Sixteen short years later
She was falling for the senior football star
Before you knew it he was dropping passes
Skipping practice just to spend more time with her

Ok so really it was more like 15 years later, still short though because to Hiram Rachel was still and would always be his baby girl, and she was falling for the football star but he was junior. Noah Puckerman was name and he was McKinley's key to winning the State Championship once again. Noah played running back for the varsity team ever since he first set foot at McKinley High School, he was actually the first student since Hiram to achieve that honor, and he was also the reason they made it into the State Championship game the past two years(his freshman and sophomore year) but unfortunately they didn't win because the quarterback wasn't very good at reading the field but he was the only one who played the position until this year(Noah's junior year) when a new quarterback transferred to McKinley and the previous had graduated at the end of last year.

From the moment Rachel set foot in McKinley she found herself watching the football star and she nursed a crush on him until one day he decided to serenade at JCC when they were both volunteering there. They didn't realize until they saw each other at school regularly and then ran into each other at the JCC that they shared a religion even though both of them had been attending that same synagogue and JCC their entire lives, although for 2 years longer since he was 2 years older than her. Anyway when Noah decided to serenade Rachel he was also teaching a music lesson with Rachel's help; he sang her 'Sweet Caroline' by Neil Diamond because what else would he choose to serenade the Jewish All American beauty with besides a hit song from a musical Jewish icon. After being serenaded Rachel decided that she like the idea of singing songs by Jewish artist and she knew that one of her favorite artists, Barbara Streisand had a duet with Neil Diamond 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' which they performed for the kids that were at JCC that afternoon. By the time they were done Rachel could no longer fool herself into thinking that had only a passing attraction to the football star and Noah knew that he couldn't deny how attracted he was to the tiny Jewish bombshell with the large voice that seemed to contradict her size. He offered to drive her home so Shelby didn't have to leave work to pick her up and she didn't have to wait around on her mom to arrive and Rachel of course accepted it. By the time they pulled into her driveway Rachel and Noah had a date set up for a few days later, on Friday after the game.

After only a few months of dating they were already falling for each other and they were both falling hard and fast. All Noah wanted to do was spend time with Rachel and all Rachel wanted to do was to have Noah hold her in his arms because she felt completely safe and wanted there. There was only one other person who could love her as much as Noah seemed to and that was her dad, she's not saying that her mom doesn't love her but she just feels closer to and therefore more loved by her dad, although the love Hiram has for Rachel is completely different than the love Noah has for Rachel. Noah even began to get sloppy at practice, when he was there, and often times he would skip so he could watch Rachel at cheerios practice and then drive her home when she got done, cheerios got done almost 2 hours before the football team did and since practice was 4 days a week and games were on Friday's they didn't have much spare time to spend together during football season, neither on of them like that idea.

The coach said, "Hey, son, what's your problem
Tell me have you lost your mind?
Daddy said you'll lose your free ride to college.
Boy, you better tell her goodbye."

It got so bad that the football coach, Coach Beiste, pulled Noah out of class one day to ask him what was going on. He'd never skipped practice until this year and he'd never played so bad as he did in the few practices he was at, the only time he was ever even close to his old self was during games and that's only because Rachel was there cheering for him, well the team but he pretended(and to some extent it was true) that she was his own personal cheerleader. But even in games he wasn't up to his usual standards and his dad started to notice after a few games.

Elijah Puckerman even went as far as to tell Noah to break up with Rachel because he felt that Noah needed a football scholarship and the scouts would be watching him this season to decide on scholarship offers. Elijah felt that with the way Noah was playing that he was no longer guaranteed a college scholarship and in Elijah's opinion getting a football scholarship for college was the most important thing for Noah. He thought that the scholarship was Noah's future and that Rachel was just some high school fling that was distracting him from that so he demanded that Noah break up with Rachel. Noah of course wouldn't listen to his father because, well, he loved Rachel and he saw her as his future. Yeah, Noah loved football and he would like to play in college, but, it wasn't his entire life like his dad was trying to make it. Honestly as long as Noah had Rachel he would be ok if he couldn't play football in college, it's not like he was going to the NFL or even playing pro ball after college, playing in college is about a possible scholarship and his love for the game, nothing else. Rachel was Noah's future and he was her future, no matter that he was two years older than her; people who got married were hardly ever the same age anyway, Elijah Puckerman was three years older than his wife Aviva and Hiram was one year older than Shelby so neither Rachel nor Noah understood why their age difference would or even could matter to any one else since it didn't matter to them.

But now, he's wrapped around her finger
She's the center of his whole world
And his heart belongs to that sweet, little, beautiful, wonderful, perfect
All-American

Literally, Rachel Adi Berry had Noah Eli Puckerman whipped, wrapped around her finger, acting like a pussy, etc. The point is Noah didn't care because he was head over heels in love with her and if doing everything she wanted him to do made him all those things than so be it because doing those things made his girl fucking happy and when Rachel was happy she rewarded Noah. Granted the rewards usually meant either a make out session or a back massage and not anything sexual but he appreciated the rewards all the same because Rachel Berry was the best kisser and she gave the best massages and Noah would be damned if he let any other guy at McKinley, or anywhere in the world, figure that out.

As whipped as it makes him sound Noah's world revolves around Rachel. She was the center of his world. She grounded him like no one else could even begin to understand but she also encouraged him to reach for the fucking stars because she knew he was worth more than his ability to play football well and receive a college scholarship for that. Noah Puckerman and Rachel Berry were end game even if no one else realized it yet. By the time his junior year was over he'd already given her a promise ring and yeah he still got that football scholarship because he was just that fucking awesome, it turns out that once Rachel threatened to withhold things like making out and groping until he got his butt in line with football he was willing to miss those hours with her because it meant later on when he did get time with her that he did get to make out with her and feel her up, totally worth it too.

Prom night that year was fucking awesome because Rachel proved to him just how much she loved him by giving him her virginity and that was also the night her gave her the promise, he actually gave it to her before he had any idea about her giving him her virginity. Rachel was dressed in this fucking awesome gold dress that hugged every single curve of her body and stopped at her mid thighs, he was at least half hard all night just from her in that dress. He took her out to this fancy vegan friendly restaurant in Columbus, he didn't care about the drive tonight was all about his girl and making her happy and that restaurant was one of her favorites but they hardly ever went there because of the distance and they were a little pricey and Rachel hated for him to spend so much on her(gas alone was like $40 then dinner was another $40 or more depending on what they each ordered and if they got dessert or not). He'd also gotten her a corsage, because what sort of prom date no boyfriend would he be if he didn't, but he got them to use only her favorite flowers, baby's breathe and wildflowers, on it and they had gold accents to match her dress. He also got them a room at this hotel near the country club they were having prom at, he didn't get it for any reason other than he knew the punch at prom would end up spiked and that he and Rachel would end up drunk, or at least tipsy, and he wasn't driving home that way, really he was being safe by doing that. She's the one that surprised him with using the room for what couples normally use them for after prom; he really just intended for them to literally sleep in the same bed and cuddle, maybe some making out and little feeling her up but only if she was up for it after all that dancing they did at prom.

His senior year they went to prom together again and this year he rented them and a few friends of theirs a limo. Tina and Mike rode with them, Tina was Rachel's year and over the last two years since Rachel and Noah and Tina and Mike had began dating they become friends since Mike was one of Noah's best friends. Sam and Quinn were another couple that rode with them; Sam was Noah's other best friend and Quinn was one of Rachel's close friends. The last couple they were sharing a limo with was Rachel's best friend Santana and her boyfriend Matt who was the fourth wheel in Noah's group of friends. This year Rachel wore a floor length fit and flare style dress that was royal purple with beading the lined the sweetheart neckline and cascaded down the skirt. He got her the same type of corsage but it had purple and silver accents this time and it was slightly larger than the year before. Oddly enough the four seniors were dating four sophomores but hey it worked for them; they'd all met the person they were going to marry while they were still in high school and most people don't have that opportunity. Anyway they had a limo which ended up being a surprise from all the parents(Hiram was the one who organized everything since it was for his baby jewel), they went to this new restaurant in Lima, of course it was vegan friendly or Noah would make them go somewhere else for his girl, and they were going to Matt's house after prom for the after party, the limo was dropping them off, and Matt had already told Santana and three other couples they could spend the night.

When prom came around Rachel's junior and senior years he went with her then as well; in fact they kept the same group from his senior year since all four couples were still together. Rachel's junior year she wore a white one shouldered dress that had gold accents, it looked sort of like a Greek toga only a lot prettier since it was a prom dress. And her senior year she wore the most gorgeous dress of them all, a bright red floor length form fitting dress that had a silver accent on her right hip and a modified sweet heart neckline. They ended senior prom with him telling her that he'd gone to Hiram the weekend before and to ask could he marry her and then he proposed. He said that if she said yes to him it wouldn't be just saying yes to one question of having a marriage, it was yes to starting a life together, it was yes to one day having a family together, it was yes to growing old together and it was promising that even though they would fight sometimes that they would always work things out, that they would never go to bed or wake up mad at the other and promising to sleep in the same bed as long as they weren't traveling for work related reasons. It was the most beautiful proposal Rachel had ever heard, and she watches ABC's 'The Bachelor' and ABC's 'The Bachelorette' with Shelby(its their bonding time), and Rachel was crying happy tears as she said yes. It's been said before and it'll be said again Noah Eli Puckerman and Rachel Adi Berry are meant to be together, they are end game just like all those romantic stories you read like Noah and Allie in 'The Notebook' or Tony and Maria in 'West Side Story'(ok so maybe that's not a book but they were still meant for each other) or even Landon and Jamie from 'A Walk to Remember'.

AN: Twice as long as chapter one and I think there will be one chapter after this one. Noah's proposal to Rachel is almost the exact same on that Chris Siegfried gave to the summer 2013 bachelorette Desiree Hartsock (I cried watching it and then again when it was showed on the after the final rose because it was so sweet and full of love).

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