"Dude, what's up with you lately?"

It was her fault. Puck was different, and even his (usually) completely clueless, dopey best friend seemed to notice.

"I don't know what you mean, Finn."

Puck pulled his jersey off over his head. They were in the locker room, changing out after football practice.

"You've been... different."

"You're the one who suddenly decided to join glee and has recently been all giddy and shit. What's that about?" Puck of course already knew the answer to that, but he'll do anything (even listen to Finn ramble on about his first time) to get the attention off of himself right now.

"First of all, Glee is a long story, and for your information, i actually like it. Oh! I can't believe I forgot to tell you! Quinn and i finally had sex! It was really awkward at first, but-" Puck smirked to himself, mission accomplished. "-and she was like, 'i need you to come over' and i was all 'sure, babe. no prob-'-wait a second... I'm not gonna fall for that one.. again!"

"Crap! I was this close!"

Great, look who finally decided to get a brain... kind of.

"Seriously, what's been going on with you?" Finn actually looked concerned.

But, thinking about it for a moment, Puck decided that maybe telling Finn wouldn't be that bad. After all, if he couldn't tell his best friend, who could he tell?

"Okay, i'll tell you, but you have to keep this shit to yourself, got it?"

"Yeah, of course, man."

"Well, there's this girl."

"When it comes to you, there's always a girl."

"Okay, true. But she's not just any girl. She's.. i don't know, special or some shit. But for some reason, she doesn't like me! I don't know what to do, you know? I've pulled out all the moves that the Puckasaurus has, nothing works!"

Finn actually looked shocked. He probably couldn't believe his best friend, the same guy who calls himself 'Puckasaurus', actually liked a girl this much.

"For starters, i'd stop calling yourself the ridiculous nicknames." called it.

"Very funny. But for real. I don't know what i'm doing wrong, help me out here, dude."

"Okay okay, well how exactly do you know she isn't into you?" Well, she called him a 'vile animal', implied he was a lima loser,

"Oh, that's easy. I kissed her, then asked her out, and she basically blew up on me."

"what do you mean?"

"I mean i kissed the girl, then was all 'i like you, you like me, lets date' and next thing i know she's yelling at me about how i'm this horrible guy, a Lima Loser and a bully, and she'd never date me, because she won't be 'victimized' or whatever."

"Really? I gotta meet this girl! Who is she? Do i know her? Does she go to McKinley? Wait, it's not Quinn is it?"

"Not exactly the reaction i was looking for, bro. And no, it's not Quinn. " He slammed his locker shut as he finished pulling on his shirt.

"I don't know what to tell you, man. I guess she really doesn't like you." Finn shrugged it off.

"Thank you, captain Obvious!"

"Well, who is it?"

"Not gonna happen dude."

"Well, what are ya gonna do then?" Finn shut his locker, and they headed out of the locker room.

"Look, the way i see it, all i have to do, is convince her that i'm not the overly popular Jerk she thinks i am. If i can do that, than maybe she'll agree to like, be my girl or whatever."

"And do you have a plan?" Puck just shrugged in response. "Figures you'd just wing it."

"What's that supposed to mean?!"

"Are you really sure you really like this girl?"

"Yeah, i told you i did, didn't i?!" Puck took a deep breath. "i just, i don't know what it is, but theres something about her..."

"Okay, if you're positive, because if i'm wasting my time, you better tell me now."

"Screw you man, i don't need your help."

"Alright, here's what we're gonna do." Finn spoke as though Puck hadn't. "First, you've gotta try to be less... Puckish."

"How do i do that exactly?"

"Just don't be such a jerk, maybe even try to be nicer to people, her especially. And it wouldn't hurt to stop sleeping around. Think you can handle all that?"

"Yeah, yeah. I think I'll manage, what's next?" Finn raised a skeptical eyebrow, but said nothing of it.

"Second, you guys should try to find some common ground. Like maybe show her you're interested in the same things she is. That you're not all popularity and football and hooking up with cheerios. It couldn't hurt."

"Okay, common ground, i can do that. What else."

"Next, show her you're willing to be friends, but that she's more than that. You know?"

"Just try and be her friend but make sure she knows i like her?"

"Right. Also, don't like hide it or anything. Let other people know that you like her and that you're friends with her, so she knows she's more important than popularity or whatever."

"Gotcha. Anything else?" They'd reached the parking lot, and Quinn was waiting for Finn by his car.

"Lastly, apologize for whatever the hell it was that you've done that got her so pissed off in the first place."

"Gotcha. Thanks man."

"No problem." With that, Finn walked off into the direction of his car to meet up with Quinn.

So, thanks to Finn (Never thought he'd say that), Puck finally had some sort of 4-step plan to get Rachel to be his girl, and he was ready to put it into action.

1. Don't be a jerk. -easy enough, just show Rachel he could be 'Noah', and not just 'Puck'. Besides, he's already stopped sleeping around so that one's already half checked off.

2. Find some common ground. -all he had to do here was show interest in the things she liked, not too hard. Especially since he could sing and dance, and what else did she do for fun, like really?

3. Show her, and everyone else, that you liked her, but could be friends. -he needed to find the line between friend zone, and 'i like you'. Or basically, just tell her 'i like you, but i'm willing to be just friends until you realize you like me too'. He only hoped she would realize it soon.

4. Apologize. -not that he did anything wrong, but girls were confusing as hell, and could get offended for any little thing. So he had to not only figure out what the hell he did wrong, but convince her he actually felt bad about doing it.

He's not completely sure what he felt for her, or what the hell he was trying to prove, but soon enough, Rachel Berry would be his.