A.N Glee! I've been reading Glee fics for ages, and I have writted a couple of fics for another fandom, but this is my first Glee fic. I got the idea while re-watching the very last scene in the last episode of season 1, where Mr Schue sings over the rainbow to the glee club after they lost at sectionals. Enjoy?
Puck picked up his guitar and pulled up a stool next to Mr Schuester. Everyone's favourite teacher started to strum gently on his ukulele and Puck joined in after a beat. As the first chords of "Over the rainbow" drifted through the choir room, Kurt smiled to himself.
They had another year. Another year together, singing and dancing and fighting and hugging together. Kurt didn't think he could ever remember being this happy. His whole year so far had been dedicated in equal parts to glee club and to getting Finn to like him, which he had known from the start was a fruitless task. It was hard, being the only gay kid in school. But it had been harder to pretend to be something he wasn't; to be too scared of how his friends and family would judge him to tell them the truth. But he was out and proud now, Kurt supposed.
Quinn reached across him to Mercedes, who responded by clasping her hand and smiling warmly. Kurt watched the two of them for a moment. Mercedes had been his best friend at the beginning of the year. Now, he didn't really know where he was with her. I mean, he had busted her heart in the first term. She was still friendly with him, though, and Kurt knew that they would be alright eventually. At the moment though, she was focusing on Quinn, and rightly so. That girl had been through far too much this year. She needs a best friend more than I do, Kurt thought, as he grabbed the girls hands and pulled them to his chest.
Rachel rested her head on Finns shoulder, Tina and Artie smiled shyly to one another, Mike and Mattt fist bumped, Santana and Brittany locked pinkies and swayed together to the music. Kurt sat, still smiling, between Quinn and Mercedes, and suddenly felt very alone. He glanced down to Finn. Finn looked up at him then, and gave him this sort of apologetic, brotherly smirk, and went back to resting his head on Rachel's.
Kurt hadn't felt happier in a long time. It seemed like everything was ok now. Quinn had had her baby and was back living with her mom; Coach Sylvester had given them another year in the choir room, and Kurt felt sure that next year, they were going to nationals. He still felt like the outsider in the group, but hardly noticed it now, after a year.
He supposed he should feel lucky really. The outsider in a group of misfits was better than being the outsider in the Cheerios – at least the Glee club were supportive and inclusive. Like family, really. A big, caring, squabbling, loving family. And Kurt felt like the naughty child who had been sent to sit on the stairs instead of in the living room with everyone else. But that was ok. Because at least he was inside. At least he was in Glee club, and not sitting alone in his room night after night with no one to talk to, because his dad was watching football with Finn and Carole was having a Ladies night out.
Kurt was jerked out of his rather emotionally confusing thoughts when Quinn playfully pulled at his hat. He smiled indulgently at her, and pretended to be annoyed as he straightened it out again. He caught Mr Schue's eye, who smiled at him obliviously. Maybe next year, Kurt thought. Maybe next year it'll happen. Though he didn't know quite what he was hoping for, he hoped that next year would bring...something more.
Birds fly over the rainbow, why then oh why can't I?
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