Everything You Know Is Wrong

Notes: I don't own Glee. This is fiction written for fun, not profit.

If any of you read my previous story, The Retreat, just know this is going to be a very different type of story.

1. What Do You Want?

"Alright Kitty, I'm going to show you some ink blots and you are going to tell me the first thing that comes to mind when you see them. Okay?"

"Mrs. Schuester, is this really necessary?"

"Kitty, after everything you've been through, the superintendent asked me to make sure your mental state was not too fragile for you to return to school and afterschool activities. So, Yes, it is necessary."

"Fine."

"Okay! The first one is here."

"Ummm… a bunch of pretty flowers."

"Good. Next."

"Laundry detergent."

"Interesting… Next."

"Two bears high-fiving."

"Kitty, if you choose to not take this seriously it might mean no more Cheerios or no school musical for you."

"Maybe I don't want those things anymore."

"Well then Kitty, what do you want?"

…

Kitty Wilde sat upon a crowded bus. The sunlight was shining in through the window again; they had been on the road all through the night. Even though the windows were tinted, the heat was starting to become unbearable. Kitty never liked the sun. Her pale skin burns easily, and she always gets sweaty and gross. Plus, recently the warmth on her skin would always bring back her bad memories. She adjusted the personal a/c vent over her head and rolled over to keep the sun off her face.

"Good morning passengers. Our estimate time of arrival in Los Angeles is 7:15. If you are continuing with us to San Diego remain on the bus and let everyone else disembark. Thank you for riding with us."

The woman next to her was an elderly woman doing some knitting. She noticed Kitty stirring and decided this was an invitation to start socializing. "So where are you headed young lady?"

"LA," was all Kitty replied.

"Oh really? How long have you been on the bus?"

"Since Ohio."

"Wow that's far. You must be in for something really exciting." Kitty nodded. Despite her reluctance to talk to this woman, she had an infectious charm. "I'm going to see my granddaughter in San Diego. She's probably around your age actually."

The woman handed Kitty a wallet-sized photo of the girl in question. "Wow, she's pretty," Kitty offered the compliment in earnest.

"Yes, she was. It's such a shame how she got sick and lost her beautiful hair. Someone that young getting cancer is just brutal…"

The brief moment of positive social interaction with this woman was already ruined. The woman kept talking, but Kitty stopped listening. She just stared forward and waited for the woman to stop talking.

"So are you traveling to see anyone in Los Angeles?"

"Umm yes…" Kitty paused to think of the best way to describe her. "… an old friend."

"Oh that's nice."

Eventually, the bus reached Los Angeles and Kitty left the woman behind. Kitty got off, grabbed her small suitcase, and looked around. Union Station was famous, she had seen it in movies all her life, but nothing prepare her for the real thing.

After a few awestruck minutes, Kitty heard a familiar voice from behind her. "Oh my God! You're really here!"

Sugar Motta had barely changed from the last time Kitty had seen her. She was still wearing exaggerated, fancy clothes and had that same goofy smile. She ran over and nearly tackled Kitty with a big hug. Kitty tensed up at first, but eventually hugged back.

"Come on, everyone coming to LA from the midwest needs to see the ocean as soon as possible."

Sugar dragged Kitty to her car and Kitty loaded up her stuff inside. On the way to the beach, Sugar kept asking Kitty about everyone from Glee and if Kitty had been keeping in touch with any of them. Kitty hadn't really, but she told Sugar all she could remember. The long car ride out gave Kitty a chance to finally relax somewhat. It was a nice feeling. It was starting to feel like a good idea coming to see Sugar.

Once they were looking upon the Pacific Ocean, Sugar spoke up again, "I honestly don't know what to say at times like these."

"Maybe nothing needs to be said…" Kitty offered.

"Five years… wow. Like, is this really you? Is this a dream? If I close my eyes are you going to disappear?"

Kitty chuckled to herself. Sugar's upbeat personality was something Kitty was always intrigued by. How could that girl think and talk so fast? What was going on inside her head?

"I should never have let us lose touch. Girls like us need to stick together."

"Girls like us?"

"Yeah: sexy, confident, talented, fashionable, first names that nobody believes we were born with…" That made Kitty laugh. Kitty had not laughed this much in a long time; Sugar just had this effect on her.

They decided to walk around on the sand for a little bit and talk some more. They ran around, occasionally splashed around when the waves got close enough to them, and then just sat down and watched the seagulls. Kitty was having such a good time already. She was happy again. She was starting to think she wasn't capable of that emotion anymore.

"I know I asked already, but seriously, how is everyone? Give me the dirt this time…"

"I don't know. Everyone is … the same. No one changed too drastically after Glee ended. You know that. You were lucky you got out early and didn't have to sit through everyone coming back and rehashing all their old problems." Kitty thought back to the events of that June five years ago when she saw Quinn, Puck, Brittany and everyone else come back. Sugar was one of the few conspicuous absences. "You know, you never really gave any of us a good reason of why you quit on us. Or why you left McKinley…"

"That's a story for later." Sugar briefly lost her smile when saying that. Kitty realized she wasn't the only one with a lot of demons. "Plus it was more fun letting everyone think I had like gone crazy or been kidnapped or something. Did they think I went crazy?"

"That was one of many rumors I heard, yes." After a brief silence, Kitty opened up to Sugar. "Without Glee, I started to just hate everything about that school. Then after all the … other things it just started to feel like a black hole. I fucking hated it and everyone there."

"Then why did you stay so long? Why didn't you get out at the first opportunity?"

"I'm here now. That's all that matters."

"Kitty… when you called me out of the blue and asked me for a place to stay while you were in LA, you never told me how long you'd be here. Not that I'm saying you can't stay with me! My door is always open to you. I just want to know where your head is at."

"I don't know how long I'll be here. There's still so much I want to see. Not just America, I want to see Europe, Australia, maybe something like Japan."

"Japan? Doesn't everyone over there watch cartoon porn?"

"Shut up."

"Sorry. I'm just happy you got out of Lima finally. It was the best decision I ever made, and now you get to experience it too."

They had burgers from a stand at the Pier, and then they drove back toward the city to Sugar's apartment. When they got there Kitty was amazed by the size of it. It was incredible. They were so far up, the view was amazing.

"Make yourself at home. Welcome to Sugar Shack West!"

Sugar took Kitty all around her penthouse. She showed her to the guest room, which was more than enough space for her. Kitty spent some time freshening up after the long bus ride, and it took her a while to figure out the state-of-art shower. As she washed away the dirt and sand from their trip to the beach, Kitty could help but think that some of her troubles were getting washed away too. It was a nice feeling.

Kitty got out of the shower and started getting dressed. She had already put on a pair of panties, and was in the process of putting on a bra, when Sugar just walked through the door. Kitty moved to cover herself, but it was as if Sugar thought what she was doing was completely okay. She hardly reacted to seeing Kitty half-naked. She just continued in the room and started talking about dinner plans.

"I want to take you to a favorite place of mine. It's kind of upscale so dress in something nice. If you didn't bring anything like that you can borrow something from me."

"OK," Kitty said nervously. Even though Kitty had been half-naked in locker rooms with the other Cheerios, that didn't make this situation normal or comfortable under any circumstances.

"I have so many clothes, I keep a lot of stuff in here." She opened the closet revealed a number of expensive looking dresses. "Any of things should do." Then she paused. "Expect this one, I'm wearing it." Then to make things even more awkward, Sugar immediately pulled off the clothes she was wearing in order to change into the dress she had just seen. Now they were both in their underwear. Sugar finally seemed to realize that Kitty was uncomfortable, and she asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Kitty deflected. "Thank you. For everything."

Sugar departed with her dress and let Kitty finished getting dressed alone. About an hour later, they left to go get dinner.

The place Sugar had picked out was nice. It was full of rich people types and food with fancy names. Everyone there looked like they could be a movie star.

While eating, Kitty and Sugar reminisced about the times they spent together in high school. They talked a lot of glee club and how much fun they had doing it, and how sad it was that future classes couldn't have that. Eventually that made Kitty want to press Sugar to talk about how she left McKinley, but she didn't want to come out and just ask in case talking about it would make Sugar uncomfortable. She'd have to build up to it.

"I'd love to live like this all the time. You are lucky, Sugar."

"I guess…" began Sugar. "My Dad always used to say, 'What else is there to have in life apart from luxury?' I guess that philosophy rubbed of on me more than I realized." She took a sip from her drink and seemed to drift back into a memory. "I always used to argue with him though. I would say, 'Well Daddy, what about love or creativity? Life is worth living for those things.' Then he'd tell me I was being silly."

"That sucks. I always thought you're Dad gave you everything you wanted."

"For a lot of things he did. But he never thought things like Glee club were worth my time. I had to beg and beg and beg so much to get him to pay for the Troubletones, and when we lost at Sectionals he didn't want me to go back the Glee with the other girls. Eventually I got tired of fighting him. That's why I left."

"You left because your father forced you to quit?"

"Well, there was more to it. Santana, Brittany, and Mercedes were always so encouraging of me after the Troubletones ended, but then Santana and Mercedes left, and I had Brittany only. But then she left too and I was alone. It wasn't worth it anymore."

"What about me?" Kitty blurted out. "… and Marley, Unique, or Tina? I thought we were friends…"

"We were. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said I was alone. But there's nothing I can do now. If I could go back in time and change it, I would."

"If you could go back in time, there's a couple things I'd get you to fix for me while you were there…"

"Hey, let's not go there. This is supposed to be a fun dinner, and we've already had too much sad talk."

They finished eating, and then Sugar decided to take Kitty around the city some more. She showed her a lot of the major tourist-y things and all of that took a couple hours.

Around 11 o'clock, Sugar suggested they go to one of her favorite nightclubs to get some fun dancing in. Kitty agreed because overall she was having a really good time. At the club, they didn't have to wait in line at all because Sugar was "well connected," as she put it. They had a drink each and then danced for a bit.

Kitty had fun dancing. She hadn't done that it so long, not since before everything that happened…

They went back to the bar, and the bartender started talking to them. He was a nice-looking guy who was wearing only a tanktop. Kitty figured it was so that he could show off his muscles and get drunk girls to give him bigger tips (or maybe their phone numbers). "How do you two know each other?"

Sugar gave the bartender flirty eyes and answered, "We are old friends from Lima, Ohio."

"And now you're here together? You must be very close."

"Well she's just visiting me while she sees the world for the first time. Before today we hadn't seen each other in five years."

"What happened?"

Sugar was about to answer, but Kitty spoke up for the first time to answer instead, "It's complicated." Sugar gave Kitty a confused look, and Kitty silently pleaded with Sugar to leave it be, and not tell this stranger her life story.

"Yeah … Life just got it the way," was the answer Sugar decided to go with.

After a few more minutes at the bar, Kitty needed to get some fresh air, so she told Sugar about it. Sugar showed Kitty the exit but didn't want to go outside herself. So they separated for a bit.

While she was outside, Kitty thought about Sugar and how nice it was for her to be so welcoming. Her momentary calm was broken when a drunk asshole burst through the exit door and slammed right into Kitty's back. Not only was it painful, but he also spilled his drink on her.

She headed back inside to get some towels to wipe herself off. Sugar had loaned her this dress, she didn't want it to be ruined after one night in her care. In the Ladies' Room, she found the towels she was looking for and started cleaning up. That was when she caught sight of her reflection in the mirror.

It was a surprising sight. She had gotten all made up in preparation for going out with Sugar, but the night of sightseeing, dancing, and drinking had taken its toll. Her hair was a mess and her makeup was smudged. "Perfect, just perfect."

She went to wipe her face with one of the clean towels, but then she heard some noises coming from one of the stalls. Normally this wouldn't be anything unusual, it is called a public bathroom for a reason. But the noises coming from the stall were not the normal sounds one expects to hear in the bathroom. There were people obviously getting busy in the bathroom stall.

Suddenly, something stirred inside of Kitty. She wasn't sure why, but she felt the urge to investigate further. She went into one of the neighbor stalls and sat down on the toilet there. Whoever it was inside the other stall had not noticed her presence; they were too busy. The noises were getting more intense, and it was also starting to have an effect on Kitty. She started to feel hot. She felt herself getting wet. She cursed herself and her libido while closing her legs together tightly and shifting uncomfortably in her seat. It didn't work though, and her curiosity was still urging her to get a closer look.

She took off her shoes, and stood up on the toilet seat. She stood as tall as she could so that she could pear over the stall wall. She looked down and saw something unbelievable. In the other stall were Sugar and the bartender, and Kitty couldn't have been more pleased.

more to come…

Post notes: You are bound to have questions, but all will be answered as the story unfolds. Trust me.