Author's Note: Hi! This is the first chapter of a fic I have started called Square Papers. It features David and Sebastian from Glee and later involves Kurt and Blaine. It starts off about the day before the Born This Way episode where Kurt goes back to WMHS. This is my first time posting a fic and reviews would be really appreciated!
I DO NOT OWN GLEE OR HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM WHAT SO EVER, I AM ONLY A FAN.
Square Papers
Chapter One
French, Football and Cold Coffee
"If you don't have notes, you fail!" The teacher had screeched to the class at school that day, it had been Sebastian's first day in Lima Ohio in a long time, and he had thought he might as well go to school (which was a choice he highly regretted because it made him even more tired than needed).
'Why did I decide to take two languages this year? I also thought doing French would be a breeze I mean I am fluent!' Sebastian had bragged to himself before resting his tired head on the wooden desk and accidently falling asleep.
The Karofsky family and Smythe family had been friends since Sebastian's father had been working with Mr. Paul Karofsky at an office building when a fire broke out. Although the families' friendship drifted apart after the Smyth family moved to Europe because Sebastian's father earned a promotion that Paul turned down, Mrs. Karofsky kept in touch closely with Sebastian's mother. When the Smyth family announced they were moving back home to Lima Ohio the Karofsky family insisted to host Sebastian.
"Sebastian can live with us for a few weeks before the whole family leaves for home." Paul Karofsky had said over the phone.
"Home?" Mr. Smyth had quizzed at Paul's phrasing.
"You were born in Lima, lived here for a long time, it's your home and it's going to be hard to pack, you have been away for a long time! If you want we would love to have Sebastian to come home early and stay with us while you pack the rest of the house, so he isn't in the way." The offer was great, it meant Sebastian could get to become friends again with Paul's son David, who went to the local high school that Sebastian was to go to when he arrived in Lima.
So there he was, sitting in the room he shared with David, French notes stuck to his face and a blur of confusion in his mind consisting of: 'Oh wait, I think I'm in Lima' and 'So this is the Karofsky family home? I wonder where everyone is?' Eventually Sebastian's thoughts collected together enough to tell him he needed coffee and that his eyes could spot a Lima Bean coffee-to-go cup sitting to the left of his blue French folder. What his mind didn't tell him was that the coffee had gone cold because it had been some hours since Sebastian had bought it, however the shock of cold coffee made his mid buzz and remember what he had been doing before his tiredness took over his brain.
"French! Notes! Oh shoot! What's the time?" Sebastian said probably a little louder than needed while shoving his notes together in a messy pile before reading his watch. "Oh, it's one in the morning." He said dumbly to himself in the middle of the brightly lit room. "I should probably sleep, I can just sort these notes out before school later." Sebastian mumbled to himself, slipping a messy pile of brightly colored paper into his blue French folder before groggily going downstairs to say goodnight to Dave and Mr. Karofsky (Sebastian assumed Dave was still up because his bed was empty).
Sebastian assumed Mrs Karofsky was sleeping because apart from the light escaping from under the door to David and Sebastian's room, and the moonlight shinning through the large window that stretched from the floor to the ceiling at the end of the hallway opposite the stairs, the whole of the second story appeared to be completely dark. The thought of somebody sleeping made the quite 'thuds' Sebastian's shoes were making on the wooden floorboards seem much louder in his mind, it almost felt like the 'thuds' were echoing throughout the house. Sebastian stopped at the top of the stairs. From what the boy could see, there were no lights on downstairs, he started feeling more lost among his thoughts. Mindlessly Sebastian walked down the stairs, as he got near halfway down, Sebastian noticed the sound of a football match playing on the T.V. The sound was scratchy and Sebastian decided that David or his parents must have recorded the game.
"Oh, hello Sebastian." Mr. Karofsky said when he saw the slim boy appear in the doorway of the livng room. Mr. Karofsky was sitting with his arm around Dae on a two-seater brown leather couch facing the T.V, which was the only light in room, maybe the only light in the first floor. When Dave noticed Sebastian, he wriggled out of his father's embrace and moved onto another two-seater that faced Sebastian. They only sound in the room was coming from the T.V and Sebastian realized he had been standing there dumbly for quite sometime and Mr. Karofsky and Dave were waiting for an answer but no words managed to rise out of his mouth instead he nodded his head whilst making a little groan.
"We are just watching the last football game Dave played to see what he needs to improve on, do you play?" Mr. karofsky asked as an attempt to make the situation to feel less awkward.
"I like football, but, uh, I don't have quite the right build for American football and it's not that big in Europe." Sebastian laughed as his mind started to run normally again. "No, but I do play football as in I guess you could say soccer."
"Nice, maybe Dave could teach you a bit more about American Football and you could teach Dave about soccer-football?" Mr. Karofsky said as the first half ended and half time started on the T.V.
"Yeah that would be fun." Sebastian said quite genuinely as Mr. Karofsky stood up.
"I'm going to grab a cup of coffee, just sit down and make yourself at home, do you boys want anything?" The taste of cold coffee swirled around Sebastian's mouth.
"I'm fine thanks."
"Dave?"
"I'm alright too, thanks dad."
Mr. Karofsky left the room and David scooted over, making room for Sebastian on the couch. Sebastian sat with David and focused on the T.V, however Dave's concentration was elsewhere, his eyes were moving up Sebastian's slim frame.
Fog filled out on out on the field and the beginning of a mash up of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Heads Will Roll" and teenagers in zombie costumes emerged from the sides of the field.
"Are those your cheerleaders?" Sebastian asked slightly confused by the abnormality of it all. Dave was staring at Sebastian's face, he admired his clear skin and beautiful hair, Dave tried to achieve that look once but his friends just took one look and said
"What's wrong with your hair? It makes you look like a homo!" So he got it cut short again so they wouldn't find out about him being gay, however he tried to keep his skin all nice because he thought Kurt might think something of it… Something good.
"David?" Sebastian turned round to face Dave, although he didn't catch David staring at him.
"Oh uh yeah, sorry what?"
"Are those your school cheerleaders?" Sebastian gave a gesture towards the screen as the chorus started.
"No, the cheerleaders had some sort of cheerleading competition that was important or something, that's is the glee club."
"Large glee club." Sebastian remarked.
"Oh, it's the football team too. See the really good dancer, the blond one?"
"Yeah?"
"That's Britney and the other hot blond and the black chick with the crazy good voice and great body are ex cheerleaders." David felt strange saying these 'straight' comments about the girls, the boys always said they were hot and stuff so Dave assumed they must be, he knew they had good figures and faces and he knew they were pretty but he never felt an attraction to them, so calling them 'hot' always felt like the wrong word to use. Dave could say Kurt Hummel was hot and it would be the right word because it was true because there was an attraction but saying Quinn Fabray was hot was only stating what others felt.
"What's the other ex cheerleaders names?" Sebastian asked, eyes glued to the intricate dance moves (and lovely body) of Mike Chang.
"Quinn Fabray is the other blond and the black one's Santana Lopez."
"Why aren't they cheerleaders anymore, like was it a personal choice or were they kicked out?" Sebastian glanced at Dave, and almost catching Dave staring at his beautiful face.
"They, uh, were kicked out because they wanted to do the half time show because coach Sylvester is a bit of a bitch." Dave laughed.
"Where are you?"
"Uh I um… Oh wait there, I'm the dude running on from the corner."
"Why aren't you in costume?"
"I wasn't going to uh… I didn't want to do the half time show." Dave confessed, every little bit of pride that had filled his body when he saw himself run onto the field and say "That's me!" left his body in a big rush and was replaced with guilt for what he did to Kurt. "So I was kicked out of the football team, but we weren't doing too well and I don't know, something came over me." Sebastian got the feeling there was more to the story but was too tired to press for details.
"I got to play the last half of the game in the end because I preformed at the last minuet." Sebastian nodded slowly. The half time show was over and old music by the likes of Journey started playing over the speakers.
"I'm quite tired, so I'm going to get some sleep." Sebastian said getting up from the couch.
"Yeah I might too."
"But you haven't watched yourself play yet." Sebastian noted.
"Yeah but this is a memorable game, I know all of the moves played plus I've watched it heaps. Whenever I can't sleep I come down here and flick it on." Dave stood up and turned off the T.V then crouched down to turn off the DVD player and some other devices.
"Okay." Sebastian mumbled walking towards the stairs. Usually Sebastian would ask more questions, he might have even flirted with Dave a little just to see if he actually liked girls or not but that part of his mind had already fell asleep.
A light turned on in the hallway, momentarily blinding Sebastian.
"Goodnight Mr. Karofsky." Sebastian said once his vision went normal again and began walking up the stairs to go to his room.
"Goodnight Sebastian." Paul said cheerfully stopping to look at Sebastian before walking on to talk to his own son. Dave's eyes were looking at Sebastian, inspecting the way Sebastian walked and stood. In ways, it was very much like Kurt's, quite sassy; diva-ish, but Sebastian's walk was more arrogant, which didn't bother Dave at all, however he preferred the vulnerable characteristic in all of Kurt's being. Paul caught Dave's eyes and the longing they held, making David look away abruptly.
"Is everything okay?" Paul asked slightly worried.
"Yeah of course."
"Okay but David?" Dave started feeling a little nervous of what was coming next, had his father realized he was gay? Was he about to be lectured about something… something about his sexuality?
"Yeah?" Dave finally croaked out.
"Look after Sebastian okay? You know at school and all? His father told me he's gay and uh, proud of it, which is good, we need more teenagers like that in the world, ones who are proud of who they are, but I'm not quite sure how some of the other boys will tolerate it. So look out for him, alright?" Dave nodded because he thought he might say something stupid… about what he was and what he was, was gay.
"And I hate to bring it up but the only other gay kid in the school is that Kurt Hummel boy and so for Sebastian's sake, would you mind patching things up with him? I just figure it might make things easier for Sebastian, having a friend who understands?" David was a little confused by his father's wording 'the only other gay kid' ? Was his father implying that he knew his son was gay? Or was he just talking as though Sebastian is definitely a WMHS student?
"Of course, but Kurt goes to Dalton."
"He's transferring back, he will be back in your hallways tomorrow." Dave felt very uncomfortable, he was excited that he would be able to see Kurt almost every day but he was so ashamed of what he did, what if Kurt wouldn't forgive him?
"They have Glee club tomorrow." David mumbled to himself but in a loud enough voice for his father to hear.
"Why don't you apologize to Kurt at the Glee club rehersal, from what I've heard they are very protective of Kurt, you could apologize to the whole club tomorrow."
'What had he heard?' David worried and again the question of 'Does Dad know I'm gay?' Rushed through Dave's mind. Sometime during their conversation Paul had sat down on the couch, he had also turned the light on. Dave stood up and stretched a little.
"I'll apologize to them all tomorrow." Paul got up with a sad smile on his face, he knew his son was battling something inside of him, an emotion or feeling, he knew Dave was trying to keep something from the world and was only just letting himself accept it and although Paul wished he knew what was going on in his son's life, making him feel so alone, but he did not want to push because he knew David would open up when he was ready. However knowing that David would eventually open to him and accept what was going on, did not make Paul hurt less to see his own son in such a state of such uncertainty. Paul put his arms around his son pulling him into a big stable hug.
"I'm proud of you, son. I know what ever is going on in your life, making you act so different, you will accept it eventually or confront it." Paul said in Dave's ear. David's head was resting on his dad's shoulder and his arms were starting to hurt from holding his father so tightly. Dave's eyes shut tightly and a tear escaped from his eyes and for the first time in a long time, he didn't care if everyoneknew he was gay, he felt complete acceptance of himself. Although David knew it would have evaporated by morning, Dave felt something needed to be shared with his father, three small words using only six letters and he promised they would be shared when the time felt right.
The time felt right.
"Dad?"
"Yeah?"
"I-I am gay."