In which all isn't exaclty fair in love, war, and of course, glee.

NOAH: Pick u up in 10

Rachel ran up to her room to change.

...

Rachel looked at her phone, then at the clock. 11:30. She had five minutes left to do something with her hair. She had already changed from sweats and her leotard from class into a black skirt and leggings with a well-fitted red shirt. Her hair was a mess from being left in a bun all night. She messed with it for a couple of minutes before realizing she was fussing over hanging out with Noah Puckerman.

Shit.

She refused to become one of those girls. It was ridiculous. She left her hair down, but smoothed it as much as she could. She grabbed her purse and started to walk out the door before looking at the clock again. Crap. Her dads would never let her out this late on a school night. Her phone chimed she had a text.

NOAH: I'm outside. U ready?

She paced for a second before deciding to do something stupid.

Then she was tossing her purse out the window to Puck and climbing down the trellis.

...

Walking around downtown with no real destination, Puck spoke.

"That was pretty bad-ass of you, Berry. Sneaking out like that."

"I didn't realize what time it was when I agreed to come out with you tonight. My dads would have freaked."

"Then why didn't you just cancel? I would've understood."

Rachel looked up at him. "I don't really know why. I just felt like it." They stopped walking for a second and just looked at each other. Then Rachel looked away and started walking again. "Anyway, I was pretty bored at the house."

Puck laughed and Rachel shook her head at him. "So what do you want to do? There are a couple of places to eat still open, or we could keep wandering around. But it's getting a little cold and I don't think you have a jacket in that tiny purse of yours."

Rachel shivered a bit. "It is a little cold. I guess we could go somewhere. What's open?"

Puck looked around and noticed a pizza place that was still open. "Up for pizza? My treat."

...

The waitress walked them over to a booth and asked them what drinks they'd like, then walked away.

"Noah, why did you want to hang out with me tonight?"

"I don't know. We never hang out, really, I guess."

"You never hang out with a girl without an ulterior motive, and we both know that."

"Then why did you agree to come with me?"

There was a moment of silence, where Rachel just stared at the murals on the walls and Puck stared at Rachel.

"Rachel?"

...

MESSAGES

ME: Hey babe

BRITT: Hey!

ME: What's up?

BRITT: Not much, chewing bubblegum and watching the gay sharks on TV

ME: So we still on for Saturday night?

BRITT: Yeah! What are we doing?

ME: I figured we go to the movies?

BRITT: Awesome! We can see that new dance movie. And we can sit in the back and ignore the previews ;)

ME: Silly, I have to sit in the wheelchair section.

BRITT: Oh, right. Those are really good seats!

ME: Haha. So dance movie Saturday night?

BRITT: Yep!

ME: Kay, c u tomorrow. Love you!

BRITT: Kay, Love you 2!

Artie put down his phone and took off his glasses to go back to sleep.

His phone beeped with a new message.

T: Do you hate me?

ME: No, why?

T: We don't talk anymore.

ME: You have Abs Boy to talk to now. What do you need me for?

T: We were friends before, Artie. Can't we be friends again?

ME: You broke my heart, T. I don't know.

T: She will too.

Artie stared down at the message. He couldn't think of anything to say.

Contact 'T' Deleted/Blocked. Undo(?)

He threw his phone down and closed his eyes.