A/N: Thanks so much for the reviews and also fave/follows on this new story! Didn't expect the awesome response for the first chapter!

So here is the next chapter, a little earlier than promised; but since it was written, thought might as well get it out on here!
We find out why Puck was so shocked to see Rachel, and the two of them then have a talk as to what has been happening in their lives since the last time they saw one another.

Hope you like it - and you know what do to at the end!
Love KJ xoxoxo

Chapter 2 –

Puck looked at Rachel, in complete and utter shock, his face still white from the fact that he actually thought for a moment that he was seeing a ghost.

"Rachel, what are you doing here?" asked Puck, recovering from the initial shock and posing the first question to the brunette sitting before him.

"I could ask you the same thing?" replied Rachel.

Puck gave a laugh and sat down at the table with her. "Well I asked mine first, and I really do think I am the one deserving the answer considering that you seem to be very much alive".

Rachel looked at him slightly confused. "Why would I not be very much alive?"

Puck looked at the girl, who for many years growing up had been his neighbour and despite the two of them running in very different social circles, he had always had a soft spot for her and was saddened when he had been told what had happened to her, the summer before the seventh grade started.

"That you're no longer living, as in you're dead" replied Puck.

Rachel looked at him, her eyes widening in shock.

"What, who said that. Who said I was dead?" she asked, in horror.

"Your dad's, they came back before the start of the seventh grade and said that you had been staying with an aunt out of town and had been in a car accident, and that you had died as a result of that" said Puck.

"What?" asked Rachel, on the verge of tears.

"They were sad, but to come to think of it, I didn't see either of them crying and I guess you being here is why" said Puck.

"They thought I was crazy. They had me committed here during that summer, hoping that they would stop my dreams of being a star and when the doctors told them there was nothing wrong with me, they; my fathers, told them they didn't want me anymore basically, and gave them a lot of money to keep me here locked up in a loony bin" said Rachel.

"You've been here this whole entire time?" asked Puck.

Rachel nodded sadly. "Yes and the whole world has apparently thought of me as being dead".

"So you've been in here the whole entire time, almost four years?" asked Puck.

"Yes" replied Rachel.

"Rachel, I'm so sorry. I should have realised something was really wrong when your fathers sold up the house and had a yard sale getting rid of all your stuff" said Puck.

"They moved?" asked Rachel.

"Yes, but I'm not sure to as where. My ma might know though" replied Puck.

Rachel nodded. "Guess they didn't want any reminders of the daughter who was such a disappointment to them".

"Well it's them who are the disappointment, I always thought your dads' were nice guys. Guess I was wrong about that" said Puck.

"You were" replied Rachel, with a nod.

Puck looked at Rachel, giving her a little smile. "I'm really glad you're okay Rach".

"Thanks" she replied.

"And for what it's worth, when your dads' had the yard sale, when they weren't looking I took a few of your Broadway posters" said Puck, with a laugh.

Rachel looked at him and laughed. "You took Broadway posters?"

"Hey, I can like that sort of stuff. I'll have you know I'm in the Glee club at McKinley, thank you very much" replied Puck.

"You're in the Glee club, wow" said Rachel.

Puck nodded. "Yeah, quite a few of us, who you wouldn't expect are. Finn, Quinn, Santana, Britts".

"No I wouldn't have expected that at all" said Rachel, remembering the popular group from her younger school days, and how they never seemed the type to like anything that she liked.
"So why are you here, what did Noah Puckerman do to end up in with the crazies?" asked Rachel, cracking a small smile.

"Actually I was meant to go to juvie, but it was full. So they decided to send me here, and hope that it would straighten me out, as the judge put it" said Puck.

"Juvie? What did you do?" asked Rachel.

"Tried to steal an ATM from a convenience store. But turned out there were undercover cops in there getting some stuff and they busted me" replied Puck.

"Noah, why would you do that, steal?" asked Rachel.

"Because princess, my life for the most part actually pretty much sucks" he replied.

Rachel looked at him. "Your life sucks. I'm the one who has been here for the last couple of years, with the rest of the world thinking I am dead".

"Yeah true. I however haven't had the most stellar moments either" said Puck.

"Did you do more than just steal an ATM?" asked Rachel.

Puck nodded. "I knocked up Quinn Fabray, when she was dating Finn Hudson. She told him initially that it was his kid, but he eventually found out it wasn't, especially considering Quinn and him never had sex and he believed that she got pregnant via him ejaculating into a hot tub".

"Oh" replied Rachel.

"So anyway, Quinn had the baby but decided that she didn't want to keep it, even though I said I would support her and all that. She gave it up for adoption without me having any say in the matter" said Puck.

"I'm sorry Noah, that's terrible" replied Rachel.

"Yeah, it is what it is. And now here I am locked up in the hopes of this teaching me a lesson and all that shit" said Puck.

Rachel looked at him and nodded. "How long are you here for?" she asked.

"Two months" replied Puck.

"Well at least you will get to leave after that. I'm stuck here. Because as it turns out the whole world thinks I am dead" replied Rachel.

"Hey no. You can get out of here Rachel, they can't keep you here" replied Puck.

"I have nowhere to go Noah, my dad's clearly don't want me anymore" said Rachel.

"I promise you Rachel, I will find a way to get you out of here" said Puck.

Rachel just looked at him and nodded and the two of them continued to talk and catch up with all that had been happening in the other's lives, although Rachel's was very much mediocre compared to that of Puck's.

End Note: So what exactly does Puck have in mind!? How is he going to get Rachel out of the pschyiatric hospital.
All this and more will be revealed in the next chapter!

Until then, be sure to check out some of my other stories on here!

Love KJ xxx