A/N Hey guys extra long one for you :D actually trying to find a story that I read somewhere, I know it's a Puck and Rachel story and the opening chapter is an argument between Finn and Puck, where Puck says he loves Rachel, and Quinn is there as well, I think it's in the auditorium when they fight as well. Please Help!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot :D

Matchel Chapter 14

The finishing notes of Defying Gravity died out and the room burst into applause, giggling Rachel bounced over to Kurt

"I'm going to hug you now" she gushed, hugging him tightly before going back to her boyfriend and sitting down on his lap again, ignoring the look Mr Schue threw her for doing so "That's the energy we need" she ordered "Now we need to come up with numbers that we can perform together, I think it would be helpful if we all came up with a number of ideas for the group, this would ensure that all our musical inspirations are represented"

Matt laughed silently behind her as the stunned look on Mr Schue as Rachel took over the glee practise, the entire team angling themselves to face her rather than the Spanish teacher.

"Mercedes, I think we could definitely benefit from some your; how do you call it? 'Chocolate Thunder', perhaps you could find some that we could all sing"

"Yeah I could do that" Mercedes said happily

"So does everyone think that it would be a good idea to combine our musical tastes?" Rachel asked the group

"Yeah it sounds good Berry" Puck smirked

"No Nine Inch Nails" she ordered absently as she watched the others nod in agreement to her suggestion, and Puck sulked "ok well then have them ready to present by the next meeting" Rachel smiled, getting up off her boyfriends lap as everyone packed up, leaving the stunned Mr Schue alone before he could speak again.

Puck and Matt laughed as they followed Rachel and Quinn out of the school

"Man did you see Mr Schue's face?" snorted Puck, laughing again at the picture of the stunned Spanish teacher

"That's my girl" grinned Matt "now she's taking over glee" the two of them laughed again, climbing into Rachel's Land Rover. Buckling up quickly Rachel drove them home, pulling straight into the garage, so that Quinn could easily get to the bathroom

"She's using my bladder as a football" whined Quinn, bolting to the bathroom as quickly as she could, the others moved into the kitchen and grabbed drinks, hopping up on a seat Rachel smiled in relief, happy to be home, and excited to see Puck open his other present, which he was eying as it sat on the kitchen table.

"Well open it then" Rachel ordered putting him out of his misery, Puck jumped to his feet and ran excitedly to the large box that was sitting wrapped in an entire roll of wrapping paper, he ripped at the paper.

Stunned he sat down with a bump, as he found the forty inch plasma screen "Fuck" he swore softly, worried Rachel went to him and perched on a seat next to him, placing her hand on his arm lightly "you actually care about me don't you?" he whispered

"Well yes, but I don't really understand why buying you a television has convinced you of this fact"

"It's not that" he laughed "it's that you have bothered about my birthday at all, and you listen to me, about my truck and that my TV died, you actually care"

Rachel nodded simply and let herself be pulled tight into his body hugging her for all his worth, pulling back Rachel kissed him on the forehead and moved back to her seat, where Matt sat, feeling perfectly comfortable in the scene he had just seen. He knew that Rachel and Puck were very close, and also knew that there were no romantic feelings involved, he also knew exactly how he felt about Rachel; he loved her, even if he couldn't admit it to her yet.

Puck smiled at the couple in front of him that had become so important to him, they were the perfect balance of calmness and energy that complimented each other so well, right now they were tied up in each others eyes, Matt's hand simply resting on her hip, keeping her close but still giving her space.

Sitting there feeling slightly like a third wheel, he studied the TV Rachel had got him, noting a familiar rumbling noise he got to his feet, as Rachel and Matt did the same, walking to the front door, as his newly detailed truck pulled into the driveway.

Rachel smiled at him and pushed him towards the truck "go on" she smiled, as he acted like a little kid again and ran towards it.

"See you tomorrow" he yelled as he climbed into the cab, Matt placing his TV on the passenger seat for him.

Rachel smiled at her boyfriend as he came back to her side, lightly kissing him on the lips, Matt grinned mischievously and swept her up into his arms bridal style, carrying her he walked upstairs grinning as she laughed in his arms. Downstairs Quinn turned the volume up on the TV as she heard the bedroom door upstairs close; Quinn smiled and snuggled back into the couch turning her attention back to the documentary she had recorded on adopted children.

Saturday

Matt held his girlfriend close to his body as the sun slowly rose over the horizon, he smiled at her sleeping form and smoothed her hair back from her face, he knew that he loved this small brunette in his arms. He held her tighter as she began to stir within his arms, her eyes slowly blinking away the sleep; she smiled brightly as she met his eyes.

"Hi" she said softly raising her face to press her lips to his, Matt smiled in to the kiss loving how much of a habit it seemed to be, they had decided that during the week unless they fell asleep naturally together they would stay in their respective rooms, on the weekend though they always slept together.

"Good Morning gorgeous" he told her, kissing her again, rolling them both he supported himself with his arms as she lay underneath him, dropping his head he kissed her neck, lightly nipping at her tender skin, he kissed her pulse point hard, and relished in the groan she let out as he did. Rachel held onto her boyfriend's waist arching up to rub against him as he moved down to the top swell of her breasts.

Matt groaned as Rachel rubbed hard against his erection, lowering his weight slowly he buried his head in to her neck as she continued to rub against him, he slid his hands up to her breasts to caress them, he loved that they were moving slowly , but he was praying that they would hit third base soon.

Rachel groaned and glanced at the clock, wishing she hadn't organised Puck's birthday party for the morning, they had about an hour before that had to get ready though, smirking a little she rolled them over and grinned down at her boyfriend, lowering her head to his ear she rimmed it with her tongue "third base?" she questioned coyly, Matt grinned and nodded, once again wandering if his girl was physic.

An few hours later Matt smirked as he walked up to there friends, his arm slung around Rachel's shoulders keeping her close to him as they met up with everyone else in front of the paint-balling centre outside of Lima.

Slipping from her boyfriends arms, Rachel went over to her friends as Matt sauntered up to his friends with a large smirk on his face, Mike and Puck grinned knowingly at their friend "No more blue balls huh?" asked Puck

"Not saying" Matt grinned, his answer all over his face, Mike and Puck looked at him pointedly "Ok we haven't gone all the way but you're right no more blue balls"

Puck and Mike fist bumped with him as Finn joined them looking at them questioningly; Matt glanced away not prepared to talk about his relationship with Rachel with the guy still obviously smitten with his girlfriend.

"Guys we ready to go?" Rachel said looking around at the group, Puck had invited all of the Glee club as well as a few friends from baseball, in all there was sixteen of them "right so teams of 8 then" Rachel said

Quinn and Artie glanced at each other in worry not sure how they were going to participate, but Rachel had insisted that they come today,

"Um Rach?" asked Artie

"You and Quinn are participating" Rachel interrupted "you are our snipers" she told them leading the way into the centre.

Inside was a large mock up castle with two towers on either side with a line of sight over the court yard and the open balconies "you two will be on opposing teams, one of you in each of the towers" Quinn smiled and hugged her petite friend tightly, loving that she was so determined for everyone to be involved and have fun.

"Puck why don't you decide the teams" Rachel said smiling, Puck agreed as the staff began handing out suits, helmets and paintball guns to everyone.

"Ok cool" Puck said "Me, Rach, Matt, Mike, Artie, Brit, Nate, and Tom, are team one and like Artie would say we are going to strike you down like the hand of god" he smirked "So that leaves Quinn, Kurt, San, Finn, Tina, Mercedes, Dan and James, for team two" grabbing Artie he pushed him away towards the tower he had seen had a slightly better field of view, his team following him "Your fucking going down" he yelled back.

The team helped Artie up the tower, adjusting his chair so he could see his line of fire "We got a plan then sir?" asked Mike cheekily

"Tag teams, split into two's, watch each other sixes, we are going to crush them, wait what's the aim of the game Rach?"

"Capture the flag basically; the only rule is that your snipers aren't allowed to have it, I have a suggestion that we keep rotating who has the flag, then they can't concentrate on only one of us"

"Sounds good, right Artie's partner has to protect the bottom of this tower"

"I'll do that" Brit offered "I can just sit on the inside of the door and shoot anyone who comes in"

"Sounds good" Rachel said "If you do get shot, you need to return here to resuscitate" she told them "and the staff will be circling the battle refereeing, so don't cheat otherwise you will be disqualified"

"Thanks Rach, now I've seen you shoot, and you rock at it so your my partner, Matt and Mike and Nate and Tom are our other partners" Puck told them all

"Sounds good, lets crush them" Matt said kissing Rachel before she pulled on her helmet, flipping up the visor Rachel loaded her gun and smirked

"Let's crush them" she agreed, fist bumping Puck as she flicked down her visor and followed him out of the room.

Rachel backed up against Puck's back her eyes peeled as she covered the corridor they had just walked down, spotting a shadow, she dropped to her knees and shot as Tina rounded the corner blindly, hitting her right in the chest, Tina looked down in shock

"Bloody hell, not again!" she cursed turning to walk back to her tower.

"Nice shot" Puck murmured, as he got shot in the chest by Finn, cursing Puck moved quickly, so Rachel could grab the flag before bolting away so that Finn couldn't capture her, ducking into one of the large window embrasures she watched him bolt past her, his flag flapping, noting that it was the second time she had seen him with it Rachel ducked away to find a member of her team.

Spotting Nate and Tom, she scurried over to them, Artie protecting her as she sprinted across the courtyard, Quinn missing her by the skin of her teeth. Barrelling into her two team mates, Rachel giggled at the fun they had been having all day

"Sup Rach?" asked Nate, helping her to her feet

"Flag" she panted, handing it over to James "plus Finn still has theirs, so concentrate on him" she told him, as Puck joined her again hearing the last bit. Kurt rounded the corner and shot at them wildly hitting Rachel, cursing Rachel pelted off to the tower as the boys scattered, Puck following her.

Matt and Mike shadowed Finn as silently as they could, protecting their team flag now, after grabbing it from Tom and Nate and hearing that Finn was keeping their flag, setting up an ambush for their large friend was painfully easy, Artie was keeping Quinn occupied by shooting at her and having Brit, run across the court yard randomly, while James and Nate protected Matt and Mike as they pushed Finn to a quiet part of the castle. Rachel and Puck meanwhile kept the opposing team busy.

Pouncing on their friend they grabbed the flag from his arm as Mike shot him, grinning in victory they both bolted before any of his team could come and get the flag back, meeting up with Nate and Tom they ran shooting blindly as they bolted for their tower to win the game. Cheering in victory they meet everyone at the top of the tower hanging the flag out of the window signalling the end of the game.

They meet downstairs in the parking lot all talking excitedly at the fantastic day they had just had, "It's not over yet" Matt told them "My Mom is cooking, so everyone come to Rachel's" he told them, everyone agreed happily and climbed into their cars, heading back towards Rachel's including Mercedes and Finn, who had enjoyed the day as well.

Falling into the house they laughed together, smelling the amazing scents wafting from the kitchen they headed towards it, Nate James, Tom and Dan, feeling comfortable with the Gleek's after spending all day with them, happily chatting with them all, Nate and Tina hitting it off well.

They entered the kitchen and found Lucy, Jack, Kyle and Puck's mom all placing food on the large kitchen table; they sat down happily, everyone crowding round as they stuffed their faces with food.

Feeling his phone vibrate Matt pulled it out of his pocket, balancing Rachel who was perched on one of his legs with his other hand, looking at the caller ID he saw Dad flashing up at him, putting it back in his pocket he let it ring out to voicemail. Smiling at Rachel as she looked at him quizzically, before they launched into a round of Happy Birthday for Puck as Lucy placed a large chocolate cake with candles in front of him.

Staring at his phone in anger, Mr Rutherford threw it on to his dash as he sat outside the Berry house, seeing the lights and movement inside, knowing his son was in there and ignoring him.