Moon With Gold

Secret Message

Rachel Berry walked through the halls of McKinley, not even trying to hide the tears that were pouring down her face. Reaching her locker, she tried desperately to see through the tears.

Brittany pointed to Rachel from her conversation with Puck and Santana. They both looked over to see Rachel crying.

Jacob Ben Israel, pulled out his camera, and ran over to Rachel's locker.

"Rachel Berry!" He exclaimed, making Rachel jump in fright. "May I ask what saddens you?" His eyes gleaming with joy at the fresh story, not noticing the pain the girl truly is in.

"No, you may not." Puck growled, his hand clamping on Jacob's shoulder, the nerd's eyes widened with fear. He sputtered for a few seconds, before running off. "Berry?" Puckerman asked the girl that turned back to her locker.

"My locker combination is 25-12-36, yet I can not seem to get the numbers right." Her voice shook almost as much as her hands.

Santana, who had came up with Brittany, gently pulled her away while Puck opened the lock. Rachel rushed back to it, and put her books in and grabbed a bottle of water. Swallowing the drink, she grabbed the tissues in her locker. 3 minutes later, it looked as if she had never been crying at all.

"You want to tell us what that was all about?" Puck asked, while him and Santana glared at the people around them, silently daring anyone to speak about what they had witnessed.

"Boy problems." Rachel muttered, looking in the mirror, fixing her bangs.

"I swear, I'm going to murder the giant." Santana growled, Noah nodded in agreement, Brittany rubbing a hand on her back.

"Not Finn." Rachel said, and walked towards the Glee room, leaving the three behind her in shock.

"Rachel!" Puck shouted, the first one to snap back into reality, ran into the glee room.

The entire group turned to look at him, and Santana and Brittany ran into him. Mr. Shue looked at the three of them, raising an eyebrow. Rachel met their gazes, and silently pleaded with them.

"You forgot your mini bag of tissues." Puck improvised, holding out the little plastic bag, Rachel smiled weakly and took the bag from him.

"Alright..." Will muttered after the four took their seats. "Kurt where is Blaine?" Mr. Shue asked him, and Kurt looked at the seat next to him.

"I don't know, I can go look for him...?"

"No it's fine, you can fill him in when he gets here." Will turned to the board, and began to write on it.

'Love' was written on it, and Rachel looked down at her lap, Puck looked at her and placed a hand on her knee. She looked at him, and when he gave her a small smile, she gave him a watery one.

"In honor of Valentine's Day," Mr. Shue started, "I want you to pick a love song, and present it to the rest of the..."

The door was yanked open and Blaine stepped in, his eyes were closed off and showed no emotion. He tried to smile to the class, and took his seat beside Kurt, who grabbed his hand. Rachel looked down again, and Santana's mouth fell open, Puck cleared his throat. Santana closed her mouth before anyone noticed.

"Sorry I am late Mr. Shue." Blaine told their teacher.

"It's fine Blaine, it was not the most disruptive intrusion today." He turned his gaze to Santana, Brittany, Noah, and Rachel.

Blaine desperately tried to catch Rachel's gaze, but as soon as he saw the two glares coming from the football player and the cheerleader, he turned his attention back to Kurt.