Do not own Glee, just borrowed some of the characters.
CHAPTER 4
Week Three - Showtime
RACHEL:
Already in week three she thought walking down the stairs, she was sure the alarm would ring any minute to tell them to gather in the main room, or show room as they had started calling it, since they mostly spend time there when Julie was in the building. She had actually hanged out with Noah, and it was nice to spend some time with him again in secret (her choice), she also tried to hang out with her other friends, but she had noticed that Noah was hanging around more when she was hanging out with Sam. Santana told her it was because he was jealous, but that was just stupid, even if anything was going to happen with her and Noah, and she doubted he wanted that, sure he had asked to kiss her last week but that's how he is, he had to understand that Sam and her was just friends.
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When the alarm went of she was already seated in the show room and waiting, everyone else came inside one after one and soon Julie came in and started talking to them before she was ready to give them this weeks task.
"Welcome to a new week, already in week three and this week our first contestant will go home. This week is going to be fun, and I will tell you your new challenge but first I will divide you into your new teams" Julie said and started looking through her papers, was it weird that she wanted to be on teams with Noah again this week? "So on Team 1 we have Santana, Puck, Artie, Tina, on team 2 we have Rachel, Blaine, Mike, Jake, Marley and finally on Team 3 we have Brittany, Sam, Kitty, Kurt" everyone went around the room to find their teammates, she was happy with her team, she knew Mike pretty well by now, and she had talked some with Blaine and Jake but Marley she had hardly shared a word with, but whatever challenge they got this week they would have a decent chance in winning, and they had to since Rachel wanted to stay.
"So guys, everyone settled with their team?" everyone nodded, "Good, so this week is all about putting up a show, on Friday you will have to have prepared a ten minute show. We have invited some people to come and watch and they will be your judges, and the team who gets the most votes from them will win. Have fun, and good luck. "
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"So what can we do? Do any of you have any talent?" Mike asked when the group had found a private place to talk,
"I can sing" she said,
"Yeah I can sing too" Blaine added, "and I know that Marley can carry a tune since I heard her sing karaoke last night"
"Great, I'm a pretty decent dancer" Mike said and smiled,
"I had some dance classes" Jake said, and Mike gave him a smile,
"So we can have a show based on singing and dancing?" Marley asked,
"I think we can do it, it has to be fun, something the public would like" she said,
"Yeah songs that people know, and that are catchy" Jake said,
"anybody have any ideas?" Mike asked,
"Maybe something from Grease? And then something newer?" she asked looking around,
"Yeah, maybe You're the one that I want? And Katy Perry is popular and fun?" Marley said and smiled,
"Teenage dream" Blaine said and smiled, "I love that song, we could make it as a duet or something, and then the others play it out in the background?"
"We can try to and if it don't work we can find something else" she said and smiled.
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PUCK:
His team had actually figured out a pretty decent number thing for their show, he was gonna start with a song he loved and maybe he knew someone else liked the song too, then the others would come out and do their thing, he was happy they could borrow instruments because he wanted to play the guitar with his song. His team decided to keep things simple, people liked simple right? And Berry would probably win anyway, she was crazy talented.
"Hey" he whispered when he walked up behind her, Berry turned around and smiled at him, she had been busy since finding out this weeks challenge yesterday but he had begged her for some time alone today and her she was,
"Hi Noah, so what are we doing?"
"Figured we could just walk around, talk and shit?"
"And shit?" she said smiling at him,
"Not like that, just talk" he had actually tried being nice to her for a couple of days, tried and put his bruised ego aside and grow the fuck up you know, so what if she had turned down kissing him twice? "So how are your team doing?" he asked curious,
"Are you spying Puck?" she teased and he snorted,
"You could win that thing alone Berry" he said, "wanna sit down?" he said and nodded to the low brick wall they had stopped next to,
"Sure, that would be nice" she smiled at him, "It is such a lovely night" she said and looked up to the sky, he nodded.
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"What about your team Noah?" she asked after sitting just enjoying the silent night for a few minutes,
"Who's the spy now Berry?" he laughed, "we're good I guess"
"So you are getting along with everyone?" she asked him, and he nodded
" I don't hate them"he answered with a smirk,
"I guess that is a good thing" Rachel said and gave him a smile, "Jake is a good boy, he actually reminds me of you in some ways" she added,
"Yeah?"
"So he knew you were his brother?" Rachel asked,
"I guess, he didn't actually look really surprised did he?" He laughed, "but I kinda promised myself to push til whole secret brother shit until the end of the show, when I'm not being filmed"
"I see, I guess that is smart"
They had sat there for a while, just talking and he fucking liked it and he would really like to kiss her, should he just do it? If he asked she would say no, so maybe a surprise kiss? No or never is going in. Leaning against her he was actually shocked when she leaned against him and their lips meet, oh fuck is it actually happening? She tasted good, fuck where did she go?
"I am sorry Noah, I do not think this is a good idea" she said when he opened his eyes,
"Why the fuck not?"
"Noah..."
"Fucking tell me? I'm not good enough for you?"
"Stop it Noah, I do not want to ruin anything"
"We making out isn't the end of the world Berry, fuck"
"I know that, but we are on different teams and everyone will see this on television.."
"Who the fuck care?" he looked at Berry who had tears in her eyes, fuck, "look.." he started,
"I will talk to you later Noah" she said before running up towards the house, fuck,
"Rachel..." he yelled after her but she just kept on running.
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BLAINE:
"Rachel are you okay?" he asked when he met a red-eyed Rachel in the hall,
"Yes, just tired" she said to him and smiled,
"Oh, okay need my fellow star to be at her best for practice tomorrow" he said with a laugh,
"Of course, I will go to bed now, good night" she said and started walking up the stairs, that was weird he thought and went outside to get some fresh air,
"Blaine, did you see where Rachel went?" Puck said walking up to the front door,
"What did you do?" he asked, Rachel was upset and Puck was after her, it had to be something,
"Nothing, really we just had a small fight and I want to say that I'm sorry" Puck said,
"She went to bed" he said, he knew Santana was upstairs in their suite so if Rachel didn't wanna talk with Puck she would chase him away.
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Walking back in to the hall after getting some fresh air he saw Sam and Kurt standing at the bottom of the stairs discussion something, Blaine thought back to his first days when he had found the blond really cute, he had always kinda known he was straight but he was pleasing to the eye, but now he actually liked Kurt, and he was actually gay so that's a start. Curious to what they were talking about he walked up to them to investigate,
"And then he just slammed his bedroom door" Sam was saying when came up to them,
"What's going on?" he asked looking from Sam to Kurt, who had really cute eyes, okay focus Blaine,
"We do not really know, it seems like something happened between Puck and Rachel, because he just ran up the stars and started slamming on the door to her room, I know this because at that moment Sam and I was in the stairs talking about our show. After a lot of slamming on the door, and screaming for Rachel, Santana came out and started yelling at Puck, Sam then walked back up to his room to try to talk to Puck but he just told him to leave" Kurt said, "So much drama"
"Oh yeah, Puck mentioned something about a fight when I met him outside" he said to the two boys and wondered what they were fighting about, he had to discuss this with Rachel in the morning when they were meeting for practice.
"He didn't tell you anything? Maybe I should try to talk with Rachel" Sam said,
"She have Santana, we should probably give them space, it is not like they were best friends before this and they will work things out" Kurt answered,
"But they had started talking and could actually be in the same room now without insulting each other, there is still some tension but like this I totally want to take you with me back to my cave – tension, at least from Puck" Sam said, Blaine had to laugh,
"Really, I totally want to take you with me back to my cave tension?"
"Yeah" Sam said,
"You have noticed how he looks at her Blaine? He is always undressing her with his eyes" Kurt told him and smiled,
"But where do the cave fit in?" he asked and then it hit him, "sorry my brain is not working" he said and laughed, soon both the others were laughing with him.
"I will kill them, fucking kill both" Santana said walking down the stairs, so much for her being there for Rachel.
"I think I'll just go up there" Sam said and he nodded, maybe it was a good idea after all.
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SAM:
"and then he kissed me and it was nice but I said it wasn't a good idea" Rachel were crying in her bed, it had taken him over thirty minutes to actually get something out of here,
"It's okay Rach, he understands" he tried,
"No, we started fighting, and I hurt him" Rachel said letting out some fresh tears,
"He is in the next room you know, just behind that wall" he said sitting on Rachel's bed, "you could go talk to him"
"I can't do that" Rachel looked at her, her mascara had been smeared around her eyes from all the tears, she looked so sad and he felt sorry for her, in this house she was his best friend and he really did not like to see her sad at all,
"You guys are gonna be friends again, but I don't really see why you kissing is wrong if that's what you want" he said, Rachel put her head on his shoulder and mumbled something he didn't get, "What's that?" he asked,
"Were on different teams, what if he is just kissing me to get information about my team" she said not looking up,
"Did you tell him that?" he asked, she didn't answer, "then maybe you should talk to him? I'm not on your team but I'm still your friend" he said, Rachel turned her head and looked at him,
"But I trust you" she said,
"so the problem is not that he is on an other team, but because you don't trust him" he asked,
"But I do trust him, in some weird kind of way, I'm just afraid" Rachel said and looked down again, "you can't tell anyone"
"It'll be our secret Rach, but talk to him. I kinda have to share a suite with him and if he's in a bad mode it kinda sucks" he said, Rachel laughed and he gave her a hug. They would fix this, just a bump in the road, and he Sam Evans would help them, if they wanted him to.
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RACHEL:
It had been three days since Noah had kissed her, and he was ignoring her, she had tried talking to him but he just did not want to listen, not at all and it was really not a fun feeling. At least before this even when they were not friends he would talk to her, insult her or say something stupid but now he would not even look at her. Sam did not understand, she got him to try to get him to talk to her but he was ignoring Sam too. She would give it another try after tonight's performance, she had to concentrate for now, she had to satisfy the public and help her team to victory, just forget all about Noah Puckerman, for at least an hour.
Standing next to Blaine they were watching as Puck teams took the stage, it was rather small but it would do. Noah took the stage and had a guitar with him, she wondered for a moment what he would sing, but when he started singing she knew that song, he was singing Sweet Caroline , she remembered him singing them when they had a talent show in temple when they were around ten, his singing had improved and his guitar skills was really good, back then he had just started learning and it was not that good, why would he choose that song? She could only stare at him while he was up there doing his thing, when he finished she clapped along with the others, next up from Noah's team were Tina and Artie who told some jokes, not really what she would have thought but it was not her team after all, not after long the team were on stage singing a really happy song, and they were really good actually but she still believed her team would beat them.
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She was soon called on stage to sing with Blaine, they had tried to do the song from Grease but in the end they ended up singing Tonight from West Side Story, Jake and Mike had a small dance number in between their two songs, and they ended up with Marley and Blaine singing Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) with her, Mike and Jake dancing and acting in the background, they did really good if she could say so herself.
The last team also did really well, Sam did some impressions (maybe not the best ones) and they had a big song number in the end. All of the teams did really good and she actually believed that they all could win, even if her team was best of course.
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Back in the house she knew she had to talk to Noah, the thing was to get him to be in the same room as her, but maybe it was a good thing that her best friend in this house shared a room with the person she wanted to talk to,
"Sam, do you know if Noah are in his room?" she asked Sam when they were alone,
"I think he's playing with Mike"
"I need to talk to him, could you try to get him to his room?" she asked,
"Maybe, I could say he needs to clean up after himself or something, not sure if he would listen"
"Please try, but let me in so I can wait for him there, and when you get him inside keep him in"
"So push him in to the room and stay guard?" Sam laughed,
"Yes"
Sam had let her into their room and she was sitting on Noah's bed, it was actually not that messy there, she had waited for about ten minutes when she heard the door open,
"Sam what the fuck are you doing?" she could hear Noah hammering on the door and she got up from the bed and went out to find him,
"Noah?" he jumped when he heard her voice,
"Fuck? What are you and Sam up to, trying to kill me?" he said still trying to get the door to open,
"Please Noah, we need to talk"
"No we don't" he said, but let go of the door handle,
"You know we do"
"Whatever, I get it alright" he said and turned around, he looked hurt really,
"You get what?"
"You don't want me, I'm a fucking loser and you don't want me, I get it now. But I can't be your friend" he said and looked down,
"Don't call yourself that Noah, you are not a loser. And I really like you"
"Then why don't you wanna kiss me and stuff?" he looked in her eyes,
"I do, but you have to understand that for the last five years you have ignored me, called me names and one time you threw a slushie in my face"
"I'm sorry about all of that Rachel, come on, the slushie back then? It was because Matt was gonna ask you out and I figured he didn't wanna do that if I slushied you"
"You are weird" she told him, "Who's Matt?"
"Just a guy, he moved away"
"Oh" she looked down but noticed Noah coming closer and looked back up, he took her hand,
"I'm not using you or some shit like that, I really like you, I have always liked you"
"I like you too Noah" she smiled and could feel herself blushing, "you can kiss me now"
"Fuck yeah" he said before catching her lips and giving her the best kiss of her life, when they had to take a break they just looked in each others eyes,
"could we just keep this a secret?" she asked,
"Why?"
"Just until we find out what this is? I don't want the others to treat us different"
"Sure, but I already know what this is, and I kinda think Sam knows, I could hear him say finally outside the door" she laughed,
"Sam you can go now, and don't say a word", Noah kissed her again, and again and again.
"Noah we are on television" she whispered,
"Fuck, ma is watching this shit, probably getting a heart attack planning a wedding and fuck"
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PUCK:
He couldn't stop thinking about kissing Rachel, touching Rachel, kissing her was like the best fucking thing ever. Nobody knew, or Sam knew but he hadn't said anything so he guess they could trust him or whatever. Sure he tended to steal a glance, or a touch or a kiss (when no one was around), but nobody had caught on yet, they just told everyone that they were friends again, he didn't know how long that would work, but he didn't mind if they found out. Looking over at Rachel while they waited on Julie to give them this weeks results he couldn't help just to smile a little, he knew they had some work to do, and maybe it was a good thing they were on this show, back home they were both kinda in different circles now and stuff, but he would do everything he could to make this work.
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"Good evening" Julie told them, and he could swear she glanced from him to Rachel, she probably watched them or some shit, hopefully she could keep a secret.
"So I have the winners of your little show, and I have to say it was really close. Tonight our first person will leave us and head back home, but as you knew not everyone would stay here for the eight weeks. But first the results of this weeks competition" Julie opened the envelope and smiled, he really hoped he would stay there for another week. "with 28 % of the votes we have team 3 (Sam, Brittany,Kitty,Kurt) in third place, in second place with 35 % of the votes we have team 1 (Puck, Santana, Artie, Tina) and that makes the winner team 2 (Rachel, Mike, Blaine, Jake, Marley) with 38 % of the votes" he watched as Rachel and Blaine jumped up and down celebration their win, he really wanted to find out who was sent the fuck out of the house, please let him stay.
"And now to the more sad part of our show, could Sam, Brittany and Kitty come up to me please" Julie said, "You three have the lowest score after three competitions, and one of you will be going home tonight." Julie opened and envelope, "After adding the votes the viewers have given online the person with the lowest score is" the room was fucking silent, to be honest he wished they all could stay, that would have been awesome really, but it was a game so, "Kitty, I am sorry you are being sent home tonight, please say goodbye to the others and pack your bags" Julie said, Kitty had her mouth open like she couldn't understand that she was being kicked out, he really didn't mind that she was the one to go, if it had to be one he was fucking happy it was her.
AN:
Don't own any of this songs of course, or others mentioned in this chapter.
Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
You are the one that I want (Grease)
Tonight (West Side Story)
Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) (Katy Perry)