Kurt was sitting next to Blaine in calculus. They were usually sitting apart, but this time the guy sitting next to Kurt was ill, so Blaine joined him. He was scribbling on his notepad while Kurt was busy paying attention. He hated maths and was pretty jealous of Blaine for having such a great understanding of the subject. He was not paying attention at all and he still did amazing on the exams, while Kurt had to work hard to get his 70 percent.
"Okay folks. You are going to take a surprise test today.", the teacher said and a murmur went threw the room. "Folks, it is easy, if you paid attention to my lessons. The problem is that the copy machine broke yesterday. You will have to copy the tasks from the white board."
Blaine, who was he only one to stay calm before, looked up. Kurt was confused. Blaine looked terrified and it could not be the test. He was the best in the whole class and it would be a piece of cake to give answers to any question asked. Did Kurt hear a silent "Shit!" coming from Blaine's seat? He must have misinterpreted it. Blaine was confident with this, contrary to Kurt.
The teacher handed out paper and Kurt's hands got sweaty. He had studied after every lesson, but was still unsure if he was able to answer the questions correctly. He copied the first question. He knew the answer without thinking. May be this would not be to bad. He felt Blaine's breath in his neck. Was Blaine copying from him? This was looking-glass world. Usually Kurt tried to get some answers from Blaine.
Kurt decided to put the paper closer to Blaine and, as he glimpsed at Blaine, he saw a thankful nod. Okay, may be this was good. He was happy to help Blaine and to his surprise the test went incredibly well until the teacher looked at the two of them.
"Blaine, keep your eyes on your paper. If I catch you looking at Kurt's paper again you will get an F." The teacher said and Blaine blushed.
"What was wrong in there? It was really weird.", Kurt asked as soon as they left the classroom.
"Sorry, Kurt.", Blaine said. "I was just not prepared..."
Kurt shook his head. He could not believe what he was hearing. Blaine, the genius in maths was not prepared?
After a week the teacher came into the classroom smiling. "I am finished with your tests and I really am surprised. Most of you performed great on the test. It shows that hard work pays off." She handed off the papers. As she arrived at Kurt and Blaine's table she stopped. "You two were a surprise. You did really good, Kurt.", she handed Kurt the paper. "Blaine, I'd like to have a word with you after class.", she gave the test back to Blaine as she left the table to continue.
"What do you have?", Kurt asked.
Blaine looked down on his paper. "A D-..."
Kurt looked shocked.
"What about you?", Blaine asked.
Kurt had not looked at his paper jet. He looked down and grinned. "An A! Really! I have never...", Kurt's voice got higher. "But really. What was wrong with you? I know you can do perfect. You didn't do this for me, did you?"
Blaine shook his head. "I don't know... If I had an idea I'd tell you...", he knew pretty much what had been wrong, but he would not tell Kurt.
"Everyone has a bad day. Don't let yourself down for one bad grade, Blaine.", Kurt took his hand. "Just pay attention from now on."
The rest of the lesson went slowly. Blaine looked at his phone every other minute and could not wait to get this over with.
"Kurt?", the teacher asked when everyone except for Blaine and Kurt had left.
"Yes?", Kurt answered.
"I'd like you to leave. I have to speak to Blaine in private.", the teacher said.
Kurt took Blaine's hand really quick, before he left, whispering "good luck!" to him.
"Blaine. I know this is not your usual performance and I want to give to you the opportunity of taking the test again. I just want you to go to the nurse first.", she said.
"Why would I need the nurse?", Blaine asked teetering from one foot to the other.
"Just give her this note. I want her to tell you, okay?", she said and Blaine nodded.
"You're excused for the next lesson, just go over there, she will tell you what she is doing."
She handed him the note and Blaine went straight to the infirmary. He knocked on the door.
"Come in", he heard the school nurse say.
"I am supposed to give this to you..", Blaine said as he gave her the notice.
She took it and read for quite a while. "Okay sit down on the chair.", she commanded as she put down the note. She gave Blaine some sort of spoon. "Cover your left eye with this and read the third line of the chart."
"Sorry, what?", Blaine asked confused.
"You have trouble seeing, I read and I need to get an indication how bad it is.", she said cool.
"No I don't, I was just really tired and...", she stopped Blaine.
"I know, this never happened, you have perfect vision...", she said smiling. "I have heard that a lot and if you are right, you got nothing to worry about. On the other hand, if you are wrong, I will get you signed up for an appointment with the eye doctor and you are getting glasses."
"I am not going to wear glasses!", Blaine got mad. He knew his eyesight was not the best, but that did not mean he needed, or at least wanted glasses.
"We will see. Just cover your eye and read the third line.", she said again in a tone, Blaine could not do anything but obey.
"Ahmm...", he narrowed his eyes. "8... R... 7..."
"Okay, go for number two.", the nurse said.
"Why?", Blaine asked. He had guessed, but he would not stop pretending. Glasses... He did not want glasses. They would look stupid on him.
"Because there are only letters on the chart, love.", the nurse said laughing.
"Okay... It is a B, an... hmmm... E, O..."
"We can stop here. I think we both know that you are as blind as a bat. I am contacting the housemaster and he will get you an appointment at the eye doctor's office." She wrote down something. "You can go back to class now."
Another Klaine fanfic right there. I thought that would be a nice story when I found out Darren is quite myopic :) So yeah, I am happy to see if you like it. If you want me to continue, tell me. This is probably going to have three chapters :)