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When Puck got to work after the conversation with Quinn, he was met with Finn, who had been waiting outside the store for him.

"Hey man" the tall boy greeted "how'd it go?" Finn asked, referring to the conversation Puck had with Quinn ten minutes earlier.

"Yeah, it was alright... I mean it could've gone worse" Puck admitted opening the door of the store.

"What happened?" Finn asked as he and Puck walked into the store.

"I told her how I felt and-".

"She didn't feel the same?" Finn guessed, cutting Puck off.

"No" Puck gave Finn a look.

"Sorry" Finn apologised for cutting Puck off.

"Actually" Puck went on "she said that she felt the same as me" he nodded, putting his hands in his pockets.

"Well that's a good thing, right?" Finn asked, noticing that Puck looked down.

"Yeah I guess" he scratched his Mohawk "but she didn't want to be with me" he hung his head low.

Finn wasn't expecting that "man I'm really sorry"
Was all he could think to say "why didn't she want to... you know be with you?" He asked, letting curiosity get to him.

"She doesn't want to ruin our friendship" Puck shrugged "Uh can we talk about something else?" Puck asked, he didn't want to talk about Quinn at that moment.

"Yeah ok" Finn agreed, warily "well there's two new guys starting work here today" Finn changed the subject "they should be here in 15 minutes".

"Oh cool, do you know their names?" Puck asked, not overly interested in who the new workers were but still being curious.

"Yeah, Artie Abrams and Blaine Anderson" Finn nodded to himself, smirking.

"Oh yeah cool" again Puck wasn't super interested. He looked around the store and noticed that Finn had already set the store up, Puck leant against a wall and closed his eyes.

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15 minutes later and the sound of the front door opening caused him open his eyes, he looked over at the door and saw two boys come in. One had glasses and was in a wheelchair and the others hair was lathered in hair gel, 'too much for his own good' Puck thought, he also had a navy vest on with a bright red bow tie.

The one in the wheelchair wheeled over to Puck, who had just been met with Finn at the front door. "Hi I'm Artie Abrams" Artie fixed his glasses "and this is Blaine Anderson" Artie said, pointing to Blaine.

Blaine gave Puck and Finn an awkward wave, "we're gonna be your new workmates" he let out a little laugh.

"Yeah we know" Finn smiled awkwardly.

A silence descended upon the the four.

"It's good to meet you two" Puck said, breaking the silence.

"Yeah, but uh shop doesn't open for half an hour so we can just chill here until then" Finn told the new guys with a slight laugh.

Everyone laughed.

"Ok" Artie smiled, fixing his glasses again.

So the four boys talked for the next 30 minutes before the store opened.