When You Look in the Mirror

Chapter 4

Splintered

Danielle glared, this was getting ridiculous now… ever since Hummel had skipped school a week ago, she'd been practically freaking skipping around the school. Like now.. that second. It was the end of the day and there she walked beaming at her phone.. her stupid phone… probably that girl she'd been raving about from some prep school…. Danielle had a mental image of a ditzy looking girl in a short skirt giggling... it switched to Hummel. Danielle shook her head as Hummel walked by. She glared, and did the most natural thing in her frustration… she slapped the phone out of her hand and tripped her.

She continued walking, not looking back… but something was different, she heard the high soprano yell after her, but she was headed to the locker room… she felt frustrated… and her locker needed reorganizing anyways. Her mind was trying to undo the fuzzy haze of emotions she was feeling, but she refused to unblock it… the door slammed open she raised a brow but before she cared to look, the soprano's voice was back.. clear.. and livid, she looked.

"I was talking to you!" she snapped, her hands clenching into fists around her sleeves.

"This is the girls locker room, Hummel, get lost," said Danielle, pulling out her gym shorts and folding them into her duffle bag.

"What the hell is your problem Karofsky…what are you so afraid of!" snapped Hummel, Danielle was taken aback by the petite girls forward attitude, she was used to her just shying away, not getting in her face.

"You mean besides you coming in here and checking me out?" asked Danielle.

"Oh as if… a homophobe nightmare, all lesbians perv on girls… well guess what Karofsky!" snapped Hummel, her voice breaking 'Karofsky' up in syllables, "You're not my type!"

"Really?" asked Danielle, that stung… but why, she felt angry… sad… pained?

"Yeah! I don't dig on chunkers, who smell like body oder, and are completely fugly!" snapped Hummel, Danielle's eyes shot open.

The screaming match continued, but Danielle could feel burning in her eyes. Those words… wow. Danielle just wanted her to leave… wanted her to go… she just wanted space… But Hummel was raving like a lunatic, her hair was all over the place… her normal pale complexion was red; her eyes wide and filled with rage… Danielle yelled back, but she found herself looking at her lips… slowly her mind put it together, she really wanted to touch her lips… she yelled… Hummel needed to get the fuck out of her face.

"You are just a scared little girl who can't handle how extraordinarily ordinary you are!" Danielle lounged.

Her lips smashed against Hum.. Katie's full ones… they were soft and even better than she could have imagined. Her mind wasn't foggy anymore, everything seemed more vivid… the taste, the feeling, the smell, and that knotted feeling of pressure was gone… this felt… it felt right…. She pulled away. Katie's eyes were wide, her breath sporadic, and lips shaking.

Katie couldn't believe what the hell had just happened. She looked Danielle up and down, had she just… had… had Karofsky just kissed her…. Her mind was reeling and her body was shaking. Then she saw it, Danielle was leaning in for another one, reality came back and Katie pushed her away and backed into the locker, she panicked…. She looked at Danielle, expecting anger or her to laugh like it was a horrible joke… but she didn't… The normally angry hazel eyes of Karofsky were flooded with tears and red…. Katie took a deep breath as a loud sob came from Danielle as she slammed her hand against the locker and ran out, Katie saw the tears… but she slid down the length of the locker. That… that was my first kiss..?

Danielle ran, all she wanted to do was get to her car… she didn't care if anyone saw her… or heard her… she needed to get the hell out of this freaking place. She knew she'd ran into like three people but that only occurred as she slammed her car door and let out a loud sob as her breath hitched… her chest was pounding and her mind was racing. It had felt so right… and that scared her… and… and it hurt… hurt that the one person who should have understood… had rejected her. She didn't hear her car door open, but she felt the cool breeze of fall. She felt a hand rub her back and she let out another sob, she didn't look up.

"Dani," came Rose's voice, trying to sound soothing as she tried to calm her down, "Hey… what happened?"

"I… I kissed her…" she sobbed, her mind was spinning and she couldn't stop herself from ranting.

"Who?"

"H… Hummel.."

TBC