It had been a week since they went to the mall and Natalie had yet to get Noah alone to possibly bring up that conversation again. She didn't get it, Noah had always been her brother's best friend, even when they went through that little slump with Quinn. So why all of a sudden was she getting these weird feelings when she was around him. Sure she had always liked Noah a little, but what younger sister never had a small crush on her older brother's best friend (Yeah, yeah. Finn was older by a whole two minutes and he never let her forget it.)? It was just natural.

But it was weird now, she had never really been close to Noah, he was just always at the house playing video games with Finn and picking on her whenever he got the chance. And sure he was sometimes the only one there when she came home from a date that went horribly wrong and she may or may not have broken down while he held her a time or two.

Then he got Quinn pregnant and Noah stopped coming over to the house because he and Finn weren't talking. Noah just seemed to distance himself from everyone. Then Beth was born and Quinn gave her up and then there was juvie. But it seemed like he had changed, he wasn't that trouble-making, self-proclaimed 'badass' that he claimed to be in high school. Actually, now that she thought about it, he hadn't been like that since the end of junior year when he started going by Noah again and not Puck.

Natalie shook her head to clear her thoughts and sighed as she looked down at her half-finished algebra that she had totally forgotten about when she started thinking about helping a certain hazel-eyed father with the same stuff just a week ago. And, really, he was a great dad. And his whole face just lite up whenever Beth was around and-NO!

Natalie groaned and stood up from her chair, raising her hands above her head to get the tension out of her shoulders. She really needed to stop thinking about Noah. He seemed to be messing with her head a lot lately and she didn't even usually see him during the week unless the whole group met for lunch or something.

"What's with you?" Finn asked from his spot on Rachel's bed where he was flipping through the newest issue of Sports Illustrated.

She looked up at him a little startled at first, but quickly recovered as she placed her hands on her hips and snarled at him a little, "What are you doing in here?"

Finn shrugged a little, "We're going out for a while. Kurt and Rachel wanna check out downtown. They were complaining earlier that we have been here for over two months and still haven't gone to check out any of the clubs. She's in the bathroom changing." Finn rolled his eyes, but kept flipping through the magazine.

"And by we, you mean you, Rachel, Kurt and Blaine right?" Natalie asked a little hopeful cause she really didn't want to get stuck going out with her overly annoying sister-in-law to be.

"You wish," Kurt's voice answered before Finn could even process what she had said. "We are all going." Kurt whipped open her wardrobe and started looking through her clothes trying to find something for her to wear.

"I can dress myself, Kurt," Natalie said a little annoyed as she came to stand next to him, "Besides, why do I have to go? You guys are the ones who want to go out. You know me Kurt, I'm not exactly the type of girl who has to go out and have a good time." She pointed out and huffed a little when Kurt shoved some clothes into her arms.

"Noah's going." Kurt smiled a little and Natalie scowled at him.

"And I care because?" She raised an eyebrow at him and turned a little to make sure Finn wasn't paying attention. She turned back just in time to see Kurt roll his eyes, "Doesn't he have Beth though? It is a Saturday night." She turned her back and spread out the clothes in her arms on her bed to see what Kurt had picked out for her.

"Shelby has her for tonight so Noah can go out and be a normal college student for just one night," Kurt explained as Natalie nodded and frowned at the outfit, "Fine, if not go for him, go for me?" Kurt asked and pouted a little. Natalie turned to him and crossed her arms over her chest as she gave him a doubtful look.

"Alright, alright. Then go for all the cute boys who will be there looking for a cute girl to take home." Kurt wiggled his eyebrows and winked.

Now that she thought about it, that was a great idea. She could use the distraction and maybe finally get her mind off of Noah. Sure her brother would be there, but with Rachel along, Finn wouldn't even notice.

"There will be none of that!" Finn exclaimed as he popped off the bed and stood next to Kurt. Natalie rolled her eyes a little and smirked as she grabbed the jeans and tank top Kurt had picked out for her and walked between the boys towards her door to change in the bathroom.

"Be none of what?" Noah was suddenly standing in front of her looking down at her with those amazingly hazel eyes and warm, welcoming smile.

Stop! Stop! Stop! Get a hold of yourself, girl! Natalie scolded herself mentally and pulled her eyes way from his only to have her eyes trail down his body. She bit her lip as she took in the black t-shirt he had on that clung to is arms in just the right way and the worn out Levi's that hung on his hips loosely.

"Kurt is trying to hook Natalie up with some random guy tonight so he can take her home and do God knows what to my baby sister!" Finn exclaimed and Natalie rolled her eyes again.

"Two minutes, Finn! You are older by two minutes! That hardly makes me your baby sister," Natalie turned to glare at her brother and lightly hit Noah in the stomach when she heard him chuckle beside her.

"Whatever," Finn threw his hands in the air and pointed at her, "You're still not leaving without one of us with you." He pointed his finger at himself then whipped it around between Kurt and Noah.

Natalie opened her mouth to protest, but was cut off by Rachel's voice coming from behind her, "So, who's ready to go out and have a good time!" she clapped her hands together and smiled widely.

Natalie turned around and pushed past her, grumbling about her pain in the ass brother, leaving a confused Rachel in her wake. "What I miss?" she asked and furrowed her brow as she looked from slightly red-faced Finn, to an amused Kurt to a laughing Noah.

"Oh, you know. Just the normal 'Hudson Showdown'." Noah laughed and flung his arm around Rachel's shoulders as she nodded in understanding, because seeing Finn and Natalie fight, was like watching the sun come up every morning.

"Well, are we ready then?" Rachel's said excited again and clapped her hands together once.

Noah laughed again and Kurt shook his head letting out a chuckle of his own. Rachel was going to be one crazy mother someday.