Dear Pen Pal:
This one I know is going to be hard to pull off so sorry in advance if I don't get the characterizations of these two correctly… that being said I do hope you enjoy and if you have requests for the last 3 and 3 feel free to let me know… so without further ado…
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September 2010-
Dear Kurt-
I thought the whole point of transferring to a new school was to remain anonymous…I guess I was mistaken.
Not that I don't mine, I mean I'm sure you're a good person and I of all people should know not to judge a book by their cover.
That being said what makes Kurt Hummel, glee club member for Lima Ohio tick?
I'm sure in seeing that well you'd want to know what makes me tick… well I'm in grade 10 though I'm in grade 11 honors classes…but I'm not a geek I swear… I just use academics to compensate for the… never mind I'm getting too rambly and there are just some things that you can't say in a letter.
Well… If I don't annoy you too much I'd love to here from you soon. And if I do annoy… well I'm sure your obglated to write to me anyways….
Adam Torres
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Kurt paused as he re-read Adam's letter again for the fifth time in a row. There was just something about his pen pal's prose that for some reason felt a bit off. Not a bad kind of off persay but in the sense that he was hiding something.
Tilting his head he looked over to Mercedes who was sitting with him in the choir room during their free period that day, lost in the sounds of whatever was at the moment playing on her ipod.
He'd been hiding something at about this time that year.
The fact that he was gay.
Not that people couldn't already assume he was or anything, he just denied the assumptions and blatantly snapped at the person reminding them once again what happened when one assumed.
Then, well he guessed glee club happened and he felt more comfortable in his skin and in this moment he had planed to take 'Adam' under his wing and try to make him feel this way as well.
"Mercedes," he said with a smile.
When his friend failed to respond he simply smile in her direction picking up his notebook.
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September 2010-
Dear Adam-
You've peaked my curiosity, compensate for what? To distract you from family problems? The fact that you're hiding who you really are from everyone but yourself?
I'm sorry if that last part seemed to be a bit intrusive… my friends say I can be a bit intense at times…god I hope I'm not as intense as Rachel but you don't know her to say yes or no.
Anyway the reason I was so brash was cause…well I'm gay. Anyway to tell you the truth I only recently came out to my friends and family last year and what can I say, the world didn't end.
But I'm sure you don't want me to ramble on about how joining glee club and making friends have me the confidence to come out and so here is some more about me.
I want to be famous if not on the stage then for my impeccable eye for fashion..yes it's cliché but I don't really mind. I'm single, though I did for the longest time have a crush on this painfully straight yet totally moronic jock that coincidently or not is now my stepbrother…well almost step brother once my dad and his mom make it official. Aside from glee club I'm on the Cheerio's which is the polar opposite side of the social spectrum but hey…at least I don't get slushie facials any more. AND I took those Cheerios to their latest Nationals win with a Celine Dion medley done fully in French…
So that's me in a bit of a nutshell….
I can't wait to read your next letter as I can feel you're the kind of person I can be open and honest and genuinely myself with.
Kurt Hummel
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Adam wasn't expecting to read what he was reading as he sat on the bleachers with Eli, Clare and a handful of other Degrassi students and alumni for the schools annual Student/Alumni game.
"So," Eli said, "your pen pal cool enough to associate with us?"
He couldn't help but smile at his friend.
"I definitely think he is…what about yours… Tina right."
Eli rolled his eyes.
"Yea Eli, should I be jealous."
"I don't know, it depends…what are you and Artie doing?"
Clare let out a laugh while Adam just rolled his eyes. He loved his friends dearly even when they made him feel like a third wheel.
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Time went by and Adam instantly found the courage to tell Kurt all about 'Gracie' and his situation as a FTM Transgender teen amongst to which Kurt was greatly accepting about.
They talked about their friends, laughing over the fact that Clare and Artie and Eli and Tina were paired up with one another considering all the drama not to mention sexual tension both pairings had in their respective schools.
Things also got a bit darker as they talked about the ways that they were tortured or in Adam's case how he tortured himself.
It broke Kurt hearing about the way his pal used to burn himself and about how the jocks tossed him into a glass door upon finding out he was transgender…suddenly a slushie didn't sound so bad.
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November 2010-
Dear Kurt-
I so wish I could fly out and watch you guys at Sectionals as it would be amazing to here you sing with all that passion you talk about. Maybe you can sing your solo at out little mixer in the spring? Maybe I'll have the courage to join in and sing with you…maybe not Defying Gravity but something…
Anyway here at school the bullying and drama have stopped for the moment but I fear it's just the calm before the storm though my life is still dramatic after all we ARE planning to introduce the rest of my family to Adam next week… fingers crossed…
Adam
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Kurt stood backstage during Sectionals.
They were to be performing second that year which was basically the kiss of death as it was well known that you were better off being on stage first to set the standard or last so you'd be the freshest act on the judges minds.
"At least they aren't singing one of out songs again," Finn's voice rang from behind him causing him to smile at his former crush turned brother.
"You weren't even here for that."
Finn nodded knowing he deserved that comment as he looked over to watch Rachel working on vocal exercises.
'You can go if you want," Kurt said causing Finn to nod heading over to Rachel and leaving the young man to look around the room.
All his friends seemed so happy it made him sick as he knew damn well it wasn't the nerves.
Artie and Tina were back together and Mercedes shockingly was with Puck and this time it seemed to be for real.
He wasn't jealous… no… he really wasn't…he was more confused by the way that Matt was looking over toward him then anything else.
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December 2010-
Adam-
Sectionals rocked and despite me being on the cusp of blowing my High F on stage we did it! We won! Regionals here we come!
I'm sorry for all the excitement but I think the fact that we didn't win solely because of Rachel made the win all the better.
And speaking of said win something else happened at Sectionals.
Maybe I'm just reading into things far more then I should be reading into but I swear that I am having another crush on another straight jock…heaven help me.
I'll save you the drama till out next letter as hopefully by then things will be straightened out but his name is Matt and he's on the football team….
-Kurt
Ok I know it was kind of sucky despite the fact that Kurt and Adam are all kinds of amazing and Chris and Jordy never cease to take me on emotional trips whenever they open their mouths… anyway next chapter I'm leaning toward Santana/Fiona but what do you think? Go for them or pull names from a hat?