In which all isn't exactly fair in love, war, and of course, glee.
As she drifted off to sleep, she murmured "Tana..."
...
Somehow I just decided to come back. For you.
...
Kurt sat in his room at Dalton, singing to himself.
"If we could just free up the laws
That bind our lives
Then we could love..."
He didn't know Blaine was listening at the door, his hand a few inched from knocking, but frozen at the sound of the adorable brunette's voice.
"We could love..."
...
Puck and Rachel walked back to his truck in silence until Rachel, of course, broke it.
"You've been awefully quiet tonight, Puck." When he didn't say anything, she laid a hand on his arm and they stopped walking. "Puck?"
"You called me Noah before."
She smiled a little bit. "I'm sorry, I must've slipped."
"I like it when you call me Noah."
"Is that why you're not talking? Because I stopped calling you Noah? Because that's kinda sil - " He put a hand over her mouth.
"You talk a lot." He felt her lips turn up into a smile under his hand and heard her giggle. He smiled for a second, then stopped. He took her hand and started to walk again. "Why are you talking to him again?"
"Who?" She was a little frazzled. He was holing her hand. He looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "Oh. Jesse."
"Yeah. Why, after everything he did? Why, Rachel?"
"I don't know. I had just been emailing him on and off, just a little, for no reason, really. And then..." She paused when they reached the truck, but Puck didn't seem to want to go anywhere yet.
"And then?"
"And then Finn broke up with me."
"So? Why would that make you talk to St. James more?"
"I don't know. He was there, I guess? And he was safe. I could tell him anything, because he was in London. He wasn't part of it all." Otherwise it may have been you I turned to.
"But he hurt you too, Rach. You're not going to let him back in again, are you?"
"I don't know."
"He's just going to hurt you again!"
"You don't know that..." He hit a fist against the truck, frustrated. "Why do you even care?"
"Because you didn't talk to me about it!"
They both paused, surprised he had said it.
"What?"
"I would have been there, Rachel. I wasn't lying in the green room when I said I liked you. I thought we were friends, at least."
"You were too close to the whole thing. I couldn't - I just - I'm sorry." She was crying a little. He wanted to kiss the tears away, but he was too frustrated. He didn't want it to be like this.
"Whatever. I think I should take you home now."
"Noah - " He opened her door for her, but said nothing.
The drive home was too quiet.
...
The next day at McKinley, the New Directions were strangley quiet.
Tina kept stealing glances at Artie.
Brittany had her head on his shoulder, and he was stroking her hair.
Santana was nowhere to be seen.
Rachel was sitting next to Puck.
Only Finn was laughing, as Mike showed him a new flip move he had come up with.
Mr. Shue began passing out the Hanging By A Moment sheet music. Some people looked excited, but most just accepted it blindly.
"Alright." Will cleared his throat. "Guys, it seems like we all had a pretty bad weekend, since you're all really quiet. But we have to start getting ready for Regionals. I've chosen Lifehouse's Hanging By A Moment for our ballad. It's a little different than what we've done before, but I think you'll like the arrangment." He paused, but there wasn't much of a reaction. "We're going to be having open auditions for the solo, and by open, I mean school-wide."
The whole club was listening now. School-wide audtions? Not again, Mr. Shue...
"Lauren has left Glee. She didn't give me a reason exactly, but this means we need another member in order to compete. Auditions will be next week, after school. I want you guys to help by making posters, and talking up New Directions. Also, I'm taking suggestions for our other numbers. We need a duet, and I'd like a good dance song, too. This box," He gestured to a brightly colored box he had decorated. "Is where I want you to put your suggestions. Now, anyone have a song to sing?"
...
Blaine was back in his room, looking up the lyrics that Kurt had been singing. He couldn't get them out of his head.
He couldn't get anything about Kurt out of his head.
"It's called We Could Love. It's by a Youtube artist named Alex Goot." Kurt giggled when Blaine jumped out of his skin and assumed a ridiculous karate position.
"Oh my Rowling, Kurt, you scared me."
"I see that." Blaine swatted a hand at Kurt and turned away, blushing.
Kurt was the only one who could make him blush.
Then he realised he hadn't gelled down his hair, and that it was a riot of curls. His hand immediately flew to cover it, making Kurt giggle more.
"Don't, I like your hair!" Blaine turned to him in disbelief.
"My hair is ridiculous."
"So was that ninja pose you just did, but I thought it was pretty cute." Blaine gaped at him, but he just shrugged. "I like your dorkiness. It's funny."
"I thought you said it was cute."
Kurt blushed a little. "Yeah, well."
...
