"Noah, are you even listening to me?" Declan's voice spoke taking Noah away from his thoughts.

"Yeah, I was just thinking," he said.

"Thinking about what?" Declan asked as he laced his cleats and trotted over to the pitcher's mound to hand his teammate the ball.

"High school," Noah admitted as he took the ball from his friend's hand. "I kind of had a totally different life there."

"Oh really?" Declan laughed. "Tell me about this life you've been keeping from me."

"I'd prefer not to," Noah said as he spun the ball, fingering the grip in his fingers.

"Fine," Declan sighed as he lifted his catching mask from his face. "I played baseball since freshman year, catcher of course, but I was also in the band. I played trombone. I never got great grades, but I was pretty smart. I was in student council and tutored some kids after school. I only dated one girl for three years and we broke up my senior year when she cheated on me. I wasn't a nerd, but I certainly wasn't that popular either."

"Wait, what just happened?" Noah asked confused as he listened to what his friend told him.

"That was my four years in high school in a nutshell," Declan clarified. "Do you remember when we first met, we decided not to tell each other anything about high school, as kind of a way to leave the past behind?"

"Yeah," Noah said, "but didn't you just defeat that purpose?"

"I did," Declan smiled, "but I did it because I want you to tell me about your four years."

"I didn't agree to this," Noah reminded him.

"I know," Declan smirked, "but you're too good of a guy to allow me to say mine without you saying yours."

"I hate you, you know that?" Noah said as he shook his head, knowing Declan was right.

"Yeah, I know," Declan said as he patted his friend on the shoulder and headed behind the plate.

"I was a wide receiver for the football team and my best friend was quarterback," Noah began as he fired a fast ball to his catcher. "I wasn't the smartest kid and I didn't really try in school. In fact, I was more wrapped up in my pool cleaning business which was really just my way of sleeping with cougars."

"Cougars?" Declan said shocked as he threw the ball back to Noah. "Did I just hear Noah Puckerman say he slept with older women?"

"I told you I was different back then," Noah explained. "Anyway, I kind of slept with everyone in high school. I even had this thing called cheerleader bingo."

"Cheerleader bingo?" Declan questioned.

"I'm not proud of it, but a few of my friends put down all of the cheerleaders names on a bingo card," Noah began. "Each week, we would pick one at random and whoever slept with said cheerleader that week got to cross her name off of the card."

"That's certainly an interesting game," Declan said as the two continued to throw pitches back and forth.

"Interesting is one word for it," Noah sighed. "Like I said it wasn't my proudest moment."

"Did you ever win?" Declan asked.

"All the time," Noah admitted sadly.

"Playaaa," Declan said sarcastically.

"I guess," Noah replied. "I did kind of cheat though."

"How so?" Declan questioned.

"Well, I was sort of dating one of the girls," Noah confessed. "Although, in my defense, her spot on the bingo card was kind of a free space. She was the school slut."

"And you the school manwhore," Declan finished his thought. "I can see why that relationship would never work."

"Yeah," Noah laughed, "that and the fact that she was a lesbian and I was in love with someone else."

"I'm sorry, can you repeat that last part?" Declan asked as he dropped the ball on the ground.

"That I was in love with someone else?" Noah said, attempting to answer the question.

"Uh no, the other part," Declan said. "Did you say you dated a lesbian?"

"She thought she was bi-sexual," Noah told his friend. "And we didn't really date, we were just kind of sex buddies, friends with benefits as it were."

"Gotcha, because that makes it sooo much better," Declan smiled as he picked the ball off of the ground and tossed it in the air. "So that's Noah Puckerman in a nutshell, huh?"

"I was also in the glee club," Noah added as he picked the ball out of the air and walked past Declan.

"Glee club?" Declan asked as Noah nodded. "Ouch, that was even worse than band in my high school."

"Same at McKinley," Noah commented. "You ever heard of a slushy facial?"

"Nope," Declan replied.

"I got accustomed to them when I joined glee," Noah admitted. "I don't regret it though. I loved every minute of glee club. It helped me to meet some amazing people."

"So you gave up popularity to join glee?" Declan asked confused. "I would never do that, ever."

Noah shrugged his shoulders. "I guess that's the difference between you and me Dec. We switched roles a little bit. You became the high school version of me and I became a bit of the high school version of you."

"I guess so," Declan laughed. "I just don't see why you would have given all of that up when you came to Conn."

"It's not why Declan," Noah admitted to his friend, "it's who."