Disclaimer: Glee and its characters do not belong to me.
Chapter 2
Puck gets drunk under the bleachers that night, his mom's current skum of the week's favorite bottle of whiskey in his hands. He's almost finished the bottle when his phone rings and it's Quinn Fabray. He slurs a greeting and can almost hear her sneer as she cries, "Are you drunk?! That is not the way to fix this. Come over, now, and be sober enough to plot."
He snorts, like that's gonna happen, and she sighs and says, "Fine. Well, at least bring me something to drink." She hangs up before he can answer.
Feeling curious—does she actually have a plan that will get him his best friend back?—he starts walking in the direction of her house. He passes a Shop-and-Go on the way and stops in to buy some alcohol. He doesn't know what Quinn likes but he figures wine will do, and he's about to pick out bottle that he's seen Mrs. Hudson have before when he remembers that Quinn picked his best friend over him and that she didn't even say please.
He turns abruptly to the cheap section and grabs the first thing he sees.
When he gets there she orders him into the family room—"My parents are supervising an overnight retreat at Church, bring the wine in."—and he figures out pretty quickly that Quinn has no plan, she just wants someone to bitch too. She starts to drown her sorrows in the wine and the more she drinks, the more she cries, so Puck feels the need to get even drunker to avoid dealing with her.
When she starts wailing about how that Rachel girl isn't even that skinny and calling herself fat he stops her. "Jesus, Quinn, you're not fat, you're fucking hot and everyone knows it. Stop whining."
She looks up at him, and her lashes are all wet and her eyes are big and she says, "Really?" and climbs on top of him and starts kissing him. He thinks that this is wrong and he shouldn't be kissing his best friend's girl, but it feels so good to get the prize for once and he remembers Finn fake banging Rachel fucking Berry on stage in front of the whole school and he pulls Quinn in closer and deepens the kiss.
The next morning when he wakes up Quinn is dressed and serious. "We're not talking about this. I'm joining Glee and getting my boyfriend back from that skank. You need to leave."
Puck knew it was too good to last—anyone can see Finn's a much better catch then him—and quickly gathers his clothes.
True to her word, Quinn really does join Glee, and she brings Santana and Brittany along, too. Puck wonders if she's stupid for not figuring out that it's too late or if she smart for not giving up as easily as him. He figures he'll find out.
He sees Finn and Quinn together more now, and instead of fighting about Glee they seem really happy. Rachel's still around, but Finn doesn't spend that much time with her and Puck's happy for Quinn, he is, but Finn is still barely giving him the time of day.
He hears from Santana that the girls are doing their best to sabotage Glee, and where he'd normally be protecting Finn, this time he's rooting for the saboteurs.
Quinn and the Cheerios joining Glee changes things, though. If Finn, Quinn, Santana and Brittany are doing it, it's suddenly not such a bad thing. It's not like Puck wants to join, he's just always loved singing, and if they can do it, he can too, and he won't seem different.
He feels bad about what happened with Quinn but knows he can't tell anyone, so he starts being as much of an asshole as possible to Santana until she breaks up with him. He knows it's the right thing to do and doesn't even correct her assumptions about his financial planning skills. He's glad to be free of the guilt. He never thought of himself as a cheater, but he guesses he is now.
Puck asks Coach T if he can join his and Mr. Schue's acapella group. It isn't just about the cougars (although he's definitely been appreciating their attention since his break up)—he wants to sing. He's kind of embarrassed, having to sell himself to Coach; he's always keep this part of himself a secret and now he has to fake confidence in order to get a chance. He thinks he does ok, though, he manages to say his carefully prepared lines—"I play guitar and actually I'm a really good singer"—in a confident tone and Coach says yes... and some confusing and awkward rant about his girlfriend getting hot fo singers. Weird.
Then he finds out Finn is joining, too, and he can barely contain his excitement Maybe, just maybe, now that they'll have Acafellas to bond over, he'll have his best friend back.
He didn't count on the fact that he was still kind of angry about Berry and Glee, and guilty about Quinn. He gets frustrated when Finn knocks into him during dance rehearsal—why can't he just stay in his own place?!—and picks a fight. Still, Mr. Schue isn't an awful coach, and by the end of practice not only are they good at the routine, he's pretty sure their friendship is back in place.
The performance is a rush. He feels free to give it his all; he isn't expecting any of his peers to be there, only an auditorium full of parents. If there's one good thing about Lima, it's the sheer volume of hot, unmarried moms looking for some young, sexy guys to bang to make themselves feel younger. If he has to wear mascara (and really, is that necessary?) and put his singing and dancing skills on display to have guilt-free sex with not-his best friend's girl, he considers it well worth it. The singing and dancing is kinda fun, and the mascara washes off. He hopes.
During his solo he scans the crowd for interested women, and he picks out a few he knows from pool cleaning, and a few he doesn't. He's pretty sure the blond in blue is married and the mother or one of his teammates, though, so he crosses her off his mental list. He's only into single chicks from now on.
He spots Coach S and thinks it'll been fun to mess with her—she looks uncomfortably intrigued and he's not sure whether to laugh or be a little creeped out. His gaze lands on a redhead who looks horrified and thinks it's too bad—she's kind of cute.
By the time he's leaving the school he has an appointment with a brunette from the sixth row for tonight, with perky blond from the back right tomorrow after school, and with a beautiful Latin woman that weekend. His plan is to go home, change out of the outfit and wash the makeup and sweat off before his rendezvous with "Call me Angie" at nine.
As he's leaving he spots the horrified-yet-adorable redhead talking to Coach T. He double takes—is she the mysterious girlfriend who Coach had been talking about? Coach said that Acafellas got her hot, but her reaction to his performance hadn't seemed positive. Not that it matters. He's not a one-girl man anymore, but he has decided not to help people cheat. He just doesn't have it in him.
His thoughts turn back to Quinn. Now that he and Finn are okay again, Finn can never find out. It would ruin everything and he has worked too hard to get his life put together perfectly. He puts the redhead out of his head and hurries home. No reason to keep Angie waiting.
AN: And if you can't guess, next time, Quinn's preggers!
Thank for reading! The next part is mostly written, but not totally, so I'm still open to incorperating feedback if you have any!