I Never Knew

Chapter 14: My Dream is Of You

For some reason, walking into the halls of McKinley High, I felt really happy, no real reason at all. It was a beautiful day outside and I was going to the park with my brother's after school, I've been trying to think about other stuff rather then al this drama that has been going on for the past few weeks. Puck has tried talking to me a few times now but I'm not letting him get anywhere because I'm way to stubborn.

I head over to my locker and start unpacking everything I didn't need, usually about half the crap I put in my locker. I see a really big shadow close by me so I knew exactly who it was. "Hey Finn, trying to scare people this morning?" I look up at him and he was just smirking. "Yeah, whatever. What's going on with you and Puck lately? I mean, you guys are usually talking together whenever I see you but now you don't. It's just really weird." Finn almost seemed a little confused but in a cute way.

"That boy can really irritate me, I mean does he really have to try to get with every pretty girl he sees, I mean why can't he be stable and only be with one girl, it's so annoying." I say to Finn who was looking at me with a weird expression. "He's always been like that, why do you care?" He says questioning me. "I just do, ok? I really care about him." I say.

"Please don't tell me you like him, he's just gonna hurt you and I don't want to see that happen." Finn always is looking after me. "Don't worry, it doesn't matter because clearly he doesn't like me like that." I say back to him and he just had this shocked look on his face. "Right..."

(Pucks POV)

I hate it when I can't et a really hot girl to sleep with me but I really hate when people practically ignore me, especially when I thought we were tight. I don't get Kaitlin's problem lately, maybe Matt said something to her or something but whatever it is she is not wanting to talk to me. She is basically the only girl in this school that I haven't sexually harassed and that's something for me, it's weird to say this but I think I might be starting to really fall for her, and I don't do that. Since I was ten I've always liked multiple girls and never stayed with one for more than a few week, sure, I may have broken a few hearts but I never really cared. But this girl... She's something special.

For some reason I was actually going to math this morning, I don't usually because it's boring as hell but today was different. Also the math room is right across from Kaitlin's locker so yeah. I see her at her locker talking to Finn, we're still not really talking. Finn sometimes can get on my nerves but he's still my boy even if he doesn't know that. I head straight for the math room.

"I'm surprised to see you in here, Noah" I hear Rachel say from the front of the room. Now I remember why I usually didn't come to this class.

I was hesitant to coming to glee practice today but I'm here, sitting in the back with Mike and Santana next to me, in the row infront of me there was Finn with Kaitlin and Rachel on his sides. This weird dude comes into the room that I guess went to school with Mr. Shue, he started talking about how Mr. Shue was a loser or something and that he was a star. Then he made us all right down our biggest dreams, of course me being... well me, I wrote down three some. I look down at Rachel's paper and of course it said 'A Star' then i looked at Kaitlin's, hers said 'Be respected by my brother's.' Ouch, didn't know she felt that way about her brother's, thought they were all pretty tight, her brother's are actually pretty cool.

Mr. Shue's friend, Brian Ryan, takes Artie's paper and tosses it in the trash can, what a jerk, I still think he's gay though.

"These dreams will never come true, so just give up now and stop wasting your time, we don't live in a fairy-tale people." He says to everyone, what a jerk.

Matt's POV

Me and Mike decided to hit up the mall after school so we're looking at some new shoes, I could use some and Mike just wants new dancing shoes. It was like the whole glee club came to the mall, I was seeing everyone, I had to convince Mike not to leave me to go with Brittany and Santana. I was waiting for Mike outside the store and look down at the first floor, I see Tina pushing Artie's wheelchair, I feel bad for him. Mr. Ryan threw away his dream to be a dancer, it's sad to see Artie like that. Mike finally comes out and we head for the food court.

"Hey look, there's Finn and he's with Kaitlin." Mike says pointing at the two of them going down the escalator, both laughing looking really happy. I thought she was in to Puck, now it's Finn? You got to be kidding me. "Let's go say hi," Mike says and starts walking there way, i follow behind him.

"Hey guys! What up?" Mike says trying to start conversation, they were both smiling. "Hey guys, we're looking for a gift for Rachel, she seems kind of down lately so we want to cheer her up, Finn's idea." She says making me relieved, she's not into Finn, Finn's still way into Rachel. "Need help?" I say trying to join the convo, Kaitlin gives me a big smile making me smile. "Sounds good guys," Finn says and we head for the music store.

So after about an hour of searching all the stores Finn found something while the rest of us were taking a break, he wouldn't show us what it was but promised to put our names on it. Finn takes a seat with us. "C'mon man, just give me a hint of what it is!" Mike is a real curious person so this might go on for a while. "No, you'll find out when she gets it, chill man..." Finn always likes to joke around with Mike, one person he feels smarter than.

I turn my attention to Kaitlin. "You know, I think you turned my advice upside down or something because I don't remember saying avoid him." I say with a smile, she gave me a weak little smile. "Yeah well, things turned out different." She says. "Ok, then where does that leave us?" I was really starting to push it, i knew that. "Friends? I'm hoping Puck will change." She says and I sigh. "Right, well just so you know I'm not giving up quite yet." "Well I'm not giving up on Puck quite yet either," She says to me.

Kaitlin's POV

So it was our last rehearsal for the week and Tina had a surprise for us, she made a new dance number that we might use at Regionals, so now we were all sit up on the stage, sitting on stools. I was sitting next to Finn on one side while Matt and Puck were sitting next to each other on the other side, Matt was saying some stuff to Puck and they kept looking over at me. Doesn't seem good.

"I think they're talking about you." Finn whispers to me. "Yeah, I kind a guessed that too." I say back to him. "So i don't know if this is the best time to say anything but what you said earlier this week about Puck not liking you, well your wrong, he really does," that makes me look up at Finn. "What?" "Yeah, I mean it's pretty obvious to me after he told me he did before the whole Quinn's baby daddy being him, I've noticed him looking at you smiling a lot more lately, I don't think I'm the only one who's noticed to." Finn says to me making me look over at Puck who was now talking to Quinn.

Soon Artie starts singing "Dream A Little Dream" while Tina and Mike tap dance for us.

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "i love you"
Birds singin' in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me

My eyes lock with Puck and for a moment, I feel like there was nothing else going on around us. Puck has this thing to his eyes that I can't explain, all I can say is that it makes me want to smile when I look into them. What if he can change?