Puck laid on the couch in Ryan's room just staring at the ceiling. The new house in Ohio was almost all set up thanks to Deb and tomorrow Mitch would be taking the kids there. Puck decided he'd sleep over at the Corcoran-Stark residence on his last night in the city.

"Psst, dude are you awake?" Ryan called over to him.

"Huh? Oh…yeah, I can't sleep really..." Puck answered while sitting up. "Why, is something wrong?"

"No, not at all but I need you to come with me." He motioned for the door and had Puck follow him down the hall to Rachel's room. "Go in."

"But..."

"Dude just do it so I can go back to bed." Ryan nudged him forward toward the door.

Puck peeked his head in and saw that Rachel was still awake, like she knew he was coming. She and Ryan must've set this up. "Babe?"

"It's alright Noah, you can come in." She smiled motioning him towards her.

It was weird, he'd never been in Rachel's room with the door closed never mind at night. He had a feeling she was up to something.

"What's going on?" He sat beside her smiling when she snuggled up to him.

"I've been thinking, you're leaving in the morning and I won't see you until Hanukkah. That's a long time from now..." She sighed unhappily.

"Yeah, but we'll talk every night on the phone and of course we'll video chat." Puck reassured her.

"I know bear, but it's not exactly the same as being able to cuddle with you."

Puck smiled at the nickname despite the seriousness of the conversation. "Remember when you gave me that name?" He asked her trying to lighten the mood.

"Yeah." She laid her head on his shoulder. "It was because you had that growth spurt after you turned fourteen. I don't get how you and my brother are almost over six feet tall and I'm stuck at 5'2"" She pouted.

He laughed softly. "Yeah, but I like your height. It's like right in the middle, not too short but not too tall either."

"Mm..." She lifted a hand up to his cheek. "Back on topic, you're probably wondering why I asked you in here. I wanted to let you know, that I'm ready."

"Ready for what?"

"Ready to be intimate of course." She told him as if it were obvious.

"Wait, what?!"

—

"Spill, did you have sex with Puckerman or not?" Santana asked Rachel during their nightly video chat. "It's been almost two weeks and you've had yet to tell me."

"OK fine, if you must know…how do I explain it? I did significant research beforehand and of course I made him too a while ago. Oh, don't give me that look." Rachel rolled her eyes causing Santana to smirk. "Anyway, we didn't engage in sexual intercourse per se, but we did do other things…"

"Like what?" Santana smirked. "Hold on, I need to make sure my abuela can't hear us." She got up to make sure Alba wasn't close by in the hall before closing her door. "Alright continue."

"Well, let's just say we found out I have no gag reflex." Rachel blushed.

Santana gasped. "Ooh wanky, Rachel Barbra Corcoran-Stark, you're a bad bad girl." She teased and both girls couldn't help but laugh.

When they finally calmed down, Rachel looked at Santana and sighed. "I really miss being able to hang out with you in person…"

"I know chica, but don't worry I'll be back home before you know it. Besides, we get to hang out all winter break, right?"

"Right." Rachel nodded.

"And don't worry, I'll convince mama Puckerman to let lover boy come too, y'know if convincing is needed."

"Thanks San." Rachel smiled.

A few weeks later, after they were finally settled into their new place, Deb had Judy and her girls come over.

"Their dad isn't coming too is he?" Hana asked nervously, the Puckerman kids had never met Russell Fabray, but by the way Deb talked about him they could tell he wasn't pleasant.

"No honey, just Judy and her daughters, your cousins." Deb assured them.

Once Judy arrived Deb introduced her to Charlie and Abby first. "This is Jakes mother Charlotte."

"But you can call me Charlie." She hugged Judy. "And this is my partner Abby."

"Nice to meet you both." Judy smiled, she was really glad she didn't bring Russell. He would've had a fit about how Deb was a single mom and had two bisexuals living with her.

"Of course, you remember my oldest Greg." Deb brought him forward.

"Yes! But he was so little the last time I saw him." She gave him a hug. "You've got to about...seventeen now right?"

"Yes ma'am." He nodded.

"Frannie too, come meet your cousins' girls!" Judy smiled and brought them forward. "This is Frannie and my youngest Quinn, she's fifteen."

Deb smiled and introduced her kids to him. "Well you've met Greg, and this is Noah he's fifteen as well, Hana and Jake are both thirteen."

The girls went into the den with their cousins', while the older women took care of finishing up dinner.

"I can't believe we have this whole family we've never met before." Quinn said out loud.

"Why haven't you ever come to New York to visit?" Hana asked.

"Our dad." The girls said simultaneously.

"He's pretty controlling..." Frannie said. "So, um tell us how you guys have three moms." She said changing the subject.

Greg laughed. "We don't call them all mom, but it's a long story."

"You tell it the best Greg." Jake told him.

"You guys wanna hear it?" Puck asked them.

"Yeah, I'm curious." Quinn nodded.

"Alright well, when my mom was pregnant with my sister, like at the very beginning, my dad started cheating on her. Now this wasn't the first time he cheated, I don't know what his problem was back then but he had issues. Anyway, this time he had actually managed to knock someone up." Greg explained.

"That would be my mom, Charlie." Jake added.

"Aunt Charlie saw my mom and dad in the park playing with me and Puck one day, she hadn't known he had a family. So, she tracked mom down and told her everything. Mom had had enough and divorced my dad, and to everyone's surprise she invited Aunt Charlie to live with us."

"Aunt Abby came in a few years later." Puck stated.

"Yeah, you see our mom offered to send her back to college. After a lot of convincing she went back and that's when she ran into an old flame of hers, Abby Rhodes." Greg continued.

"They're both Bi." Jake said.

"She avoided her at first, but it turned out she was the sister of April Rhodes. And April was one of the best friends of Pucks girlfriend's mom. So, whenever there was a party in our building, which was often, Charlie and Abby would see each other."

"And eventually they got back together." Hana said.

"What about your father, is he still in New York?" Quinn asked.

"Nah, he's been clean and trying to get back with our mom since the day they divorced. She barely says two words to him but he still got an apartment out here." Puck shrugged.

"Well he wants to see us too, but yeah." Hana laughed.

"So, what's the story with you guys? You don't seem to like your pops very much." Puck said bluntly.

"Dude!" Greg nudged him.

"What?" Puck held his arm and glared at Greg.

"Hey it's fine, to be honest we don't like him. And between us, he's not our real dad." Frannie said.

"Wait, so your mom was married before?" Hana asked.

"No, you see the thing is my dad couldn't get my mom pregnant naturally, so they claim that they did IVF." Quinn explained.

"But I highly doubt that's true, especially with the kind of personality he has, he's prideful, haughty, and a bit of a bigot. He wouldn't want anyone thinking he can't have kids "naturally". Anyway, my point is, we know there's another guy involved." Frannie stated. "And we know his name is Jackson."

"Wait, hold on." Puck took out his phone and pulled up a photo of him and the guys with Jackson in his garage working on a car. "Him?"

"I don't know...we've never seen a photo." Quinn said.

"We definitely have to find out." Puck nodded.

Quinn and her boyfriend Finn were planning on going on a day date but Quinn's cheerio tryouts had been rescheduled to that day. Coach Sylvester liked to do her selecting before the school year.

"It's fine Quinn, we can just go out tomorrow. I'll just go back home." Finn told her.

"No, wait. I don't want you to be bored." She grabbed his hand and led him a few houses down until they saw Puck outside mowing the lawn. "Puck!" Quinn waved to get his attention.

He shut off the mower and went over to her wiping his face with a towel. Finn eyed him suspiciously, he didn't want this sweaty, muscular, long haired guy near his girlfriend.

"Finn, this is my cousin Puck. He just moved here with his family last month."

"Oh, uh hey man." Finn shook his hand feeling stupid for speculating.

"Hey, how's it going." Puck nodded.

"I was thinking you could show Puck around town, it'll give you something to do. What do you say Puck?" Quinn asked.

"Yeah, sounds fun. If it's cool with Finn here." Puck chuckled.

"Yeah, that's fine man let's go."

Over the next few weeks before school started, Finn and Puck started hanging out a lot more. Finn had friends but he considered Puck to be cooler than any of them. They were cool enough with each other that Puck considered him his best friend after Ryan. Finn invited him over to his house one afternoon to hangout and watch some cartoons. Puck was greeted at the door by a tall, beautiful woman, with long, curly, dark brown hair. "Oh! Why hello there, you must be Finn's new little friend. Come on in!" She smiled and ushered him inside.

Finn poked his head out of the kitchen and waved. "Hey Puck! I was just helping aunt Mona make some snacks for us, that's aunt Mona by the way." He motioned towards the woman who had greeted Puck at the door.

"I'll leave you boys to your fun." She smiled and went back into the kitchen.

Finn walked out and brought Puck into the living room and they go set up.

"Does your aunt live here with you and your mom?" Puck was a little confused, it wasn't the first time he'd been over to the Hudson residence and he'd never seen the woman before.

"Nah, she's my dad's younger sister. She used to watch me all the time when I was growing up, now she travels all over and visits when she can. She's the best, you'll see." Finn grinned at her when she brought in the snacks. "Lemme help you with that aunt M."

"Thank you sweetie." She handed the tray over to Finn and went back into the kitchen.

"Dude these cookies are incredible…" Puck scarfed down two at once.

"See what I mean? She's awesome." Finn chuckled.

—-

School was about to start and Puck was going to be a freshman, but he was happy that he'd have Santana and now Finn and Quinn with him as well. Franny, Axel, Jane, and Greg would be there too but as juniors. Greg was glad to have his best buddy around at least.

"We should go out for the football team man." Finn told Puck. "They're holding tryouts next week before school starts."

Puck thought about it for a minute. "Yeah, that could be cool, but are the even letting freshmen tryout?"

"I don't actually know, but hey we'll find out when we get there."

What the boys didn't know was how much being a jock in high school would have an effect on their lives.

They had made running back and quarterback respectively and two weeks after school started the other jocks showed them what it meant to be a jock.

That included bullying the weak and nerdy, shoving them in lockers, toilets, port-o-potties, and dumpsters. Tossing pee balloons and eggs at people, and they particularly enjoyed throwing slushies in people's faces.

After throwing Kurt Hummel in the dumpster with the help of Dave Karofsky, Puck was confronted by Santana and Greg.

"While I will admit that pretty boy Hummel can be irritating, you and I both know our girl wouldn't approve." Santana told him as she followed him into the building.

"She doesn't need to know about it, Finn and I are just doing it until we earn their respect then they won't expect us to do it all the time." Puck wasn't used to being a bully, and he didn't like it but the kids at this school were harsh.

"Isn't Hudson the quarterback? They should be listening to him. And you and I both know it's a bad idea to keep anything from her especially this." Greg told his younger brother.

"I know, that's what I thought but I guess he has to prove himself first…" Puck sighed.

"You're starting to change bro, kids are scared of you, you have a mohawk now. Ma nearly fainted when she saw it." Greg told Santana before turning his attention back to Puck. "I don't like any of this."

"I get it ok! Look I'll tell Rach about all this, and I'll tone down the shenanigans all right? And another thing! Ma always hates my hair." He shrugged.

"Well, you're right on that one." Greg admitted.

"All I'm saying is you better tell her and soon or it's going to blow up in your face." Santana told him before going to meet Axel and Jane at Axel's car.

Santana had befriended Quinn after Puck introduced them, Quinn had suggested Santana try out for Cheerios with her. That was a mistake, she made the team and she could attribute that to her many years of dance experience. But coach Sylvester was nuts, Santana wasn't a quitter however.

One day after practice Santana went over to Quinn's and for some reason Russell Fabray was actually welcoming to her so she dropped by often.

"So, Puck, Axel, Greg and I are heading back to New York for winter break. You and Frannie should join us."

"Seriously San? You know my dad wouldn't allow that." Quinn shook her head while painting her nails.

"Just tell him my family is going and I invited you, he likes me for some reason so he'll say yes. As a matter of fact.…" Santana got up and made her way out of Quinn's room.

"Santana where are you going?!" Quinn quickly followed her out only to find her already talking to her parents.

"My family is heading home to New York for winter break and it would be really nice if Quinn could come with." Santana said sweetly.

Russell rubbed his chin. "Hm, your parent's will be there?"

"Yes sir." Santana lied.

Judy knew the truth but she wasn't going to say anything. "Maybe it could be good for her dear, she is a well-behaved girl after all."

"Yes, that's true…alright I'll tell you what. You can go, as long as you take your sister as well."

"Really? Thanks you guys!" Quinn hugged her parents and pulled Santana back upstairs so they could tell Frannie.

—-

Puck knew he had to tell Rachel about all his misdeeds since he joined the football team, but he wasn't sure how. Should he call her, tell her over skype? Or maybe he should wait until he saw her in a month. "Ugh…. she's gonna be so pissed…maybe I'll just call her."

He dialed her number and she picked up almost immediately. "Noah! I was just about to call you, did you see what I emailed you?"

Puck smiled, she sounded so excited. "Nah babe, should I go check now?" He was already pulling out his laptop.

"Yes, it's a video that Ryan made because you know how great he is at editing. Watch it and then call me back after alright?"

"OK, sounds like a plan. Oh, and babe?"

"Yes Noah?"

"Love you." He smiled.

"Love you too." She sighed happily.

Puck hung up the phone and opened up the email Rachel had sent, he downloaded the attachment and pressed play.

A familiar melody started playing, he remembered it was a song Rachel and Santana really liked. Rachel was sitting on her bed in a white night gown with the moon coming in through her window as she started singing.

Late at night when all the world is sleeping
I stay up and think of you
And I wish on a star that somewhere you are
Thinking of me too

Just then she disappeared and a montage of the two of them started playing along with the song.

Cause I'm dreaming of you tonight
Till tomorrow I'll be holding you tight
And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be
Than here in my room dreaming about you and me

There were clips of him riding his skateboard with her on his back, there was one of her giving him a haircut that made him laugh. There was also one of them slow dancing that Ryan must've been filming in secret.

Wonder if you ever see me
And I wonder if you know I'm there
If you looked in my eyes
Would you see what's inside
Would you even care?

Puck never realized how much video there was of the two of them even before they ever started dating. Like one of Rachel putting a flower crown on his head when he was around six years old. The look on his face was hilarious, Ryan put a lot of detail into this video.

I just wanna hold you close
But so far all I have are dreams of you
So I wait for the day (wait for the day)
And the courage to say how much I love you
Yes I do!

I'll be dreaming of you tonight
Till tomorrow I'll be holding you tight
And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be
Than here in my room dreaming about you and me

There was a bunch of photos of them thrown in as well, a lot of which he kept in a scrapbook Rachel had made for him. There was one of them asleep together under a tree in Central Park. There was another of them on the floor laughing because baby Grayson had thrown his bowl of spaghetti and it landed on Ryan's head.

(Corazón)
I can't stop dreaming of you
(No puedo dejar de pensar en ti)
I can't stop dreaming
(Cómo te necesito)
I can't stop dreaming of you
(Mi amor, cómo te extraño)

Her Spanish was getting better and better, Santana and Jane had been teaching her and he could hear in her voice just how much she was progressing. This video was full of clips of them, he would have to ask Ryan how many of these videos he actually had.

Late at night when all the world is sleeping
I stay up and think of you
And I still can't believe
That you came up to me and said I love you
I love you too!

Now I'm dreaming with you tonight
Till tomorrow and for all of my life
And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be
Than here in my room dreaming with you endlessly
With you tonight
And there's nowhere in the world where I'd rather be
Than here in my room I'll be dreaming
With you tonight
(In my sleep)

"Oh man… I can't tell her after that…uggghhh." He flopped down on his bed and stared at the ceiling. "It's not like she lives here, how could she possibly know? Maybe…I'll just keep it to myself for now."

—

Finn leaned against the wall in the gym while Quinn adjusted his tie, it was the first dance of the school year, right before Christmas. It was Finn's favorite holiday and he had to admit he was a little angry that his girlfriend was abandoning him on it.

Finn would you stop pouting already?! Why are you so upset about me missing one holiday?" She was starting to get upset that he was ruining everything with his bad attitude.

"It's our first Christmas together Quinn! You know what? I forbid you from leaving." He said out loud without thinking.

"Excuse me?"

"Uh I-I uh…" Finn knew he had messed up by the look on her face.

"You forbid me? The last time I checked Finn Hudson, I had free will thank you very much! And I'm going to use that free will to leave this relationship!" She told him angrily.

"What?! But Quinn-"

She cut him off. "Give me a call when you grow up." She stormed out of the gym.

"Dammit…"

After he got over the initial shock Finn looked around for somebody to talk to about what just happened. He tried to find Puck but he didn't think he came tonight, it was odd. Girls were always flirting with Puck and he flirted back, but Finn had never once seen him go out with any of them.

He spotted Santana and Brittany over by the punch bowl talking to Matt and Mike. He knew Santana well enough, maybe he could talk to her. He made his way over and tapped her shoulder.

She turned around to look at him. "Hudson? You look like somebody just told you football wasn't a real sport or something."

"It's been a bad couple of days San, can we talk?" He asked.

A few minutes later the two of them were sitting on the bleachers outside while Finn told her everything that happened. "I didn't mean to say any of that to her, I was just upset. I had all these plans set up for our first Christmas together and she just up and decides to go to New York with you."

"So, you're mad at me now Hudson?" She smirked.

"No of course not, I could never be mad at you San."

"Oh? And why is that?"

"You're too beautiful to get angry with."

With that logic, he'd never get angry with Quinn either. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you were flirting with me Hudson."

"Maybe I am." He decided to be bold and kiss her.

Santana had returned the kiss for a moment but eventually stopped him. "Whoa whoa whoa Finn, hold on, first of all…surprisingly you kiss very well."

"Uh…thanks?"

"But, we can't do this Finn, not that I don't want to and I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're vulnerable right now I guess? Besides Quinn and I are friends, If you and her are really donezo give me a call in two weeks." And with that Santana walked off while a slightly smitten Finn watched her go.

—-

Mari dropped Santana and Axel off at the airport with Quinn and Frannie where they waited for Puck and Greg. "Why isn't Jane coming?" Frannie asked.

"She claims it's because she wants to get ahead on her honors class work, but It's most likely because of Rafael." Santana told her.

"Who's Rafael?" Quinn asked curiously.

"Hm, I guess I could tell you, it'll pass this airport wait time." They sat down still waiting for Puck and Greg. "Alright, about two years ago some friends and I were doing karaoke at a place we hung out at often. Rafael was an acquaintance of ours so we invited him along. He had never met Jane before that night, and me being the mischievous little devil I am, I introduced them."

"You really are the devil, aren't you?" Axel teased.

"Shut up jerk." Santana punched his shoulder playfully before continuing. "Anyway, he asked her out and they went on a few dates but ultimately they decided to just be friends. Not just any friends however, best friends. I'd walk out of my room and see the two of them on the couch watching Telenovellas. They hung out together all the time honestly, I thought the whole thing was stupid. They were basically dating without the benefits." She shrugged.

"Hey, it worked for them, we can't all be like you sis." Axel laughed.

"Yeah yeah." She rolled her eyes continuing. "Anyway, they were besties yadda yadda yadda and all that, but you see the thing with Jane is she's a very practical and independent person. She loves to write but she's not going to pursue that as a career or whatever. So Raf told her that was stupid and that if she needed it he'd support her with his money, well of course Jane being Jane she didn't like what he had to say."

"And now they are no longer on speaking terms, especially because when Raf came to apologize to her he discovered that we had moved. She didn't even tell him, and I think he's going through some kind of rebellious phase because of it." Axel said just as Puck and Greg walked up.

"You guys ready to go?" Greg asked them.

—

Once the plane landed Camilla was there waiting for them, Santana ran over to her and gave her a hug. "Aunt Cami! I didn't know you were coming."

Camilla laughed and hugged her niece and nephew. "I know, but when your mom told me you would be visiting with Rachel and Ryan over the break I just had to come and spend a little time with you as well. I miss you all, ah and who is this?"

"Aunt C, this is Puck and Greg's cousins Quinn and Frannie Fabray." Axel introduced them and they went to shake her hand but she pulled them into a hug instead.

"We decided to show them the city considering they've never been out of Ohio before, but first the lake house." Puck said.

"Right, let's get you all settled up there." Camilla said.

—

A few hours later Camilla dropped the teenagers off at the Corcoran family lake house. When they got inside Puck could hear someone running from upstairs and he grinned when he saw his smiling girlfriend rush up to the banister. "Noah!" She ran down the stairs and jumped from the fifth step into his arms, he caught her easily.

"Told ya she was real." Santana mumbled to Quinn who was awestruck that her cousin could even get a girlfriend based on the personality she had seen so far.

"What on earth happened to your hair?" Rachel rubbed his scalp as he carried her over to the couch.

"Uh, just trying something new…do you…like it?" Puck asked hesitantly.

"I do actually, it's…. kind of sexy." She blushed.

"Alright, move it Puckerman. You're not the only one around here who loves her." Santana sat down beside them and pulled Rachel into a hug.

"San, I missed you a bunch! It's sucks around here without you." Rachel pouted.

"I bet, I know you miss your boyfriend but promise we're going to spend time together." Santana told her.

"Of course, I promise." Rachel then noticed the two new faces that were staring at her as if she were an art piece. "Oh! Where are my manners? Hello!" She got up and took their hands in hers. "My name is Rachel, and you must be Quinn and Frannie. Santana and Noah have told me so much about you, welcome to New York!"

Quinn smiled. "Um, thanks for not minding that we tagged along. It's nice to meet you."

"The more the merrier." Rachel smiled and hugged each of them after telling them she was going to do so.

—

Ryan heard other voices downstairs with Rachel as he got out of the shower. "Ah, they must be here. He put on some clothes after drying himself off and went downstairs while drying his hair.

"Well look who decided to join us." Puck called to his best friend from his place on the couch.

"Is that Puck I hear?" Ryan chuckled and removed the towel. "Oh, and who are these lovely ladies?" Ryan smiled referring to Quinn and Frannie.

Quinn blushed, he was so handsome but she snapped herself out of it. "I'm Quinn and this is my older sister Frannie."

"Oh yeah, Puck's new cousins. He's told us about you two but he failed to mention how pretty you were." Ryan wasn't really flirting, just stating what he thought to be true.

"Is it just me or is your cousin smitten with my brother?" Rachel mumbled to Puck. She was a little more observant towards these types of things whereas Ryan was more oblivious.

"If she is that's probably good I guess? She and her boyfriend are kind of on a break or they broke up I don't know. Anyway, she's been all depressed about it." Puck explained.

Just then a devious look appeared on Rachel's face and Puck raised an eyebrow.

"Babe, I know that look...what are you planning?" He asked nervously as she scooted towards Santana on the couch and whispered in her ear.

"Oh, don't worry about it sweetie. San and I just found a new project is all." They both got up and went out back giggling.

"Oh man...this is going to be a crazy two weeks..." Puck said to himself as he watched them walk away.

I'm back! Sorry that took so long, I had a lot going on and hit a little writers block. Is Santana a little ooc with Finn? Idk but considering this is an AU their personalities are going to be slightly different. Next chapter is going to have a lot of Quinn and Ryan, Pezberry, and some Quinn and Rachel as well. Also, I'd like to reiterate yet again that Puck is portrayed by Josh Bowman in this fic not you know who, for obvious reasons. Reviews are love, suggestions are welcome, and sorry for any writing mistakes. See you next time.

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Song: Dreaming of You by Selena