Okay guys here it is the plan, and I have good news I have finally come up with a plot for this story! The ending (which is not going to be for at least a few chapters) is so good hopefully you will all freak out in happiness
Sorry this took so long everybody, I actually wrote it all up on Thursday but when I got home I crashed and just didn't want to type it all up so sorry for being lazy! But this chapter is really long hope you enjoy!
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Last chapter
Puck looked at the guys in the room and grinned, "Okay here's the plan….
Puck tapped his fingers on the edge of the steering wheel on his truck. He was still a little surprised how the whole day went and how his plan worked. He laughed thinking about it now.
The plan was set in motion almost immediately, they even had a step before one..
Step 0: Fall asleep in Puck's living room while formulating the plan and wake up next morning to Tina, Rachel and Puck's mom handing boys various cellphones with various angry parents.
"Noah Puckerman, what did you do? " Noah heard his mom yell at him. He groaned and tried to stuff his face back in his pillow and roll over. But he found himself hitting the floor instead of his bed. He groaned and looked up to see his mother standing over him with her hands on her hips and Rachel nervously biting her lip.
'Wha' Puck thought confused as he looked up at them.
"No mom I swear we just lost track of time and fell asleep…. Yes I'm sober…. No I can't take a test to prove that." Puck was now even more confused as he heard Sam's voice. Puck tilted his head back to see Sam, Mike (with Tina rubbing his back trying to wake him up) and Matt leaning sleepily against the furniture. While Artie was in his wheelchair, all of them had their cellphones pressed against their ears, talking to angry worried parents.
"Tina was in a separate room the whole night I swear, people will vouch for me" Mike said into his cellphone.
'Crap' Puck thought 'We fell asleep'
"Noah, I am talking to you, I come home very late thinking my house is empty and dark and then I wake up this morning to find boys sprawled all over looking drunk I might add and two girls in our guest room?" His mother started to lecture him. When she stopped he just stared at her, how was he suppose to answer that?
He moaned, still tired, Rachel leaned down and started helping him up "Rebecca (when did Rachel start calling his mom Rebecca?) It's my fault I ran into…. A predicament last night and asked Noah for help, then became too upset to leave so everyone decided to stay and cheer me up and we fell asleep, I called my dads and told them so you could check with them." Puck looked at his mom to see if Rachel's words were working. She observed all of them suspiciously then finally she sighed.
"Let me talk to your parents and I'll clear it all up, for now get ready and go to school." Rebecca Puckerman said and started collecting various cellphones from everyone. Except Matt who took his call in the kitchen. Rachel looked at Puck confused, Puck shrugged faking cluelessness when really he new Matt was convincing his parents to let him visit McKinley and maybe give it a second chance. No clue how that was going to go, one friend problem at a time.
"Alright you heard the boss lady." Puck said refuring to his mother "Time for school," which brought them to
Step 1: Make Rachel so hot and badass no one will dare screw with her…
That part of the plan included making her look like she was unaffected by last night which meant calling…
The doorbell rang and Sam being the closest to it went to answer it.
"Alright Ken, where is she? I need to see how bad she is before I decide how I'm going to maim Finn." A soprano voice said from the doorway
"Kurt?" Rachel said leaving the living room to go into the hallway. The others hear a gasp.
"Diva!" Kurt said and went to hug Rachel, "What happened? Are you okay? Did the cold affect your vocal chords?" Kurt questioned in rapid-fire succession.
"Calm down Beyoncé." Puck said as he took Rachel out of Kurt's grip and leaned his head against her shoulders. "She's fine in our capable hands."
Kurt put his hands on his hips, "Yes your fashion impaired hands."
"What's wrong with my clothes?"
"Do you own anything besides flannel shirts and brightly colored t-shirts?"
Rachel laughed, "It is a good question." Artie said as his wheelchair was parked in the doorway between the hall and kitchen.
"Mutiny!" Puck shouted running up and wheeling Artie into the kitchen "There is mutiny afoot!" He continued yelling in the kitchen.
Rachel laughed again and Kurt rolled his eyes then turned his attention towards Rachel. "All right diva, now lets get you so fabulous straight girls will want to get in your pants."
Rachel glared at Kurt and opened her mouth but Kurt put his hand over it, "Diva lecture later, now you let me work my magic, Tina come!" Kurt shouted as he pushed Rachel up the stairs. Tina was close behind, after a half hour and three breakfasts brought up to the guest room. Step one was complete, Rachel came down looking amazing.
"I mixed her style with good style." (Tina wacked Kurt on the back of the head for that comment) But no one complained as Rachel stepped into the kitchen, her hair had been washed and for once not straightened showing off its natural wave. Good neutral makeup was on her face making her eyes pop and her lips full, she wore an ivory lace tank top under a dark blue pin strip vest and here was the biggest shock, Rachel Berry was wearing dark washed skinny jeans. With a pair on black Mary Jane heels to complete the outfit.
It was a success as Rachel watched Matt do a spit take, Mike trip over nothing, Artie let out a wolf whistle, Sam let out a soft "damn" and Puck just stood there staring with his mouth hanging open. Kurt walked over to him and shut his mouth.
"You'll catch flies." He said, Puck really didn't care at the moment. Rachel was ready which brought them to….
Step 2: Which Puck had happily named "you can look but don't touch."
Since this whole plan was still behind Rachel's back (and technically Artie and Sam were only half on board) they couldn't just walk up and punch Finn. So they decided to torture him in another way. By flaunting Rachel's single life hotness, they all divided themselves between their cars leaving Rachel to ride with Tina and Matt (who if anyone asked they had randomly ran into) who would not cause much suspicion. When they all reached the parking lot Tina parked and quickly checked over Rachel.
"Okay remember Rachel, head high and don't slump, he did something wrong and unlike you he's not sorry." Rachel nodded taking in a deep breath. "You can do it Rach." Matt said squeezing her shoulder. She squeezed his hand back then opened the car door and to Kurt's squealing delight strutted straight through the front doors.
"Wow" Sam commented, "That much sass could rival Mercedes." Puck just grinned.
Rachel kept walking through the halls with her head up even when people started whispering,
'head up don't back down' Rachel said to herself, and she was doing great. Until she saw her locker and who was by it.
Finn stood there leaning against it, her steps stuttered but she tried to regain them. Her heart felt like it was about to be squeezed outside of her chest but she bit back the sadness and kept walking.
" Hello Finn." She said as she arrived at her locker. She immediately started putting in her combo trying to get in and out as fast as possible. Not that Finn noticed, he was to busy staring opened mouthed at her, looking up and down. Eventually he literally shook himself out of it.
"Listen Rachel," Finn said after he just stood there for a few minutes, "About last night." Rachel inhaled sharply 'was he about to apologize? Oh God if he did she knew her walls would crumble' "About me accidentally leaving you there, well I figure since it was an accident it makes us almost even."
Rachel blinked 'what?' just then all the sad love for him was replaced by anger. She couldn't even remember at the moment what she saw in him( she would probably remember in about 5 minutes but right now only anger) Rachel slammed her locker closed making Finn jump. Rachel tried to take a breath, she did not want her emotions to fly off the handle again so through her teeth she said, "Well I'm sorry you feel that way but don't worry I was fine."
And with that she started to strut away from her locker and just to make him stare more she flipped her hair over her shoulder dramatically. Looking back to see him open mouthed once again. She turned the corner and was met by strong arms pulling her to a well-built chest. "That was totally badass Berry!"
Rachel smiled up at Puck's excitement and at that moment she broke her own secret friendship rule and hugged him back. It just felt right.
Next was Step 3: Which happened to be Puck's favorite: "Slowly creep back into her life and hope to God she doesn't notice."
That one was a little tricky without Rachel noticing; first they sent Matt in because he wasn't part of the school anymore. So the football team couldn't do anything, right after the confrontation with Finn Matt started walking Rachel to her classes no one could mess with him because technically he didn't go here anymore (but surprisingly after hugging Puck in the hallway that morning Rachel seemed to drop her own rule ) "I'm working on that." Matt said when Rachel asked.
"I actually got my parents talking, it will take a while but I think eventually I could come back." Rachel couldn't help but squeal and hug him after that. Causing a clearly jealous Puck to push them apart.
"Hey whoa no PDF in the hallway." He said as he physically pulled them apart.
Matt rolled his eyes, "PDF?" He asked.
"Yeah Public Displays of Friendship."
Matt burst out laughing from that and Puck punched him. Rachel rolled her eyes at their childish antics. She then grabbed Noah's arm
"We have math class and today I am making you go." She says while pulling him down the hallway, for once she was totally oblivious to everyone's stares. Puck turned.
"Become scarce Rutherford, remember you're a surprise for Glee." Matt nodded and ducked down the hallway. This continued all day Rachel sat next to Tina in her English class, Mike in her Spanish class and dragged Noah to Math. They all didn't know what to do during History.
When Rachel entered the classroom, her heart nearly jumped in her throat. She forgot she had this class with Finn. All day she had someone in the hallway to run interference with Finn and other people (That was Step 4: Act as a human shield keeping the Rachel out of Finchel) but now there was no one. Rachel took a deep breath, steeling herself but then she heard a familiar voice.
"Yo, home girl you wanna scoot so I can get in?" Rachel turns to see she was blocking the door for Artie. "Oh, sorry Artie." Rachel said and moved over, she wasn't sure what Artie thought of the whole Finchel break up. He was there last night but she didn't know for sure. Artie started to go to his seat when he saw what made Rachel freeze. Finn was in this class too, Artie had been watching all day and he saw Finn hanging around and actually making the situation worse for both him and Rachel. So Artie made a snap decision and turned to Rachel.
"Hey Rach, come keep me company, history puts me to sleep." Rachel looked at Artie and smiled as she sat and helped him get his books out, fully ignoring Finn.
The rest of the day went smoothly and that led to Glee, which led to
Step 5: Get on the good side of glee
Basically they all agreed that a really good way to get in good with the rest of the glee kids without taking sides would be for them to think Rachel was bringing Matt back. That is when the plan ran into a little trouble, they walked into glee club minus Matt and the glee kids there took one look at Rachel's new look and had a whole mess of reactions.
"Props, Rachel, definite props." Mercedes said smiling, Rachel smiled back. She and Mercedes had a very weird friendship but it was still there.
Brittany immediately stood up and started running her fingers through Rachel's hair. "It's so pretty Rachel, like a mermaid."
Rachel laughed and gently took Brittany's hands out of her hair and led her back to her seat next to Santana.
"Damn Berry, you're looking fine." Santana said giving Rachel the up and down. Rachel automatically went neutral; she didn't want to give Santana – the source of this whole issue – any reaction. She chose to just be silent and go to her seat next to Puck and behind Tina and Mike.
"Excuse me?!" Santana said. Rachel just tried to face front and ignored her, she didn't realize Santana was moving until she was right smack in front of her face.
"Hey bitch! Don't ignore me!"
Rachel blinked but before she had time to react, Puck had pushed Santana away from her (gently he didn't want to hurt a girl) and Tina was standing next to Rachel. That's when she realized they were acting as a human shield. That was not going to help Rachel's already growing issues.
Rachel took a deep breath and shirked off Tina's hand. Then stepped in front of Puck, he tried to get her to back up but she simply pushed him back farther and faced Santana. "Santana, stop it you already caused enough confusion in my life. Finn and I are broken up so whatever you were trying to do you did it so please leave me alone."
Then Rachel went back and sat down, but Santana still stood there, "Wait you thought I was trying to break you two up?"
Rachel looked at her suspiciously " Why else would you sleep with him?"
Puck snorted at that comment. Santana looked at Rachel.
"It was Madonna week."
"So?"
"Sylvester wanted us to act more like Madonna and what does Madonna do?"
"Well at some point I remember her dating younger men-"
Rachel then stopped and stared at Santana. There was a beat of silence where Sam and Quinn entered the classroom and then Rachel exploded.
She stood up knocking her chair over and screeched. "THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON!"
Santana stared at her surprised, Rachel had stormed out, Rachel had lectured but not once had she ever lost control and right now she was flying off the handle.
"THE WHOLE REASON ALL THIS CRAP IS HAPPEINING (everyone's mouths dropped when Rachel started to curse) IS BECAUSE YOU WERE TRYING TO BE MORE LIKE MADONNA!"
Santana thought about it for a second then snickered, "Yeah now that I think about it, it is kind of ridiculous." She started chuckling to herself and to everyone's shock Rachel joined in.
"Um… Rach are you okay?" Mike asked as he stared at the giggling girl.
"All this happened because Santana wanted to get higher on the cheerleading pyramid." Rachel said in between giggles, "When did my life become an after school special?" she said full on laughing now and Santana joined in. A few of the guys exchanged looks and started snickering at the ridiculousness of it all.
When everyone calmed down Rachel took her seat again and Santana stood standing. " You know Berry, without gigantor by your side I'm actually able to talk to you without wanting to rip my ears off."
Rachel rolled her eyes at the girl's exaggeration, "Thank you Santana."
"And I didn't mean to break you and Finnoscence up guess that makes me kind of a bitch."
No one commented.
"You actually have some guts Berry, I mean most people wouldn't even have been able to tell me to stop."
"Thank you? I guess…" Rachel said getting confused of where Santana was going with this.
"I think this could be the beginning of a truce Berry."
Rachel looked at her to see if she was being serious "I don't think so Santana."
"That's not a no." Santana said then went back to her seat next to Brittany.
Rachel paused and then turned to Noah "What just happened?"
"I think Santana just admitted she was wrong and apologized."
"Weirdest day ever." Tina muttered
"Okay can someone explain to me what just happened?!" Quinn asked.
Sam sighed, "Come on it's a long story," he then looked at Mercedes "Do you want to know?"
Mercedes shrugged "Normal Glee drama and it's pretty entertaining so I'll try to put the pieces together myself." Sam shrugged and guides Quinn over to a chair starting to explain what he had been told last night. After that the bell rang, Kurt, Artie and Finn trickled into the room, taking their spots. Finn deciding for now to stay far away from Rachel.
Puck sighed, okay back to the plan…
Mr. Shuster clapped his hands together "Okay guys now I'm going to have to make a few changes in our regionals set list because some concerns have come up. So if anyone wants to freestyle the floor is yours."
Rachel took a breath and raised her hand "Mr. Sheu, I have something to sing but I was wondering if I could make an announcement first?"
"Does it have to do with Glee?"
Rachel nodded and he gestured for her to go ahead, Rachel walked to the front of the room, "Now as you all know at the beginning of this year we lost one of our members when he transferred last year. Well I am happy to announce that he is now in the process of trying to become a part of McKinley again. Ladies and gentleman Matt Rutherford."
Everyone cheered and called Matt's name when he entered the room (Puck had texted him to wait outside when Rachel had raised her hand) Matt went up to Rachel and gave her a big hug before going to greet the others. Who returned his hugs happily, some more than others as Puck and Mike observed the way Matt and Mercedes hugged a little longer and a little tighter then anyone else.
The boys exchanged a glance to check up on that later. Once everything settled down they focused back in on Rachel. "Now I would like to sing a song, it's probably familiar to you all but this time it has deeper meaning." Rachel said. Then for the first time all day she stared directly at Finn. "It's saying when I thought I was doing good and the right thing when I was really doing it for the wrong reasons. It's also an apology and," Rachel almost lost it when she said this "A way to move on."
She took a breath and nodded at Brad to start the music, the opening lines of "No Good Deeds" from Wicked started and Rachel sung the shit out of that song. Pulling all her emotion of realization of how she acted into the song and when she belted out that last note everyone stood up and cheered. Except for Quinn who just kind of stared at her and Finn who looked confused and a little ticked off. Rachel had just basically apologized and said it was over for real.
Puck and Matt hi-fived as
Step 6:Sing a song that kicked Finn's ass and left no room for argument
Their plan had worked, Finchel was over and Rachel was on the road out of desperation. The bell rang after that and Finn quickly left the classroom and Mr. Sheu pulled Matt away to see what was really going on about Matt and McKinley.
Rachel was gathering her stuff when she felt someone tap her on the shoulder. Rachel turned to see Quinn standing there, Sam waiting off to the side. "Don't take this as a friendship thing because it's not I just wanted to say you weren't the only one screwed over by Finn."
Rachel smiled and nodded her head, "Thanks Quinn." Quinn nodded and then walked out with Sam.
Rachel, Puck, Tina and Mike waited outside the choir room for Matt to come out,
"You know what we should do tonight?" Mike said, "Go bowling."
Tina gave him a strange look while Rachel and Puck laughed.
"We use to go all the time when we were kids," Rachel explained "We thought it was the only thing to do in this town."
"That was before beer." Puck said, Rachel rolled her eyes.
"Sounds like fun." Tina said
"What sounds like fun?" Matt said coming out of the choir room.
"Bowling." Rachel said
Matt smiled and laughed.
"I'm game."
"But were uneven. "Mike said looking back and forth between his girlfriend and Matt,(The teams were always Puck and Rachel, Matt and Mike)
Matt just snickered, "Chill dude team up with your girlfriend I'll ask Mercedes she one time mentioned how her parents once forced her family to become a bowling team."
Puck and Mike exchanged a look again. "Mercedes…" Puck asked teasing "What's going on over there Matt?" Matt rolled his eyes "Shut up Puckerman, we became friends and stayed in contact that's it.
This time even Tina rolled her eyes, "Just go invite her lover boy." Puck said Matt whacked him and then ran off to find Mercedes.
Rachel turned to Puck, "Tina gave me a ride this morning could you drive me home so I could grab some money?" Puck nodded and they said goodbye to Mike and Tina.
And now Puck sat in his truck in Rachel's driveway waiting for her to get changed so they could go bowling. He chuckled, his life had done a complete 180, and he found himself enjoying every minute of it. The passenger door opened to reveal Rachel, thankfully still wearing her jeans and not reverting back to skirts.
"Are you ready to kick some butt?"
Puck rolled his eyes, "Ass, Rach it's kick some ass."
"I refuse to use such vulgar language."
Puck laughed, some things never change.
TO BE CONTINUED…..