"Ugh", Rachel groans as the alarm goes off. Turning around she notices that Puck is gone. Slightly irritated she quickly gets up and checks the bathroom, no sign of him. Sighing, she sits down on the bed and gathers her thoughts for a moment.

"He probably went home.." Rachel mumbles to herself and grabs her clothes and a towel to get ready for school. Going into the bathroom she strips her clothes off and stands infront of the sink, staring into the mirror, thinking about last night. How nice it felt to have Noah with her, how broken he looked and how he hugged her like his life depended on it. Shaking her head to get rid of the thoughts, she gets into the shower and ready for school.

After Rachel got ready she grabbed her stuff and got into the car, checking the time and realizing that she is right on time and could probably spend some time alone in the choir room. As she turns up in the parking lot she sees Pucks truck and immediately gets this weird feeling deep down in her stomach. Practically jumping out of her Car, Rachel grabs her stuff and walks up to the school. The hallways are pretty much empty, except for a few students who like to be early there, just like herself. Making her way to her locker she stuffs everything inside and quickly makes her way to the choir room. Before she even reached the room she hears softly singing and a guitar sound coming from the room. Curiously peeking inside, Rachel sees Puck sitting in one of the chairs, playing his guitar while softly singing 'Sweet Caroline'. That song still gives her chills after his performance months ago. She shivers and quietly makes her way inside, not wanting to interrupt him.

"Noah" she says loud enough for him to hear it.

He sharply turns around and looks more than just a little uncomfortable. "What do you want, Berry?" in an annoyed tone.

"I just wanted to talk, about last night...are you okay?" she wonders.

"It was a mistake. I shouldn't have come to you. Just forget it." he says harshly, takes his guitar and walks out of the door. "Noah" she yells but she doesn't get an answer.

Standing there, she feels a little hurt. What has she done wrong? Deciding to shrug it off for now, Rachel sits down on the piano bench and softly plays some random tune.

How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core where I've become so numb
Without a soul, my spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home

Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark

Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone.
Save me from the nothing I've become

Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life

A loud noise makes her stop and Rachel turns around to see Santana standing by the door. Seeing books lying on the floor, she knows where the noises came from.

"Didn't think you'd know something other than showtunes" the Cheerios casually says standing infront of the brunette.

"Well, Santana, you don't know half of me" she shots back.

"Berry, come on, I didn't mean it like that. Was just surprised, s'all."

"Oh. Right, I'm sorry." she looks uncomfortably at Santana, not sure why she's here in the first place. Standing up she's about to leave when Santana tells her to wait.

"You see, Rachel, I just wanted to say sorry, okay? I came here early cause I knew you'd be here. After everything with Finn, I didn't exactly make it any better. So, I'm sorry."

Alittle taken aback that the Cheerleader used her real name, she just nods and turns around to leave and get ready for the first class.

The morning went by pretty quickly, not even catching a glance of Puck. After debating with herself if she should spend her Lunch at the Cafeteria, she finally decided that she should. Maybe Puck is there and in a better mood.

As Rachel paid and was about to find a table, Brittany stands infront of her and smiles widely. Since she has always been nice to Rachel, she smiles back and was about to walk away when the Cheerios grabs her arm and drags away. "What are you doing, Brittany?" she asks confused. Before the blonde could reply, Santana waved over from their table and told Rachel to sit with them. Even though the beauty apologizes this morning she was still a little cautious but sat down anyways. The few other Cheerios first looked a little irritated but Santana gave them the stink eye and told them to mind their own business.

"Thanks. But you really didn't have to let me sit here." Rachel tells them.

"I know, but we wanted to. See this as a way of us saying sorry."

"Totally. We should be bestfriends. My cat would love that" Brittany says cheerful. And seriously how can you say no to her? That'd be just wrong.

"Sure, Brittany." she smiles a little and starts eating her Sandwhich.

The three girls spent the next 10 minutes eating their lunch and talking about any tv shows they could think of. There were debates over who they prefer, McDreamy or McSteamy. They talked about their love for Veronica and Logan, even though Santana totally digs Weevil. Rachel actually seemes to have fun. She never realized how much fun the two girls could be and clearly enjoyed herself, unaware of the two set of pairs staring at her. One pair belonged to Quinn Fabray, who is furious that she's sitting with Santana and Brittany. Even though Quinn is back on the Squad, the two still don't talk to her. The other pair belonged to none other than Noah Puckerman. He sat with the other jocks, though he couldn't stand most of them. Ignoring their conversations and comments all he could do was stare at Rachel, wondering since when she's friends with Santana.

"Hey Berry, looks like someone doesn't like the fact you're sitting with us" Santana says as she nods over to Puck. Turning around Rachel locks eyes with him and as soon as it happened, he looked away, got up and left.

"Anything going on between you two?" the Cheerio asks curiously looking to where Puck sat just a minute ago before looking back to Rachel.

"Nope. No idea what his problem is" she reponds looking down on the table. Santana doesn't buy it, but drops it for now. She'll find out soon enough.

The rest of the day went by smoothly. Santana and Brittany walked with her to a few classes they had together and also waited infront of her locker before Glee. "You didn't have to wait for me" Rachel smiles softly as she gets her stuff out of the locker. but

"No big deal." Santana answers and slides one arm through Rachels, while Brittany did the same on the other side of the brunette. "Rachel, do you wanna hang out this weekend? You have to meet my cat" the blonde says, smiling widely at the her.

"Sure Brittany. I'd love to meet your cat" she laughs and Santana joins her, leaving Brittany looking alittle confused.

They arrived and didn't miss the stares the Glee members are giving them. Kurt and Mercedes were obviously gossiping about the new trio, wondering what happened and Tina and Artie just looked a little confused. Not caring about the chatters, the three fell back into their conversation from earlier and waited for .