A/N: Oh my gosh! You guys I never would have expected this story to get so much feedback. I expected to get my usual of like, 2-4 reviews a chapter but I get like 8-10 on here! This is the most amount of reviews I have ever received and I have to say, thank you guys. I love you! You guys are so perfect and make me smile and whenever I rant in my authors notes you guys jump into your own rant in a review. Your reviews make my day, seriously.

Disclaimer: I do not own glee or anything else. Mark Salling belongs to himself and/or his girlfriend. Once I find out who that lucky biotch is, I'm gonna grab her by the weave and cut a hoe! …mhm xD.

"It was a mistake" Rachel stood with her arms crossed in front of the four original glee members in the music room. There was only 15 minutes left till the bell.

It had been a week and two days since the incident with Puck, and Kurt had kept it secret until that day. Rachel was shocked he didn't tell them all the second he found out since he was such a sucker for gossip.

Mercedes was shaking her head with a look of determination on her face "I'm gonna get that white boy good."

"Already did it" Kurt said proudly.

Rachel gaped at Kurt "What did you do exactly?!"

Kurt examined his nails before looking at Rachel. "Well don't give me that look, I was defending you. Noah Puckerman is a pig who needed to be taught a lesson. I do remember me being very clear when I told him about Mercedes making him wish he no longer had his manhood."

"You bet I will" Mercedes said with a nod of her head.

Tina, who had been sitting on Artie's lap this whole time, jumped in "D-d-did it hurt?"

Rachel sighed and plopped down into the closest chair "Sort of. He was sweet about it though, so it wasn't all that bad."

"What if he didn't leave, Rach. What would you have done" Artie asked quietly. He seemed to be the only one who wasn't infuriated or curious. He seemed sincerely worried about his friend.

"But he did leave, so she'd do nothing. She is done with Puck" Kurt jumped in, with his hands on his hips.

Rachel ignored him, and shrugged one shoulder. "I don't know. I'm not going to jump out and say I loved him because love is a terribly strong word. One that I am in no way ready to use. But I did have feelings for him. I don't even know why. I mean he is so infuriating and obnoxious. It's just…he made me feel things that Finn never has. He made me feel special. He never even mentioned Quinn."

"S-s-sounds to me like you w-would have started to d-date" Tina said with a small smile.

"But Puck doesn't do dating" Mercedes said, trying to sound as comforting as possible. "I hate to ruin the mood or whatever, but Noah 'I'm a bad ass who likes to screw every girl with a pulse' is a total tool monster."

Rachel nodded, keeping her tears inside. She had promised herself no more tears over him and damnit she was going to keep her promise.

"On the end of that sour note, Rachel told me she booked us in a commercial" Kurt said happily, clapping his hands.

Rachel smiled, and nodded. She had discovered that the commercial needed roles when Finn had yet again disappointed her. She really didn't know why she kept giving him chances.

Because he's Finn and you'll do anything he asks.

Rachel sighed at her thought, and the truth of it. She was sucker for Finn Hudson, and would give him anything he wanted. She would have given him her virginity without any convincing if he asked. But she wasn't a virgin anymore. She didn't have her virginity to give away. Noah Puckerman had taken it from her, and then stomped all over her heart afterwards. She was over it and over him.

Then why do you wish you had the strength to talk to him?!

"Rachel" Kurt asked, waving his hand in front of her face.

Rachel looked up at him "Hmm?"

He gave her a sympathetic smile "The bell just rang sweetie."

"Oh. I was in a reverie for a moment" She said, standing up. She grabbed her pink trolley bag and smiled at her friends "I'll see you four at lunch." With that said she left the room, in a depressed mood.

"She is s-s-so broken" Tina stuttered, with a frown on her face.

"Mhm" Mercedes agreed, also frowning.

Kurt sighed deeply and looked at his friends. "We need a plan. Something to raise her spirits. She needs to get her mind off of Puck."

"We'll talk about this later guys, but we're all going to be late. So at lunch we'll discuss" Artie said, wheeling his way out of the room. Tina nodded and followed after Artie. Mercedes pat Kurt on the back before leaving as well.

Kurt set himself down in a chair and crossed his legs. He didn't really care if he was going to be late to class. He had a plan he had to come up with.

Artie wheeled into first period a few minutes late. He smiled apologetically at Mr. Blaine and the elder man nodded.

"Mr. Abrams we're working with partners today. I have you paired with . So get to work you two" He said with a smile and Artie made his way over to the table. He looked at Puck with a slight smile.

Puck didn't know how he knew, but he just did. The look on Artie's face just kind of gave it away. "You know" He said softly.

Artie nodded once, looking down at the paper in front of him. They were silent for a while after that, both of them staring at their papers. "Why did you do it" Artie finally asked. He looked up at his friend, disappointed.

Puck shrugged "I care about her. Why would I let her give it all up for Finn? I know she would wait for him, and all he would do is hurt her."

"That's not really what I meant. If you care about her why did you leave her" Artie asked, searching Puck's eyes for an answer. "I hate to be demanding but your both my friends. And I'm just confused."

Puck ran a hand through his Mohawk and sighed "I…didn't want to hear her tell me it was a mistake. She deserves better than me hurting her, you know? I did it anyway, didn't I?"

Artie nodded slowly "She's…well a mess."

Puck cursed under his breath. "I hoped she wouldn't have gotten attached. I mean, most girls do, but she's different so I thought…"

"She wouldn't care if you left after two…" Artie asked skeptically, trailing off at the end.

"No, no. I thought she wouldn't care enough about me to be upset for too long" Puck rephrased, staring down at his hands. Who knew he'd ever have a heart to heart to Artie. But then again, who would have thought he'd take Rachel Berry's virginity?

Artie suddenly got an idea. An idea that would help both Puck and Rachel. "Hey, do you want to come to a little glee get together tonight? My dad is letting me borrow his bar for a night and all of glee is invited. Are you in?"

Puck nodded "Sure. Sounds cool." He looked back at the paper deciding they should probably actually get started on this crap.

Artie smirked at his own brilliancy and the two started on their project.

Step one; Get his dad to actually let him borrow the bar.

Rachel walked down the hallway, headed to lunch. She was running a little late since she stayed behind in English to work on her test a little while longer. Her motto was longer means better. So it was five minutes into lunch and the halls were abandoned.

Rachel smiled at how nice it felt to be alone for once. Ever since everything happen she had someone hovering over her shoulder asking her if she was ok. She just wanted some solitude for once and this was just perfect.

"Rachel Berry" She heard that voice behind her.

I guess I spoke to soon.

Rachel turned around and scowled "Yes Jacob?"

Jacob smiled goofily "I've noticed you have been unlike yourself lately. You seem more depressed and you haven't been hanging around neither Puck or Finn. I thought maybe I could help."

Rachel frowned. "Thank you for being worried but I'm fine Jacob."

"I figured" Jacob said with a shrug. "I would like to ask something else."

Oh boy.

Rachel stood tall and looked at him hard "What?"

"I want the underpants you are wearing right now, right now" Jacob said, a grin spreading across his face.

Rachel looked at him in disgust. "Your sense of humor is astonishing Jacob" She said, stepping to move past him. He simply stepped in front of her again.

"I mean it" He said with a nod. "And if you don't I might have to put that you and Noah Puckerman slept together on my blog."

Rachel's eyes widened. How did he know that?

"It won't be true of course, which is unlike me, but one little lie won't do much. Well not to me anyway. You on the other hand…" His words trailed off as he looked up and down her body.

"You wouldn't dare. Stop looking at me like that" Rachel snapped, crossing her arms over her chest.

Jacob looked back up at her eyes "Oh I would. I would hand them over."

Rachel took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She couldn't believe she was going to do this. Keeping her eyes closed, she turned on her heel headed towards the bathroom but ran straight into someone. A rather large someone. She opened her eyes and looked up to see green eyes boring into her.

"What's going on here" Puck asked, glaring at Jacob. "Is he harassing you again" He demanded, looking at Rachel.

Rachel simply nodded, not capable of forming words. Puck walked past her closer to Jacob. As he got closer Jacob took a couple steps back.

"Whatever you wanted from her, forget it. And if I see anything on your stupid ass blog about her…do you like toilet water Israel" Puck asked, with a smirk.

Jacob shook his head back and forth, and turned running off.

He turned around satisfied with himself and stopped smiling when he saw Rachel. It was now or never and he didn't really think Rachel would appreciate it if he walked off.

"Thank you" She said softly, looking at the ground.

Puck nodded, walking closer to her. "No problem. Israel's psycho."

"Yeah" Rachel laughed once, and nodded. Her arms were wrapped tightly around herself, as if she would fall apart if she let go.

"So, uh, how are you? And if you don't lie when you answer, that would be great" Puck asked softly.

Rachel looked up at him with wide eyes. "I'm not good Noah. In fact, the past week has been terrible. You act like nothing happened well guess what?! Something did happen. I've lost any respect I had for you." She shook her head, and started to pass by him but he grabbed her arm and spun her around to face him.

"I'm sorry. What I did was wrong but-" Rachel cut him off.

"No buts. No excuses. I don't want to hear it. This is the last time I want to hear from you. So this is goodbye Noah" She said, looking at him with sad eyes. She pulled her arm back to herself and turned around, headed for the girl's bathroom.

She was going to break her promise to herself.

Rachel walked into glee, with a fake smile set in place. She had to tell all the other glee members about the commercial, and she was going to try her best to sound excited.

"Rachel, hey" Finn said softly, as he entered the room.

"Oh hello Finn. I haven't seen you in a while, not at the picture or anything" She snapped, crossing her arms over her chest. She held her hand up when he opened his mouth to speak. "Don't think anything your going to say will be ok. Ok Finn?"

Finn sighed and nodded, going to sit next to Quinn.

As the rest of the glee members shuffled into the room, Rachel stood in front of them all. "I have some good news, although I don't know why I'm telling you since none of you seem too involved with glee." Her gaze moved to Puck who was staring intently at her.

"We're all going to be in a commercial" Rachel said, moving her eyes to see the faces of everyone else.

Their faces were shocked and excited. Kurt and Mercedes were nodding, smiling at Rachel. The cheerios squealed while Mike and Matt high fived each other. Quinn looked bored, Finn looked guilty, Artie and Tina were talking to each other about the commercial, and Puck was just staring at her.

She shifted under his gaze, feeling incredibly uncomfortable. Noah Puckerman did these small things to get under her skin and it worked each and every time. Like the way he kissed her, or touched her. The way he looked at her.

Artie wheeled up next to her and whistled loudly to get their attention. "We're having a glee get together at my dad's bar tonight. So I hope all of you come. I think you all know where my dad's bar is but if you don't just ask me for the address."

Kurt stood up and walked next to her "We're going. You're going to have fun."

Rachel shook her head "No I'm not. I'm staying home tonight and watching Tony die in Maria's arms. Romantic, isn't it?"

"Oh shush up you. Mercedes and I will pick you up later, no ifs ands or buts. We'll drag you if that's the case" Kurt said, his face serious.

Rachel huffed and grabbed her bag, leaving the room. Damn Kurt.

Rachel stood in front of her mirror, frowning as Kurt finished straightening her hair. She didn't look like herself at all. When Kurt had arrived at her house with Mercedes and Brittany he'd insisted she go upstairs with him. She did as he asked and he was pulling out clothes from a bag. He'd then proceeded to change her entire outfit and when she asked why she couldn't just stay in the clothes she had on Kurt had hit her on the arm and told her to stop talking.

"Perfect! You look so much better" Kurt gushed, stepping next to her.

Rachel examined herself closely. She had really tight jeans on and she could barely breathe. Kurt had told her she looked fine, mostly from the back. She had brushed that comment off at the time. She was wearing a necklace with the word love and bangles, or at least that's what Kurt had called them. She had a cream colored top on, with a black and white scarf. The shoes were what got her most. Brittany had brought over these heels, that Rachel swore she would break her leg, or some other body part, in. Kurt of course insisted she wear them.

"We're going to a place where no one will be but the glee members. Why do I have to dress like this" Rachel asked, running her hands along the soft fabric of the top.

Kurt sighed "Rachel your skirts are heinous. We'll all be dancing and we don't want to see your underwear. Well…most of us don't."

Rachel frowned and sat down on her bed "I don't feel like me."

"Rach, shut the hell up and enjoy your life. You're going to have fun tonight. Ok" Kurt yelled, making Rachel jump. She nodded her head, smiling at her friend's outburst.

"I apologize for being so difficult" She giggled.

Kurt rubbed his forehead "You should be. I'm going to have wrinkles."

Rachel laughed, and stood up. As they drove to Artie's dads bar they all sang aloud to the mix CD Kurt had made and Rachel felt happier than she had in a really long time.

As Doll House came on, all of them sang along loudly giggling between the words. They pulled up to the bar and could hear music blasting from inside. Rachel got out and squinted her eyes.

"Why does it sound like a raging frat party?" She asked, confused.

Kurt smirked "Because us glee members throw kick ass parties." The look Rachel gave him made him clear his throat "Kick butt parties." He grabbed Rachel by the arm and dragged her inside. Everyone else was there, dancing around. Matt and Santana were rubbing against each other and Mike ran up to Brittany and spun her around, making her laugh.

As Rachel walked in everyone's eyes landed on her. Even those green ones she grew to know so well. She took a deep breath, and spun around about to leave but Mercedes stepped in front of her.

"You aint going know where shortie" Mercedes said firmly with a smirk.

Rachel looked behind her and saw there was another exit. Maybe if she made a run for it. She spun around and as fast as she could in the heels, ran for the exit.

"Someone stop that girl" She heard Kurt yell as she dodged a chair that was in the way.

"DUDE WHAT IS SHE THE TAZMANIAN DEVIL OR SOMETHING, LOOK AT HER GO" Matt yelled.

Out of no where Mike jumped in front of Rachel and she ran smack dab into him. "Ow" She mumbled, rubbing at her face. "How in the world did you get over here that fast."

"I'm the fastest on the team" Mike said with a smirk. "Now you get your fine looking butt…" He cleared his throat after looking over Rachel's shoulder, and she guessed Brittany gave him that look that said 'fine looking what?'. "Just get back over there with the rest of us" He said firmly. He smiled warmly "Don't worry, me and Matt already established who has Puck duty. You won't have to talk to him at all tonight."

Rachel smiled brightly at the boy in front of her "Thank you Mike. I really appreciate it."

"Eh, don't mention it" He said, throwing his arm over her shoulders and leading her back over to the group.

Quinn raised an eyebrow "Nice outfit man hands." After being nudged softly by Brittany, she crossed her arms "Are those even your clothes?"

"No, their mine. Now stop being rude" Brittany interjected, wrapping an arm around Mike's waist.

"Yeah Quinn. Tonight is for having fun and coming together as friends. Not being hateful" Puck snapped, eyeing Rachel. Mike was right about one thing…the girl's ass looked mighty fine in those jeans.

Dollhouse blasted throughout the bar and Kurt was dancing with Rachel. She laughed as he spun her. Her eyes wandered over to Puck who was watching her intently.

They were all swapping off dance partners, moving in a big line. When Finn approached her with a smile, she couldn't help but smile back. She was mad at him, but he always made her feel good about herself. At least for a little while and she needed that right now.

"Don't mind Quinn. She's cranky lately…I like your outfit" He said softly.

That should have made her smile, or made her get butterflies like it usually did but the only thing on her mind was Puck. How she wished it was him complimenting her. Or how she desperately wished he stayed that night. How she wanted more with him even if he slushied her or left her. It was as though all her normal feelings towards Finn were passed along to Puck.

"Thank you Finn" Rachel mumbled, looking down at her feet.

Finn sighed "You're still mad at me." It wasn't a question.

"Yes" Rachel agreed, with a nod.

"I deserve it" Finn stated simply. He decided to change the subject "So what's wrong with you and Puck lately?"

Rachel sighed and shrugged "Nothing." She didn't know how she was to answer Finn's question. She couldn't tell him Puck slept with her because then he'd start something. She also didn't want Finn to know. It was her business, not his. Her and Puck's business. As the song changed to Broken Hearted Girl by Beyonce, Finn decided that talking to Rachel wasn't helping her or him any so he moved on.

Rachel looked down at her pants, and pulled her cell phone out of her pocket. It was getting late and she needed to tell her dads that she would probably be later than she'd expected. She smiled contently as the text was sent and shoved her phone back in her pocket. When she looked back up she jumped.

"You scared me" She mumbled, looking around to find Mike and Matt. Why weren't they carrying out their duties?

Puck chuckled "I, uh, had Brittany and Santana distract them. I just had to talk to you."

Rachel shook her head and looked around, everywhere but in his eyes. "Noah" She said softly, being flooded with thousands of different emotions.

Puck held his hand out. "Dance with me" He asked softly. He looked at her pleadingly, and she couldn't resist.

She slowly took his hand, and he pulled her in close to him. They moved in a slow motion and Rachel figured if she was going to open up the sores she'd kept closed for this long, then she'd better enjoy it. She set her head on Puck's shoulder and her eyes fluttered closed, as his arm was wrapping carefully around her waist.

"Rach, listen. That night I left-" He started.

Rachel scoffed "Really? You don't say."

Puck groaned "Please, let me finish. Normally I don't try this hard and I would never admit what I feel but I hurt you and I feel I owe it to you. I left because I knew I would hurt you, either now or later, and I thought you deserved someone better. A better singer, a better man. Someone who isn't a lima loser and is going somewhere with his life. Someone like Finn! I'm sorry."

Rachel reluctantly looked up into his eyes "You're not a lima loser. I don't even know where you got that idea."

Puck looked down. He wished he could just tell her the truth. That the baby was his and that Quinn wouldn't let him take care of her because he was in fact a lima loser. He didn't realize he'd closed his eyes until he felt Rachel's lips on his forehead.

"I'm angry with you…furious even. You had your reasons though, and although it doesn't really make up for what you did I understand why you did it. I forgive you Noah, but we can't be together. I really hope you'll settle for being friends" Rachel pleaded.

Puck nodded painfully "Of course." He knew she wouldn't just accept him back with open arms. He'd messed up and he would have to deal with the consequences of that. He was just glad that he could be around her somehow. Even if he had to share her with Finn.

She moved her head back to it's resting place and took a deep breath "You smell good."

Puck smiled "You too. You too."

It was then that Puck decided he would let her have all the time she needed, but he would work his ass off to get Rachel Berry to want to be with him again. He would do whatever it takes because he was Noah Puckerman and he never gave up. He always got what he wanted, and he wanted Rachel Berry more than anything else.

A/N: Yeah, no getting together for a bit. I'm thinking of making this story around 20 chapters. So yeah. Maybe even longer depending on where I fit the whole 'everyone finds out about the baby' crap in there x]. So yeah I'm working on it.

Wow…this is a really short ending authors note. GLEE TOMORROW! The preview looks amazing!

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