Knocked Up

Chapter 16

'Meet me at our special spot during lunch.'

That was all that was written on the note Puck find in his locker. It wasn't signed but from the hand writing and the gold star at the end, Puck knew who it was from.

20 minutes later, Puck found himself standing in front of an old worn out tree house in the woods near the park, not that far behind Lima Elementary School. Man, he hasn't seem this tree house since her was thirteen. It's been so long.

"I'm glad you came." a voice said behind him. Puck turned to the person.

"Had to. From the sound of your note, I could tell it was important." Puck said.

"All I wrote was to 'meet me at our secret place'. That could've meant anything, Noah." the person said.

"Yeah, but how often do you leave notes in my locker instead of just coming up to me and asking?" Puck said. "Plus you said our secret place. We only come here when we have something to talk about, but can't really tell anyone else." A pause "So what's up, Rach?"

Over the summer at the age of twelve was a bonding moment for Puck and Rachel. At that time, times were hard for Puck. His friends weren't around much anymore. Quinn was going through some family issues, and Santana was starting to act really girly and took up cheerleading, so she was away at cheerleading camp. Puck just felt alone.

Rachel was kind of having a similar summer. Most of Brittany's time was preoccupied with cheerleading and camp. And even though Rachel was constantly working on her music and future Broadway plans, future planning could get boring too, so Rachel had nothing better to do.

Puck and Rachel did knew each other. They went to the same temple, they just never really talked to each other.

Until one summer day, Rachel was out walking around the park where she and Brittany would go all the time to feed the ducks and she saw Puck skipping rocks. Rachel thought it was kind of funny. She never pictured someone like Noah Puckerman skipping stones. But from the look of it Noah looked kind of lonely, so Rachel thought what the heck and went over and talked to him.

Of course the first thing he said to her was something about her slowly developing breast, but after she got passed his pig headed ways, she found out he was a pretty nice and genuine guy.

After talking by the pond for a while longer, they took a walk. Puck suggested that he showed her something. He took her the woods behind the elementary school. At first Rachel completely against it. Went on some fifteen minute rant about murderous voice stealing hillbillies, that would kill her and take her vocal cords and use them as their own and steal her spotlight on Broadway or something like that. Puck doesn't remember. He zoned out after she said 'Absolutely not Noah.' That was at the beginning of her rant.

He reassured her that there were no voice stealing hillbillies in the woods, and dragged her in there. Not that far into the woods, Puck brought Rachel to an old tree house. There were a few cracks, but other than that, the house looked good.

After talking to Rachel for hours about their problem or anything they could come up with, Puck thought Rachel was pretty cool. Yeah she talked in paragraphs like everyone said she did and most of the things she said confused Puck, and she talked a lot, but she was also a pretty good listener and she gave some really good advice. So he thought they should make it their own little Jewish Hideout.

Puck was going to show Quinn and Santana and make it their new hide out, but he couldn't get a hold of them that summer, so he tried the next best thing. And this way if he ever needed to talk, and he couldn't get a hold of either Quinn or Santana, he would always have this secret hiding spot and Rachel.