A guy who will always let her win.
Any sign of bullying towards Rachel after the first two attacks stop and Rachel knows it has something to do with the boys and Santana, Mercedes probably got involved too. She'd left them all little presents in their lockers as a thank you and they'd smiled at her once they'd found them, but that's as far as it goes, it's not talked about.
Rachel and Mike grow closer as the weeks go on and it's nice because she knows Mike isn't on constant edge watching out for any sign of slushy or jock heading in her direction. She watches with Santana as the boys play a lot of video games, usually something that she thinks is called Call Of Duty, once she gets over the constant killing and trash talk, it's not too bad.
Santana knows how to play, so sometimes she'll join in and Rachel sits and watches alone, something she gets bored with, so she asks Mike to teach her.
He laughs at first, thinking she's joking, before straightening his face as she crosses her arms across her chest and glares at him.
"Okay, well what do you want to learn?"
She shrugs. "Whatever you guys always play, even Santana plays it too and I want to be able to join in"
He nods, standing up to grab another controller, before making himself comfortable on the sofa again, tugging her arm gently so that she moves closer to him. Handing her the controller, he smiles at the slightly nervous shift in her eyes.
"You're going to die all the time in the first few hours of playing, so don't take it too seriously" He warns.
She nods, eyeing the controller. "So what do I do?"
They spend the rest of the Saturday afternoon teaching her and by Saturday night even he'd admit she was a quick learner, she'd still get her ass kicked by the others, but she was making a start.
The frustrated look on her face as she once again gets killed makes him giggle and he makes the decision to start letting her win, she either doesn't notice that he's making stupid mistakes or she really is inflating her ego and thinking she's sudden brilliant.
"Ready to get your ass kicked, babe?" Puck smirks at her the following weekend as himself, Santana and Sam join the gaming session at Mike's.
"Whatever" She mutters and Santana laughs a little.
Sam wins nearly every time and Rachel just shrugs, because honestly, even she knows she couldn't have picked it up that fast, she also knows her boyfriend has been letting her win whenever they play.
"You shouldn't do that" She whispers to him as she curls into his side, Puck moving to turn the x-box on and put a DVD in, Sam grabbing some snacks and drinks from the kitchen.
"Do what?" He asks, raising his eyebrow to feign confusion.
Laughing, she brings a hand to his chest, hitting lightly. "Letting me win at something when it's obvious who should be winning, when I win, I want to win fairly"
"Noted" He laughs a little, before grinning as she turns her head to kiss him, Santana groaning and making puking noises in the background.