Wednesday (Continued)

Puck has just opened his locker when he hears Principal Figgins calling his name. He turns and see the old man with a very serious look on his face. Noah's spine tingles in fear as he knows this cannot be a good thing. He follows the principal into his office and is immediately told to sit down. Walking in moments after the door is shut are his mother and Will Schuester.

Puck can see the anger and disappointment on Will's face and on his mother's face. His mother can't even look at him. Will on the other hand looks like he is trying to shoot heat beams from his eyes so that Puck will just burst into flames and burn until all that remains is a smoking pile of ashes. Puck only wished his teacher had that power. Being a pile of ashes would mean no longer having to deal with any of this, but that would be taking the easy way out and walking away. That was his father's way of handling things and he refuses to go down that path. Whatever punishment Figgins hands him he will take it like a man.

"Mr. Puckerman, as noble as your confession was yesterday; I am sorry to say that the school board has decided to expel you." Figgins says leaning onto his desk.

Puck's jaw drops and he looks at his mother and teacher for help, but his mother looks away from him and Will just sits there staring blankly. The young man gets up and begins to walk out the door. He turns back to Figgins and says, "I'm sorry for the things that I did. I never meant for any of this to happen. I'll just go get my things and then I'll never bother anyone from this school again."

Will watches as his student walks out the door. Mrs. Puckerman gets up and follows her son out the door. The glee teacher turns to the principal, "As much as I hate to say this, but was expelling him really the right thing to do?"

Figgins sighs, "William, my hands are tied. The school board is worried that the new zero tolerance policy won't be effective if we do not punish Noah Puckerman for what he did to Sam Evans."

Will shakes his head. No matter how angry he may be with Puck right now, he knows how badly the boy wants to graduate. "There has to be a better way to handle this. Puck didn't write that word on Sam's locker, and he didn't make copies of the picture and post it on the walls."

"But, he did admit to being the one that sent out the photo to other students." Will knew Figgins was right about that, but the severity of the punishment didn't fit the crime. He just didn't know how to make it right.

…..

As Puck is clearing out his locker his mother walks up to him. "Noah, when you get home, I expect you and your things to be of my house by the time I get home from work."

"But, mom…" Puck tries to speak, his eyes pleading for his mother to change her mind.

She slaps him hard across the face. "You're worse than your pathetic excuse of a father. At least he wasn't a little faggot whore, like you." She turns and walks off, leaving her son broken and gasping for air.

He feels someone grab him and pull him into a nearby empty classroom. The person lets him go from their powerful grip and he sees the face of Coach Bieste staring back at him. "It's gonna be alright punkin'. I want you to come an' stay with me."

"B…B...But why?" Puck sobs, wiping his nose with the sleeve of his leather jacket. "I'm not exactly a nice person…I don't des…deserve.."

Shannon hugs him, "Punkin' you gotta stop bein' so gosh darn hard on yourself. People make mistakes and you stood up in front of everyone and owned up to yours. Now would a terrible person do that?"

Puck can only shake his head.

"I didn't think so. Now let's go grab your stuff from your locker and your house and we'll go fix up the guest bedroom for you. Then we'll work on a plan to get you back into this school and back into glee club where you belong." Puck turns and looks at the wonderful woman and throws his arms around her and begins to cry harder than he's ever let anyone see him cry.

…..

During lunch Sam asks Rachel to meet him in the choir room to discuss something in private. When she arrives he locks the door and tells her everything that happened when he and Blaine met up that morning.

"BLAINE WANTS YOU TO WHAT?!" Rachel yells at Sam.

He covers her mouth and shushes her. "Not so loud. I haven't given him an answer yet. I don't want to freak him out. Or tell anyone else for that matter."

"You're not actually considering this are you?!" Rachel looks into her friend's eyes and can see from the look at them he is. "Oh my God, Sam! How could you even begin to think of leaving again?!" He starts to explain but she won't shut up. "You told me the reason you didn't take Burt up on his offer to let you transfer after all that had happened was because you didn't want to run away from your problems. You wanted to face them head on and not let anyone keep you from living your life however you choose."

Sam frumps his shoulders and leans back against the wall behind him. "I know, Rachel, but I love him and I'm scared if I tell him that I don't want to leave or that I don't want him to leave either that I'll end up losing him forever."

Rachel places her hands on the blonde's shoulders. "Sam, if you leave because Blaine wants you to, you will end up resenting him for it when you begin to miss all of your friends and your family."

He sighs, "I know, but what if I tell him I don't want to go and he breaks up with me because of it?"

She hugs him tightly, "Then his is the biggest idiot on the planet." She pulls back and can see the fear in her friend's eyes. "You just need to be honest with him and everything will work out."

He forces a smile, "I hope you're right."

Just then Mike comes running in. "Sam!" He bends over to catch his breath.

Sam and Rachel walk over to him. "Woah, Mike, what's going on?"

He sits up, "Puck….just got," He takes a deep breath, "expelled."

Sam and Rachel's eyes widen in shock. Neither of them expected him to be expelled after coming forward. "I have to fix this," Sam says turning to Rachel, "go get everyone and tell them to be in the choir room. We can't let this happen." Rachel nods and Sam runs out of the room to the one person he knew would be able to help them.

….

Blaine is searching other schools on the library during his free period. He was expecting Sam to join him since both of them have this time of the day off from classes, but he figured Sam was simply saying his goodbyes and telling everyone that by the time Regionals was over they would be transferring to a new school. If only he could find on.

Dalton was out of the question since he was pretty sure Sebastian would be a major pain in the neck and with him now dating Puck it would be even more awkward. The deaf school was out since; well neither Sam nor Blaine was deaf. The only school that looked promising was Carmel High, and he knew Sam would never go to there since it was McKinley's major rival. He drops his head onto the edge of the desk feeling exasperated as he groans in frustration.

"Having trouble picking out a new school for you and Sam?" Blaine turns and sees Finn standing behind him.

He rubs the red bump on his forehead and winces when he accidently takes a deep breath, the sting of his crack ribs reminding him he still needs to take it easy. "You could say that."

Finn takes a seat next to his friend and rival. "Dude is there anything I can do to help?...I don't mean about helping you two leave, but I mean if you wanna talk to someone besides Sam or Ms. Pillsbury about what happened to you, I'm here for you."

Blaine smiles, "Thanks Finn, but this isn't something you'd understand."

"Try me." Finn says taking on the challenge.

The shorter boy shrugs, "OK, well you knew I was attacked at my old school's Sadie Hawking's dance right?"

Finn nods, "Yeah, Kurt told me before prom last year. He wanted me to keep an eye out for you…but then I got kicked out so that didn't really work out."

The boys laugh for a moment, and then Blaine resumes where he left off. "Well, what happened this time," He has to force himself to take a deep breath so he doesn't lose his control over his emotions. "It was pretty much the same, except this time I felt even weaker."

"Why?" Finn says giving Blaine a needed moment to calm himself.

Blaine sighs, "Because last time I tried to protect my friend, because he was smaller and frail, but this time I… I was the" tears begin to pour down his face and Finn quickly hugs his friend.

"You were wanting Sam to protect you, weren't you." Finn whispers and he can feel Blaine nodding against his chest.

When the darker haired boy catches his breath and the tears are not quite as bad he asks a question. The real reason he asked Sam to transfer schools. "Finn," Blaine says pulling back.

"Yeah, Blaine?" Finn lets go of the former Warbler and waits for a response.

"Do you…" He cannot believe how selfish of a question he is about to ask, but he has to because he fear his heart might shatter from the pressure being produced by an overwhelming fear. "Do you think Sam would ever…cheat on me? Like Kurt did?"

Finn closes his eyes. He knew there had been a missing piece to the puzzle, and this was it. He opens his eyes and gives Blaine the most honest answer he can. "I don't know."

Blaine drops his head.

"What I mean is, you never know what's going to happen down the road, but you can't let the fear of getting hurt keep you from being happy with the person that you love." Blaine looks at Finn, stunned at the wisdom his new friend possessed. "Look if I let my fear of getting hurt get to me, I'd be locked up in some padded room, rocking back and forth in a corner, singing, Coom by ya over and over." He shakes Blaine's shoulders, "Just talk to Sam and tell him how you feel. You guys love each other."

Both boys look up and see Sam come running into the library. He turns and sees them. A look of worry has taken his face and it gets even worse when he sees Blaine's tear stained cheeks. "Blaine are you ok?"

Blaine wipes his eyes, "Uh, yeah, Finn was just helping me talk through some of this stuff, and I think you and I need to talk."

Sam feels confused but he needs to get everyone together to figure out how to help Puck stay in school. "OK, yeah. Um Finn, the others are in the choir room waiting for all of us. Tell them Blaine and I will be there in a second."

Finn is now the confused one. "OK, what's going on?"

Sam looks at his best friend and boyfriend and prays that they will both want to help. "Puck got expelled for coming forward and we're all going to try and find some kind of loophole so that he can come back and graduate."

Finn can see from his peripheral that Blaine's heart has just dropped to the floor. As he walks out the door he turns back and looks at Blaine and mouths, "Just breathe and talk to him."

Sam can see the pain on his boyfriend's face. "Blaine, what's wrong? Look if you don't want to help Puck I understand, I just don't want to see him lose everything he's worked for over a stupid mistake." He can see Blaine wanting to say something bad about Puck, but Sam keeps talking. "Look I made a mistake and tried to kill myself. Finn made a mistake and kicked me out of the house. You called me Kurt after sex. And, my dad lied to me for two years after he found out about me. So please, just cut him some slack on this one. Don't talk to him, be mean, get angry over the stuff he did with Kurt, but he doesn't deserve to be expelled."

"You're right." Blaine says choking back his pride

Sam's eyes look like they're about to pop out of his skull. He was expecting at least some resistance from Blaine on this matter, but he just cannot wrap his head around Blaine's being so understanding.

"Look, "Blaine says and Sam sighs in relief, "I might not be is biggest fan, but Puck is still a member of New Directions, or he was until Mr. Schuester kicked him out after threating him if he so much as looked at you wrong."

"WHAT?!" Sam says not having heard this bit of news.

Blaine rolls his eyes, "He just did what any dad who loved his son would do in that situation. I mean Burt nearly put Karovsky through a wall remember?"

Sam nods, "Yeah I guess."

"Look, as long as I get to be mad at him and give him crap for screwing Kurt behind my back, I'll help fix this mess he made, but I need you to promise me two things." Blaine says taking Sam's hand.

Sam smiles, "Name it, anything, I'll do it."

Blaine smirks, "First, you promise to never do anything sexual with Noah Puckerman, ever."

"Done, and gross. The dude's kind of my friend, but with as many questionable people as he's been with I'd have to wear a hazmat suit before going near his junk." Sam says making Blaine laugh.

Blaine presses his lips to Sam's and then pulls away to reveal his last condition. "And second, after we win Regionals, I want you to make love to me."

"You mean you want me to…" Blaine cuts Sam off before he can finish.

"I want you to be the first guy to ever top me." He pulls Sam in for a quick kiss and then hugs him tightly. "It never happened with Kurt because something always felt off when he would want to top, but with you I feel like I'm ready."

Sam plants a kiss on top of Blaine's head. "I know we haven't had sex since the first time we hooked up, but I need to tell you something. Something I lied to the other guys about when I came back."

Blaine looks up and begins to feel worried something might be wrong, "What is it?"

Sam sighs, knowing he shouldn't have been embarrassed about this secret but he is after all a teenage boy. "I never slept with anyone before you."

Blaine's eyes widen, "You mean…Oh my God, Sam. I promise you this time will be so much better than the first!"

Sam kisses Blaine's forehead. "Hey, I want you to know I don't regret my first time being with you. Yeah it hurt, but at the same time on some emotionally driven level, it was the greatest experience of my life, because it was with you."

Blaine was speechless and all he could do was press his lips to Sam's before the two went off to join the others in the choir room.

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A/N

Thank you all who reviewed the last few chapters. You have all brought me so much more inspiration and I can't wait for you all to see what happens next. I will get around to responding to everyone's reviews soon. Work's just been crazy busy, but I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the story. Again thanks for the reviews. Oh and coming soon expect someone from the dead to make an appearance. The person they speak to might surprise some of you.