I'm so sorry for the small delay with this chapter. It's just what I had planned for this chapter I completely forgot what that was and then I was drawing a complete blank on what to do with it, but luckily I have it all sorted out. Hopefully the next chapter won't take as long. Enjoy.

It had been a few weeks since Rachel had dinner over at the Puckerman's house. Roma had let Puck get away with almost everything after learning that her son was smartening up and found himself with Rachel after everything that her son had put himself through. Apart of Roma wanted to be mad at Rachel for always breaking her son's heart when she left to the city, but she couldn't find it in herself, because she saw how depressed Rachel got when she had to leave as well. It had been a predicament for everyone involved. Despite the ordeal that Shelby was going through, Roma was thrilled that Rachel was going to be in town for the two years. She already knew that her son planned on going to New York the first chance he got after he graduated. The thing that pleased her the most was to see that Beth was growing up Jewish. In a twisted sort of way, that brought her relief to know that her granddaughter was raised in her Jewish faith.

It was that time of the week for Glee rehearsal. Things with Kurt had left the group one person shy of the 12 members they needed to have. Kurt had left because of the bullying with Karofsky. He transferred to Dalton Academy. That left the glee club in heavy recruiting and they had forgotten about the duets they were supposed to perform. With Sectionals right around the corner they spent their free time thinking of who they could bring into their little family of misfit toy. They had just finished up their group number when Mr. Shue had ended Glee for the day. Puck and Rachel had made plans to take Beth to the park since it was still nice outside and not that cold yet. Puck had tried to talk Quinn into coming around and seeing Beth, but she wouldn't budge. Puck even gave her a picture. Quinn had turned her nose up at the picture that had her blonde haired daughter on it, stuffing it in her bag, walking away from Puck and the situation altogether.

"Matthew?" Rachel questioned, seeing the boy she had became friends with over the summer.

"Hey, Rach," the boy smiled, drawing her into a hug.

"What are you doing here?" She asked shocked to see the boy. He had moved into the apartment next to hers the first week of June. Despite him being shy, he came around and they became fast friends. Obviously he left some things out of his story.

"A little birdie told me that you guys needed another member for Glee club," he smirked. Rachel gave him a funny look. Before she had the chance to question him about it, Puck was right next to her, his arm sliding around her waist pulling her into his side. "You two are dating now?" He asked with an amused smile, looking from his former friend to his new friend.

"Rutherford," Puck spoke in greeting, looking between the amused boy and his bewildered girl. "Ya know each other?" Puck asked, looking between the pair.

"I could ask the same question," Rachel stated, looking from the amused Matt to the jealous face of her boyfriend. "What am I missing?"

"Berry, it's what are we all missing, here," Santana said, walking up to the trio, the rest of the club joining them.

"This is my old school, Rach," Matt explained to her. She nodded in understanding.

"Your friends and your old Glee club," she smiled.

"Yeah," he agreed. "My parents saw how depressed I was becoming in New York after you took off on me." Rachel winced hearing that. That had not been her intention whatsoever. "After a long freaking talk they decided it would be best if I moved back to Lima to live with my Aunt and Uncle until after high school," he rushed out, explaining to everyone else what was going on.

"We were neighbors, I took him in the few months I had left in New York," Rachel explained, feeling all eyes on her. "He was like a sad puppy, I couldn't just leave him there," she smiled, resting her head on Puck's shoulder. "He just left out that he was from Lima, Ohio."

"Hey now," Matt said, a grin on his face. "You didn't mention that you were moving to Lima, Ohio. I had to find out through your Mom when she turned up with no Rachel and no Beth," he stated in a sad tone. "How is my little monkey doing?" He asked. Rachel felt Puck tense up beside her.

"She's wonderful man," Puck spit, removing himself from Rachel and stalking out of the room. Rachel gave Matt a sad smile and chased after her boyfriend.

"Noah, stop," Rachel hissed, failing to catch up to her boyfriend.

"You knew how I felt about giving her up, Rachel," Puck whisper yelled, spinning around on his heel. "And yet you let one of my good friends be her fucking father? That's just messed up, even for you!" He snorted, shoving a finger in her direction.

"It wasn't like that, Noah. Matt was always Uncle Matt to Beth. I could never replace you as her father," Rachel told him. "The fact that you even think that, it's…" Rachel trailed off, walking away from her boyfriend. She didn't have the strength to fight with Noah over this whole thing. Not until he had taken the time to cool off about it all.

"He'll come around, Rach," Matt told her, carefully approaching her. She gave him a shrug.

"He's the one that I told you about loving. My Noah," she sighed, pulling her locker open. "Ironic, huh?" She asked, pulling books out. "So did you move back just because I was complaining to you about Kurt transferring to Dalton leaving us with an open space?" She asked, shutting her locker and zipping her bag closed.

"Not really," he told her, taking her bag. "I was depressed, I quit the football team, stopped singing, dancing and even talking." They ignored the stares that they were getting from the rest of the Glee club that was watching them like a hawk, except for Puck. He was furious with the way Matt had swooped in on his girl and left school in a huff. "The more you talked about Glee club the more I started to put names to faces and I missed it, slushies and all. I just don't understand how either one of us never told the other one about being in Lima," he chuckled.

"It never came up, but why didn't you tell me that you knew where I was? Do you like being a creeper?" She asked, unlocking her car. Matt chuckled, placing her bag in the back seat.

"No, it was nice to hear about them without being pressed for information on them. And I figured if you knew that I knew them then you would confront them or something and they would press you for information about me. Either way you look at it you would have been stuck in the middle and I don't want you to be put in the middle of this," he explained for her.

"Thank you for that Matthew," she told him with a bright smile, pulling her car door open.

"I'll go over to Puck's and have a little chat with him about me and Beth. I'll make him understand that I wasn't replacing him as her father, just fun loving Uncle Matty. Things will be good by tonight, count on it, Rach."

"I hope so," she told him, shutting her car door. Things would be horrible for her if things with Noah went up in smoke.