A/N: So I was watching Glee when a thought occurred to me. Out of Artie's friends he's the only guy. And by friends I mean the little gleegroup within the gleeclub I like to refer to as the original 4. (I think some people are calling them "Muppet Babies" now because of Bad Reputation) Tina and Mercedes are obviously female and Kurt considers himself an honorary girl so that leaves Artie to be the designated guy of the group and for a guy he's not exactly masculine. He's dorky and all other shades of wonderful but he's not intimidating like Puck or any of the jocks really and so this idea was born.

This is going to be a short, silly, fic about broship and bonding with all the guys (Kurt included). Hopefully you'll like it.

It was his sister who first pointed it out. He didn't really notice it prior to her observation, it just wasn't something he thought about very much. But it was true.

Artie Abrams was the only male of his group of friends.

He never noticed it before because, well to be honest he was too elated about even having friends to care, and besides he really liked his friends. That and there was Kurt who was male so Artie didn't think anything of it. But when his sister had mentioned that even Kurt had considered himself an honorary girl, Artie couldn't argue with her as she continued to say that he never did anything particularly manly.

Not that he knew what that meant.

And it wasn't like he was particularly feminine, he never participated in their discussions about fashion - unless he was defending his, he didn't watch Ugly Betty or whatever it is they watched, and he didn't know which celebrity was dating who.

But he supposed it couldn't hurt to have more guy time with someone that wasn't his dad.

Right?

He was sitting in gleeclub pretending to study his music sheet as he thought about it. In order to have quality male bonding time he needed some male friends first. His brow furrowed as he watched the rest of the guys minus Kurt sitting on the other side of the room goofing off, telling jokes, and annoying Rachel in the process. He was on good terms with them but approaching them so suddenly would just be awkward.

But if anyone could handle an awkward situation it was Artie, king of all things awkward.

"Artie?" It was Tina, "You still there?"

She waved her hands in front of his face.

"Huh?" He answered dumbly.

"We're going to the mall after school" Kurt said examining his nails, "Are you coming with us?"

Artie shook his head, though he didn't really know why, Kurt wasn't even looking at him. "Uh, no thanks."

"Told you he'd say no" Tina shrugged, leaning back into her seat.

Kurt scoffed, "One day we'll convince you to get rid of those god awful things you call clothing."

Artie smiled weakly at them as he returned to their glee assignment. Yup, he needed some serious guy time.

When rehersal ended everyone filed out of the room. Kurt, Tina and Mercedes were the only ones who threw him a quick goodbye over their shoulders as he packed up to leave. On another day they would have waited for him but he supposed it wasn't too bad, this way he had time to think about his action plan.

He was going to approach a couple of the guys after glee - probably Finn since he was a relatively nice guy and they got along best out of all the other guys, but he had hesitated in the last moment and everyone shuffled out before he could do anything about it. And now the room was empty, save for him and Mr. Schuester who was standing by the corner and there's no way in hell he'll ask his teacher for help. He wasn't that pathetic. Yet.

Artie sighed, he'll do it tomorrow. Awkwardness and all.

He was about to turn around and head towards the door when Puck burst in the room, Artie had actually jumped in surprise. The mohawked boy ignored him as he picked up a jacket that was left hanging on the chair he was sitting in earlier.

Artie just stared at the boy curiously. This was his chance and doors don't stay open forever. He may never get to speak to Puck one on one again. Say something Artie, say something to get his attention.

He wussed out, because that was Puck. The same Puck who, prior to joining glee, had absolutely no qualms about throwing a kid in a wheelchair into the dumpster, Puck who had slushied him and duct taped his wheels together. Puck who was still kind of an asshole.

"What are you lookin' at?" Puck said when he noticed Artie staring.

Artie panicked a little but fought through his desire to hide from Puck's intimidating stare and pushed on. Doors don't stay open forever, he repeated in his head.

"I was wondering if you could do me a favor." He said fidgeting with his gloves.

Puck said nothing, Artie took the silence as a good sign because he had fully expected Puck to roll his eyes and leave the room.

"I've noticed lately that I associate myself with a lot of girls. Well, and Kurt." He added.

Puck snorted and crossed his arms but at least he was listening. Out of the corner of his eye Artie could see Mr. Schuester glance at him curiously.

"And I figured it'd be nice to have some...male company."

"What do you want me to do about it?"

"Well, see that's the problem." Artie paused for a moment, bringing his hand up to his neck. This was going a lot better than he thought it would. "I don't really know. I've never had a lot of guy friends and I don't really know what guys really do for fun."

"So, what you're saying is, you want me to teach you how to be a man?"

"Um, I guess you could put it that way."

Puck seemed to think about this for a second before shrugging. "Yeah, okay, sure"

Artie was shocked first and relieved second. Shocked because he didn't really think Puck would say yes and relieved because Puck didn't laugh right in his face or tie him up to the flagpole like he always feared in the back of his mind when he was around the larger boy.

"Seriously?" Artie asked, "You're not just screwing around with me?"

"Dude, I live with my mom and my sister." Puck said as if it explained everything, it didn't but Artie didn't want to push it. "Speaking of the brat, I gotta pick her up from school, later Abrams."

Puck left Artie in the choir room contemplating how the idea had the huge potential to be a really really bad one. Puck was notorious for doing things that weren't exactly safe, or legal for that matter. And out of all the guys in glee that Artie could have gone to, Puck probably should have been his last resort. Hell, Puck was his last resort, but Artie figured it couldn't hurt to ask. He guessed he sort of lucked out because now Artie had a mentor, and Puck was arguably the best person for the job because if there was one thing Artie knew about Puck it was this,

Puck was undeniably male.