Thank you for all the love so far with this story. I'm not too pleased with the way this chapter has turned out. It wasn't what I had in mind, but this was my favorite version when I tried to rewrite it. Enjoy.
"Hey B, how come you moved here?" Santana asked. Glee was over with but the whole club stayed behind to find out who Rachel was. And what power she held over Puck. Most of them never heard anyone call Puck, Noah, that wasn't family. It just wasn't heard of. You don't go around calling the resident Badass by his given name.
"I really don't wanna talk about it," Rachel replied quietly.
"How is it you know Puck and Santana?" Kurt asked, crossing his arms over his chest, eying the newest diva to their club.
"I met Noah at the JCC," Rachel smiled, thinking back to that time.
Rachel sat at a table by herself painting. Her daddy had dropped her off saying she would have fun, that it was a camp and she'd just be there during the day. It would help her make friends. She didn't want friends she was only 7 almost 8. What did she need friends for? She lived in New York, that's where her friends were at. But she smiled and nodded along to her daddy's words and acted like she was happy to be here. After all she needed all the practice she could get for when she was older and taking Broadway by storm.
"Oww!" She yelled, feeling someone pull on her hair. Her daddy wasn't very good at doing her hair so it was left down. She glared at the weird looking boy that had pulled her hair, nearly ripping it from her scalp. Not only had he pulled her hair, he had spilled black paint all over her pink dress with white polka dots on it. Tears from the pain and the fact that dress was ruined filled her brown orbs.
"What the hell, Jewfro?" Rachel gasped at the little boy sporting a black eye and a Mohawk. Rachel found the strip of hair on his head funny looking and beyond ridiculous. "You okay?" The little boy asked after scaring away her tormentor. Rachel nodded, as he studied her. "Name's Puck." Rachel giggled. "What's so funny?" He demanded, ready to shove the little girl in front of him. He didn't care if his Ma raised him better than that or not. No one had ever laughed at Puck before. Noah sure, but never Puck.
"Are you a fairy? Maybe you can be my fairy godfather," Rachel told him with a bright smile on her face, forgetting that he had said a bad word.
"I'm no fairy!" Puck scoffed.
"Puck is a fairy in A MidSummer Night's Dream," Rachel replied.
"Noah," Puck sighed.
"I'm Rachel Barbra Berry. I live in New York with my Mom. I'm here for the Summer visiting my Daddy," Rachel told him happily. Puck rolled his eyes at getting nearly her life story. But he couldn't stop the smile that spread across his face. He even tried to help her clean the black paint from her dress.
They had spent the whole summer together at the day camp at the JCC and on the weekends they'd be at the others house or the park. They had became fast friends. Puck had learned all about Broadway, even if he didn't want to and Rachel learned that Puck wanted to be a rock-star like his dad was. She had learned that he was even learning how to play guitar. He promised that he would play her song once he had mastered a song.
With Summer winding down. Puck was dreading the day Rachel had to leave. As a young boy he was a badass so he wasn't crying, no he got dirt in his eye. Rachel on the other hand was crying her eyes out like a little baby.
"Do ya gotta go?" Puck asked, his hands in his pockets. Rachel nodded, finding it hard to say anything. "Can't you like stay with your Dad?"
"I'm sorry," she cried, throwing herself on Puck, hugging him tightly. "I need to go home to my Mommy. I'll be back next Summer, Noah. I promise. I'll be back in December too," Rachel told him, bring a smile to his face.
"Sweetie come on. We have a long drive ahead of us," Hiram called out. With one last hug, Rachel walked away from Noah. She had noticed the tears in his hazel eyes and she knew that it wasn't the dirt like he had said.
"Being friends with Noah, led to me being friends with Santana. I know Finn and Quinn as well. And I can't forget about Britt. I really did miss feeding the ducks with you Britt."
"Yay, me too!" Brittany squealed, jumping on Rachel. "I thought you forgot," Brittany frowned.
"Not possible," Rachel smiled.
"Beth? What about Beth?" Quinn asked softly, avoiding eye contact with Rachel. It had taken her a lot to heal from the events to do with Beth. Puck had caught Rachel's eyes as there was a small gasp ringing out from the glee club. Puck to wanted to know about Beth, he was trying to find a way to bring her up that wouldn't feel too personal or like he was prying.
"I have her, you can come over whenever you want to see her, both of you," she told them.
"WE gave her to Shelby, not you!" Quinn yelled, storming over to Rachel. "So why do you have my daughter?" Puck went to get involved but Rachel pushed him aside.
"She's not your daughter anymore Quinn. You signed your rights away. She's my little sister and it's my job to take care of her, when my mother can't at this point in time. You may have given birth to her, but you haven't been there. My mother is her mom not you!" Rachel seethed. She turned to Puck. "Noah if you want to come over and see Beth, you may. But Quinn is not allowed, not until she can come to terms that Beth is no longer hers," Rachel stated, turning and walking out.
"Dang, Quinn you just got schooled!" Mercedes laughed, walking out of the room with a laughing Kurt.
With a heavy sigh Puck sat down, watching as the rest of the glee club trickle out of the room. He jumped slightly feeling a hand on his shoulder. He looked up to see Mike standing over him. "What?" He asked gruffly.
"So that's Rachel?" Mike asked with a slight smirk on his face. Puck rolled his eyes going to get up. He wasn't in the mood to deal with Mike and whatever was going through his friends head. He did however want to see Beth. He had been wanting the day he was able to hold her to come for a long time and now that it was in front of him, he wasn't going to let the chance pass him by. He would use this chance to get to know his daughter. But this was more than Beth. He now had Rachel back in his life for longer than 3 months at a time. And he wasn't sure how he felt about that. Sure he was excited when she walked through the door to the choir room. She was his best friend and more. Could things go back to the way they had been over the last few Summers? Did he want that? Or could there be more between them?
"Are you stating the obvious or do you want something?" He asked roughly.
"Ever since you started to talk about Rachel, I had to know what it was she held over you. You never let your football buddies meet her. I'm not sure why you never let the Gleeks meet her. But I know now why you kept her hidden from the rest of us." Puck stared at his friend, wondering where he was going with this whole thing. "Dude she's hot! Have you noticed that her legs go on for miles?" Mike smirked, watching the anger and jealousy play across Puck's face.
"Shut up, Michael!" Puck hissed, pushing past him.
"Oh yea she holds the power!" Mike exclaimed, chuckling as he caught up with Puck.
"What's that mean?" Puck asked. Mike laughed harder, leaving Puck standing outside the doors to the school.
He didn't want to know what Mike meant by that. He didn't have the time to dig through his feelings, not that he wanted to do that in the first place. He wasn't suppose to have feelings. He was tough, he was a badass. And badasses don't have feelings! So what that he was excited and nervous to see Beth for the first time since she was born. So what that he was overly excited that Rachel was here. It didn't mean anything!