I don't own the song used or anything to do with Glee. I don't speak Yiddish either. Enjoy.

Song Rachel is singing is Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue by Crystal Gayle. Lyrics have been taken out.

Tayer-Precious
Eynikl-Granddaughter
zoyne-Harlot

During their free period they had tried to find the perfect song for them to sing later in the week for Glee but they were having trouble trying to find the perfect song to sum them up. Even when they thought they had found the perfect song, the other person wouldn't agree to it. There was a perfect song for them to sing for their duets assignment, it was just a matter of finding the song they both could agree on.

Rachel was relieved to see that she had the last half of the day with Puck next to her. Puck had let out a small groan knowing that he would now be forced to go to Math the rest of the semester; he could kiss his naps in the nurse's office goodbye. He had a feeling that Rachel wasn't going to be missing a day of school. She never had missed a day of school in her life and she was proud of that fact, it was only going to carry over now that she was here. Maybe Math wouldn't be so bad with Rachel next to him.

Puck found himself at Football practice after school. Rachel had sat on the bleachers for a while watching the McKinley Titans practice. Within a few minutes she found herself getting bored watching them run the same play over and over again. That's how she found herself in the auditorium. Her finger's easily gliding over the ivory keys on the piano. She had learnt how to play the piano at a very young age. Quinn's words swirling through her head as she sang the lyrics.

She hated to think about her first time with Noah only to have that memory ruined just a month later when he had hooked up with Quinn. After hearing about that, she had spent one too many nights crying herself to sleep. She never let Noah know that it hurt her. With time she had been able to move past that, at least she had thought so, but now that she was here faced with Quinn on a daily basis, she wasn't sure it was going to be so easy. Being around Beth was hard at first but she was able to overcome the little fact that she was part Quinn.

It hurt to leave Noah at the end of summer. She was doing what she had thought was best for him. She knew his ways, she knew that a long distance relationship for anyone was hard and they were only teens so it was going to be harder on them. It was for the best, even if Noah didn't see it that way and he only went along with it for her. He lied to keep her happy because he had loved her enough to let her go. She loved him enough to let him be the guy that all of Lima knew. She hated Puck, but she loved Noah.

"What's that about?" Brittany asked, sitting next to Rachel at the piano. She had overheard the whole song. Rachel's voice was pretty and hollow and Brittany just had to follow the voice.

"Just how I felt at the end of every summer," Rachel shrugged, lightly pressing down on the ivory keys.

"He hasn't been with anyone, ya know," Brittany told her softly. "I've been watching him and since you left last summer, he's been trying to be better." That had taken her by surprise. In all the times they had talked on the phone he never once mentioned anything about that. He let her believe that he had went back into his old ways.

"Are you sure, Britt?" Rachel asked, looking over at the blonde.

"Yep, he had his chances but he turned them down." Brittany saw things that no one else saw or even cared to notice. It was the little things after all.

Rachel was having a hard time wrapping her mind around that. It wasn't that it was hard to believe, because she believed that Noah could be faithful, but they weren't even together at the time. "Why?" Rachel asked, pulling her bottom lip in between her teeth.

"To prove himself to you," Britt replied, getting up. Rachel nodded, letting the cheerleader walk off.

"You still are coming over tonight, right?" Puck asked, walking down one of the aisles, not giving Rachel time to think about what Brittany had just told her.

"Of course, I just have to go home and change and get Beth," Rachel replied, picking her bag up.

"But I like this look," Puck told her with a wink, pulling her into his embrace, pressing a kiss to the top of her head.

"I'm sure you do, but your Mom," Rachel sighed, letting herself melt into her boyfriend's embrace.

"I know, baby. You okay?" Puck asked, feeling how tense his girl was all of a sudden.

"Why didn't you tell me that you were trying to better yourself? Prove yourself to me?" Rachel asked, pulling back to look at him. "You do know that you don't have to prove anything to me, right?" She asked.

"I do have to prove myself to you Rach. You're the only besides my Ma that doesn't see me as this screw up. I need for you to see that I can be different for you. That I'm not some Lima Loser, that there's more to me."

"Not only do I see that, but I get that, Noah. You show it to me all the time. You're more than this town, Noah and you'll see that once you make your escape."

"Maybe so," Puck stated, moving to lace his fingers with hers and pulling her from the auditorium. "Come over early and we can do our school work together, okay?" Puck asked. Rachel was sure that it was just an excuse to spend more time together and she was okay with that.

After a very intense make out session pressed against the side of Rachel's car, she was able to escape Puck's grasp and head home.

"How was school, sweetie?" Hiram asked when Rachel walked into the house. "What happened to the clothes you left in?" he asked, looking at the jersey that Rachel had on.

"Just a little accident is all, nothing major," Rachel replied with a smile. She saw no need in worrying her dad about something that wasn't luckily to happen again. "School was good, I'm going to go change and then I'm going to head over to Noah's house to do school work with him before dinner. That is okay, right?" Rachel asked, chewing her bottom lip. She had been so excited about seeing Roma; the woman had been like a mother figure for her during her summer vacations. And to see Daniela again after the last year, she was looking forward to seeing the young Puckerman sibling.

"Of course it is, sweetie, will Beth be going with you?" Hiram requested, holding the said girl in his arms. He had grown accustomed to the little girl.

"Yes. I get that she's my responsibility while she's here. I wouldn't put that on you or Leroy," Rachel insisted. "Has Mom called?" Rachel asked, walking to the stairs.

Hiram shook his head. "I'm sorry, but she hasn't called yet. You do know that you can call her, right?"

"I know and I will if she doesn't call tonight. I just don't want to interrupt anything going on, ya know?" She questioned, stopping on the bottom of the stairs. She wanted to know how her mom was doing; she just wasn't sure if it was a good time to call her. She could be in the middle of the treatment or something worse and she wasn't ready to face that possibility yet.

"Okay sweetie. I'll get Beth ready to go while you change," Hiram told her. Rachel gave him a small smile and rushed up to her room. She had found comfort in her boyfriend's jersey during the day when she would get stares from the rest of the student body. She didn't want to take the jersey off, but she wasn't ready to be hit with the bunch of questions that Roma was going to throw her way seeing that she was wearing her son's clothes.

Just a few blocks from Rachel's house, Puck was going crazy trying to clean his room up. He did want his room to be presentable for Rachel and not be filled with dirty clothes and half eaten sandwiches and stale chips that were strewn across his bedroom floor. The window was open and a few different scented candles were placed randomly throughout his room to get rid of the stench that filled his room from the dirty sweaty clothes that had been tossed haphazardly in every direction. He didn't find the smell of old moldy food to be appealing or sexy so that stench had to be gone.

"Is this for Rachel?" Roma asked, leaning against the doorjamb, arms crossed over her chest, an amused smile on her face, her dark brown eyes twinkling with happiness.

"What do ya think, Ma?" Puck asked, walking past to get the vacuum from the hall closet.

"I think it's sweet that you're going through all this trouble for her. So what exactly is going on between you and Rachel?" Roma requested, not moving from the spot she had rooted herself in.

"Ma," Puck tossed over his shoulder, plugging the cord in.

"What? It's not wrong for a Mother to know what's going on with her kids," Roma tossed right back at him. "I've watched you Noah; I've seen how it's tore you up to watch her walk away, before you jumped right into bed with those zoyne!" She scolded. "I've watched you hook up with that devil girl," she hissed, talking about Santana, which got a chuckle from Puck. "I watched you ruin your life with that gentile," she hissed, licking her lips, taking a deep breath, not wanting to start an argument with her son. "I think you'd be stupid to let her walk out of your life now that she's here for the next two years."

"Just cuz you've been planning my wedding to Rachel since we were tikes, doesn't mean that I've been doing that, Ma. I'm not stupid," he sighed, running a hand through his 'hawk. Roma raised her eyebrows, waiting for her son to say more. "Look, I'm not letting her get away again, alright?" He questioned, turning back around and switching the vacuum on, not waiting to hear what else his mom had to say on the topic of his love life. Roma shook her head and left her Noah be. There would be time later when Rachel was around to bring the topic of them up once more.

"Rachel!" Daniela screamed, running past her brother, launching herself on Rachel. The older girl swung the child around earning laughs from said child. Puck shook his head, walking to the car and getting Beth out. He was left amazed at how much the baby looked like him and how gorgeous the child truly was.

"Dani, look at you," Rachel beamed, setting the young girl down.

"Daniela, would you let poor Rachel in the house," Roma scolded her youngest, a smile on her face at the sight of Rachel.

"Sorry," Daniela said, grabbing Rachel's hand and pulling her into the house.

"Hello Roma," Rachel greeted, hugging the older woman as she entered the house.

"Hello dear, is that my eynikl?" She questioned, her eyes watering at the sight of the baby seat that Puck sat on the couch.

"Ma, meet Beth," Puck said softly, holding the baby for his mom and sister to see.

"Tayer," Allie cooed.

After they had fussed over Beth, Roma headed to the kitchen to start on dinner. Puck carrying a happy Beth led Rachel up to his room so they could work on their school work in peace from his mom and sister. Puck sat on his bed with Beth as Rachel sat at his desk and pulled out her work to start on it. She had her back to Puck and he was more interested in Beth than he was the work that he had to do. Rachel would watch him from the corner of her eye, a smile on her lips as she watched just how adorable Puck could be.

"You would have made an amazing father, Noah," she told him softly. Puck shrugged, glancing over at her.

"I wanted to keep her, but I don't think I could've," he told her leaving the rest on said, placing Beth on his lap.

"It is hard. You did what was right and there is nothing wrong with that, but now you have your second chance."

"Are ya gonna let Quinn see her?"

"Not until she can show me respect. I don't want to keep Beth away from her, but she is not giving me much of a choice in the matter." Puck nodded, rubbing Beth's back as she curled up on his chest. Biting her lip, Rachel moved to sit next to them on the bed. She curled up under Puck's arm, placing her hand on Beth.

A few hours later when dinner was done that was the same place that Roma had found them in. A huge grin spreading across her face. She raced down the hall to her room to find her camera. A moment like this needed to be captured at least half a dozen times.

"Noah, Rachel," she whispered, gently pushing on them not wanting to wake Beth up.

With groggy eyes the two teens started to come to. Rachel gave a sheepish smile for being caught curled up to Puck fast asleep, Puck on the other hand cursed himself out for letting his mom see him asleep with Rachel, and by the faraway look on his mother's face, he had a feeling things weren't going to be so easy to get out of after Rachel and Beth leave later.

"We'll be down shortly, Ma," Puck grumbled, rubbing his face. Roma looked at the teens nodded her head and walked out of the room.

"I didn't mean to fall asleep," Rachel stated, shaking her head.

"Baby, s'alright," Puck replied, moving the blankets around on his bed to keep Beth in the middle of his bed while she slept.

"I don't want her to get ideas, Noah," Rachel stressed, fussing with her books that lay open on his desk. She whipped around glaring at the heartless jerk before her, who had the audacity to laugh at her. "I do not see what's so hilarious about this, Noah!" She hissed.

"Rach, baby," Noah said, closing the gap between them. "I'm not laughing at you, I swear it. You know my Mom. You know how she is. She's been planning our wedding since you walked into Temple at the young age of 7. Us falling asleep didn't give her anything she hasn't been thinking already."

"Really?" She asked in a small voice.

"Yep," he replied, pulling her into him, his arms going around her waist. Rachel snaked her arms around his neck playing with the hair at the nape of his neck. To think about that part of her future scared her. Taking Broadway by storm gave her hope, but marriage and kids was scary to think about. "Let's head down before she gets anymore crazy ideas about us," he told her with a joking tone. Rachel however saw the reality of his words and was in a hurry to get to the kitchen. Puck followed behind his girlfriend laughter ringing out around them.

"How is your Mom, Rachel?" Roma asked, placing their plates of food in front of them. Rachel smiled giving her a small thanks as Puck warned his mom.

"Noah, it's fine really. She's okay. I haven't had the chance to talk to her since being here. But they had caught the cancer early. It's just going to take some time," Rachel explained. Other than her family she hadn't told anyone about her mother but being with the Puckerman's felt like family to her.

"That's good, sweetie," Roma said, sitting down. Puck had taken her hand under the table, gently squeezing his girlfriend's hand letting her know that he was right there if she needed anything. Rachel was thankful for his support and pulled her own strength from her boyfriend.

"Are you going to leave us?" Dani asked, around a mouthful of food. Roma scolded her youngest about talking with a mouthful of food.

"Not until after high school, Dani." Before being forced to move to Lima, she wasn't happy that she had to spend the next two years of her life in such a small town, not when New York was her home. Now however, the thought about leaving made her sad. This was her time to see how strong her friendships are, to see if things with Noah could be more than just 3 months. It gave her the chance to really get to know her dad and his partner. To really get to know Clint now that he was growing up. "There is no other place I want to be," Rachel said, squeezing her boyfriend's hand.

"What is going on between the two of you?" Roma asked eyeing her son and guest up. "You can't hide anything from me," she warned. The two teens shared a look with each other. It was going to come out and get back to their parents anyway. He wasn't ashamed to be with Rachel and she wasn't ashamed to be with him. In many ways they made each other better and mellowed the other one out.

"Must ya ask, Ma?" Puck asked, pushing a carrot around on his plate. "We made things official this morning at school." He cringed hearing his mother shriek.

"Please Roma; don't make this a big deal. We were always planning on being together when we ended up in the same place as each other and now that we have it would be fruitless not to try at a relationship," Rachel explained. Noah nodded; he too didn't want to make a big deal about him and Rachel being in a relationship.

Reluctantly Roma agreed and kept her ideas and plans in her head about the two teens before her. She could picture their wedding but that had been something she had been able to picture when Rachel walked into Temple holding Hiram's hand nearly 10 years ago.

After that conversation seemed to flow over how school was and other small topics. They had even made plans to play at the park on Saturday when Puck was being forced to watch his sister, while his mom had to pick up an extra shift. Puck really didn't mind and the fact that he would be spending the day with Rachel and Beth as well made him feel giddy and for the first time he felt that it was okay not to feel like a badass, not when his girl and daughter were involved. Around Rachel he wasn't the badass that everyone else got. He didn't have to prove that nothing hurt him. No he had to prove that he could be the man she could trust and lean on.