After school the next day, Puck followed Rachel's car as they were driving to her house.
"I have a few ideas for songs - " she started to say, but Puck cut her off.
"Actually, I have an idea also. How about we do Sunrise Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof. It's a musical about a Jewish family, I don't think we can find a more descriptive song about us than that." Rachel stared at him and he looked down. "Schindler's List isn't the only Jewish movie my mom makes us watch" he said.
Rachel smiled at him. "Wow Noah, you are right, that is a perfect song for us. I did have other ideas, but I like your song better."
Puck smirked. "Is this you admitting that someone else can pick songs better than you can?" he said, teasing.
Rachel smiled, knowing that he was teasing. "Well, there's always an exception to a rule. Especially in a situation that involves you."
Puck smiled back. "Don't worry, I won't tell everyone that I was the musical genius for this assignment" he flirted.
"I'll hold you to that" she said, flirting right back at him. Realizing what she was doing, she started to run upstairs to her room. "I have the song on my itunes, let me go get it" she called from her bedroom. Puck sat down on her couch, waiting for her to come back. "Hey, where are your dads?" he asked, once he heard her come back downstairs.
Rachel was plugging in her laptop to the stereo system. "Oh, they're out of town, they wanted to take a long weekend mini vacation. They asked me to come along, but I told them I didn't want to miss school, so they went without me."
You didn't want to miss school, or you didn't want to miss dance class? He was tempted to say, but figured it would be best to keep his mouth shut about it. He knew Mr. Schuester was right, he finally got her to admit it; he wasn't going to push his luck. Yet.
Rachel turned back to him once she finished hooking the system up. "Here, I have the sheet music to the song, do you have the actual song at home?" she asked.
"Yeah, my mom likes to listen to the soundtrack. Matchmaker is one of her favorite songs," he said smirking. He wasn't joking though; she did love to play that song. Especially when he talked about Rachel.
"Great, so I think we should focus on the music first, because we'll be singing it with the band, but we want to make sure we get the beats right. And speaking of the band, we should keep it simple. I think the piano, and of course a violin, should be enough instruments," she said, while searching for something on the internet.
"What are you looking for?" he asked, reading over her shoulder to see that she was on Youtube.
"I want to find an instrumental version for us to practice with. For now, we should stick to the regular version, but we should eventually move to the instrumental version so we know what to expect when the live band joins us" she replied, scrolling through the many videos. "Ooh, I think I found one. I'll send you the link to practice with at home when we get to that stage. But now, let's work on our vocals."
After working with Rachel for a while on the vocals, he knew the lyrics well enough to do it with just the instrumental version. They were also only doing half of the song to keep it short and simple, so it wasn't hard to pick up. Rachel would have started talking about choreography with him, but he had to go, he knew his mom wanted him home for dinner so they could talk for a little before Mrs. Puckerman had to leave for her shift, and he could watch his sister.
"So did anything interesting happen today" his mom asked him at dinner.
Puck shrugged and figured he should tell her about the duet. "I got paired up with Rachel for a duet assignment in Glee. We're doing Sunrise Sunset."
"Oh, Noah that's a wonderful song. Aren't you glad I made you watch the movie all those times?" she said, clearly elated with this new assignment. Puck shrugged, trying to pretend that he didn't care when inside he really was thankful she gave him such a good song to do.
"Have you thought of how you're going to dance to it?" his mom asked.
"Well, Rachel was all for planning the entire thing tonight, but I figured we should work on one thing at a time."
Mrs. Puckerman got a bright look in her eyes. "Do you know what would be lovely? You should do a ballroom dance to it, it will set the mood, give it the wedding feeling like it is in the actual performance."
Puck thought it over. It would be a good way to solve the choreography problem, they wouldn't have to do major steps or anything that would be hard to learn or painful to do. He looked at his mom sharply to see if she guessed something about Rachel, but her expression remained neutral. She was either faking her ignorance or just had super Jewish mother intuition. He was going with the intuition. His mom was always creepily right when it came to that.
"Sounds good" Puck said, turning back to his meal. "I'll run the idea by Rachel, see what she thinks."