Well here it is my first prologue of my remake of the story "Igniting Sam's Fire". I decided to do two prologues first before going to the first chapter of the story.
Since this is a remake there will be a few similarities to the old story at first but I plan to steer away from the old course pretty quickly.
I hope you like this first little bit of prologue and as usual reviews are welcome.
Ohio summer had come to Limah and half of the members of the New Directions had graduated. Blaine thought about how they left vacant spaces in the team, spaces that would need to be filled in a few weeks. Currently no one was wasting any thought on that hurdle to come. Everyone was adjusting to the changes at hand.
As expected Rachel was the first to leave all behind and so everyone gathered for a small party to see her off, albeit which less booze than the last time they were in her house since her dads had switched the locks to their liquor cabinet and the new one could only be opened with a special number and letter combination no one could figure out. For a moment that little piece of information had made Blaine wonder how much money Rachel's family actually had. Well for a moment since Puckermann and Finn had arranged for some booze of their own and so the evening was a tad wetter than anyone had expected it to be. Rachel was gone the next day, either with or without hangover like some others Blaine had no idea and there hadn't been much time anyway to think about it.
Afterwards the New Directions rushed from one send-off to the next, the group getting smaller each time. The second one to leave was Mercedes, her send off was integrated with a karaoke race between her and Mike, who was the third one to leave. Blaine shortly noticed that unlike her usual routine Mercedes did sing songs of mostly white artists in contrast to her usual all black assemble. Thinking about it, he had never heard Mercedes actually diversify her choice of artists beyond them being black, while strangely Schuster had used all sorts of stuff, to be frank he had some problems with Schusters management. After all Tina had a good voice so why had she never been lead? Blaine made a mental note to make some changes in the New Directions after the summer.
On the day of his send-off Mike had a big grin on his face and his eyes shifted often to Tina, who seemed to try and get into conversation with Sam pretty often but was in a very good mood all the time so there wasn't any break-up as it seemed, instead sometimes Mike and Tina had a "freshly fucked" expression on their faces. At least that was how it appeared to Blaine. Santana and Britney were similar, albeit Santana did not have a party or something, just a quick send-off with some talk and hugging and best wishes and she was gone.
Finn's boot camp started 2 weeks after Rachel left. The now very small group had a patriotic themed cookout and performed amazing renditions of The Star Spangled Banner, America The Beautiful and God Bless America. Ok, not so amazing in Blaine's mind but you took what you got. The new New Direction really would need a ton of work.
Puck took off for California abruptly the following weekend, without giving anyone a real chance to have a formal send-off.
This left Kurt as the only graduate still in town and somehow now that Rachel was gone he seemed to be channeling her spirit. He had been being hounded by Burt and Carole to make a decision about what he was going to do and every time he let out a parole of statements about plans in all sorts of direction and that in a speed that sounded really more like Rachel than Kurt. Blaine guessed that it was enough to quell the worries of Burt and Carole since they stopped asking further questions pretty quickly. Or maybe they were just waiting for the right moment since Carole kept glancing in Kurt's direction whenever Kurt was not paying attention. The fact was that Kurt was not kicking himself for not applying to more than one musical theatre program. Blaine still thought that Kurt really ought to have taken Ms. Pillsbury's advice and not assume that he was special and unique enough to automatically get into NYADA. Blaine was therefore taking it upon himself to have Kurt look for alternative schools that would take late applicants. Two schools near Lima met at least the basic of Kurt's requirements and one just outside of New York City was also sufficient.
In Blaine's mind it was best that Kurt would to stay near Lima, so they wouldn't have to deal with a long distance relationship, something he dreaded since he heart that this had ruined many a relationship. Blaine was sure that he would support any decision Kurt made, but that did not silence the doubts he had in the back of his mind. After hours of looking at the handouts, websites and all other available information over and over Kurt chose New York City, a choice that did not come as a surprise to Blaine, but it did sting him a bit nonetheless. Kurt was ecstatic about being able to live with Rachel and re-apply to NYADA next year, apparently so ecstatic he immediately jumped Blaine afterwards.
Kurt received his acceptance letter to the New York school on Thursday, and was on a plane on Saturday, basically doing it exactly like Rachel did. This of course did not leave much time for good-byes. Blaine did his best to keep a strong face, but was pretty divided over the matter inside. It was great to see Kurt happy, but it meant he would not see him for quite some time. Kurt, however, did not seem affected by leaving Blaine behind, he actually made a list of things they would do when Kurt would visit him, or Blaine visit Kurt. "New York is huge and gays like us are dime a dozen there," he kept saying time and again, "we will have one adventure after the other." Maybe the physical distance between them was not something that Kurt felt would affect them or it just didn't hit him yet, or maybe he was running on pure adrenaline and excitement about moving to the big city.
