Hi All! So I can't get the internet at my new place just yet so bare with me while I try to get it all sorted. To make up for the delay in updates, I have decided to start posting my second story called 'Picking Up the Pieces'. If you haven't already, check it out and let me know what you think.

Elle xox

Chapter 10

The following Wednesday, when the lunch bell rang, Noah dragged Rachel outside to the glee tree. Santana had been right, by now they were old news and most didn't seem to mind the change. Rachel even had Cheerio's talking to her casually now, she was pretty sure that was Santana's doing but she didn't care. They both knew, as soon as the school kids found out about their marriage the talk would start again. Right now they were happy with the way things were traveling.

The remaining glee clubbers, Mr Schue and Miss Pillsbury were huddled in the choir room eating their lunch and compiling lists of songs for the upcoming wedding. It was a little over a week away now and everyone was very excited.

"Ohhh, we have to put some ABBA on the CDs," Kurt shrieked grabbing the growing list of Brittany and adding a few ABBA songs. They had decided to first list all the songs they thought would be good, give the list to Puck and Rachel to check over and then Kurt and Mercedes were going to download and compile the songs and then create the CD's.

Mr Schue looked over the list, he was guessing they had enough songs to make over 10 disks and figured they must be close to being finished.

"I think we might have enough for the night now, does anyone know where Puck and Rachel are?" he asked, "Ill take our list to them too look over so Kurt and Mercedes can finish this off."

"Actually Mr Schue, We wanted too talk to you about an idea we had," Quinn said stopping the teacher in his tracks.

"We were trying to decide what to get Puck and Rachel as a wedding gift and apart from the usual, we had no ideas that we liked," Mercedes explained.

"So we started thinking about what Rachel and Puck really love… Music. We still want to get them a gift but we would like to perform a song for them as part of our gift," Kurt finished on behalf of the group.

"I think that is a fabulous idea guys, they will love it," the teacher beamed, "I can also help you with the 'gift' idea… Miss Pillsbury and I were thinking of putting some money towards a trip to New York for the two of them, but if you kids want to put in for it as well, we can get them a lot more, maybe even a night out at a Broadway Show."

The teenagers' faces broke out into broad grins. The idea was perfect! They would both love it. They made arrangements with Mr Schue to bring money to him so he could organize it on their behalf.

"Now that's sorted, does anyone know where I can find the pair?" he said holding up the list.

"They are probably at the glee tree again," Matt answered with a shudder.

"The what?" Mr schue asked, confused.

"The Glee tree… that's what we named the tree on the other side of the oval, it's where we hang out when we want to get away from everyone else," Santana explained, "Rachel and Noah go there like, a lot... although I don't think it is just to talk."

Mr Schue made his way across the oval, hoping he didn't find the pair in a compromising position. He was shocked when he found the two in what was obviously a very heated… game of black jack. They were betting with a bag of candy and Rachel had a grape lollipop in her mouth.

"You're playing cards?" he chuckled.

"Yup, you want in Mr Schue?" Rachel asked with a smile, "these are good lollipops."

"Uh, No… thanks, but I'll pass… The others think you are here for reasons other than talking and playing cards," he shook his head. Rachel was about to ask what he meant when it dawned on her and she blushed.

"Nah, we're not that stupid… "Puck explained with a laugh, "we just need to get away from it all sometimes."

"Fair enough… I was just coming over to give you our final list of music for the wedding," the teacher said passing the list over to an excited Rachel who had now abandoned her card game. Her eyes ran up and down the list and she grinned.

"It's perfect," she said happily, "I just have one song I would like to add." She took out a pencil and wrote in her selection.

Sweet Caroline

Noah looked it over and smiled, "good idea babe."

Will smiled at the obvious choice of song. It was their wedding and if they wanted a song he would make sure it was on the list.

That Friday, everyone was walking to Puck's house for a movie and pizza night. The event was acting as their bucks/hens night. Puck's mom had taken the night off work and Rachel's dads were coming round for dinner. Kurt and Mercedes were driving Quinn who didn't think she would survive the walk.

At that exact moment, the rest of the group were wishing they too had driven. They had been watching as the dark clouds were approaching as Puck and Rachel led them to the Puckerman house. By the time they arrived, they were drenched and glad their backpacks and overnight bags had gone in the car with the others. Santana had fallen at some point and was now covered from head to toe in mud.

Rachel led them all to the back door knowing Rebekah would not appreciate muddy footprints through the house. The others watched as Puck opened the door and yelled.

"Ima! We are going to need some towels," he screamed and looked back at the group, "… lots of towels!"

Rebekah came into the room with Quinn, Kurt and Mercedes in tow. They took one look at the group and burst out laughing.

"Oh dear!" she rushed out of the room and returned with a huge pile of towels.

"Dry yourselves off as best as you can… Rachel, take the girls up to your room and lend them some clothes while we put theirs in the dryer. Noah you can do the same with the boys once the girls are finished," she instructed.

"Ms Puckerman, would you mind if I have a shower… I slipped over and as you can see am now a little dirty," Santana asked. Rebekah laughed at the understatement, the girl was filthy.

"Of course not dear," she replied.

Once the girls had stopped dripping, Rachel and Quinn led them up the stairs and straight into Noah and hers room. The girls once again squealed when they saw the bedroom door and realized the pair shared a room and were even more surprised when they realized that there was only one bed in the room.

"See Rachel! I told you it was a big deal!" Quinn said exasperated.

"I don't see why, we have shared a room since we were kids," she replied ignoring the stares from the girls in the room, "plus, we are getting married in a week."

Quinn gave up and threw her hands into the air, "Whatever, lets find you dripping people some clothes… Rachel?" she indicated for Rachel to take the lead.

Rachel opened their wardrobe and the top 2 draws of the dresser. She had always kept a heap of her old clothes at the Puckerman house, "help yourself to any of my clothes but Noah would probably kill us all if I let you wear his," she smirked as she took one of his shirts off a hanger and started peeling off her wet clothes.

"So it's okay for you to wear his clothes?" Tina said between chatters as she watched Rachel pull a shirt that was obviously Pucks over her head. She finished the outfit off with a pair of black three quarter length tights and towel dried her hair.

"I'm different," Rachel said enjoying egging the others on. She pointed Santana towards the bathroom and gave her a fresh towel to use, "my shower stuff is in the bathroom cupboard. Help yourself."

Once they had all finished changing into dry clothes they gathered their wet gear and went back downstairs. The boys looked up and stared at them as they entered the room. Noah felt his knees go weak at the sight of Rachel dressed in his shirt and wet hair.

"All yours," Rachel said to the boys as she loaded their clothes into the dryer (and Santana's into the washing machine). The boys climbed up the stairs to the couples room.

"I can't believe I have known you for so long and have never been in your room," Finn commented, "although, now I see why! How long have you and Rachel shared a room?"

"I don't know, since we were little," Puck shrugged his shoulders and smiled at the picture on the wall. It was taken at the beach when they were on a family holiday two years ago. He was carrying Rachel on his back and they were both laughing at Zia who had fallen over in the water.

Matt and Mike were chuckling over a stuffed pink bear sitting on the desk in the corner. Noah was quick to defend himself, "That's Rachel's, not mine!"

While the girls waited for the boys in the living room Rebekah and Rachel made mugs of hot chocolate. Zia waltzed into the room the second Rachel sat back down.

"Rachel! Ima said if I'm really good, you might let me stay up with you for a little while tonight… can I please, please, please!" she cried this time giving Rachel those puppy dog eyes. Rachel couldn't help but notice Zia had the same spark in her eye Noah got when he wanted something too.

The glee clubbers watched with interest as Rachel interacted with who they assumed was Noah's little sister.

"If it's alright with Ima then it should be okay," Zia jumped for joy at these words but Rachel warned her, "…but you should ask your brother."

As soon as Rachel said this they heard a door close upstairs and the gang of boys made their way down the stairs. Zia seized the opportunity and launched at her brother.

"Woah Midget! What's your problem?" he said unlatching the little girl from around his waist.

"Ima and Rachel said I can stay up and watch movies with you big kids tonight, but only if it's okay with you."

Noah rolled his eyes. Of course they had left the decision to him. He could never say no to his little sister.

"I suppose that would be okay… I mean, you are after all the flower girl," he smirked at his sister. She had been playing the 'flower girl' card ever since they had asked her if she wanted the role.

The glee clubbers watched the exchange in shock as if they couldn't get any more surprises.

Movies were watched, pizza was eaten- over all it was a really fun night. Quinn, Santana and Brittany had even convinced Rachel and Noah to play a traditional bucks/hens night game of pop quizzing them on their partner.

Everyone had been shocked to learn just how well the pair really knew each other. They asked every question they could think of and the couple answered flawlessly.

They had to answer their partners:

Nickname: Squirt/ Stretch

Birthday: December 18th/ August 17th

Favorite movie: Rent/ The Matrix

First Kiss: Each other- under the slide at school when they were eight. (That answer had made everyone laugh).

When Santana asked them to 'name their partners favorite snack, they all dropped their jaws at the simultaneous answer.

"Puckleberries!"

"What!" came the chorus around the room. Rebekah and Zia laughed loudly.

"What the hell is that?" Santana asked.

"Puckleberries… you know those little gelatin raspberry lollies?" Rebekah started to explain, "When these two were about 6 or 7 they decided to call them Puckleberries because it was a mix of both their names."

The room burst into a fit of giggles at the inner-workings of a child's' mind.

"Well, I think we have a new couple name for you two… Puckleberry!" Kurt said getting a round of cheers from everyone except Rachel and Noah who just groaned.

Rachel declared it bed time and the girls went upstairs to get ready. They were going to sleep in the couples room whilst the boys were going to sleep in the lounge room. Although Rachel had offered Quinn the bed, Quinn had insisted she would be fine on the pull out and Rachel should have her bed.

Not long after lights out and Mercedes soft snoring could be heard, Rachel heard the door to the bedroom open. She turned and watched as Noah's outline tiptoed through the piles of sleeping girls.

"What are you doing Noah, you'll wake them up!" Rachel warned.

"I couldn't sleep and I was thinking… I have a packet of Puckleberries hidden in my top drawer," he answered.

"I know, I found them the other day," Rachel whispered, "bring them here, I want some too."

The pair sat silently on the bed eating their late night snack when they suddenly realized there was only one left.

"Don't you dare Berry! That is mine!" Noah declared.

"I saw it first!" Rachel complained.

"Oh would you both stop whining… ill have the last one," interrupted Santana, shocking the pair who had thought she was asleep.

"What?" Santana asked, shoving the lolly into her mouth as she climbed up to sit cross legged on the bed in front of them, "Nobody could possibly get to sleep with the racket you two were making."

Noah looked over at the clock, "It's almost midnight, I should go before Ima kicks me out," he mumbled, "Ill see you at the wedding."

He lent over and kissed Rachel quickly.

"The wedding? But that is still a week away, why won't you see him before then?" Santana asked Rachel.

"We might not be having a traditional wedding ceremony but Rebekah is insisting we don't see each other for the week before the wedding. If we were doing this traditionally, we probably would have only met a few times," she explained.

"Geez! How are you going to cope at school?" San asked curiously.

Rachel shrugged, "we will probably just alternate days or something."

The girls soon fell back to sleep next to each other on the bed.

Let me know what you think and don't forget to check out my new story 'Picking Up the Pieces'