A/N: This is officially on an hiatis! I just think there are what, like two people, that read this? So I might as well try working on something that more people enjoy reading. Besides, I'm kinda all out of ideas.

"Really Puck!" Noah's head turned like she had just slapped him, Rachel never calls him Puck.

"My own mother! How could you?!"

"You had Finn! I was alone! I wanted a family, okay?!"

"But my own mother! Why her?!" Puck turned to walk away but Rachel grabbed his shoulder, "Why?!"

"Because she reminded me of you!" He snapped suddenly making Rachel freeze. "There are you fuckin' happy?! Now go run back to Finn like usual, pretend you never heard that and this never happened."

They were always on and off. In highschool they had a pattern, repelling and connecting, like polar magnets. Would it be so different now that they are in college?

Rachel gets his number from Kurt who got it from someone else and decides to call him one night. Glad ther's no long distance on cell phones and finds herself wishing things were simpler and she could just drive over to his house.

"Who the fuck is this?!" Puck said gruffily like he just woke up and Rachel's cheeks flame. How stupid of her not to remember they lived in different time zones now.

"Noah? I'm sorry... I didn't realize it was late, or rather early where you are. I'll just hang up now-"

"No, that's okay. How have you been?"

Rachel swallows, "I've been better." She says in a strained vooice, "It's just always what I wanted but now that I'm here I feel so alone and homesick and Finn and I broke up..."

"It'll be alright Rach, tell ya what I ain't got nothing to friday why don't I head out and visit ya? We can do all that touristy shit you like?" Puck said making Rachel giggle for the first time in a long time.

Puck was many things, a juvinille deliquent, a womanizer and a bully. And he accepted that about himself. But one thing he was not, was Rachel Berry's bich.

He didn't know like, what happened to him, but the once feared ruler of Mckinly Highschool must now must have "Berry's lapdog" or some shit printed on his god damn forehead.

First the trainwreck of music video "Run Jesse Run happened." He stayed, even when there was no chance of him getting some because she was being all "faithful" and shit like that to the Jesse kid. Rachel pulled his arm and convinced him to stay. Even when they were filming it and he knew this was going to suck, Puck stayed. And he had no clue why.

Maybe it was because Rachel and him shared the same religion, maybe it was because he grew kind of twisted soft spot for the brunette when they were dating.

The sighs were already there, moving the Glist from Rachel's locker so she wouldn't see it. The anger he felt when Jesse joined New Direcions. How excited he was when Rachel invited him to her house, thinking she might have come to her scenses and realized he was a hell a lot better than Finn or Jesee.

A few days later in class Rachel is telling her story about what Jesse and Vocal Adrenaline did to her with that sad defeated look in her eyes. And he's the first one to react, not Finn, not her other friends. He jumped from his seat, storming out as the other guys followed him, fully intet on bashing Jesse's face in until his looks are only suited for radio. But Mr. Schue stops them before they left and when they are done their preformance he enjoys mocking Jesse and Vocal Adrenaline a little too much.

Maybe Rachel noticed this, how angry and defensive he became when anyone made fun or threatened her. So she decided to use it against him because underneath all those animal sweaters, Rachel is a manipulative bad ass, just ask Sunshine Corazon, and as one bad ass to another, he respected that about her.

But not when it came to him. The problem was he didn't know how to reverse caring about her.