"She left." Maria said in a gentle voice, as Stella came into the kitchen around noon time. "She left about an hour ago."

Stella nodded, her dark hair bouncing lightly around her face. Neighter of them were that surprised by that news.

Her mother was never home, always at work, at a bar, and sometimes sleeping at a random stranger's house. She treated Ohio just the same way that she treated Los Angeles. It probably wouldn't have bothered them, except for what had happened over the past couple years.

"Thanks." Stella smiled softly at the woman, picking up the plate that held a salad, and a veggie patty on the side. "OH and I'm going out tonight, but I will be back in the morning."

Maria had gotten a habit of checking up on Stella during the night, considering Stella's mother wasn't around to make sure the girl was in bed. Wasn't out doing something crazy.

Maria's eyebrows rose, but she didn't comment on that. At least Stella was making…Friends.

"My son is sick, so I have to go to his house to take him to the doctor because the dumb woman he married…I will see you tonight, don't be up too late, and no sleeping over." Maria sighed, grabbing her purse and leaving.

Stella chewed her lower lip before she started to eat and started to think about tonight.

The doorbell rang several hours later a few minutes after the time he said he'd be there. Stella paused and checked herself in the mirror, smiling abit as she did. Tonight weould be great.

Her hair was down and messy, but in that kind of sexy way that guys liked. She wore tight dark jeans, with a few rips along the thighs. A black John Lennon shirt and a black studded purse to end it all. She looked fabulous.

Pausing for a few seconds she slid on black converse. Opening the door she smiled at Puck who was wearing a grey shirt and a jeans. Typical teenage boy wear.

"You look hot." Puck said, looking over over, his eyes lingering places longer then he should've. But she wasn't going to deny him the right to for someone to finally look at her that way.

"So do you." She commented, blushing her bangs out of her eyes as she looked him over. Hey, if a guy could oogle a girl like that, then a girl could oogle the guy like that.

Puck reached out and took her wrist, pulling her with him as he smiled. "I planned something special…Which is weird for me."

"Then I'm touched?" She half asked but honestly tried to keep the blushing down to a minimum.

Nearly two hours passed when Puck and Stella walked out, laughing as she sipped on the Sprite that she had brought in the concession stand.

"I guess this is pretty special." She said, a smile curling on his lips.

Somehow he had found out [Most likely through facebook] that she liked Crybaby the movie, and it also happened to be playing at a theater that did a lot of movie runs like that.

It was the right amount of badass and the right amount of musical for the both of them to enjoy it. Plus it gave Puck a new line to use on girls.

"You just open your mouth, and I open mine, and we wiggle our tongues together. And it feels real sexy." Puck said in his most seductive way, now while it was very attractive it didn't get her any closer to kissing him. The words were far too funny to not burst out in giggles about.

Pushing her bangs out of her face she walked with him down the street, his hand holding hers. Gently she rested her head on his shoulder as their conversation ended and they just sort of relished in the comfortable silence.

There was no doubt in her mind that she was certainly taken by him, but not quite in love with him. That was quite a far aways. She wasn't the type of girl to go out with a guy once and proclaim her love with him all over the place. He was a good friend, but their friendship was obviously aiming towards higher places.

"You're really weird, you know that right?" Puck said, his voice having a hint of teasing in it. It was one of those features she liked, his playful attitude.

"Proud of it." Stella answered, laughing lightly as he slid his arm around her as they walked. She didn't live that far away from the theater, which was why they had opted on walking there.

Not to long after that they reached her door and she turned and smiled at him.

"I'll see you on Monday?" She asked, and she could see a hint of disapointment on his face when she said that. Obviously he had thought that they were going to be having a bit more fun then they really were.

"I guess so." Puck said and made a step towards her so that she was somewhat pinned against the door, but honestly she didn't mind. After spending so much time with Puck you kind of allowed him to get away with anything, especially that charm.

Leaning down he pressed a soft kiss to her lips, one that was returned softly and soon they were smiling at each other.

A honk at the end of the driveway ended another kiss as Maria got out and gave them the evil eye. "In." She said pointing to Stella and Puck obviously knew better then to fight the wrath of an older woman.

"See you Monday!" Stella said as she slipped inside, Maria quickly following her as she gave her an evil eye now.

"We need to talk about that Puckerman boy."

Author's Notes:

I wanted to get this out of the way before I went out of town. The next chapter will really start the story and start the drama. I'm aiming to keep it having a bit of personality as well.

If you are interested in becoming a beta, email me at .

The next chapter and new starting out for stories will begin by the end of this weekend.

I hope you have a fun weekend by the way!