Noah had never been more proud of Rachel as he was at that football game. Not only had she cheered her team on like a champ, she told a member of the crowd in front of them to 'Sit down before she shoved her foot so far up his ass he would be eating her toenails for breakfast'.
Their team hadn't won but Noah for the first time ever didn't even care. He walked out of the stadium laughing at Rachel as she pouted. She unlike Noah cared very much that her team had lost.
"Baby its ok for us to lose; we're still the best team in the competition." Noah said rubbing his thumb across the back of her hand. Rachel shook her head.
"I know Noah; I just wanted them to win so badly- do you know I've never been to a football game? I watch them on television mainly so I would understand what was going on when I went to school games but that was my first real game, and I wanted them to win so badly." Rachel said her voice cracking at the end.
They reached Rachel's little car and Noah unlocked the driver's side door; he hopped in and leant across to let Rachel inside. "Okie Dokie Rachie Pie where to now?" Noah said smiling at her as she put her seat belt on. She giggled and leaned over to kiss him on the cheek.
"Let's go to mine, and then we can go back to Quinn's in the morning. Does that sound good to you?" Noah nodded and drove the distance back to her house. By the time he got there Rachel was snoring soundly in the seat next to him. He walked around to her door and picked her up, she woke up dazed and confused.
"Noah, where are we?" She tried to get out of his arms but he held onto her as he climbed the stairs to her front door. He smiled down at her seeing her rubbing her eyes, sleep still in them.
"Its fine baby, I've got you. We're at your house, where do you keep the spare key?" Rachel mumbled something about a gap in the window ledge and he put his fingers into what he thought she may have been talking about pulling out the small silver key.
He walked inside and had to put her down to find the light switch. She stumbled and he wrapped his arms around her small waist. When he turned the light on and locked the front door again, he found she was wide awake staring at him with a strange look in her eyes.
"What's wrong Rac? She attacked his lips with her own. He pressed her up against the back of the door meeting her urgency with his own kisses. He was the one that ended it when he felt her grind up against him, "Rach, what are you doing?" She bit her lip and didn't answer his question.
After what felt like a century but was really only a few seconds Rachel looked back up at him. She looked embarrassed and he smiled softly at her- unsure of what was going on through her head.
"I'm sorry Noah; I don't know what came over me. You were just so sweet organising this whole night and then carrying me up the stairs and I know you don't expect any sort of sexual activity but I also know that you know I'm not a virgin and so I don't know if that means you will expect some sort of intimacy between us sooner on, but I lost my virginity because I was scared of what would happen to me in California if I didn't and I just don't think I'm ready yet to commit completely to a-' this time Noah's lips cut her off. Their kiss was different this time, sweet and soft until Noah pulled away.
"Baby, there was nothing for you to be sorry about. In fact if anyone should apologise it should be me for making you think you had to have sex with me. We've only been dating for like a week. I've waited for you for a year and a half I think I can wait another six months or six weeks if that's how long it takes. Not to say I don't want to have sex with you because believe me baby I definitely, really do. But never do I ever want you to think that I am with you for that reason ok? Are we good?" Rachel nodded and he smiled before laughing when she yawned.
"I think its bed time huh?" Noah said and Rachel nodded before dragging him up to her bedroom. The two fell asleep wrapped in one another's arms, the previous conversation bringing them closer together instead of further apart.
"So he took you to a football game?" Santana said as she walked with Quinn and Rachel into the choir room that morning. Rachel nodded sipping from her thermos. The coffee seeped through her and she warmed at the caffeine flooding through her body. She was truly overtired, her date with Noah last night had caused her to sleep through first period that morning and she woke at 10:30 rushing to school. Noah had left without a note, or without waking her up for that instance and she hadn't seen him all morning. Needless to say she was worried. "I'm just speaking for myself and possibly every other female in the world but if my boyfriend took me to a football game I would be pissed off." Santana said as she took her seat.
"Speak for yourself , if Matt takes me to a football game I will be thrilled. At least we would be going somewhere, the furthest we have gone on a date so far is the Chucky Cheese, and that's only because breadsticks was full." Mercedes said shaking her head.
"Yeah Mercedes is right, if Finn took me to a football game I'd be happy cause it would mean that Finn would have taken me anywhere. God that boy works as a mechanic part time and believe me Burt pays him really well. He could take me on a day trip to wherever he wanted and I would be happy, I'm just so sick of having to plan things myself." Quinn said, a small frown gracing her perfect features.
"I think it's understandable when I say that Artie has trouble taking me places, but even then if he just planned a romantic dinner at his house I would be thrilled. All we ever do is sit and listen to 90's r'n'b songs and I watch Artie play COD." Tina said from her spot in the corner.
"COD, every woman's nightmare, all Douglas does is play that stupid game, I don't even understand it." Everyone stared open mouthed at Britt after she spoke; her fluent sentence had caused some serious confusion amongst the girls of the glee club. Brittany's smart moment was broken however when she went back to eating her Twizzlers and colouring in her daffy duck colouring in book.
"Noah's sweet, I mean we having been dating that long, but he cares about things. He planned our football date, when he made my lunch for school the other day he cut my apple lengthways because he found out I preferred it like that. He's sweet."
"Honeymoon phase,' Quinn said, 'it will pass once he gets in your pants. Not saying he will love you any less in fact he will probably love you more, but the cute gestures- they disappear." The other girls nodded and Rachel looked worried.
The boys walked in then effectively ending any conversation. As Noah sat next to Rachel handing her an orange juice she wondered if the girls were right, would he be sweet up until she gave it up. And when she did, what would happen after that. Would her Noah become Puck?