A/N: Hey guys! Thanks for your support of this story. I love it and I'm glad you guys are enjoying it. So I need to make a correction. In my last author's note. I said that it would 2 chapter and then the big chapter. It's actually 3. So look out for chapter 13. Ok, so happy reading.

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XXX William McKinley High School – Monday, August 27, 2012 9:25 am XXX

"TC." Noah Puckerman said as he approached Tina in Algebra class.

"Hey Noah." she said with a smile.

"I prefer Puck." he said as he sat in the desk beside her.

"I prefer Tina." she said with a flirty smile.

"Alright, well are you coming over Friday night?" he asked returning her smile.

"Oh yeah, party at your house." she said opening her notebook. "I don't know."

"Why not?" he asked. "It'll be Friday. Let's do it up."

"What's in it for me?" she whispered as she leaned toward him.

"It's a Puckerman party." he whispered back. "There are many adventures to be had." he said leaning toward her.

"Well party party." she said as the teacher began the lesson. All through class Tina caught Puck looking at her. Not one to be bashful he never looked away; he just smiled.

"Do you wanna sit with me at lunch?" he asked her after the bell rang.

"Thanks for the offer but I have to go see Mr. Chang about the summer reading list and I told Santana that I'd sit with her." Tina said sliding her backpack on.

"Oh. That's cool and I'll let you go be a suck up but you have to promise that I'll see you Friday." he said his thumb behind the one strap of his backpack.

"You know what? I promise."

"For real?"

"Yeah." she smiled.

"You'll be there?"

"With bells on."

"Awesome. See ya later Tina." he said with a wink as he exited the room. Tina smiled to herself and headed back toward Mike's classroom. She knocked on the door and before he could answer she was inside the room, closing the door behind her.

"What are you doing here?" Mike said standing up from his desk.

"I told you I had a question about the summer reading list." she said in her voice flirty.

"Oh."

"Right well, in one of the books, this girl meets this guy who is older than her but they have an instant connection. But then in a wacky turn of events it turns out that he's her teacher. He's mad at her because he thinks that she lied to him but the only lie she told him the day she met him was that she was 21." she said setting her books on his desk.

"What's your question, Tina?" he asked looking her in the eye.

"My question is what happens at the end?" she asked.

"What?"

"What does the girl have to do to make the guy understand that she wasn't pretending. That she likes him and that the age difference doesn't matter to her and that it shouldn't matter to him either, not if he really likes her."

"The girl wakes up from her dream." Mike said. "She realizes that while the age difference doesn't matter to her, it matters to the outside world and to the outside world, the guy would just look predatory and would be tossed in jail. So she let's go of whatever she thinks she feels for him and they act like they just met each other."

"Is that really what the guy wants though?" Tina whispered. Mike let out a deep breath and sat back down in his chair.

"Tina we can never be anything other than what we are right now." he said quietly. "I'm your teacher and you're my student. The other day at the bar was a mistake on both of our parts and it's in the past. It's time to move on and forget about it. We both have lives to live and I have a career."

"You know that's not what you want, Mike. You know that you and I connected and I know you felt the fire between us in that bathroom." she said leaning down toward him.

"It's Mr. Chang and I'm done talking about this. Go to lunch." he said turning away from her and back to the papers on his desk. Speechless, Tina grabbed her books and exited the room.

XXX William McKinley High School Quad -Lunchtime – 12:35pm XXX

Rachel and Vanessa sat on the stairs leading to the quad with Logan, Grant, Puck, Nick and the rest of the McKinley High Football team.

"Are you ready for tonight?" Vanessa asked as she bit into a carrot.

"Of course I am." Rachel said. "I just got that gold LC by Lauren Conrad dress, which I look hot in by the way. So, I'm definitely ready. The question is, is Logan ready?"

"I don't know how he couldn't be. It's been like 20 years." Vanessa said rolling her eyes.

"Everyone goes at their own pace, V." Rachel said glancing at Logan. She loved him and she hoped that he loved her enough to get that why she wanted to be with him in that way.

"Well his pace must be snail." Vanessa said with a chuckle. "I hope that doesn't apply to actual act."

"Shut up." Rachel said slapping her best friend's arm. She looked back at Logan and thought to herself 'He's finally mine.'

Rachel had always be in total and complete love with Logan Brower. He was tall and muscular. His skin always glowed and he blue-green eyes were always smiling.

"Rach? What are you staring at?" Quinn asked as the five of them lay out in the front yard of the Fabray house on a hot summer day. Quinn, Tina and Santana wore cut-offs and bikini tops. Mercedes wore a zebra print tank and shorts. Rachel wore Bermuda shorts and a t-shirt.

"What? Nothing." she answered as she put a handful of popcorn in her mouth.

"Logan and Rachel sitting in a tree." Mercedes began to sing, causing the other girls to laugh. Quinn looked across the street and saw Logan and his friends playing street lacross.

"Well you better ease up on the popcorn Rach." she said when she spotted Rachel digging her hand into the bowl again. "I'm pretty sure Logan likes girls that can see their toes." She released the fluffy white food and all the girls just sat silently and watched the boys play.

Mercedes couldn't help but smile today. The ball had so much better than she had expected to be. All because of Jesse. He was so nice and sweet and she thought he could do better than Malory.

"Why are you smiling?" Kurt Hummel asked as he sat down at the table across from Mercedes.

"I'm not smiling." she said trying to push the smile away.

"Yeah right. What's going on with you?"

"I just had a really good time at the ball and I'm just basking in the post fun afterglow."

"Afterglow. Eventually, I'll experience actual afterglow." Kurt said. Mercedes laughed and grabbed his hand.

"You're hot. Some boy somewhere is dying to get up on that." she assured him.

"Well, of course there is. I'm fabulous." Kurt said touching up his perfectly moused hair. Mercedes laughed at him. Then her phone began to beep. She reached into her bag and pulled it out. It was a text message from 000-000-0000. Confused she opened the message and read it.

Cinderella finally made it to the ball. Too bad the prince is too old and SO taken. Some people never learn, huh Mercy?

-Q

"Are you ok?" Kurt asked as he waved his hand in front of Mercedes' face.

"What?" I'm fine." she answered.

"Ok. Are you going to that Puckerman party?"

"For what?"

"Oh I don't know general fun." Kurt said, rolling his eyes.

"I have a lot of stuff to do. The paper, homework." Mercedes said. "Maybe next time."

"You're really missing out." Kurt said. "I didn't think I'd have fun either but those parties are bananas."

"I believe you." she said smiling.

"If you change you mind. Meet me there." he said. "I'll be the one lounging poolside drinking a piña colada out of a coconut."

"I'll remember that." Mercedes said laughing. She had no plans to go to that party. She really did have work on the paper. Not mention, Jesse would be there when she got home, and no anon was going to stop her from being excited about that. Plus, there was nothing at that party for her except teenage drinking. She thought to herself, 'I'll pass.'