You're In My Veins

People Say Goodbye

Listen, listen, I would take a whisper if

that's all you had to give...

Quinn smiled and stretched as she opened her eyes, feeling the warm sun rays dancing across her skin. She glanced over at Puck who was still fast asleep down by the window, sprawled out on the tiny air mattress. She felt awful for making him sleep on the floor, it was his family's house after all, but she didn't want to let him into the bed with her. She was afraid of herself, of her lack of self control when around him. Afraid that she wouldn't be able to stop herself from craving his body. Puck had been so kind to her as well, and she was seriously starting to think he was a changed man. He had took it upon himself to help her relax yesterday, and she was grateful for that. Looking at the clock, she saw it was almost ten, smiling and sitting up. She hadn't slept that late in years.

"Morning, Lady Fabray," Puck yawned, stretching and sitting up, rubbing his eyes.

"Morning," she smiled, her smile freezing as they heard Hannah barelling up the stairs.

The two exchanged looks before Puck quickly leapt into the bed, Quinn tugging his arms around her quickly as the door flew open and Hannah ran in.

"We're going hiking today!" Hannah announced, wrinkling her nose up in disgust at her brother and his fiancé cuddled tight together.

"Great, thanks for that, Han. You can go now," Puck sighed, rolling his eyes at her, his leg already cramping from where Quinn was led awkwardly on him.

"You have to get up," she told them both before heading back downstairs, her footsteps thumping loudly down the stairs.

"That was close," Puck muttered, climbing out of the bed and grabbing some clean clothes from the drawers.

"Yeah, we need to be more careful," she agreed with a sigh, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Calm down, babe. If we end up getting caught, I'll just say you kicked me out of the bed because you're grumpy," he smirked, grabbing a towel so he could take a shower.

"Always the gentleman," she sighed, shaking her head and rolling her eyes at him.

"That's me," he grinned before heading into the bathroom, closing the door behind him.

"Whose idea was this again?" Quinn asked, crossing her arms tight across her chest with a scowl.

They were halfway through the woods, there were flying insects everywhere that decided to attack her skin and she had fallen into the mud more times than she could count.

"Mine!" Hannah replied cheerfully from up ahead, Puck looking back and sniggering at the blonde when she scowled back at him angrily.

"Can't your fancy shoes handle a little mud?" He teased, trekking back to help her walk up the start of the hill.

"I'm not wearing fancy shoes," she snapped, pointing down to her muddy trainers with a sigh, shrugging him off and stomping away from him after Hannah.

"Only because I told you to change into them," he grinned, keeping up with her easily. He was used to hiking from the air force, so this was a piece of cake

"Leave me alone," she hissed, trying to walk faster. She didn't need or want his company or help.

"Wow, someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning," he grinned, handing her his water bottle to drink from. He told her to bring her own but no, she knew everything of course.

"I am this close to telling them the truth and going home," she threatened, measuring the tiniest gap between two fingers, pushing his bottle away from her. She didn't want anything from him.