Kurt was terrified, as looked up at the board in his English class room. It was as if it said, "Students shall be thrown in hell tomorrow."
However, for Kurt it was much worse than that. He'd actually prefer it. Nobody else had that opinion, but they probably hated it as much as Kurt did.
"Persuasive Speech Presentations Tomorrow" the board read and to Kurt it was more like a death sentence.
Kurt was terrified of public speaking especially in front of his English class, it had most of the football jocks and bitchy cheerleaders in it.
And no, Finn wasn't in his class and neither was Puck, Quinn, or even Santana. He could handle Santana better even though she was the wicked bitch of the west.
This class had the jocks that would still beat him up even though they had the bully whips, and the cheerleaders who were nastier than a cat.
The only real friend Kurt had in his class was Blaine. Which Kurt was fine with, if he could choose anyone, it would be Blaine.
Kurt sat in the middle of the room with Blaine in the desk on the left side of him and it was easy to know when something was on each other's mind.
When the teacher was writing on the board, Blaine passed a note to Kurt.
Kurt made sure the teacher wasn't looking, and opened the note quietly. Kurt read the note quickly, "What's wrong? You don't look too good."
Kurt grabbed his pen and replied to Blaine's note and quickly passed back the note before the teacher turned around.
"Nothing, I'm fine." Kurt replied, but Blaine didn't fall for it, but he wasn't going to risk getting a detention, so he decided to wait until after class to talk to Kurt.
Once school was over, it was about five o' clock and Blaine decided to find out the issue with Kurt.
He went over to his house, and knocked on the door.
Burt Hummel, Kurt's father answered and he wasn't surprised to see Blaine.
"Hi Mr. Hummel is Kurt home?" Blaine asked him.
Burt nodded, "Yes, do you know what's up with him?" Burt asked him, knowing something was bothering his son.
Blaine shook his head, "No, but he has been that way since English class. That's all I know." Blaine informed him.
"Did anything happen? Did he get a bad grade or something?" Burt asked, but again Blaine answered 'No' with shaking his head.
"Not that I know, we just have a speech presentation tomorrow." Blaine said and Burt knew what was going on.
"Oh, now this makes perfect sense." Burt said, but Blaine was confused.
"What?" Blaine asked, unaware of one of Kurt's biggest fears.
"You didn't know? Kurt is terrified of public speaking, well in front of classes in way," Burt explained. "He's afraid of the ridicule and judgment; I think he gets that from his sister."
Blaine was shocked, who knew that Kurt Hummel, the guy who lived and survived Dave's tormenting for months was afraid of public speaking.
But he some what got why he would be in English class, Kurt and himself were the only people who wouldn't judge.
"Can I go talk to him?" Blaine asked Burt and he nodded then letting him inside. He informed Blaine that Kurt was in his bed room and he went upstairs.
He knocked on the door, as it slid open, finding Kurt planning note cards on his bed. Probably preparing for the dreaded speech.
"Hey," Kurt said after seeing it was Blaine.
"Hey, why didn't you tell me you're terrified of speaking in public?" Blaine asked and Kurt was angered Burt told Blaine.
"Because it's stupid, and I didn't want anyone to know how self conscious I am." Kurt said as tears began to form in his eyes.
"Hey, its okay, lots of people hates speaking in front of people; it's just another form of stage fright." Blaine said and Kurt smiled.
"I can't do this Blaine," Kurt said as Blaine sat on the bed with him.
"Of course you can, what's the worse that can happen?" Blaine encouraged, but Kurt didn't find exactly helpful.
"Well, I could faint, throw up, or even both," Kurt replied. "What can I do?"
"Take deep breaths, and stand by the trash can." Blaine joked, but Kurt was in the exact mood for jokes.
"Blaine, you're not helping me here, you're just building up my nerves." Kurt said.
"Sorry, now, practice your speech with me and see if you can persuade me. Then doing tomorrow will be easier." Blaine said.
They practiced Kurt's speech for 2 hours until Kurt did it perfectly. Blaine had to go home at eight and Kurt seemed ready for the speech, but he really wasn't.
The next day, Kurt was as nervous as shit. He was lucky he was allowed to use note cards.
If he had to memorize his speech he'd probably forget it all once it was his turn.
Once sixth period came, Kurt thought he was actually about to burn in hell and a few times was considering killing himself, but Blaine would kill him if he tried.
The teacher had the three pretty cheerleaders go first because they volunteered. Then she selected randomly. And fair enough, Kurt was picked.
"Kurt, you up." She said and his eyes widened and he began to shake. He was sure his heart skipped a few beats.
He nervously grabbed his note cards, and before he grabbed them all Blaine put a hand on Kurt's shoulder. "Relax; you're going to be great." He assured Kurt, and he nodded as he walked up to the front of the classroom.
The teacher told him to begin and Kurt looked out everyone looking at him. He took a breath and for some reason everyone except the teacher and Blaine laughed.
Kurt took as they ere making fun of him. He was up front anyway.
He looked down at his cards, and tried to start reading the first sentence, but couldn't get one word out.
"Uhh… I…" Was the only thing Kurt was able to shake out.
Blaine couldn't believe what he was seeing; he was watching his boyfriend choke on something he just had to read.
Then the un thinkable happened, Kurt started to cry, which wasn't expected. He couldn't stop the tears from flowing out of his eyes and Kurt ran out of the class room.
Blaine was just stunned and it hurt, he hated seeing his boyfriend like that. It was unbearable.
He then got out of his seat and exited the class room to go after to Kurt. "Kurt!"
To be Continued
What did you think?
I wrote this one when I had to give a speech myself in English Class. And this is what happened.
I had a panic attack. Literally. I thought I was going to die before I went up there and instead, freaked out! Public Speaking is NOT by best thing. Especially when it's something I wrote. UGH!
YIKES! Poor Kurtie! Blaine will have to comfort him. My Klaine :D
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