AN: Here you go! This was always intended to be the final chapter and I think I'm happy with the way it ends. I won't change its status to 'complete' until I'm positive though! Please let me know what you think!

Elle xox

When Rachel got to school the next morning, she had expected to have all of the glee kids pounce on her for information but surprisingly she didn't get anything. Tina and Artie were chatting away about a substitute they had for history. She was putting her books in her locker when Noah came up behind her.

"Hey Rach," he smiled.

Rachel narrowed her eyes at him, "I'm not talking to you," she pouted.

"Why? What's wrong?" he was suddenly worried.

"Look what you did to me," she turned to the side and showed him the marks on her legs from him whipping her with the cloth. Noah burst out laughing.

"Well for starters… you started that," he chuckled, "and secondly," he lifted his shirt to show her his stomach, "you got me pretty good too."

Rachel cracked up at seeing the matching marks on his stomach. Noah pulled her off towards an empty class where they could talk.

"How did I go last night?" Rachel asked, "Was your mom convinced?"

"Are you fucking kidding me!" he laughed, "She loves you! And after that little display in the kitchen, she is totally convinced."

At lunch, all the glee kids sat together. After Puck kicked Kurt out of his seat so that he could sit next to Rachel, the group finally worked up the nerve to ask the couple what was going on.

"So are you two… like together now?" Matt asked them.

Rachel looked at Noah and let him answer, "We have been for a while now," he lied easily as he wrapped an arm around Rachel's waist and pulled her close.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Quinn asked curiously.

Rachel and Puck both looked over at Finn, silently explaining why they had 'kept it a secret'. Even though their relationship wasn't real, the situation was. Finn wasn't completely comfortable with the fact Rachel and Puck had become friends.

Finn hung his head and nodded, showing he understood.

"So we're guessing you made the decision to stop hiding now?" Kurt commented, "I mean, if you thought you could hide it after that little PDA in Glee yesterday, you are seriously deluded."

"Yeah," Rachel chuckled, "That was our choice. We didn't think coming out with a 'hey… oh yeah, by the way we've been dating for a while now' speech was a good way to go about it."

"My mom wanted to meet Rachel officially and I knew she would gossip with Finn and Kurt's mom so we had to stop hiding," Puck told them.

"And then… Kurt left a message on my answering machine at home that my dad's got to before I did so we had to tell them too."

Kurt had the decency to look guilty.

"Finn told us about the little scene in the kitchen," Santana laughed.

"Oh please!" Puck laughed, "He didn't hang around long enough to know what was going on... he bailed as soon as he spotted Rachel."

"What was going on?" Mike asked.

"Rachel started a tea-towel war while we were drying up. I was making her surrender," Puck said smugly.

"Don't gloat… I got you good," Rachel narrowed her eyes and poked him in the stomach where she knew he had bruises making him wince and everyone else laugh. She smirked at him and he lent over to kiss her quickly on the lips. They pulled apart, grinning at each other. Rachel was starting to get concerned with how her feelings for her best friend had changed over the last day. Their 'being together' had awoken old feelings within her. She rested her head on his shoulder while the group continued to eat their lunch.

"So when exactly did you and Rachel get together?" Finn asked his friend, trying to start a conversation while they got ready for football.

"A while back… After the party at Brittany's after Regionals," Puck explained, "she was upset about the whole Quinn situation, so I took her home."

"Wow! That long? This has got to be a record for you!" Finn smiled. He wasn't being rude, just stating a fact.

"Rachel's different to the other girls… I really like her," the mohawked boy answered.

Finn laughed, "Well I figured that, otherwise you wouldn't have been together for this long. Hell this is you we are talking about, if you weren't serious about her, you wouldn't be together at all."

"She's awesome. Rachel just… gets me and doesn't put up with any of my shit. She's so different to the person she pretends to be at school…" As he spoke about his fake girlfriend, Noah couldn't help but realise how much of everything he said was true. He couldn't pin point the time he fell for his best friend- Rachel.

"Thanks for… you know, understanding about all of this," Puck held his hand out to bump fists with his old friend.

Noah waited outside the Choir room for Rachel to arrive. Her smile grew when she spotted him as she walked with Tina.

"Hi," she said cheerily.

"Hey babe," he rested his hands on her hips and pulled her close to him. He held her there while they chatted for a while. The other glee clubbers had to walk past them to get into the room.

Inside the choir room, Mr Schue looked up at his students to see Puck and Rachel missing, "We have a lot to do today so we'll get started as soon as Puck and Rachel get here."

"They're just outside the door," Mercedes said, continuing to file her nails, "I don't know about you, but I'm not game enough to look out and see what they are doing."

The teacher widened his eyes at the meaning behind what Mercedes was saying. Artie noticed the look and gave the teacher a further explanation.

"Yup… apparently they have been together for a while," he said.

"A long while… Since the party at Brittany's after Regionals," Finn added. The other gasped hearing this new information. It was much much longer than they had thought.

"I'll go," Santana volunteered, "they've managed to keep their hands off each other the entire time we didn't know about them so I am sure they will be able to keep it PG in here."

"Look you two," she stuck her head out of the room to talk to the couple, who she was surprised to see were just talking, "I may not have been good friends with either of you up until recently, but we are team mates and the only way we are going to stay team mates is if we win at Nationals… we won't win Nationals unless you two come inside so we can practise."

The couple stared at her and rolled their eyes. Noah took Rachel's hand and let her lead him into the room where Mr Schue clapped his hands together.

"Thanks for joining us," he said sarcastically.

"Sorry Mr Schuester," Rachel apologised, "We lost track of time."

"Apparently," someone muttered from the back of the room.

"Give them a break," Santana laughed, "they were just talking."

Practise went far too slowly for Puck's liking. Rachel was leaning against him the whole time they were sitting down and the way she smelt was driving him insane.

"Please tell me you're free this afternoon," he wrapped his arms around her waist as they were packing up to go home, knowing full well everyone was watching them.

"Sorry… I have ballet," Rachel apologised.

"After ballet?" he replied hopefully.

"Geez Puckerman… can't go without her for an afternoon?" Matt laughed.

"Why would I want to?" Puck shot back, "She's my girl." He pulled Rachel tight against him and kissed her forehead. This action earned him a round of aww's from the girls.

As she promised, Rachel drove straight from dancing to the Puckerman house. Noah's little sister answered the door and pointed her up the stairs to his room. When she pushed the door open, she was surprised to see Finn and Noah playing a game on the x-box.

"Hey," she smiled, "What are you playing?"

Rachel took a seat next to Noah. He broke his gaze away from the game for a second to kiss her gently, "Halo."

"Can I have a go?" Rachel questioned. Both Finn and Noah stopped what they were doing and turned to look at her.

"You want to play Halo?" Noah asked, "… you do know that it is a shooting game right?"

"Just give me a remote thing," Rachel laughed. Noah obediently followed her orders, handing over his controller so she was versing Finn. A short while later, after she has successfully beaten Finn, the boys looked at her as she gloated about her win.

"That wasn't the first time you have played Halo… was it?" Noah questioned.

"I have two dad's… they may be gay but they are both still into the more boyish things like sports and game consoles… it used to be a bonding thing we did," Rachel smirked.

"God you keep getting hotter and hotter!" He suddenly attacked her, pushing her back onto the bed as she squealed.

"Noah!" she whined before his lips attacked her mouth greedily.

"I'll just go," Finn muttered when he saw the pair weren't coming up for air anytime soon.

Rachel let him kiss her for a while longer before she put her hands on his chest and pushed him away, "we can't keep doing this," she told him.

"Why not? We aren't doing anything wrong," he replied, his lips continuing to work their magic on her neck.

"No Noah, Stop," Rachel said sternly, "You don't know how much I want to continue this but the fact of the matter is, we aren't really together."

Puck wanted nothing more than to tell her he wanted to be with her- That he wanted them to be together officially… but the thought of being rejected by her wasn't something he wanted to think about. He somewhat reluctantly, rolled off her with a nod of his head.

Noah reached over and switched on the TV, leaving Rachel still tightly pressed against his side. When Rebekah came home from work, she went searching for her son. She was surprised to find Rachel asleep next to him. Looking at her watch, Rebekah saw that it was getting late. She gently woke her son.

"Noah, honey… it's getting late, is Rachel staying for dinner?"

"I don't know," he replied as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes, "she came straight from dancing so she might need to go home… I'll wake her in a bit." He stayed where he was, watching Rachel sleep and thinking things over in his mind.

Ten minutes later, Rachel stirred awake. She stared up at him with bright eyes.

"The thing is Rach," he greeted her, "This means more to me than just pleasing my mom… I really really like you and I don't think I can keep this up," he said honestly.

"You… you like me?" Rachel gasped. Noah nodded his head.

"Why didn't you just tell me that?" Rachel sighed.

"Because I didn't want to be rejected by you again… Rachel, when you broke up with me last year, I wasn't going to break up with you. I was really enjoying what we had," he explained.

"Oh… I wouldn't have turned you down," she lent up and kissed him, hoping this would be enough of an explanation. Apparently it wasn't because he shot her a confused look, "last year the timing wasn't great for either of us. We both had things we needed to sort out first. It's different now. I really really like you too, Noah."

"What does this mean Rach?" he whispered.

"I'm yours if you want me," she whispered back. Seconds later his lips crashed to hers.

"Stay for dinner?" he asked her.

"I have to call my dad's first," she replied, "but I'd like that."

After calling her dad's, she and Noah climbed down the stairs, "Wait!" Rachel stopped him, "won't your mom want to know what we've been doing upstairs?"

"She already knows you're here," he reassured her, "for starters, your car is out front and secondly, she came up to my room earlier, while you were asleep."

"Oh."

"Rachel is staying for dinner, Ma," he explained, pulling Rachel out of the room and into the living room. He sat down on the couch and pulled her down close to him. It was like he was scared she would leave if he let go. Rachel reassured him by leaning into his chest.

"You know," she smiled up at him, "Now that we are officially together, I have no objections to a little making out."

Noah chuckled, "my mom is in the other room."

"You didn't seem to have a problem with it earlier," she laughed.

"Trust me, it's not that I don't want to… I just don't want anyone thinking that that is the only reason I am with you," he admitted.

"Touched as I am, I would rather not have to wait," Rachel smiled, "I think kissing you is my favourite pastime. Plus, they all think we have been together for a while now. I'm sure they have all come to the assumption that we… get up to certain activities."

"No argument from me," he agreed, lowering his lips to hers and kissing her passionately. As he pushed her further back onto the couch, Rachel wrapped her arms around him, scraping her fingernails across the back of his neck and letting her hands wander around through his strip of hair. Neither were sure how long they stayed like that, in each others arms making out, but they pulled apart abruptly when Noah's little sister Hannah, came into the room.

"Eww!" she commented, "why would you want to kiss him, Rachel?"

Rachel laughed and gave a standard answer, "You'll understand when you are older, Hannah."

"Hell no, she wont!" Noah declared, "she's never dating… I know boys."

"For your information, Noah," Hannah stared at her brother and put her hands on her hips, "I already have a boyfriend… he's in my class at school."

"If you think kissing is gross… what exactly do you and your boyfriend do?" He narrowed his eyes at the little girl.

"He gives me his chocolate… duh!" she said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Rachel and Noah cracked up laughing.

"When are you going to give me your chocolate?" Rachel teased her boyfriend.

"I would have thought that what I was giving you was worth more than chocolate!" he laughed and once again lowered his lips to hers.

"You're right," she murmured against his lips, "this is better." She continued kissing him for a while longer before pulling back and smiling, "but I like chocolate too."

So what do you think? Is it finished? Keep in mind that this isn't going to be a novel like my other two stories, so if I add to it, it will only be one, maybe two chapters longer and I would need some ideas! And what do you think of the title now that you have read it all?

Don't forget to review and I'll reward you with a smile!

XOX