Newest story to keep me occupied until season three starts. Disclaimer: I do not own glee.

Chapter 6: A Reason To Smile

I was tossing and turning all night, I couldn't get anything that happened earlier out of my head. I shouldn't of gotten my hopes up about Finn waking up because we sang some stupid song.

To be honest, that wasn't what was bothering me at the moment, the way Puck went off on him is. All the anger he had held in, watching him let it all out, it was just scary.

And to here him talk about all that stuff to Finn, I didn't realize that it really bugged him that much. If Finn doesn't wake up soon, I'm afraid of what Puck might do because I know something is building up in him.

I still think there is something behind all of this with Puck, his anger, it can't be all because of Finn, I just think there is something that he's hiding.

I open my eyes to the sound of my phone ringing. I look at my clock and see that it was 3 in the morning, who could be calling?

I grab my phone and pick up. "Hello?" I say groggily. "Finn woke up!" I spring up to what Artie had just said.

"What! Are you sure!" I say now fully awake. "Yes! Me, Mike and Tina are on our way to the hospital now, Tina told me and Mike, who was told by Mercedes, who was told by Kurt who apparently called Rachel and Quinn too. Tina is on the phone with Brittany now." He says while I was in the process of putting on some jeans and looking for my sneakers.

"Does Puck know?" I ask running out of my room and heading for the kitchen where the keys were. Hopefully I hadn't woken anyone.

"I'm not sure, will see you there, right?" He asks and I feel a small smile reach my face. "I'll be there in ten." I say hanging up.

He woke up, I knew he would, I just knew it! I get in my car and start to drive while I also call his number and put it on speaker.

After it goes to voicemail I sigh in frustration and then call back. After the fourth ring he finally picks up.

"What the hell, Ally? It's fucking 3 in the morning! What do you want!" Eventhough he was still angry I was still smiling.

"It's Finn, he woke up." I say calmly and I didn't hear anything coming from his side. "Puck, did you hear me? He woke up! He's okay!" The line gets cut and I shut my phone.

Once I get to the hospital I run over to the waiting room, there was Artie, Tina, Mike, Mercedes, Brittany, Santana, Sam, and Quinn all smiling.

I walk over to them all and unexpectedly Quinn gets up and gives me a hug. When she lets go she was smiling brighter. "This is because of you, he heard us and woke up." I don't think it was because of me.

"So he's okay, are we allowed to see him soon?" I ask turning to everyone else. "Yeah, Finn's mom, Kurt and his dad, and Rachel are in there now. The doctor said as soon as they're done we can go in." Mr. Shue says coming over to us with a cup of coffee.

"Did you tell Puck?" artie asks and I nod. "Yeah but he hung up on me so hopefully he's coming." I say taking a seat next to Mr. Shue.

After five minutes Rachel comes back out with tears in her eyes. "Are you okay, Rachel?" Mr. Shue asks.

She nods her head. "It's just really nice that he's finally awake, he's weak right now but to see him smiling, it's just great." She says turning to me.

"Thank you." She says and then comes over to me and gives me a hug making me stand. "Rachel, this wasn't because of me." I say quietly but she just shakes her head letting go.

"Yes it is, that song was your idea." I just nod eventhough I knew she was wrong, this wasn't a time to fight. "So when can we see him?" Quinn asks looking anxious.

"Finn's mom and Kurt and his dad want a little bit more time, probably just a couple of more minutes, then the doctor said you guys can go in by twos." We all nod and I sit back down.

"We all have school tomorrow, guys, maybe we should wait until tomorrow afternoon to visit Finn." Mr. Shue says and everyone quickly disagrees with him.

"We promise to go home right when we see him, Mr. Shue." Artie says and Mr. Shue nods. "Okay, if you guys don't mind, I'd like to see him first, Ally, would you like to come too?" Mr. Shue asks but I shake my head no.

"I'd rather see him last." I say and he just nods.

"Then I guess I'll head home, I doubt I'll get much sleep though. Mr. SHue, for glee tomorrow, can we just come here?" Rachel looked so hopeful and I smile when Mr. Shue just nods.

She walks out and after five minutes Kurt and them come out to us. Finn's mom was still sort of crying and so was Kurt. "He's looking forward to seeing you all, will be in the cafeteria for a little while, take your time." Finn's mom says and she and Kurt's dad start to walk away.

Kurt goes over and hugs Mercedes. "He's happy to be awake, just so you all know." Kurt winks at me and then follows his parents to the cafeteria.

Mr. Shue gets up and heads to Finn's room. After five minutes, he says his goodbyes and then Tina and Mike go to the room. It went like that for the next 30 minutes, every pair tried to only take five minutes at the most and then head home.

After Mike and Tina, it was Mercedes and Artie, then Brittany and Santana, and then finally Sam and Quinn. They come back over to me, I was all by myself in the waiting room anyways.

"You want us to wait for you, we can?" Sam asks sounding concerned and Quinn nods. "No, it's cool, you guys go get some sleep before school, I'll be fine." They both just nod and head out.

I take a deep breath and then walk for his room. When I get there, I stop myself from opening the door, what if he blames me for what happened? What if he's mad at me?

I take one last deep breath and then swing the door open and slowly walk in. I smile when he turns to me and then he smiles back.

"Hey Ally." He says softly and I walk closer and carefully give him a hug. I try to pull back but then he holds me a little tighter. "I'm so glad you're awake." I wasn't going to cry, no way in hell.

"Me too." We let go and I sit down right next to him and just stare into his eyes, I missed his eyes and his smile and hearing his voice.

"How you feeling now?" I ask and he tries to sit up and I watch him cautiously. "Good, I mean, my head hurts like crazy and it sucks that my legs broken but it's nice to see all you guys." I just nod looking down at his leg that was hanging.

"I'm sorry." I whisper looking down at his bed. "This wasn't your fault and I need you to know that." He takes my hand and I look back up at him.

"You were out looking for me and..." He cuts me off. "And a drunk driver hit me, it could've happened to anyone. Ally, I'm fine now and that's all that matters. You got the glee club back together and you're still a part of it, so maybe this happened for a reason." I could feel a tear come down my cheek.

"When I was out I heard everything you know, I heard the group some, your song, I really tried to wake up." I give him a small smile.

"You heard my song?" He just nods. "Yeah, thanks for not leaving by the way and the group number, I think it helped everyone else come together too."

"But I didn't wake up because of those." I smile. "I know, everyone is thanking me for you waking me up but I was there, Puck really spoke his mind to you." Finn nods and grins.

"Yeah, made me fight harder, made me want to wake up and punch him in the face for calling me selfish. Most mostly I want to thank him, can you bring him in?" I frown at that.

"I called him earlier and told him you woke up but he's not here." Finn sighs and looks down at his sheets. "I knew this would happen if I woke up this late." I give him a confused look.

"What do you mean?" I ask worried now. "When we were 10, Puck's dad got hit by a car and it was pretty bad. He woke up after two months but then his dad just left, left him and his mom and sister behind, didn't leave a note, nothing. Puck hates hospitals ever since and just feels like if he ever almost loses someone, that they'll end up leaving him afterwards." I had no idea.

Puck had never mentioned his father before and I never even thought about that. I knew there was something behind all of this, oh god, I hope Puck's okay.

"You think he thinks you're never going to talk to him again or something?" He shakes his head no. "I think he thinks no one else is going to be there for him anymore. I didn't even realize he considered me his best friend anymore though, I doubt he'll ever want to talk to me anymore." Finn says looking sad.

"Don't be a pansy, Hudson. I'm here, okay? And I'm so ready to kick the crack out of you." I turn around to see Puck entering the room looking angry but I could see in his red eyes that he was crying earlier.

"You going to punch a cripple, Puck?" I see Finn was now smiling. What was going on? "Hell yeah, I don't discriminate." Puck says and I just glare at him.

"Dude, it's about time you wake up." Puck says letting a small smile show. I get up and move so Puck could stand in front of him.

"Thanks man." Puck says and pats Finn on the shoulder. "For what?" Finn asks. "For not, you know, leaving, for being okay." I smile at the twos interaction.

Finn looks over at me. "Ally, can you give us a minute?" I nod my head. "Yeah, I'll be back tomorrow, Finn." He nods and I head out.

I was going to head for my car but instead find myself sitting back down in a chair in the waiting room. You would think that Rachel or Kurt or even me were the happiest about Finn waking up, but no, I think it's really Puck.

Even if some of what I saw from Puck was a little scary these past couple of weeks, it was still nice to know that past his cocky arrogant exterior, is a person who has feelings and emotions and really does care about people.

After 15 minutes he comes walking over to me and I stand up and was about to say something until he pulls me into a tight hug making me smile.

"Thank you." He says letting go. "For what?" I ask and he just smiles. "Just thank you. I guess now you can try and get Finn, right?" I give him this 'what the hell' look, is he already back to his old self.

"What? No! I don't want Finn, okay?" He just shrugs his shoulders. "Whatever, I guess I'll see you at school tomorrow." He says and then walks past me. What the hell?

I walk into school looking for one person in particular. I really wanted to know what Puck's deal was. But in my search for him I get stopped by someone else.

"Hey Ally." My ex best friend says to me and I have to take a double take of this moment. Stacey Sheen. We were best friends since 6th grade all the way to the beginning of junior year. When dance team got cut, she along with the rest of my dancers went over to the cheerios and since I didn't join with them, Stacey started to ignore me, along with the rest of them.

When I joined glee club I knew they'd probably start picking on me but I joined anyways so I could have people to actually talk to. I never knew that joining glee club meant I'd meet some amazing people that I know would never ditch me.

"Stacey? Why are you talking to me? The last time we talked was over a year ago, right before you ditched me along with all the other girls for the cheerios." I say with some anger in my voice.

She gives me an apologetic look. "And I'm sorry for that. I just, I have a proposition for you." She says and I scoff.

"What would that be?" I asked annoyed as hell. "We want to start the dance team up again, all us girls." I was confused now.

"Wait, why?" I ask. "Because Quinn, Santana, and Brittany all quit the Cheerios during our morning practice this morning." I smile at that, I had no idea.

"Okay, so what?" I say still smiling. "Coach Sylvester said that she doesn't see any of us as captain material so she's refusing to coach us anymore, then one of the girls brought up how if we brought back our dance team then we could get her a captain, we could get you." I was confused as ever now.

"Coach Sylvester is willing to transfer the cheerios to our old dance team?" I ask and stacey just nods. "How about it, Ally, get your captain seat back, be popular again, will cheer at all half times and wont have any cheerio competition anymore?" I chuckle a little.

"They were never competition in the first place, that's why Coach Sylvester got rid of it, she was intimidated." Stacey just nods smiling now.

"And she's finally admitted it, so, can we have our captain back? My best friend?" I really didn't know, this was all happening really fast. Glee had just gotten back together, could I really go back to dance team? I mean, I could probably do both but would I want to?

"I gotta think about this, Stacey." She sighs. "Well you have until the end of the day, we have a mandatory practice at 3:30 to go over dance team stuff." I just nod. 3:30 was when we were suppose to go see Finn instead of glee.

"Fine, if my decision is yes I'll see you there." She smiles then walks off. I would never admit it but i really really missed being popular.

Flashback

I still couldn't get over that Coach Sylvester cut my dance team and then right after they all run to her stupid cheerios team. I couldn't even enjoy the party right now.

All the girls were ignoring me, even Stacey, she wont even look at me. I just kept sipping on my beer out on the deck of whose ever house we were at.

"Hey Gregory, your girls are drinking inside!" I turn around to see Puck and Finn coming over to me. "There not my girls anymore, their cheerios." I bluntly say.

"Does that mean you're going to be wearing the cheerios uniform? Because the skirts aren't as short as yours were." Puck says and I glare at him.

"Shut it, Puckerman! I wont be wearing their horrible looking uniform because I'm not joining, I'm a dancer, not some stupid pom pom jumping girl." I say and Puck chuckles.

"I'm sorry, Ally, that sucks. But hey, like I said before, we need more people for glee so..." I stop him right there. "No thanks Finn, I may have lost my girls, but I'm not going to further my humiliation." I say and Finn just shrugs his shoulders.

"Okay, but just so you know, glee would never ditch you." He walks back inside and I sigh. Puck was smirking at me making me glare.

"What?" I ask loudly. "It's just, if those cheerios really aren't talking to you anymore and you're not popular anymore, after tonight, I probably wont talk to you, can't associate myself with losers." I slap him hard on his shoulder and he screams 'ow!" back at me.

"I'm not a loser, just because I don't have my girls anymore doesn't mean I'm not popular and I'm cool if you don't talk to me anymore, Puck, it would actually be a good thing for me." He gives me this hurt look.

"Ouch. Well I think you're wrong, about both. When I quit football for one week, no one popular would talk to me and I got slushied! It was the worst week of my life including the fact that for some reason I decided to date Rachel Berry for that week too. I was freaking alone until I joined back up." I chuckle a little, I didn't know he dated Rachel, that's hilarious.

"I'll tell you one thing though, even when all of them turned their backs on me, everyone in glee was still there for me, I guess they cared or whatever. So, maybe you might want to rethink about joining glee, you got people that wont turn their backs on you. Plus, I would kind of have to talk to you." I smile a little.

"IF they actually do all turn their backs on me, I'll consider it." He smirks and then turns around. "Fine, I'll be the first one to turn, see you at auditions!" I shake my head as he walks inside. Will see about that.

End Of Flashback

I leave my last class of the day with my decision made about where I was going next. I head to my locker to get all my stuff when I hear someone come up from behind me.

"You mind giving me a ride to the hospital? Mike just told me we were going to visit Finn instead of having practice today." I turn around to glare at Puck.

"I need to talk to you." I say bluntly and he gives me this confused look. "WHat?" He asks.

"I really don't like that comment you made at the hospital, I don't like FInn, okay? I need you to get that through your thick head." I say and he gives me this nasty look.

"Oh please! Who are you trying to fool? You think if you get Finn you'll become popular again, it the same thing Quinn did, why are you any different?" I couldn't believe him right now.

"Screw you! Screw you for thinking I'm some sort of insecure needy girl! Fine, I liked Finn! But the key word is LIKED! Oh, and screw you for not realizing how I really feel!" I yell as I slam my locker and start walking toward the gym.

"Oh, and you can get your own ride to the hospital because I'm not going!" I keep walking and head into the gym where I see all the girls sitting down and the coach standing in front of them.

I walk up to them, all the girls were smiling at me. "Coach Sylvester, I'm Ally Gregory and if you're turning them into the dance team, I'm your captain." I say in such a serious tone. She gives me an evil smile.

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