titanium - glee

six ; "just friends"

When Mr. Schue had announced that there assignment this week was a boys vs. girls mashoff, the girls had taken over the dance studio as their rehearsal space and Rosy was walking there when Noah Puckerman fell into step beside her.

"Just so you know, Puckerman, I have pepper spray in my bag." Rosy informed him and he rolled his eyes at her.

"Nice to see you too, Alvarez."

"What do you want?" She asked, glancing at him.

"I'm worried about Finn," He began and Rosy furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "He fell asleep in our rehearsal today, so we sent him to the nurse's office."

"Okay," Rosy said, in a tone that meant 'get to the point'.

"He's stressed, he's got a lot on his plate right now, with glee club, football, quinn being pregnant, having to maintain his reputation, and fighting with you on top of all of that isn't helping matters." Puck said and Rosy scoffed and rolled her eyes.

"We're not fighting."

"Really? 'Cause before last week you two were attached to the hip. You were always hovering around him." Puck added and she glared at him.

"I wasn't hovering and we aren't fighting, we just had a little argument last week." Rosy snapped and Puck held up his hands in surrender. "Why do you care, anyways?"

"Finn is struggling a lot nowadays, but if the two of you made up, that would probably lift a weight off his shoulders." Puck pointed and Rosy sighed.

"Even though we aren't fighting, I'll think about talking to him." Rosy said as they arrived outside the dance studio and Puck smiled and nodded at her, before turning around, but before he could walk away, Rosy grabbed his arm and he looked back at her. "That was nice of you to do, you know. Finn is really lucky to have you as a best friend." Puck almost looked guilty as she said that but he just shrugged before walking away. Rosy walked into the dance studio, where all the girls except Quinn were already warming up, and she went over and took a seat next to Mercedes, who was painting Tina's nails, and she set her bag down before taking a sip from her waterbottle

"So, are you and Puckerman going to become a thing or something since he walked you to rehearsal?" Mercedes asked and Rosy nearly spit out her water.

"What? No! Ew." Rosy said and Mercedes and Tina both laughed at that.

"So that means you're into Mike then?" Mercedes asked and Rosy choked on her water.

"What? No, I- no. We're-what? No." Rosy said, struggling to find the right words and Mercedes and Tina laughed again.

"Not that I care or anything," Santana said, pausing in applying her mascara, and they all turned to look at her. "But that totally means she's into him."

"Totally." Brittany added.

"That hug between you guys at Invitationals definitely means that he's into you too." Mercedes said and Rosy looked up a little too fast for her liking.

"You really think so?" Rosy said and the girls all look at her knowingly. "Not that I care or anything." Rosy quickly added and the girls all laughed, even Santana and Brittany.

"So are you going to ask him out?" Tina asked and Rosy blushed and ducked her head.

"What? No. We're just friends." Rosy said and the girls all exchanged disbelieving looks.

"Mmhm, 'just friends' don't stare at each other like you guys do when you think no one is looking." Mercedes said and the girls all laughed again as Rosy sent Rachel a 'help me' look.