The more time Jake spent at the Berry's house the less time Puck spent there with his girl and his daughter and it was starting to get to him. He couldn't have Rachel bring Beth to him when he wanted to spend time with both of them, it wasn't fair on Rachel. He had been taking his frustrations out on Rachel when it came to Jake. He didn't understand why he had to be at his girl's house for. Couldn't they go to his house? He had tried to ignore Jake the few times they were at the Berry house together, but that just turned out to be awkward with his girl trying to get involved to have them sit down and talk about their feelings and shit. He didn't sign up for that shit, so he left. He explained to Rachel that he couldn't just talk and things would be alright with Jake, it wasn't like that in his family.
He wasn't even paying attention when it was time to for the duets to be sung. He wasn't even paying attention when Quinn and Sam sung Maybe it's you by Thompson Square or when Brittany and Matt belted out Good Time by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen. He scoffed when he heard that Finn and Santana were going to sing If I Never see your face again by Maroon 5 featuring Rihanna, he tuned that out fast. He was surprised when Tina and Artie came with the song Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine, Artie was kinda his boy and he could rap, something they didn't let him do often enough. To hear that Mike and Mercedes were going to be belting out Heroes (We Could be) by Alesso featuring Tove Lo Was interesting to say and let Mike off the hook with actually singing. Feeling Rachel's elbow into his rib cage was his cue that it was now his turn with Rachel to sing the song they had prepared for over the last few days.
Puck sat on a stool in the middle of the stage in the auditorium, Rachel standing next to him, her hand on his shoulder as he plucked away at the chords. Puck started out, his fingers moving along the neck of his guitar. He tried to take the song in as he sung each word. He smiled softly when Rachel took over, admiring her voice as she got lost into the words she was singing.
Rachel's hand gripped down on Puck's shoulder as she got into her part for the song.
Their voices blended together as they sang coming together as one. Puck stood up from his stool, walking closer to the edge of the stage, Rachel next to him as they sang. They sang moving from the center of the stage, walking in a small circle around each other. The words ringing out the truth they would only know the extent of. They ran to each other when they needed someone and they wouldn't change that for the world. Puck had ran to Rachel when he had the urge to get drunk and run his mother's car through the 7/11 and try and steal the ATM, it was Rachel that talked sense into him, made him see the bigger picture.
As they started to sing the last part of the song they moved to opposite ends of the stage. They both turned around brown eyes met hazel ones.
Rachel belted out her part of running to Puck as she started to ran across the stage to Puck. As Puck sang the last notes of the song, he placed his guitar to the side and he ran to the middle of the stage, Rachel meeting him in the middle jumping into his arms as they spun around in a circle.
Mr. Shue congratulated them and dismissed them for the day; he needed to rethink the set list for sectionals now that he heard how amazing Puck and Rachel were together. Puck was holding Rachel's hand as they were walking to his truck. "Is Jake going to be hanging around your house tonight?" He asked, stopping and leaning against the side of his truck. Rachel stood between his legs, her hands resting on his chest, as his hands gripped her hips.
"I believe so; does that mean you won't be over tonight?" She asked, pulling her bottom lip between her teeth. She hated that he would avoid her house because Jake was around all the time. She tried to understand this whole thing from Puck's perspective, but she found it hard.
"I'll be there," he replied, placing his hands on her hips. He couldn't let Jake dictate his life anymore than he already has. He could pretend for a few hours that Jake was nothing to him, after all Jake wasn't anything to him; he had plans on keeping it that way.
"Maybe you can guys can have a word and start on the path on becoming brothers," Rachel commented a smile brightening her features. He shook his head, pulling her in for a kiss, not wanting to ruin the good mood his girl was in. He wasn't ready to talk about being brothers with some kid that walked into his life by accident. There were plenty of times that he wanted a brother instead of a sister, but now it just didn't sit right with him.
"Rach," Puck sighed, helping her into his truck. Wordlessly he shut her door and walked around the truck to get in. "I appreciate you trying to help me with Jake, but I'm not ready to hang out and act like we had been screwed over by the same bastard of a father." Rachel nodded, taking the hand he had laying on his leg.
"Okay, I won't push, but just know that I'm here. And that Jake well he is not any better off than you are," she told him, lacing her fingers through his. He scoffed at that, he hardly doubted that Jake had it harder than he did. He had a little sister that he had to look after while his mom worked double shifts every chance she had just to make ends meet at home and that still wasn't enough, the money that he pulled in from his pool cleaning business, didn't help her out that much, not that she would take his money saying that he should spend it on himself.
Rachel let him into her house while she went and got Beth. Puck sat on the couch when Clint and Jake walked into the house. "Dude just wait here, I'll only be a minute." He heard Clint tell Jake. Puck looked up and locked eyes with Jake. Puck gave him a nod and Jake returned it.
"I know you have every reason to hate me and my Mom, Puck but is it so bad to have a brother?" Jake asked, not moving from the spot he rooted himself in.
"You took my Father away from me, ruined my family, what did you expect I was going to do when I saw you? Embrace you with brotherly love and shit?" Puck sneered.
"He told me about you, what he could remember anyways," Jake shrugged, ignoring the questions Puck had spit at him. "I thought it would cool to meet you and be brothers. To know that I have a brother and a sister out there and not able to meet them kinda sucks balls," Jake retorted.
"After Dad left, I tried to find him and you. I heard my parents fighting about another woman and a bastard child and even though I didn't understand the extent of it at that age, I knew that meant I had a brother out there and I wouldn't be stuck playing Barbie's and tea parties, I could play GI Joes and shit like that, but I always came up empty handed and I pushed you to the back of my mind and let myself forget that I had a half brother out there somewhere," Puck confessed, running a hand through his 'hawk, getting up. "Maybe," he stated, going up to Rachel's room, leaving his sentence hanging in the air. Jake could take that anyway he wanted to take it. His words left his mouth before he had a chance to even think them. He smiled realizing that his girlfriend was rubbing off on him in more than one way and he didn't really mind.
He took Beth from Rachel when they walked into the room and he sat on the floor playing with his daughter as Rachel started on her homework. Maybe was a great place to start when it came to Jake and building any kind of bond with him.