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Puck thought about honking but decided against it. It would be nicer of him to go to the door. He couldn't get last night out of his mind. Rachel had smiled and laughed but her smile never reached her eyes and her laugh didn't seem to have that musical vibe to it. She wasn't happy. She was probably just in a lot of pain. Hitting your head as hard as she did tends to do that to a person. It could also be the lack of color that was in her life. He felt bad. He knew that she liked to sit by her window almost every night to watch the sky change from light blue to pink or orange and then to a dark purple before finally settling in a dark blue. She had described it to him many times. She had said she felt like time stood still at sunset and anything could happen. He couldn't imagine what a gray sunset would look like. It had to be hard for her.
"She won't come out of her room." Mr. Berry said answering the door. Rachel had told all of them that she would not be staying home another day and that she would be going to school. They kept her home Wednesday but she insisted that she be there on Thursday especially so that she could make sure Mr. Shuester wasn't running Glee club into the ground.
"What do you mean?" Puck asked as he was let inside and they began climbing the stairs until the other Mr. Berry stopped him.
"She woke up this morning, took a shower, everything was going fine until she needed to change her clothes. Puck thought about it. Sure girls like to coordinate their clothes but Rachel never seemed to be one to care so there must be something else going on.
"Rach." He lightly knocked on her door.
"Come in Noah." He heard her say from the other side of the door. He slowly opened it and both Mr. Berry's left him to do his best friend comforting thing. She was sitting on her bed fully clothed in her normal school attire staring away from the door.
"What's wrong?" He asked sitting next to her. She turned to him and a tear ran down her cheek. He quickly ran his thumb across her cheek catching the tear. At first he thought she wasn't going to say anything but she finally opened her mouth.
"This will just give them more of a reason to think I'm a freak." She said. He felt his stomach drop. He knew that if anyone said anything to her he would personally make their life a living hell. He just wished she wouldn't have to worry and that people would see her for the person she is.
"You're not a freak." He said lifting her chin. "You're not a freak. You're different and it makes you stronger. You are kind and smart and have an amazing voice." Her lips twitched in an almost smile. "And you're a hot Jew." He joked and this got the smile to brighten. He wrapped his arm around her and she buried her face in his chest. "Are you ready?" He asked knowing that his truck was running outside waiting to take them to school.
"Yeah." She said grabbing her bag.
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They made it to school and he thought things were going to go pretty good but then he remembered that he wouldn't be there for her in every class. They had second period together and they had fourth period together but the rest of the time he would be in a different room. He would have to see if some of their fellow Glee clubbers would keep an eye on her. Mercedes and Kurt came up with a smile.
"Where you been girl?" Mercedes asked and Puck smiled at the fact that they seemed to notice Rachel had been gone. Maybe he didn't hear other people ask before because they didn't know the extent of his and Rachel's friendship Rachel stiffened but after sharing a look with Puck she moved her hair off of her face to show them the purple and blue that was there. Like pulling off a band aid. Easier to get it over with. After showing Mercedes and Kurt the whole school would know. They were gossip crazy. Mercedes and Kurt's eyes went wide.
"OHMYGOD. What happened?" Kurt asked taking Rachel's hand.
"I was being clumsy." Rachel said somewhat shyly as she seemed to sink deeper into Puck's side. He didn't mind. He liked being this close to her. He also liked that she felt he could keep her safe.
"But like, what happened?" Mercedes asked.
"I fell down the stairs on Sunday." Puck knew that she didn't remember what she was doing when she fell and he felt kind of bad. From what she said she remembered hopping out of the shower and then waking up in the hospital.
"That is terrible. But you're okay right?" Puck knew that they would watch out for her and he made sure she was okay with him to leave for a bit. He made his way over to someone he knew shared all but one class with Rachel. They had a lot of AP classes together and she was someone that Puck thought he could probably trust to look out for his girl no matter how she felt about Rachel.
"Quinn, can I ask you a favor." She was standing at her locker and she turned to look at him.
"That depends." She said raising one of her perfect eyebrows.
"I know you share a lot of classes with Rach." She seemed to look at him questioningly at the shortened name of her frenemy. She glanced over his shoulder to where Rachel was talking with Kurt and Mercedes.
"Go on."
"I was wondering if you wouldn't mind watching out for her for the next couple of days. Just like, make sure she's okay in class and stuff."
"Why? And where has Berry been anyway?" Quinn asked. He knew she wasn't actually as cold as she led everyone to believe. He got to witness the real her a few times last year and so even though she acted like she didn't like his girl he knew she had a soft spot for her in there somewhere.
"She fell on Sunday." He watched as Quinn's demeanor seemed to change and she looked over his shoulder and Rachel again. "Will you make sure nothing happens to her?" She studied him.
"Okay? What happened and is she okay?" Quinn asked slowly. This was the softer side showing. This was the girl that wasn't head cheerleader but was a glee clubber who belonged on the island of misfit toys with the rest of them.
"Yeah, she's going to be. Thank you." He turned to go back to Rachel but Quinn stopped him.
"Did you know about this all week?" She asked as Santana and Brittany came up.
"Know about what?" Quinn shot him a glare.
"Her. Did you know and not say anything?" Quinn asked and both Britt and Santana looked confused. Puck smiled weakly at her and a protective sort of fire lit in her eyes.
"Yeah but uh… she didn't want anyone to know." Quinn looked a little bit tense. Even if she called Rachel names and acted like she didn't like her Puck knew that she was protective of the girl. Even though they never seemed to have a civil conversation Puck knew Quinn thought of Rachel as sort of an annoying little sister. But she would never admit that. She wouldn't let it ruin her image for people to know that she cared, and for Rachel Berry of all people.
"You should have told me. I mean us. We should have known." She seemed a little bit hurt that she wasn't one of the people who got to know when things like this happened. Even though it confused Puck thoroughly he knew that if she really wanted know she should try reaching out to his diva. He knew what he said next wouldn't get a positive response but it was the truth.
"Your relationship with Rach isn't one that I would call 'friendly' therefore I think that the knowledge about this should have gone from her to you if she wanted you know." Quinn's face seemed to fall but as soon as the regret was there it was gone.
"Wow. That almost sounded like it was coming from the smurf herself." Santana said finally joining the conversation.
"Don't call her that." Puck said. Santana smirked.
"Well her face is all black and BLUE anyway so it fits." Puck glared at but Santana seemed to slighlty regret saying that. Only slightly. Before Puck could argue with Brittany jumped in.
"We should fold 1000 paper cranes. Does anyone know how?" They all stared at her for a bit before she shrugged and began staring into space.
"So, will you keep an eye on her?" Quinn looked back at the brunette for a moment before looking back to Puck.
"If I must." She said trying to sound put out about it but Puck could tell that she was fine with it. He leaned in close to give her a kiss on the cheek, pausing by her ear to whisper.
"It will be a good chance to change things. She could use friends right now." With that he left knowing that Quinn would watch out for his diva.
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