BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
The alarm clock blared from the nightstand, waking Kurt from his sleep, face smashed into a pillow. He smacked the top of the alarm, shutting it off. Looking up he saw Sebastian sitting again at the desk, furiously marking out something out. "What are you doing?" Kurt yawned, stretching his arms out above his head. He had realized he couldn't get any privacy from Sebastian, so walking around half naked stopped making him uncomfortable.
"I said no sounds before 8." Sebastian repeated, like he was talking to an insubordinate child.
"Yes, and I have class." Kurt said, stretching his back when he got out of bed.
"I thought having that little heart to heart would stop the alarm. I guess you aren't as much of a sap as I thought."
Kurt walked over to the desk looking over Sebastian's shoulder. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" Kurt yelled. Sebastian had used a sharpie, how he held it Kurt didn't know, and blocked out all the math homework questions in his text book. "Are you a child?"
"Perpetually 17, thanks for asking." Sebastian turned and smiled at him, his face uncomfortably close.
"Was anything you said last night true?" Kurt asked, looking at him suspiciously, refusing to be the one to back away from the close proximity.
"Of course it was. I wasn't going to waste brain power creating fake story, besides, mine is weird enough. I can't imagine any of your friends have ever made a deal with a demon resulting in someone's death."
"I definitely can't say that I have, though they do make me wonder some times." Kurt said, thinking about all the crazy shenanigans that New Directions had got in to. "I guess we have one thing in common, we both have had our lives threatened."
Sebastian looked down at his lap, and got out of the chair. "yeah, I guess so." He said, walking through Kurt and through the wall out of the room.
"I guess he is still intent on trying to scare me away from here." Kurt said to the empty room, heading to the bathroom, intend on showering off the unsettling feeling that went through him when Sebastian walked through him.
Lunch was similar to the day before. While during dinner the Warblers sat together, coming back from Warbler practice, lunch was different. While they tended to gravitate towards each other, they spread out, spending time with their other friends who weren't in the glee club. Kurt spent it with Jeff, Nick, Wes and David.
"So has Niff scared you off with their excessive PDA yet?" Wes asked, grinning at Kurt.
"Niff?" Kurt asked, confused.
"Jeff and Nick, Niff. We started calling them that a while ago when we realized it would save time talking to them since they rarely separate." Wes supplied. "it was that or Jeck, which just didn't really fit them."
"Okay.." Kurt replied. "And no, they haven't. My old glee club had couples who were pretty much the same."
"Warblers tend to always have one couple like that. Matthias and Seb were like that when they were with us." Wes said.
'Sebastian? PDA?' Kurt's mind raced. Maybe he could keep this thread of conversation going and learn something about his unwanted roommate.
"Yeah," Jeff said. "At least you didn't have to live with Matthias, Wes, they would come over and it was way worse than what Nick and I do at Warbler practice."
"Well, I am sorry for you! I can't imagine watching your bro get his mack on with your best friend." David said.
"Well, there wasn't much I could do about it." Jeff said, getting off Nick's lap to return to his seat to eat. "Oh Kurt! You totally would have gotten along great with 'Bastian, he has a great wit. I wish you could have met him."
"He sounds cool." Kurt said, hoping that Jeff wouldn't notice his lack of enthusiasm.
"I miss him." Jeff said. Nick took his hand, squeezing it.
"We all do, what I would give to have him back." Wes said. "But I know you were closest to him." He wrapped his arm around Jeff's shoulders, giving him a hug.
'Are they talking about the same Sebastian I know?' Kurt wondered. 'To be fair, death probably changes a person.'
After classes Jeff and Kurt headed up to his dorm.
"Do you want to go over your song a few more times?" Jeff asked after they had been silently studying for an hour.
"Sure!" Kurt said. He had ran over it in the shower a few times, and felt pretty confident about it. He handed the sheet music to Jeff to look over as he sang.
"I think you will do wonderfully." Jeff complimented. "The audition is only a few days away. Are you nervous?"
"I don't think so, or at least, it's not too bad. I never got much of a chance to sing in New Directions, so I am more excited than anything else." Kurt said.
"Wait, let me get this straight. You, with that voice, rarely got a chance to sing? I find that hard to believe." Jeff said, looking shocked.
"Oh believe it mister!" Kurt said, pulling up the New Directions YouTube page, and proceeded to show Jeff several of their performances.
"Well no wonder you placed 12th at nationals. You would have won if they featured you." Jeff said.
"I am pretty sure we lost because of the kiss that missed, but I'm glad you think so." Kurt laughed. A knock sounded on the door.
"Come in!" Kurt called. Nick peeked his head around the door. Hey baby, I finished studying, do you want to go now?"
"Totally!" Jeff said, jumping off the bed getting his books together. "Sorry to leave so early, Nick and I have an anniversary dinner planned."
"Have fun Niff!" Kurt called out as they walked down the hall. Closing the door he turned to the room. "Sebastian, are you there?" No sound came from the room.
There was complete radio silence from Sebastian for the next few days. The weekend came and Kurt spent it at home, convincing his dad that he was safe, and telling Carole that he was going to be okay, and had already made friends.
Heading back to the school Sunday evening was strange. He hadn't experienced Dalton during a weekend, having headed home Friday evening, and the school was definitely different. For one, no one was wearing a uniform. Kurt had to hold back from gagging at some of the outfits before making it safely back to his room. He put together his supplies he needed for tomorrow, and laid down. A piece of paper laid next to the alarm clock. "Good luck on your audition." It read.
Kurt approached the doors to the famed Warbler Practice room.
A murmuring could be heard inside, and foot-steps moved towards the door. Jeff opened it, flashing him a smile before letting him in. "Welcome, Mr. Hummel. If you are ready we would like you to sing your audition piece now."
"Of course, Kurt said. He handed Thad the CD, and introduced himself and Thad set it up. "Hello Warblers, as you know, I am Kurt Hummel, and I will be singing 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina', from Evita." The music started to play from the CD player, and Kurt sang, giving the performance all he had.
Kurt sat in the common room, waiting for Jeff to come and tell him once the meeting was over whether he made it in. He tried to work on his homework but it was hard to focus. He really wanted into the Warblers.
Jeff walked in, trailed by Nick. "Hey Kurt!" They said in unison. They sat down next to each other across from Kurt.
"Kurt, you would not believe how wonderful our date was!" Nick said. Nick had started talking more around Kurt and he had noticed that Nick could be just as hyper as Jeff if you gave him a chance. "We went to this new Thai place, and they had the most amazing curry, you wouldn't believe it." Nick continued, smirking at the frustrated glare his was getting. "Oh, and the dessert was amazing, honestly you should go there with us sometimes, I think you would really lik-" Jeff put a hand over his mouth.
"Stop torturing the poor boy, babe." Jeff said, "Don't worry Kurt, you got in."
Kurt clapped his hands together, smiling. "Yes! Though, are the meetings always that serious?"
"Yes sir." Jeff said.
"Wes likes order, and since he has been on the council the longest he gets to control most of how the meeting is run. That is why he has the gavel." Nick supplied.
"I was wondering what that was for."
"It was a gag gift from Seb when Wes first got on the council, as a way to remember him he kept it, or at least that's what he says," Jeff leaned in closer, stage whispering, "Between you and me I think he likes the power trip."
"No doubt." Kurt said. "I guess it makes sense why you are so good, it's a miracle we beat you last year."
"Wes had us working on our first routine halfway through the summer for the local guys. It was torture." Nick said.
"But baby, you looked so hot on skype." Jeff said. Kurt had learned that Jeff's family lived in California, and so every summer he went back there. Jeff and Nick started kissing, something that happened often enough that Kurt got used to it.
"Ok, Well while you guys go do coupley things, I'm going to head up to my room to study. I have some math to do. Oh, Jeff, can I borrow your math book, my book is ah, missing the page of problems." He said, thinking back to Sebastian's "Revenge".
"That's weird, but sure, here it is." Jeff pulled it out of his backpack.
"Thanks, I will see you at dinner!" Kurt headed back to his dorm. He only had an hour before dinner, but he wanted to get some of his homework done. Also he was wondering if Sebastian would finally show his face.
After studying for while he had an idea. Walking over to his night stand he set the alarm to go off in a minute. He then sat, waiting for it to go off, hoping Ghost boy would show his face.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
"What the fuck!?" a voice called out, Sebastian appeared, sitting on the floor in the room, reading one of Kurt's books. "I was trying to read! It isn't even morning what are you doing?"
Kurt shut off the alarm. "More like what are you doing. Why haven't you shown your face?"
"Did you ever think I might have better things to do?" Sebastian glared, pointedly shaking the book.
"Please, you are dead, you have plenty of time to read." Kurt said, rolling his eyes. "Why are you even reading one of my books?" He said, wondering why Sebastian would have an interest in a biography about Patti LuPone.
"Well I can't seem to take anything into or out of this room except myself, and so I figured I might as well see if you had anything interesting." Sebastian said. "So far you don't but given my limited selection I'm not giving up easily."
"Jeff seemed to think you were nice. Or at least that is what he said." Kurt said, hoping that he could shock Sebastian into revealing something.
"Yeah, well, I was nice. Then someone I loved decided to pop a bullet into my head. I would like to see you stay nice after something like that happens." Sebastian snarled.
"Touché." Kurt said. "He said you used to be best friends." He pressed.
"Fine. I have nothing better to do. Yes, we were best friends."
"Why don't you show yourself to him? He really misses you."
"Well, I am sure he has had no problem making new friends. It has been 2 years after all. He is a likeable guy. He has Nick right?" Sebastian said, staring at his hands. "Besides, I can't show myself to someone who doesn't dorm in this room, which puts a damper on keeping in contact with him. I couldn't exactly start leaving him notes could I?"
"I guess not." Kurt said. "Would you talk to him now if you could?"
"I don't know. He seems pretty preoccupied with his boyfriend."
"Well from what I hear you were pretty preoccupied with your boyfriend but still managed to be his best friend."
"Touché." Sebastian said, nodding his head. He started fading out, leaving Kurt to himself to wonder what to do.
The next morning he woke to no Sebastian but a note was left on his desk. "Can you pick up some Steven Brust books from the library? Or if they don't have any Jeff has them. It takes too much energy to go to the library, and your Broadway Diva biography collection gets boring after a while. (the first page) ~Seb"
"Sure thing Ghost Boy." Kurt said to the empty room, hoping Sebastian was there to hear him.