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AN: Ohmygosh you guys are amazing! I went to bed last night and woke up with 37 emails about this story! Awesome! I love that you guys like this story. I'm going to try to update everyday, but I can't make any promises that I'll make it and I can't make any promises that that chapters are always going to be long, but I hope you guys stick it out with me! I'm hoping that the POV for this story is going to be able to jump around, so some things might get repetitive and what not. But yeah. I'll stop talking now so that you can read :)
His eyes had found her picture on the wall of 'Future Stars' like they were magnets. Of course she would of come here. And of course it would look like she was one of their most celebrated alumni.
He shook his head at the irony. All he had wanted for this summer was a chance to get out of the hell that is Lima Ohio.
But no.
It looked like even here, there would be reminders of his past mistakes. He laughed a bit and shook his head again as the door to the cabin banged open and two guys about his age came strolling in.
"Hey you must be the Puckerman guy that my mom has been raving about for months. I'm Derek Fargo." spoke the blonde one. Puck stuck out his hand to receive the dude's hand shake. "And I'm Ayden Howard. Good to meet you, man." this came from the slightly taller guy with the wavy black hair.
Puck nodded, these two guys weren't really what he had been expecting to encounter here. He had totally been expecting to run into a couple replicas of the Jesse St. Douche guy from Vocal Adrenaline. But these guys seemed normal, they almost seemed like they would have fit right into McKinley's more popular crowd.
"Hey. Nice to meet you. I'm Noah Puckerman. Puck for short." Both boys grinned at the totally awesome nickname.
Derek walked over to a door located towards the back of the small office. "So my mom is out wandering or welcoming people or whatever, so she told me to come meet you so that I can give you your papers and make sure you get settled in and everything."
He unlocked the door and disappeared into what looked like another office for a second, returning with a set of keys and a pack of papers. "It looks like you're going to be in charge of a guitar session and you're going to get the co-teaching gig for the new acoustic session. Andddd it looks like you're going to be rooming with Ayden. Here, let's go to your guys' cabin and wait for my roommate to arrive, and we can give you the low down on the camp."
With one last look back at the wall of pictures, Puck set off after Derek and Ayden who were approaching a row of cabins in the middle of the camp.
Ayden unlocked one of the doors and then threw himself unceremoniously onto a bed while Derek lowered himself onto the floor, which left Puck to assume that the other bed in the cabin was his, so he threw his bags down and sat down.
He looked over at the two boys who seemed so relaxed here. He knew that Derek was the son of Ms. Adelaide, the director of the camp, but he didn't know too much more than that. And as for Ayden, well he knew nothing about him.
He sighed and leaned back onto the cabin wall, "So. Tell me about this camp."
Derek smiled from his position on the floor. "Well, my mom was working on Broadway when she found out she was pregnant with me. She knew she didn't want to raise me in New York, so she uprooted Dad, who was a director, and moved to to the suburbs near Chicago. Then about a year later came the twins, my sisters Lilly and Clari...you'll meet them later. My dad apparently decided that having three babies in the house at one time was too much, so he packed up and left us. Mom made sure that she took him for everything he had in the divorce settlement, including the land we'ren now. It was awesome. And then when I was 5 and the girls were 4 she took that money and started renovating this place, we've been here ever since."
Puck was a little overwhelmed. He wasn't really used to people disclosing that much personal information after having just met them.
It reminded him of Rachel.
Puck then looked over at Ayden who had been texting non-stop throughout Derek's little speech.
Sensing the silence he looked up and said, "Uhhh...I've been coming here for drums since I was 7. My sister, Teasley too, she comes for dance. You'll meet her at the bonfire with the other girls." Puck nodded. It sounded like pretty much everybody who was working here had known each other forever. "So lemme get this straight, you guys have been coming here since you were little and you're all related?" Derek scoffed, "Well. Yeah. You're the only new person, but naw man, we're not all related, just me and the twins and Ayden and Teasley. Rae and Cam aren't related to anybody."
Ayden perked up at the mention of the last two names. "Wait. Rae's back this year?" Derek smiled at his friends facial expression, it looked as if Ayden just found out that Christmas was coming early this year.
Puck was confused. "Who's Rae?"
Derek was still smiling over Ayden's reaction as he answered Puck, "She's this girl we've known forever. Really cool. Smokin' hot. Got the voice of an angel. Ayden's had a thing for her since we were 8. Too bad Cam called dibs and Teasley's her best friend." Ayden scowled at that and started to argue over the legitimacy of a dibs being called on a girl at the age of 9, but Puck wasn't really listening anymore.
No. There was no way that this Rae girl could be Rachel Berry. Rachel Berry hated nicknames, she hated being called anything other than strictly Rachel.
And Rachel wasn't smokin'.
Sure, she was pretty and had awesome legs, but no one wearing animal sweaters could ever really be defined as smokin' hot.
Puck's mental tirade came to an abrupt halt as a muscular black guy walked into the cabin. "Cam, dude. Please tell Ayden here that he should still honor the dibs you called on Rae, otherwise you'll end up breaking him in half." Derek gestured to Ayden's spot on the bed.
Cam laughed at that and then glanced over at Puck, "Hey man, I'm Cam."
Puck shook his hand, "Puck, nice to meet you."
Cam settled himself onto the floor almost exactly as Derek had done. "So, Rae's finally back this year I take it?" Both Ayden and Derek nodded. "Anybody seen her fine piece of ass yet?" Derek shook his head while Ayden finally put his cell phone down.
"No. But she's apparently rooming with Teasley and they're quote unquote 'catching up'. So Tease threatened to string us up if we interrupted 'girl time'." Cam and Derek laughed at that, which made Puck feel like he was even more out of the loop.
"I have no idea what's going on" he admitted. Cam, Ayden, and Derek all laughed this time.
"Well Tease and I got moved to Toronto because of family stuff, so Tease hasn't seen Rae in like...four years" explained Ayden, and Derek continued with, "And the part about Teasley trying to be intimidating is funny because the girl probably only weighs 98 pounds." Cam was still smiling as he said, "You'll see when you meet them...speaking of which, we'd better head down to the lake. It's almost time for the bonfire."
With that, the four boys left the cabin and started for the stage down by the lake. They were the first to get there, but slowly the seats began to fill with campers. Soon Ms. Adelaide showed up with two girls in tow.
Puck, being Puck couldn't help but notice that both girls were pretty, what with their long red hair, their smooth porcelain skin, and their very short shorts and tight camp t-shirts. And even better, they were twins.
Derek noticed the look that Puck was sending his sisters, and elbowed him in the stomach, "Dude! Those are my little sisters!"
Puck couldn't help the rueful grin that spread across his face at that, and Derek just shoved him lightly before dragging him over to where his mother was standing giving instructions to her daughters. "Now, I want to make sure that last years marshmallow incident does not happen again. You hear?" Both twins crossed their arms and rolled their eyes at this. "Yes mom. We got it."
The twin closest to them poked Ms. Adelaide and nodded her head in the direction that Puck and Derek were approaching from, she turned and smiled, "Well Noah darling! I do hope that you found that everything is in order?"
Puck couldn't help but smile affectionately down at the small woman before answering "Yeah Ms. Adelaide, everything is good to go." Adelaide smiled back and patted his cheek. "Glad to hear it hun. Have you met my daughters yet?" she said while gesturing to the twins standing next to her.
"Well no m'am, I have not. Hello ladies, Noah Puckerman, Puck for short."
Both girls blushed as each took his hand in hers.
"Hi, I'm Lilly." Said the one with the blue eyes. "And I'm Clari, nice to meet you." This from the twin with the brown eyes.
Derek cleared his throat and rolled his eyes at his sisters fawning over Puck.
Ms. Adelaide just simply laughed and turned toward Cam and Ayden who had come over to stand beside Derek. "Hello boys! It's lovely to see you again! Has anyone seen either Rae or Teasley?" Everyone shook their heads no. "Oh well, I guess they're just running a few seconds behind schedule. We might as well go ahead and start without them." With that the six teens stood behind Ms. Adelaide as she turned to address the waiting campers.
Puck tuned out of what Ms. Adelaide was saying as she started to give her welcome speech, he never really was one for those kinds of things.
A flicker of movement caught his eye from the back of the crowd. He realized the movement was caused by two girls, one with a wild mass of black curls and the other with her brown hair pulled up into a messy bun. Both were running towards the stage, and both were wearing what seemed to be the customary attire amongst the female counselors.
The girls finally made it up onto the stage, only to receive a blistering glare from Adelaide.
But Puck didn't notice that, he was focusing entirely on the smaller girl with the brown hair.
Because he knew those legs that were dripping out of those shorts that he was pretty sure were the shortest he had ever seen.
He knew that giggle that sounded like wind chimes.
He knew those chocolate brown eyes that were currently staring back at him in confusion.
And he most definitely knew that small breathy whisper of "Noah?"
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