Disclaimer: Yes of course , because Ryan Murphy would totally have a user name that starts with Kitty. Anyway, it's not this Kitty who owns anything even resembling Glee. Sad reality.

An: HATES ! A super nice reviewer at pointed out that in chap 5 there was a missing. I thought I had deleted it by mistake but NO! DELETED ! I know because his name appears in this chapter and when I was looking it over to verify it looked ok, guess what I saw? A blank where should have been. So I checked my word document and was there! How come it's in the doc I upload on this site but then disappears here? Freaky.

Chapter 7

Blaine woke up at the usual time the next morning. His fight with Kurt was still fresh on his mind even though he had apologized and the younger man had seemed to have forgiven him. Blaine felt bad because he had truly hurt his friend's feelings and had made Kurt doubt their friendship. Blaine vowed not to let this happen again. He was not going to get involved in Warbler's business with Kurt. Under the pressure of the other boys about dealing with Kurt's absence, Blaine had acted exactly like he had been scared the council would. From now on, Blaine wouldn't take sides. Even if he agreed with the council, he wouldn't verbalise his disapproval to Kurt. Or at least, he'll find a nice manner of saying things. Quickly, he dressed and went down to eat breakfast. Even though they had made up over the phone, Blaine was still a bit nervous at the idea of seeing Kurt this morning. He hated to see the boy upset, especially if he had something to do with it.

"Hey Blaine" Wes said, arriving with David at the breakfast table. "Did you see Kurt yesterday?" Blaine looked down.

"Yeah" Blaine said softly. 'Unfortunately' Blaine thought. He really should have let the council handle it.

"I take it from your tone that it didn't go well" Wes deduced. His friend's silence was all the answer he needed.

"I know it was a hard thing to do but it had to be done" David sighed. "We have rules and he needs to know that. Besides, it came from you so it was better."

Blaine laughed a little bitterly. "Yeah you'd think that would you?" His friends frowned. "Apparently the fact that I, his only friend here, was the one telling him all this only made things that much worse."

"Oh" David said. "Well, how exactly did you go about it?"

"I don't know I just…" Blaine shrugged. "I guess my tone must have been a little harsh. But you guys kept hassling me last night about Kurt not coming, like it was my fault and I was tired and…"

"And you made Kurt think that you were personally angry or disappointed in him? Dude, that boy looks at you like you're his saviour. Of course, that wouldn't go well."

"Well, thank you David for turning the knife in the wound! I get it okay? I'll just let the council handle these things because apparently I'm not good at them."

"Well we do decide in advance what we are going to say exactly, word by word, so we're not offensive in any way." Wes said "I just assumed you would do the same thing"

"Rule number 6 of our friendship: Never assume anything about Blaine" David repeated. Wes and Blaine just glared at him.

"Anyway, it had to be done" Wes said. "What Kurt did was wrong and it needed to be dealt with as soon as possible. And though it might have hurt more coming from you, I'm sure it had a stronger impact than the council would have had and that we will not have further problems from Kurt" Wes said and David nodded. Blaine however didn't say anything. He personally didn't think that what Kurt had done was truly a problem. If it had happened a couple of times sure, but it was just a one time thing. He felt like he should try to defend Kurt a little.

"Well he didn't mean any disrespect and he was sincerely sorry he hadn't given us at least some warning. He really thought he was doing the right thing, guys. Can you guys really say that if your girlfriend or one of your best friend called you in a really bad state you would tell them you couldn't be bothered to help them because you have Glee practice? He did well at Sectionals with very little time to practice. This won't cost us Regionals."

"But it's the principle of the thing Blaine" Wes said. "We are at Dalton, not at his old school. There are rules and etiquette here that we have to respect. He needs to learn that. If we're too permissive with him, we're only making things worse for him. The Warblers aren't the only ones with rules. This entire school has them and he has to be made aware of them so he can acclimate himself and fit in as soon as possible. It's for the best. Otherwise, he will feel like an outsider and that is not okay" Blaine nodded.

He knew his friend had a point but he was scared that they had overwhelmed Kurt with all these rules and that the younger boy was feeling more out of place than ever. Having so many rules was really difficult to adapt to and they shouldn't force all of them down his throat all at once.

"Yes but don't you think that shoving all these rules down his throat will make him see those rules as negatives instead of seeing them as guidelines that lead us through our studies so we can achieve our true potential?" Blaine said.

"Not really no" Wes answered. That guy really was a stickler for the rules.

"Maybe" David said. "I supposed if he's really unused to rules it could overwhelm him or make the school seem old fashioned, which has a bad connotation to it. But I'm sure double oh spy is doing just fine. It'll take time to adjust but he'll do it, just like you did" Blaine nodded at David's words but the situations were different. Yes he had needed time to adapt but he had never been as sad as Kurt looked during his adaptation period. And he had made instant friends with David and Wes. Kurt had told Blaine he was his only friend at Dalton. "Talking about our ex-spy…" David said pointing to the door.

"Hey Kurt, over here." David waved.

Kurt had had a good enough sleep but it had taken time to fall asleep in the first place. Soon after his conversation with Blaine, the warm gooey feelings it had made him feel had faded away and had been replace by the dread of the next day. He really hoped he didn't have to see any of the Warblers. He was judged enough at McKinley, he really didn't need people to look down on him here too. And for something so darn stupid too. So he wasn't there at practice. Big deal. If he had missed Glee without telling anyone at McKinley, everyone would have been worried and would have filled his phone with a dozens of calls and texts, all asking if he was alright, or is he was stuck in a locker or porta-potty. That was it. No blame or accusation about not showing up; only worry and friendship. Blaine kept telling him that he would adapt to things here but he really wasn't so sure anymore. How can you adapt to something when you can't help but think that what you had before was a hundred times better. Oh not the school environment. Being able to tell himself when he heard a loud noise that it wasn't someone coming to get him and actually know deep down that that was true was really making wonders for him. At McKinley he had been absolutely terrified all the time. And that's why he just had to get out of there. But if it hadn't been for Karofsky, Kurt would have taken slushies and dumpster dives over what he had at Dalton. Because at least in McKinley he had friends and Glee club to fall back on. He could count on every member of New Directions if he was in trouble, even those who weren't his friends. Kurt had little trust for anyone in the Warblers except for Blaine and even then, that trust had gotten smaller since getting here. So when David of all people waved at him (really shouldn't it have been Blaine waving at him?) Kurt couldn't help but groaned. The other boy was loud so there was no way Kurt could pretend he hadn't heard him. He didn't want to see or talk to any Warblers but if he didn't sit with them now, they'd complain about him being rude again and everything would just get worst. Darn it, if you deleted Karofsky's existence from McKinley, then Kurt felt much more at ease there than here. Kurt sighed. He didn't want to do this. *vibrate* Uh. He had a text.

"Too late for second-guessing Too late to go back to sleep. It's time to trust your instincts. Close your eyes and leap" Head high mister! You own that school and I own McKinley. Courage Kurt and remember to smile. Xxx

Kurt's face lit up with a huge smile. Rachel. She really knew exactly what he needed right now. It probably helped a lot that she probably needed the exact same thing. Walking down to where the trio was sitting, Kurt text his friend back.

"Oh no, not you. You will survive. As long as you know how to love, I know you will stay alive." Courage. Don't let it bring you down either. Don't forget I'm here for you, hun. Xxx

"Hey Kurt" Blaine said as took his seat beside him. "How are you doing?" he asked tentatively.

"Uhm?" Kurt asked "Oh sorry, I was answering Rachel. I'm doing well. I've slept more than I have in the past week so I'm hopeful about being less exhausted from now on" Kurt said. Then he thought a little and added " There's some drama from Mckinley though. I swear that school has a soap opera curse on it"

"Maybe you should let your friends deal with their own problems. It doesn't concern you anymore and they need to learn to deal on their own." Wes said.

"Is that what you told Blaine when he rushed to Mckinley to intervene with Karofsky instead on letting me deal with him on my own?"

"Kurt!" Blaine exclaimed. Kurt looked at his friend with a 'what?' written all over his friend. "Don't be rude" Blaine whispered in his hear. Kurt looked at him in shocked. He wasn't being rude! For the first time ever, Kurt gave Blaine one of his bitch faces.

"If that's what you call being rude Blaine, you seriously need a reality check. And to meet Santana Lopez." Blaine's eyes widened a little. He hadn't expected that. He hadn't meant to offend his friend just...darn it, he really wasn't good at this. He didn't have this problem before. Being with Kurt, it used to be so natural but now there was this tension between them and Blaine didn't know why it was there or what to do with it. Perhaps he should keep his distance for a little while. He really didn't want to start fighting again. "This was a simple inquiry about whether or not you had had the chance to benefit from such a piece of advice before rushing to my side to deal with a dangerous bully. You could have gotten hurt you know, so I would completely understand how Wes could have told you just this." Kurt continued, in his usual defensive, slightly sarcastic self. Okay so maybe Blaine didn't deserve to be talked to like Kurt normally talked to Neanderthals who can't understand anything but really? Kurt was rude? That wasn't even him in his true bitchy mode! Argh! He so needed to find a male Mercedes in here!

"I really meant no offence Wes" Kurt said smiling. He knew it was his bitchy, kind of sarcastic smile and not his true happy, blinding smile like the one he had had during 'Teenage Dream' but in his world, you had to merit that latter smile and Wes really didn't.

"And thank you for the advice, but Rachel and I really don't work that way. We help out our friends when in need. And she's very strong and has seen a lot of shit, so she knows perfectly well how to deal. I'm simply making myself available if she needs anything because I care for her."

Then his phone rang. "Huh…well that's a surprise." kurt whispered to himself

"Hey Finn" Kurt answered.

"No I haven't talked to Rachel today." He paused and listened. "No Finn I really don't think you should do that at school. First you could get in trouble and second, it would make everyone know what happened and…"

"What? Finn no! Telling the other Glee members will not help. It'll make things worse. You don't want things in Glee to be all awkward from now on, do you? It'd be like when we were divided between Mr. Shue and Sue. You were the one who said that if we wanted to hear our parents fighting we would have just stayed at home. You don't want to create that atmosphere again."

Kurt rolled his eyes at Finn. He should feel bad for doing that really, but honestly Rachel was three times more emotional than Finn at least and she was being less of a drama queen and less of a 'me, me, me' person. He just really didn't want to hear Finn complain about how alone and miserable he was. Seriously, that guy had no idea what loneliness or rejection really were.

"Finn, why don't you talk to just one person huh? This way you'll have someone to support you without destroying Glee. Ok? Good. Now I need to eat breakfast before class and you need to calm down so you don't punch Puck ok? Good. Yes, I'll talk to you later" Kurt hanged up and sighed.

" Kurt, don't take this the wrong way" David started. "But I don't think you should get between your friends and a bad break-up. Trust me I talk from experience. It never ends well for the person in the middle."

"But I'm not in the middle" Kurt frowned. "I'm not favouring one over the other. I'm just being there if they need to talk. It's what friends do. Besides, that's probably the only time Finn will call me." Why couldn't these boys stop criticising everything he did? Seriously, he had heard more critics since he arrived at the table than Noah Puckerman gave him in three days!

"Still things can get messy" Wes said.

"Well maybe here at Dalton this kind of drama is out of the ordinary, but at McKinley, it's just one more Glee club drama and one more episode of the Finchel series. Last year, Quinn slept with Puck, got pregnant and told her boyfriend Finn, who really liked Rachel, that the baby was his. The truth was found out and Finchel was created. But then Finn wanted to date both Santana and Brit, then changed his mind but Rachel had fallen for Jesse St-James. St-James transferred to our school to prove he wasn't with Rachel to sabotage our Glee Club, but he was. He returned to Vocal Adrenaline and they all egged Rachel who's a vegan and had nightmares of dead baby chicks for weeks after that. Then Finchel was recreated, Santana made Rachel aware of a lie Finn told, she got insecure, angry and stopped thinking and kissed Puck hence the current break up. You want me to go through the other people of the club too?"

Blaine and David looked at him with widened eyes. Wes' reaction was harder to interpret. Kurt was pretty sure he disagreed with Kurt for even talking about it at all.

"Wow…that's like a mini-version of the soap my girlfriend likes to watch" David said.

Kurt shrugged. "It's normal. Everyone is hormonal and hyper-emotive and dramatic or bitchy and cruel. It's just regular high school."

"Not for Dalton" Wes said. 'Of course not' Kurt thought 'Nothing is like your perfect Dalton Wes! Argh I swear that boy. Calm down Kurt. You have to be nice to him, he's Blaine's friend. But seriously, doesn't he get that life outside these walls has nothing to do with how Dalton is?' Kurt thought.

"Yeah well we don't have girls here. Make this a mixed school and I guarantee there will be drama!" Kurt said

"That's true. Things were similar to that at my old school. Although we never did have a teenage pregnancy"

"Trust me when I say you didn't miss much. Pregnancy hormones are exactly as all guys fear." Kurt said.

Then, the discussion fell flat and the subject was changed. Kurt listen to the three boys talk but didn't say anything. None of them tried to include Kurt or asked for his opinion, which coming from Blaine was hurtful. He was sitting beside the older boy and yet he was feeling less close to him than when he had been at McKinley. Kurt mentally sighed again. It didn't seem like things were looking up after all.

The day went by slowly. Kurt sent messages with song lyrics, or simply the word 'courage' to Rachel and she did the same for him. He felt closer to her than ever, even though they were miles apart. He hadn't seen Blaine for the rest of the day but sadly, that hadn't surprised him. He had texted Blaine hoping to gain back a little of the relationship they seemed to be losing since Kurt had started at Dalton, but the other boy had answered that he was sorry, but didn't have the time to talk. And the other boy had been surprised last night that Kurt doubted they were friends at all.

Rachel's day had been hard. She tried not to look at Finn but her eyes didn't seem to want to listen to her brain. Finn mostly looked angry. She knew she had hurt him but witnessing it was much harder. Noah wouldn't look at her either. He was probably doing everything he could not to lose Finn again, which meant that Rachel had probably just lost a friend too. Noah had his bad sides but at times where she was down, he had been there. He had also defended her before. If something bad happened to her, she knew she could always count on him. When Jesse had egged her, he had been the first one to want to defend her. That had meant something to Rachel. And now she had probably destroyed that too. Kurt kept sending her nice messages. It made her feel a little lighter.

However, after three days of this, Rachel couldn't take it anymore. Glee club was that afternoon and she did not know how she could handle it. She hoped that Mr. Shue would not make her sing something with Finn or Noah. So remembering what Kurt had told her, she tried her luck and went to speak to Brittany. Like it was usual now, she was standing close to Artie.

"Hey Artie, Brittany." She said with her now usual fake smile. "Artie do you mind if I borrow your girlfriend for a minute or two, I need to talk to her."

"Uhm sure Rachel" Artie said sending a weird look to Rachel. The girl usually never talked to Brittany.

"Thanks. Uhm Brittany, could you help me with something?" Brittany looked at Rachel. San didn't like Rachel and sometimes the girl talked too much, but Artie seemed to want her to go with Rachel, so she did. Once in an empty classroom, Rachel said "Your babygaydoll told me that if I couldn't handle things, he trusted you to help me and support me a little since he can't be there for me personally."

"You saw my babygaydoll?" Brit asked. She missed him. Kurt was always nice to her and he had always defended her against people who called her stupid. He wanted her to help Rachel because he wasn't there? She could do that for him.

"Ok. How can I help?" Rachel burst in tears and sat down on a chair. She then told Brittany what had happened with Finn and Puck and how she was scared of Glee.

"Did you have sex with him?" Brit asked

"No. But then again, he's the one who stopped it you know. Maybe I would have"

"Did you have sex with Finn?"

"No, I wasn't ready"

"Then you wouldn't have been ready with Puck. Artie said the first time is something special and you do it with someone you love. You don't love Puck so you wouldn't have done it"

"Thanks Brittany. It really means a lot that you believe I wouldn't have"

"Yeah, if I haven't done anything with a boy since I started dating Artie, you wouldn't have either. You know I didn't use to be with just one boy. And San said that I couldn't do it, that I couldn't be only with Artie but Artie smells nice and other boys smell gross and they're heavy while Artie is light, so I don't feel like I should kiss other boys. I don't really understand why San said I would"

"Well I'm really happy to hear this Brittany. It means you found a boy made for you. The other boys… they didn't respect you enough, they didn't deserve to be with you."

"Is that why you kissed Puck? Because Finn didn't respect you enough?"

"Well…I did think he should have at least told me the truth when I told him I had lied about having sex with Jesse"

"I would have had sex with Jesse. I think."

Rachel laughed. "Yeah well, he was pretty cute wasn't he?" Brit nodded. "But I think deep down, I feared you guys were right and he was using me. And he was. If I had given him my virginity only to have it all been a lie, it would have completely destroyed my first time"

"I did that to Artie. I made it seem not special but it's okay now because I really love him so he says that it was special after all. He just didn't think it was because San told him I didn't love him and she told me I didn't love him and sometimes I'm confused about things and San explains them to me but she said I didn't love him and it hurt when he said I had hurt him and I missed him even when I was with San and my babygaydoll told me that it's because I loved Artie and where love was concerned I should ask him to explain things to me and not San because she's more confused than me about love and I think he's right. I didn't read the novel for English class but Artie explained it to me and it's a love book. The girl says how she loves the boy and it's how I feel about Artie…but with less difficult words."

Rachel nodded. Kurt was right; Brittany was a sweetheart.

"I'll sing with Finn if you don't want to sing with him"

"Thanks Brittany. That means a lot. I was a little afraid you would be angry at me for what I did to Finn?"

"Why? you didn't have Puck's baby like Quinn and I wasn't angry at Quinn for that. I'm stupid too sometimes. It happens"

"Thanks"

"Do you want me to tell Artie what happened? He's really good at making me not sad"

"I…I think I'm not…" Then she thought about it. Secrets between girlfriend and boyfriend were never a good thing. "If you make him promise not to tell anyone and if you don't tell Santana about it, then yes, please tell Artie"

Brit nodded. Rachel was very sad and very quiet. That was not like the Rachel she knew and she didn't like when the people in Glee were sad. She'll try to make San not say mean things to Rachel today. She didn't like seeing Rachel cry.

The rest of Rachel's day had gone much better. Talking to Brittany had helped. It was nice to know that Kurt and Brit hadn't condemned Rachel for what she had done. They both understood that people can make mistakes. She also had the confirmation that Kurt had been right about Santana. It's evident that the girl had tried to drive a wedge between Artie and Brittany, whether out of jealousy of not having something like they did or out of fear of loosing Brittany to someone else. In Rachel's opinion, the cheerleader should have just made up her mind. She was pretty sure that if Santana had decided to date Brittany, the latter would have been very happy to do so. But now she had Artie. Soon though Glee arrived and it was with a nervous stomach that Rachel Berry entered the choir room.

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An: HI! Hope you liked this. For those who think Brittany is OOC, let me tell you this: She's not easy to write! I did my best! Comments are loved!