A/N: I just wanted to say that, unless I get some protest against an end, this is the last chapter. By the way, I don't know much about football.
Puck grabbed Jacob by the collar, "How did you know?" Rachel stood with her hand on her hip, her Cheerio uniform spiking out at all the right places. She couldn't believe that jerk. Seriously, what a conceited, selfish jerk!
"I heard you talking to Quinn, and then I heard Rachel and Quinn in the bathroom talking. It was really quite easy."
Rachel stood there, "How did Karofsky and Azimio know so fast?"
Jacob looked down, "I personally texted them."
Puck punched him, "What's wrong with you? I don't understand why the hell you would do this? What is your goal? To make Rachel love you? It ain't working pal." He punched him again, then let him slide to the floor. Rachel stepped on him and followed Puck.
She ran to catch up, he had longer legs and a longer stride. "So what now? I mean, what on Earth do we do now?"
Puck sighed, "What do we do about what?"
Rachel ran in front of him and stopped walking. He stopped too. "Ok, so we dealt with Jacob, now what? We go back to talking to Quinn and everyone like normal? We pretend that Quinn isn't pregnant, and that it's your kid? Pretend that the whole school doesn't know that we had sex last night? Just wondering, what are we supposed to about that? Huh?"
Puck rubbed the bridge of his nose, "Well, we go back and yeah, we treat Quinn normal. We will ignore the stares and ugly faces, because in the end, Rachel, they are below us. Not to mention, jealous. You are the hottest chick in this school. And, let's face facts Rach, I'm the hottest dude in this school. And if people aren't jealous because they want to be you, it's coz they want to be with me. And if they aren't jealous of me because they want to be me, they're jealous coz they want to be with you. Plus, really Rachel, who cares?"
Rachel rubbed the back of her head, "Yeah, you're right." She smiled, "That's why I love you." He grabbed her face and kissed her, "Let's go, Quinn and Finn are waiting for us in the cafeteria."
They grabbed hands and the two walked into the cafeteria. They spotted Finn and Quinn immediately and went to sit with them. Finn, still rubbing Quinn's back, looked to them, "Well, what happened with Jewfro? How did he know? Did you kick his butt?"
"He heard us talking earlier, and yeah we kicked his butt. But you don't have to worry about anything else, everything will be fine. I promise," Puck had a real honest look. Everyone sort of figured he knew what he was talking about.
Later Rachel walked to Glee. Finding her cheerios, she went to sit with them. Puck walked in and put his arm around her, "Hey babe. I missed you in my last class."
Rachel smiled, "I missed you too." Mr. Schue walked in and started talking about how they were getting to cocky and said they were going to battle each other. Rachel mentally picked her group, Quinn, Santana, Brittany, Puck, Finn, Mike and Matt. The Mr. Schue said boys against girls.
Rachel raised her hand, "Isn't that, sexist? Obviously you would choose the boys."
Mr. Schue smiled, "Miss. Pillsbury is going to help us judge. You have two days to practice. And it has to be a mash-up."
Rachel nodded. She and the other girls gathered around in a circle on one half of the Glee room. Quinn smiled, "So what are we going to do?"
Rachel shrugged. Mercedes leaned back in her chair, "Well I want Halo to be one of the songs."
Rachel looked up, "How about Walking on Sunshine?"
Santana shrugged, "Works for me."
Rachel smiled, "I'll work on it tonight, if you all are ok with that?" They all nodded, admitting that she was the best. At the of class Rachel found Puck, "Hey Noah."
He grinned, "Hey Berry."
"You have a game tonight right?"
He nodded, "Yeah. I don't know you pretend like you didn't know. You have a cheerios performance."
"Yeah but sometimes we preform without the football team."
He chuckled, "I can see why? How long do you think Finn and Quinn will hate me?" He looked real sad. He'd lost his best friend and his girlfriend's best friend.
Rachel looked at him sad, "I don't know. Maybe we can all go on a double date?"
Puck smiled, "Yeah, tomorrow night, the night before we perform our mash-ups."
Rachel grabbed his hand, "Sure." She leaned up and kissed his lips lightly, "I have to go to class, see you later." Rachel walked into class and found Quinn, "Hey Q, wanna go on a double date with me and Puck?"
Quinn sighed, "Sure, why not?"
Rachel beamed, "Great."
About three hours later, and the football team and Cheerios were putting the finishing touches on their plays/act. Rachel stood on top of the pyramid, proud and strong with a big smile painted across her face. Then she back flipped off and cartwheeled back to the front where two Cheerios lifted her off the ground and spun her in the air while everyone else did their madness behind her. When they had finished Sue yelled through her megaphone, "Close enough. Good job, go pep up the football team, they need it."
All the cheerios went off to the football team who were listening to Coach Tenaka give the plays for the night. They came and rubbed shoulders, gave kissed, and said encouraging words. Rachel kissed Puck and told him to be her star, Quinn hugged Finn tightly and told him he could do anything. Then they all went to their spots, coz the game was about to start.
Half time approached and the Cheerios went out to perform their infamous act. At the end everyone cheered, of course, they were wonderful. They all sat and watched the game. It was tied 1-1. Puck had gotten the first touch for their team, and some fat dude got the point for the other team. There was one minute left and the other team had the ball. Then someone on their team, they couldn't tell who, tackled him.
Another player from their team grabbed the ball, which had flown from the tackled other team player's hands and ran for the touchdown. There was 24 seconds left. He was so close. Could he make it? Probably. His number wasn't visible from where they were and everyone was so confused they didn't say. The buzzer went off right as he crossed the line.
Rachel turned to Quinn, "Did it count?"
Quinn shrugged, "I don't know, does it count if they make it at the same time as the buzzer?"
