I hope you guys like this one, I'm not a huge fan of this one but if I keep it and try and tweak it anymore than I already have, it would never get posted. Enjoy!
"Rach, what are you doing here?" Matt questioned opening up his front door to see his best friend and her baby sister. "Didn't you have plans with Quinn?" He questioned positive that was what he had heard from a few different people including the petite diva standing before him, opening the door to let them in.
"We did and after waiting an hour and trying her phone a million times and getting no reply, I got tired of waiting on her, I would go see Noah, but he's busy and I don't really want to bother him right now," she informed her friend. She didn't want to interrupt brother time as the time they spent together was crucial and they didn't need her to crash it. "Besides we haven't really spent time together, so it made it sense," she said picking her sister up.
"I'd like that, but uh Mike, Finn, Artie and Sam are here," he let her know. He didn't know how well they would like for Rachel to just drop in on them. Rachel sighed softly thinking maybe she could head over to see Santana and Brittany but again she didn't know what they were up too and she didn't want to be in the same predicament that she's in now either. She didn't want to go back home, she really wanted to be around people.
"Oh maybe another time then?" She asked him, looking down.
"Nah, it's fine and I don't think they'll mind too much," he told her, tossing an arm around her in a friendly way. He didn't want to see her so upset and he didn't have the balls to just kick her out and watch her mope all the way back to the car.
"You sure?" She questioned, walking with Matt and readjusting Beth in her arms.
"If they don't like it, they can take off, Rach. You're my friend too and I'm not going to kick ya out of here because they have something against it," he assured her as they walked into the living room. "Guys Rachel and Beth are going to join us," Matt announced to the room filled with guys. Rachel gave them a small smile.
"Can I?" Finn asked, looking at Beth, the little girl that he once considered his.
"Sure," she replied handing Beth over. She had never really considered how hard any of it was for him when it came to Beth. She was pleasantly shocked when Finn started to talk to Beth making the little girl in his arms smile.
It was Quinn's loss, not hers and she was not going to go any extra miles for Quinn to see Beth, if Quinn ever decided to come around well she wouldn't say no but it would be with Noah.
"We're playing guitar hero, you ever played?" Sam asked. He didn't care that Rachel just crashed guy night. He wanted to get to know her better and this seemed like the best option.
"The mic it uh kinda broke in the trip from the city," Matt told her with a shrug. It didn't need to be mentioned that he might have broken it before the move because it simply didn't matter.
"But don't worry we'll start off on easy until you get the hang of it," Mike assured her.
Rachel rolled her eyes taking the guitar that was sitting next to Finn. "If you need anything for her let me know," she told him adjusting the strap. Finn was content with holding the girl in his arms. "Now lets get this started and easy is for babies," Rachel smirked. Mat laughed grabbing the extra guitar.
With Puck and Jake they had just walked out of the arcade at the mall. It had only taken about a day before they let their guards down around each other. Puck enjoyed having a little brother to pick on; it was different than having a little sister. Accepting Jake wasn't all that hard after he focused all the anger and hate he had towards the one person responsible for it all, their father.
"Ma is gonna be working a double shift this weekend and it would be alright if ya came over to the house, Rachel and Beth are going to be there and you can meet Dani," Puck suggested. Normally he would talk his sister into going to a friend's house so he could throw a party but now that Rachel and Beth were around, he had to prove to himself that he could be man that he would do right by the daughter he had let go. To show everyone that he was more than the Lima Loser they all thought he was going to be.
"You wouldn't mind?" Jake asked timidly. Getting to know Puck had been great and he stayed away from the topic of his little sister and now he was getting the chance to meet her and he was ready for it, but that didn't mean Puck was ready to share his kid sister. The last thing he wanted to do was intrude in Puck's life.
"She can get a bit annoying but you'll like her. Look Jake they know I've been getting to know you and she wants to be in your life too and it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world," he responded with a shrug. He liked Jake and he had no doubts that Dani would like him as well; he saw no point in keeping them away from each other. His sister was getting on his last nerve about wanting to meet Jake and now seemed like the perfect time for that to happen. He really didn't think Jake wanted to put up with his Ma cause she could be a bit much at times.
"Alright I'll be there," Jake replied with a smile.
Puck tuned his brother out when he saw Quinn with a few of the other Cheerio's laughing at something. That pissed Puck off because he knew for a fact that Quinn was supposed to be over at Rachel's house seeing Beth. It pissed him off because Quinn yet again was picking herself over the little girl they had gave away and now he was seeing just how right of a choice that had been on her part. "Hold on a minute, Jake I've got something I need to handle," he told his brother walking up to the group of Cheerio's. "Quinn a word," he hissed.
Quinn rolled her eyes but walked a short distance away Puck behind her. "What's the meaning of this, I've got things to do?" She questioned, annoyed with Puck for ruining her afternoon.
"How's Beth doing?" Puck asked. Quinn paled and looked down. "Don't have an answer do you?" He sneered.
"I got scared, I heard what Rachel said today, but I can't do it," Quinn said softly. "I can't ruin that little girl's life worse than I already have."
"That isn't true," Puck told her, his fingers playing with his 'hawk. "One day Beth is going to want the answers only you can give her. But if you don't want to be apart of her life, that's up to you, Quinn," Puck told her walking off.
"Everything okay?" Jake asked when Puck was next to him.
"Yeah, come on and I'll drop ya off at home," Puck told him. Jake only nodded sensing that something more was going on and that Puck didn't want to talk about it.
After dropping Jake off Puck couldn't help but worry about Rachel. He frowned seeing that no one was at her place. It was getting too late for them to be at the park and he didn't know where else she would go. She hadn't called him and she wasn't answering her phone. He growled thinking that maybe she would be with Matt. Doing a U-turn he sped his way to Matt's place. Sure enough there was her car. He tossed his pick-up in park and turned it off and ran to the front door, he didn't even knock because ya know he was bros with Matt and he had to make sure Rachel was okay. He relaxed watching Artie and Mike playing with Beth as Finn and Rachel were killing it on Guitar Hero. He walked up to where Artie and Mike where and bent down to kiss the top of Beth's head.
"Hey Noah," Rachel said, hugging him once the song was over with. "You okay?" she whispered in his ear feeling the tight grip he had for the hug.
"Now I am why didn't you call me when she didn't show up?" Puck questioned her, pulling away from the hug enough to look her in the eyes.
"I didn't want to bother you," she told him simply. "Want to play?" She asked with hopefully eyes.
"Not my fault if I murder you in this game," he smirked, taking the guitar off of Finn. Hearing everyone in the room laugh at him made his smirk fall slightly.
"Then I'll go easy on ya killer," Rachel smiled sweetly at him sending all the guys into a laughter fit. He glared at them and went through the song list finding the perfect song to play against Rachel.