#* puck

They'd known each other when they were younger, of course, but that had been a long time ago. In the years since, they'd gone on to occupy vastly different levels of the school food chain - the slushiers versus the slushied. And the boundaries between those groups hadn't been crossed... until the New Directions. She'd been meaning to ask him why he joined, to begin bridging the gap and working towards something of a friendship, but she'd not yet worked out how to start.

So in the middle of Sebastian's birthday, waiting for her mocktail at the bar, she instead went with the most obvious opening question.

"How's business?" she tossed out.

Rachel hated that she was asking, but it was more with the hope that he'd share that it was bad. It was November, after all. And there were only so many MILFs in the area.

@askpck