WARNING FOR HOMOPHOBIC LANGUAGE.

Lima, Ohio: McKinley High

SLAM!

Kurt's shoulder collided with the locker for the third time for the day, the jock that shoulder checked him laughed and high fived his team mate, leaving Kurt with a bruising shoulder and books and notes spread out on the linoleum floor.

"Start the day with a bang, end the day with a bang, Gay face!"

As always, no one had stepped out to help the only out gay kid in Lima, Ohio. Kurt sighed, picking up his notes and dropped books, shutting his locker and heads for the exit. Ever since the horrible gossip churned by the rumour mill that confirms Kurt's sexuality to the entire school in junior year, the bullying's gotten worst. Now, in the first day of senior year, he's exhausted of everything. He adjusts the sling of his bag, and bends to pick up the fallen papers, contemplating about skipping school the next day. He passes by the choir room and hears the McKinley High School glee club singing, if not badly, a rendition of "Geek in the pink".

"No, no, no! Rachel, you're singing backup and your voice is louder than the soloist!"

"Mr Ryerson, you just can't accept the reality that my talents are obvious and is better than Cullum's and you want him to sing lead because you like him and not because he has talent."

The argument raged on within the choir room, Kurt had remembered trying out for glee club during sophomore year. But because only Rachel and an African-American girl named Mercedes, a stuttering Asian girl named Tina and himself tried out for the club, the disheartened Mr Shuester had to disband the club. Turning into a spiralling drunkard months later, sleeping in Spanish classes when he was supposed to be teaching. Kurt was lucky he was learning French instead, as all of the students that took Spanish failed that class. Not that Kurt will plan to care for his grades anyway, now that skipping classes has become more of a realistic option for him…

Kurt was greeted by the sight of Burt sitting in the reclining armchair, watching the evening news and drinking Coke from the can.

"Dad, you know you're not supposed to drink that," Kurt taking the can from his father and sitting on the couch across his dad.

"Aw come on bud, it's been weeks since I've been able to wind down and relax, can't I get a treat for once?"

"Not when your health is in concern, and you should lay off working too much in the garage, let Mikey and the rest of the guys take over your work." Kurt continued, his eyes focused on his hands." I can't lose you again, Dad."

There was a moment of silence. "Well if it makes you happy, I'll talk to Mikey about rotating shifts, and lay off eating edible food."

Kurt smiled genuinely for the first time in months; he appreciated his father's attempt. His relationship with his dad was never easy; having nothing in common except for the shared genes and stubborn personality, but his father was trying nonetheless. The father and son then settled in the living room, listening to the news anchor wrapped up a headline on the flood crisis in Indonesia.

"In the other news, the local Russian embassy had been broken into late last Thursday, the security guard on patrol on that day claimed to have seen a hobbit-sized flying squirrel intruding the ninth storey office. Brad Barker is there on scene with the night guard, Brad?"

At that moment, Finn appeared from the stairs. Kurt clearly remembers his past infatuation with his step brother, who is a jock and never bullied Kurt upfront previously, which led Kurt into naively thinking that it was love. So in an attempt to make Kurt's presence known to Finn, he had set their parents up during a parent and teacher conference. After their parents got married in a small and quiet wedding service in Iowa during sophomore year, Finn had pulled Kurt to aside and told him he wanted nothing to do with him in school.

"Look we can be brothers and all at home, but not in school, if the guys in football know I'm bros with you, I would at the bottom of the food chain, and I won't be able to protect you from them, so this goes both ways, right?"

Kurt had stomped off angrily after that, leaving a confused Finn in his wake. But after cooling down, Kurt finds that he could not resent him at all.

"I'm off to Quinn's for a celibacy meeting," Finn says with a mouth stuffed full of food,

"Alright, come back before ten 'o' clock." Burt says, changing the channel to sports, and Kurt took this as a cue to leave the living room.

He excused himself and retreated to his bedroom, the only place he'll ever feel safe. Kurt will never tell his dad about the problems he had in school. Mainly because of his dad's recent trip to the hospital, Kurt will never want to face a reality that he is really left alone in this cruel world, he'll rather fend for himself than to risk the health of his father by letting him know what's happening in school and how bad it has gotten, Kurt deals with slushie facials, dumpster tossing and locker checks every single day, he considers a day without one as a rare occasion. The slur he's been getting is starting to affect him and the faculty's indifference didn't help either. Kurt jumps when a locker closes, cowers when any jock passes by him and he is always skittish in the hallways, and frankly, it is starting to wear him down.

He tosses his book bag on the floor and wheels himself to his study table, resting his head on his arms, ignoring the need for shower and food, he could deal with that later. Sometimes he wishes to have at least one person to notice it all, or someone to hear him out; oh what Kurt would give to have a confidant by his side...

Meanwhile back in the embassy, a clandestine figure enters the cluttered storage room, heading straight towards an upturned cabinet, scanning its scattered contents on the floor. With a last look at the K section of the room, the figure answered the vibrating phone.

"It's missing, he's missing."

A/N:Okay I have recently just restarted writing this, and I've got the plot all laid out and this is actually dedicated to that one follower of this story,(Earth Magician) I don't know how the follower thing works but I hope you know this story is updating! and to the readers out there, thank you for reading! I'm still writing this story, any evidence of you reading this would be loved!( also it keeps me inspired and motivated to write:D)