AS promised. warning, this is kind of a dark chapter for Puck! And also, I cried writing the last little bit of this chapter.
on the plus side you get to find out who hit Rachel!
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The next day had been the slowest day that Puck had ever experienced.
He didn't go to school, of course. He wasn't ready for that yet, and no one expected him to be.
The minute he had come home from talking with Santana he had went straight up stairs and fell onto his bed.
He didn't cry, he didn't get angry, he just stared at the ceiling.
He stared for hours, picturing every last feature on her beautiful body.
The way her eyes would light up at the most non surprising, boring thing in the world. How she would act angry whenever he swore or said something offensive or innapropriate, yet he would never miss the way her lips would twitch up in a small smile. The small dimple on the bottom right corner of her chin, that would only show when she was smiling as big as she could. He missed the way she would kink her eyebrow, when she was trying to be cute, or get him to do something.
He loved everything about Rachel and now that she was gone, every single part of her stood out like a pickle in a bowl of jelly beans.
Puck's mom had come into his room in the morning and gave him a sympathetic look before she put some fresh towels and laundry on the end of his bed.
He didn't even blink.
About an hour later, His little sister Sarah crept into his room and cuddled into his side.
It took everything he had in him in that moment not to break down. He had never broken down infront of his sister, let alone anyone.
He couldn't bring himself to do it.
He wasn't planning on going to school the next morning, but a loud knock at his door braught him out of his trance.
He didn't tell them to come in, he didn't tell them to go away or fuck off like he wanted to but the minute the person's fist left the door, it was flying open and in walked Finn Hudson.
He walked to the end of Puck's bed, grabbed a towel and threw it right in the Jewish boy's face.
Puck sighed and dragged the towel off of himself, before throwing it right back at Finn.
Finn ran a tired hand over his face.
"Get up" he demanded.
Puck just continued to stare at the ceiling.
Finn walked over and stood right over him, blocking his view of the roof.
"Dude, get up" he said again.
Puck rolled his eyes.
"I don't have to do, shit" he spat back.
Finn glared at him.
"You can't sit her and waste your days away Puck. You haven't talked to anyone about this, I'm your bestfriend. I'm worried about you, your family is worried about you the glee club is even worried about you. I don't care if you're angry or upset, we all are. Whether you like it or not, you are not aloud to be selfish right now.
You have a room full of fucking friends going through the same thing as you are right now, so you're going to get your ass out of bed and get in the god damn show" he yelled, angrily.
Puck was shocked. Never in his 17 years had he ever seen Finn yell. Sure when the whole baby situation had happened, Finn was pretty angry, but never this angry before.
So he did the only thing he could think of. He got his ass in the god damn shower.
the drive to school was silent. Well, Puck was silent. Finn tried to lighten up the mood with singing.
Puck was sure if he had lasted another 5 minutes of Finn's singing, he would have knocked him out.
They got to school and Puck went to his classes.
He sat by himself,and didn't even pay attention to the poeple that were gossiping about Rachel around him.
Once he finally got to Glee, all of the kids sat in their seats not speaking a single word.
It was Kurt who broke the silence.
"They're saying that she killed herself" he whispered His voice was barely above a whiper but it caught the attention of every single person in the room, even .
Quinn turned to Kurt.
"What?" she asked, angrily.
Kurt nodded.
"I heard the football players talking. They said she killed herself because of all of the bullying" he whispered.
When nobody said anything he took that as his queue to continue. "They also said that she did it because she was heartbroken over the fact that Finn was still trailing after Quinn" he said.
They all watched as Finn sunk down in his seat, and Quinn's eyes went wide.
Puck clenched his fists together before slamming them down against his thighs.
"That's bullshit!" he yelled.
Everyone turned to him.
his face was read, and his eyes were narrowed.
"I can't sit herand pretend like I don't want to beat all of their faces in" He mumbled through his clenched teeth.
"I hit a cheerio today" a small voice in the back spoke up.
Everyone turned around to face Tina, sitting beside Artie.
"Really?" Brittany asked.
Tina nodded. "It was in the changeroom during P.E. She said that Rachel deserved it. I just got so angry so I turned around and hit her" she whispered.
"Who was it?" Quinn asked.
A small smile krept up on Tina's face.
"Tori Weskin" she said.
"Fucking deserved it" Santana announced.
"I kicked the janitor" Brittany told them all proudly.
Puck furrowed his brows.
Brittany smiled as big as she could.
"He was cleaning out Rachel's locker and I thought we could all do that together. But he wouldn't leave so angry Brittany came out, and I kicked him" she said.
Everyone was surprised when Santana leaned over and captured the blonde in a heated kiss.
The silence that had enveloped the room didn't last long before Matt slammed the door open.
"I KNOW WHO DID IT" he yelled, panting.
"Did what?" Kurt asked.
Matt calmed his heavy breathing before his face turned into a scowl.
He walked over to the group and frowned.
" I know who hit Rachel" he said.
Finn was standing before anyone could even speak.
Matt continued.
"I was in the locker room and I guess they didn't know I was in there but I heard Karfosky talking to Azimo about him being drunk that night.." Was all Matt could get out.
That was enough for Puck to jump out of his seat, and head right down the hallway.
He felt relief flood through him as he watched Karofsky walk out of the locker room.
He slammed his shoulder into the bigger boy and pinned him against the wall.
"What the hell?" Karofsky hissed.
Puck's face twisted into anger.
"You think you can get away with this shit? You prick, you fucking killed her" He screamed.
Karofsk'y face widened in fear when he realized what Puck was talking about.
"You fucking took someone's life because you had one too many bears, you fucking douchebag" he yelled again.
He could hear the Glee club approaching him but nothing was stopping him now.
Karofsky frowned.
"I..I never meant to get her killed, I swear" he whimpered.
That just boiled Puck's blood even more.
He pulled away from Karofsky and right when he saw the look of relief wash over the boy's face, he pulled his arm back and threw his fist right into his face.
Karofsky hit the ground with a thud and struggled to get back up.
Within a second, Puck was ontop of him.
"You took away everything" He yelled, punching him in the gut.
Karofsky whined, still trying to get away.
"You took away her smile" He screamed, his fist reaching the boy's face again.
"You took away her beautiful voice" He whimpered, barreling his fist into the side of Karosky's face.
"You took away her dreams" He screetched, not stoping his fists.
"But most of all you took away her fucking chance to live, she never deserved this" He yelled, bringing his fist down once more, feeling the crunch of Karofsky's nose under his fist.
The sound of Karofsky screaming in agony was enough for Puck to feel satisfied.
Next thing he knew, he was being pulled off of Karofsky, and was leading the beaten boy away.
Puck tried to wriggle out of Sam's grasp.
"He's had enough" Sam whispered in his ear.
"He fucking took her away from me" He yelled, trying to get back to Karofsky.
The glee club watched in horror as Finn tackled Puck against the lockers.
"You son of a bitch" He screamed. "He took her away from you? You were like all of them. You threw slushies in her face, called her nasty shit, she meant everything to ALL of us. Not just you" he yelled.
They watched as Puck's face softened momentarily before it scrunched together.
"I was in love with her" He yelled, before he slumped to the ground.
"I'm still in love with her" He whispered, finally letting the words leave his mouth.
Nobody had a chance to speak before Puck covered his face with his hands and finally burst into tears.
He didn't care anymore.
Screw beaing strong, screw being bad ass. It was all too much.
He lost the only good thing he had left in his life.
He felt a small pair of arms wrap around his waist and for a second he almost felt Rachel against him, but when he looked up through his blood shot eyes, it was Santana hugging him. And soon Brittany,and even Finn. Before long, everyone was hugging him.
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