A/N: So I'm back once again, so lately my new obsession has been Glee and I am obsessed with the Rachel and Noah/Puck relationship/friendship (I was a massive Puckleberry Shipper the first time round and this time round tbh!)
A/N: Inspired from a friend of mine.. A Series of 'What If's?'
Plot: What if it was Puck that Mr Schuester found in the Shower instead Of Finn?
Mainly Puckleberry, but will contain other Glee Pairings, slightly AU (may still have some Glee story lines in it though)
Hope you enjoy this chapter x x x
When they pull up outside of Rachel's house, it's awkward still.
"So my dad said you and your mom were coming over for dinner tomorrow" Rachel is the first one to break the silence.
"Yup" He nods in response.
"So,um thanks for the lift" She replies awkwardly.
"Berry why are you being so weird?" He asks, because even for him this is weird.
"I'm not!" She defends her actions.
"Is this because of earlier on the bleachers?" He asks her, he feels bad about that he doesn't know why, he was stating a fact.
"No" She replies, but she is lying, he can tell.
"Whatever" He responds, wondering when this awkward encounter will end.
"Bye" She says as she steps out of the car and runs towards her house, she doesn't look back at his truck, why does the upset him?
She stands with her back against her front door, she has to take a breath, what was wrong with her?
Why was she getting hot and bothered by Noah Puckerman?
Did she forget that he bullies her?
Well bullied her? He hasn't done anything for the past week to her or any of the Glee club members to be honest.
She has to snap out of it and fast.
She needs to focus of Glee and Broadway her dreams, she can't get distracted by someone as attractive as Noah Puckerman.
That night he's getting text from his friends asking him what's going on;
Why has he quit football?
Is he ill?
When is he coming back?
Are they still friends?
And to be honest, he doesn't know are they still friends?
Will they do the same to him as he used to do to the Gleek kids before?
He doesn't respond to the texts.
He doesn't know how to, he throws his phone across the room in anger.
The next morning at school, Finn and Quinn are walking down the hallway, just in time to see Puck stroll into the home room, they wave at him, but he doesn't respond, he takes a seat next to the boy in the wheelchair and his Gothic Asian friend.
"What was that about?" Quinn asks Finn.
"I heard he joined that Homo Explosion group" Dave Karofsky says behind them.
"He joined Glee?" Finn questions what he has just heard.
When Matt and Mike walk into Home Room, they see their usual group in their usual place and then they notice Puck sitting with some of the kids from the Glee Club.
Finn waves them over and they reply, but Mike grabs Matt's arm and they take a seat next to Puck.
"We got your back man" Matt says.
"Whatever's going on, we're still friends" Chang comments.
The friends then fist bump.
Finn can't help this and wonder why Puck hasn't said anything to him, yet he's comfortable with Matt and Mike, he thought he was Puck's best friend.
Clearly not.
Quinn looks at Finn, "So what is going on? Did he tell you anything?" She asks him and all he can do is shake his head.
When the bell rings, Finn drags Puck to one side, "Don't you think we need to talk dude?"
Everyone's moving around them, blurring past, except for Finn, Puck, Matt and Mike.
"So Karofsky told me you joined Glee" Finn states straight away.
"Yeah and?" Puck responds looking at his best friend.
"So it's true" Finn says bluntly.
"Look, in the beginning it was because I was going to lose my Football scholarship.." Puck starts to explain.
"And now what you've lost your frikkin mind?" Finn asks.
"Finn, just let him talk" Matt says, shushing Finn.
"And I don't know now" Puck says unsure.
"Why did you join Glee in the first place dude?" Mike asks.
"Mr Schue found some stuff in my locker" Puck says honestly.
"Wow" Finn says before carrying on, "You know the other jocks will slushy you for this" He says.
"They will have to go through us" Matt says.
"Yeah" Mike adds his support.
"Finn if you were really Puck's friend you'd support this decision" Matt says.
"You need anymore Glee members?" Matt turns to ask Puck.
"You can't be serious!" Finn shouts storming off to find Quinn and some semblance of normality.
While Rachel was in the bathroom she hears some of the Cheerio girls talking, she decides to stay hidden in a stall rather than leaving, especially when they start talking about Puck.
"So Finn said that Puck has lost his frikkin mind!" Quinn says.
"I heard his Mom is making him do it because she found our sexts on his phone" The Latina Cheerio says.
"Santana! I don't need to hear about that!" Quinn snaps back.
"I'm just saying why else would he do this? Lose all his friends and his reputation for Glee?" Santana asks.
"Who cares, once someone slushies him he'll soon realize his mistake and come running back" Quinn states and now Rachel remembers why she dislikes this girl so much, she waits until they leave to come out of the stall in which she was hiding in.
But Rachel couldn't help but wonder why Noah in fact choose Glee.
Rachel found herself smiling that Noah had in fact choose Glee over football.
She went about her day, she didn't see Noah all day, even though she was sure he was in her Maths class, but he didn't show.
Today is the first day in a long time, Rachel has felt happy, that was until she walking in the hallway and bam- cold icy blue substance is all over her.
She doesn't know who it is, she can't see, she hears shouting around her, someone being shoved up against the lockers behind her, she tries to work out the voices, but soon finds herself being rushed into the bathroom, by Kurt and Tina.
"I-I-I was w-w-wrong about P-P-Puck" Tina stammers out.
No Noah wouldn't slushy her now they were on Glee together.
It's like Kurt can read her mind before Rachel shuffles away into a stall.
"What Dear Tina means is he just punched Karofsky for throwing that slushy on you" Kurt explains.
"Really?" Rachel asks as she is getting changed out of her wet clothes.
"Yeah, he can't even deny it,the whole school just witnessed it" Kurt says as Rachel reappears out of bathroom stall.
Noah Puckerman just defended her.
Why did that sentence sound so wrong coming out of her mouth.
He saw red, he doesn't know why, he used to be the one throwing those slushies over Rachel, she was his, as in his target for slushies, no one else could slushy her but him, the second the cup leaves Karofsky's hand Puck has him backed up against the lockers, he's seconds away from punching him when Karofsky asks him why he cares so much.
Puck knows why he cares so much but he won't ever say, so instead he punches Karofsky square in the jaw and tells him to leave Berry the hell alone before storming out of school for the day.
He sits in his truck, he bangs his steering wheel, he is so angry, he tells himself that was a normal reaction, he was defending a team mate, but it isn't that at all.
He feels more annoyed when he hears a tapping on his truck window.
"What?" He grits out.
He looks up to see Rachel Berry standing there, in her change of clothes, another one of her skirts, which just happens to be his favorite colour.. red, she does this on purpose he swears.
He opens his passenger side door and lets her hop in, she doesn't miss the way his eyes watch her legs as she climbs onto the chair.
"Thank you" She says softly, placing her hand on top of his.
He pulls his hand away from hers, "I didn't do that for you, I was annoyed I didn't get to slushy you first" He lies, he is so lame.
"Noah, you are a really bad liar, you haven't slushied me in a week" Rachel says gently.
"Just getting you feeling comfortable Princess" He says with a smirk, but he knows she's not buying it.
"Well whatever your motives were thank you Noah, I will see you at dinner" Rachel says leaving him alone in his truck.
As Rachel walks back into the school building, she looks behind her to see Puck's truck disappearing down the road.
Why did he defend her?
Where was he going?
As soon as she walks into the hallway she walks into someone, she looks up to see a Cheerio outfit.
"Manhands watch were you are going" Santana Lopez spits out as soon as she sees Rachel, before stepping closer to carry on her verbal assault "And let me make something perfectly clear to you, you may have got Puck to join your group, he might even pretend to like you, but he will never be with a loser like you" She adds before walking off laughing with some of the other Cheerios.
What started at a good day for her was turning into a nightmare.
He doesn't go to Glee, he can't,he's screwed and he's sinking fast.
He takes a swig of the beer he made the hobo buy him, he knows he can't go home smelling of alcohol, he needs to shower before his mother gets home, he has an hour.
He makes it somehow, his mother smiles at him, as she greets him when she gets home, she's off upstairs getting changed, he takes a deep breath that was a close call, his mother would have killed him.
It's not long until she's driving them to the Berry's house.
His mother is the one who knocks on the door and for some reason he feels nervous.
It's the older one of the Berry dad's who opens the door, Hiram, Noah knows the other Mr Berry, Leroy is the one who cooks, he shakes his head he hates knowing little details about Rachel's life.
He and his mother are welcomed in, Hiram mentions that Rachel is up in her room probably singing and that Noah could go straight up, so that's what he does.
He reaches her bedroom door, his palms are sweaty, he's nervous, why on earth is he nervous about going into Rachel Berry's room, he's been here so many times before.
He never knocks on her door, he just walks straight in, she's sitting on her bed looking at something on her laptop, she doesn't even look up, she must know it's him as he closes her bedroom door.
He plops down on her bed next to her, taking her laptop from her, "Noah, must you always be this annoying?" She says, as she takes her laptop back from him only to find Noah take it from her and put it on her bedside table out of her reach.
"Now Princess, is that any way to speak to a friend now?" He asks mockingly, a smirk gracing his lips.
"I thought we weren't friends?" She fires back.
Touche.
"Berry shut up" He says, she's ruining his good mood.
"Noah! You are so rude" She says offended.
Rachel finds herself waiting for his response but it doesn't come,no quick witted Puckerman response, instead what happens is he kisses her.
Yes, Noah Puckerman kisses Rachel Berry.
She's frozen for a few seconds before she responds, coming to her senses she pushes him away.
"You ok baby?" He says sounding so smooth, as he's rubbing her arm soothingly.
"Noah, what are you doing?" Rachel asks him, turning to face him.
"We were just making out until you started freaking out" He replies non-nonchalantly.
"You've been drinking" She says narrowing her eyes.
"It was one beer Rachel, unlike you some of us can handle our booze" He replies annoyed at her response.
When she feels his hand on hers she feels some kind of spark, which she chooses to ignore, this is Noah Puckerman, why would he ever be interested in her?
"Santana was right" She says letting out an unsteady breath.
Before he can ask her what Santana said, they hear themselves being summoned downstairs and Rachel is up and out of her room in a heartbeat.
He punches her bed, "Damn it Puckerman" He mutters before he follows her down stairs.
The dinner was awkward to say the least Rachel barely spoke, she spoke enough to not raise suspicion from her fathers and his mother but he knew she was pissed with him, how could be have been so stupid?
Why did have to kiss her?
A/N 2: I know the boys section was a little OOC but i wanted Puck to have more depth than just a jock with no brain and also I wanted the boys to show some loyalty (because those three came back to Glee first too when they choose between Glee and Football)
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