AN: Here is chapter 5 with a little bit of Puck for you.

After staying the night with Rachel, Santana sought out Puck. She found him fairly easily too, he was sitting in the bleacher watching the Cheerios.

"Hey, you're joining glee. No excuses. you can come up with whatever story you want to about it but you're doing it." Santana glared at him. "Rachel deserves better friends than us."

Puck frowned "Are there even any hot chicks in glee?"

"Quinn joined yesterday." Santanta watched Puck's eyebrows raise in interest. "She's off limits. You can look but no touching. Not if you want to make it up to Rachel."

"What?"

"Rachel has a crush on Quinn." Before he could cut her off Santana held up a hand to stop him. "She knows it's stupid, she knows it's probably not going to happen, but that doesn't change the fact that seeing you with Quinn would be seen as the ulitmate betrayal and if you ever want that girl to be your friend again you won't do that to her."

"Anything else?" Puck asked.

"Yeah, if you Slushie her ever again I'm gonna go all Lima Heights on you so ya best not."

Puck shrugged. " Fine, Whatever. Finn joined and it hasn't made him a loser."

Santana nodded and turned to walk away having accomplished what she'd meant to.

Rachel had watched the entire exchange from a safe distance. honestly she'd been surprised at how easily Puck had given in although she wasn't totally convinced that he'd actually show up.

She headed to class wondering if Puck even cared about her friendship anymore. I suppose I'll find out after school today. If he joins then he cares if not then I'll just have to learn to live without his friendship.

Rachel was eager for the day to end. The question of whether Puck cared or not had been driving her insane all day, she hadn't been able to focus on anything.

She sat in her seat in the front row watching the door as each person came in. Santana came in with Brittany and Quinn. Rachel tried not to let her eyes linger to long in their direction. Quinn already disliked her enough and she couldn't even imagine the hell she'd be put through if Quinn found out about her crush.

A few minutes after the club was supposed to start Finn walked in with Puck following behind. The self proclaimed bad boy had his hands shoved in his pockets. Although he wasn't exactly given a warm welcome he wasn't turned away most likely due to seeing how ineffective that had been the last time. Rachel tried not to smile to big.

Finally Mr. Schue walked in last. "So we're still short a few members for sectionals but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to focus on things we can do to prepare."

Rachel nodded and raised her hand but spoke before being called on. "I couldn't agree more Mr. Schue and I personally believe that perhaps we should start each meeting out with some standard vocal warm ups. I have a list of..."

"Oh for the love do you ever stop talking?" Quinn interjected irritably from the back row. "We get it you're so much better than everyone else."

I am better, Rachel thought, although all she seemed to be capable of doing was staring. snapping out of it she finally found her voice again. "I never said that although it IS true but that's just because you all lack my years of vocal training. I'm sure with lots of practice and hard work everyone in this club could be just as talented. Even you Quinn."

"Whatever. can we just get to the lesson, Mr. Schue?"

The teacher who seemed to be lost in his own head finally seemed to realize what was going on. "Right. So this week I want everyone to focus on the classics. They're classics for a reason and I want each of you to choose one to perform this week. For today though I have this for us." Mr. Schue started passing out sheet music. "Rachel do you think you could do the solo?"

"Of course." Rachel nodded. I've got this. Rachel listened carefully for the musical cues and came in perfectly as normal. She was going through the songs melody with ease at first but she lost focus when she glanced across the room at Quinn and saw the blonde with a genuine smile on her face. So pretty. Maybe if I got closer to her I could hear her sing. Although she really wanted to Rachel managed to resist the urge to move closer to the other girl but doing so broke her concentration so she jumbled the lyrics a bit but she was quick to fix it. Get it together. Concentrate.

The song ended and everyone seemed to have enjoyed themselves even the ever grumpy looking Noah Puckerman and Quinn Fabray.

Rachel was walking home after glee as usual when she heard Puck call her name.

"Hey, wait up."

"Noah." she gave him a tight smile. "It was good to see you in glee."

"Yeah well." he shrugged. "Listen I'm sorry about the slushies. and the ignoring you crap. I guess I just got sucked into being the dumb jock everyone thinks I am."

"You're starting to earn my forgiveness. Both you and Santana. It's not easy though. Honestly aside from joining glee I'm not sure what else either of you can do at this point I'm just going to need time and hopefully things will go back to the way they were before."

"Hopefully. My mom was asking about you. She said I hadn't invited you over in awhile and that i should. I think she's sort of still hoping I'd date you, ya know 'a nice Jewish girl'" he chuckled.

"That'd be like dating a brother." Rachel said making a face.

"I know. I keep trying to tell her that." Puck laughed. "Anyway I better get going. I just... I wanted to say I'm sorry and I've done that now so I'll see you later."

"Bye." well I suppose today didn't turn out so badly. Rachel smiled the rest of the way home.

So I couldn't pick a song and I'm having trouble with a title and I'm not where I want to be with this story but I had to put my dog down last weekend so writing hasn't been on my mind because I've been trying to focus on work and on keeping my partner as happy as possible so if updates are a little slower I apologize. I have a few chapters sketched out but nothing more solidly written. I plan on giving Rachel and Quinn a little alone time in the next chapter so hopefully they can start sorting their shit out and maybe talk to each other like normal people... or not who knows? (me. I know)

Anyway thanks for reading as always.