug him so much that she kept crying over him, he would never know.

So it's not like he ever really listens to her when she talks (she makes him want to light himself on fire, after all), but he overheard her rambling on about some project she was working on for fucking fun. About Elton fucking John. So yeah, he accidentally listened when she mentioned going to the library to look for books about him. And he accidentally went to the library after basketball practice instead of going to the abandoned shed at the edge of town to get stoned.

And he may have accidentally found a couple of books about Elton John. It's not like he's gonna check them out or anything—he joined "homo explosion" but it's not like he's playing for the other team now. But he may have written down some lame ass shit he saw online. Because I mean, his mom was looking shit up to make her feel better about herself.

It was a complete accident when he slipped the piece of paper into the book. And it was purely coincidental that he sat at a secluded table in view of that bookshelf and picked up a random book (he later realized it was some chick lit and tossed it across the table). He wasn't waiting for her or anything. The Puckerone does not wait on girls. Especially not Berry.

And he definitely didn't hide a smile behind that book when Rachel came into his line of sight, her Mary Janes clacking on the hard library floor. There was no smile on his face when he saw her march right over to the books he had just been looking at.

And he definitely didn't smile when he saw her open the exact book he'd slipped the note into.

"Dear whoever is reading this, you're beautiful and someone out there is crazy about you. So smile. Life is too short to be unhappy."

And no, he sure as hell didn't feel his heart skip a beat when her bright, beaming smile took over her face as she slipped the note into her purse before carrying the book to check out.

No way, Noah Puckerman definitely was not crazy about Rachel Berry.