Prologue
Kurt Hummel had expected his senior year to be magic after encouraging his boyfriend to transfer from Dalton to McKinley.
He and Rachel Berry had bonded while in New York during Nationals were a beautiful friendship had blossomed. They were going to help each other to get into Nayada.
Thing was he doubted his talent and thought that running for Senior Class President was the way to go.
Then after Rachel announced that they were putting on a school play West Side Story, which Kurt really wanted to be a part of, playing the lead Tony, his whole year started to go downhill.
He did an amazing audition that was thrilling and exciting, he showed such agility and flexibility on that scaffolding (though he did pick a Barbara Streisand song to showcase his singing, when it would have been better suited to pick a song sung by the lead character Tony in the play).
The judges Coach Shannon Beiste, Emma Pillsbury and Artie, that he thought was a friend, criticised him while they talked about him. Ms Pillsbury said he had toothpick arms, which he didn't.
That really hurt. Artie said he was too delicate. And Beiste: who cared whether he excited her lady parts or not. That was so cruel. She might as well been calling him asexual.
At least they agreed to let him audition again, and Rachel agreed to help. But she laughed at him, not wanting him to kiss him. Then the other three, Beiste, Ms Pillsbury and Artie were laughing and ridiculing him. That just shattered his heart and made him feel completely humiliated and embarrassed.
This was going to be how his year was really going to be. He knew Blaine would get Tony, he chose a Tony song. He knew Blaine secretly wanted the role. Why would he choose that song in the first place?
He could never hate Blaine for that. But he hated what those judges did to him.
Then things changed when Shelby Concorran happened to come into his life, and show him who he was meant to be. She helped him to become the man he was born to be.
That was the day, the day of the audition, that Shelby Concorran became his fairy godmother.
