Because Mr. Schue was making them use wheelchairs all week Puck decided to use it to his advantage. He bought some cheap weed off of Sandy and he was going to use it in the cupcake batter until Rachel caught him. "Are you serious right now Noah? Pot? I thought you wanted Quinn to let you be in your baby's life." She took the batter from him and tossed it in the trash, then she dragged him out if the room. "Come on, we'll bake some real cupcakes at my place." Puck groaned but he let her drag him there, they made a ton of cupcakes. "Whoa Berry, this shit is on point." He licked the frosting off of his fingers and smirked when she chastised him for his language. He playfully tossed a bit of flour in her face. "Oops." She gasped and he tried not to laugh. "Noah!" She pouted at him until something on the counter caught her eye. "I don't like that look you're giving me Berry.." She smirked and picked up an egg, he backed up slowly but before he could run she cracked it on his head. "Oh it is so on now."
An hour later he was cleaning up Rachel's kitchen while she took a shower, she wanted to help but he insisted. "Are you sure you want to walk home covered in that stuff Noah? My dad's might have something you could put on." He shook his head. "Nah I'm good Berry, thanks for the help with the cupcakes and all. I'll help you bring them to school in the morning ok?" He told her goodbye and went home to clean up.
They made a ton off all the sweets he and Rachel made yesterday, he knew the money was supposed to be for a bus. But after hearing Finn and Quinn arguing over money he figured he should give it to them. Once again Rachel caught him, she convinced him to put it back. "If you really want to help Noah get a job, I just got Finn one maybe I could get you one too. Something other than cleaning pools and illegally sleeping with older women." Puck held up his hands in defense. "Hey I'd never turn em in." Rachel rolled her eyes and walked with him to his truck.
Over the next two weeks it was like Puck and Rachel became best friends. He sat next to her in glee while Mr. Schue was explaining ballads. Rachel was excited about the assignment, Puck could care less about it. Mr. Schue made them pick names out of a hat, he got Mercedes. Definitely not his first choice, he was slightly amused by the annoyed look on Rachel's face when Finn pulled out Kurt's name instead of hers. By the end Rachel had to sing with Mr. Schue which was incredibly weird to watch. She started acting weird around Mr. Schue, the way she usually acted around Finn. Puck decided he needed to step in before she dud something stupid like show up at his house. "Berry can we talk for a minute?" He asked when the caught up to her in the hallway. "Look I'm your friend and I don't wanna see you get hurt, you need to back off Mr. Schue like seriously." She gave him an offended look and pretended like she didn't know what he meant. "Whatever do you mean Noah?" Puck rolled his eyes and sighed. "Rachel I'm not stupid, look you don't need Mr. Schue he's lame and old. One day you're gonna find the right guy. A guy that treats you right, maybe that guy is Finn maybe he's someone else who knows. But I promise you it's gonna happen." She had started to cry and he freaked out. "No Rach don't cry I'm sorry I-" she cut him off with a hug. "Thanks Noah."
"So Finn got Quinn kicked out of her house." Puck told Rachel when he walked up to her the next morning. "What? how?" She was shocked and confused that Finn would do that. "He said Kurt convinced him to sing some sort of baby song in front of her parents, long story short they pretty much disowned her." Rachel frowned and grabbed his hand. "Come on we need to talk to the others, maybe we could put a song together for them. Did you give Quinn the money for the bills?" He nodded while following her. "Yeah, I think she's actually considering letting me be there for the baby." Rachel smiled up at him. "See? I was right, now there's just the problem of Finn..." Puck sighed and nodded. "Yeah I know, I'll tell him soon I promise."
Quinn asked Puck to help her babysit much to his surprise, He couldn't wait to tell Rachel when he saw her. When she walked into school however and he laid eyes on her, he couldn't really form a coherent sentence. Sure he thought she was hot before but he's never seen her show this much skin. It was a good thing he had practice controlling his boner, she walked right past him and headed straight for Finn. "Lucky bastard..." He mumbled before heading for the bathroom.
The babysitting thing went well and he felt like things were going alright for once, until Quinn got in his face. "Let me see your phone." She demanded and he raised an eyebrow. "My phone?" She snatched it out of his hand and looked through the messages. "So Santana was telling the truth.." Puck had no idea what the hell she was talking about, he was going to say something until she slapped him and walked away. He quickly looked at his phone and saw a bunch of sexts from Santana. "Dammit.." Rachel approached him a few minutes later. "You okay Noah?" He sighed and turned to face her. "Quinn was all set to let me be in the kids life but Santana had to go and ruin it, she sent me a bunch of sexts last night. If Quinn would've looked harder she would've seen that I never replied to any of them." Rachel rolled her eyes at the mention of Santana's name. "What a bitch.." Puck was amused by her choice of words. "Whoa language Berry, not that it wasn't totally hot or anything." He smirked and she smacked his chest playfully. "Sorry, I'm just upset. Kurt gave me bad advice and Finn called me a sad clown hooker..., I mean he was nice after that but it still hurt." Puck frowned and led her to the cafeteria. "Come on, I'll buy you a salad and maybe later I'll look the other way when the hockey team tosses Kurt in the dumpster." Rachel giggled and smacked him again.
Yearbook photos were coming up and the glee clubbers desperately wanted out. Will wouldn't stand for it of course much to their dismay. He managed to get room for two students, Rachel volunteered of course. Nobody would agree to take the picture with her, but she convinced Finn to do it. She was so excited, Finn was actually going to take a picture with her. She loved how selfless he was.
She waited for him to show up but he was taking a really long time. Puck had just finished taking the football photo with the other guys when he saw Finn leaving. He figured he was going to take the picture with Rachel, until he saw him go the opposite direction. "Bastard..." He sighed and took off his gear before heading to where Rachel was. "I can't believe I'm doing this shit..." He walked in and sat beside her. "Sorry I'm late Rach, football photo took some time." Rachel looked at him with wide eyes. He could see her cheeks were still a little wet, he figured she'd been crying about Finn. "Noah..." She smiled and kissed his cheek. "Thank you."
Once they were back in the choir room Puck couldn't help but laugh to himself every time Rachel angrily addressed Finn. She told everyone she'd gotten them a role in a commercial Puck was there when it happened. Turns out Rachel was a very convincing cryer, Puck was impressed. The commercial was a success but of course something bad had to happen, Schue went and opened up a mattress. According to Sue, Will couldn't go with them to sectionals. "This is all my fault Noah, I'm the one who got us the job." Puck shook his head and rolled his eyes. "This is not your fault, we didn't get paid. We would've sent the mattresses right back, but Mr. Schue had to go and open one. Why the hell was he sleeping here In the first place? Don't blame yourself, we're still gonna go to sectionals and we're gonna win right?" Rachel smiled and nodded. "Right, what could go wrong?"
We all know what could go wrong, right? :) I love writing Puckleberry as besties (and soon to be lovers haha) please review :)