A/N: So my friend writes much faster than me, plus she only has one story, and writes when she's bored. Here's chapter three, short, but here (: Enjoy and review!
When Rachel went to start her car the next morning it wouldn't even turn over, frustrated she glanced at her watch, her parents were already gone for the day and she knew they were too far away to come back for her. She called Mercedes, then Kurt, but neither of them picked up. In a huff she threw her backpack over her shoulder, held her coffee in one hand and wedged her purse under her other arm and started for school as a quick pace. After two blocks she realized if she walked all the way to school at this speed with these shoes she would ruin her feet, so she took her shoes off and carried them in the same hand as her purse. She hurried along.
"Why are you walking?" Came a voice from behind her, she heard a car's rumbling engine slow down. Rachel stopped and turned around, it was Puck, of course.
"My car didn't want to start, I couldn't get a hold of anyone, I have to get to school some how don't I?" Puck noticed some of the normal Rachel-irritation in her voice. Maybe it went with the school clothes, she certainly didn't talk to him that way last night when they were studying.
"Well, you didn't call me, I can give you a ride," he started to unbuckle his seat belt. Rachel watched him walk around and open her door, "I'm not always going to be opening doors for you Miss Berry, but I see you have your hands full," he explained. Rachel slid into the front seat, dropped her purse and back pack to the floor and reached her arm out to shut the door, but Puck was already closing it and walking around the back of the car to the driver's side.
"Thank you, Puck," she tossed her hair over her shoulder and reached down to put her shoes on. He was still sitting there, not driving, she looked at him with surprise, "Um, why aren't we moving?"
"Seat belt. I mean, I know I might sound square or something, but, if you don't buckle up and I get pulled over, which has been known to happen now and again, well, if you don't buckle up then I get the ticket, and I would make you pay me for it, but still-"
"I understand," Rachel laughed. Shoes on, she pulled her seatbelt out from the wall of the car and fastened it. "There, Mr. Safety, I am ready to go to school." She smiled and patted his arm, "Let 'er rip!" She added. Puck laughed and stepped on the gas, the car lurched forward and he gave her a sideways grin as she gripped the side of her door, her body pressing back against the seat from the speed. Puck slowed down in a moment, he didn't want to get a ticket after all, but it was fun to alarm girls with speed, if only for a half a block or so.
"You are crazy!" Rachel said in a shaky voice, "You aren't going to do that again are you?" She looked at him with wide eyes, reaching for her back pack, as if she was preparing herself to get out just in case he sped up again.
"No, relax, jeez," he said turning a corner. Good thing he has slowed down, a police cruiser sat in a driveway watching cars and students, all that morning school traffic. Puck waved to him with a grin as he passed. "That's right, I'm driving the limit, no worries here," he said patronizingly as he drove past. The cop frowned. Rachel shook her head, but she was amused, even impressed, Puck was exciting to be around.
At school Puck pulled his car into a space and got out, Rachel paused a moment, then decided not to give him a chance to get to her door, she opened it and got out, then reached back in for her things. Puck was standing by the hood waiting for her, so she walked over and when he started walking she walked next to him. Our of the corner of her eye she saw Finn walking toward the school, but he must have seen her out of the corner of his eye because he changed direction and walked straight toward her.
"What the hell, Rachel?" He looked from her to Puck and back to her, then back to Puck. Rachel kept walking and Puck stayed right in pace with her.
"Morning Hudson," Puck said, giving Finn a half grin. Finn frowned even harder and reached his hand out to take Rachel's arm.
"What are you doing, Finn?" She asked, jerking her arm away, dropping her back pack, which just then had been slung over that particular shoulder. Finn let go of her arm but stood in front of her.
"What am I doing? What are you doing? Why are you coming to school with this guy? Where's your car? What's going on?" Finn sounded angry, but oddly, he also sounded hurt. Rachel hiked her back pack onto her back and looked at Puck, then looked at Finn. She couldn't understand why he was upset, he was the one who broke up with her, he was the one who wanted to be with someone else, with Quinn for heaven's sake! Why was he upset that she was walking with another guy?
"Finn, YOU broke up with ME!" She stomped her foot and moved toward him a step, "I think that entitles me to do whatever I please and that entitles you to, well, to mind your own business! Well, it doesn't entitle you to mind your own business, it, it, it means you should mind your own business!" Her words stumbled out of her mouth and she stomped her foot again, then started back toward the building. Puck gave Finn a back ward glance, with a smile, and joined her.
"Oh," Finn whispered to himself, "I broke up with you. I broke up with her. Oh yeah," he looked around to see who was watching, to see if anyone heard him remembering out loud, he'd broken up with Rachel, then he sheepishly started walking to the school himself.
"See? I told you," Mercedes said to Kurt, they were a few car lengths down, but had heard the whole incident. The night before after Rachel spilled the whole story to Mercedes, Kurt called, not wanting to have to repeat the entire thing again, Rachel told him to call Mercedes, so she had the job of filling Kurt in. Now, Kurt looked after Rachel and Puck, and Finny trailing behind, his mouth hanging open, Kurt's mouth, not Finn's.
"Wow, just, wow. It's not that shocking that he broke up with her, it's not that shocking that she's coming to school with Puck-although I'd like to get the back story on that! But, did my ears just deceive me or did Finny forget he broke up with Rachel?" Kurt looked from the departing trio to Mercedes. She started to laugh and pulled him along, they had to get in the building and at least on their way to class, before they were too late.
"Kurt, I think he did just that, I think he did forget he broke up with her. Wow."