Rachel wasn't sure why she was here but it seemed like the right thing to do as she pulled up outside Puck's house the next morning. She slowly got out of her car which had father had new tyres put on just that morning and walked up to the door she hesitated before knocking.
"Yes? Can I help you?" A woman she knew to be Puck's mother answered the door.
"My name is Rachel Berry; I go to school with Noah. Is he home?"
"Rachel Berry? I know your fathers from Temple. Please come in."
"Thank you but I'd rather wait out here." Rachel knew entering Puck's house was crossing a boundary.
"I'll go and get him."
Puck was sat on his bedroom floor playing Halo when his mother knocked on the door.
"There is a girl here to see you." She announced.
"Is she hot?" Puck asked.
"She's Jewish." His mother smiled.
"What's Rachel doing here?" While he knew a few other Jewish girls none of them would come to his house he got to his feet.
"Why don't you go and find out? She wanted to wait outside."
"Berry?" Puck walked outside to find Rachel staring out into the distance.
"Don't you find that everything looks so fresh after a rainstorm?" She pondered outloud.
"You came over to discuss the weather?" Puck was confused.
"No. I just wanted to thank you for giving me a ride home last night again."
"It's cool." He shrugged.
"I also wanted to tell you I'm not sorry."
"Not sorry?" He was confused.
"Last night when I kissed you I apologised, I just wanted you to know I am not sorry I did." She paused. "That was all. I'll see you at school on Monday."
Rachel was half way back to her car when Puck caught her and spun her around.
"You came to unapologise?" He was a little surprised. Rachel nodded. "Well I'm not apologising for this." He tugged her against him and kissed her, Rachel had to wrap her arms around his neck to keep her balance as his hands settle on her waist.
It took a few minutes for Puck's brain to kick back in and for him to realise they were stood outside his house in which his Jewish mother who wanted him to marry a nice Jewish girl and give her nice Jewish grandchildren who she could spoil was probably watching out the window.
Rachel struggled to catch her breath when he pulled back. She tried to speak but words wouldn't come out.
"Have you ever played Halo?" Puck inquired.
"Er… no." Rachel replied to his random question.
"It's about time you did. Come on." He grabbed her hand and led her back up the path to the house and inside. "Mom, we're going to play Halo."
"Keep your door open." She called back.
Rachel had her tongue sticking out as she concentrated as she kept firing her gun, Puck kept smirking as he glanced at her, they had been playing for a few hours.
"Hey Puckerman did you forget…" Mike walked into Puck's room stopping when he saw Rachel. "Hey Rachel."
"Hold on." She hit a few more buttons. "Ah-hah!" She threw her hands up in victory. "Hello Mike. I should be going, thank you for teaching me how play Halo." She got to her feet. "I'll see you both at school on Monday. I'll see myself out."
"You were playing Halo?" Mike looked at Puck when Rachel had gone.
"She'd never played it before." Puck shrugged.
"You have a hot but slightly crazy girl in your room and you were only playing Halo?" Mike was a little confused.
"You think Rachel is hot?"
"She dressed like a Catholic school girl half the time." Mike shrugged. "Don't tell Tina I said that. But you didn't answer my question."
"She came to unapologise."
"Unapologise? Is that a word?"
"It's a Carrie Underwood song."
"Ok. We have practice in an hour." Mike came back to the reason he was a Puck's house.
"Practice on a Saturday afternoon is a stupid idea." Puck switched off the games system and grabbed his kit bag.
"It wasn't my idea." Mike reminded. The coach had ordered an extra practice after they had lost a game earlier in the week.
TBC