I absolutely love this song. I grew up listening to the Garth Brooks version and then when I heard Adele's I fell in love with it all over it again. For those of you that don't know, Bob Dylan was the one that wrote it. The song's got some big names behind it. I've actually been wanting to use this one for a while, and it just seemed to fit with Dave and Kurt. So here you are my lovely dears. I hope you all enjoy it.
"Alright guys," Will said standing center stage in the auditorium. "You all are probably why we are performing here instead of in the choir room this week, especially because I doubt any of you have any serious choreography planned out. It's because I want all of you want to be as comfortable on stage as you are in our room, so from here on out, Fridays are in the auditorium.
"Now, this weeks challenge was to find a song to sing to one of your fellow members and portray a certain emotion not only through the lyrics, but through the emotion in your own voice as well. Who wants to go first? Speak up people, you know how hard it is to see faces up here."
"I would be happy to start us off, Mr. Shue," Rachel volunteered to the shock of none of the members, not even Dave, who had only been there a few weeks.
Will nodded and left the stage as Rachel entered. "I'm sure that you've all assumed that I would sing for Finn yet again this week. However, after much consideration I've actually decided to sing to Dave this week. When you came out, I told my dads about it and they both recounted how frightening it was for them. I just wanted to let you know that I, and I'm sure the rest of the club am so proud of you and how much you've changed this year, and that we'll always be here for you."
Dave felt tears prick his eyes and he turned to the boy next to him. "Did you know anything about this?"
Kurt shook his head. "I told Rach that I was singing for you for the same reason, but I didn't think that she'd do the same. I guess she was proud of you too. I'm so proud of you, Dave," he told him with a soft squeeze from the hand that was resting on the jock's arm.
"Thank you," Dave smiled, turning his attention to Rachel who had just starting singing.
"You've got a friend in me.
You've got a friend in me.
When road looks rough ahead
And you're miles and miles from your
Nice warm bed
Just remember what your old pal said,
You've got a friend in me.
Yeah, you've got a friend in me."
Dave couldn't help but smile at her song selection. The week before, some of the Gleeks had gotten together for a Disney Marathon where they each brought their favorite. Dave had brought Toy Story, much to the delight of the others.
"You've got a friend in me.
You've got a friend in me.
You've got troubles,
I've got em true.
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together gonna see it through.
You've got a friend in me.
Yeah, you've got a friend in me."
The club clapped enthusiastically as she finished, many of them even laughing. Brittany had seemed even more thrilled by the song choice by Dave. "Someone finally did Disney," she grinned. "Mr. Shue, can we do a whole week on Disney, pretty please?" The choir teacher shook his head with a chuckle. "We'll see, Britt."
Rachel exited the stage to take her seat in between Finn and Kurt, and Dave stood as she entered the row, pulling her into a tight hug. "Thanks, Bee." There were times when Dave wondered what would have happened if he hadn't had spent so much time at the Hummel/Hudson household the past summer, but he knew that given the chance he would never change it.
Once he came out, most of hte jocks that weren't a part of New Directions pretty much stopped talking to him. A few had even tried to beat up on him, until he showed them that while he was gay, that didn't mean he couldn't beat all their asses. Kurt had reached out to him the last week of school and since then the two had pretty much been attached at the hip. Rachel had joined the duo a few weeks into summer, and Mr. Hummel made sure that they each had a place at the dinner table whenever they wanted.
Rachel squeezed him back and placed a soft kiss to his cheek before sitting down. "Sorry about not singing to you," she told Finn.
"It's okay, Kurt's pissed at me again, so I figured this would be a good way to apologize. I usually just give him something from Smoothie King and he's happy, but this saves me seven bucks."
"What did you do this time?" Rachel chuckled, knowing that Kurt received one of his beloved smoothies at least once a week. It was actually a running joke between the two divas.
"He ruined one of my sweaters," Kurt told her, deadpanned, as Dave volunteered to go next. Kurt smiled. "Break a leg," he told him before turning back to Rachel and continuing until Dave made it up on stage. "He tried to wash one of my Burberrys in with his t-shirts. I get that he was trying to help, but that was my favorite sweater."
"I chose to sing to Kurt, because he has helped me out through every obstacle that I've come across since the end of last year, so thank you, Fancy. I chose the song because I know that you will always claim that Lady Gaga is your favorite artist but I know that you have a deep love affair for Adele and this one really worked because Bob Dylan wrote it. So…," he turned to Brad and nodded once, signaling him to begin playing.
Kurt gasped at the boy, his eyes wide. As soon as he mentioned Bob Dylan, the countertenor knew the song. It was one of his favorites and he often fell asleep listening to it on loop. Both boys knew that the other had feelings for them, and in every aspect aside from the more physical, they were practically already dating. However, neither boy had yet taken the final jump to make it official…until now anyway.
"When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love.
When the evening shadows and the star appear
And there is no where there to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love
I know you haven't made your mind up yet
But I would never do you wrong
I've known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong.
Rachel looked over to her friend and found him biting his bottom lip, unsuccessfully trying to contain a beaming grin. She grinned at him, squeezing his hand, but Kurt's eyes stayed glued to Dave who singing with such emotion that it nearly brought tears to both their eyes.
I'd go hungry
I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawling down the avenue
You know there's nothing that I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love
The storms are raging on the rolling see
And on the highway of your
The winds of change are blowing wild and free
You ain't seen nothing like me yet
Yeah, I could make you happy
Make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love
To make you feel my love."
Dave smiled to his audience and exited the stage, taking a few deep breaths before he made his way back over to his seat. He knew that Kurt cared for him, but he wasn't sure if the smaller teen was ready to enter a relationship just yet. Dave had told himself that he would give him time, and he'd given him months for Kurt to make the next step, but he was unable to keep pretending that he didn't want anything more.
A final deep breath and he sat down, turning to the boy that he'd fallen in love with over the past few months. He let out a deep sigh of relief when he saw him grinning back at him. Kurt leaned over the uncomfortable armrest to capture his lips in a kiss. "Lima Bean after this?" he smiled when he pulled away.
"Of course," Dave grinned back.
Rachel couldn't hold back the little squeal of excitement and Finn shook his head with a small smile, already thinking up the big brother speech he was going to have to give Dave soon. The two boys ignored them though, favoring to smile down at their clutched hands instead.
Does this seem kind of…off? Is so please feel free to say so.
Love,
LILAN
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