Jar of Secrets
"Good morning, class. Please take your seats."
Blaine sat down beside his best friend with his usual dapper smile as Ms. Rigoli addressed the Psychology class.
"Now, Mr. Hummel, I know you are new to the class, but the rest of you should remember that I mentioned at the beginning of the year that we would be working on a group assignment at some point during this semester. That point is now." She removed a large jar from under her desk and set it on a tall pedestal at the front of the class. "For the first part of this assignment, I want each of you to think about some secret in your life that no one else knows about. You will write your secret down, anonymously, on a standard size sheet of paper, then fold it in to quarters so that each sheet is identical, again to keep these secrets anonymous, and tomorrow, you will place your papers into this jar. Over the next few weeks we will randomly select some of the papers to read aloud in class, and discuss."
There were several murmurs of confusion among the well dressed young men, but the middle aged teacher just raised her hands and spoke over the babble. "I know many of you fear talking about certain aspects of your life. This assignment is a way for you to not only face your own fears by admitting them in an anonymous fashion, but also for you to see that there are others out there who have their own demons to face. Now, your secrets can be something as mundane as admitting to a fear of spiders, or they can be some thing deeply personal to you, what ever you are willing to share. The only rule is, they MUST be the truth."
There were still several mutterings about the assignment, but for the most part the boys settled down as the teacher instructed the boys to turn to chapter sixteen in their books and read until the end of the period. Blaine opened his book to the appropriate page and began reading, but after a moment noticed that Kurt was sitting almost frozen in his seat, staring at the jar.
"Hey, Kurt, what's wrong?" he whispered.
"Wha-What?" Kurt muttered, then blinked and turned to the shorter boy. "Oh, sorry, guess I just zoned out for a moment. I was thinking about something else. What page are we on?"