A/N: Good Afternoon all, (as it is here in the UK)… I am currently re-editing a story I started writing on here a while ago.

The first few chapters will be up pretty quickly since I've already written them, but the next parts will be taking a little longer, as I will have to write them from scratch, so please bear with me. I hope you enjoy!

*ALSO NO GLEE OWNERSHIP HERE… EXCEPT THE WARBLERS ALBUM! I DO ONE OF THOSE!*

Kurt always knew he had strength. Not in the physical sense. He was small and lithe, although he could probably carry as much as his friends could, but that wasn't the strength that he was aware of.

It was the strength he used which carried him through the heartache he had suffered since the beginning of his young life. The tragedies of losing his mother, the strength he used day to day, to endure his bullies, being thrown into dumpsters every morning.

His greatest strength yet was last year, when he had to endure the physical ache inside him when his dad was admitted to hospital with a heart attack. He felt alone, like there was nobody in the world that would understand what he was going through. Even his friends just didn't get it.

So when Karofsky started to pick him out from the crow, to barge into him, his body being thrown into the school lockers he knew that it was this strength that he had to draw on once again.

Blaine always knew he was special. He wasn't big headed or anything, in fact he was very humble. He was just constantly told by his father that he was unique and had something special about him.

When he found out he was gay he thought that this was what his father had been talking about and that he knew. When he came out to his parents however, the shocked appearance on his father's face told him otherwise.

After that his relationship with his dad shifted, it wasn't malicious, it was just... different.

His father started spending more time with him than before, but instead of just letting Blaine do the things he wanted to do he would watch games of football with him, making him stay, teaching him all the rules instead of letting him go help his mother in the kitchen which he usually would of, he showed him how to fix the plumbing one day when the kitchen sink started leaking and he would now bring Blaine on his business trips during school holidays as it involved travelling days at a time throughout the states delivering pharmaceutical equipment and medication, he would meet and greet all the clients sure to be charming and polite to them all.

His father's latest plan was to do up a car with him, a 59 Chevy, explaining that 'as a man' he should be able to do these things so he could look after his own family. So when he thought about it, if it wasn't the fact that he was gay that made him 'special', he didn't know what it his father meant, but he was sure that he would find out soon enough.

As Kurt walked into Glee practice, after another round of pushing and shoving from Karofsky, he held his head up high as if he had not a care in the world and made his way to his usual seat by Mercedes.

He was glad nobody had called him out on the bullying because it was something he didn't want to talk about. He knew that this was something he'd have to face alone, that nobody would be able to do anything about it anyway, even if they did know.

He suspected that they weren't even aware of how dire the situation was. Kurt if he was honest with himself just wished he could take a break from it all if only for a couple of days. So when Puck said that he should go and spy on the rival school choir 'The Warblers', he jumped at the opportunity.

Blaine on the other hand was having the time of his life. He was a couple of months into his second year at Dalton Academy and everything was going well for him. At the end of last year he'd managed to convince the council of their glee club to let him have more solos and tomorrow he would be giving an impromptu performance for all of the school, well anyone who would listen.

He'd made many friends since transferring schools, most of which were in the glee club with him. He didn't worry any more about getting beaten up as he was one of the most popular students in the school. Glee club was well respected, unlike at his old school, where they were the social outcasts and he was the head of the club, therefore nobody touched him, even though he had told everyone he was gay at the end of the last school year.

He didn't receive a bad reaction from any of the boys in his new school and he was proud of that, of calling these his friends. Although he was lonely, he wasn't the only gay kid in the school and he wasn't the only person that was out as gay, it was just that he had nothing in common with these boys.

He obviously had his music with the Warblers and he liked football after he spent that quality time with his father, it was just that he wanted someone to hang out with when he needed to go shopping for, well, let's say he needed a new scarf... that was something the other boys didn't like doing, or reading Vogue magazine... the boys tried for him, but they just weren't into it and the comments they made were just plain ridiculous. He would just have to keep his hobbies to himself and try to fit in with the others around him, sticking with Football and Video Games, instead of shopping and fashion.