Chapter Two: A Call Arises
[It is the next day and everyone has sung their duets. Willow has dismissed the class already but Kurt has stayed after.]
Kurt: Willow, can I ask you something?
Willow: Sure.
Kurt: Why were you being so mean to Brittany and Rachel yesterday?
Willow: Can I tell you something Kurt?
Kurt: Yeah. What?
Willow: Being independent at such a young age, I matured fast. I never truly had a mother figure and whatever was left of my father figure drowned in alcohol. I knew that I needed to grow up and I wanted other people to do the same. I turned most people away and it is hard for me to be immersed in a group.
Kurt: So why did you get a degree in teaching?
Willow: For the same reason that I got the degrees in everything else. I didn't know what I wanted to do. All I knew was that I didn't want to be found. I wanted to be famous but I knew that I couldn't if I wanted to stay away from home. With dance, music and theater, I could take a new name. With writing, I could hide behind the words I wrote. With the sciences and foreign language, I could be anywhere in the world. With teaching, I could just be one more name on a long list of teachers around the world. The only problem is that with all of them, I had recognition as a possibility. I just decided to teach for now in a place that everyone could care less about.
Kurt: So you're just as lost as us. A little fish in a big pond.
Willow: Yep.
Kurt: But that doesn't explain why you were mean to Brittany and Rachel!
Willow: It's because I find flaws in everything. I saw the flaw in my father like I saw the flaws in them. Brittany is somewhere lost in space without a grasp on reality and Rachel is trying to be famous and is making a huge deal about it. I lash out when I get nervous and I use it to push people away. When I do, I normally just feel guilty or I tell myself that they deserved it. I feel like although I got all these degrees, I never truly learned to be human.
Kurt: But that's impossible.
Willow: It's possible when you are on your own while you are still in the first growing stage. I threw myself in my studies. I never made a bunch of friends and now I just have myself. The only people that are near me are you guys. Other than that, I have myself. In college, I just applied for everything I liked and then just studied and studied. I had already completed the first two years of writing and theater while I was in 'high school'. With that, I just engraved everything in my brain and the only places I went were pretty much the classes, my dorm room and the lunch area. I didn't socialize and I refused to talk to anyone but my professors and even that was rare.
Kurt: So you're just a little loner.
Willow: You have to be when there is a constant risk of your drunken father finding you or some person wanting to find your mom.
Kurt: What?
Willow: Some people from the agency have been looking for my mom lately and I think they think that I know where she is.
Kurt: Isn't that dangerous?
Willow: Yes. I am positive that they know that I graduated but I doubt that they know what I pursued.
Kurt: And if they do?
Willow: Then I run. I never truly moved into my apartment. I still live out of suitcases.
[The phone rings. Willow looks to Kurt and raises an eyebrow. She cautiously picks up the receiver. Kurt walks with her and answers it as they both listen to the receiver. They hear the voice of a man.]
Man: Is this the Glee room?
[Willow looks to Kurt. He answers the Man]
Kurt: Yes. Are you looking for someone?
Man: Yes. I am looking for an Edelyn Moore. Is she there?
[Kurt looks to Willow. She looks scared and shakes her head 'No']
Kurt: I'm sorry. She left. Can I take a message?
Man: Are you a student of hers?
Kurt: Yes.
Man: Hmm. Tell her that an old friend of her mother's wants to tell her that her mother has been located in an asylum in New Jersey and that her mother wishes to contact her.
Kurt: Okay. Will do, sir. Do you want to leave your name so that she knows who you are?
Man: I think she will remember me. Send her my best wishes.
[Kurt hangs up]
Kurt: I think they know that you're here.
[Willow leans against a wall and slowly slumps to the floor and hunches over]
[Sobbing] Willow: I hate my life. Why can't I live outside of my parent's shadows?
Kurt: I wish I could tell you. I think the safest explanation is that your parents didn't let go of their little girl, even when she ran out of their reach. Someone out there is looking for you, whether you want them to or not.
Author's Note: Still sorry about the script dialogue. This is the shortest chapter I've written so far. I will explain more in the next chapter about the Man and Willow's plan of action. {Suspense} [Spoiler: Gun fight involved]