Disclaimer: See last chapter.

~ "I should have kept my mouth shut." ~

"Finally, I am out of there!" Rachel walked out of the large building and grinned at her boyfriend. He was waiting for her outside, ready to take her home as her fathers were both in work. He hugged her tight and smiled wide, "You look really good, Rachel."

She smiled and nodded, "I think I look a lot better than the last time you saw me."

"How are you today?" He asked, walking down the street with her, keeping an arm wrapped around her waist as they walked slowly. She grinned and shrugged, replying with a simple okay before she looked up at him.

"Have you spoken to Kurt much?" He shook his head and she looked down at the floor, "He came to see me two weeks ago and I don't know why but I was cold to him.."

Finn shook his head and kissed her forehead, frowning, "I can take you back to mine and you can see him, if you want?"

"He needs help, Finn.." She whispered, closing her eyes tight,

"Why?"

"He has bulimia and I don't know what to do. When he came to see me, I asked him to recover but he won't. He told me it's gotten worse and I am so worried about him." It all came out at top speed, as though she had been waiting for so long to tell someone else. Finn could only shake his head in disbelief, seeing the worry in Rachel's eyes.

"Maybe we can talk to him."

"No please.. you can't. He will hate me if he finds out I told someone else." He sighed and nodded, knowing she needed people around him who she could trust right now, and as much as he loved his step-brother, he would have to keep his mouth shut for now.

"Promise me?" He promised her, already hatching a plan in his mind as they continued walking. He never wanted to betray her trust, he knew she relied on it right now, but he also knew she would understand because Kurt needed help.

~ .. ~

"Burt, can I talk to you for a second?" He looked at his step-father and bit his lip, his head shook as he tried to think of the right words to say. "This is hard to say.." He trailed off and stared at the man who had been so loyal to him since he met his mother a while ago.

"Rachel got out of hospital today, she told me something when we were walking home." The man just nodded, obviously knowing I had to get all this out, "She told me Kurt has bulimia, she asked me not to tell anyone but I thought it best if you knew."

He finally looked up at the man, at the tears in his eyes as he shook his head, "I should have known." He whispered, but Finn shook his head, knowing there were two other people in this house who could have noticed, one of which being himself.

"He hid it from all of us.. none of us had any idea." He nodded and sighed,

"Thank you for telling me, son.. thank you." He nodded, knowing the man wanted to be alone so he walked out of the shop without another word, walking towards the house. He couldn't believe he had just done that, but he needed his brother to get help. He closed his eyes and thought about Rachel, how much she was going to hate him for this but it had to work out in the end. They would both be fine, and he could imagine them all going back to the way things were before.

He walked down the street slowly, biting his lip as he thought about how he could lose the girl of his dreams thanks to his own mistake, whispering to himself, "I should have kept my mouth shut."

~ .. ~

Kurt

"Hey dad, Carole." I smiled at them as I walked through the door, they were sitting there on the dining table, both of them looking as though they had been crying. "What's going on? Has something happened?"

"We need to speak to you." I sighed and walked into the dining area, sitting down with them, I look at them both, waiting for one of them to speak. "We were told something today." I rolled my eyes,

"Can we get to the point already?" I was already irritated, I needed to go upstairs and purge before all the calories stayed inside me from the meal I had just had.

"Do you have an eating disorder?" Dad finally asked me, rubbing Carole's back as she tried to calm herself down. I shook my head, shocked at the question.

"Do you make yourself throw up, Kurt?" She burst out in tears again and my dad tried to keep his calm,

"No.. who told you that?" Rachel got out of hospital today, maybe she told them, I shook my head at the thought, she would never betray me like that. "Who?"

"Does it matter who it was? Is it true?"

"Of course it isn't!" I shouted as I stood up, I was going to kill Rachel if this was all her doing, I was not going to get caught now, not after all this time. "I wouldn't do that, dad.. Carole. I wouldn't." I whispered,

"I tried it once.. when Rachel was here.. she showed me how." I said, wanting to turn them both against Rachel so they would never believe anything she ever said to them again. They both stared in disbelief and shook their heads,

"She showed you how?" They looked at each other, and I saw the anger in my dad's eyes, I nodded and looked down at the table,

"I didn't like it.. I tried it and I couldn't do it and when something came up, I felt horrible. I have never tried it since." I took a deep breath, "If Rachel told you this, you can't believe her. When I went to see her, we had an argument. I told her she had to get better or I couldn't do this anymore. This is her way of getting back at me." I rushed out the lies, I'm not going to let her win. She wanted me to recover but I can't and I won't.

"Do you promise?" I nodded and reached over to grab both their hands, "I wouldn't be able to do that to you, either of you." They seemed to believe me as they both nodded,

"I think you should stay away from Rachel from now on."

"With pleasure. I don't like people who spread lies because of an argument." I smiled at them both and went to grab kitchen, "What's for dinner?" I tried to sound as normal as possible,

"Takeaway?" I nodded and smiled at them both, "Alright, I'll take a night off my diet for one night as long as it's pizza!" They both laughed and I walked up the stairs slowly, muttering something about homework to do.

I ran up the stairs and shut my bedroom door, sliding against it as tears soared down my face. I can't believe what she had done to me, I can't believe she would break the trust after all this time. What did I do to her? I brought my knees to my chest and cried harder, I hate her so much. I thought she was my best friend but she betrayed me. All those times she told me she wouldn't do this, all those times she told me she was my best friend and nothing could break us... she lied; I hope she chokes on every single lie she told me.

~ .. ~

Rachel ran up to Kurt, smiling as she called his name but he carried on walking, not even looking at her. She grabbed his arm, "What's wrong?"

Kurt laughed and shook his head, "Go away, Rachel. I don't want to be your friend anymore." He started to walk off again but she grabbed his arm again,

"W-why?" Rachel sounded so weak, as though she was about to cry.

"Because you told, Rachel." She flinched at the venom in his voice, and let go of him as he walked away. She let the tears fall down her face, watching him walk off. She shook her head, waiting for him to come back but he never did. She felt like she was standing there for hours, just watching the boy fade from view, not taking her eyes off him in the hopes he would turn around.

"Rachel." Finn whispered, and she looked to her side to see him standing there, rubbing her lower back softly as he frowned.

"He's gone.." She whispered, watching his face as he wrapped both of his arms around her,

"I'm still here, though." He tilted her chin up when she smiled at him, leaning in to kiss her softly and she welcomed his lips. She grinned when they pulled away and wrapped both her arms tight around him. "He's angry, but he will get over it." She nodded and pulled him closer to her, feeling safer than she had felt in a long time.

He kissed her gently on the forehead and she looked up, smiling at him, both of them kissing once more. "I love you so much." He said as he pulled away, walking as he held her hand tight.

"I love you too." For the first time in a long time, everything felt so right. For once, she felt as though she had a reason to live and that reason was Finn Hudson. He grabbed her other hand as they both walked, and she suddenly felt very shy.

"You are beautiful, you know that?" He whispered into her ear as they stopped walking. She looked down at the ground and bit her lip, feeling a dark blush creeping on her cheeks. He put a hand on her cheek and laughed, "You really are."

"Thank you." She knew he could tell that she didn't truly believe him, but she wanted him to think she was okay. She wanted him to believe she was better, when the truth was, she wanted to disappear. He sighed and squeezed her hand as they continued walking – she loved these moments, where they didn't have to say a word to each other but the silence wasn't awkward at all, just a thoughtful silence. They could both think and they both knew what the other was thinking, there was no need for pointless, small talk.

It wasn't until later that week that Kurt and Rachel saw each other again, Rachel couldn't stand the look of pure hate in the boy's eyes. She hadn't been ready to go back to school yet, it was at a party she saw him. She gripped Finn's hand tighter when she saw Kurt dancing on the beach with Blaine and some others from Glee club, and she hoped he wouldn't say anything to her because she was sure they won't let him.

It wasn't long before everyone was drunk, and everyone was dancing. Rachel sat on the edge, on her own. She stared at everyone laughing, joking around and she thought about drinking but she knew how out of control her mouth goes when she goes have a drink; she didn't want any arguments tonight.

It was hours into the party that she finally gained the courage to go up to Kurt, she needed to speak to him, she had to ask him why. She wanted to know it wasn't the end of their friendship, she needed to know it was okay. She slowly walked up to him and he turned to stare at her, she knew he was drunk when he turned away to get away from her but she grabbed his arm quickly.

"Don't I mean anything to you anymore?"

"No, you're dead to me." He really did hate her, she realized as she shook her head,

"We were best friends once.. don't you remember?" He shook his head, glaring at her,

"Back when I thought I could trust you?"

"I didn't mean to.. I thought I was helping you.. I thought... I wanted you to be okay again."

"I won't ever, ever, ever recover!" Rachel felt a tear fall down his face as Kurt started to walk off, and she quickly followed him, "I hate you!" He screamed, causing Rachel to stop suddenly. "Go away." He turned around once more, but not before Rachel stared into his eyes; they had darkened over and full of so much hate.

"I thought you were my friend... I just wanted to help you." Her voice lowered, and her whole body was shaking. She didn't want to be like this, she didn't want their friendship to end this way. She started to run after her but Quinn grabbed her quickly,

"Don't Rachel, he doesn't want any of us." Rachel nodded, sobbing, not resisting when Quinn pulled her into a hug, sobbing into her shoulder as Kurt walked away. She held onto Quinn as tight as she could, crying harder when she thought about how she wanted to be invisible, she wanted to be free of this pain.