A/N: Sorry about the wait…uh, things happened. I actually intended to do three other people before Dave but well, the muse wants what the muse wants. Anywho, enjoy.

Dedicated to anyone still reading.

Warning: There is a bit of cursing and mentions of sexual activity and abuse.

David Karofsky

1. Dave's not got a lot of things going for him, all right? He's a pretty okay hockey player, doesn't look like a complete douche on the football field and manages to pass his classes. That's about it. That's not really much to define himself with but he's alright with being the average guy no one remembers. Which is why he wishes Hummel would just drop it about coming out. Because he knows, just knows, that in a town like this all he'll end up being labelled as is that footballer who turned gay. He's not like Hummel, he actually cares what the people in this lame-ass town think of him. He'd much rather be the face no one can quite pick then the one no one forgets. All he wants is for high school to be over and to get the hell out of Lima. Once he's gone, he's not holding back anymore. He'll be pretty okay and gay as the fourth of July. Just not here.

2. Dave first met Azimio when they were 12. It was gloomy as all hell and the run down playground next to what used to be the only fast food place in Lima was totally deserted, or at least Dave thought it was. Dave had just run from one side of town to the other for reasons he can't quite remember and collapsed under a tree. Low and behold, there was Azimio Adams, sitting up a tree with a sandwich and a comic book staring at Dave like he'd appeared out of thin air. With a shrug, Azimio had held out half the sandwich and said, "PB and J?" and that was that. No questions asked. The start of a beautifully messed-up friendship.

3. The worst thing that's come out of being who he is, the weird struggle between being who his Dad wants, what this town wants and what his stupid head wants that makes up who he is: He can't look himself in the eyes. Some of the guys started noticing it too. His aversion to the locker room mirrors. He just… the less he has to see that look in his eyes, the confusion, the hurt, the anger and the self –loathing all mixed into one, well... Dave likes to think that maybe, just maybe he might start hating himself less. But in all honesty? He's never felt worse.

4. Dave's definitely got a type. And suckily enough for the both of them, Hummel happens to fit right into it. He likes 'em fiery, opinionated and gorgeous as a china doll. And the fact that Kurt is a cheerleader and by all accounts flexible as hell? That has certainly helped a few of his more vivid dreams.

5. It's weird but the entire time he was sitting in Figgins' office, well Coach Sylvester's at the time; all he could think was 'Huh, that is a really nice chair.' That's it. Not 'I'm about to get expelled,' or 'Coach is going to roast me alive and eat me with chopsticks,' just…what a nice chair. After that he sort of blanked out. He thinks he said something to Kurt. Probably something stupid and if he could remember he'd probably regret it but…he doesn't remember. All he knows is that Figgin's has one nicechair.

6. Dave is not a nice person. He's mean, petty, angry . He knows it, the teachers know it, every guy he ever played with or against on the field and on the ice knows it. All it takes people is one look to just know. Except his Dad. His Dad refuses to believe that he really is that angry, self-loathing dick. Or perhaps, more importantly that he's that was without a reason. Dave can't decide if loves that or hates that because, God, is he really that stupid? Does he really have so much faith in the boy who egged his own fucking house? What he hates the most is his Dad decides now is a good time to act like a father? Why'd he start diggin' for reasons all of a sudden? Well, Dave can think of at least one good reason why he might be so screwed up and it sure as hell isn't because he's gay. But hey, considering he survived this long without a parent he thinks it's pretty fucking fortunate that he's not out cutting people open for kicks.

7. He finds it funny that despite being out loud and proud – he's pretty sure he's been farther with a guy than Hummel has. Look, Dave…he knows he's gay. He's known for a while. He's not in denial about it (No matter how many times he's denied toHummel), he'd just rather not broad cast it, you know? But hey, he's certainly not the worst looking guy in this town and Hummel is far from the only gay one. Shit happens, yeah? And if that shit means Dave gets one hell of blow job than he's not complaining.

8. Dave has this irrational fear of spiders. Which Azimio thought he'd use to his advantage and decided to fill his locker with them. After having a panic attack, Dave went ballistic on Azimio's ass. They'd fought before. Got into punch ups, tackled, kicked, the whole shebang. But Azimio never realised not only how much Dave had been holding back, but how screwed he was if Dave ever decided he needed a beat down. Az has never made fun of him for his fear of spiders again. In fact, he's done a hell of a lot to make sure he doesn't get his ass handed to him on a silver platter ever again.

9. He'd never tell anyone but dancing with glee club was the most care-free he's felt in…well, forever. After that, he finally got why Finn and Puck and all the other guys were so intent on holding on to it. And if he was a bigger man, a better man, maybe he would too. But he's not. Besides, with the way he's treated all of them he's pretty sure he sunk that boat a long time ago.

10. He loves how Hummel and Berry think they've got the market for Mummy issues cornered. Screw that – at least Rachel's mum came back and tried, at least Kurt's mum died loving him. His mum thought that his face was a good place to test out her new frying pan. His mum made sure he knew how worthless he was. His mum abandoned him because he was "Too much work". To top it all off, his Dad still doesn't understand how Dave could just watch his Mum go and not feel a thing. Not try to stop her. Not beg her to just think about it for a minute, think about how she's leaving a son she never wanted and husband she never loved. Think about a husband who was so caught up in the delusion of the perfect family that he refused to look up from the paper work to see his wife braining their son with the paper weight. Dave guesses that when you work all day and half the night it's easy to pretend like your son doesn't have a bruise in the shape of a hand on his cheek or that the bruise he got from falling doesn't look like fingerprints. Screw them all, as far as Dave is concerned his Mum can walk out the door and just keep walking. Rachel can keep playing the 'woe is me; my Mum who was specifically picked by my two gay Dads gave me up to a loving home'. Kurt can share 'remember when Mum' stories with a Dad who love and accepts him for who he is and cry himself to sleep knowing his Mum loved him too. And most of all, Dave's Dad can go fuck himself. Dave is not his Mum's son and he's not his Dad's son. He won't be the worthless maggot she thought he was and he sure as hell won't stand here and pretend like the world is sunshine and rainbows and he's one big fucking ball of sunshine. He is mean, petty, gay and damn it he's angry. But you know what? He's pretty okay.