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Lunch flew by and it was safe to say that Haley was the perfect addition to the group. She talked gymnastics with the cheerleaders, clothes with Kurt and Mercedes, music with Tina and Artie and was able to join in conversations with all the guys and Rachel without even seeming like an outsider to them let alone the others around them. With just minutes before the bell for the next lesson was due, the conversation turned onto the topic of Haley in general as the glee club members wanted to know more of the new addition.
"So Haley, British huh?" Haley laughed at Matt, shaking her head at his obvious statement before looking at him with a confused face and placing her hands in the air slightly.
"What gave it away?" Everyone on the table burst out laughing at the pair as she playfully rolled her eyes causing Matt to stick his tongue out at her. Whilst everyone was busy laughing Kurt quickly caught eye contact with Rachel and subtly glanced towards Haley and Puck, who had subconsciously moved during the time so that their bodies were angled towards the other, arms and knees touching. Rachel smiled at the sight before turning back to Kurt and winking, signalling that she thinks it's a possible love match. They were brought out of their silent conversation by Artie's voice.
"So what are you going to sing for us today in glee?" Every pair of eyes at the table turned to Haley who simply smiled and shrugged her shoulders before replying.
"That my friend is a secret that not even Rach here knows." She nudged Rachel's arm playfully with her elbow as everyone looked shocked as Rachel nodded in agreement and shrugged. She had spent the weekend bugging Haley while they were moving her in to the house about what song she was going to use to audition and Haley hadn't said anything. She simply kept saying it was a surprise and she would know when the rest of the 'gleeks' knew and that would be when she actually auditioned. "So what do we all have next?"
"Well I know that me, you, Mercedes, Tina and Artie have study hall." Haley smiled at Kurt and nodded before smiling at Artie too. She hadn't known him long but she thought he was an amazing person. Her dad always said that how a person deals with the cards their given says a lot about their character and that their decisions aren't who define who a person is but rather a person who defines their decisions and paths they take. Her mother on the other hand always said that her dad was a philosophical nonsense talking fool who wanted her to become a mini him and that yes, a person can be defined by how they act and decisions that they make but that isn't always in their control. Haley saw how Artie dealt with his wheelchair and she agreed with her dad on this one. He acted as everyone else does and doesn't allow his disability to weaken his strength or character, it's just simply another part of him and that was truly a lovely thing to see. There are so many that Haley had seen in her lifetime that would have used their disability as an excuse to be weak, but Artie didn't.
"We all have study period. How weird is that?" Haley shook her head and let out a small chuckle of disbelief.
"You mean you never realised until now that you all have a study period together?" Rachel took initiative and answered for the table.
"We knew on some level, but we always did our own thing. Like Kurt and Mercedes would go to the mall, maybe with Artie and Tina sometimes, I would be in the auditorium sometimes with Finn for glee, the guys would be doing guy stuff or playing football and Brittany and Santana with the Cheerio's or off doing there own thing." Haley nodded in understanding.
"Makes sense I guess. What are people going to do with this one?" With that question they all smiled and Puck wrapped his arm around Haley's shoulders.
"We're hanging with the new girl." Haley laughed and rolled her eyes as she nudged Puck with her shoulder playfully before standing up.
"Well I'm going to go dump this...." She picked up her bag and waved it around a bit"...in my locker and Kurt is coming with me. Then how about we all go onto the field or something?" Kurt stood up smiling as he walked around to Haley, looping arms with her.
"We may as well, it's a nice day and she is new so her requests are to be given." Everyone laughed at Kurt as he circled his hand around Haley's face as he said new. "Meet everyone at the Quad that's near the field?" Everyone nodded in agreement as Kurt turned and dragged Haley away, her waving to them behind her head before disappearing through the doors with Puck staring at where they had been. His mind was running a mile a minute with fantasies of him running out after them and kicking Kurt back into the cafeteria to leave him and Haley alone and his imagination began to go into overdrive.
"So Puck, what you think?" Snapping back into reality at Mike's words, his head quickly turning to face him he cleared his heads of all Haley related fantasies and smiled at him, nodding his head.
"I think Karofsky was right, but he way underestimated her." Everyone at the table looked at each other as Puck spoke, not used to the softness to his usual rough tone or the way his eyes seemed glazed over as he spoke about her. Clearly something was going on there but no one would question him about it, because questioning Puck about how badass he is is like questioning your will to live. It wouldn't end pretty. "I mean you saw how she fitted right in here, she's gonna be great with us man." Just then the bell went and the group all got up and made there way to the quad near the field where Kurt and Haley were waiting.
When they got there, they all nearly burst out laughing as Haley was running around the quad with an Kurt's Channel scarf in her hands with Kurt chasing after her with Haley singing you cant catch me over and over again, teasing him. Spotting the group Haley sped up and ran towards them before jumping onto Mike's back.
"Run!" And with that Mike ran off onto the field with Haley on his back as Kurt jumped onto Matt's.
"Follow them!" Rachel sat down with Mercedes, Santana and Brittany as Tina jumped on Puck's back and demanded he joined in, not that he took much convincing. Soon enough Santana jumped on Finn's and they were all off, chasing each other and trying to get the scarf.
"Well this is certainly interesting." Everyone sitting watching looked at Rachel laughing and agreeing.
"I think white girl is going to be great in the group. I mean look at us already, this wouldn't have happened if she wasn't here." Brittany nodded before speaking up.
"Totally, she's awesome." They all pulled faces as they watched Kurt jump off Matt's back and dive for Haley but Haley saw and pushed herself off Mike and dived onto Puck who had just had Tina jump off his back onto Matt. Tina luckily landed on Matt's back and they were ready to go back to running while Kurt was rescued by Mike, who caught him and put him on his back. He glared playfully at the mass of brown hair that was still airborne.
"Hales I was soooo close to getting you there!" Haley meanwhile landed on Puck's chest, her legs wrapped loose around his waist but arms tightly locked around his neck. The shock of her landing on him made him stumble back slightly but that wasn't the main problem. His main problem was that he could now feel her toned legs and stomach and her chest was pressed firmly to his with her face only inches in front of his own. Quickly, Haley moved herself to his back, refusing to think about how defined his muscles felt under his jacket or how his smell was making her feel dizzy but in the best possible way.
"Well what can I say Kurt? Can't touch this" She sang the last part before slapping Puck's shoulder lightly. "To the quad Noah" With that they all ran back to the others laughing at the looks on their faces at their antics.
"That was so fun!" Finn quickly but gently but Santana on the floor and then took a seat next to Rachel as Tina walked to sit with Artie, Santana next to Brittany, Mike next to Finn and surprisingly, Matt moved next to Mercedes. Kurt and Haley watched as the two started conversation, laughing and smiling like idiots before turning towards each other with Kurt's eyebrow raised and Haley smirking. Clearly they had to keep an eye on those two.
"Here's your scarf back." She smiled brightly at him whilst walking up to him, putting her hand out with the black scarf sitting in her palm. Kurt smiled and grabbed the scarf and her palm and pulled her into a hug laughing before the two went to sit at the space between Mercedes and Puck with Kurt next to Mercedes and Haley near Puck.
They all sat there talking as a group about all sorts of things before Mike groaned.
"What's wrong dude?" Mike looked at Puck dejectedly before sighing.
"All that running and we have gym next." Kurt and Haley struggled to keep their laughter in as they looked at him, but looking at each other they gave in and started laughing hysterically with the others joining in.