Chapter 1

The First day of Kindergarten is always scary for children. Elizabeth Hummel could still remember her first day. After a while, she'd settled in, even started to make friends with some of the girls. She'd felt silly afterwards, and often teased her cousins later on for being nervous (in a nice way of course!)

However, she couldn't bring herself to set her son straight.

Kurt Hummel had been sitting at the kitchen table for a while now, nervously looking at his mother as she made his special breakfast she'd promised him. Everytime his mother tried to initiate conversation, he'd just squeak out a yes or no. In the end, she sighed, and presented him with breakfast. He picked up his fork and ate it without a complaint.

"So, how are you feeling?" She asked, sitting herself opposite him. He stared up at her, with wide eyes.

"F-Fine." He squeaked. Elizabeth smiled at him.

"Don't worry, Kurt, you'll be fine."

"Are they going to beat me up?" He blurted out. Elizabeth blinked at him for a minute.

"No, of course not!" Kurt relaxed a little. "Why should they?" Kurt didn't answer.

"Can't I just stay home with you?" He asked innocently. "I actually don't feel well." Elizabeth smiled slightly.

"It's just nerves, they'll go away." He shook his head.

"I-I'm going to be sick." He said. She felt his forehead.

"Well, you don't have a temperature," She stated. "So you must be fine." He shook his head.

"I want to stay here and watch Sound of Music with you. And then we could watch Sister Act or something." Elizabeth bit back a laugh.

"Kurt, you're going to have to go in at some point. If you don't go in today, then all the other children will have made friends already."

"I can just join them later."

"No, you can't." She grabbed his empty plate and his fork and knife. "Come on, maybe if we leave early enough, we can go and visit Dad at work, OK?" Kurt nodded weakly. "Well, go on then, go and get your bag!" Elizabeth watched Kurt slide off his seat, before he trudged out of the kitchen. She sighed to herself. She badly wanted to keep him home, just because he looked about ready to burst into tears. But she knew she had to make sure he went in, like a good mother would do.

As soon as Kurt had come back, she grabbed her car keys, and got ready to go.

Kurt swallowed the lump in his throat. He looked up at his Mom, wondering why she'd be horrible enough to leave him here. She bent down, so that they were eye level.

"Don't worry, sweetie, I'll be back at three o' clock, OK?" Kurt nodded, even though he didn't really know when on the clock that was. She gave him a hug, and for a moment, he hugged back, drawing in the smell of her; light rose perfume and bubble bath.

As soon as she'd let go, a small woman came waddling over to them. She smiled at Kurt.

"Is he OK?" The woman asked his Mom. She nodded. "Don't worry, a lot of children are nervous, but he'll settle in." Kurt doubted that, as Elizabeth smiled at him, and kissed him goodbye.

As soon as she'd gone, the woman held out her hand for him to take. "I'm Mrs Wild. Do you want to do some drawing? Or maybe you'd like to play with some of the other little boys?" He nodded, taking her hand uneasily. "What's your name, hun?"

"K-Kurt Hummel." He stuttered out. She smiled.

"Kurt... That's a nice name." She sat him down next to a small girl with dark hair. "Kurt, this is Rachel." Rachel smiled at him briefly, before going back to her drawing. She appeared to be drawing her family, but Kurt noticed there were Two Daddies instead of a Mommy and Daddy, so it couldn't be that. Mrs Wild gave him some paper. "Now, the other children will share their crayons with you, OK?" He nodded, trying to think of something to draw on his piece of paper.

"Hey," He looked up and saw Rachel looking at him with brown eyes. "So, you're called Kurt?" He nodded. "I'm Rachel, obviously. My Dads are Friends fans. Are you named Kurt after the little boy in Sound of Music? Or maybe Kurt Cobain?"

"Umm..." Kurt didn't really know what to say. He'd never heard of "Friends", except for the obvious meaning, or Kurt Cobain. "I guess my Mom's a fan of Sound of Music..."

"Oh. So, do you sing?" Kurt nodded. "Well, I'm sure you're OK." Kurt turned back to his blank paper. This Rachel girl seemed really bossy... He actually really wanted her to go away, but his Mom and Dad had told him it was rude to say so. He looked at Rachel's drawing.

"Do you have an older brother?" He asked enviously. "I wish I had one. Maybe one day I'll have a younger brother or sister..."

"No, that's my Daddy." She pointed to the other drawing of a man. "And that's my Dad." Kurt blinked.

"You have two dads?" A girl asked from the other side of Rachel. "You can't have two dads. You have a Daddy, and you have a Mommy."

"Well, I'm special, because I have two dads." Rachel said. "They told me that it's OK."

"It's weird." The girl said. She looked round Rachel at Kurt. "My Mommy told me not to play with her, because she's weird." Kurt frowned, while Rachel's eyes began to fill with tears.

"My Mommy told me that her Dads kidnap children," One boy said from across the table. "And that they eat them."

"That's not true!" Rachel said, her voice high. "We always eat things like peas, and we have take-outs when they ruin the dinner!" Kurt frowned even more. His Mom had told him not to pick on the other kids, especially the girls. So why was everyone else doing it?

No one seemed to be listening to Rachel, and were now gossiping. "I heard that her Dads stole her from the hospital." Kurt cleared his throat, so that everyone looked at him.

"Mommy told me that I shouldn't be mean to boys or girls," Kurt stated importantly. "And my Mommy's always right." The other kids stared at him.

"Your Mommy must of been lieing," The first girl said. She had reddish-brown hair, glasses, and was really chubby. "My Mommy told me and my sister that it's wrong." Kurt gathered up the rest of his courage.

"Well, I think you're wrong." Kurt said. He turned to Rachel. "When my Mommy drove me here, I saw a play house, with some dolls outside. Do you wanna play?"

When Elizabeth Hummel drove up at Three O'Clock on the dot, she smiled at the sight of Kurt sitting outside with some of the girls, playing with what looked like dollies. Kurt looked up, and smiled at her, waving his hand. "That's my Mommy!" She heard him say to the girls. All the girls beamed at her. She smiled, and gave a little wave back at them, before going inside.

Kurt came running in, stopping only to hug her. "Hi, Kurt! Did you have fun?" He nodded into her legs.

"Yep!" She smiled at him.

"So, are you ready to go home?" He bit his lip.

"Can I come back tomorrow?" Elizabeth nodded. "OK then." He said, sounding put out. Elizabeth bit her lip to stop herself from laughing as he trudged to go and get his coat and bag.

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