I'm so sorry that I'm late for this chapter. Hopefully it will be worth the wait.
Fact Seven: Reputation is #1
"Why the hell did you bring your dad?"
"Hey he doesn't ask questions. Someone hands him money to buy something he'll do it."
"Ok, ok but-"
"It would be a little suspicious if Noah Puckerman recently accused of robbing a bank came in with a wad a cash to buy some jewls or if some girl had all this money."
"Fine. Fine. Let's get this over with. I don't wanna be caught in a fucking jewlry store." They walked in.
"Come on Puckerman. The necklaces and rings are in this part of the room."
"Uh...I didn't think there would be this many." Puck said looking at all the cases all filled with rings and necklaces.
"What do you think?" Santana said holding up a huge ring on her finger..
"Too big."
"Whatever." She shrugged. "Hey Papá!" Santana said showing her dad. Puck started over at the case to the far right and looked at all the tiny rings inside.
"Those are engagement rings." A old woman, who must have been the clerk said.
"Oh. I wasn't looking for-I mean-I just want to-I was helping my friend pick out a ring." Puck said gesturing to Santana and her father.
"Oh well. There's nothing wrong with engagement rings if you're not getting engaged either."
"Yeah.." Puck said quickly catching up to Santana, but the woman was very persistent.
"May I ask who your friend is looking for? Perhaps I could help."
"Her name's Quinn Fabray." Santana said. "She's my friend."
"Oh I know that girl."
"Yes. Well we're going to keep looking. We'll tell you if we see anything." Santana says pulling Puck to another case. "I think I've found something." She said pointing down to a necklace hanging around some decapitated manikin.
"The cross?"
"Yeah." Santana said. Puck just stared at the necklace. It was perfect. It wasn't too big of a diamond, but it was big enough to notice.
"Nice job Santana."
"As if you ever doubted me." She said with a smug look. "Daddy, Puck wants this one."
"Alright." Mr. Lopez said. Puck handed the money to him.
"Excellent choice!" The old woman said. "This one is just gorgeous." The woman opened the case and pulled out the necklace. "How would you like it wrapped?"
"Green ribbon and a white box." Puck said. When the box is all wrapped the woman gives Puck a wink and hands him the small box.
"Now was that so bad?" Santana asks him.
"It was fucking horrible. I never want to look a jewelry again."
"Well if it makes you feel any better, Quinn will totally forgive you when she sees it." Santana said looking longingly at the little white box.
"That's all that matters."
When Quinn Fabray arrived at school she was greeted by her tall boyfriend, Santana and Brittany. "Brittany, why are you wearing...leg warmers on your arms? It's June." Quinn asked.
"It's June? I never learned how to read a calendar." Quinn just stared at the blonde but decided that it was too early in the morning to try and reason with her.
"Hey Quinn. How was your weekend?" Finn asked.
"Oh the usual. Going to church and the country club. Homework." Quinn took his hand. "And yours?"
"Oh I played lots of video games and the Puck took me out to skateboard. But I fell so then we just decided to play more video games." Quinn just rolls her eyes.
"And what about Homework?" She asked him. They started to inch their way to school.
"Homework? Oh god we had homework?!"
"What did you think Frankenteen? Of course we had homework!" Santana said stepping in front of them. "Even Brit knew there was homework."
"Yeah, see I did mine in my new crayon set!" Brittany said pulling out a colorful piece of paper. "I know Mrs. Martin will love it! She said that if I kept this up I would definitely pass."
"That's great Brittany." Quinn said sincerely. "Let's go."
"Wait!" Santana said stepping in front of them again. "Quinn I forgot that um...Coach Sylvester wants to talk to us! She should be on the field still."
"Do we have time?"
"Just come on!" Santana said grabbing Quinn's hand.
"I'll talk to you later I guess, Finn. See you at practice Brittany."
Puck hurried. He hoped Santana would distract Quinn enough for him to slip the ring in her locker. But he knew that Quinn could be stubborn. Just as he was shutting his locker she approached. Puck cursed.
"What the hell are you doing at my locker?! You're planting yet another thing that will totally embarrass me! Aren't you?!"
"No! Look I told you I didn't even do any of those things."
"That's BS!" She said raising her voice even further. A few heads turned their way.
"But thanks to you everyone thinks I did. My mom got a call and is all pissed at me now. All the girls are ignoring me."
"Get out of my way!" Quinn said pushing him out of the way. She opened her locker. At first she saw nothing there. "There's nothing here!" Puck just sighed, frustrated. He pulled out the box which he put next to her History textbook, and dropped it in her hands.
"I wanted it to be a surprise. But I guess Santana did a shitty job distracting you."
"What-What is it?"
"Open it." Puck said before walking away, glaring at a few staring students. Quinn watched him leave before returning her eyes back to the box. She recognized the white box knowing that it must have came from Lima Jewelers because her mom had several boxes just like this one. She untied the ribbon and opened it. For a second her heart stopped. She looked around and luckily most of the students who were staring before had moved on. She slipped the necklace out of the box and look at it more closely. It was perfect. But how did Puck have the money. She looked down at the ring again. She couldn't accept this gift. She had to give it back.
Lunch rolled around and Puck was able to get Santana alone.
"So?" She asks him.
"Well when she showed up just as I was leaving she thought I was putting more shit in her locker. You really did a shit job-"
"I know, but I tried as hard as I could. That girl can be damn stubborn when she's worried about missing class. She practically ran away from me."
"Well whatever. The only thing is that now everyone really thinks I did it cause she made such a scene. I wanted to talk to her about it privately."
"Whatever. What's done is done. Now you just have to make the deal with her. Well speak of the bitch-" Santana said as Quinn approached. She had the box still in her hand and she thrust it towards Puck.
"Did you even fucking open it?" He asked.
"Yes. It's beautiful. But I cannot accept it."
"Why? When someone offers you a fucking necklace you take it." Santana said throwing her hands up.
"Look, I don't know why you did this or what angle-" Quinn says talking right over Santana.
"All I want you to do is stop telling everyone what a bad guy I am." Puck said running his hands through his mohawk. "You'd be surprised how much people believe you."
"But why the necklace? Why-?"
"Because I wanted to prove to you that I can be nice-" Puck said with exasperation.
"But if you really don't want it Quinn I'll gladly-" Santana interjected.
"Santana!" Puck said silencing her.
"You don't have to buy me anything to prove that you're nice. Just be nice."
"Yeah but you think a badass can't be."
"I just-I guess, I wanted to believe that you did it." Quinn said bring her arm back into her body. "But it must have cost a fortune...You shouldn't be spending money on me, but rather on your family. Even if it is Stolen money." She said frowning at the ring box.
"You don't get to tell me what to do with my money. I'm spending it on my reputation. Not you." He said. "But keep it. Flash it around. Brag about it. That's my angle." And he walks away letting out a groan.
"Thank you Santana." Quinn said.
"For what?"
"Helping him. With the necklace. I doubt he could've found this on his own." Santana just shrugs.
"Be lucky you even get one. I'm his girlfriend. Shouldn't I at least get something?" Santana says before glaring and stalking off. Girlfriend? Quinn thought. He didn't buy anything for his girlfriend? And selfishly she smiled a bit and put the necklace on. Even Finn had never done something this nice. It was beautiful. It wasn't necessarily that it was expensive that made it beautiful, but the time and thought that went into it.
"My plan is totally working. All the chicks wanna date me because they think I'll buy them stuff."
"But aren't we dating?"
"Fake dating" Puck hissed. "I can have sex with whoever I want."
"Did you hear that ugly, put that on your blog!" Santana told Jacob Ben Isreael who happened to be passing by.
"Wh-Wh-What?"
"That's right. Pucktana is back on. Comprendes? Now dissolve Jewfro"
"I-I-"
"The lady said dissolve." Puck said giving Jacob a little push.
"Sanny?" They both heard a quiet voice ask. "You're dating Puck? But I thought we were together." They both turned to see Brittany who was crying. Santana couldn't say anything to make the blonde feel better.
"I'll talk to you later!...Please!" Santana tried to yell as Brittany ran away.
"You sure you wanna do this?" Puck asked.
"You're not the only one who's sacrificing for their reputation." She snapped.
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