Author's Note: I know you guys are still waiting on my upcoming chapters for fics like Teach Me How to Love. I'm totally working on that still. I have other fan fictions and problems with school to deal with, so I don't know when the next few chapters will be in.
For this fan fic, I'm just writing a set of drabbles. Why, you ask? Well, writer's block, for one. I have some fics I wanna work on, but I can't seem to get back to them. Two, frustration. Why, you ask again? Well, I know most of you don't know, but I am going to publish a fic later on called Many Colors. It's really Tina-centric, but revolves around the neglected characters of Glee. I'm not publishing it this week (IDK about this month; maybe if I work on it in time).
For Many Colors and these drabbles I'm writing have the same purpose behind them: neglected characters. I mean, they just won't give up on the people with more screen time and songs, but they have to give up on other people with exceptional talent. Samuel/Joe and Vanessa/Sugar are the two main ones, IMO, followed by Kevin/Artie and Jenna/Tina, and Becca/Kitty. People who graduated like Amber/Mercedes and Harry/Mike, I think of them as neglected sometimes; but I wanna focus more on the people that are in Lima.
Summary: Set during I Do. Four glee club members are to sit out of the glee club due to their weakness, the Asian Bird Flu.
Featured Pairings: Wildehart (Kitty/Joe), Jugar (Joe/Sugar), Kittique (Kitty/Unique)
Chapter One
Sick As A Dog
Kitty absolutely couldn't believe how she got into this mess. Getting sick on a school day was not the plan she had expected. She sometimes prayed to get sick on a test day, but why today?
This was supposed to be a good day for her – and not just because she was the bitchy Kitty Cat she was, but the glee club was going to practice some songs to sing at Mr. Schue and Emma Pillsbury's wedding. She planned on attending to perform there – and to hopefully see Puck, her out-of-high-school boyfriend.
Unfortunately for the ruthless blonde, she couldn't attend school nor go to the wedding. She was forced to stay in her room for the rest of the week due to a rare case of Asian Bird Flu, which was a real pain in her ass. It was only ten o'clock in the morning, and Kitty wanted to leave the bed at once. While she loved the luxury and comfort of her own bedroom, the headaches and stomachaches weren't giving her a chance to rest.
She rolled over in the pink comforter her mother placed on her bed while she had gone to sleep last night. It was warm, but it made big lumps on the mattress, and was giving Kitty a hard time to fall back asleep again. Her feet kicked at some of the covers at were at the foot of her bed, and her head rolled around on the pillow. God Jesus, this felt like the biggest hangover in her head.
Her stomach grumbled loudly. She wasn't even hungry or anything since she had some apple slices not too long ago. That's when Kitty jerked forward, holding her stomach and moaned. "Damn me, no!" she exclaimed as she allowed the pain to go through her tummy. She felt something go up in her chest, and held her hand to her mouth. Her eyes closed shut as she mumbled, "Kill me now."
Kitty sprung from where she lay, and ran towards the bathroom that was closest to her bedroom. She wasted no time in making it to the toilet, for she had busted through the door and fell down on her knees, throwing the toilet seat cover up and upchucking a bit of her food down in the toilet bowl. The vomit in her mouth was absolutely gross, and the area around her reeked once she coughed up the remaining waste.
Her head hit the cold, filthy toilet bowl, and she uttered out a moan. Being sick was the worst feeling in the world to her. Now she finally realized what it was like when Marley was going through her bulimia phase, without the need to get thin and pretty like people want her to be.
Kitty flushed the toilet and slowly made it to the sink, where she had washed her hands and rinsed out her mouth. She grabbed a rag, soaked it with some cool water, and patted her face a bit. She was a complete mess. How couldn't she be when her head felt so light and her stomach was tightening up some? Once she was done in the bathroom, she dragged her way out of there, and made it back to the bed. The last thing she needed was an interruption.
Too bad for her, for her cell phone on her lamp stand started to ring. She had just fallen back on the soft yet uncomfortable bed when she heard the blaring cell phone go off. Kitty's face fell into the pillow lying at the head of her bed. Why do people call me at the wrong times?
She extended her left hand to the lamp stand to grab the phone, unable to tolerate much bullshit anymore. "Next time you call here during my health hangover, I won't be able to hear your voice again, 'cause I'll hang up on you and –"
"Kitty!" A voice called before Kitty could finish her sentence. That was when she stopped and looked around in confusion. It couldn't be Jake or anyone from school, unless they stayed home for some reason. "Kitty…don't lynch me. Please." His voice was timid, for he stuttered a bit once he heard Kitty rant. And he sounded ill as well, like he had the sniffles.
Kitty knitted her eyebrows together in confusion. "Who the hell are you?" she asked with a nasally tone.
"Joe Hart." The nervous male on the other line answered. He didn't expect Kitty to reply with such a tone, or even be on the other line. But he was alone at home with no one to talk to. His mother and father had gone out for work, so Joe pretty much had the house to himself. "I thought I called the wrong number, but…" He shrugged and added in a chuckle, looking down at Sam Evans's phone number on the small piece of paper in his hand. Sam was probably at third or fourth period. He didn't want to interrupt his class session; so he just shrugged the thought off and set the paper aside. "I guess I didn't. I don't know."
Kitty took the phone from her ear, and collapsed back into the bed with a groan. Of all days and all people, I have to take a sick day with the dreads guy? She really didn't feel like talking with anyone at the moment, let alone anyone from school now that she was having the worst day of her life. Joe meant well from what Kitty already knows about him, but she just didn't want to be bothered on a day that was supposed to be a good day.
Just when the ruthless blonde was rubbing her forehead, she heard Joe speak on the other line. "Kitty…are you still there?"
Kitty moaned, shaking her head and bringing her phone to her ear. "Couldn't you call me at a better time? I'm sick. I have nothing to say to anyone."
"Don't worry, Kitty," the dreadlocked teenager told the blonde from where he sat. "I'm at home sick, too. I wanted to see what assignment Mr. Beiley gave to the class."
Kitty's eyebrows knitted together in such confusion. "Wait, you actually call in for assignments? What are you, a nerd?"
Joe inwardly chuckled. "Why, you see that as a problem?"
"Obviously enough. Even when you're sick, depressed, or sitting in bed with a broken-ass leg, they still make you do work. It's just like prison, except they're not there in the house with you to pressure you." Joe looked down, perplexed. He never really knew what happened on prison grounds anyway. He heard Kitty sigh, disappointed. "The last guy I heard of that got sent to prison, he got whipped so hard with a switch that he couldn't even limp, and that's saying something."
Joe gripped at his bare arm, and looked down at his opened agenda. He had homework for three different classes, which were all supposed to be due today, and he just might have another assignment to finish for tomorrow. But like Kitty, his stomach was growling and in so much pain. Plus, he had been with a headache for the longest, so he might as well rest it out.
"Are you sure it would be okay?" the teenaged Jesus told the Cheerio on the other line, waiting on a true confirmation.
"It's not like there aren't teachers at school that don't have sympathy for people. Look at Mrs. Wyndham, the English teacher."
"I don't know her."
Kitty deadpanned, almost facepalming before realizing how hot her forehead was. "Seriously?" she asked with a sigh.
"What? I've been homeschooled pretty much my whole life, prior to sophomore year. I still don't have much of a –"
Joe felt himself gag a bit. He covered his mouth immediately with his hand, and his eyes closed shut in such embarrassment. He knew Kitty heard him on the other line. He had legitly embarrassed himself for the first time, and that didn't even count when he had feelings for Quinn Fabray before she graduated.
At that moment, he felt something go up in his stomach. He prayed it wouldn't come back, but it did anyway. God, not today…
Kitty looked forward in disgust, hearing Joe's gagging noises on the other line. "Um…what the hell?" she asked, her eyes rolling halfway.
Joe couldn't tell what was worse: being sick on a school day, or embarrassing himself towards a Cheerio. He assumed they both were equally as embarrassing. "I am so sorry," he told her, his voice a bit muffled. "Excuse me."
Kitty sat in a still position, still deadpanning in front of her as she heard Joe run from his bedroom out the door. He must have it, too. How could it have spread was what Kitty wanted to figure out. Asian Bird Flu was probably the new – or old – swine flu, except it came from birds.
Or Tina Cohen-Chang, though she herself had denied it.
She heard her computer beep for a brief second. She moaned again. She always thought the phone company bugging the shit out of her mother was bad, especially for her mother. Kitty was wrong; the situation Kitty was in was ten times worse.
She reluctantly scooted over in the bed towards her computer on the other side of the bed. Boy, she was going to miss the comfort of her bed.
She clicked open her chat, and saw a familiar face: the one of Wade/Unique Adams. Unique's eyes were really heavy, and she looked as if she wanted to throw up, too. "You, Precious?" the blonde asked in surprise.
"No time for jokes, Young Jane Lynch. I'm sick and bored as hell, and looking for someone to cheer me up."
Kitty cocked an eyebrow. What possibly made Joe and Unique want to come to Kitty to get some attention or at least some entertainment? She wasn't meant to stay home today to be Bobo the Circus Clown for the glee club's newest diva or the late Teen Jesus.
"Couldn't you just turn up the tunes, or sit through a gay little soap opera or something?" Kitty moaned as she stared into the eyes of the transgender in her computer screen. "I have a massive headache, and I don't want to deal with anyone today." She paused for a minute, remembering that she had to wait on Joe on the other line of her cell phone, who was probably dying in the bathroom by now. "Plus, I have to deal with Tarantula Head, so…" She reluctantly added.
Unique raised her eyebrows, impressed. "Joe Hart?"
"Unfortunately."
Just when Unique was about to say something, Kitty heard a beep on her computer, and another window popped up with the face of junior glee clubber Sugar Motta. Her hair was tied into a loose ponytail, with a few strands of hair in her face. She was all snug in her pink and yellow robe, which meant only one thing in Kitty's mind. "And just when it already gets worse…"
"Oh, you're still a bitch? That's kinda old news." Sugar replied, grabbing the cup of tea with lemon that was sitting on her desk.
"Shut the hell up, Strawberry-Blonde Bitch."
Sugar shrugged. "I've heard worse. Not Aspergers."
Unique rubbed her forehead in defeat. "Guys, please don't do this. Miss Unique needs to handle her health, and you two need to as well." She paused as something came back to her memory. "Hey, where's Joe?"
The Motta's Pianos heiress knitted her eyebrows together. "Wait, Joe has chat on his computer? Does he even have a computer?"
Kitty leaned against her hand in boredom. When will these people log off so I can go back to bed?
She heard Joe call from her phone. "Kitty, are you still there?"
Kitty, with her bitchy attitude, grabbed the phone immediately and spoke to the dreadlocked boy through the receiver. "Are you still that preachy? If so, then yes." This made Joe looked confused and offended at the same time.
"Oh-em-geezus, is that Joe?" the rich junior girl asked through Kitty's computer screen. "Put him on speaker phone!" Kitty really wished she didn't get that giddy on Joe being on her phone, for there was nothing much to be excited about. But she couldn't fight anyone at the moment. She was too vulnerable to even try. So she adjusted her phone so Joe would be on speaker dial.
"Kitty, are you still there? A – Are you mad at me?" the nervous, religious teenager asked, his left hand gripping to his right wrist.
"Joseph!" Teen Jesus heard Sugar call through Kitty's phone, which made him even more perplexed.
"Is Sugar over your house?" Joe asked the bitchy Cheerio.
"Hello there, boo!" the dreadlocked teen heard Unique call. "Heard from Kitty that you're at home, too, huh?"
Joe nodded in disappointment. "Yeah, I'm here. I don't know how it happened. I thought when my stomach growled the other day that I was suffering from the pizza my mother cooked for dinner."
Kitty could've tossed her head back and listen to the three people making her day more boring than it already is. But both Unique and Sugar were watching her, and she would've made it too obvious that she was sick and tired of hearing from all three of them, even though they tried to make her day relatable and entertaining for her. Actually, the only thing that was entertaining about her day was the few seconds of silence she got when Joe sprinted from his room to the bathroom.
Yet, poor Joe Hart's grateful soul…
"I want to go back to school, though," she heard Joe say through the phone. "I feel like I have a lot to make up for, and I miss everyone back in school." Kitty rolled her eyes halfway. Like, have you ever been sick on a school day before? She did even care if either Unique or Sugar had caught her.
"I don't." Unique and Kitty turned to Sugar's window on their computers, and Joe closely listened to her speak. "I don't think people at school even miss us back." This statement made Kitty frown a bit, as it did to Unique. Sugar looked at them and shrugged. "What? Even Tina Blowen-Wang would rather eye-boggle Blaine Anderson than talk about out-diva-ing Unique."
Unique rolled her eyes and grabbed her cup of water. "Poor fashionista's just jealous," she said as she took a sip.
"Jealous of what, your wigs?" the blonde asked in boredom. She caught a glimpse of Unique whirling around, giving Kitty a stale face.
"Still, you guys know it's true," Sugar spoke. She took one more sip of her tea before sitting it back on the desk. "Have you ever heard someone tell you how much they've missed you after you had just come back from summer or winter vacation? Have you ever been the center of attention for even one second? I bet none of you remember the last time you even got to sing a solo in front of the glee club, and people applauded as if they're at a crappy musical."
It was suddenly silent. Kitty, Unique, and Joe all realized how neglected they all were. The moment Kitty joined the glee club, she had already received rejection from Tina. It didn't even look as if she wanted Kitty near her at all. Unique, even though she has a creative ego, had enemies the moment she walked in the room. Not just Tina, but Blaine and Brittany objected Unique's opinion on being the new Rachel of the club.
In terms of Joe… "I never even got a solo for people to applaud for me," he replied in disappointment. Kitty looked down at her phone, deep in thought. He had been in New Directions longer than both she and Unique, and he never got a solo? Kitty never thought about it before, but Joe had a decent voice.
"Whenever I got to sing in the glee club, I made everyone's ears bleed," Sugar admitted, "though back then, I actually admitted that I had a badass voice."
Unique shrugged. "I get to sing with Marley, at least," she replied, remembering the soul of the poor yet soulful sophomore girl. Marley was pretty much Unique's only best friend since they got along so well and the fact that they understood each other was positively overwhelming to the transgender teen. "But I feel like I'm just a sidekick. Like…" She chuckled. "Like Patrick is to Spongebob." Kitty, Sugar, and Joe knitted their eyebrows together in confusion. "Something I remember from Brittany."
"Of course." Sugar and Unique deadpanned at Kitty as she replied with a simple shrug. The second-time senior had better dance moves than Channing Tatum could provide; but she was more into her childhood than anyone in the glee club – or the school, in general – actually was.
At that moment, Kitty realized that everyone was silent. Kitty agreed with what Sugar said about people not caring about her. She had that experience when she tried to get with Jake Puckerman. Sure, she had Puck; but he didn't seem to care about her as much as Jake did about Marley. However, she was already torn like a piece of paper. She'd rather be bored with Sugar, Joe, and Unique than break down in front of them.
Kitty looked up for a second and then sighed. "Well…I got a crappy part in Glease, thanks to the people who decided to reject me –"
"Kitty." Unique interrupted before Kitty spilled more crap.
Kitty groaned a bit on the inside. Well, I might as well go ahead and let this one slip out. "I know you guys know of Jake and Marley's sick and ridiculous relationship, right?" Unique and Sugar nodded. Kitty gripped at the edge of her desk, bit her lip, and sighed as she looked back up at the screen. "I was a bitch to everyone because I wanted people to like me. I knew that wasn't the right route to go on. Not even Jesus himself would go in that direction."
She heard Joe snap his fingers on the other line through her cell phone. "Preach," he called, which made Sugar smirk.
"No one asked you, Dreadlocks," Kitty replied, which made Joe silent immediately. Kitty looked on the corner of her eye at Unique, who shook her head and crossed her arms. Kitty realized how mean she had been to Joe, too, when he really wasn't a bad guy. Sure, she thought he was a bit preachy, but he really wasn't a bad guy. "Then when Jake got rid of me for the broke Beatrice chick, that's when I felt guilty for what I said and did."
Sugar, Joe, and Unique all nodded. Neither one of them have experienced that kind of Kitty like she did in her life. All four of them have felt jealousy, actually, but they've been through it differently.
And all this time, Kitty thought she didn't have anything in common with those three. But she actually did.
"Girl, jealously. Such a bitch, ain't it?"
Kitty smirked. "It is. It really is."
She took a moment to think. Sugar and Joe were probably the biggest so-called losers in the whole glee club, and Unique was just like a sidekick. Hell, sometimes, Kitty could think of herself as the sidekick type of person. She still pondered over how Blaine got to be head cheerleader over her and even Brittany combined. Kitty always thought it would be Brittany that she had to fight against, aside from Marley.
"Do you guys still think I'm a bitch?" she asked all three. No one responded. So Kitty added in, "Like, do you think of me as one of those people others don't want to be around?" The blonde shrugged willingly. "I can take it. That's okay."
Joe shook his head. "Kitty, you're not. Actually, I think you're kind of a funny person…even though your remarks are a bit much."
Kitty shrugged a bit. "I guess they are. But I want to make things right. I'm stuck with you guys for maybe a few more sick days, and stuck with you for however long I decide to be in the glee club. You guys are my only friends, really. Those Cheerios probably wouldn't count now, being that they only like me because I'm supermodel-worthy and I'm hot as hell."
Joe smirked a bit. He glanced at Kitty once in a while, and she looked just as pretty as the other girls in New Directions, if not the prettiest.
"I'm sticking with you guys," Kitty spoke with a bright smile on her face, which made Sugar, Unique, and Joe grin wider. "What do you guys say?"
"I'm in," she heard Joe reply through the phone.
"I am, too," Sugar agreed, raising her hand in the camera, from what Kitty and Unique could see.
"Unique is so –" She gagged a bit, and then covered her mouth. Kitty and Sugar had their eyes bugged out of their heads, and Joe looked forward in confusion. God, Kitty wasn't the only one who hated this terrible Asian Bird Flu. "Ugh, be right back, guys," all three heard Unique utter out before she went out of view through Kitty and Sugar's computers.
Joe brought his phone to his ear and rested his head on the pillow lying on his bed. "My head hurts," he complained.
"God, I hate being sick," Sugar moaned, leaning against her hand in the camera and drinking a sip of tea.
Kitty shrugged a bit. "Well, there's another thing we have in common, right?" She attempted to lighten up the mood. Neither Joe nor Sugar responded, for they were having massive headaches.
Joe rubbed his forehead and smiled halfway. "At least you're trying, Kitty."
Author's Note: Okay, guys. There's the first chapter of my set of drabbles. What did you think? Too bad they basically almost humanized Kitty on Glee. Hell, if I was running the show, I would've done it this way with the neglected characters first, and then with Marley. Eh. IDK. I'm not sure if I'm gonna take recommendations for drabble ideas. I'll think about it, but I'm not certain. Still, I hope you guys liked the story, and I can't wait for you to see what happens next.