Karofsky opens the door there stands Blue Eyes again, looking nervous but determined
With odd confidence Kurt steps inside the house
"What you did, the other day…standing up against Azimio and the rest of those guys…" Kurt began calmly, eyes darting to and from Dave he clears his throat "it affected me a lot. I've been absent from school because I just really needed to think…about, well…you. I find more and more that…"
He pauses, looking into Dave blue fear trepidation (no, don't be afraid)
"It's hard to ignore…my feelings, you see…I'm such a wreck." Kurt laughed a dark chuckle quickly came back composed "My feelings for you are considerable."
Kurt walks in to Dave's living room as though of habit, Dave follows shocked silent
Kurt sits trembling on the couch "I've never been so nervous," he said lightly, eyebrows creased, smiling a small smile Dave sits next to him
"Look," Kurt faced him smoothly "here's the truth. I feel extremely open with you; I do, though I've been afraid to admit it to myself. And I realize now that…well, a part of me…" Kurt shakes his head again "I keep looking back on that…kiss, and" Kurt hesitates yet again, eyes locked on Dave now blushing madly both of them "I long to feel your lips again. I'm strangely…curious." His eyes unfocused he is inches apart from Dave's face Dave can hardly breathe stunned
Kurt carefully calculating straddles Dave legs hugging his the small pale boy leans in down smooth warm lips running against his own brushing back and forth
Dave wakes up, to a familiar dirty hardness still in a dream-like state he begins
Jacking off furiously to Kurt imagining his round pale ass his back his hips his neck chest
He comes comes comes he's tired alert and he feels gross except
Not that sort of gross that he used to feel but now that they were friends, sort of, strangely…
But he shakes his head it was a dream right? No big fucking deal not like anybody would know anyway
He lumbers to the bathroom to clean up take a shower
"Dave, did you take your pill?" Just as Dave was leaving to drive to school
"Yeah. I always do." He calls back
He hears a soft, "Oh," and a flamboyant wave of a newspaper, returning to reading
Sees Kurt in the hallway grins
The boy hasn't been at school for two days Finn said he was sick now finally his face again
He's back he's back and the world feels more balanced again
"Are you feeling better?" He asks Kurt before they start working more on the project
"Yes, thanks," Kurt says mildly enough Dave then hunches over his notebook quickly jotting down something then places it proudly in front of Kurt
"What does that say?" Kurt asked, amused
"'Welcome back,' in Japanese," Dave said, unconsciously licking his upper lip as he leaned in to draw a little smiley face next to the words "Tina taught me."
"Ah," Dave pretended Kurt was blushing maybe he really was Kurt lightly chuckled "Well, thank you for that. Nothing like Japanese to brighten the mood."
Dave grinned "You know you like it."
Kurt paused, then "Thank you for standing up for me. You know, on Monday."
"Why do you hang out with Tina so much? She's so…"
Dave straightens plays with his jacket cuff "I don't know, she's actually pretty cool. I thought you guys were Glee friends or something."
"No, I believe you. I was just wondering. I thought she was a vampire or something," Kurt joked lightly but Dave swallowed feeling the uneasy condescension
"That's kind of shallow. I mean, I don't get her style too much either, but she's fun."
Kurt nodded face red looked relatively surprised to hear Dave say shallow
"I was…just joking," Kurt shrugged but Dave gave him a silly Evil Eye, they both knew that Kurt was being serious grave maybe weirdly bitter
"You should hang out with her more," Dave said then brightening "She's awesome once you get to know her. It's just goth, you know? She's not boring or anything either you just gotta…I don't know. Listen to her."
Kurt smiled nodded nonchalantly.
"Hey," his blue eyes flitted to Dave changing the subject "I heard about your audition…if you want to be in Glee club, that's fine with me. In case you were worried about what I thought about the whole thing."
Dave looked down didn't want to acknowledge
"It'll be fun…!" While that didn't sound forced still Dave was uncomfortable
Kurt's hair particularly stylized that day Dave smiled
"What is it?" he said confidently, confused
"No, it's nothing…"
"Dave! You tell me! What was that look for?"
Karofsky blushed then said defeated "Your hair…"
"What about my hair?"
"You look like…a cockatoo." Teasing smiling
Kurt's mouth hung agape fighting back a smile but still offended "—How dare you! I spent hours on this hairdo—"
"Honey, it's a hair-don't."
"Oh, isn't that clever…"
"Psh. No. Don't worry about it. You're a sophisticated cockatoo, Kurt Hummell."
"That's more like it. David Karofsky." Kurt pushed him and lightly brushed back a hair that had gone askew
"Alright, everybody!" Mr. Schue clapped his hands together the bell just rang Dave sat next to Kurt rather insecure now sitting with the kids who he used to rival so vehemently—
"First, let's introduce our new member, Dave Karofsky!" There was an awkward pause then Kurt began to clap quickly excitedly and everyone else joined in
"Now…Nationals is going to arrive sooner than we all realize—we really have to start working on our songs. We want to blow their MINDS. Regionals was awesome, everybody, but now we really have to blow them out of the water!"
Archie-or-whatever held up a gloved hand "PREACH."
"Can I just say something?" Rachel held up her hand beginning to talk "I think that, for Nationals, we should stick to doing other people's songs."
"Um—otherpeople'ssongsWHAT? Sweetie, you were the one pulling for original songs during Regionals," Santana butted in with a slight glare
"That's really hypocriticizing," Brittany muttered confidently sitting right beside Santana
"While I appreciate the tag-team interrupting, I didn't get a chance to explain what I mean," she shot a look at Santana "I think our songs were perfect for Regionals. But I saw Nationals one year with my dads, and we have a huge amount of competition. You don't understand. We need to focus on our performance, not what we're writing. I think we should just choose very carefully from songs of the greats." Rachel sat back in her seat letting her sharp voice sink in
"Rachel's got a good point," Finn said, wincing in an awkward shrug of support
"Well," Schue said, "I must agree with Rachel here. How about we start thinking about themes we could do…if any of you would like to write a song, however, bring it and we'll consider, alright?" Satisfied with the general compromise he'd reached, Schue brought out music sheets to "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" For some poppy vocal practicing
"You know what theme I think we should do?" Tina asked Dave playfully
"What?"
"Pokémon."
Dave threw back his head and laughed. "Oh my GOD, that would be fucking epic!"
"We could start out with a love ballady song between Misty and Ash…"
"And an upbeat song where we dress up in Pokémoncostumes and dance battle each other, right?"
"And then the Pokémontheme song, you can't forget about that!"
"Dude, I think I legitimately have that song on my iPod…"
"Perfect!" Tina said, cackling evilly "We're set!"
Dave gets back from the gym absolutely fucking exhausted all energy depleted he plops down in front of the computer before getting to bed
His notifications read he was invited to a Facebook Event…for the first time Since. He used to get them all the time…weird, to remember that…
It was created by Kurt, entitled, "Movie Night Extravaganza!" Invited too were Mercedes, Rachel, Finn, Blaine, Tina, and Kurt of course
Dave grins to see Tina invited, sees she commented five minutes ago, "Can I bring along Mike? Pweaaase? :)"
Kurt liked her comment and replied, "Of course darling! :)"
They were seeing the movie Bridesmaids. It damn near felt pretty "gay" to attend this event but hell he is gay anyway, and Dave only felt this from old habit…he didn't really care about that shit anymore…right?
He clicked Attending.
Weird that only months ago he spent so much time only wondering imagining what it would be like to hang out with these people…
"I feel so fat around you, Hummell."
"Why?"
"Seriously? You're so…dainty. Like a lady."
"Let me remind you that I am a man, Dave." Kurt lightly pushes him
"I know, I know. You just have really…soft features."
A small bubble of silence he doesn't look at Kurt
"You know, you're actually not bad-looking."
"Wow. Thank you for that."
"Well." Kurt chuckled "I am being serious, Dave…you're attractive."
"Psh. You're just being nice."
"Must I stuff my compliment down your throat?" Kurt grinned with a twinkle in his eye then "Take it like a man, Karofsky."
"Ho!" Dave laughed a belly laugh, blushing
Karofsky drives to the hospital meeting, this time sans Kurt got a text from him this morning "My dad's not feeling well sorry :(" It didn't sound like anything major, Kurt just fucking worried a lot but still Karofsky felt unsettled in his stomach for him with without him
Rob's late this time Dave's sitting in the circle the guy in a purple polo next to him starts talking,
"Hey, I'm Brian." He holds out a confident hand
"Oh." Slightly off-guard he uncrosses his arms and shakes the boy's hand then "I'm Dave."
"This is my first meeting," the boy beamed. "I mean, I came out forever ago, but sometimes you just want to sit back and listen, you know? It's nice to find support when you're feeling a little lonely."
"Yeah. I get what you mean." Karofsky nodded feeling odd to notice this confident boy seemed to be seeping with a sad sorrow
Dave stayed wanting to help Rob put away the chairs and everything this time, it was as though Rob was his uncle he just wanted to be with him more be in his presence
But just as it seemed like the last stragglers were leaving the purple shirt guy approached Dave, smiling strangely
"Hey," he said, "see you next time, maybe?" He held out his hand to shake Dave's again
Dave shrugged "Sure." Weird but okay he shook the boy's hand and pulled back to find his palm stuck to a small slip of paper
The boy winked and walked away
The paper read, "You're cute :)" along with a scrawled out cellphone number
Karofsky stared at the paper in amazement the boy already long gone
He tested his brief memory of this guy…he really didn't feel anything for him…but…
Pleasantly flattered, he pocketed the slip