A/ N: Thank you so much to everyone who's been nice enough to read and review this fic! I really appreciate it. Since I love this fic so much, I've decided to turn it into a chapter fic. Each chapter will be based on one of the prompts in the beginning thing. Okay? Enjoy!

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Slowly but surely, day by day, Kurt Hummel was worn down.

It takes a lot of energy to love someone who you know, deep in your heart, will never love you back. But still, that's what love is, right? Never giving up hope that one day, your beloved will truly be yours.

But life wasn't a fairy tale. At least, Kurt's wasn't. Maybe Rachel's or Quinn's was, in their own way, their own fucked-up little fairy tale. But at least they had someone. They both had Finn and Puck wrapped around their little, imperfectly manicured fingers.

It wasn't right.

Quinn didn't love Finn. If she did, she wouldn't have wanted Kurt to give Rachel that stupid makeover to distract him so she didn't have to feel guilty about her fling with Puck.

Rachel may love Finn, but she had other options. Puck was good for her, and there were other guys. Kurt didn't have any prospects. There weren't any other gay guys at McKinley, at least not any who were willing to show it. He would have to wait until college to date someone.

It wasn't fair.

So one day, Kurt was sitting in his room, alone on a Friday night and decided that it was time for the scars inside himself to match his outside.

It wasn't very big, just a small red mark that would leave an only barely visible scar, but it was there.

It was the reason why he wore the arm warmers every day.

It was Finn's scar, and he would never know it existed.

A/N: So there's the first, very angsty chapter. The rest of the story will be happier, I promise! Please review and tell me what you think!