So You're Back

If you told me at the start of my senior year that Blaine Anderson would come back to Dalton. I would have laughed at you. If you then told me that part of the reason he came back was for me and we would get together by the end of the year. I would have thought you were mad and never speak to you ever again. But I would have been wrong. Both of those things did happen and Blaine became my boyfriend.

I'd had a fairly good day the main lowest point of the day was Biology. Not because it is a weak point for me but because the teacher is a complete imbecile. Seriously why do people who are rubbish at communication, have no people skills and can't hold your attention for more than a minute decide to go into teaching? Practically every school has at least one teacher that fits with that no matter how good it's reputation is. I reckon just reading this you've come up with at least one example. Warbler practice wasn't on that day so I was able to go and return to my dorm around half three like everyone else for a change. As I left the English block and started to walk over to my dorm block I could hear a familiar voice behind me say something. "It's so crazy. I'm walking down the corridor, checking out this guy. And all of a sudden I was like wait a second… I know that hair." I turned around and thoughts were confirmed it was Blaine Anderson. At Dalton. As you might imagine I was surprised to see him here. "It's good to see you again Sebastian."

"Blaine!" I then noticed what he was wearing. It wasn't one of his usual shirts and sweater vests, there were no tight pants or bright colours. He wasn't even wearing a bow tie! He was wearing a Dalton uniform. He looked even better in the blazer than I had imagined. "I'm guessing by your uniform that you're nor just here to spy on the Warblers. Unless I'm dreaming again."

"You noticed that did you? Hang on you've had dreams about me in the Dalton uniform?" said Blaine after he'd just processed what I'd said. I shrugged in response non-comitantly. "But yeah you are right I am returning to Dalton at long last."

"Why did you decide to leave that little public school of yours?"

"How long do you have? I can either give you the long version or a short one." replied Blaine. It was clear something had gone down there.

"Things really got that bad?"

"Yeah. I didn't belong at McKinley any more. I only went to be with Kurt and after what happened." Blaine paused for a moment it wasn't very long but he just paused. "They still called me Blaine Warbler, despite the fact I'd won Nationals with them. Everyone there had been ignoring me for the past month or so. And I broke down in the middle of an audition. And it was for the lead role but nobody came to comfort me. They knew I didn't belong there and I've realised I didn't belong there. I'm a Dalton boy." I'd never seen Blaine be either this honest or this angry around me ever before. It was actually kind of hot but I knew he really meant what he was saying he wanted to be back here at Dalton.

"So you've returned to Dalton." I couldn't hide my smile saying that. All the times I'd tried to get him back and he'd refused and now Blaine Anderson was in Dalton.

"I want to finish my senior year at a school that I'm at home in where people accept and support me. I want to rejoin the Warblers and I want to spend more time with you."

I tried to hide the fact that what he had just said was making me really madly happy instead focusing on something more practical. "So what are you doing in the corridor? Lessons have finished for the day and we don't have Warbler practice today."

"I was looking for someone I knew to take me my new dorm."

"What number are you in?" I asked hoping that it was near mine.

"256" That was my number. I'm in room 256. The rumours were right I was going to be sharing with the new transfer student. But that new student was Blaine Anderson. I was going to be sharing with Blaine Anderson! I wondered if the other Warblers had known about this. Was that why they had kept talking about it? Was it some sort of way of saying thanks for something? Had one of them told Blaine where I would be so he could bump into me in the corridor? Whether they knew or not that did nothing to disrupt just how happy I was that Blaine was back at Dalton.

I walked with Blaine to his car to get a few of his boxes out of the trunk of his car. We would have to make at least one more trip to get it all but it was a start. My room was on the second floor of the west wing so rather than taking the stairs we got in the lift. Students weren't supposed to use the lift during term time, it was only for moving in at the start of the school year or moving out at the end, but we went up in it anyway. When we reached what had just become our room I remembered that I hadn't left it in a very tidy state that morning and I hadn't put things away. Now having just read that you probably are assuming I had either a vibrator or pornography left out. Or possibly both. Well get your mind out of the gutter it was nothing like that. I just hadn't made my bed and my stuff took up the whole room. But that's what you get when you don't tell me I'm getting a new roommate. "Sorry it's not that tidy. If you want to wait a minute or two I can tidy things up a bit."

"No it's all right. It's fine. Besides now I've seen just how in control and organised the real Sebastian Smythe is." Blaine said with a teasing playful slap. "Come on put that box and let's go get the rest of them."

I was right it had taken more than one trip to the car to get all of Blaine's stuff but eventually we got it all up to our room. Whilst Blaine unpacked I tidied up my stuff. Putting all my clothes in one wardrobe instead of spread out across two, placing my books and DVDs onto the shelf in my half of the room and removing various bits of stationary and empty cans from the other desk. After around half an hour or so we had gotten the room sorted with Blaine having the half nearest the door and me taking the half nearest the en-suite bathroom. "I bet you missed the space and quality of the Dalton rooms when you were staying at your room in McKinley."

"We didn't have boarding rooms at McKinley." At first Blaine seemed to think I genuinely meant McKinley was a boarding school. Then he looked up and saw the smirk on my face. "You do know that not all schools are boarding? Some you go home at the end of the school day."

"No really? How was I suppose to know? Don't you remember I can't stand the stench of public schools. Why would I stay long enough to check out the rooms or lack of them?" throughout this whole little exchange Blaines face was lit up with a very sincere and powerful smile. He was genuinely happy yet something in his eyes seemed to say he hadn't been this happy for a while. "It's good seeing you smile." The final comment made Blaine blush slightly. "Your whole 'Bashful schoolboy' thing? Super hot."

"So will I have to reaudition for the Warblers?" asked Blaine changing the subject all of a sudden.

I'd gone over to Blaine's bed to just sit there and chat with him about things. "You probably will. I'll have to check with Hunter first but given your reputation here you'll walk it."

"Who's Hunter?" I then realised that Blaine hadn't seen the Warblers since Hunter had taken over.

"The new captain of the Warblers."

"But I thought you were captain of the Warblers?" Blaine looked quite confused so I filled him in.

"Yeah I was last year. We get a new captain each year but I've still got a solo at sectionals."

"I'd forgotten just how early the Warblers started rehearsals for performances."

"You probably won't get a main part for sectionals. Seeing as we've been rehearsing for weeks now and you've been with another show-choir."

"You do know New Directions haven't even started to think about songs yet." At first I thought Blaine was joking. I knew they had a habit of cutting it fine but Sectionals was two weeks away. I looked at Blaines face to see if there was any thing to say that he was joking. There wasn't.

"You're joking. Right? I mean Sectionals is two weeks away." I actually really couldn't believe him.

"No I'm really not. Finn once said they were best when they weren't rehearsed." I'd say I handle Blaine becoming my roommate pretty well. But this news about New Directions had me totally shocked and freaked out.

"How on earth did they ever win Nationals? What I said to you and Gay Face that time in the Lima Bean was right. If anyone could whip New Directions into a legitimate threat it's Blaine Anderson." By this point Blaine seemed to be feeling very relaxed and open so I then plucked up the courage to ask him something personal about that had been bugging for a while. "Blaine can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"What happened with you and Hummel?" You could tell I was asking Blaine seriously because I didn't come up an insulting name for his ex-boyfriend such as Old Betty White or Gay Face.

"I cheated on him with some random guy. I then went to New York to tell him and we split up. He refused to talk to me despite the fact I'd told him as soon as I could and went to New York to tell him. I mean Lima and New York aren't just a few miles away! But then he started spreading loads of shit about me. Most of my "friends" were stupid enough to believe it and started ignoring me and treating me like crap. It's ironic given how much they go on about acceptance that they can no longer accept one of their own after he makes a mistake. Sam saw how much it was affecting me and convinced me I should go back to Dalton because he knew I would be happier there. Now I can probably guess your next question is going to be something like why didn't you cheat on him with me." By the time he finished Blaine looked like he wanted to burst into tears. I pulled him into a hug and held him tightly. I could feel from the way he relaxed into my arms no one had held him like this for a while. It had been too long.

When we resurfaced from the hug I decided to answer Blaine. "Actually it wasn't. I would never be a cheater. I may be many things but I don't break up relationships. And whilst I do love you it's more than just sex. I wouldn't want to do something like that and then ruin our friendship as a result I care about you Blaine and I would never want to put you into that position. However I know how it can happen just in a moment of anger you want to hurt them and so you cheat with someone. And then you end up regretting it and getting hurt yourself. You did it and it happened and everybody has a dark-side but that doesn't mean I can't still love you for who you are. You know I'm not perfect and I now you aren't perfect but we're human and we're worth it. And who you are is a wonderful person who inspires me to try my hardest to become a better person."

"Thank you."

"What for?"

"For saying that. Sam was right I should come back to Dalton I am already happier here. Because, with the exception of Sam, that's the first time someone has heard what happened and not thought I'm total scum and will never want to speak to me again. And I think you've also given me an idea for my audition song."

"No need to thank me because I truly meant all of it. My opinion of you is still just as high as before. In fact I fail to see how anyone could think you're total scum. Now which one is Sam?"

"Blonde, geeky, does impressions, cares a lot about everyone, one of the most genuinely nice people you could ever hope to met." My face must have shown I didn't know who he was because then Blaine added "He's got quite a big mouth."

"Oh Trouty Mouth!" My sudden flash of realisation made Blaine laugh. "Come on Killer let's go get something to eat." I said as I got up from the bed and took Blaine's hand. As we walked out of the room I realised something. My chances with Blaine weren't over and a new part of my life was about to begin which I hadn't even remotely thought would ever realistically happen. We weren't over before we'd even begun, we still had a chance and we still accepted each other.