-I don't want to do this any more.

-You can't give up now, we're not even there yet

-I'm scared okay!

-Oh BB,

-Don't you 'Oh BB' me! I'm not a child!

-I know BB but I'm your overprotective big sister. Give me some leeway here

-There's giving you leeway and letting you treat me like a child. I may be scared but I'm not a child.

-BB I know but -iknskdnfv.

Blaine laughed at his sister as their car rolled over a bump in the road and her signing went array, her hands flailing and then grabbing the armrest on her door to steady herself.

-BB, give it a week. You can't run from school forever and you're good at it all anyway.

-Then why can't I just get home-schooled?

-Because you wanted to be independent and an adult.

-Shit I hate it when you use my own words against me,

-Signs. I use your signs against you, she laughed sticking her tongue out at him. He wished he could hear her laugh again. He could imagine it in his head and remember what it used to be like but not hear it any more.

-ANYWAY she signed, her face showing her exasperation when her voice and hands couldn't, give it a week. If things are terrible I wont force you to stay. I'll always stick up for you and be there if you need me but I would hate to see you miss out on having friends and experiencing life because of some fucking accident.

-I should not have let you learn swear words, Blaine laughed to himself.

-Come on BB, cheer up. It's going to be okay.

-So you say. But I'll hold you to your signs. Here goes I guess...

Their car rolled to a stop and they both climbed out of the car.

"I'll be back at the end of the day to pick you up unless you text me otherwise. If Glee's on after school text me Rach." Their father both spoke and signed simultaneously from the driver's seat. Blaine nodded and ignored the patronising. He could lip read you know. He rolled his eyes at his sister who started talking very quickly with their father about arrangements for when Glee club would be on.

When she finally shut up they walked into the school, towards the main office for Blaine to collect his timetables.

"Blaine, welcome to McKinley High. Now you know we've arranged for a scribe for you and he should be here soon. He also knows a fair amount of sign language too so hopefully you won't feel isolated. Ah here you are," the kind receptionist spoke slowly to him, making sure he could read her lips. Blaine turned to see a vaguely familiar boy in the doorway who the receptionist had clearly been referring to.

"Rachel" Blaine saw the boy say. Crap he still had Rachel hanging around him, he'd forgotten about that.

Rachel then said something and ran to give the boy a hug. Blaine recognized him from glances through his doorway. Rachel often had sleepovers with friends but Blaine always stayed to himself when she had friends over. He was pretty sure the boy had stayed over before but couldn't place a name to his face. Blaine rolled his eyes at his enthusiastic sister and watched as she gushed something very quickly to him.

"Blaine?" the receptionist tapped his elbow so that he could read her lips again. "This is Kurt. He's your scribe and clearly one of your sister's friends."

Blaine nodded and gave a small wave to the boy. He waved back before signing -Hello.

-Hey,

-Blaine, Kurt's like one of my best friends. I bet you two will get on like a house on fire and stuff. Anyway I should let you two get to know each other and I also promised Finn I'd go find him before lessons started. I'll see you at break okay? I know where your locker is and I'll meet you there okay? Rachel signed quickly before hugging Blaine tightly, pressing a kiss to his cheek which he turned bright red at and then hugged Kurt before saying a quick thank you to the receptionist and leaving.

-Hey Blaine. I apologize if I get this wrong; I'm a little out of practice. Do you want me to show you round school? Kurt signed. He wasn't half bad at it though his slowness did show he was clearly very out of practice.

"Sure." Blaine said out loud, with no idea how he sounded to Kurt but hoping it wasn't stupid, off pitch, embarrassingly weird or shaky from his nerves. It was a new school after all.

This seemed to catch Kurt off guard but he then smiled and led the way outside. He gave Blaine a quick tour and showed him where his locker was before the bell went and they headed for their first lesson. Once there, Kurt quickly explained to the teacher who Blaine was and she was nice, smiling politely and saying what looked like "Sure Kurt. Go grab a seat with him,"

Kurt led them to the back of the classroom and slid into a chair as Blaine slid into the next one.

He grabbed out his books for the French lesson that was about to start as Blaine did the same though was surprised by the note that appeared on top of his book before he'd even opened it.

'Hey. I'm not going to lie, I'm not very good at signing so I apologize again for any mistakes I make in advance. I'd love to speak with you in sign language in lessons but I'm not as confident as I used to be so for a while d'you mind if we talk using notes like this? Sorry if it seems like a cop-out, Kurt x' the note read in a clear but elegant handwriting. Blaine looked up at Kurt who smiled slightly before grabbing his last book from his bag. He'd clearly written this in advance but it was still thoughtful and kind that he'd taken the time to do so. Blaine opened his notebook and grabbed a pen to write a note back.

'It's fine, you don't have to keep apologizing. I haven't been signing that long so I'm not exactly always perfect either. It's probably easier to write notes because you're more likely to understand all of what I'm saying this way. I'm glad I someone else to talk to other than my sister though. Thank you,
Blaine'

Blaine slowly tore out the page so as not to make any noise because though he couldn't hear it he could see the French teacher was talking and he didn't want to attract attention. He passed it across the table to Kurt who read it quickly.

'I've gotta say I'm impressed then. Not only are you super quick at understanding sign language - I could tell from how fast your sister signed - but you also manage to put up with Rachel 24/7. Got any tips on that? I could use them every now and then, :P K'

Blaine laughed as silently as he could at the end.

'I'm honestly not sure how to help you there. She is a total nightmare but she's backed off a bit recently for sorta obvious reasons. I've always been a little glad I don't have to put up with her a school but now I have a feeling I'm not going to be enjoying it much, B'

'Why's that?'

'Um, have you met my sister? She'll either be a crazy overprotective annoying sister or spend the entire time embarrassing me, something that if I'm honest I can do fine by myself, :P'

'Well that's probably true. But still, if she starts being either of those I'll be here. Someone other than her to talk to. I know it sucks being isolated and I hope by having me to talk to you wont feel isolated here.'

'But, my sister always talks highly of you and you sound really popular. I remember her telling me you were on the school cheerleading team for a while too. Why would you know how it feels being isolated? - PS sorry if I'm being ignorant or jumping to conclusions. You just seem like such a nice person,'

'Blaine, I'm gay. That's not something that generally gets me popularity here. I'm the only out person here too so that hasn't really helped me. But it's fine, I've moved on and don't let it get me down and have stood up to my bullies who've actually backed off me since. It's in the past but I'm still not exactly popular.'

-I'm sorry, Blaine mouthed and signed simultaneously. Kurt shrugged and pointed to the words 'I've moved on' which made Blaine's stomach knot slightly. Did that mean he'd moved on from being gay? Surely not because he admitted at the beginning there that he was but ugh! Stupid internal conflictions. Either way he sure hoped that he could stay fairly quiet about his being gay if it would only cause him stress and bullying.

'Do you have a sign for your name?' Blaine wrote to change the subject. It seemed like it wasn't one Kurt wanted to particularly divulge much into with him over.

Kurt nodded and showed him and Blaine noted it to memory quickly for future use.

And you? Kurt signed. Blaine showed him the two variations.

This one- he signed the first one. -is the one for Blaine, but this is what Rachel calls me. He signed the second one.

'It looks like BB to me. Is that right?' Kurt wrote. Blaine nodded and blushed a little.

'Rachel's nickname for me. Halfway between baby brother and Blaine. We couldn't think of anything more imaginative but quick to use 4 years ago'

'It's cool. I like it.' Kurt wrote.

'You're just saying that to be nice, :P'

'Am not!'

'Either way, aren't we in a lesson?'

'Yeah, but it's the first lesson back after break. You never learn much back in this lesson. Plus I already know French fluently.'

'Impressive' Blaine wrote, raising an eyebrow playfully.

'Shit! I forgot you might not be as fluent as me. God I'm an idiot. Please tell me I haven't just gotten you behind already,'

'You haven't. Whilst I've been out of school I've kept myself occupied by learning languages. Sign, French, Spanish and most importantly, Rachel AnderBerry,'

Kurt looked as if he was repressing a giggle at his words, pursing his lips and his cheeks turning ever so slightly pink.

'Please tell me you're fluent in Rachel AnderBerry. I'm still only learning.'

'I'll coach you if you like, if you're any good at social skills and happen to have any wisdom to exchange :P'

'Totally. Are you fluent in all of the above?'

'Yes except in Rachel and sign. I'm only almost fluent there.'

'Wow. Now who's impressive? :P now I see why they let you into the year above.'

'Yeah, that plus I'm pretty academic so they figured I'd probably be smart enough to do pretty well in these lessons too.'

'Okay, you'd better have something you're terrible at because right now you sound waaay too good to be true. I mean, you're good at, like, everything from what I've heard. Please tell me that's not all true,'

'Oh god. What has Rachel told you about me?'

'She says you're good at sport, you're really good at academic subjects like math and science, you draw like an artist and you dance fairly well too, and now you're telling me you're fluent in 4 languages and one of them is Rachel for god sake. Is that all correct?'

'Well, not like all sports. I'm good at boxing because I practice a lot. But yeah, I guess the rest is all true. Except the art thing, I'm pretty sure she's making that up because I'm only sort of good at drawing and I can only draw people from real life observations. I'm crap at landscapes or painting or whatever.'

Blaine slumped slightly in his seat and put his pen down, shoving his hands into his pockets and hiding behind his hair. He bit his lip without thinking about it and started reading the teacher's notes on the board. It was all pretty standard stuff in a fairly neat handwriting that Blaine understood easily.

A folded note appeared on Blaine's lap and he turned to see Kurt with his lips pursed staring intently at his open textbook. His eyes didn't move though so Blaine knew he wasn't reading it. He unfolded the note and read.

'Hey. I'm sorry. Ignore me okay? I'm just jealous. I wish I was so talented across the board. I'm usually mediocre at most things so now I feel like a right idiot sat next to you. And then you're almost an entire year younger than me so now I feel reeeeally stupid. I hope I haven't upset you, K'

Blaine had only just finished reading the note when students started standing in his peripheral vision, a sign the lesson was over. He shoved his books away and slid the note into his pocket.

-Kurt Blaine signed after tapping the boy's shoulder to get him to look at him again. -It's okay. I'm not upset I'm just not used to... talking to someone properly. He sighed. -I haven't had a friend in 4 years and to have someone say really nice things about me is such a change.

He looked at his feet shyly and hoped Kurt had interpreted his words correctly when he felt Kurt pull him into a hug. He hesitantly returned the hug and pulled back to see Kurt smiling at him.

-Sorry. I felt like you deserved a hug. Now come on, let's not keep the witch waiting.

-The witch?

-Your sister. I'm afraid I commonly refer to her as that a lot. I hope you don't mind. Kurt laughed slightly. God what Blaine would give to hear his laugh first hand and not just have to guess that he was laughing...

A/N: I hope you like this. it'll be part one of at least a few and I'll hopefully update soon. :D

ALSO, all the signing has a dash like this - before, and all the written notes are 'like this'. just to make it easier to read.