Need Caroline's Lightning

Need Caroline's Lightning chapter 4

Chapter 4

In the car

Puck's POV

"Are you going to tell me where we are going yet Noah?" Rachel asks me, I turn my head to look at her and see she is staring at me with a determined look, I start shaking my head as I turn back to look at the road "Rach, the whole point of it being a surprise is not telling you what it is, but we are nearly there. You will love it I promise" After about a minute of silence Rachel asks "do any of the boys know where your taking me? or the girls? did you tell anyone?"

"Babe whatever your reason for asking that is beyond me but I don't tell people where im taking my girl on a date, they don't know"

"Your girl?" Rachel asks. I start to panic thinking she didn't want me to call her that, but when I hear her laugh I start to realise that she was joking. So I turn to look at her and see she is trying to disguise her giggles. "What so you don't mind me calling you that?" I ask.

"I like it, it feels right." I then take her hand for the rest of the journey.

I pull into a parking lot and quickly tell Rachel to stay there, I then get out of the car and walk to Rachel's door and open it for her. "No guy has ever opened a door for me before" Rachel says as I take her hand to help her out of the truck "Well babe, that's because no other guy is like me" When she is out of the truck I keep hold of her hand and lead her to a side street showing the restaurant we would be going to, I turn to look at Rachel and I see the look of shock on her face and tears threatening to fall over the edge of her eyes "Oh im sorry rach, we can go somewhere else if you want" I start to panic thinking she doesn't like it until she looks at me and quickly wraps her arms around me in a hug "No, I love it! It's just… no guy has taken me to a vegan restaurant before. Thank you Noah, It's amazing for you to do this. These are happy tears" Then she pulls back, I wipe away her tears with my thumbs and take her hand again to lead her into the restaurant "I want our first date to be special and totally romantic, so really no problem. And I want to try some of this vegan crap anyway, it sounds cool."

We walk in hand in hand and a waiter seats us at a table. We start to look through our menus and talk about what food we might have, I notice out of the corner of my eye two people walking into the restaurant about our age before i can figure out who they are the waiter then comes back to order our food, "I will have the tomato and olive pasta and some water please" Rachel says "Okay and sir what would you like?" The waiter asks me, "I will have the mushroom curry and a soda thanks" I say, The waiter then takes our menus and disappears off somewhere. The conversation is flowing really easily then I see a few tables away Finn and Olivia staring at us, the waiter then decides to appear with the food before i can tell Rachel they are here. We start to eat our food and i notice they are still staring at us. Should i say something to Rachel? I don't want to ruin this date...I need to say something. "umm...rach" I say nervously, she then looks up "What noah?" she asks me "Well, it looks like our ex's have decided to do some spying" I nod my head in their direction, Rachel turns around to see them getting there food from a waiter and then turning around to quickly look at the two of us, Rachel quickly looks back to me when she see's them look at us. "Looks like someone's jealous" Rachel says with a pissed off tone and expression on her face,

"We can't let them ruin this date though okay Rach" I say reaching out to grab her hand that is sat on the table, she lets me take it. "Because if they do ruin it, they've won."

"Your right, I'm having a wonderful time and they are not allowed to ruin it." Rachel announces, she then lets go of my hand and we both start to eat and talk again like Finn and Olivia aren't in the same restaurant as us.

After the dinner we head out hand in hand to my truck and again i open and close her door for her and then get in the truck myself. On the journey are hands are still joined and the conversation is still flowing amazingly. I never thought the date would go this good!

We finally arrive at her house and i go round to help her out of the truck. We walk hand in hand to her doorstep, "This was a wonderful date Noah" Rachel says as we stop outside her door. "Yeah, it was. I was just glad you actually accepted in the first place to be honest" I say looking down.

"Noah..." She brings her hand up to my chin and brings it up so we can look into each others eyes, "Of course i would say yes Noah, you shouldn't of had a doubt about that" She then reaches up on her tiptoes and we have our first kiss. It was gentle and soft to start off with and i saw fireworks go off beneath my eyes, This must be what Finn was talking about with Quinn. The kiss was deepened by someone and we were full making out on her doorstep. We both only pulled back when air became necessary. "Wow" I manage to breath out, she starts giggling and i manage to silence her with a last quick goodbye kiss on her lips. "Thank you Noah for tonight"

"Its fine, I really had fun. See you tomorrow babe" I then kissed her on the cheek and walked back to my truck, I got into my truck and waited for her bedroom light to turn on until i drove home.

When I was at home sat on my bed I realized I didn't offer to pick her up in the morning, damn it! So I get my phone out to text her.

Message Sent at 10:40 09/16/12 - Puckerman: hey rach, im picking you up in the morning for school. what time you normally leave? tonight was fun;) Noah.

Message Received at 10:44 09/16/12 - Rachel(heart): Hello Noah, I generally leave for school at 7:15 so i can go to 7/11 and get a coffee, and yes tonight was fun:) Rachel*

Message Sent at 10:47 09/16/12 - Puckerman: Okay i will pick you up at yours then and we can go to 7/11 on the way:) Noah.

Message Received at 10:49 09/16/12 - Rachel(heart): Alright Bye Noah. Sweet Dreams Rachel*

Hey guys. Okay so before anyone gets confused the names on the texts for Rachel and Puck's numbers are what Puck saved them on his phone.