The next morning Rachel woke with a start consequently kneeing whoever was holding her in the stomach.
"Ouch holy shit Berry, watch where you're putting your legs." Noah wheezed, winded. Rachel giggled before tucking herself back into his body.
"Sorry Noah." She closed her eyes tight and tried to go back to sleep. About ten minutes later both she and Noah groaned. "I can't get back to sleep." Rachel said.
"I can't get back to sleep and I'm winded." He rolled onto his back and clutched his stomach.
"I want coffee, do you want coffee?" Rachel jumped up and pulled her hair out of the ponytail. She felt Noah's eyes on her so she looked over her shoulder and winked before walking upstairs. Noah followed walking carefully so he didn't wake anyone else up.
Rachel's bedroom door was shut when he got there so he knocked.
"Come in." She called out. Noah opened the door to see her finding clothes in her chest of drawers.
"Do you really have to get dressed before making coffee?" He chuckled before lying down on her bed. She got some clothes out and walked into the bathroom. She got dressed and did her makeup before pulling her hair into a messy ponytail. She walked back out and sat down next to Noah.
"Well I would stay in my pyjamas but I thought you might want to go and have some breakfast with me. I figure we have at least two hours before everyone else wakes up and then we can just send them a message and tell them to meet us for like lunch or something. We don't have to, I guess we can just stay here and you cannot kiss me?" Noah was off her bed and into his room faster than a Moth to a flame. He walked back in with a pair of jeans and a t-shirt on. He held his hand out to her and went to drag her downstairs.
"As much as I love your enthusiasm I need shoes." Rachel said, letting go of his hand and went to her cupboard to pull out a pair of black heels. She sat down and pulled them on. Noah looked at her outfit and smiled. It was just so different to the old Rachel. He didn't mind the old Berry, in actual fact he loved her. This Rachel was just so much more confident and happy that he couldn't help but love her more. "You alright pervert?"
"I can't help it, you just look amazing." She had a pair of dark blue jeans on with a yellow frilly top and her black high heels. "Can we go now?" he asked and she nodded before quietly walking down the hallway. They made their way carefully through the lounge room. Unfortunately for them when Noah tripped and Rachel snorted they woke Santana. She kept her eyes closed until Rachel and Noah walked out the door.
"Get your lazy asses out of bed immediately." She screamed jumping on the bed causing Mike to fall off and Britt to cry. Quinn hopped off her mattress and walked over to console the blonde. Mike sat up against a wall and rubbed his head.
"Please Santana, I know you're angry when you're hung over but that is no reason to make Britt cry." Quinn said. She looked around at the now waking group, two of them were missing. "Where are Rachel and Puck?" Everyone looked at the now empty mattress.
"That's why I was trying to wake you all up, love birds just snuck out the front door. All dressed up to have breakfast. I say we get dressed and trail the streets to spy on them. Anyone that wishes to join me should meet at Matt's truck in four minutes." Santana, Britt and Quinn ran up the stairs quickly, while the other glee girls were apprehensive.
"Should we do that to Rachel?" Mercedes asked. Tina shrugged her shoulders but walked up the stairs with Kurt. Matt looked at Mercedes.
"I would like to say you had a choice, but unfortunately none of us do. You have faced the wrath that is Santana once do you want to face it again?" Mercedes rolled her eyes at his answer muttering something about cutting a stick figure.
Matt and Mike walked up the stairs pushing each other. Mike chuckled as his friend fell down.
"What the fuck are you laughing at Chang?" Matt snarled rubbing his sore shin.
"You totally have the hots for Jones. You so want Beyonce." He laughed.
"Shut up. You want me to call Santana out here or what? And besides Puck calls Kurt Beyonce so I would rather if you didn't give Mercedes that nickname to. Thanks." Matt said laughing as Mike blushed at the mention of Santana.
"So you do like Mercedes?" Matt nodded and Mike continued. "Well you should totally go for it, I heard her telling Quinn and Santana last night that she liked someone but she wouldn't say who. I bet it's you." Matt stopped again before turning to go into his 'room' at the Fabray's house.
"Are you going to ask Santana out?" Mike shook his head.
"She wouldn't go for it. Plus it would be too confusing to explain to Britt." Mike looked upset and Matt frowned trying to think of something to say.
"You won't know unless you try. Besides the word going around is that Britt likes Douglas Johnson on the basketball team so I wouldn't worry about her. Shit we have two minutes to be at my car."
The boys got dressed and were still at the car quicker than the girls. Matt saw Mike's jaw drop when Santana walked out in a short sleeved top and a pair of tiny shorts. He threw the keys at Mike. "You drive, I have a hangover." Mike looked confused until Santana called out shotgun, slipping on her aviators.
"Get in the car Chang before I emasculate you." Santana yelled and Mike jumped in the front seat scared for his safety. Matt hopped in next to Mercedes and soon enough they were on the way to spy on Puck and Rachel.
"Noah stop there look how cute it is." Rachel called out. Noah looked where she was pointing. It was a restaurant designed to look like a 50's style milkshake bar. He had been in there with Quinn and Finn once and it didn't excite him that much. But Rachel wanted to go there and he wanted Rachel to be happy so he pulled in. They walked inside and sat down, when they ordered Rachel got a stack of pancakes with ice cream and berries and Noah got bacon and eggs.
"So, movies tonight, what do you want to see?" Noah asked her. She thought for a little while, her brow furrowing in the middle.
"I honestly don't even know what is out right now. I don't really want to watch eclipse but, I don't really understand the whole twilight obsession thing. I want to watch something where I don't really have to think. What about the Karate Kid, we could totally use the ninja skills on Mike, see if he is as good as he was saying last night." Rachel said. Noah laughed thinking about Mike and his so called Badass Ninja Fighting Skills.
"Yeah, if you want to watch that we can." Noah said, he glanced out the window and saw a black 4WD going past. Funny he thought that looks like Matt's car. He shook his head and turned back to Rachel.
"Yeah we will watch that. I have to buy some school stuff too; I don't have any books so if we could go into the shops that would help me like heaps." Rachel said. Noah smiled, of course Rachel would think about school on the weekend. He nodded anyway.
"Of course we can, whatever you want to do. So you have your tryout on Monday right?" He said. She looked a little bit confused and then remembered her cheerio's tryout.
"Yeah, have you met the new coach, what is she like?" Rachel looked at Noah expectantly as he tried to think of a way to explain the new cheerleading coach.
"You know her as well Rach, its Lindsay Smith she went to our school like five years ago. She was head cheerleader before Quinn was. When she heard Sylvester quit she turned up and just took over. The funny thing was half the other girls on the team didn't like the way she ran things so they quit. Smith didn't mind she just ran tryouts that were open to anyone and soon enough the team was better than they were before. Sylvester came to try and get her job back like a week later and she was literally thrown out the door by Figgins and Pillsbury. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen."
Rachel laughed thinking about Miss Pillsbury throwing Sue Sylvester around. That's when she noticed a black car that was identical to Matt's parked across the street. She looked at it, trying to see who was inside, but with no such luck. She turned back to her pancakes and kept talking to Noah.
After ten minutes she looked back at the truck and frowned. Noah followed her line of sight and shook his head. He muttered something about not being able to trust their douchebag friends and pulled his phone out. Rachel watched as he dialled someone's number.
"Hey Mike. What are you guys doing?"
"Oh really so your just watching a movie, are you sure you and the rest of the gleek's aren't sitting across from me and Rachel watching us eat like a bunch of douchebags?"
"Yeah whatever just come inside dickwad." He hung up and smiled sadly at Rachel.
"Sorry babe, it looks like our private breakfast is becoming a Gleek fest." Noah pushed his plate next to hers and hopped around her side of the booth. The door opened and the glee club walked in one by one. Santana glared at the woman waiting tables. The waitress ran over and added another table to Rachel and Noah's before taking everyone's orders.
"So are you going to tell us why you to snuck out so early?" Santana asked, sitting next to Mike across from Rachel and Noah. Rachel looked at Noah nervously and the table fell silent waiting for their answer.
"Yeah, well it started with Berry kneeing me in the stomach and then we tried to go back to sleep but that wasn't going to happen so Rachel suggested we should go out for breakfast because there was no food in the house. We thought you lot were so hung over that you wouldn't emerge into the light until like lunchtime and we were just going to meet up with you all then. Seems you aren't all that hung over."
"Actually' Finn said clutching his head. "I may still be drunk, I don't really know." everyone laughed and Quinn just shook her head. Noah grabbed Rachel's hand under the table and she squeezed it, hoping they weren't getting caught out.
"So, what is everyone doing after this?" Mike asked. Everyone thought about what they were going to do.
"I have to go to a family reunion thing and Artie is coming with me so we should get going soon actually." Tina said. Everyone nodded sadly. Those two always missed out on doing stuff.
"Wait, Mike, if Tina has to go to a family reunion don't you have to go as well. Aren't you guys like cousins?" Britt asked. Mike opened his mouth to answer but just shook his head. Santana snorted and held back a laugh.
"Finn and I are going on another one of Carol and Burt's family bonding days. Quinn I think you should come to this one, seeing as though you couldn't come before." Everyone knew that he was talking about Jesse and so they didn't press the conversation any further. Quinn just nodded and said she would love to join.
"I just wanted to chill at my house. You're all welcome." Mercedes said. Matt agreed straight away and then Santana said she had nothing better to do so she might as well come over, which resulted in Mike saying he too would chill at Mercedes house.
"I am teaching a dance class so I have to leave in 10 minutes." Britt said, pulling money for her coffee out of her purse. Noah looked at Rachel trying to decide what to say their plans were. Rachel beat him to it.
"Louisa wants me to go and help Annabelle practice for her piano recital so we have to leave soon as well." Rachel felt Noah squeeze her hand. It was his secret way of congratulating her cover.
Britt, Tina and Artie left a few minutes later promising to talk to everyone the next day. Noah very eloquently told Finn to get the fuck out of his way because he and Rachel had to go before his mother ate them alive.
Noah helped Rachel into his truck and drove off in the direction of his house.
"That was the best save ever babe, I am proud to call you my ummm, I don't really know what to call you, but if I were to call you something I would be proud." Noah continued rambling and Noah put her hand on his thigh to silence him.
"Noah could you please stop rambling, your worse than me. We aren't actually going to your house are we?" Rachel said. As much as she loved Noah's family she definitely didn't need to deal with Louisa's crazy antics today. Noah shook his head. "We can go to my house." Noah turned his car around and drove in the direction of Rachel's empty house.
Matt, Mike, Santana and Mercedes went to Mercedes house half an hour later. Santana dragged the other girl upstairs telling the boys they were getting movies from Mercedes room.
"So tell me, what's going on with you and Rutherford, you could cut that sexual tension with a knife." Santana said laughing when Mercedes started to blush.
"Well I guess I like him, but it is probably never going to be more than a crush because let's face it he will never go out with someone like me.' Mercedes frowned at Santana's confused face. 'He went out with you, now look at me. Why would someone that went out with you go out with me?" Santana slapped Mercedes in the back of the head.
"Don't be an idiot, have you met Matt he is a great guy who wouldn't go out with someone based on their looks, he goes out with people based on their heart and soul. It wouldn't hurt to see if he liked you back." The girls walked downstairs.
"I guess you're going to tell me there is nothing going on with you and Other Asian then?" Mercedes said. Santana pushed her into the wall and laughed when Mercedes told her to step to it.
"I like Mike it would just be too hard to explain to Britt why neither of us can hook up with her anymore which sucks I guess." Santana said playing with a curl in her hair.
"Britt would understand, anyway isn't she dating some guy from the basketball team,' Santana nodded. "Well you and Mike would have to stop hooking up with her anyway so I would just go for it just ask him out on a date. You could have cute dancing babies." Mercedes giggled at Santana's glare.
"I am really glad I joined glee Cedes, I find your not as annoying as I first thought. And I am really sorry for all that stuff I said when you were dating Puck." Santana said giving the other girl a hug.
"Hot damn Lopez, stop being such a sissy, let's go downstairs I don't want those boys messing up my house." The two girls went downstairs and saw Matt and Mike watching a football game.
"Took your time" Mike said as Santana sat down next to him. She moved so that they were touching. Mercedes sat down next to Matt, who gave her the television remote. He expected her to change the channel, shocked to find she didn't.
"Yeah well San and I had to discuss some girl stuff that has nothing to do with the two of you. Bet you the colts win this one." Matt chuckled, the girl he liked was actually interested in football that was a gold star in his books.
***
Across town, Rachel and Noah were making out on her bed. Rachel pressed her body down a little bit on top of Noahs and he groaned. He pulled his mouth away from hers to gain control and to breath. She began to press little kisses down his jaw.
"Baby, we have to stop, cause I don't want to take advantage of a situation that you didn't want to be in." Rachel sat up and Noah laughed. Her usually neat hair was messy and her lips were a little bruised.
"First of all you weren't taking advantage of me Puckerman I liked the situation. I really like your kissing you." Rachel said leaning her face up to kiss him again. He kissed her before pulling away again.
"I like kissing you to, I just sort of wish we didn't have to do it in secret all the time." Rachel bit her lip before taking his hands in her small ones.
"Ask me to be your girlfriend." Rachel said. Noah chuckled at her assertiveness.
"Rachel Berry, will you be my girlfriend?" Noah said smiling at her. The stupid thing was they both already knew the answer, and they were already sort of dating, they had just never labelled it that way. She nodded her head and he kissed her again. His eyes went to the clock on the wall. It was 5:00 already. They had an hour to be at the movies. "Babe, as much as I love this we have to go if you want to see that movie." Rachel stood up and straightened her clothes. She pulled Noah's hand and dragged him down the stairs.
Noah smiled. Finally he had the girl of his dreams, now he just had to make sure he didn't stuff up and got to keep her.
