A/N – Hi everyone, welcome to my drabble/one-shot collection! Just a quick introduction before I let you get to the stories…
This is a collection of short stories based off one word prompts. All take place at Dalton Academy and feature various Warblers and various pairings. They are not linked together… well mostly. Also, I very much doubt I will write anything over T-rating, but if I do, I'll warn beforehand.
I hope you enjoy these random little stories and please feel free to send me any one word prompts you'd like to see (although I can't guarantee I'll write all prompts I'm given, they have to inspire me!)
Ok, enough of me rambling… onto the stories!
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee. If I did it would be set at Dalton not McKinley and the Warblers would be the main characters with the occasional appearances from New Directions, rather than the other way around.
Mirror
Characters – Nick, Jeff, Blaine
"I still can't get it right!" Nick whined, frowning at his reflection in the full length mirror on the back of the closet door.
Jeff and Blaine looked up from their textbooks, Jeff rolling his eyes and Blaine looking confused.
"What can't you get right?" Blaine asked. Nick turned away from the mirror and pouted at Blaine.
"That silly little spin thing that you added to our choreography," he explained grumpily.
"Keep practising," Jeff put in. Nick glared at him.
"I am practising. But I'm not getting any better."
Nick turned back to the mirror and watched his reflection intently as he did the quick side-steps and clicks that preceded the spin in the dance. Then he spun, wobbled and only just regained his feet before falling into his desk. He once more turned to scowl at Blaine.
"See!" He huffed. "It keeps going wrong!"
Blaine clicked the cap onto his pen, dropped it onto his book and stood up from where he was lying on his stomach on the floor. He moved Nick's desk chair over so he had more space then stood in front of Nick.
"Watch."
He did the side-steps, then glanced quickly at Nick before performing a perfect spin into the grapevine step. He smiled up at Nick, but the other boy just grimaced.
"I know what it's supposed to look like, but I just can't do that!"
"Do it again and I'll point out all the things you're doing wrong," Blaine offered.
"Gee, thanks, Blaine," Nick said sarcastically as Jeff snorted.
"I didn't mean it like that!" Blaine smacked Nick's arm, and Nick finally grinned.
"Ok, here goes."
Jeff looked up from his assignment again, just as Nick was over balancing after the spin. Blaine caught him and quickly stopped him falling down. Nick let out a frustrated noise and ran a hand through his hair, tugging his bangs.
"Why can't I do it?" he whined.
"It's your left foot that's the problem," Blaine said. "You don't stop the spin right."
Blaine demonstrated the spin again, pointing down at his left foot as the spin ended and he stopped with his feet shoulder width apart so that he kept his balance. He then moved his left foot so it was up against his right.
"This is where your feet end up after the spin. That's why you fall." He moved his feet back to where they should be.
"Huh." Nick set his feet shoulder width apart like Blaine's. "Ok, I can do that."
Nick tried the spin again; he still ended with his feet together, but quickly stepped to the side with his left to avoid falling. Blaine just raised one eyebrow.
"You've got to really plant your foot to the ground." Blaine demonstrated again, stamping to show his point. "But don't stamp, obviously."
At least this time when Nick tried it, he almost landed the spin right. Blaine grinned and Jeff clapped. Nick stuck his tongue out at Jeff.
"Hey, don't be patronising, Jeffrey!"
"But it's easy," Jeff said with a fond smile.
"Stop being so smug. You do it."
Jeff shrugged, put his pen down, stood up and walked over to Nick and Blaine. Without a word, he executed a perfect spin then did the grapevine back to his bed and sat down again, picking up his pen before turning to grin at Nick.
"Like that you mean?"
"Ok, you can go away now," Nick grumbled, a tiny smile trying to break across his face.
"Just keep practising in the mirror, Nicky," Jeff told him.
"Yeah, look at your feet in the mirror, so that you're not unbalanced by looking down at them," Blaine added.
Nick sighed as Blaine went back over to his school books and lay down again.
He turned back to the mirror, glaring at his green-socked feet in the reflection.
A/N – So, there is the first one! I hope you liked it. Just a quick note here to say please review, and I'll see you soon with the next drabble!
