Authors Note: The story is still all fluffy, but I like it like that

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Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or any of its characters

Chapter Four – Something I can do

It was Thursday morning and Blaine was getting ready for school, he was actually pretty excited about going today. Not only was he going to have three classes with Kurt today, he had a date with him after school. Well ok, maybe not a date, but he was going out to coffee with one of the most beautiful boys he had ever seen.

He walked into the kitchen where his Aunt was getting breakfast ready.

"Morning Jen, how are you today?"

"I'm good thanks sweetheart. We didn't get much of a chance to talk last night, how was your first day at school?"

"It was great actually, I hate starting a new school, but I guess I am kind of a pro at it these days. I met up with the New Directions, you know their Glee Club I was telling you about. Even had an audition yesterday and got in so that's pretty cool. They invited me out with them afterwards yesterday which was really nice of them."

"Sounds like you are settling in pretty well Blaine, I am sure that your parents will be glad to hear it." Blaine didn't think so, they had not even rang yesterday to see how his first day went.

"Jen, if it's alright I'll be late home tonight, I am going out to coffee with one of the guys from Glee after school. I should be home before dinner though."

Jen looked up at Blaine with one eyebrow raised "Oh yes? Anyone special?" she said with a smirk. Blaine had come out to his Aunt last year and she had always been so supportive.

"I hope so, he is tall, has blue eyes and pours his heart into his singing. He is divine Jen." Blaine closed his eyes just thinking about Kurt.

"Woah slow down Blaine, you have only just met this boy" but she had to giggle, she knew what young love felt like. "But I am glad you have met someone with so much potential. Just don't be late for dinner, it will be at 7pm sharp, Lucy is coming over, I really want you to get to know her better."

"No problems Jen, I won't be late. I was wondering, if it goes well today can I invite Kurt over on Saturday night to study? I do actually have a lot of work to catch up and he really seems to be the most organised kid in every class."

"Sounds good Blaine, invite him to dinner. We will have a home-made pizza night, that's always relaxed. I'll invite Lucy over again so I'm not left alone while you're studying" she said with a knowing smirk.

"Thanks Jen, you are totally awesome! I am so happy you let me stay here to go to school. I really did not want to go to Europe with THEM."

"My pleasure sweetheart, now get to school, you don't want to be late on your second day".

Blaine almost skipped out of the house. He was so happy how things were working out. Jen was amazing, she was only eight years older than him and he found it so easy to talk to her. That's why when he decided that he needed to be true to himself and come out, he had come to her first. It helped that she was a lesbian herself, he had met Lucy a few times and knew they were very happy together. But Jen had been wonderful, and then when Blaine's parents had decided that they were going to Italy to live and help out his mother's parents and that they couldn't afford to keep him at Dalton anymore he had suggested that he lived with Jen in Lima. They had wanted to send him to Westvale so that he could live with his father's parents and he really didn't want that. They had been hesitant at first, they weren't sure about Jen's lifestyle and the influence she would be on Blaine. But in the end they gave in to what Blaine wanted and here he was. And really, he couldn't be happier.

Blaine pondered all of this as he walked to school, he hoped that Kurt wouldn't mind driving him this afternoon. He had a car, but he knows his parents really weren't giving Jen much money to support him and he didn't like asking for petrol money. He was going to have to get a job afterschool to help out, maybe this afternoon at the Lima Bean he could put in an application.

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"Don't forget you need to drive yourself to school" Kurt yelled down to Finn. He had a feeling his step-brother was hanging around waiting for him to go to school together. He had told him last night, but Finn had a memory like a sieve.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. Why do I have to do that again?" Finn called back up the stairs.

"Because" Kurt said with exasperation as he walked down the stairs "I am going out for coffee after school and not coming straight home".

"Right." said Finn "Can't I just come with you, I am sure Mercedes and Rachel won't mind if I join you guys", he assumed that Kurt was hanging out with the girls again.

"Well I am sure they wouldn't mind if they were going to be there, but they aren't. I am going with someone else, and no I don't want you coming along." And with that he grabbed his bag and dashed out of the house not wanting to be questioned further. He just hoped that Finn would let it drop, luckily they didn't share any classes today, and by lunch chances are he would have forgotten all about it.

Kurt plugged in his iPod to the car stereo and chose 'Defying Gravity', one of his favourite songs, and one that never fails to give him strength. He sings along, at the top of his voice, thankful that Finn wasn't with him. As he sings he decides that this is the song that he will choose to sing for the Glee Club assignment, he is pretty sure that Mr Schue won't let him sing it for Sectionals, but atleast he will get a chance to sing it for Blaine. There is just enough time to listen to it twice before he pulls his car into the school parking lot. Today is going to be a good day, he thinks as he gathers his things, straightens his clothes and heads off toward the school building.

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Blaine and Kurt were not in the same class for first period, but came together for English. Kurt was already in class when Blaine arrived, and gave him a shy smile. Much to Blaine's delight the seat next to Kurt was still free so that was where he placed himself.

"Hey" great thought Blaine, so very articulate.

"Hey" replied Kurt with a grin "So you survived your first day and even came back for a second dose?"

"Well you know, gotta fill my days somehow" chuckled Blaine as he rolled his eyes. "About this afternoon" Kurt's eyes widened, thinking that Blaine was about to cancel "do you think I could get a lift with you to the coffee place, I walked to school today, I'll just walk home afterwards".

Kurt breathed a sigh of relief "No problems, and I can take you home afterwards, it's not that anywhere is very far for anywhere else in Lima".

"Thanks" Kurt sensed a tone of embarrassment in Blaine's voice "Do you know if they have after-school jobs going there? I am just thinking I might put in an application."

"Yep they do" replied Kurt "I think there are a couple of Seniors that work there", just then the English teacher walked in.

The rest of the morning went by fairly uneventfully for both boys, Blaine discovered that he shared some classes with other New Directions members so he had a chance to chat with a few of them. As they were walking to lunch a couple of the football heads were walking towards them, Kurt inwardly cringed, he hadn't told Blaine to be aware of them and was terrified that they had come to give Blaine his 'Welcome to McKinley' slushie, luckily though he noticed that Karofsky and Azimio weren't with them, so he felt fairly confident that they would just pass with a verbal slur or something.

"Oh look, there is a new fag in town" the thugs called out as they walked by, yep, Kurt was right, that was as far as they were going to go, without their ringleaders they were pretty spineless.

"What was that about?" exclaimed Blaine, he had never had to deal with mouthing off like that at Dalton.

"Well" started Kurt carefully "if you are in Glee, you are unfortunately bottom of the social ladder here at McKinley. We cop most of our abuse from the football team, even with Sam, Finn, Puck and Mike on the team. But if Karofsky and Azimio aren't around it is mostly harmless, the others are just gutless"

"But we do need to watch it in the lunchtime, yesterday was cruisy because the boys were at training but today might be a different story, that is why we try and get a corner table, so that no one has to walk by us and 'accidently' dump their lunch on our heads!" said Mercedes as she slid up next to Blaine.

"Don't worry about it Blaine, it will be fine" said Kurt without much conviction.

As luck would have it, the group managed to get a corner table, not that that guaranteed safety but it definitely helped. They all slid into their seats, and although Kurt attempted to sit himself next to Blaine, Rachel annoyingly managed to slip in first. She started prattling on about how she felt that his voice could do with some training, and that she was available for vocal coaching if he wanted it. "You know, Finn is our main male soloist, but I am sure we can get you good enough to be featured in some of the group numbers" Kurt just smiled and looked over at Blaine and rolled his eyes over Rachel's head. Blaine looked up, and it took everything for him not to giggle out loud.

Just then Kurt saw Mercedes tense, he turned around and saw Karofsky approaching, Great thought Kurt, he really didn't want to see Blaine get dumped on. He looked meaningfully at Mercedes, then turned around and stood up and actually walked towards Karofsky and bumped his arm.

"Look where you're going lady boy" shouted Karofsky as he dumped his glass of orange juice on Kurts head "You're next gay boy" he was glaring at Blaine "Just because Hummel took one for you doesn't mean you won't get yours", with that he turned around and headed outside.

"Oh my goodness Kurt, are you ok?" cried Blaine "Who the hell was that?"

"Don't worry about it Blaine, that was just the resident thug head Karofsky. But right now I need to get to my locker and then the bathroom, I will see you in history later on" and with that he turned swiftly and disappeared out the cafeteria. Blaine was shocked, had Kurt really taken the fall for him, he thought about this sadly as he turned back to the rest of Glee Club.

"Kurt is lucky, getting juiced really isn't that bad, slushies are the worst" Tina piped up "Don't worry about it Blaine, unfortunately it is a regular occurrence, but most of us just make sure we have a spare top or something in our locker, and we try our best to avoid them. Lunchtime is just hard".

"But … but … don't the faculty do anything about it? Shouldn't you tell someone?" Blaine questioned "At Dalton, we had a zero bullying policy, if anything like that happened there, in such a public place, the offenders would be suspended by the end of day, no questions asked". He could not believe that such blatant abuse would be ignored by the teachers, and the principal.

"Nope, the principal is scared. Karofsky's dad is on the school board and can make his life difficult, so he does nothing about it, we just learn to cope" Mercedes stated.

With that, the bell went to signal the end of lunch. They all gathered their things and were getting organised for their next class. Blaine slowly starting moving towards the door, There must be something that I can do, he hated feeling helpless, and he hated bullying, it was all about control and those thugs had no right to have control over his new friends, especially Kurt.

As he walked down the corridor a poster on the noticeboard grabbed his attention, it was advertising for parents and guardians to nominate for the school board for the new school year. Nominations were due to close tomorrow, maybe there was something that Blaine could do after all. He grinned to himself as he walked off to his afternoon classes, with just a slight bounce in his step.