So sorry it took me so long! Senior year is a killer so far, not to mention I just started a new job. Life is damn hectic...but without further ado here ya go!
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Rachel view on the world changed after that night with Jack. Everything had changed. She would no longer be the same person she was before, she was no longer a virgin.
She couldn't really explain to you what happened. One moment she was a virgin, the next not. When she returned home that night she stared at the ceiling, her back flat against her soft comforter. That's when the real tears began, she squeezed her eyes shut as they leaked. She was lost. Her mind went through the events over and over. There was the one question, however, that haunted the back of her mind constantly.
Had she just been raped? She didn't know if that was the right way to put it. He didn't force her to. Not really. She simply was frightened that he would do something to her if she didn't have sex with him. He didn't have her consent though, so doesn't that count as rape? She had said no and he didn't listen. Her mind reeled, and when she finally decided to force herself to believe that it was not a big deal she drifted off to a soft, un-peaceful sleep.
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Puck searched for Rachel in the halls all morning, roughly pushing anybody who was in his way. When he spotted Jack and his friends laughing hysterically over something, Puck narrowed his eyes. Where the fuck was Rachel?
"Hey, jack-ass..seen Rachel around anywhere?"
The circle of guys immediately stopped laughing, sending a glare over to the mohawked teenager. "What's it to you?"
"Christ, can you be anymore cliché. I just want to know where your fucking girlfriend is. I wanted to talk to her." Puck seethed through clenched teeth.
Scardina looked at his friends and then back to Puck, an evil smirk planted on his face, "I don't know man. I don't know if she's in school today...I basically fucked her through a wall yesterday, she might be sore."
Puck's heart rate sped up immensely as what Sacrdina had said sunk in, he lunged at the boy in front of him, "You don't fucking say shit like that about her!"
"Why not?" Jack asked as pushed Puck off of him. "Especially cause it's true."
"Because you just fucking don't. Stay the fuck away from her, I'm not joking." He said seething, his face burning red with anger.
Jack sent him another smirk as the group walked away, not bothering to reply to what Puck had said to him. Puck was left there with his hand in a fist and his breathing erratic. Did they really have sex? She couldn't have done that with him...
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Rachel actually did go to school that day, she was forced to tell herself that everything was normal and she needed to go through her day as such. She did however come in a little late, pushing back the inevitable confrontation with Jack. She didn't want to admit this to anyone, not even herself, but she was frightened. So very much so that she found herself short of breath, a sort-of mini panic attack. When she saw Puck storming in her direction she looked to the ground, quickly composing herself.
"Now when you're crying you bring on the rain
So stop that sighing be happy again
keep on smiling; Cause when you're smiling
And the whole world smiles with you"
Those lyrics ran through her head as she picked her head up, a smile plastered on her pale face. "Hello, Noah."
"Rachel, we need to talk."
Rachel's fake smile faltered, "Is something wrong?"
Puck thought about the answer to that question very carefully. If she had sex with Scardina, then yes...yes something is very wrong. "I just need to know something. I heard Scardina talking with his stupid ass friends and he said something to me that really got to me. I don't know why it's been bothering me this fucking much, but I just can't help it..."
The more and more Puck talked the more and more Rachel couldn't breath. She found herself having to have full concentration on each breath she took. She couldn't take any more of his incessant rambling, she thought she would throw up.
The next six words he uttered felt as if they were spoken in slow motion to Rachel, the world seemed to stop for a minute as he spoke, "Did you have sex with him?
Rachel's world came to a crashing halt, no noises besides the ones uttered between the two of them were heard. "W-what?"
"I'm asking you nicely, Rachel. Just tell me the fucking truth."
"I-I." Her breathing faltered again, her eyes pooling with unshed tears as she struggled to think.
Puck's anger grew more intense as the brunette stuttered in front of him, "I swear to god berry, if that's a fucking yes..."
"I-I can't breath. N-noah, I can't breath..." She said gasping for air.
"Rachel?" He asked timidly his eyes wide with concern, his mood taking a complete 180 from angry to completely fucking worried. "What the fuck. You're like turning blue, what the fuck do I do?"
"N-nurse." She sputtered. Her body screaming for air, she felt her eyes flutter to a close.
Puck picked her limp body up and sprinted to the nurse's office, the one he always slept in during math class. His body was filled with dread, all thoughts about Scardina simply cast farther back in his brain. "Rachel, can you hear me?"
There was no answer and that scared him more than anything. He never thought he'd actually be praying for Rachel Berry to just fucking say something.
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It took Rachel a while to figure out she was in the nurses office once she opened her eyes. She dizzily saw Puck pacing across the nurse's room and wandered what the hell had just happened. She shifted softly, trying to push herself up and the minute she moved Puck darted towards her his face lighting up considerably.
"Rachel!" He yelled happily, his mind internally calling him a pussy for sounding like such a douche bag. "Thank fuck your okay."
Rachel squeezed her eyes shut with dread. She just realized exactly why she had passed out...Puck was talking to her about Jack. Puck was going to be suspicious and she for once had no idea how she was going to put on a show to pretend nothing had happened.
Puck watched Rachel as she scrunched her eyes together and wandered what was up with her, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry about it."
"You just had a fucking panic attack, you couldn't fucking breathe. You were gasping for breath and I didn't know what the fuck to do and your telling me not to worry about it?" Puck let out a breath of his own and looked over at the fragile girl before him. She look so pale and not her usual composed self.
"I'm just stressed out okay? I have a lot of stuff on my mind."
"Fine, just let me drive you home.." Puck said in a calm voice, trying to sound less angry at the weak girl in front of him. "I'll take you to get your car when your capable of driving yourself."
Rachel glanced around the room, "Noah, what about the nurse...did she say I could leave?"
Puck nodded his head softly, "She had some kind of appointment and she told me to wait here with you until you woke up and when you did I could drive you home. I put on some of the Puckerone charm."
"What a horrible nurse." Rachel joked half-heartedly, a half-smile plastered on her face.
"Whatever. Let's just go."
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Once the two teenagers reached Rachel's empty house Puck helped her inside and once inside plopped down on the huge sofa next to her.
"Aren't you going to leave?"
Puck put on a fake hurt face and said, "How can you be so rude?"
Rachel gave him a small smile, "Shut up."
"I just want to give you some company, not to mention I want to make sure your going to be okay. If you tell anyone I said this I will deny it, but I really care about you and I really don't think you should be alone right now. Something is obviously wrong."
Rachel's eyes narrowed at the boy next to her as she tried to keep the smile off her face. How could someone make her smile at a time like this. "Awe, you care about me. How adorable?"
"Shut up, Berry."
She put on a coy face and said, "Make me."
Puck dove over to Rachel, lightly pinning her to the couch. "Don't tempt me Berry. You know how lethal the Puckerone charm can be."
"Oh yes, deadly." She joked with a smile. The smile slowly faded as she realized how close he was to her, how he secured her to the couch with no way out. Her mind flashed to the night before, a sick guilty feeling washing over her. She suddenly felt dirty, like she needed a shower.
Puck recognized the panic in Rachel's eyes so he quickly pulled away, "Sorry Rachel, I didn't mean to creep you out."
Rachel felt herself slightly out of breath again, a panic attack at the cusp of consuming her. She shut her eyes and took a deep breath, forcing to take everything bad out of her mind. It had worked for now.
"Rach, I think we really need to talk about this now. What's going on with you today?"
"It's really not important. It's nothing." She stated firmly, trying to get Puck to believe what she was saying...and maybe trying to get herself to believe it as well.
"Stop saying it's nothing. I'm not fucking stupid Rach."
Puck's head started to piece everything together. He suddenly realized what he was talking about when Rachel passed out earlier. Jack Scardina. Scardina and Rachel having sex.
"Oh, fuck." He stated menacingly to no one in particular. Puck felt his body heat up, his face turning beet-red.
"Noah? Is everything okay, Noah? What's going on?" Rachel said nervously, taking in Puck's complete and utter furiousness.
"What did he do to you?" Puck's voice whispered as he felt Rachel tremble beside him.
"Well..."