"No way! No way in hell am I singing to her. Now she's messing with my head!" Puck yelled, drawing the attention of other people in the hallway.
"Puck. If you want to be with her so badly, you have to do everything it takes." Artie said, rolling up to them. "And trust me, I saw the way she looked this morning. Damn hot." Puck glared at him. "But, you know Puck, I pay a little more attention than everyone gives me credit for. I saw the way you looked at her. I say the way she looked at you. You love her."
"I know that, you all know that, but she doesn't know that."
"So...are you singing or what?" Mike asked.
"If Sam and Finn back me up I will. I'm desperate. I'll try anything."
"Good. I'll tell Tina and the girls will come up with a plan on how to get Jennifer to the choir room." Mike said.
"And I have the perfect song for you Puck." Artie smiled.
That day during Glee Club, Mr. Schue announced their assignment for the week.
"So, this week we are focusing on feelings expressed through songs." Puck almost laughed, but covered it with a cough. "Anyway...I want you to figure out the strongest feeling you have right now. Maybe it's because you're excited for Regionals on Saturday or you're nervous or in Tina and Mike's case, always in love." Everyone wolf-whistled as they blushed furiously. Mr. Schue laughed. "Alright guys. Let's get to work. We also want to practice, practice, practice for Regionals. Got it?"
"Got it." They rest of the Glee Club yelled back.
"Good."
*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*
Jennifer was walking to the Drama rehearsal room on Wednesday afternoon, but was stopped by Santana and Quinn. She was wearing a slightly similar outfit to Monday. It was a plain white T-shirt and a solid red cardigan over it. She had a yellow skirt with a flower on it and the shirt was tucked in. She had red and yellow striped flats on.
"Yes?" She asked slowly.
"We have to show you something."
"Ha, no. I have to rehearse. Our first show is in a week and a half. I am crazy busy."
"It'll take two minutes. Maybe a little longer." Rachel said, coming up behind her with Tina and Mercedes.
"Okay...Glee Club gang up...what's going on...?"
"C'mon Jennifer! Please?"
Jennifer sighed. "Fine." They grabbed her wrists and pulled her all the way to the choir room. "Where are you people taking me?"
"Come on!"
"Okay fine!"
They entered the choir room. "Why the hell am I here?" She asked loudly.
"Mr. Schue? I have my assignment ready." Puck said.
Mr. Schue looked between Puck and Jennifer, who had given up in struggling. "Yeah Puck. Go ahead."
Puck grabbed his guitar and so did Sam. Artie rolled up to the front with them.
Puck cleared his throat. "I dedicate this song to Jennifer. Because every word is 100% true."
Jennifer's eyes got wide and she started to struggle again. They girls dragged her to a chair and sat her down, right in the front.
Puck made his voice a little bit deeper and said. "Sorry seems to be...the hardest word."
Brad the piano guy started playing. Then Puck started to strum his guitar and sing. "Na na na na na na na...What I gotta do to make you love me? What I gotta do to make you care? What do I do when lightning strikes me? And I wake up to find that your not there...What I gotta do to make you want me? What I gotta do to be heard?"
"Oooooh..." Sam sang.
"What do I say when it's all over? Babe...Sorry seems to be..." Puck sang quietly.
"...The hardest word." Puck, Sam, and Artie sang together. "It's so sad..."
"So sad..." Artie echoed.
"It's a sad sad situation." The boys sang.
"And it's getting more and more absurd. It's sad."
"So sad." Artie and Sam echoed.
"So sad." Puck sang alone.
"Why can't we talk it over?" They sang all together.
"Oh it seems to me...that sorry seems to be the hardest word. What do I do to make you want me? What I gotta do to be heard? What do I say when it's all over? Sorry seems to be the hardest word. It's sad..." Puck sang slowly and passionately.
"So sad..." The others echoed.
"So sad..." Puck sang again.
"So sad..."
"It's a sad sad situation...and it's getting more and more absurd. It's sad..." Puck sang slowly.
"So sad..." Artie and Sam echoed again.
"So sad...Why? Can't we talk it over? Oh...it seems to me...that sorry seems to be the hardest word..."
"Sorry..." Puck drew out the long note and ended the song.
Everyone clapped-
Except for Jennifer. She was shocked. She wanted to run into his arms, take him back and kiss him fiercely, never letting go.
But that might've been the irrational part of her brain.
So instead, she got up and walked out, wiping under her eyes to keep from the tears spilling over.
"Got any other brilliant ideas Chang?" Puck seethed.
"Sorry seems to be the hardest word?" Mike offered lamely.
"Yeah...yeah...hm...funny." Puck took off his guitar and raised it above his head, ready to hit someone with it like he did when the football team was apart of Glee Club.
There was a fight during Glee Club then. Puck tried to hit Mike with his guitar and Santana ran to get a hold of him and Sam helped her. Tina defended Mike by sitting in his lap and Mike said that it wasn't helping. Mr. Schue tried to get Puck to put down the guitar, along with Finn, Rachel and Mercedes. Lauren wasn't there today since she was busy packing up her house. Brittany was dozing off into space and missed the whole thing.
"Puck!" Mr. Schue finally yelled.
"You need to calm down. I know how much you want Jennifer. Trust me Puck, I know." He sighed and continued. "But you can't want to kill anyone and everyone who gives you bad advice or ideas. You have to control your emotions. And that goes for all of you."
"Your right Mr. Schue. We do need to get a grip on our lives. But not now. I want to go help Jennifer." Quinn said and Santana and Tina nodded, agreeing with her.
"You guys can do that after rehearsal. Right?" Everyone nodded solemnly and Mr. Schue put Puck's guitar down, watching them sit down.
"Come one guys. You love Glee Club. Don't start fighting now. You guys are in your senior year of high school. Make it count. Don't throw it away for something stupid. And I know the girl isn't stupid Puck, but you all know what I mean. Right?"
"Right." The club mumbled.
"I didn't hear you..." Mr. Schue sang.
"Right!" They yelled with fake enthusiasm even though Mr. Schue didn't realize it until later that day.
Meanwhile, Jennifer walked slowly to the Drama rehearsal room. She was replaying what had just gone down in the choir room. Did Puck really mean that? That he was truly sorry once again. No. Jennifer told herself firmly. You are not going to go back to Noah Puckerman. You are going to find a much better man out there.
She walked in and started running through her lines in her head. She had them all memorized perfectly, of course. Hoping that Puck had all his lines memorized, then quickly destroying his name in her head, she quietly listened to Eric and George go on and on about how opening night was in a week and a half and how they had to be perfect on opening night and closing night. Every other night, they didn't give a damn.
They had five shows. One opening night, which was next Thursday, two on the next Friday, and then two on that Saturday.
"Oh joy," Jennifer muttered under her breath and Emily nodded with her.
"What was that Jennifer?"
"Nothing," she said a little too quickly.
"Fine then. Don't tell me."
"Fine then. I'll tell you. We don't need to worry about being good. Everyday. Not just in between the opening and closing night. Only Puckerman needs to do that. In fact, he needs to learn how to be good a something other than breaking a girl's heart. If he's not good, then our show is going to go down the rain. George, I want you to learn his lines. Just in case. Please. For me. Thank you. Now, we need to get rehearsing. Everyone to the auditorium. I'm assuming the Puckerman is going to come eventually so he'll realize we are all in the auditorium." Everyone just sat there. "Go!" Jennifer yelled.
They did, scared as hell that she was going to explode again.
Unnoticed by everyone else, Puck had been standing right outside the door.
-A/N: Yeah. So please review. Means the world to me. And if you love Puck, like I do, tell me who he belongs with in your review, in your perfect Glee world. =]
Oh and the song was 'Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word' by Elton John and Blue.
Love all you guys out there,
Dreamers. =}
