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Rachel jumped as she spun around to see her room-mate Kurt Hummel sat on his vintage sofa staring at his laptop. She had expected Kurt to be at work or at least out with Adam as he had been for the past couple of weeks. Rachel didn't necessarily care for the British student at NYADA that Kurt was currently seeing but at least he was better than the guy Kurt had hooked up with immediately after his break up with Blaine.

Kurt looked up when he heard his room-mate enter. He had remained in New York while she had returned to Ohio for the holidays. Despite Rachel being Jewish, Kurt knew that she loved the feeling of the Christmas holidays and the atmosphere of the season and had wanted to see her Dads before school started again with vengeance.

But, what Kurt hadn't expected was that when he logged onto his Facebook account he would come face to screen with pictures of his best-friend at what he quickly discovered was Blaine's New Years Party.

"Oh...Hey, Kurt! How was your holidays?"

"You spent time with Blaine..."

Rachel froze where she had just taken her jacket off, "How do you know about that?"

"Facebook..."

"Oh...well...Kurt...you know I am still friends with him...I mean...just because you..."

"Rachel! You're supposed to be my best friend! You can't just go hanging around with my ex!"

"He is more than just your ex Kurt! He's my friend and he invited me...there were a ton of people there..."

"I can see that...I never expected Santana of all people to want to hang around at Blaine's...or Puck...Jesus...it isn't really their scene..."

Rachel moved forward towards her room, "Actually...they're really good friends with Blaine...but really it isn't any of you business what I do or what they do..."

"You're my best friend Rachel! Of course it is my business what you do!"

"Kurt...I'm not going to do this right now...I'm tired from my flight...and if you can't tell it was a pretty amazing party...so I'm going to put my stuff away and have a nap...and I'm surprised you don't have plans with Adam..."

Rachel continued into her room closing the curtain behind her to show that she wanted her privacy. Even Kurt, as nosy and as overbearing as he is, wouldn't disregard the closed curtain. After quickly unpacking her bag, she loaded up her laptop and quickly logged on to Facebook. She had missed whatever had been uploaded from the New Years Eve party due to a number of things.

Firstly her flight.

Secondly, Quinn.

Thirdly, Puck.

Okay, maybe the second and the third reason were similar, as she was talking to Quinn and about Puck. Rachel couldn't actually believe that she had full on made out with the self-proclaimed sex god, especially after the failure that was their high school relationship. But after a long talk with Quinn, who had assured her despite the pair having a child together there were no romantic feelings and that she was in love with Thad (Rachel was pleased for her). Quinn had also said that Rachel should decide what she wants. Does she still want Finn? Does she want Puck? Is she willing to make a long distance relationship work?

On the flight, Rachel had thought long and hard about those questions. She was sure that she now had the answers:

No, she doesn't want Finn.

She definitely wants Puck.

And, yes she is willing to do anything to give it a go between them.

They were answers that Rachel had honestly not been fully expecting but she couldn't help but feel giddy at the prospect. Now she just had to persuade Puck that it was a good idea. Quinn had warned her that Puck was going to be hesitant about everything. This would be something that was so different than to what he was used to. But, she also said that his friendship with Blaine (Rachel had found it sweet when she saw the Puck/Blaine bromance with her very own eyes) might help her case.

As her Facebook feed loaded up, Rachel could quickly see how Kurt could be annoyed. Not only was it clear that Rachel was at the Anderson home (a place she suspected Kurt was very familiar with) but there were several pictures of Rachel with her arms wrapped around Blaine clearly drunk and having a good time. Rachel smiled at one of her, Santana, Quinn and Brittany. Never would she have ever guessed that she would have become such close friends with the unholy trinity when she was in high school but that was something she was gong to have to get used to.

Rachel grabbed her phone as it buzzed, realizing that she had not checked since before she boarded in Ohio, she quickly unlocked it and scrolled through her messages.

Rach, thanks for coming to the party, arrive safe :) See you soon xxx– Tony Warbler

Rachel grinned at the message from Blaine, immediately knowing it was him from the unique name she had him saved as in her phone. After all, he would always be her Tony. She quickly replied saying that she had arrived safe and that she would speak to him soon.

Hey, it's Seb, I wanted to thank you for coming it meant more to B than you could possibly realize xx

Rachel smiled at the text from Sebastian, quickly saving his number into her phone. While, at first she had been reluctant to get to know Sebastian after what he had done last year, she was glad that she had given him a chance. Rachel loved Kurt but even she could see that Kurt and Blaine's relationship had become disastrous. She could also see what it had done to Blaine and Kurt, now she was finally getting to see Blaine Warbler and it was a face that she missed.

Skype? - Puck

Soz, forgot you would b on plane, txt when land – Puck

Rachel rolled her eyes and quickly replied saying that they could Skype in a hour, knowing that Kurt would be leaving to go to work soon.

K, see u then – Puck

Suddenly, Rachel felt butterflies in her stomach, a nervous giddy energy taking over her. This was a feeling that she had never experienced and she couldn't believe that it was Noah Puckerman who was making her feel like this.

"YOU KISSED NOAH PUCKERMAN! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"

That was a very good question.

Thank you for reading xx