AN: So oh my goodness I am super, super sorry about how long it has taken to get this second chapter up; I totally lost almost all the creativity that I had in my brain. I have decided to change a few things and figured it would be easier to explain them in this note. So here they are: Puck and Quinn did sleep together, but she never got pregnant. Shelby never adopted a baby, she just left. Her feelings are still hot & cold about her & Rachel's mother/daughter relationship, which Rachel does not appreciate. Also I think I'm going to make it so Shelby's glee club isn't all girls. Anyway, here it is. Hope you like it. Let me know what you think. Oh & thanks for the alerts and comments. And sorry for any mistakes.

Disclaimer: Nope still don't own Glee. Nor do I own any of the songs mentioned. Sadly.

Chapter 2-Did You Feel It Too

~~~~McKinley High, Tuesday~~~~

Kurt knew Rachel and Puck were nearby before he actually saw them. He could hear the diva scolding the school badass, something about paying more attention in class. A few moments later, Puck walked in with his arm around Rachel, rolling his eyes at whatever she was reprimanding him for. Rachel said hello to Blaine and Kurt as she took her seat next to the latter and Puck muttered his greeting as he sat next to her. As soon as Puck was distracted and in a conversation with Mike, Kurt turned to Rachel, "so are ready for this?"

"I believe so, I just hope no one protests," she looked a tad worried.

"Don't worry; I don't think anyone will especially since you're friends with San and since Mercedes joined the Troubletones. Plus he isn't going to say no," Kurt reassured her.

"You're right. I'm just being silly." Rachel confirmed as Santana and Sam walked in and took their seats.

"So, Rae, you gonna spill the details yet or am I gonna have to force you?" Santana threatened. Puck's attention was now on Rachel again, eager to know who her new lead was.

"You will find out with everyone else when Mr. Schuester gets here," only cringing a little bit at the thought of what Santana would do to get her to talk.

"Well then he needs to hurry up," this time it was Sam that spoke up. Blaine and Puck nodded in agreement.

After a while, Kurt and Rachel could barely hold in their laughter at their friends. All four of them were practically bouncing in their seats in anticipation for the teacher to arrive. They all wanted to know which of the boys would be taking Finn's place and how the "Golden Boy" was going to take the news. As the curly-haired teacher walked in they breathed out in relief, which made the carefully contained laughter of the two divas escape. Mr. Schue paused for a moment to look at them, but brushed off their random laughing spell, "so class I have something I want to discuss with you." That's when Rachel's hand shot up and Will figured, that since she was going to be pretty angry in a little bit, he would let her go first, "Yes, Rachel."

"Mr. Schue, before you continue with your news, I would like to say something," Will nodded at her so she would continue. "Well…," she hesitated before continuing, "I believe that you should switch Finn with someone else as my male lead. I can no longer sing duets with Finn; it would just be awkward to sing them with someone else's boyfriend and such a recent ex." Quinn mouthed a thank you and Rachel nodded back. Everyone else in the room was quiet; most of them seemed to be in shock. Kurt was just sitting in his seat smiling, Sam, Blaine, Puck, and Santana were anxious to her the name of the new male lead, and Finn's face was slowly turning red with anger. When no one said anything Rachel continued, "Also our duets obviously don't work very well. And while Finn is talented, there are other boys in class that are just as talented. I have one in particular in mind, but if you won't pair me with someone new then I believe you should give the leads to Sam and Santana." The couple's eyes widened comically. Everyone but Kurt was shocked at the fact that she was willing to give up her lead.

"Well, Rachel, my news was going to be that I was going to switch the male lead. Before I tell you who I had in mind, tell me who you were thinking." Mr. Schue said.

"WHAT? Mr. Schue I'm the male lead! I'm supposed to sing with Rachel," Finn yelled. At the last comment, Quinn hit his shoulder and silenced him with an icy stare.

A nervous smile appeared on Rachel's face, "Oh, well, I was thinking Noah." As she said his name she looked at him. Puck was too shocked that she chose him that he couldn't speak. His silence unnerved Rachel, "but if he doesn't want to I'm sure Blaine would be good too."

That snapped Puck out of his trance and he quickly answered, "I'll do it." The fact that he practically shouted it out made Santana chuckle, which Puck sent her a glare for. Puck really wanted to take the lead; not just for Rachel, but because he was tired of coming in second place to Finn Hudson. He looked to Mr. Schue hoping this would be ok.

The whole class was looking to the teacher to see who his choice was. "Puck was going to be my first choice." Kurt started clapping and Rachel gave a huge smile to Mr. Schue and Puck. "However, I do need you guys to prepare a duet to see if this will work out. As for the rest of you, I need you to come out with a solo number for us to sing at sectionals, and I want some ideas for a group number. Now I have a song I want to try out."

The rest of glee club was uneventful, besides the occasional glare from Finn directed towards Rachel and Puck. After Mr. Schue dismissed them, Rachel grabbed her bag and walked over to Puck, who was putting his guitar away, "Noah?"

He turned around to face her quick before he went back to latching the guitar case, "Yeah? What's up?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to come over later after my dance class gets finished to brainstorm some song ideas for our duet."

"That sounds good what time do you want me there?"

"How about six? That should give me enough time to get home from dance, shower…" Puck interrupted her rambling.

"I'll be there at six. You want me to pick up some take out on the way?" he asked.

"Nope, you know its pizza night. Are you done?" he nodded. "Walk me to my car?"

Puck laughed, picked up his guitar, wrapped his arm around her shoulder, and walked her out the door, "of course, how could I forget the sacred pizza night. Let's go."

Neither of them noticed a very angry looking Finn standing outside the door.

~~~~Tuesday night~~~~

~~~Shelby Corcoran's apartment, Shelby's POV~~~

I sat down on my couch and turned the TV on. I looked around the apartment and thought about why I was here. The move back to Lima, Ohio was on a whim. One night I had been lying in bed, unable to sleep, when the thought randomly popped out of nowhere. It had been like some force had been drawing me back. So when, seemingly by fate, I received a call from a parent asking me to come to Lima to start a second glee club for their daughter at McKinley I packed as fast as I could and left. Unfortunately, I didn't think about how this would affect Rachel until it was too late. Our second reunion had not gone very smoothly. It probably hadn't been my smartest idea to ask Rachel to join my new glee club the first time I saw her since being back.

Suddenly, the lights and TV screen flickered, which brought me out of my thoughts, before going off completely. I listened for thunder, rain, or anything else related to a storm, but there was nothing to be heard. I wondered if it could possibly be that someone had a utility pole, so I reached for my cell phone so I could call the electricity company. When I went to make the call, the phone was dead, which was strange considering I had just charged it that morning.

I shivered as it seemed like the temperature dropped several degrees. I jumped when someone whispered my name and something went crashing to the floor from what sounded like the kitchen, "Who's there?" I reached for the flashlight in the side table drawer and slowly made my way to the kitchen. I shined the light around the room and there was no one in the room. But as the hairs that were rising on the back of my neck and on my arms said otherwise. I turned around and tried to scream; however, no sound would come out.

The light had landed on a girl with the palest skin I had ever seen with platinum blonde hair that had red streaks in it. The thing that scared me the most about the girl was her completely black eyes. I opened my mouth to scream again, but the girl lifted her finger her lips, "Shhh…" The girl let out a humorless laugh as she turned transparent. She started coming closer to me until she was right in front of me. Everything went dark, and the last thing I remember was the icy cold feeling that surrounded me.

~~~The Hudson-Hummel home, Finn's room~~~

Finn paced his floor as he thought about his day; he lost his spot as male lead and he's pretty sure Rachel, both to Puck. Of all the people, it had to be the guy who slept with his first girlfriend, his ex-best friend. As if his popularity wasn't suffering enough, now he wasn't even leading the glee club. There was no way he was going to be under Puck on the high school food chain. Finn wanted to get back at him, at all of the gleeks. That's when he decided he was going to quit New Directions, leaving them a person short; better yet, he was going to join Shelby's glee club.

~~~Mr. Schuester's apartment~~~

Will felt a shiver run up his spine and he got this nagging feeling. He went out to the dining room looking for Emma, that's when she came running out of the bathroom, "Did you feel it too?"

"Yeah, something bad has happened." Will explained.

"Yes, but what exactly?" Emma questioned.

"No clue. All I know is that they are here a lot sooner than I expected." He told her gravely.

~~~The Berry Household~~~

Puck pulled up and checked the clock, 5:50. He came early knowing how Rachel hated when he was late. Puck grabbed his guitar and headed toward the front door. He knocked a few times, but there was no answer. He tried again and listened to hear if there was any noise coming from inside. That's when he heard what sounded like someone running down the stairs and the lock being turned. The door opened to reveal a recently showered Rachel Berry in a pair of yoga pants and a tank top, her wet hair in a braid, and without any make-up. "Noah, you're early. I'm so proud of you," Rachel joked.

For a moment, Puck couldn't respond, due to the fact he was still taking in Rachel's appearance; she looked beautiful, without even trying. He shook himself out of his thoughts, "Yeah, well, I had nothing else to do," Rachel gave him a skeptical look and he sighed, "and I know how you hate it when I'm late." She gave him a mega-watt smile and led him into the house. They went up to her room and attempted to come up with a song. Over an hour later, they were still couldn't agree on a song.

"Noah, why can't we sing As Long As You're Mine?" Rachel whined.

"B, I am not doing show tunes. I'm sorry, but I won't do it. Why can't we do Control Myself?"

"We can't because I refuse to sing a song about wanting to "jump on ya"."

"How about The Last Night by Skillet?" he asked.

"I would have hardly any lines." She shook her head, "we have to find a song that shows how well we can blend together."

"Well, that's kinda hard when we can't even agree on a song. I mean maybe we are just too different. Maybe you should have chosen someone else. I'm not meant to be lead; I'm just the guy in the background, a Lima Loser," Puck let out his frustrations and self-doubt, "Really, Rach, why did you pick me? I'm not as good as Blaine or even Artie."

Rachel's eyes soften as she looked into his eyes and saw the sadness in them, "Noah, is that really what you think? That you're a Lima Loser?" he looked down. "That is quite possible one of the most inaccurate statements I have ever heard in my life," she said quite loudly causing Puck's eyes to shoot back up to her face. "Do you want to know why I chose you? It's because we may be different, but we balance each other out. You are one of the most talented people I have ever known. You have so much potential. And I know you are going to use that potential to get out of Lima. You are so much better than here and maybe before you weren't, but that doesn't matter because you have changed so much for the better. You aren't that boy that slushed people and threw kids in dumpsters anymore, you are a man that helps others and owns up to his mistakes and you've worked so hard this year so that you could get into college. I believe in you, just like you believe in me. You know me and understand me better than anybody else, even better than Kurt, and you will always be one of my closest friends no matter what."

Rachel was slightly out of breath by the time she was finished with her speech. Puck just stared at her and it was making Rachel kind of nervous. They sat there in silence, just looking at each other, when they both slowly started moving closer to each other. Both of them were so deep in thought that neither had heard the front door open, nor had they heard the footsteps coming up the stairs. So when the door opened suddenly, they jumped back a little bit. "Rachel, Noah, they pizza is down stairs you better get some before Leroy eats it all." Rachel's daddy, Hiram told them.

The three laughed when a voice came from downstairs, "I heard that."

Dinner was fun, except for the scarce awkward moments provided by the Berry men. Like the occasional stab at Finn; it was no secret that they didn't like Finn. Almost like it was no secret that despite his questionable past, they loved Puck. They believed in him almost as much as Rachel did. Puck had never really got along with fathers, not that he had met that many of them, but it was completely different with her dads. It might have had something to do with the fact that Puck had known them for most of his life. When Rachel and Hiram had finished their vegan pizza, and Puck and Leroy finished their meat lovers, Puck figured he should be headed home. When he announced this her dad's bid him goodnight and a safe drive home, and Rachel offered to walk with him to his truck. They started the walk down the driveway in silence and Puck couldn't help but think about all the things she had said up in her room. When they reached the truck, he turned to her and pulled Rachel into a hug. She was immobilized from surprise for a split second before she hugged him back. "Thanks…for earlier," he whispered.

"Anytime," she smiled up at him, then got on her tiptoes and kissed his cheek, "Goodnight Noah and be careful on your way home." Puck got into the truck when she started to walk back to the house. He touched the spot where her lips had been and smiled the whole drive home.

When Rachel got back into the house she told her dads she was heading to her room and told them goodnight. She grabbed her laptop off her desk and lay down on her bed. She was hoping to talk to Santana and Kurt so she got on her IM. Lucky for her both were logged in; she clicked on their names to start a private conversation between the three.

~~IM~~

BroadwayStar: hey guys

LatinaHBIC: hola chica

KURTtheUNICORN: hey diva, what's up

BroadwayStar: Nothing much, Noah just left

KURTtheUNICORN: ooooooh ;)

BroadwayStar: Kurt, nothing happened

LatinaHBIC: sure berry u may be a damn good actress but ur a terrible liar

BroadwayStar: I'm serious; I mean we did have a talk about why he's not a Lima Loser

KURTtheUNICORN: and….

BroadwayStar: ok, well we did almost kiss…I think

KURTtheUNICORN: well why didn't you

BroadwayStar: my daddy came to tell us the pizza was downstairs

LatinaHBIC: cock-blocked by Daddy Berry, that sucks…pun intended

BroadwayStar: Santana…

LatinaHBIC: I'm sorry I couldn't resist

KURTtheUNICORN: so then what

BroadwayStar: we ate pizza with my dads and then he left and I kissed him on the cheek after he hugged me

KURTtheUNICORN: awwww :)

LatinaHBIC: what he said…so did u end up pickin a song

BroadwayStar: no

KURTtheUNICORN: oh well at least now you have a reason to spend more time with him

BroadwayStar: I suppose you're right…well I'm going to go but I'll see you tomorrow goodnight Kurt, Santana

KURTtheUNICORN: goodnight sweetie

LatinaHBIC: night rae

BroadwayStar is offline

LatinaHBIC: they r takin forever…time to speed things up

KURTtheUNICORN: I agree, they had a perfectly good opportunity tonight…you have a bet on this don't you

LatinaHBIC: yes and I won't be happy if I have to spoon feed lord tubbington for brit

KURTtheUNICORN: well then let operation puckleberry 2.0 begin

LatinaHBIC: I'll lock them in a closet and won't let them out til they suck face if I have to

KURTtheUNICORN: shall we assemble the others

LatinaHBIC: yeah I'll send out a text for all the gleeks except Rae, Puckerman, Grimace, & Tubbers

KURTtheUNICORN: ok see you later

LatinaHBIC: cya

KURTtheUNICORN is offline

LatinaHBIC is offline

~~Rachel's room~~

After she logged off, Rachel tried to look for songs again with no luck. Finally, she gave up for the night and set her laptop back on her desk. When she lay back down she wrapped her comforter around her and thought about her time with Noah, slowly drifting off to sleep as she did.