"I'm sorry?" Kurt said politely "Maybe I misheard you?" Kurt hardly knew this girl and already he felt his bitch defenders go up.
"No, I am pretty sure you heard correctly. I was referring to you being disgusting" She looked him up and down with a glare that would rival his own "Fag."
With this the shocked silence of everyone on the table was broken as all their voices began to clamber at once, and it was probably better that Clara couldn't hear what insults they were throwing at her.
Kurt however just raised one eyebrow, his bitch face securely in place. When their eyes met through the people it was one against the other. Clara's look of cold smugness, against Kurt's' look of 'bring. It. On. Bitch.'. Blaine stared shocked between the two of them and knew instantly this was going to be a pair not to mess with.
"What on earth is going on here!" Came a shrill voice from across the hall. All the girls plus Kurt and Blaine looked around to see a short, plump but angry woman descending upon their table "You girls are causing untold trouble in the dining hall!" She shrieked, her rich Scottish voice reverberating off the walls of the now silent hall and making almost the same amount of noise as they just were "Explain yourselves. Now if you please"
20 minutes later Clara, Emily, Sarah, St-Young, Caitlin, Lucy, Becks, Blaine and Kurt all stood in a line in front of a shocked Mrs Anderson. Kurt stood at one end looking sheepish and feeling guilty for causing trouble on his first day, however he wasn't entirely sure if in these situations he should feel any guilt at all. At the other end of the row, Clara stood resolutely refusing to meet anyone's eyes.
"Miss Head has explained to me the...err…situation she found you all in at lunch. However, I would like it if you could all give me your versions of the account? Does that sound too abysmal? No? Good. Lets start with the girls who" She glanced down at the writing on the piece of paper which held Miss Heads account of the argument, before reading in an exasperated tone "Yelled and shirked like a load of old woman…" She trailed off and looked at the girls "I take it that she is talking about you Caitlin, Emily, Sarah, St-Young, Lucy, Becks…and Blaine too…?" She looked questioningly over her spectacles.
"Ermm..yes Miss" Said Emily looking straight at her rather bravely Blaine thought "Can I just say that I don't feel any of the people you have just mentioned have done anything wrong, and nor has Kurt"
"So you feel that this incident was entirely Clara's fault then do you?"
A general murmur of agreement went along the line from the girls and Blaine. But a noise a disgust rose from one end as Clara gave an indignant snort.
"However Miss Dixon seems to feel differently" Mrs Anderson spoke politely enough as she turned to the girl, but she couldn't help but feel her own disgust towards what Clara had said knot in her stomach "Care to elaborate?"
"This is a free country right?" Spat Clara
"That is correct" Mrs Anderson spoke calmly, but there was a glint in her eye that said otherwise.
"So, I'm legally permitted to say what I like, right?" Clara looked around as if daring anyone to contradict her.
"Within reason"
Clara's head whipped around and she glared at the head mistress, but Mrs Anderson just slotted her finders together, propped herself up on her elbows, and levelled her gaze as calm as ever.
"Within reason" She said once again now turning her calm stare into a stern one "And I am afraid on this occasion you are so far away from reason you cannot even see the line." Her sentence was final, and even Clara stopped for a moment.
There was a tense silence in the room where everyone for a second thought that Clara Dixon had been beaten. That moment passed very quickly when she piped up once again "I thought you were going to get everyone's angle? You haven't heard from the fag, or lover boy yet have you?"
At this Mrs Anderson looked angry and a little taken aback, but she stood up and from her desk and towered over Clara "Miss Dixon. I have been patient enough with you already, and I had hoped that you would have seen the vileness of what you have done by now. However you seem to still be in full ignorance and I hope for your sake that it is bliss for now, because yes, you are entitled to your beliefs, but you are not, under any circumstances allowed to bully, and insult others. May I also add that I will not be taking this lightly, and I will be calling your parents immediately after you are dismissed." She stopped and looked around at the pupils in her room, she took a breath and spoke in barley a whisper "I want the rest of your to leave. Kurt I will call on you later. Clara, stay here."
With that they all traipsed out leaving a now shaken looking Clara behind to face the anger of Mrs Anderson.
Caitlin let out a long low breath "I do not envy her…" She turned to Kurt "But seriously though, how the hell did you keep so cool? What she said was horrible"
"You get used to it I suppose" Kurt shrugged
"Well you shouldn't have to" Blaine said. His fists were clenched and he was staring ahead into nothingness with the same look of anger in his eyes that his mother had just had.
Becks put an arm around Blaine's shoulders and started to lead him off to his dorm, at the same moment Blaine reached out and slid his hand into Kurt's, interlocking their fingers "I know" Kurt whispered "But there are always going to be dickheads, but there will always be people like you guys too" He grinned at this, because in this short space of time at this new school, he already had more friends than he had ever had in his life "So I know it's going to be okay"
