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CHAPTER 3
Week Two – Money, Money, Money
PUCK:
The rest of the weekend went by pretty fast, he and Mike had played video games in the game room only interrupted twice, first when Rachel had called a fucking meeting(who told her she was boss anyway) because they had to figure out who should do what in the house, they decided to take it week why week, maybe giving each team a different task around the house, and the other time was when Berry and Sam had wanted to sing, again, okay so it wasn't only them but he tried to ignore the fuck out of his roommate and Berry since they seemed to be stuck together with glue or whatever, what the fuck is going on there? Sam had to be stupid or some shit because he tried to sit down with the dude and explain that he should stay away from Berry since he didn't want to be dragged in to her madness and the dude had just laughed, so that was a fucking waste of time.
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Monday morning he was actually dressed and ready when that freaking alarm went off and he dragged his ass out of the kitchen and to the main room where Julie was waiting, he really hoped that they would do something fun this week, last week had been pretty boring, so much fucking talking and he wanted something totally different this week, and he was kinda curious to find out who is team mates would be this week. When everyone had come and sat down Julie stood up and looked in the paper, the camera zoomed in on her and then she started talking,
"Welcome to a new week boys and girls, this week you will get a chance to go outside and check out the town, as I said it is a set and the people living here are actors, you might have noticed the main street when we came here last week and noticed that this is not a big town but I think you guys will find everything you need there. The actors get to know what kind of challenges you are given each week so that they can prepare, there are of course cameras around town so that we and the viewers can see what you are up to, so are you curious to find out what you will be doing this week?" Everyone said yes and some of the nodded, "I think I will give you your teams first, just like last week, when I call your name, find your teammates, so on team 1 we will have Sam, Marley, Kitty and Tina, and then on team 2, we will have Mike, Rachel, Kurt and Noah" No fucking way, at least they didn't throw Sam in the mix too, walking over he found his teammates and Berry and sat down, fucking awesome so much for ignoring her, "and on team 3 we will have Jake, Santana, Brittany and Artie" Julie took a break so that all the teams were seated together, he didn't really have a bad team, Mike and he had actually formed a friendship over video games, Kurt he hadn't really talked to that much and he guessed he could survive a week with Berry, if he had to.
"So guys, like I told you all last week, each week the group will get a certain amount of money that needs to go to food and other necessaries but this week each team will get an amount, and the team will have to do their planning, shopping and probably cooking together, for this each team will get 50 $ to spend this week, but that's not really the challenge, you will need to find a way to earn more money, because this weeks winner will be the team that has the most money saved up on Saturday. Since I don't want any of you to starve yourself in the sake of this challenge I made a rule and you have to follow it, at least three meals everyday is required, with that I wish you Good luck, and I will see you all on Saturday."
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"So I guess we shop cheap foods? Maybe beg on the streets?" he said, how the fuck could four people survive on 50 $ ? Not that he really had done much shopping in his life,
"We don't need to beg, I guess we could try to find out what is in the town and work and earn money?" Berry said, writing some shit down,
"Yeah, Rachel is right, maybe we can work for food that would save us some money" Mike said,
"That would work in the grocery store Mike, we should get out there before everyone else"
"How do you know they are not out there already Berry?" he asked,
"well it is the first day, and they are probably still planning" she said standing up, "so let's go", Berry and Mike were chatting all the way down the street until they found some stores, two of them went to the grocery store (Mike and Rachel) then Kurt and he were sent around town to see if anyone needed help, it's not like there were many places to ask really, but in the end Kurt was gonna come back to the clothing store tomorrow and help put out some clothes and he got a gig painting the sign over the cafeteria the next day, so he figured they did good, that was until he met up with the other two, what was they like the perfect duo or something?
"We just helped for a half an hour and he gave us all of this, there are some things he could not sell and he will give us 10$ if we come back tomorrow" he looked at the bags Mike and Berry were carrying with them, at least they got food, "how did you do?" she asked Kurt and him,
"Well I have some work in the clothing store tomorrow morning" Kurt said and Rachel turned her head and looked at him,
"I'm painting a sign tomorrow, don't know how much I'll earn" he said taking one of the bags Berry were carrying, what she's a girl and it was heavy.
"That is so great, this week we will win, I am sure of it"
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BRITTANY:
"Maybe we could strip for money?" Santana said when had been talking forever trying to find out what to do,
"I don't really see myself stripping" Artie said looking on his wheelchair,
"But we could totally strip on top of you" Santana said,
"We can't strip" Jake said from his chair,
"And why the fuck not?"
"First we are not old enough, and no way I'll strut my stuff on television"
"Oh yeah, do anyone else have any bright ideas?" Santana said looking around them, she raised her hand and tried to get the attention,
"We could be dog walkers?" she said smiling,
"Don't think so Britt, don't think there are any dogs in this fake town, but good idea and we can keep our eyes open" Santana said,
"What if we just go to town, check out the place and try to find a job?" Jake said to them.
A couple of hours later they were back in the house, they had gotten a few work choices for the week, she did not really know how she could wash away graffiti from a brick wall but she would try. After her team finished with their meeting Santana asked her if she wanted to hang out and she said yes, they did not actually do anything really, so when Sam came in to the room she called him over,
"Hi girls, what are you up too?" he asked them,
"Nothing much, talking" she answered and gave the boy a smile, she looked over at Santana and she looked annoyed, did she do something wrong? "Are you mad at me?" she asked Santana when Sam left to get something,
"No, I just wanted to hang out with you alone"
"Oh, you should have said so. I can tell Sam to hang out with someone else when he comes back"
"Don't worry Britt, we can hang out alone later" Santana told her and smiled,
"Okay, oh see Sam brought Rachel" Brittany said when Sam and Rachel walked up to them.
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RACHEL:
"So you and Puck know each other right?" Brittany asked her when they went to find something to drink, she nodded and hoped that would be it, "so are you friends?"Brittany followed up with,
"Not really Britt" she said pouring herself some juice,
"But he knew you hated ants" Brittany said and looked at her,
"It's a long story Britt, we used to be friends but not anymore" she said hoping this conversation was over at this point,
"I'm sorry, what happened?" Brittany said and gave her a hug,
"Don't worry, it is a long time ago and I am fine, and I really do not know, one day we were friends and the next we were not", that was a really sad twelfth birthday.
- Flashback -
Her daddies had just left so that she would have the house to herself, her best friend in the world was going to come and celebrate her twelfth birthday with her. Her daddies would come back later and take them out for dinner and ice cream and the neighbor would check in on them during the day. When her daddies had asked if she wanted a big birthday party she had told them she only wanted to celebrate with Noah, she could have a party later. She had picked out a couple of movies and some candy and just waited o him to come, she had big plans for the day.
It had been almost a week since they last talked but she knew he would come, her daddies had called Mrs Puckerman last night and made sure of that,so now she just had to wait. She looked at the clock and he should have been there by now, maybe she should call Mrs Puckerman and make sure,
"Hello" the woman said when she answered the phone,
"Hello this is Rachel Berry, are Noah there?" she asked,
"He is on the way to your house Rachel, he should be there soon"
"Okay, thank you"
"Happy birthday sweetie"
she hung up the phone and went over to the window, Noah would be there soon.
When her daddies came home a couple of hours later they found her crying in her room, Noah never showed up.
- End Flashback -
"Rachel are you alright?" Brittany's voice made her look up,
"What?" she asked,
"You looked so sad" Brittany said and smiled at her,
"I was just were having a small flashback to a really bad memory" she said,
"About Puck?" she nodded, "maybe you should find out why he stopped being your friend" Brittany said,
"I think I will do that, it's not like he can run anywhere like the last time I tried, at least not very far" she said and walked of, she just needed to find him, and she knew just were to look.
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"Noah, can I have a word with you" she said walking in to the game room,
"Sure talk away Berry, don't be angry if I don't answer"
"I really would like to talk to you alone if you don't mind" she said and he turned to look at her,
"Alone" he smirked but when he caught the look in his eyes he stopped, "Sure, hey Blaine take over will you, don't fuck things up"he said and followed after her, she walked upstairs and into her suite and checked to make sure Santana was not there and then locked the door,
"Should I be worried? I get you want this all to yourself but.."
"shut up Noah, sit down" he sat down and she sat next to him,
"What's this all about? We don't really have hearts to hearts anymore Berry"
"I know, that's why I wanted to talk to you" he raised and eyebrow, "why did you stop being my friend?"
"Come on Berry, that's years ago" he said and stood up, "so if that's all"
"Noah please, one day we are planing my birthday and some days later you don't show up, I want to know why"
"I don't know" he said,
"yes you do, it has to be a reason" she said,
"Not really, we grew apart I guess" he said turning his head away,
"In a week?"
"Yeah, a lot of people do Berry"
"Tell me the real reason Noah" she said, no were silent for a really long time, he looked at her,
"You didn't like me" he said and looked down, "so I figured I should just stay away"
"I liked you, why would you think such a thing?" she said with an irritated voice,
"Well, I asked if I could kiss you and you said no"
"That's why? That's the reason I sat alone on my twelfth birthday? You were kissing everyone back then, and you kinda still do" she said standing up,
"I was practicing" he screamed at her, "and still am"
"That's stupid Noah" she yelled back,
"It's not"
"Why would you practice kissing with every girl we knew? You have to understand why I said no"
"No I don't"
"I did not want to be a part of your learning experience" they were both shouting now.
"Hey guys" someone knocked on the door, she think it was Kurt
"WHAT?" they both screamed,
"Santana wanted... Never mind she can get it later" the person left,
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PUCK
-Flashback-
He had kissed every girl in his class,almost, so he had to be good by now right? Rachel's first kiss had to be awesome, like the one in that movie they watched a couple of weeks ago. He was going to do it tonight, when he was going over and doing homework with her, he hoped she would say yes to be his girlfriend, she had kinda been his girl since they were babies so she had to say yes.
They had been doing their homework for a while and now they were talking about her birthday, the one she wanted to only spend with him, it had to mean something right?
"Rachel" he said and looked at her,
"Yes"
"Could I, I mean could I kiss you?" he said and smiled,
"What? No, maybe..." he did not give her a chance to finish what she was saying,
"I have to go" he said and grabbed his stuff and run from the room,
"Noah" he could hear Rachel say his name from her room but he had to go, she didn't like him. Rachel's dads said goodbye when he ran out the door, fighting against the tears he went home and went into his room, girls are stupid.
-End flashback-
"I was practicing so I could give you the best fucking first kiss ever, I had everything planned"
"I did not... What?" she said,
"I wanted to give you a perfect first kiss, you had talked about it forever and we watched all those movies with awesome kissing, and I wanted to give you one of those" he said looking at her,
"Oh, I did not know that, but you should have told me."
"Then it wouldn't have been a fucking surprise would it?"
"And you left before I got a chance to finish speaking that time Noah, I was going to say that you could kiss me on my birthday" wait, crazy girl said what?
"You are fucking crazy, why?"
"Then my first kiss would have been extra special, but you never showed up so"
"Oh" he said, "was your first kiss special?"
"No"
"can I kiss you now?" he smirked,
"No"
"Why the fuck not? You want it, I want it?"
"It has been five years Noah, you have ignored me for five years"
"Girls are still fucking stupid" he left the room not long after that, instead of heading back to the game room he headed for bed, this had been a fucking crazy day.
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KITTY:
Her team had actually done a pretty decent job, and she had to watch the money. But now she could not find them? She had them in her jacket and now they were gone, she had looked everywhere, on the street, in her room and everywhere in the house. How could she tell her team that she had lost almost all their money? Well she had to do it, because they are all staring at her now so,
"The thing is guys, I can't find the money"
"What? How could you lose the money?" Marley said,
"I don't know, I had them in my jacket and then they were gone"
"We are so doomed, there are only one day left, how many money do we actually have?" Blaine asked them, the others picked out some money and started counting,
"We have 25 dollars guys" Sam said, "The other teams must have more money than that, Rachel's team sold cookies for gods sake" he added,
"I'm so sorry" she said,
"Well we just have do go around and find out if anyone have found some money" Blaine told them,
"What if someone stole them? They wouldn't just tell us" she said irritated,
"We have to try, and we share a room Kitty and we always lock the door" Tina said,
"Okay, so how should we do this?" she asked,
"I'll go with you and the others just walk around and have a look and ask everyone they see" Marley said and smiled,
"Thanks for coming with me, I know I have treated you like crap this week"
"Yes you were kinda rude yesterday when I was talking to Jake" Marley said walking next to her,
"Yeah, I know he likes you and everything but I just likes him so I get jealous"
"Jake is cute, but I just broke up with someone back home so I don't know if I should go there" Marley said and smiled,
"Why? "
"Well Ryder, that's my ex, was flirting with another girl from our school"
"Guys are jerks, even the cute ones" she said and smiled at Marley.
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PUCK:
After Artie had asked him he had seen any money just laying around, apparently one from their team had lost some, he walked over to Jake who was looking at Marley who was talking with Brittany,
"Dude, why don't you talk to her?" he asked,
"I have tried, I asked if she wanted to hang out and she said no" Jake answered him,
"Girls are fucking stupid" he said and Jake laughed,
"Yeah, why are you talking to me? I thought you had that plan that you would only talk to me when you had to?"
"I know, I figured since we have to be in here we should be friends or whatever, and I know you are my brother but that is something we have to figure out when we get out of here" he said, he had thought a lot, Jake was most likely his brother and if they could become friends while they both were here it would be easier later,
"Oh, that's cool, so friends?" Jake said,
"And my advice as your friend, a girl like Marley, you have to treat her right you know, find out what she likes, take things slow and maybe someday she'll say yes" he said,
"You could be right, but Marley is like Rachel and you like her? Rachel, and everyone knows about your fight earlier in the week, Kurt was standing outside her room listening. So maybe you should take your own advice, be a little nicer to her?"
"Nah, I'm a stud" he said and walked away, so maybe Jake had a point, but Rachel turned him down again, and if she wanted him she had to come to him, but maybe if he treated her nicer she would come faster?
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RACHEL:
She had faith when they were waiting on Julie for the announcement of the winning team off the work, Mike had the brilliant idea that they could bake something and sell them to the stores, so they had baked cookies and they actually earned a little money on it, her whole team had really put in a big effort this last week and they just had to win.
"Hello everyone, from what I can tell you have all put in some effort this week, Mike how has your team done this last week?" Julie asked,
"We did pretty good, we worked together and I think we have a good chance in winning" Mike answered with a smile,
"Great, Santana what did your team do to earn some money?" Julie asked,
"Well we helper around town, where we could, somebody had snatched the best jobs already but we got something at least" Santana told her with a frown,
"And Kitty, I know that your team lost some of the money, how does that feel?"
"It sucks, I don't know where they went really" Kitty said while looking at the floor,
"Well I can tell you we actually found your money, but since you lost it you will not be able to get them back"
"Why not?" Blaine asked,
"Because if this was real life, how big chance had there been that someone would know the money was yours?" Julie said, to be honest it was a little harsh,
"How has it been using as little of the money as possible? Puck lets start with your team"
"We got lucky and got a lot of free food from some of the places we worked, like the cafeteria and the grocery store so we saved a lot on that" Noah told her,
"Great, that was really lucky for your team, and Brittany how did your team do?"
"We bought a lot of really cheap stuff, we did not get any free stuff"
"Okay then, and Marley how about your team?"
"We tried to be smart but a lot of money went to the food"
"Well you are all probably want to find out who will get the most points this week, and I will start will last place that gets 3 points, with only 38 dollars left, Team 1 (Sam, Blaine, Marley, Kitty, Tina), the team that came in on second place and gets 6 points each this week are the members on team 3 (Santana, Brittany, Artie, Jake), and that makes our winner team Team 1 (Puck, Mike, Kurt, Rachel)" Julie stopped talking.
"We won" she said and jumped up and down and hugged Puck, "Oh sorry" she said and backed away.