The next day at school, Blaine tried to push his fight with Kurt out of his mind. He tried to focus on school and Glee club, but every once in a while something would come up to where all he was thinking about was Kurt. He walked through school most of the day angry and frustrated. He tried to hide it from everyone the best he could, but it wasn't enough. He didn't want to have to answer question or end up spilling his guts out again to Miss Pillsbury.
Still, nothing helped. He went through the entire day thinking about what Kurt said to him. He thought about their conversation at Lima Bean. He thought about the long silent ride home in Kurt's car. How in the world can Kurt say he was being selfish? Was he selfish to think of himself for once? Was it selfish to consider how he felt about the relationship? The fact was Blaine felt bombarded and smothered every time something went wrong with Kurt. He felt like he had to sit and listen, while Kurt sat and unloading all his anxiety onto him. He had to break away for a little while. He had to focus on him. Since his previous plan to meet up with Kurt was fudged by their tension, Blaine decided that afternoon to walk around the school and try to get his head together.
All of the students and most of the teachers had gone home for the day. The halls were rather quiet. On occasion one of the custodians would pop into the hall for maintenance. As Blaine was leaving the school when he walked by the auditorium and heard someone playing the piano and singing. It sounded a lot like Malik. He stopped in the middle of the hall and listened. It sounded like he was practicing scales. How very Rachel Berry of him, thought Blaine.
He popped his head inside and watched Malik sit at the piano, pounding out notes and singing along. Blaine really started to fall in love with his voice. He really didn't understand why. He knew why the kids in Glee loved it. There was definitely a star quality to it. But for Blaine, it was something much deeper and intimate than that. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but there was something.
Blaine sat down in a chair in the back row of the auditorium and listened more. Soon, Malik went from running scale to playing an actually accompaniment. After a few bars, Malik began to sing. He sang Adele's Someone Like You. It was so beautiful and powerful. Blaine sat through the whole song loving every minute. He thought back to his boyfriend. Kurt knew how play the piano, but Blaine didn't think he sang and played at the same time. Not like Malik, at least.
The song soon reached the end. Thankfully it was so dark in the auditorium Blaine couldn't be seen. It would be kind of awkward for Malik to look up and catch Blaine staring at him. As Malik stopped playing, he wondered what he should do. Was he to just up and leave?
It was then Blaine heard the sound of clapping. He looked around to see it was coming from offstage. Then someone walked on stage over to the piano next to Malik. Blaine couldn't believe his eyes. He thought he was seeing double for a minute.
There standing next to the boy he first saw in Glee club was an exact replica. Only this one was not dressed in Ralph Lauren. Rather he wore a t-shirt with a sports team plastered on the front of it, a pair of Wrangler jeans, and Converse shoes. Malik Harris had a twin brother. "That was all right, little bro." he said.
Malik lowered his eyebrows. "Little bro?" he said, "only by two minutes."
"Ah-ha!" his brother said, "so you finally admit that I am older."
"Yes, Damian, you are the oldest. Now, get over it."
"Okay. If you're done with your little practice, or whatever, we need to go. Mama's waiting for us come home." Damian said.
"Shoot. I forgot, sorry. Let me get my bag." Malik said.
"You know she doesn't like us coming home late."
"Yes. I know."
Blaine sat on the back row and watch as Malik and Damian left the auditorium. "Wow, there are two of them." He said to himself.