A/N I just thought I might mention that even though I am a HUGE Finchel fan and my name has Finn in it does not mean that the guy will be Finn because I kinda like St. Berry and Puckleberry too. I just thought I might tell you =)

Also sorry this chapter is posted late.

Rachel felt at peace with herself, the 3 boys she once dated but then got pissed off with her are now friends with her again, her plan is working and other school things like homework given in early so she doesn't have to worry about it. Yes Rachel Berry was calm and peaceful again. Rolling into school the next day wasn't bad either, the slushy's, like yesterday, couldn't bring her down. Nope, Rachel Berry was happy and when she's happy people know about it. Rachel was walking down the corridor, after lunch, feeling like she had more control over her life than she ever felt like in her life, when she was met by the one and only Noah Puckerman.

"Noah? Is that you?" Rachel greeted as he stepped in front of her causing her to stop in her tracks.

"Yeah Rachel You've seen me at Glee with my hair." he ran one hand through his shaved head.

"Yeah I know it just that I'm not used to seeing you without a mohawk"

"Oh ok?" the corner of Pucks lips curved slightly. "So how are you?"

"I'm fine you?"

"Yep fine" his lips turned completely up into a smile. A genuine smile.

"Good" an awkward silence fell upon them. Rachel was looking at Noah, who was looking straight back at her but her smile had disappeared. "Ermm Noah was there something you wanted?" she asked breaking the icy silence.

"Err well" he stared down suddenly getting interested on the floor beneath them. "Well I was wondering if you wanted to come and see the basket ball game after school?" he completely blushed after, his cheeks feeling suddenly hot.

Rachel couldn't help but grin at him, which he could see slightly, which made his cheeks feel like they were burning. "I would love to Noah"

His head quickly lifted with another smile. "Great."

RIIIINNNGGGG!

"Well we history now so shall we?" he moved to the side and moved his arm out for Rachel to link with her arm. Which, of course she did.

They walked into history with about everyone's eyes on them, even the teacher looked at them, staring at them. Rachel felt quite uneasy with every single eye burning on her, Noah on the other hand was fine with it, and his hair had caused a lot of staring. The couple walked to the two empty chairs in the middle. This is the furthest Rachel has ever sat in that class ever.

"Hey Rachel what do you have to do here?" Noah whispered to her while leaning over towards her.

"Noah…" she turned to him whispering too. "…you have to read these questions…" she leaned to his side pointing to the questions on the book. "…there you see? When you have answered them you have to do these one." she pointed to another set of questions.

"Thanks" he smiled at her as she lifted her head to face him.

"It's ok" she turned back to her own work with a bit of red in her cheeks from blushing after Puck thanked her.

RIIINNNGGG!

It was like the whole class was waiting for the bell to ring because as soon as it rang it changed from dead silent to an ear-splitting noise, everyone jumped up from their seats racing out of the classroom, to get to next class to wait for the bell to go then it would be the end of the day, which means Rachel would then go to the basket ball game.

"Hey Rachel do you wanna skip class?" Puck asked Rachel as soon as she got out of the toilets from cleaning herself from her third slushy of the day.

Rachel was drying her face with a tissue but as soon as she heard what Puck had suggested she stopped drying her face and looked at him in horror. "What?" her jaw dropped. 'Did he just say what I think he said?'

"Do you wanna skip next class?"

"What? Look Noah I don't think you understand I'm Rachel Berry I don't skip…" she raised her hands for quotation marks for 'skip'. "…class. I'm surprised you would even ask that"

He shrugged. "Well I thought that…well you know…" he placed his hand behind his shaven head and ran it down to the back of his neck, staring at the floor. Again. "…I just thought that you would because well… its only geography and were not even doing anything in there because we have that substitute teacher, its not like no-one is not going to skip that lesson anyway, and he said were watching a film that has nothing to do with geography. I think its Titanic. Remember?" he turned his face back towards Rachel. "Plus I noticed Jessie has been calling you in class and you haven't been able to answer him." he grinned.

"Oh" Rachel started to think about what Puck was saying. 'He's right it's not like were doing anything in there were watching a film but it is Titanic. It's a classic, I've watched it hundreds of times and I haven't got sick of it. Though my plan was to be friends with all 3 again. Noah wouldn't have done this before, before Rachel was just a nerd to him, now he's asking if I want to go and skip lesson with him. I've never skipped class before, though people will be skipping it anyway. Do it. Do it Rachel you may never get another chance with Noah and then the whole plan will go down the drain wont it?' Rachel looked at Noah's eyes which had a flicker of hope in them. "Ok but this will happen only once. I'm not going to do this again with you or for anyone ok?"

"Yep I understand" he nodded while smiling at her. "Come on lets go then before we get escorted to lesson by a teacher" he walked in front of her leading towards the doors which lead to outside. Rachel followed him, she walked through the open doors and the cool wind breeze hit her face drying what was left of the slushy on her face that she forgot to do. They walked towards a shady spot under a tree, which happened to be the usual place to skip lessons for jocks but it was deserted that day.

"Ahh" Puck sighed while sitting under the tree placing his hands behind his head and leaning on the trunk of the tree.

Rachel sat beside him carefully placing her bag in between both of them, then getting her phone out to call Jessie.

"Hey Jessie" Rachel greeted while flicking dirt of her blue plaid skirt.

"Hey Rachel, shouldn't you be in class right now?"

"Yeah but I'm not there"

"Wait you're skipping class?"

"Yes Jessie I am"

"Ok? So ermm what's up?"

"Nothing I just wanted to call you seen as you called me during class about 5 times"

"Oh right yeah." Jessie, on the other line, started to get a bit embarrassed and slightly blushed. "I just wanted to see how you were"

"Oh well I'm fine thank you and you Jessie, how is your holiday going with your friends?"

"Yeah everyone's fine and so am I. So listen I was wondering whether you would like to… I don't know…after I get back want to have some coffee or something?"

'Is he asking me out? No I'm sure it's just in a friend way. I have to be friends with all of them. All of them.' Rachel suddenly thought while grinning her head off. "Yeah that would be lovely Jessie."

"Great well I have to go now, were about to go town. Ok bye Rachel"

"Bye Jessie" and with that Rachel ended the call. She was still smiling to herself until Puck decided to open his mouth.

"So are you two dating again or what?" Puck asked but with his eyes still closed.

Rachel turned to him, dropping her smile, quite shocked at his question. He's asking some quite shocking questions today isn't he? "No Noah I'm friends with him actually."

"Well it didn't seem that way seen as he asked you out" he turned to look at her face, which was completely smothered with a surprised expression.

"You…you…you heard?"

"Well Rachel you have the volume on your phone really loud it would be impossible for me not to hear" he flashed her with a Puck signature grin.

"Well you shouldn't be listening to private conversations. Should you Noah?"

"Fine sorry I asked" he turned back to his original position.

"And what about you and Mercedes? I heard that you to are a couple"

"Yeah but we broke up. It just wasn't working for either of us, plus Mercedes quit the Cheerios. Santana got jealous over us when we dated I mean did you see the song they sung in Glee? It was awesome! "

"Urghh" Rachel's face changed from a surprised face to a disgusted look.

"What? You had Finn singing Jessie's girl for you"

"That's different"

"No it isn't"

"Yes it is because I'm not saying it was awesome am I?"

"Well if you were a lad you would say the same thing"

"Well it's a good job I'm not then. Isn't it?"

Neither of them spoke after that, they sat in complete silence, Puck with his eyes closed relaxing and Rachel just staring at the sky thinking about her plan and if was the best decision that she's made. If it was the most obvious plan in the world.

RIIINNGGG!

Both Rachel and Puck got up at the same time, though Rachel did dust herself from the dry soil that has on her legs and such while Puck just jumped up and started to walk towards the building leaving Rachel on her own.

"Hey" Rachel quietly shouted to Puck while chasing him.

"Oh yeah completely forgot I asked you to come and see the basket ball game didn't I?" he said after she caught up with him.

"Yes I have Noah" she said with a bit of annoyance in her voice. 'Why did Noah just walk off? He seemed pretty fine at the tree. It''s like he changed from the conversation we had till now. Was it something about the conversation?'