A/N: Alright so first attempt at a serious story, yay :) It should be noted this takes place after NBK and then goes AU. Hope you enjoy it.

Alright so this story is Karofsky/OC with all other pairings cannon, and it's rated T for now (because I don't plan on doing smut, more of a 'Make out session then fade to black' kind of thing) but if enough smut requests arise I'll change the rating to M and add in smut.

PS: It should also be noted that I will be switching between my OC and Karofsky, and I might throw in Kurt/Blaine POV's

EDITED!: So I, being my absent-minded self, forgot about the spacing (thanks for pointing that out btw) so this should fix it, and I'll double check before uploading the next chapter. It's just that when I uploaded this chapter I was fighting a low power level (five minutes according to my battery meter) so I just wanted to have it up that day.

Discovery, A Glee Fanfic

Manny

Manny sat in his car staring out the windshield at the sign, which read 'William McKinley High School' aka his new school. He rubbed his hands together nervously, he had just moved here and wasn't sure what to expect from the student body, he was actually considering going home but he knew his mom would just make him come back. Glancing at the clock on the dash, he realized he only had about five minutes before the first bell rang and thus five minutes before the start of his new life. He sighed and turned off the car, pocketing the keys and exiting the vehicle. He knew he would have to stop by the office first and immediately spotted the sign marking the way to said location. After a few uneventful minutes (besides the bell ringing) Manny made it to the office, he opened the door and stepped in. The woman behind the desk saw him and waved him over, once he was at the desk, he spoke

"Hi, I just transferred here and I need my schedule." The woman nodded and turned to a rather empty looking inbox, "Manuel Vazquez right?" she asked, though it was obvious that there were no other transfer students. Manny nodded and she handed him the paper, she then clicked a few things on the computer and scribbled down a few things on a blank strip of paper before handing it to Manny.

"Here's you locker number and combination, welcome to William McKinley High School," she said with a smile he was about to turn around and leave when the late bell rang.

"Oh here I'll write you a pass," she said pulling out a piece of paper and writing down his name, the date, the time, and then signing it.

"Thank you," Manny said accepting the pass when she handed it to him, as he walked out of the office he glanced down at his schedule. First period was PE, second was Spanish, third was English, forth was Algebra II, fifth was Chemistry, and sixth was American History.

As Manny walked toward gym, another student wearing a varsity jacket walked by and shoved him roughly into a locker. Manny stared at the student as he walked away not even saying anything, just mumbling angrily under his breath.

"O….kay?" Manny muttered smoothing down his shirt before continuing to his destination. When he got to the gym, he found the coach's office (Beiste according to the schedule) and knocked on her door. Coach Biese looked up from some papers she was flipping through and waved him in, "Yes?" she asked looking at him.

"Oh um, I just transferred here and, according to this, this is my first period." Manny said taking a breath at the end.

"Wait, what?" Beiste asked, apparently looking alarmed, she stood up and walked over to Manny's side, taking the schedule from his hands. She looked it over before going back to her desk,

"I had made a request that only football players would be allowed in first period gym," she started angrily looking over the sheets again,

"but it would seem all my other classes are full so I have no choice, I hope you like drills because that's all we do here." She finished turning to a file cabinet she opened it and pulled out a small red card,

"here's you gym locker," she said shoving the card under Manny's nose, and as he turned to leave she added

"and welcome to WMHS!"

Manny walked into the locker room and stormed pass everyone else, who were obviously shocked at the new comer. He went to his locker and opened it quickly, pulling out the gym clothes he had prepared (he had gym at his old school and knew he would have it here too), and quickly changed, shoving his clothes and bag into the locker and sitting down on the bench.

"Been here for five minutes and I've already been messed with and basically told I'm going to have the hardest semester of gym in my life, all because I just had to transfer now."

Manny sighed, he really had no reason to be upset, the rest of the day couldn't be this bad. Sure, it had started out bad, but that was to be expected with him being the new kid and all. After a few minutes of internal debate, he decided he would try to make the best of the rest of the day, suddenly the doors to the locker room burst open and someone else came in, this student was wearing a varsity jacket and stormed across the room to the locker right next to Manny's. Manny barely managed to think 'oh great' before the guy recognized him and scowled yelling to the rest of the room

"What the hell is he doing here?"

The guy received a handful of 'I don't know's and a few 'really don't care's before he finally set his sights on Manny again.

"What are you doing here?" he asked him, venom seeping into his voice.

"Um.. well… I just transferred here and this was the only gym class they could put me in…" he said letting his voice trail off. A boy with a Mohawk came over and spoke with the angry guy,

"C'mon Karofsky, leave the new kid alone," behind him was a taller boy with black hair and behind him was a boy with blond hair that was shorter than the taller boy.

"Whatever Puckerman," he said opening his locker and pulling out his clothes before heading off somewhere to change.

"Hey don't mind Karofsky, he tends to be an ass. I'm Puck by the way," he said behind him the other boys spoke up,

"I'm Finn," said the taller one

"and I'm Sam," said the blond one.

"Hi," Manny said," I'm Manuel but call me Manny," Finn stuck his hands in his pockets before speaking again.

"That's weird though, Karofsky has been quieter since Kurt came back, wonder what's up with him." Sam just gave an 'I don't know' look before Coach Beiste came in.

"Hey slackers, I wanted you on the field five minutes ago." She yelled causing all the boys to head out to the football field, though Manny wished he could crawl into his locker and just hide there until the bell rang but he would not go into hiding just yet, at least not on his first day.

After the drills were run Manny was exhausted, even though he wasn't on the team Coach still made him do everything everyone else did. Manny had also tried his best to avoid Karofsky since he really had no idea what was wrong with him, and Karofsky seemed to do the same. Manny showered and changed and then retrieved his things, glancing at the schedule to see he had Spanish with Schuester next. Puck, Sam and Finn were waiting for him outside.

"Hey," Manny said, being greeted by the trio they started walking in the same direction.

"So, what do you have next?" Finn asked prompting Manny to show him his schedule, "Cool we have the same class too, along with most of the Glee club," he said handing the paper back to Manny. Looking ahead of them they saw Karofsky heading towards them,

"uh oh, trouble," Puck sighed waiting for the jock to reach them.

"Hi, um Manny right?" he asked looking at the new kid, who nodded, "right, um sorry about… earlier I wasn't having a good morning but, it's not an excuse since I'm with the Bullwhips', it's an anti-bullying club. Anyways sorry," he said before heading off.

"Did that really just happen?" said a voice from behind them, they turned around to see a rather flamboyant boy standing next to another, less flamboyant boy. "I didn't think those words would leave David's mouth without expulsion hanging over his head." The boy finished and then looked at Manny,

"Hi, I'm Kurt and this is Blaine." Kurt said with a smile, intertwining his fingers with Blaines' before falling in step with the rest of them,

"I guess you have Spanish now too," Blaine said noticing that Manny was still going the same way.

"Yeah," he said looking over his shoulder to try and see if Karofsky was still back there, but he wasn't.

"So what is up with Karofsky, I mean this morning he shoved me into a locker, then he almost yelled at me for having the same first period and out of nowhere he apologizes."

Kurt shared a look with Blaine before speaking, "uh… well I really can't because I made a promise but, well…" Blaine took over for Kurt at the pause,

"let's not jump to conclusions baby, he could have just had a bad day or something." Kurt nodded and they walked the rest of the way in silence leaving Manny seriously confused.

When they got to the Spanish classroom Manny went to Mr. Schuester's desk to speak with him while everyone else went to their seats. After he introduced himself to Mr. Schue he sat down and let the Spanish lesson flow over him while he stared off into space (as he often did) since they had already covered the majority of the book at his old school. After Spanish, the rest of the day was uneventful; he repeated his introduction to the next teacher and stared off into space during that class too. Then came lunch, which he ate alone (he didn't want to bug Finn and the gang) and then he repeated his introduction for the last three classes before the final bell rang and he could leave. The thing was that he didn't really want to leave, he had nothing to do at home, he had no homework for today, and since it was pretty late in the year there weren't any open clubs left.

Manny found himself floating down the hallways of McKinley High with no clear destination in mind, he thought about heading to the football field to see if there were any preseason matches going on but didn't want to risk provoking Karofsky. Then as he was walking he started hearing music and decided to follow it to its source, he found a choir room and when he peeked inside he saw the group of guys he met earlier, a few he didn't know, a group of girls, and Mr. Schue. They were singing Fireflies by Owl City and seemed to be having a lot of fun and Manny started to hum along too, which eventually led to him singing along.

"'Cause they'd fill the open air, and leave tear drops everywhere. You'd think me rude but I would just stand there and stare.

"I'd like to make myself believe that planet Earth turns, slowly It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep Cause everything is never as it seems."

Manny stopped singing when he heard hushed whispered behind him, he slowly turned around to see that the door to the choir room was open and all of the Glee club was staring at him. After Manny had started singing along he started dancing and hadn't heard the door open, but now that he knew he had an audience his cheeks flushed red and he wanted to run away and hide somewhere.

"Was I… singing too loud?" he asked dumbly, his face growing hotter by the second. Mr. Schue was the first to speak up,

"well not really, we had stopped and heard you singing outside. You sounded good by the way." Manny really just wanted to die right now, he had never really sung in front of other people, or at least not recently. He was in the choir in elementary school but that was it he hadn't pursued it past that point.

"You should join New Directions," Finn spoke up getting a few agreeing murmurs from the rest of the group,

"you'd have to audition, everyone else has," said Kurt with a half-smile. Manny nodded before adding,

"I-I'll think about, get back to you tomorrow?" he asked, once someone nodded he turned and walked away heading to his car his face still burning furiously.

The next day, Manny still wasn't sure if he was going to join the Glee club, he could and that way he would at least have something to do after school, but he wasn't sure if he'd want to sing in front of other people. He sighed and headed to first period, which of course offered him little to no time to think since he had to run drills so after he showered he sat on a bench and stared off into space thinking.

"What're you looking at?" came a rough voice, breaking into his thoughts. The haze that had settled in Manny's eyes cleared and he focused on the form of David Karofsky standing in the doorway leading to the showers. Manny slowly realized what it must have seem what he was doing and he began to blush, standing up he went into a stuttered explanation

"n-nothing, I was… thinking, y'know, staring off into s-space and stuff. I totally wasn't trying to look at anything, ok?" with that Manny looked at his watch and realized he would be late to Spanish if he didn't hurry and leave,

"I-I gotta go!" he yelled, grabbing his bag and rushing out of the locker room, his cheeks still extremely red.

"Really gotta stop doing that," he muttered under his breath adjusting his backpack as he went.

Karofsky

Dave watched Manny rush out of the locker room, it was fun to mess with the new guys sometimes, and he was kinda cu-

'Really should stop thinking like that,'

Why, it's not like mindreaders exist

'And? I still would rather not think like that'

Karofsky you-

'Don't even think about it'

David sighed and walked over to his locker pulling out his clothes and quickly changed into them, by the time he was done the late bell had already rung, not that he cared. Karofsky stood there for a few minutes just thinking, he knew Kurt told him he should try to accept himself but it was hard. He had grown up convincing himself that acting like that was weird, that if he acted like that himself he would end up being an outcast.

Didn't stop you from kissing him

'Shut up'

Dave sighed again and looked down noticing a piece of paper on the floor; he sat on the bench and picked it up. It turned out to be Manny's schedule.

"Huh, he must have dropped it in his rush to get to…" he looked at the class list, "Spanish,"

This is a chance

'A chance to what?'

Do I really have to explain it to you?

David sighed; his conscious was so useless at times, it wasn't even funny. Then it hit him.

'Nice one'

Took you long enough

David ran the list over in his mind a few times to try to memorize it before exiting the locker room to return it to its owner.

'Really hope this doesn't backfire' he thought as he headed to Mr. Schue's class.

Manny

Manny sat in Spanish, again not having anything to do, he checked and his school was at least three chapters ahead of them. Manny was tapping his pencil on his desk, receiving a few annoyed glances from the other students but he didn't care. The door to the classroom opened and David Karofsky stepped in walking over to Mr. Schue's desk, after a few mumbled words Dave headed toward Manny making him blush again. Manny noticed Dave glance at Kurt and Blaine before focusing on Manny again,

"Hey Manny, you dropped this," Dave said placing the paper on Manny's desk. He seemed like he was going to leave but then he opened his mouth again,

"I still ah, feel bad about yesterday and uh well there's this party Friday, d'you think you'd want to go or something, it'd be the best way for you to meet other students y'know." David seemed to have developed a deep crimson blush but Manny didn't seem to notice,

"uh sure, I guess. Don't really have anything better to do anyways." Manny gave Dave a small grin before he turned around to leave.

Karofsky

Dave walked toward the door and looked at Kurt giving him a grin, sure he didn't know if Manny was like that, and sure it wasn't a 'date' per say but at least he'd be able to get to know him better, and blame a few of the questions on the alcohol.

Preview

'Alcohol leads to loose lips', maybe Karofsky should have listened to that warning. After having one too many Karofsky lets a little something slip, now next time he heads to school will he had to do damage control or will everyone blame on the alcohol? How could this affect his 'relationship' with Manny?

A/N: and that's that for chapter one, I don't really like it 100% but like I said this is my first attempt at a more serious fic, also yes I know I forgot to describe Manny, I'll do it at the start of the next chapter, before he goes to the party, maybe he'll look in the mirror or something. I noticed this after I had written it out and I didn't feel right shoving in a random description.

Anyways R&R I also plan on making this my first regularly updated story, like maybe every few days until school starts again and then every Saturday (if it lasts that long that is)

OK, bye!

-WLGYLGO (wtf? lol)