Callie hears the gossip about Puck in her first class. Something about a ball bat meeting his face. He got into a fight after school. He got caught with a MILF. He got drunk and into a fight at a bar. She heard everything but the truth.
She made it through her classes that morning without too much morning sickness. She met a couple of Tina's friends, Mercedes and Brittany. Brittany was different, but in a good way. No one mentioned Puck to her.
Lunch was different for her today. She was invited to sit with the girls of Glee. It was strange that the outcasts would even want to talk to her, let alone ask her to sit with them. But Tina was with them.
She noticed that the guys were sitting at one table and the girls were sitting at another table. She joined Tina, Mercedes, Brittany and Rachel.
"Are you guys sure you want me to sit with you?" She asks as Tina motions for her to sit between her and Mercedes.
"Yes we do. We all know what it is like to be ostracized by the student body." Rachel is the first to speak.
"Well what do you know? Berry didn't bring up her two gay dads for a change." Mercedes quips with a smile.
"Do you want to go with me and Artie to feed the ducks after school? I really like ducks." Brittany is totally serious.
"I would but, I have a doctor's appointment after lunch. Can I take a rain check?" Callie asks in a timid voice.
"Oh are you sick?"
"Um, no. I have my first doctor's appointment about the baby and my dad's going with me." Callie absently places her hand on her bump. "Hopefully I will get to see him today."
"Isn't it too small to see right now?" Tina asks in a quiet voice.
"It probably wont look like a baby, but he should have a head and look like a tadpole." Callie explains.
"You're having a frog?" Brittany's eyes are wide. "I like frogs, you can kiss one and it turns into a prince."
"Brittany honey, Callie isn't having a frog. The baby is just shaped like one right now. It will grow more and look like a baby." Santana gently tells Brittany as she sits down at the table. "And I wouldn't be surprised if it came out with a Mohawk too.'
Callie looks at the Cheerio and wonders if she is trying to be a smartass or just mean.
"San, be nice to Callie. I like her, she is going to feed the ducks with me and Artie after she gets a rain check. What is a rain check?" Brittany looks at Santana with wonderment.
"Chill B, old habits die hard. Callie, its hard to think about that and well; Puck and I have history. But I am trying everyone." She looks around the table and sees Mercedes is pissed at her. "Mercedes I am trying, so stop with the death glare. A rain check is where she will go with you next time B, she cant today, so invite her the next time okay?"
"Okay." She links her pinky with Santana's.
"So what do you want Callie?" Rachel raises her brows, "A boy or a girl?"
"I want a do over. But since I cant have one, I really don't care as long as it is healthy." Her face breaks into a soft smile. "My dad wants a little buddy to take fishing and teach about cars. ."
"So you are keeping the baby?" Mercedes cant help the shocked look on her face.
"Yeah, I can't give up something that is a part of me."
"I think that is wonderful. You know my two dads raised me without a mom figure and I turned out well. I think if you dad is supporting you then you will have an easier time. Easier may not be the correct word but at least you will have help."
Rachel is on a roll.
"You know we can all help too. We can take you shopping at the mall, have sleep overs, we can sing about it too."
"Berry, shut up for a minute. I knew you would bring your gay dads in somehow." Mercedes rolls her eyes at Rachel. "Callie while I normally don't agree with her, I do in this. We need a girls day out; shopping, spa treatments, and a movie."
"How about Saturday and we can pick up a movie while we are out? You know you want to Callie." She gives her puppy dog eyes and smiles.
"Uh, sure? I guess. My Dad is leaving Friday night to go back to his new job, so I will have the house to myself." Callie smiles slightly, she is still unsure of these new friends, except for Tina.
"Great! We can get together Friday afternoon and decide when and where we can meet." Tina smiles at her.
Everyone talks at once about which ones are their favorite stores and what kind of movies they like.
"Damn." Mercedes mutters, she sees Puck walk into the lunch room.
"What's wrong Mercedes?" Callie looks at the strange expression on her face and turns to see what she is looking at. Her breath catches in her throat at the sight of him.
Without thinking she gets up and walks towards him. She thought the gossip mongers were exaggerating but they weren't. He did look like someone took a ball bat to his face.
"Shit this is going to be bad, epically bad." Rachel surprises everyone using foul language.
Puck freezes as he sees her walking towards him. She still makes his heartbeat skip, but makes it break too. Everyone is staring at them and the lunch room is totally quiet.
Callie gently places her hand on his arm and pulls him back out into the hall. He doesn't resist, he simply allows her to do it.
They find an empty class room and step into it.
"Are you, I mean I know you're hurt, but are you okay?" Callie's voice is shaky.
"Yeah, no. No I'm not okay. I've been in a fucking nightmare for two days. Finding out it was you that night. I am going to be a father. My mom kicks me out and tells me I am no longer her son. And then some guy beats the hell out of me because of what I did that night. So NO I AM NOT FUCKING OKAY!" Puck yells at her.
"Did you send your dad and his friends after me last night?" He looks her straight in the eye, waiting for her to lie and say no.
"Puck I didn't send anyone after you. Why would I send someone after you?" Her voice is rising with fear and anger. "My dad doesn't know about that night! I never told him!"
"The whole scene in the choir room is on Israel's blog on the internet. We made the news baby. The whole town of Lima knows about that night, about us. Isn't that what you wanted? To hurt me publicly? Was sending your daddy the final touch?" Puck's face contorted with emotion and making exaggerated gestures with his arms, before pointing a finger in her face.
"Fuck you Puck. I didn't sent my daddy after you! I didn't know about the blog! My dad went out with a couple of his friends last night! He would have told me if he saw it or if someone told him about it!" She is yelling just as loudly as he is, slapping his hand away from her face.
"Tall guy, light red hair, built kinda like Finn. Drives a red Ford 250 Super Duty truck?" Puck sneers at her. "He had on a dark green pocket tee shirt? Sound familiar?"
Callie knows that Puck just described her dad's truck and what he was wearing last night before he left the house. That's why he was acting so weird last night. Her emotions are playing across her face.
"You know it was him Callie, just tell me the truth for once." His words laced with venom.
"I am telling you the truth asshole! My dad never said anything to me about it!" She goes to leave the room, but Puck grabs her arm making her stop.
"He told me who he was Callie and that he would finish what he started last night if I don't stay away from you." Puck talks so low that it seems he is whispering in her ear.
"You know they say that the truth shall set you free? Here's my truth. I hate you Callie more than I love you right now. I hate what I did to you. I hate what you did to me. I hate you for being pregnant with my kid. But most of all I hate the fact that I still love you. Sick huh?" His words dripping with animosity he roughly grips her arm hoping his words will hurt her enough to drive her away from him.
Callie holds her head up and pulls her arm from his grasp, never looking at him. She won't let him see her cry or the pain that is ripping her heart apart.
She walks out of the room, she sees her new friends waiting for her with her things. She keeps herself together in front of them, she doesn't want them to see how much she is hurting.
Callie collects her things from Mercedes and Tina. Rachel looks like she is about to implode, Santana has an unreadable expression, but Brittany surprises her.
Brittany reaches out and she hugs Callie. She whispers in her ear that everything is going to be okay.
Callie thanks them for being there for her, but she has to leave for the doctor. She tells Tina that she will text or call her later after going to the doctor. The girls walk her to double doors to the parking lot.
Brittany stays behind, no one notices that she slips thru the door and finds Puck is looking out the window.
Puck hears someone walk through the door. He turns to see Brittany walking towards him. He's never seen her look more pissed in his life. Just what I fucking need right now.
"Puck we need to talk." Brittany simply states as she walks to the window.
Puck opens his mouth to tell her where she can go, but she puts her hand up silencing him.
"Don't talk just listen. I have something to say to you and I don't want to be interrupted by you."
Puck is taken aback by her tone and the fact that she is coherent. She sounds almost like Santana. From a nightmare to the fucking Twilight Zone.
"You need to stop fighting with each other, stop trying to figure out who hurt who the worst and think about the baby, it's your baby Puck and Callie's." She pokes him in the chest.
"I like her and I know that you love her. You haven't been with San since you fell for her. So if I ever catch you yelling at her again I will kick your ass, you know I can do it."
Brittany walks away and out the door to her next class. She leaves a stunned and bewildered Puck standing alone in the empty classroom.