'what?' came out of almost every person's mouth. Puck went up to hug Rachel, but she refused it. She did accept Brittney's though. Puck wasn't sure what he did wrong, so he thought he might just suck it up and ask her what is going on. Before puck was given the chance, Rachel had already left the room. Puck didn't even care to excuse himself, he ran out of the room. When he was about to give up, he could hear talking to someone

'Jason, I can't handle this anymore'

A few minutes passes, Puck forget he was sitting there when she turned the corner and saw him sitting on the floor. She slapped him across the face.

'you were spying on me'

'no I wasn't?'

'yes you were. Seriously can you leave me alone for like 3 mintues.'

'how can I? you called whoever Jason is for support. When I'm your boyfriend not him'

'well if you must know Jason and I briefly went out before he left freedom oaks'

'wait was Jason your first partner?'

'good boy'

Puck gets up, and gives her a stern look.

'don't say good boy to me. why are you calling him and not talking to me about what happened'

Rachel stood up straight and started yelling.

'because he understands'

'understand? Understand what?'

'everything I went through'

'and I don't?'

'I don't know noah, you did used to slushie me and throw me into dumpsters and well graffiati my house'

'seriously we are going back to freshmen puck'

'yes we are because he is still here'

'how I haven't done any of that stuff'

Rachel rolled her eyes.

'you know what. I am done. I don't know where I'm staying until I leave but it isn't with you'

'what so you just going to leave Lana'

'don't bring her into this. She is my best friend, I would never leave her behind'

Before Puck could respond to that Rachel had left the room. Puck then banged his head against a locker thinking he needed to think of faster comebacks and wondering what he did to set her off. Meanwhile glee club just got out, and Rachel pulled Brittney and Lana aside.

'hey brit, I have to ask you a favor?'Rachel asked. Brittney just nodded

'do you mind if Lana and I stay with you for the week'

'sure, but what happened with you and puck' Brittney asked

'he over heard me talking to Jason and overreacted. So I told him I couldn't be around him'

'why did you call jason?' lana asked

'I needed someone to vent to. Yeah I know I have you but he's my equivalent to screaming your head inside a pillow'

'who's Jason?' Brittney asked

'can I tell her please' Lana practically begged on her knees

'fine' Rachel quickly gave in knowing she wasn't going to win anyway

'Jason was rachel's first dance partner and boyfriend of about a year. They broke up because he was going away to school in Michigan. And she was still in new York. I'm pretty sure they would have gotten in married'

'shut up, la'

'you know its true. He told me about his mother giving him her engagement ring to give to you'

'he was going to what?' not only Brittney and Rachel said that in utter shock but so did Quinn, tina, Santana and to rachel's disappointment puck.

A week had passed, Lana and Rachel moved from house to house for that week spend two days at brittneys, one at quinns, one at santana's and the rest the week at surprisingly mike chang's. Rachel decided since her plane was at noon, she saw no point for attending school. She told Mike this on Thursday night. The next day Mike was hunted down like a piece of meat by Puck to get answers on what was going on.

'where's Rachel?'

'morning to you to man. She decided to stay home. Plane ride is at noon. My mom volunteered to take her and Lana. It shocks me that she actually likes them.'

'did she say anything to you'

'not really but I overheard her say to lana something about Jason '

'mind saying what?'

Puck asked with a smile on his face.

'don't get too happy there boy. Jason is mad at himself for handing picking Lance as his replacement. That's what the phone call was for to rest assure him that it wasn't his fault for what happened'

'man, I feel like an idiot. No wonder Rachel won't talk to me'

Few hours passed, Rachel and Lana not only got on and off the plane to New York City, they also met up with rachel's dads and lana's mom and step dad. The two girls decided to hang out in central park for a few hours. She runs into Jason, who she honestly wasn't sure if she even wanted to see him. lana smirked and called it fate. He soon approached them.

'hey Rach, can we talk?'

'sure'

Jason grabbed her hand and pulled her to the side. She wasn't sure why her hand was almost shaking when he grabbed for it. He looked her into the eyes and didn't say a word. He just raised her chin up and kissed her. Rachel quickly pushed herself away from Jason. Then without a second thought she slapped him across the face, leaving a deep burning red handprint across his face. Then in a stern voice, Rachel said.

'you know I have a boyfriend, I tell you everything. Why did you kiss me? You are engaged and I have a boyfriend, who I love'

Jason looked at Rachel and just smiled. Rachel began to tense up and decided to hit him on the shoulder.

'ow midget'

'Don't call me that? Why are you laughing' Jason grabbed her hands, so she wouldn't be able to hit him.

'You are being ridiculous, you need to tell this noah puckerman guy, how you feel because we both know that you love him more than you ever did me'

'But'

Jason gave her a stern look.

'Don't but me; forget what has happened in your past, so you can develop a fresh smarter for a healthy future'

Rachel looked at him, rolled her eyes and sighed before responding back with

'Oh when did you get so wise grandpa?'

Jason grabbed his chest, where heart is lies, and pretends that it aches. She responded back with hitting him lightly on the shoulder. He grabbed her close and squeezed her tightly

'You're killing me'

'That's the point'

Rachel looked at Jason as he let go and told her and he was kidding after she started to kick at his shin. Soon afterwards, Rachel pulled Lana away from some random older Asian guy she was hitting on. Rachel wrapped her arm around Lana's and asked her

'Got any ideas of where we can go in mind'

'I know a place'

The sun rose and set for four more days since her first night back in the city that never sleeps. She now found herself sitting in front of a judge about to give her story for one more time. her palms damp and sweating like a dog's tongue on a hot day. She was getting nervous, Rachel Berry doesn't get nervous. She has song countless solos, she has sang to the president, even to audience as big as ten thousands but she was nervous. She finally got her words out after the judge asked her to state her name, and relationship with Lance Brewski.

'my name is Rachel Berry' Rachel said with it shaking out of her voice 'he was my dance partner at freedom oaks performing school, here in New York City'

'and how long where you partners for?'

'about a year'

'alright' the judge responded with. 'okay the defendant, you are first to ask the witness questions'

Rachel spent almost 40 minutes answering questions asked to her, about their relationship, if she brought it on herself, the night he raped her, the day back in Lima when he stabbed her and countless other acts. Rachel couldn't help but look over and stare at Lance, as she told her story, and wonder what her life would be like if she didn't decide to skip town and go home to Ohio. The judge finally was ready to announce the verdict

'Lance Brewski, you are under arrest for the four counts of stealing, you are consider guilty, for the three counts of attemptive rape, you are consider guilty, for the one account of rape, you are guilty, and for attempted murder, you are consider guilty, your sentence is for 50 years, with a possibility of parole at 30 years, no earlier time'

As Lance was handcuffed and taken away in those handcuffs, Rachel squeezed her eyes shut, and whispered to herself 'I'm free, I'm free'

AN: hope you enjoyed the chapter. i have never been to court, i know nothing about law outside what law and order has taught me. also i'm not even sure that the Rachel, Jason, lance time line makes any sense. oh well, i only have the epilouge left to write. don't worry, i'm going to wrap at Puck's important part of this story. Also write in a personal message or review, if you would want me to do a story based on Santana and Lana togather.