A/N I just wanted to thank everyone who added this story to their alerts and favourites, it rocked having all those emails. And a really special huge amazing THANKYOU! To everyone who reviewed, I replied to them all because you guys deserve it. Now on with the story, seeing as so many of you want it :D hope it keeps up to the standard
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my laptop :D and the 2 new character, hehehe that was a bit of a hint :P
Chapter Two- Old Friends
Rachel hummed to herself as she walked down the hallway, again dressed in pants like the day before she giggled to herself as she saw the reactions of the guys around her, she continued walking to her locker, smiling when she saw Brit and Santana waiting for her, and in their typical every day attire of Cheerio's uniform.
"Hey girl!" Brit yelled as she saw Rachel, smiling Rachel waved as she approached her locker, "Yay! You kept the jeans on" Brit squealed noticing that Rachel wasn't wearing her usual granny jumper and skirt combo with knee socks.
"Well I'll admit, it's nice not to have to worry about bending over and Jacob being behind me" Rachel grudgingly admitted to her new friend, hearing her phone ring out with DMX Rachel frantically dug out her phone, that ringtone only being for one special person.
"Bloody hell Berry, DMX?" Puck asked and smirked at the same time as he walked up to the three of them. Ignoring him Rachel finally found her Sidekick, grinning at the caller id
"Hi!"She practically yelled down the phone, turning from Puck absently, listening for a second, she laughed at the person on the phone,
"Oh yeah like I believe that!" she laughed "you are not able to survive without that California sun, you admitted that when I moved" she continued to listen to her phone a beaming smile across her face. Not noticing the tall handsome black seventeen year old coming up behind her, his hand holding his phone to his ear,
"Trust me I'm in your cow town" he said into the phone, gasping Rachel turned around
"Oh my god!" she screamed, before to the shock of the three people with her, jumping into his arms, wrapping her legs around his waist as he pulled her up high and into his arms, burying his head into her hair. "What are you doing here?" she demanded
"You don't listen do you Sweets?, I told you we moved here" he told her pulling back a little, noticing the crowd that had collected around them as well as the three incredulous looks on the faces of the people she had been standing with. "Um B why is everyone staring at us?" he asked confused. Turning around in his arms, she saw the sea of faces, but who's stood out the most was Puck's, his anger clearly evident in the line of his jaw as well as his clenched fists.
"Oh whoops" she giggled sliding out of his arms and putting her feet back on the floor, letting go of her when her feet hit the ground her turned to the three people who had been standing with Rachel,
"Um hi" he said brightly "sorry bout that we aint seen each other in awhile, I'm Eli" he introduced himself sticking his hand out to Puck first, clearly seeing the anger radiating off him, slowly Puck gripped his hand and shook it once, dropping it quickly.
"Puck" he said shortly, turning to glare at the people still staring as it was his only legitimate reason to be in a bad mood. Ignoring Santana and Brittany's introductions, knowing that they would both be drooling over the new boy, despite their lesbian relationship having come to light just before sectionals.
Shucking his arm around Rachel's shoulder he explained who he was, "I'm Rachel's best friend we grew up together in California before she moved here, I just found out my dad got a new job as principal of Central high, and rather than commit social suicide and go to the school where my dad is principal me and my sister decided to come here, so to be with our Sweets" he smiled down at the girl next to him.
"Social suicide is exactly what you will get her if you hang around with that diva!" said a scathing voice behind them, pulling back from her best friend, they turned to see Kurt and Mercedes glaring at Rachel,
"Aww come on guys, don't be like that" begged Brit "Rachel just did what she thought was right" not replying to the blonde cheerleader they continued to glare at Rachel, who shrank back from the two of them into the centre of the group.
"Hummel, Back off" ordered Puck hating seeing that look of shame on Rachel's face as well as the look of defeat that was so unlike her, reaching for Rachel's hand he held it tight forcing her to look at him, "come on Rachel your just better than them and they hate you for it" he reassured her, not noticing Santana and Brit looking at him in shock as he called Rachel by her first name for once.
Noticing that Rachael didn't look reassured at all, Santana turned on the two Gleek's
"I would listen to him if I was you closet boy" she told him scathingly "before I tell you what I really think of that monstrosity of a outfit not to mention that hair cut, tell me have you heard of the natural look? How much gel do you go through? Unless you want that Marc Jacobs to meet with yesterday's lunch and a return to the dumpster dumping you're so intimately aware of, I suggest you back off from Rachel and direct your pent up sexual frustration at someone else as you can't have Finn!"
Clearly showing herself as the bitch of McKinley, Santana dismissed Kurt with a flick of her fingers before turning back to the group, Rachel smiled weakly at Santana,
"Thank you" she stated simply, not even bothering to reply Santana leaned over and hugged her friend.
"I told you I'm your friend Rach, and I meant it, that means I stick up for you, now come on homeroom is in like 2 minutes"
"Eli I'll see you later?" Rachel asked turning to her best friend who just looked confused
"Um yeah course Sweets, but I thought that the cheerleaders hated you as well as the Jocks" he added looking at Puck's letterman's jacket "and it was the people like that guy" nodding down the hall to Kurt "who stuck up for you?"
"Yeah I know it's kind of been a crazy week, I'll explain later ok? Diner tonight? My dad's are away we can grab food"
"When aren't your dads's away?" he asked wryly "but yeah sure diner is cool" hugging Rachel briefly as her and everyone else walked away to homeroom and he went to find the office.
A/N Just a brief note that if you guys want anything to go into the plot put it in your reviews! :D