I would like to say first to everyone, that Rachel is not going to go around kissing everyone and acting like she did last chapter, she was drunk and that causes most people I know to throw inhibitions to the wind. I know normal Rachel would never act like that but Rachel Drunk…that's another story I'm sure, maybe not how I wrote her but still, she'd be different. And she had had a lot of Cherry Bombs. Anyways, Thank you all for reading! I'm glad to be able to update again quicker this time. Hope you all enjoy!


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Seacat03: I'm so glad you're enjoying the chapter so far. I like Tina so I didn't want to keep having her be mean. I like her more as Rachel's friend but we'll see if Rachel is able to trust her. hope you enjoy the chapter.

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"Damn internal clock" Rachel cursed as she blinked her eyes open and looked at the clock. It was six in the morning and she wasn't even sure what time she went to bed but it wasn't that long ago. The first thing she registered was the pounding headache she had, next was the fact that someone was in the bed with her.

She looked over, expecting it to be Santana or Brit and literally jumped when she saw a shirtless Noah asleep next to her.

She got out of bed, to quickly and had to reach for the bed to steady herself. All the movement didn't wake Noah or even move him at all. Rachel frowned, sat down on her couch, trying to remember why he was in her bed. She remembered most of the night before. She remembered dancing a lot, she remembered Finn getting angry when she… that stopped her. Did she really kiss Santana? What would possess her to do something like that? She shook her head, deciding to figure that out later and went on with what she remembered. Finn had called her a slut Noah and Matt had fought with him, Mike had came out to check on her. She remembered telling him he needed to try out for lead sometimes, and she meant to see to that still. Um.. Drank more with San and Brit, Matt asked her to dance, he kissed her… Wait.. Again? She thought, and her head was pounding. She looked around and saw someone had left a bottle of aspirin and a glass of water on her night stand. She got up and downed two of the pills before sitting back down and going back through the night. She couldn't help but be embarrassed by her behavior towards her new friends. She remembered dancing with Kurt, getting more to drink and then Noah asking her to dance. "Oh that's right!" She thought, remembering. She remembered trying to get Noah to kiss her and him kissing her on the cheek and saying she was drunk. "Damn it" she muttered out loud, remembering she told him that she always wanted to kiss him. That wasn't necessarily true. He was a good kisser and she did think about it from time to time but they were friends and worked well as friends and she'd never do anything to ruin that.

She remembered him taking care of her as she threw up the copious amounts of alcohol she had consumed over the night. She vaguely remembered Tina bringing her some water.

"That can't be right" she muttered again, Tina was friends with Mercedes and wouldn't do anything to help her, she must of imagined that part.

Then she remembered Noah taking her upstairs and borrowing his shirt. It all made since now, she just had to think about it. She sighed now. All of that remembering was seriously making her head hurt. She thought about laying back down but knew she needed to get up and start cleaning up the house so instead of doing what she wanted to do, which was get back into the bed, she got some clothes out of her dresser and went to her bathroom to take a shower.

She did feel a lot better after getting out but she still wasn't a hundred percent. The headache had receded so that was good but her stomach was doing flip flops.

She walked out of the bathroom and checked on Noah, who was still fast asleep. She tiptoed to her phone and took a picture. Giggling to herself, thinking how cute he looked sleeping and how he would kill her for having such a non bad ass picture of him.


After she saved the pic to her phone, she walked out of her room and down to the living room to see the was surprised to see that it was already cleaned up. She was also surprised to see Matt asleep on one of the couches and Kurt on the other. She rolled her eyes when she realized Santana and Brit forgot to tell them she had enough spare bedrooms upstairs for them and then raised an eyebrow when she noticed Mike was not sleeping with the other guys. She had a feeling if she went up to the guest room Brit claimed as her own, she would find him and decided not to chance it. She went into the kitchen and did the dishes and took the trash out from the night before. Then, looking at her phone seeing it was close to 8, she started making breakfast for everyone, knowing that they would probably be hungry since there wasn't much food the night before.

Santana was the first one to make it into the kitchen. She felt awful but she had already taken a shower and dressed so she looked better than she felt. "Coffee?" She asked

Rachel pointed to the maker where she had made coffee and then the espresso machine right next to it had espresso made too.

"I fucking love you, you know that right?" Santana asked as she downed an espresso before pouring herself a cup of coffee.

"I'm beginning to feel like you love my house and espresso machine more" Rachel teased.

Santana rolled her eyes, then clutched her head. "Dude, who do you think left you aspirin and water? Betcha you needed them when you woke up."

Rachel smiled at her, "Thank you for your thoughtfulness, San. I did need it. My head was feeling horrible when I woke up and it didn't help that at first I couldn't figure out why Noah was there…." She trailed off as she saw San's smirk.

"Oh yes, and how were things with our Puck last night?"

Rach blushed but said, "Nothing happened. I just didn't want to be alone that's all. We just slept"

Santana laughed at her but just said, "I know Rach, I'm just teasing you. Kurt sent me up because Puck asked him too but when I got there you both were passed out so I left you the water and aspirin and went back to the party. Not before taking this though" She took her phone and messed with it a moment then Rachel's phone went off.

She opened the pic message and it was a picture of her sleeping on Noah's chest, his arms around her and hers around his waist. It was actually really cute."Aw, this is cute" She said, out loud.

This wasn't the reaction Santana expected so she just looked at her for a second before grinning, "Yeah it is, which is why I'm going to be able to hold it over Puck for the rest of high school. He so doesn't do cute. It's gonna be great"

Rachel rolled her eyes but turned back to finish breakfast instead of saying anything. Kurt came in next asking where the closest shower was. Santana agreed to show him. She still didn't like him all that much but she did believe that he truly was Rach's friend now and not going to do anything stupid so she left him alone for the most part.

Alone in the kitchen, Rach looked at the pic again and smiled. It was good to have friends, to have people to have joke with, to talk to, and even to be teased when it's playful, like this picture. She had finally found a group that she fit into and it was a group she'd never have thought of herself but it worked for her.

Santana came back and finished her coffee in silence, while watching Rach flit around the kitchen. She finished French toast, eggs, bagels and had gotten the milk and Orange Juice out when Mike and Matt both stumbled in. Rachel took one look at them and poured them both a double shot of espresso and then handed them a cup of Coffee. After there espresso they both looked at least alive.

"G'morning" Matt mumbled

"Morning" Mike said, a little more upbeat as they both slumped into seats by San on the bar.

"Good Morning, Michael, Matthew. Sleep well?" She asked, pointedly at Mike, who blushed and looked down into his coffee, causing Santana to laugh, spewing her coffee, in surprise.

Rachel grinned then, handing Santana a paper towel she made up their plates and placed breakfast in front of her three friends. Mike was still red and refused to look up at her while Santana was smirking at the Asian and Matt was just eating.

Britney walked in, showered and looked perfectly fine. "Oh you made breakfast" Brit clapped and quickly grabbed a plate for herself and sat next to Mike, which caused him to turn even redder if that was possible and made both Santana and Rachel start laughing again and even Matt chuckled at that making Mike shoot him a glare.."What?" Britney asked, confused.

"Nothing" Rach, gasped out, "Just a case of the giggles"

Kurt came in, sitting down by Britney after grabbing his breakfast. "Thanks Rachel, This is great" Kurt complimented as he started eating.

The rest of them chorused thank you's then Britney looked around, "Where's Puck?" She asked.

It was then Rachel's turn to turn red which did not go unnoticed by Mike.

"Yeah, Rach, Where's Puck?" He asked, grinning having a pretty good idea.

Santana saw Rachel fidgeting and decided to help her out by changing the subject, "Hey, B, Brit and I were talking and well, there's an opening on the Cheerios and we were wondering if you wanted to try out. I mean we all know you're a great dancer so you'd fit perfectly. You're way better than the loser chicks that have trying to get on."

Rachel was shocked. I mean it's one thing to be friends with the popular people, its another to become one and being a Cheerio made you popular by itself. No one messed with the cheerios, they were made up of the hottest girls in school.

"Um..While I appreciate the thought, I don't know if I'd really fit with them, San" Rach answered, honestly.

"Sure you would, B. They'd all love you, like we do" Brit answered for San with a smile.

"Yeah, you'd be perfect for it" Mike agreed.

Kurt nodded, "It'd be nice to have another glee girl on the team" was his comment.

"What are we talking about?" Puck asked, walking in and pouring himself a cup of coffee.

Just as he took his first drink, Britney said "Rachel's going to be our new Cheerio" And the coffee came spewing out of his mouth.

"You're what?" He asked Rachel, looking shocked.

"I'm not doing anything, yet" Rachel replied, shooting a small glare at Britney but quickly changed it to a smile when she remembered it was, after all, Brit and she didn't realize she did anything wrong.

"But you're thinking about becoming a part of the bitch squad?" Noah asked, still sounding shocked.

"Noah! That was rude. Santana and Britney are the heads of the Cheerios"

"And your point?" He asked with a smirk causing Santana to throw a bagel at his head

Rachel choose to ignore the whole exchange and turned to Santana. "I'll think about your kind offer and get back to you"Santana nodded, knowing that was the best she'd get for now.

"Thanks for breakfast, Berry" Noah said, making a plate for himself.

"You're welcome" Rach replied before walking out of the kitchen.

"Where are you going?" Mike called.

"To get ready for dance class" She yelled back then she was gone.


"Dude, you seriously think it's a good idea to have her on the squad?" Puck asked, looking at Santana.

"What's wrong with it?" San asked

"You know most of your cheerios are bitches, worst of all to Berry. It doesn't seem like a good idea to have her in close quarters with them"

"Aw that's so sweet" Britney gushed, "Puck's worried about her"

"It's not sweet, it's sensible" Puck muttered, hating that word.

Matt spoke up, "Puck's right, it doesn't seem smart to have her with a bunch of girls who tortured her daily up until a week ago."

"You mean like we all did?" Santana shot back. "The girls won't mess with her because she's my and Brit's friend and after they get to know her they'll all figure out how great she is themselves. You guys need to let up on the protective bit, she can't rely on us forever, she needs to learn how to be herself around everyone, not just us and this will help."

Rachel, who, of course was listening right outside the door, came to a decision right then to become the next Cheerio. Not because of what Santana had said, though that was nice, and truthful too, but because of Puck and Matt. Santana was right, they were protective of her, and though sweet, they wouldn't always be there and she needed to be able to stand on her own two feet and make a name for herself so she wouldn't need them to be.

With that decision she turned and went upstairs to get ready for dance class, like she had told them.


About five minutes later, Santana walked in with Britney, smirking."So B, how much of the conversation did you listen to before you came up here?" San asked

"Hmm? I have no idea what you're talking about" Rach replied, trying to sound innocent.

"Uh huh, sure. What time will your dance class be over?"

"Umm it starts at 10:30 it should be done by 12:30."

"Is that all you have today?" Brit asked and when Rachel nodded, she said "Good, we're taking you shopping"

"Didn't we just go shopping?" Rach asked.

"So? We need to go get our nails and hair done so we might as well make it a shopping trip to" Brit said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"…ok I guess. Are the boys coming again?" She asked, wondering how they'd feel about that.

Santana shook her head, "Nope they're having a guys day, we're having a girls day then they're coming back tonight for a movie night."

"Wow you have my whole day planned don't you? You sound like me" Rach teased, though honestly she felt a little overwhelmed. She knew Santana could be a little intense but geez, she thought to herself.

"Whatever, B, go on hurry up and get your class over with so we can go" Santana growled playfully, pushing her out the door.

"I'm going I'm going. Oh and San?" Rach said, turning red but knowing she had to say it.

"Hmm?" Santana asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Sorry about kissing you last night, I don't know what came over me. It was my first time being intoxicated and.." She stopped as Santana busted out laughing.

"B…seriously…I didn't mind, at all. If you remember, I'm the one that offered first"

"I know, but still I should have…"She was cut off again.

"It was just a kiss. Brit and I kiss all the time. It doesn't mean anything, so chill" Santana said with a finalizing tone that Rachel had to follow.

She nodded her head, deciding that if Santana wasn't making a big deal about it she wouldn't either. But what about..

"And don't apologize to Matt either" Santana ordered, as if she read her mind. When Rachel raised an eyebrow at her, Santana shrugged, "Nobody would regret kissing you Rach, you're almost as hot as me and that's saying something but apologizing makes it sound like you regret it and that doesn't make a person feel good"

"Oh." Rachel said and left it at that, realizing Santana was probably right so if Matt didn't bring it up, neither would she.

"Now get your cute ass out of her so you can hurry back." This time San said it and pushed her out her bedroom went, hurrying down the stairs and seeing the boys were getting ready to leave.


"Want a ride to dance, Rach?" Noah asked.

"Sure, that'd be great, but hold on" she said then looked over her shoulder, "SAN!" She yelled.

"What?" San yelled back.

"Can you pick me up from dance at 12:30?"

"YES, NOW GO!" she ordered, laughing as she said it.

"YES MA'AM" She yelled back, before turning back to the boys who were all staring at her.

"What?" She asked.

"Nothing" They all said before turning to leave.

"Thank you guys for coming" Rachel said to the three boys who weren't driving with her. She gave Kurt a hug first, then Mike but when she went over to Matt he was already in the car and just waved. She turned to Mike, "Is he ok?"

"Um, yeah, why wouldn't he be?" Mike asked but he wasn't looking at her.

"Michael?" Rachel asked, with a warning tone.

He would have cracked but Noah picked then to yell "BERRY GET YOUR ASS IN THE CAR OR I'M LEAVING IT HERE"

Mike gave her another quick hug and hurried to get into the car with Matt, leaving her confused. She walked to Noah's truck and hopped in.

"What's wrong?" He asked, seeing her face.

"I think Matt's mad at me but I don't know what I did." She replied, staring out the window.

"Oh." Was all he said, frowning but not saying anything else.

Rachel took out her phone and texted Mike.

Rachel: Michael, what's wrong with Matthew?

Rach then looked over at Noah and saw he wasn't looking very happy either.

"What's wrong, Noah?" She asked, suddenly concerned he was mad at her too.

"Nothing" He waved it off.

"Something's wrong and you told me yesterday you'd talk to me after the party" She reminded him, just remembering herself that he had said it.

"We don't really have time to get into any real conversation, Berry. Your class starts in ten minutes." He answered, as he pulled into the studio.

"Later today then?" Rachel asked him, as her phone went off.

Mike: He's fine, Rach. Don't worry about it he'll be back to normal tonight at movie night. Have fun at dance.

Rachel: Fine, I'll stop asking for now but if he's not acting right tonight I'm getting it out of one of u.

Mike: Aye Aye Captain. Later ;)

Rachel giggled at that then looked up at Noah who was frowning.

"Matt?" He asked

She shook her head, "Mike. Now we'll talk later today, right?"

"I don't know Berry, You don't seem to really have the time. Girls day after dance, Movie night with everyone. I don't see how you can fit me in." He sulked.

Rachel frowned, "Are you upset about me hanging out with everyone? I thought you were okay with me being friends with everyone."

"I didn't think it would mean we'd never be able to hang out. I mean seriously, Berry. Santana and Brit has stayed at your house like every fucking night since Monday and when you're with me you're with everyone else too. We used to hang out, just us, ya know. I can't talk to all of them like I can you but I can't seem to get you by yourself anymore"

He was breathing heavily after that, very Rachel like, outburst.

Rachel had tears in her eyes and scooted over to the other side of the truck to throw her arms around Noah.

"Noah, you're still my best friend. I know this past week, it's been hard to hang out like we're used to and I'm sorry if I've been neglecting our friendship. I'm just not used to having to juggle friends since I never really had that problem before. How about tomorrow we make it an us day? Just you and me and you can tell me everything that's going on with you, especially what you wanted to talk about yesterday before the party."

"Just us?" Noah asked her, one arm around her but still sounding suspicious.

"I promise, I'll send San and Brit home tell the boys to stay away for the day and we'll watch movies, order take out and talk just like before."

Noah grinned at her then pulling her all the way to him and squeezing. "Sounds great. Now hurry up, you're going to be late."

Rachel rolled her eyes at him for that mini lecture. Kissed his cheek and waved at him as she hurried to class.

Noah pulled out, grinning. Happy to have his best friend back, at least for a day.


I know this is a short chapter compared to the others but it seemed like an okay place to stop so here it is. Next couple of chapters, girls day/guys day, movie night, noah and Rachel day, finding out what's up with Matt, Cheerio try outs and much more so stay tuned :D