Title: Ask Me to Stay
Chapter Title: And so it begins. . .
Author: Ash Knight
Pairings: (undecided)
Warnings: bad language, sexual situations, and violence
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee
Notes: Matt never transferred in my story but I still haven't decided how I'm going to use him.
Summary: Fed up with the way everyone sees him, Kurt decides its time to leave Lima. With nothing to lose he starts to let everyone know exactly what he thinks unaware of the consequences. But when things reach a boiling point and he has to choose, will there be anyone able to give him a reason to stay?
Kurt walked into his house exhausted. The last couple of days had been rather trying and despite Rachael and him doing a duet together he still felt lonely. After the talk with his dad Kurt was glad he didn't try to sing with Sam. But in the end it hurt that he couldn't at least try to be his friend. Mercedes was an amazing friend, there was no denying that, but in the end despite him being so effeminate he was still a guy. It would have been nice if he could have made Sam his friend. Sam seemed ok with him being gay, unlike the rest of the guys in glee let alone the rest of the school.
Spotting his dad napping on the couch he decided to start dinner. As he looked through the vegan cook book he spotted the newspaper on the counter out of the corner of his eyes. He wouldn't have looked twice at it if it wasn't for a certain article catching his eye. Picking it up he read the small article about the glee clubs resident badass. The article thankfully didn't mention Puck by name but Kurt didn't know anyone else who tried to steal an ATM machine recently. Before he even knew what he was doing he was dialing Finn's cell.
"Hey, Finn bad timing?"
"Uh. . . no what's up?" Finn asked awkwardly.
"I was just wondering if you had heard anything about Puck" Kurt replied.
"Puck? Why?"
"Well I . . . just though that since he was your friend you would know if he was ok."
"Kurt, me and Puck don't really talk anymore. Besides, I though you'd be glad to see Puck locked up" Finn said.
"Well then I guess you don't know much about me Finn" Kurt snapped.
"What's up with you? First you almost get Sam beat up by trying to do a duet with him, and now you're asking about Puck? Kurt neither one of them likes you! Their not gay!"
"This has nothing to do with me being gay!" Kurt yelled. "I was only asking about Puck because I saw the article in the newspaper and I was worried about him! Look, just give me Puck's home number and I'll find out for myself if he's ok."
Finn gave Kurt Puck's number and then hung up. Getting back to making dinner for his dad only helped to calm him down a little bit. No matter what he did it seemed like he couldn't get anyone passed his sexuality. And the fact that Finn accused him of trying to now get Puck into bed was a new low. Despite their history of bully and victim, Kurt was able to see past it and at least show some concern for his fellow glee club member. They were supposed to be a team and no one even seemed to care that Puck was in trouble beyond the fact that it was going to hurt their chances to win against Vocal Adrenalin. When they came back from their summer vacation, Kurt had agreed with Mercedes that they had all united together, but now he saw how wrong that statement was.
Looking at it as objectively as he could he couldn't remember ever really hanging out with anyone from glee, besides Mercedes, outside of anything to do with glee. Since, he was always the proverbial loner he learned how to observe people very well, and what he saw in the glee club lately wasn't very good. They all seemed to be at each others throats or backstabbing each other and in the end it just seemed like they were heading for a huge fallout. Kurt was brought out of his musing by the sound of the television being turned on. His dad like always wouldn't miss a new episode of 'Deadliest Catch' and it wasn't surprising he woke up in time to catch a new episode.
"Dinner's almost already dad" Kurt called out.
"Deadliest Catch is on, I'll eat after" Burt responded.
"Dad you need to eat! I'll bring it into the living room, but you're going to eat a healthy meal" Kurt declared exasperatedly.
After another 15 minutes Kurt was done and brought everything out in a tray.
"Alright dad, tonight you are having eggplant, tomato, and spinach lasagna with a nice chicken Caesar salad. Bon Appetite!"
"Thanks son" Burt chuckled, as he sat up and let Kurt serve him dinner. "So how was your day?"
"Same as always, but Rachael was nice enough to offer to do a duet with me in glee even though the duet is contest over."
"Is that what you and Finn were yelling about?" Burt asked eyeing his son.
"No that's not what we were yelling about dad" Kurt sighed. "One of the other members of the glee club got himself into some big trouble and no one else seems to even care."
"What kind of trouble?" Burt pressed.
"He drove his moms Volvo into a convenient store and drove off with the ATM."
"Is he the one who got Finns girlfriend pregnant?"
"Yeah, Puck, that's him alright. I was asking Finn if he had heard anything from him."
"So then why the yelling?" Burt pressed.
"Finn just got on my nerves, that's all dad" Kurt shrugged and stood up from the couch.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"It's ok dad, I'm just tired is all. When you're done with dinner, just leave the dishes in the sink and I'll take care of them before I go to bed" Kurt answered as he began to walk towards his room.
Seeing his son wanted to be alone he watched as Kurt walked off heading for his room. Kurt sat down at his vanity mirror and dialed Pucks home number. The ensuing conversation was very unpleasant to say the least. Mrs. Pukerman was obviously still very mad about what had happened, which was understandable. However, she didn't seem to care at all about her son being in juvvie, and seemed to be glad in getting rid of him and had washed her hands of him. She told Kurt that Puck's hearing was scheduled for the 31st of November and that he was going to stay locked up until then, unless someone posted his bail of $780 dollars. The only time she had spoken to him since his arrest was when she was brought to the police station to see him, which she then told him he could rot and that if he somehow got out he wasn't allowed back home anymore.
Trying to think of what he could do, Kurt applied his nightly skin cream to his face and went about his nightly ritual. The bail money was easy, as he could just use his own money, but the hearing was not so simple. For that he would need a lawyer and a damn good one if they were going to get Puck out of the mess he had made. Mulling things over Kurt finally got a plan together. It was definitely risky, and he needed his dad to help for the 2nd part, and sadly enough Rachael Berry for the 3rd, but it was the only thing he could do. Kurt just couldn't believe he was even doing this. He was actually going to help Puck of all people out. If it was Mercedes there'd be no question about helping her. She was his friend, and she had always stood by him no matter what and even encouraged Kurt to come out and be who he was.
Puck on the other hand was definitely not his friend. Ever since kindergarten Puck had made Kurt his punching bag. He couldn't think of Puck without thinking of all the torment that he had lived through at the bully's hands. But ever since Puck had joined glee he hadn't bothered with Kurt. He still bullied the other geeks and nerds at the school of course; he had grown up during the whole thing with Quinn, although obviously not enough if he had got himself in trouble yet again this year.
Not wanting to think about it anymore Kurt wiped off the face creams and then went upstairs to do the dishes. Afterwards he decided it was time to work on his project again. He went to his hope chest and pulled out a leather-bound portfolio book that was hidden under all of his tiaras. He started this book last year just before he had joined the football team. Inside were all his ideas for glee, from costumes he had personally sketched out in detail to choreography. But after they finally had twelve members he started adding more, a lot more. Inside now were break downs of everyone's vocal range and songs that he thought each of them should try to perform. After that it built up to duets mixing and matching all of the members together with all types of songs, from show tunes to rock music.
Then it kept going from duets to trios and so forth until there were songs for the whole group. Besides all of that there was a DVD attached to the back cover of the book. On the DVD were recorded performances he had made himself over the year before. His first one was the single ladies performance he had done with Tina and Brittany that he thankfully finished after the embarrassing moment of his father walking in on them right in the middle. After that it was footage of him singing in many different styles each one showing how versatile his voice was as well as his dancing. He had even gotten a recording of his performance with the cheerios singing in perfect French, which of coarse won the championship last year. He wanted to add one last recording of himself singing his own original song. He was working on the lyrics and hoped that he would finish it before the deadline came in December.
Originally the book was meant to be a portfolio of all his artistic talent for a prestigious performing arts school he wanted to go to in NYC. He found out they had an early admission program for the truly gifted with a full scholarship. He met all the requirements except one: he needed to be at least seventeen. His birthday was coming up soon and he hoped to submit it with a complete dozen songs. But even if he did the only other problem was his dad. He talked to his dad about it last year and his dad told him he was still too young to just take off for NYC and test out of school early. Now this year he was going to apply anyway and if he somehow managed to get the scholarship then he would confront his dad about it then.
By the time Kurt stopped working it was nearly midnight. Kurt put the book into his bag as well as his camera, needing to use the equipment in the auditorium to finish his song. He took a quick shower and then went back into his room while using a towel to dry his hair. The one good thing about not having to share a room with Finn anymore was that he could walk around nude again. He liked being comfortable more than anything when he was at home and Finn definitely took that away when he was here. Once he was dry, Kurt put on an old jersey his dad had given years before and some sweat pants. Finally, falling in bed he hoped tomorrow would turn out ok.