When Matt and Noah arrived at Rachel's house she was trying to coerce Mike out of the tree with the promise of cookies and milk when he got down. She really didn't care if he came down but honestly she didn't want to have to hear Noah and Matt tell her why she was being ignored because she knew she would forgive them in an instant she missed them that much. Mike broke her out of her thoughts exclaiming.

"Cats can't eat cookies Rachie stop being silly." Rachel was about to retort she wasn't the one being silly when a hearty laugh sounded behind her. She turned around to see Matt and Noah standing behind her, Noah with an amused glint in his eyes while Matt was full out laughing. Rachel stared pointedly at Matt causing him to stop laughing and when he did Rachel kind of wish that he didn't realizing that she missed his laugh. She missed a lot of thing about him the way his face lit up when he was having fun, how gentle he was with his little sibling, but most of all she missed the fact that he loved her for who she was. She shook her head clearing it of those thoughts and got back to the problem at hand.

"Fear not little kitty we are here to save you," Noah said in a fake heroic voice addressing Mike. Mike meowed in reply. Then followed up by saying, "Who's here to save me I don't see no firemen."

"It's because were undercover firemen." Rachel regarded Matt with a quizzical look but he shot her a look that said just 'go with it.'

"Well I don't if I can trust you guys to get me down even if you are pretty hunky people."

"Wow they have an undercover fireman now that is so cool." Mike said jumping down from the tree, "You have to tell me about that."

When Rachel saw Mike jump out the tree she was ready to flip she just knew this had to be some type of plan. If they wanted forgiven that bad they shouldn't have messed up in the first place. The more Rachel thought about it the more upset she got so when Matt approached and asked what was wrong she went off.

"Where do you guys get off trying to apologize to me after so long? After you ruined my life with no regrets left me friendless? Huh?" Rachel said in one breath on stopping for a half second before continuing "And then after I forgive Mike you formulate so type of plan to get me to talk to you. Do you honestly think I'm that stupid? Or was this just wishful thinking? I for one do not like being taken advantage of and quite frankly this is just too much for one fucking day."

All the boys' mouths dropped when they heard Rachel swear she never swore unless she was really upset. Matt went to say something to Rachel but Mike stopped him becoming serious all of a sudden.

"Rach, it wasn't Matt and Pucks idea it was mine I just want us to be friends like we used to be." Mike said grabbing her hand. "Matt's life has been hell since he stopped talking it was hell before he stopped talking to him and Pucks role in all this; well Puck was just a spectator and a loyal friend. Everything he knew was taken from him then so were his parents and he had to stay with that bastard for so fucking long and he's trying to get his life back on track now that he has it back."

Rachel was dumbfounded she didn't understand what was going on. Matt suddenly stepped towards Rachel.

"Rach everything that Mike said is true and I'd like to explain it to you if we can go outside I hate saying it in public… fuck I hat talking about it all really." Rachel just shook her heading agreement still confused as to what is going on and turned to walk into her house the other three tasking that as a signal to follow.

When they all got into the house Rachel sat on the couch and motioned for Matt to start talking. Matt was taken aback by this the Rachel he knew wouldn't act like that, but then again that was so long ago.

"Well it started when my uncle came to visit that summer you were at your grandmas my uncle came to visit and James was talking about you and your dads. My uncles very prejudice and he said something to mom and dad about the way they were raising me and I didn't get it at first but later that night.."

*Flashback*

Matt was lying in bed trying to fall asleep when he heard the angry screams of his dad and uncle. He followed the sounds to his window and saw his dad and uncle on the lawn arguing while his mom just stood to the side crying.

"You weren't ready to be a father that's why we have him and from the looks of everything that happened today your still not." Matt's father yelled. Matt was confused who were they talking about.

"But he's still my son no matter what you say and I don't want him associating with those- those faggots and their daughter Matt is better than that." Now Matt was really confused why would, his uncle say that Matt was his son and why would his father agree. Deep down Matt knew what they were talking about he just didn't want to come to that realization.

He found his feet carrying him down the step and out onto his front yard right, in the middle of the madness.

"Matthew go back into the house," his father said after noticing his presence.

"Not until you tell me what's going on." Matt said back looking at his father defiantly.

Matt's dad squirmed under his intense gaze breaking eye contact. He then snapped back up to meet his gaze. "Matt the truth is I'm not your father your uncle is." Matt looked back and forth between his dad and uncle confused and started crying. Why did this have to happen to him. His whole world was turned upside down. He noticed his dad coming towards him from the corner of his eye and ran.

Matt was caught after about a half hour of running. When he was found he was close to passing out from exhaustion on the outskirts of Lima. The police picked him up and when he got home everything changed.

Everything was a blur his uncle or dad rather filed for custody of him and won he was stuck living with him on the for two years until his parents he didn't care that they weren't biological got him back. While he was living with his uncle he was forbidden from talking to Rachel he would've tried but his cousin (brother) went to school with him and kept tabs on him.

He lived a pretty miserable existence but faked it pretty well. Mike, Puck and the school were the only ones that knew what was going on.

*End Flashback*

By the time Matt finished telling his story Rachel was in tears she couldn't believe that Matt, her Matt, had went through all that relatively alone. Matt got up from where he was sitting on the couch across from her and pulled her into his arms whispering soothing words in her ear until she calmed down. When Rachel's sobs finally subsided she sat up in Matt's arms and straightened out she should be comforting matt right now not the other way around.

She gave Matt a watery smile and moved into the kitchen. "Come on I promised you guys cookies every Wednesday but you gotta keep your end of the deal." All three boys in the living room smiled at each other happily knowing that Rachel had finally forgiven them.

Well that's chapter 4 sorry for having you guys wait for so long ill try to update soon even though I'm not quite sure where I should go with it now but I do have a few ideas suggestions are welcome for my Puck and Rachel story too. Bye!