AN: I know I said I would update last weekend, but since the last update my older sister got sick, so I was taking care of my niece and nephew throughout the week and on Saturday when I took my niece out I ended up somehow getting sick with a fever by the time I got home. Luckily the worst has passed, now I only have a slight runny nose, a sore throat and minor headaches. I am hoping that this won't ruin my entire spring break. On a brighter note I want to thank you all for the wonderful reviews. You guys made my day. *hug*

"Good morning."

Sam almost dropped the English textbook he was taking out from his locker when he heard her voice. He watched from the corner of his eyes as she came to lean against the locker next to his smiling. "Good morning." He smiled back feeling at ease. "How are you?" He asked kissing the top of her forehead. When he pulled away and saw the surprise look on her face he remembered they were on school ground and he had yet to ask her out, so he shouldn't be showing any PDA with her.

"I'm doing well," Rachel blushed under his gaze, "and you?"

"Doing better now." Sam grinned as he closed his locker. "Did you like the orchid?" he asked excited.

Rachel saw the hopeful glint in his eyes. "I loved it." She tugged on his shirt so he could lean down as she got on her tiptoes and kissed his cheek.

"So does this mean Sam has officially asked you out?"

Rachel and Sam turned to look at Kurt who was walking toward them with Mercedes. "Not yet." Sam answered. "But trust me when I say, you will know when I do."

"I don't know about you Kurt, but I can't wait to see what Sam has in store." Mercedes grinned.

"I'm right behind you." Kurt smirked. "Now I suggest we get to homeroom before we're late you love birds."

Rachel stuck her tongue at Kurt playfully before grabbing Sam's hand and twining their fingers. Kurt and Mercedes shared a look before following them.

Puck frowned as he walked passed Rachel's locker and noticed that no one was standing there. "I wonder where they could be." He wondered not seeing Rachel or Alex. Puck was distracted in his thoughts that he didn't noticed where he was walking until he slammed into an open locker.

"Crap!" A female cursed. "Why would you do that?"

Puck clutched his face in pain. "Sorry…" he groaned.

"Are you okay?"

Puck felt soft hands tug at his hands to get a look at his face. The faint smell of vanilla hung in the air.

"Let me see."

"It can't be." Puck let the pair of hands pull his. Hazel eyes met dark eyes with a hint of blue in them.

"…Oh, it's you." Sarah said with distaste thick her voice.

Puck didn't let the words get to him when he still saw the concern in her gaze. "I should be saying the same thing."

"I'm starting to think you have a personal vendetta against me."

"Excuse you! You stomped on my foot!"

"You slammed my locker close with your face!"

"On accident!"

"Yeah well in myself defense my foot slipped."

"I'm sure it did." Puck said through clenched teeth as he glared down at her.

"Fine…I'm sorry okay." Sarah frowned at him. "I shouldn't have stomped on your foot and you know how I get, I tend to explode sometimes, so that incident was partly your fault especially since we have lived more than thirty years together you should have known it was coming."

"Oh no you're not," Puck pointed a finger at her. "You are not pinning this on me I'm still regaining my memories, so you completely got me on the blind side. You owe."

Nu uh. I owe you nothin'. You be trippin' if you think for a second that I will do something for you after everything you've been doing." Sarah glared at him.

Puck tried not to fidget under her glare. "Fine." He sighed. "We're even."

"Much better." Sarah grinned at him and patted his cheek. "Now, make sure to put some ice right there because most likely there will be some slight bruising." Her gaze softened as she looked at him. "Try being more careful Zane I don't want you getting more hurt than necessary."

"Noah."

"Huh?"

"Puck." Seeing the confused look on her face he explained. "In this life my name is Noah Puckerman. Most people call me Puck only those close to me call me Noah."

"I see." Sarah smiled warmly at him. "Which would you prefer I call you by?"

"Whichever you want." Puck whispered leaning into her touch.

"Okay Noah."

It wasn't until the smile curved on his lips did he know that he had wanted her to call him Noah instead of Puck.

"Noah!"

Sarah pulled away from Puck when she heard someone call him. Noah turned to look over his shoulder glaring until he saw the panic look on Alex's face. "What's wrong?" Puck asked him alarmed when he came to stand next to him.

"Rachel is missing." Alex said trying to catch his breath. "We went separate ways because I had to get my physics text book from my locker. I went to her locker, but she wasn't there and then I went to yours, but she wasn't there either. I don't know where she went!"

"Calm down Alex." Puck instructed. "Breathe in and breathe out."

"Don't tell me how to breathe." Alex snapped. "I know how to perfectly do that."

"Maybe she went to another friend's locker or perhaps went to her homeroom." Sarah spoke up since for the first time Alex arrived.

Alex looked at her surprised. "Why hello there," He grinned. "My name is Alex Rodriguez, what's yours?" he asked holding out his hand for her to shake.

Sarah shook his hand smiling. "I'm Sarah Lancaster."

Puck smacked Alex upside the head. "Would you quit flirting with her? I thought you were worried about Rachel."

"I was." Alex rubbed the spot Puck hit at. "Until what Sarah said made sense. I think Rachel did mention something about going to see Sam and I resent being accused of flirting." Alex frowned. "I was simply being polite and exchanging greetings."

"Why do I find that hard to believe?" Puck grumbled.

"Maybe because this is thee Sarah Lancaster, the one you are utterly and irrevocably smit-"

Puck covered Alex's mouth quickly and chuckled nervously as Sarah looked between both boys amused. "Ignore him."

Sarah chuckled. "I'll leave you two to your own devices I'm heading off to homeroom. Hopefully we'll see each other again."

Alex moved Puck's hand from his mouth. "I'm sure we will, I'll make sure of it! I'll come looking for you!" Sarah simply laughed and waved at them as she walked away.

"Now you're sounding like a stalker." Puck hissed.

"What you jealous?" Alex raised any eyebrow.

"Whatever let's just go look for Rachel." Puck shoved Alex away before they began walking to homeroom.

Rachel was walking down the hallway to her locker during nutrition.

"Hey Rachel!"

Rachel looked over her shoulder to see Zack jogging up to her. "Hi!" she smiled brightly at him.

"I forgot to give you this last week." Zack handed her a binder. "This has all the bio for the players from their names to academic grades and what they are allergic to."

Rachel opened the binder and skimmed through it. "Oh wow…when do I need to know all this by?"

"Since it was my fault that I lagged it I would like you to know it by Friday if you can especially since practice starts today at three forty and ends at five."

"Wait I have glee club at four."

"Alex did mention that, but he said he was leaving practice early. Since the basketball season hasn't started it's cool."

"Don't worry once it does. I'll stay longer." Rachel grinned at him. "I promise."

"Alright then." Zack ruffled her hair affectionately. "I'll hold you to that then. I gotta go Jeff and Jake are waiting for me at the bleachers. I'll see you during lunch." Zack winked at her before walking away.

"What did he want?" Santana asked curiously walking up to Rachel.

"I'm supposed to know the names of the basketball team by Friday." Rachel said as they continued to walk to her locker.

Santana grinned. "That's nothing compared to what you have done before."

"Thanks Santana for having such high hopes for me."

"Girl you don't needs to thank me. It's the truth." Santana winked at her. "Now let's hurry up and meet with the boys."

"Okay operation WRB is a go." Sam said as soon as he took a seat at the table Alex and Puck were occupying.

Alex raised an eyebrow. "Does that stand for what I think it does?"

"What does it stand for?" Puck asked confused looking between a grinning Sam and an amused Alex.

"Woo Rachel Berry." Alex answered him.

"Wait so you're really going for it now?" Puck asked excited.

"Yep he is you should have seen him on Saturday when he asked my uncles for permission to court Racehl."

Puck clutched his stomach laughing. "Oh man this is classical."

"Whatever." Sam grumbled. "Do you wanna hear my plan or not?"

"Sure."

"Go ahead."

"What are you boys talking about in hushed tones?"

Puck, Sam and Alex turned to look at a grinning Sarah who had taken a seat next to Sam without any of them noticing. "Oh crap." Puck broke out of his shock.

"How did you do that?" Sam asked amazed.

"Your skills rival that of Mike." Alex said grinning.

"Does that mean I'm in?" Sarah asked.

"Most definitely." Alex answered before Puck or Sam could.

"Cool. So what's the plan?" Sarah turned to Sam. "I'll help whatever way I can. I'm a sucker for true love."

"You heard that Noah." Alex elbowed him.

Puck simply threw him a glare.

"I'm just teasing."

Puck continued to glare.

"…Fine."

"Anyway." Sam cleared his throat. "I'm planning to use the auditorium this week. I know how she likes stars, so I'm going to see if anyone can help me make lights shaped of stars and hang them. I got the perfect song that goes with it."

"You already sang her a song." Puck sighed. "Try something else like going to her window and giving her a rose."

"He already did that." Alex answered.

"How about sending her flowers?"

"He did that too." Sarah answered this time.

"Okay…yeah then maybe just stick to the singing she loves music."

Sam grinned. "I know. I'm planning to pull it off tomorrow since I'm going to work on it during my free period." He glanced at Sarah. "When's your free period?"

"Six period."

"Sweet me too." Sam and Sarah high fived each other.

"I won't be much help." Puck frowned. "I have class."

"I'll see if I can take you out somehow." Sarah winked at him causing Puck to become speechless as Alex and Sam snickered.

"Sarah!"

Sarah looked over her shoulder to see Rachel running toward them with Santana behind her. "Hey Rachel!" she waved.

Rachel took the seat next to her. "I thought for a moment we wouldn't see each other since we haven't had a class together."

"Well I have art and then Spanish today."

"Yay! We're going to have Spanish together!" Rachel said excited as she looked at everyone in the table. "Before I forget Santana this is Sarah." Rachel motioned to Sarah as Santana took her seat. "Sarah this is Santana."

"My girlfriend." Alex sighed smiling finishing for Rachel.

"What?"

"Since when?"

"I thought you said you weren't sure what you two were!"

"That was until I asked her out Saturday."

"Dude I was at your house Saturday!"

"It was after you left Sam."

"I live with you!"

"Rachel you know how forgetful I can be."

"I'll show you how forgetful you can truly be once I'm done with you!"

"Rachel don't hurt him!"

"Not the face!"

"Get him! Get him!"

"Dang Rachel!"

"You don't have to be jealous Rachel! I still love you!"

"I don't want your love! I want you hurting!"

"You can't possibly mean that!" Alex tried reasoning with her once Sam was able to pull Rachel back to her seat.

"So…does it like hurt?" Sarah asked poking the slight bruise on Alex's shoulder.

"What do you think?" Alex growled as he continued to draw on his sketchpad for art class.

"I don't think so since you're not crying." Sarah grinned. "For a small thing, she can pack a punch."

"I know. That's my cousin." Alex smiled affectionately as if he weren't the one who had been punched moments ago in the cafeteria.

"So how did Alex get a bruise on his shoulder?" Zack asked amused as he looked between Sarah and Alex.

"Rachel took a swing at him." Sarah looked over at Zack and smiled. They had met in homeroom and shared the same 1st period calculus class.

"Do I even want to know why she would do such a thing?"

"It's cus I forgot to tell her that Santana and I are going out." Alex shrugged. "She wanted to be the first to know."

Zack shook his head. "Remind me to never piss her off." He glanced over at Sarah. "So what are you going to join?"

"I'm hoping the Cheerios since I was a cheerleader in my last school."

"You don't look like one."

"I get that a lot." Sarah grinned. "Do you guys know what else I should join?"

"There's glee club." Alex spoke up.

"Glee club?"

"I'm surprised Rachel didn't mention it to you. She probably will later." Alex looked away from his drawing to look at Sarah. "It's show choir. If you know the basics of singing and dancing then you're good to join. The plus side it's a lot of fun and it's like a close knit family mixed with people of different race. We're unique like that."

"Are you in the glee club?" Sarah asked Zack.

"Naw…not right now."

"Don't worry Sarah. Zack and the rest of the basketball team will join once we will our first game this coming season." Alex winked.

"We made a deal like that?" Zack asked confused.

"We did now." Alex grinned.

"Alright you're on." They knuckle touched.

"So what do you say Sarah. You're in?" Alex asked.

"Sure. What do I gotta do to join?" Sarah asked grinning.

Mercedes was sitting by herself during lunch at the table waiting for Kurt and Rachel to join her since they had split ways after class.

"Would you mind if I sit next to you?"

Mercedes looked up to see Zack smiling down at her. "No, go ahead."

Zack took a seat next to her. "I'll trade you anything on my tray for your tots."

"Touch my tots and your dead."

"You're serious?"

"I'm dead serious and if you try that puppy look on me, it's not gonna work. Rachel gave me a warning already."

"Dang that Rachel. She isn't supposed to be talking about our secret weapon."

"You have got to be kidding."

Zack sighed. "Fine I'll leave your tots alone."

"Hey Zack." A sugary sweet voice said.

Mercedes watched how Zack forced a smile when he looked at the Cheerio standing across the table from them. "Hi Elena."

"Why don't you come sit with us?"

"No, I'm good here."

"I insist."

"I'd rather sit here with Mercedes." Zack wrapped an arm around Mercedes shoulders to prove his point. Mercedes tried hard not to blush or fidget under the Cheerio's venomous glare.

"Excuse me Plastic." Jake the only freshman in the basket ball team said as placed his tray on the table in front of the Cheerio and took a seat.

"Jake." Zack said in warning.

"Fine…I'm sorry Elena." Jake said trying to sound apologetic, but failing horribly as he grinned while putting ketchup in his burger.

"You got tots?" Zack asked completely forgetting about the Cheerio.

"They were next to the French fries."

"Can I have some?"

Elena seeing that she had been forgotten or ignored decided to simply leave instead of making a scene.

"Ask Mercedes."

"She threatened to kill me."

Jake stopped what he was doing and looked up at Zack and Mercedes he raised an eyebrow when he noticed Zack had an arm wrapped around Mercedes shoulders. "Why do I find that hard to believe?"

"Well believe it."

"Don't worry I got you covered." Jeff placed his tray next to Zack and handed him small plate filled with tater tots.

"Thanks Jeff you are a life saver!" He grabbed Jeff's head when he took a seat and pulled him near.

"I swear Zack if you kiss my forehead as a show of gratitude I am gonna throw those tater tots to the trash."

Zack chuckled nervously. "I wasn't going to do that."

"Zack was born with too many paternal bones in his body." Ed a junior in the basketball team took a seat on Mercedes other side.

A sophomore in the basketball team took a seat next to Jake. "Or he's simply too in touch with his feminine side."

"I dare you to say that again Seph and watch and what's gonna happened to your tater tots." Zack growled.

"Alright, alright I'm just messing." Seph grinned.

Zack looked over Jake's head to see Alex approaching them with Santana and Rachel. "Where's Sarah at?"

"She probably still with Coach Sylvester." Alex took a seat, but instead of Santana sitting next to him she took a seat across from him.

Rachel sat next to Santana. "Why aren't you sitting next to Alex? Are you two fighting?"

Santana chuckled. "No. What gave you that idea?"

"You two aren't sitting next to each other."

"Oh." Santana smirked. "I'll let you in on a little secret."

Rachel leaned closer to Santana.

"I don't think you ever noticed Rachel since he is your cousin and all, but Alex is hands down, drool-worthy with his sexy midnight hair, gorgeous cheeks, dashing nose, undeniably kissable lips, dreamy sapphire eyes, incredibly handsome face, and his built while sitting is manly. Now tell me Rachel, why I wouldn't want to look at someone like that?" Santana winked at Rachel's surprised expression.

"Hey Rach." Sam took a seat next to Rachel.

Rachel glanced at him and wondered what the feeling would be like if she tried it with Sam.

Kurt walked toward the table holding his tray and looked over at Mercedes amused as she laughed at something Zack said to her. A small smile graced his lips. "That's my diva."

AN: I apologize for any grammatical errors. I know this chapter is very short and is not to par with the ones before it. I thought by now I would be feeling better, but I still feel like crap and I don't know when I'll be up for writing another long chapter at this rate, so decided to spilt this chapter up in two parts. I wanted to at least post something up for my absence. Hopefully by this coming weekend I'll have something better to post up. As for what's going on with Mercedes well I noticed that she never really gets her own romance and I felt bad for her in S1 when Quinn gave the OK to date Puck, but to be aware that he's using her and Mercedes didn't care because there aren't any boys giving her that attention. I for one think Mercedes is freakin' awesome and she deserves someone wanting to truly be with her, so that's when Zack began to demand he wanted to be that guy. I know that might sound weird, but I had scenes flashing in my head that Zack and Mercedes would make a cute couple. I hope you guys think to too. Please review and tell me what you think. I love to hear from you! =)