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A/N: Wow. Words cannot express how sorry I am for not updating in such a long time. I hate to list out excuses, but I have a million and one why I could not update or even write this story in almost forever. I've been so swamped with homework from all my classes and then sports, and haven't had any time at all to do anything I actually enjoy. I decided on writing this story instead of studying AP U.S. History test!

Now, actually about this chapter. I've not my best work (by far), but I got so excited when I finished I had to update! I'm not the biggest fan of all this Puckabrina I've put into the story so far, but the situations are unavoidable. Don't worry though- they will end up getting together at the end. I've got the whole story and all the Christmas activities they're going to do planned out, but actually haven't had the time to write it. And P.S.-Please don't hate on Puck. I know I'm writing him like he's a perv, but he's a teenage boy: what else can you possibly expect?

Oto another note, I've decided to put my other Sister's Grimm story on hiatus, because I'm dissapointed in the way that one's turning out as well. Not to mention, I have a case of EXTREME writer's block with that story.

But yes, enough excuses. On with the story! XD (please review and give me feedback, I'd appreciate it!)

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters or qualities of any of the characters.

Chapter 7:

Monday, December 18th

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

Sabrina rolled over to the other side of her bed and fumbled around on her nightstand, trying to locate the sleep button on her alarm clock. It only being 4:45, she desperately wanted to go back to bed. But she'd promised Puck she would work out with him in the morning, and Sabrina, of course, never backed out on a promise.

Slowly and clumsily, Sabrina stumbled out of her bed. She'd set her clothes out the night before, knowing that she would have no time trying to look for them in her half-asleep state. Quickly, yet clumsily, she slipped on her black Soffee shorts, a black sports bra, socks, and her white, cross country t-shirt. Grabbing a water bottle, her neon running shoes, and a ponytail, she put her hair into a high, messy bun and waiting for Puck, in his car, as she was instructed to do. Merely seconds later, Puck quietly came through the garage door, wearing work-out shorts and a cut-off t-shirt. Keys in hand, he pulled himself up into the truck, and started the engine.

"You seem tired, sure you want to work out?"

Sabrina nearly growled, "Yes, I'm fine".

Looking over in her direction quickly and looking back towards the road, Puck said, "Someone's crabby." Sabrina slapped his arm. "You know, slapping, or touching in any way, the driver can be considered distracted driving. And you wouldn't want to be the cause of the accident." Outside, there were nearly no people driving on the road, with it being pitch black out.

"Well, we both know you get distracted very easily, evidenced by our crash-landing yesterday while flying, so I'll refrain from making any type of contact with you."

Sighing, Puck replied, "Alright, you got me, you won this time."

A small smile escaping, Sabrina decided it was worth getting up this early to work-out with Puck.

Pulling into the parking lot at exactly 5:00 A.M (when the gym opened), Puck hopped out of the car and instantaneously appeared at Sabrina's side, helping her out of the car.

After nearly slipping on the ice, Puck grabbed Sabrina's hand, refused to let it go, saying that she could get hurt.

Presenting the membership cards to the lady at the front desk, Puck led Sabrina into the gym, where there was a ¼ mile track around.

"Okay, 'Brina, what do you want to work on today?"

Pondering for a moment, Sabrina replied, "I'm not sure, something moderate, like running 3 miles. At a fast pace."

Grinning, Puck said, "I challenge you to whoever can finish it the fastest."

"You're on."

Stopping in the side room to stretch for 10 minutes, Sabrina and Puck made idle conversation, waiting to run the 3 miles. Sabrina laughed at Puck's inflexibility, and couldn't help but show off her flexibility, doing all three splits.

Puck just looked at her with awe. Shaking his head, he said, "You ready?"

Now nervous, Sabrina meekly replied, gulping, "As ready as I'll ever be."

"You want a head start?"

Giving him a look, Sabrina curtly said, "No. Start when I say go. Ready, set, GO!"

With her word, Sabrina started running at what she considered a slow sprint. When running, Sabrina had plenty of time to think and sort her thoughts. She would need to run 12 laps to get 3 miles, and they would hopefully be faster than Puck's. Ahead, she noticed Puck already ten feet in front of her. She picked up her pace, running just a half a step and to the side of Puck, just to annoy him. Five laps later, Sabrina noticed Puck was right, the gym did get really hot. Still beside him, she quietly said in his ear, "Is it okay if I take off my shirt? I'm getting kind of sweaty…"

Puck didn't even give her a sideways glance, just nodded his head. "I was thinking the same, it's like a sauna in here." Sabrina admired how concentrated Puck was. Falling slightly behind him on the sixth lap final turn, Sabrina quickly pulled off her t-shirt and tossed it into the room with their water bottles. On the 8th lap, Sabrina noticed herself running more out of breath, Puck now pulling into the lead. He gave her a sideways glance, and picked up the pace on his last mile. Struggling to keep up with him, Sabrina managed to finish, on the twelfth lap, only five seconds behind him. While she was struggling for air, Puck seemed completely at ease.

When she finally managed to get a few words out, she said to Puck, "What time did we finish in?"

Cockily, he replied, "Well, since I won, I finished in 18 minutes flat and you were at 18:05."

Smirking, Sabrina replied. "Hm. Not too bad, considering I haven't done any long distance workouts since early October."

"Damn, Sabrina, who are you kidding, that's amazing!" Puck held up his hands to do a fist-pound with Sabrina. Glancing at the clock on the wall, Puck said, "Crap! It's already 5:40, we've got to go, or you won't have enough time in the morning to get ready!"

Quickly gathering their things and putting back on their clothes, Puck and Sabrina made a stop at the water fountain to quench their thirst. In line before them was Blake, a junior who was the starting quarterback on the football team of Ferryport Landing's rival school. He was notoriously known for having a new girlfriend every week, though that was reputable with his devishly handsome, cocky good looks. He was quickly joined by his four other friends, all of them members of the football team. Puck and Sabrina only knew Blake from elementary school, when the three of them all went to the same school. He turned around and acknowledged both of them, giving Sabrina a look that Puck grew increasingly angry at. He interrupted Blake's gaze by saying, "Dude, take your eyes off of her!"

Looking in Puck's direction, he innocently put his hands into the air and stated, "Sorry, man. I couldn't help it, she's really hot. Literally and physically." He snuck a glance in Sabrina's direction again, only this time giving her a wink. "I wouldn't mind burning a few more calories with her in my room, if you're catching my drift." His friends laughed with him, all making similar comments.

Though blushing and awed by Blake's overwhelming handsomeness, Sabrina was still repulsed by his behavior. You would think she would be used to it, because Puck goofed around all the time with her like this. Yet it was different with Puck. Puck interrupted Sabrina's thoughts when he yelled at Blake. "I know she's hot, yes. But you've crossed the line."

As Blake moved closer to Sabrina, Puck sidestepped in front of him and took on a protective stance over Sabrina. Blake's friends all hovered towards them, threatening them. As the two groups moved in on each other, Sabrina decided on the need for a distraction as to break up the fight. "Puck, calm down. I can handle this myself, I'm a big girl now." As Puck turned his head to look at her, she secretly winked at him as she strode over to Blake, placing one of her hands on his chest. Blake only accepted her gesture, placing his hand on her lower back. Sabrina grabbed hold of Blake's hair, running her fingers through his hair. She leaned up to get near his face, yet dodged her head to the right, softly touching her lips on his chin, then cheekbone, then ear. Blake eagerly ran his lips on her face, many times getting dangerously close to her lips, and his hands all over her body, pushing her up against the lockers. Surprising Blake, she whispered into his ear, "Oh, Blake. I would so love to fu-. . ." pausing for a moment, she could hear Blake's breath growing ragged as he fell under her lure, and she continued her sentence, "kick your ass right now." His eyes opened wide, and before he could say anything, Sabrina hurriedly finished her proposition. "So, instead of either me kicking your ass or unleashing Puck, who looks like he might kill you right now, I'll let you leave before you cause any more trouble. Oh and, I won't tell your little secret from 4th grade." He only meekly nodded his head, and Sabrina confidently strutted away, with Puck in awe behind her.

He couldn't help but remark to them, "You don't want to mess with her."

In the background, Sabrina could hear Blake's friends teasing him about getting owned by a girl. Puck picked up his pace to catch up to Sabrina, now nearing their car. While helping her in, he said, "Didn't think you had it in you. Who knew you were a little sex monkey?"

Lightly slapping Puck's shoulder, Sabrina jokingly replied, "Don't go around telling everyone, wouldn't want my little secret to get out." They both got into the car.

Puck could only laugh to himself as he pulled the car out of its spot and started driving back home. "Wasn't planning on it. Might be a little awkward if Uncle Jake found out you were training to be a prostitute."

"God, Puck, that's nasty. I could and would never do that."

"I know."

In silence for the next moments, Puck asked Sabrina a question. "What's Blake's secret that you threatened him with?"

Laughing out loud, Sabrina replied, "Oh god, it's so embarrassing, and I'm the only one who knows about it. You can't tell anyone though, because I need to save it in case I ever need blackmail for him." Puck only nodded, keeping his eyes on the road. "In 4th grade, during recess, me and him were playing hide-and-go-seek on the playground, and he was hiding underneath the rock climbing wall. I found him, and accidentally scared him so badly, that he peed his pants. He had to go to the nurse's office, call his mom, and go home."

Puck chuckled along with Sabrina for the remainder of the ride, amazed at how Blake was not as tough as he was cracked up to be. Pulling into the garage, he and Sabrina quickly hopped out, as they would have to leave again for school in 45 minutes.

Both charging upstairs to claim the rights for the shower first (since the kids all shared one shower), they both reached the door, Sabrina with a towel around herself and carrying her clothes, and Puck topless with just his gym shorts. Giving each other a sheepish look, they both waited and gestured for the other one to take their shower first.

"Ladies first," Puck argued.

"No, you go first, because your shower takes half the time of mine," Sabrina retaliated.

"Okay, fine, I'll shower first."

Rolling his eyes, Puck snorted, laughing at some unsaid joke.

"What are you laughing at?"

Smirking at her, Puck replied, "I thought of a solution for our shower problem, but refrained from saying it because I knew you would get mad at me."

"Gee, thanks Puck. What were you going to say?"

"You really wanna know?"

"Well, not really, but now you've got me intrigued." She leaned against the doorway.

"I was going to say, 'Care to join me to save time?'" With a puzzled look on her face, Puck now had to explain the joke, as it was said out of context. "I meant to say, 'Fine, I'll shower first. Care to join me to save time?"

Sabrina scrunched up her face. "God Puck, you are so nasty. Just for that, I'm going to shower first."

As she was shutting the door, Puck said, "At least I didn't say it out loud, you asked about it. That's a little better than before."

Opening the door one last time, Sabrina whispered, "Okay, fine yes, a little better. But you still need to grow up. And please leave from standing right outside the door, it's a little creepy knowing that a boy my age is right outside the room when I'm naked."

Finally taking her shower, Sabrina quickly shampooed and conditioned her hair and washed her body. She put on her outfit choice for the day, a pair of black leggings paired with a longer gray and white wool cardigan, white tank-top, and grey boots. She left her hair to dry naturally, already feeling bad enough for spending this much time in the bathroom.

Sabrina opened the door and knocked on Puck's door to let him know that she was done using the bathroom. Returning back to her room, she grabbed all her books and school supplies that were thrown about in her room, shoving them into her backpack. A few minutes later, she heard the shower turn off and the shower curtain open.

"Sabrina?" Sabrina heard Puck call out her name. "You almost ready to go?"

"Yeah, just a second. Meet me in your car." She half-shouted back to him.

Quickly, she located her jacket and shoes, and hastily fast-walked over to the garage, where Puck was patiently waiting with the car running.

"Hey, sorry I took so long."

"It's okay, we're not that late, only two minutes behind schedule."

The rest of the car ride was in silence, as per usual. They arrived at school, luckily with time to spare. Though Sabrina and Puck had nearly all of their classes together, they didn't talk to each other for the rest of the day, only awkward eye contact made. During 1st period, over the announcements, Sabrina was droned out and nearly falling asleep until she heard, ". . .And remember, the Winter Formal is right around the corner! Ticket prices are $20, but if you wait until the night of the dance, it will be raised to $30! So buy your tickets now!" Sabrina could feel a pair of eyes on her, and when she looked up, she saw Puck looking right at her. He quickly averted his eyes to the other direction, as if he'd hoped Sabrina wouldn't notice. Then, in all of her other classes she shared with Puck, she kept feeling a pair of eyes on the back of her head. She noticed it wasn't a creepy stare, but a sheepish, intrigued one from Puck.

The rest of the day dragged on, finally ending when the final bell rang at 2:45. It was silent until Puck said on the ride home, "How was your day?"

Responding with as little words as possible, Sabrina mumbled, "Bad."

Puck frowned. He didn't like to hear that Sabrina had a bad day. "And why would that be?"

Slouching in her seat and shifting her gaze over to him, she mumbled back, "It just was."

"Please tell me." Puck attempted to give her Daphne's puppy dog eyes.

Sighing, Sabrina replied, "Nothing specifically was good or even okay." She could feel tears starting to leak out of her eyes.

As Puck saw this, he pulled over into the nearest parking lot and turned off the car. Reaching over, Puck affectionately held her hand and rubbed her fingers. With his other arm, he attempted to give her a one-armed hug. "It's okay, 'Brina. Shh… It's alright." Tears streaming out of her eyes, Puck grew uncomfortable, for he was not used to dealing with emotional, crying teenage girls. Especially if that teenage girl was Sabrina. "Now, will you please tell me what happened? Maybe it will help."

Choking on her tears, Sabrina managed to get out, "Well," she started, "during 1st period, Bella kept making fun of me during our group discussion, and then, in 2nd period, Drew threw the dodgeball directly at my head, so then I missed 3rd period, and then during lunch, I had to sit by myself, and then I got a C on my last math test, and then I found out my friends have been talking behind my back for the past week about how I'm such a slut, and then, I still haven't been asked to the Winter Formal, and I really wanted to go."

Sabrina had been talking so fast that Puck could barely understand what she was saying. Pulling back from the hug a bit, Puck looked into Sabrina's eyes and said, "Please don't let any of that bother you, you're too of an amazing person to let those things get to you. They're just jealous of you."

"Oh please, cut the crap Puck. There's no plausible reason for them to be jealous of me."

"You wanna bet? You're so smart, beautiful, funny, athletic, outgoing, and perfect that they feel the need to make fun of you to try to diminish those flawless qualities and boost theirs." He wiped her tears gently off her face with his thumb.

Sabrina only gawked at him. He had called her perfect. Hugging Puck yet again, he stroked her back as she said to him, "You are the nicest person in the entire world. Your future girlfriend and wife will be lucky to have you." Realizing that what she said and who she was referring to, she blushed, for she was supposed to marry Puck in the future. Puck realized this too, but didn't acknowledge it in the awkward manner that Sabrina had. Clearing her throat, she continued. "Thank you so much, you just flipped my day the other way around."

Puck genuinely smiled back at her, stating nervously. "Uhm, yeah no problem. But, on the other hand, I was wondering, if like, uhm, you could um, maybegotothedancewithme?"

She didn't catch a single word he said. "I'm sorry, didn't catch that. . ."

Sighing, Puck reiterated himself. "Uhm, would you maybe want to go to the dance with me? You don't have to, I just thought we could maybe go as friends, but if you didn't want to go as friends or at all, that would be okay with me, I was just wondering since both of us don't have dates already and you know that. . ."

Sabrina interrupted him by putting her hand over his mouth. "I'd love to go with you," she replied sheepishly, blushing at every word.

Puck's grin could have lit up the entire world. "Awesome."

Before he could say another word, Sabrina gasped, "Oh my god! The formal's in two days, and I don't have any dresses to wear, and you don't have any suits or ties! We've got to go shopping now!" Puck only groaned, he hated getting dressed up. But if he had to dress up, so did Sabrina, and he loved seeing her in a dress. But any evidence of Sabrina crying had been long gone. "Puck, we've got to go to Bella's Dress and Suit Emporium now!"

"Your wish is my command." With that, he turned around the car and headed in the opposite direction towards the shop.

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