The Saturday following Mike's revelation, he found himself at the Puckerman household in the middle of a ridiculously intense Halo Marathon with Sam, Artie, Blaine and Kurt-who surprised everyone with his mad skills- when the interrogation started. If he was completely honest with himself, he would have seen it coming, after all, Puck is like Rachel's Jewish brother-from-another-mother and Kurt is her like twin or something and he's not quite sure what Blaine is to Rachel, but something went down and now they're friends so really, Mike should have had the sense to stay home that day.
But instead, he found himself in a room full of nosy good-for-nothing-teenage boys who as far as he was concerned were just as bad as girls. He pretended to tune them out for the first two hours, ignoring the snide side comments from Puck and Kurt and the awkward line of questioning Artie was throwing at him. He started to get a little annoyed when after their lunch, both Blaine and Sam cornered him in the kitchen with nothing more than suggestive eyebrows and questioning smirks. But he didn't actually snap until Puck and Sam started making bets on how long they thought it would take Finn to notice and Artie and Kurt argued over the appropriate couple name in the corner.
By nature, Mike Chang was a very quite person, preferring actions to words and dancing to anything else. But sitting in that room filled with his friends yammering at him like a gaggle of octogenarians, he lost it. He yelled at them in what was probably one of the longest rants of his life.
Yelled about how horrible Tina was for cheating on him, how much he kinda hated Finn for breaking the Bro Code, how much he was kinda already in love with Rachel and how he knew it would never happen. He yelled out all of the anger and rage he had been feeling. Left everything out for his friends to see, because really, if your buddies are all acting like a bunch of giggling school girls, then you definitely allowed to too. And when he was finished, Mike felt all of the bottled up stress he'd been harboring over the last few weeks lift off of him and when he finally tuned back into what was going on around him, he realized that Artie and Sam were clapping him on the back while Puck and Kurt smirked at each other knowingly from opposite sides of the couch.
The teens continued their marathon, this time making their comments about Rachel or about Cherry-as was the decided upon name apparently- as nonchalantly as possible while continuing to play as though Mike hadn't just spilled his whole heart on the floor. The only slightly tense moment being when Mike and Puck found themselves alone in the kitchen getting drinks when Puck told Mike, in a totally chill tone, that if he a) didn't get a move on and snap up Rachel soon he would fong him and b) if he hurt her in anyway, he would fong him. Mike left the kitchen not knowing how serious Puck was, but scared enough to try and do anything to avoid whatever the heck fonging entailed.
After dinner that night Mike was dancing around his room going over lines in his head and trying to choreograph a few songs for glee when his phone lit up with a text from Rachel. As he spent the rest of the night conversing with her through chat and emoticons, Mike vowed that he would not let the week close with out telling her, now all he needed was a plan and a song.
I know this is short and a little cheesy, but I really wanted to show all of the boys getting along, and I had to include Kurt, because well, he IS actually a ninja ...so I hope you like the chapter and I promise there will be actual cherry goodness to come. Does anyone have and songs they feel really embodies Cherry, or a song they think Mike could sing to Rachel? I haven't really found one, and I feel that a song has to be incorporated somehow.
P.S. Thank you all so much for the reviews and the alerts! It makes my day to know that people are reading and enjoying my story!
