A/B: Stupid writers block... *headdesk* I really couldn't get more into this chapter than this, I'm sorry D: I'd have just waited and made it longer, but I wanted to get you guys out something before the wonderful redrosegal had to finish her moving and such, and thus leave my story unbeta'd D: But you should all thank her for taking the time out of her busy packing-and-unpacking days to edit this short excuse of a chapter xD I promise, I'll make it up with some wonderful Klaine next chapter :3
The day went by as quickly as he could have hoped. The short guitar player did his best to stay in the shadows for the day, the dream still haunting over him. He'd managed to avoid any and all of Kurt and Mercedes' questions, even in Spanish were the three sat together. He ate lunch with the glee gang again, laughing when Puck shot a joke about Finn.
Sure, he still hadn't managed to really speak again, but things were still going… okay.
And now it was time for Glee. Kurt had already talked to Mr. Schuester, and the Glee instructor already told Blaine that he didn't have to audition yet if he didn't want to, but when he was feeling up to it, he really should. Making his way towards the chorus room, he really had no idea what to expect. Sure, he'd been in Glee Club a few times before, but he'd never really been… in Glee Club. He'd always just watched from the sidelines.
And now they'd expect him to be up, dancing and singing with them.
And-… oh. They'd be watching him make a complete and utter fool of himself, and likely never speak to him again, and Kurt would laugh at him or hide and call him a complete embarrassment. He'd be a laughing stock, and he knew it.
Blaine. Anderson. Could. Not. Dance.
Well, at least, he didn't think he could. He'd never really tried. But as far as he knew, he couldn't dance. He had zero dancing experience what-so-ever, while everyone else in there likely had plenty. He'd never really seen them dance too much (except for Mike Chang, who liked to burst into dancing while the others sang, and he was brilliant, which really didn't help), but he figured that seeing as they were in Glee Club, they'd be good.
…Which is why he was stunned when he walked into the room to find everyone laughing at Finn's attempts at dancing. Blaine raised an eyebrow as Mike Chang attempted to show Finn some difficult move, and when Finn tried to mimic it, he stumbled and almost fell into the piano. The group laughed, but it wasn't a harsh laughter… it was a calm, happy, laughter. Blaine smiled, and noticed Finn in the back of the room, whispering to Mercedes.
Seeing the shorter boy out of the corner of his eye, Kurt waved him over, Mercedes looking at him with a smile on her face. Blaine smiled back before shoving his bag under his seat and sitting down. The two divas began catching Blaine up on why Mike was teaching Finn new dance moved every day when Mr. Schuester came in, a large grin on his face.
"Okay, come on guys, take your seats!" The laughter slowly died away as the kids took their seats, all seeming to break away into their miniature cliques and groups within the club. Everyone gave Mr. Schuester there full attention, smiles still on their faces as they thought back at Finn's almost-face-plant into the piano.
"As you can see, we have a new member joining us today!" Everyone's gaze turned back to Blaine, who sunk further down into his seat. Kurt placed a hand on his shoulder, gently patting it. The rest of Glee gave him some form of warm smile or welcome before Mr. Schue continued.
"I know he's been here a few times before, but he's agreed to join us now. So, anyways-" he was interrupted from beginning by – of course – the one-and-only Rachel Berry.
"Um, Mr. Shue?" she asked, her hand in the air, fingers waggling a bit. He sighed before muttering a 'Yes Rachel,' causing her to stand up, and face the group.
"If he's joining, shouldn't he have a proper audition like the rest of us? I mean, I'm glad as everyone that we have a new addition to the New Directions," there was a cough in the background, causing Rachel to glare in the direction of one Noah Puckerman, who ignored her, "but we can't just go around letting anyone join us."
Blaine could hear a few people murmur in agreement, others (including Mercedes) yelling at her to shut up, and did his best to slip completely into his seat.
"Way to go, Berry! You've got the new kid slinking away already!" The shout from someone Blaine recognized to be Santana Lopez. She gave him a sly smile, along with a wink, that just led to Blaine trying to sink away even more. What the hell was he doing here?
Looking to his left, he saw an apologetic smiling Kurt, and smiled back, sitting up straight again.
'Oh yeah,' he told himself. 'That's what'.
"Settle down, settle down!" came Mr. Schuester's voice over the sounds of an arguing class. Sighing in exasperation, he finally got even Rachel to get back into their seats. "Blaine's not going to audition-" argument began to break out again, stopping when the teacher cleared his throat "-just yet. He will when he's ready, okay?"
He didn't have to say more. Everyone in the club knew Blaine was a mute, but it just made it all the more weird to have him in the club. He couldn't talk, so he couldn't sing. So unless he could dance, why was he here?
Kurt stood up now. "Mr. Shue, if I may?"
"Be my best, Kurt," the teacher said with a smile on his face. The countertenor muttered his thanks before walking down to the front of the room.
"Now, I know all of you are probably curious as to why Blaine is here-" many voiced yeses from his fellow Gleeks "-and I can give you the answer to that. I asked him to join, and that's all that there is to it. One day, when he feels more comfortable, he may want to join us in singing and such, but for now, I know he can at least help us out on the guitar, right Blaine?"
The dark-haired boy quickly nodded yes, face growing red because he really wasn't use to people talking about him… well, talking about him and not being rude.
"So, I guess that's it. Just help him feel at home, alright?" and with that, Kurt made his way back up to his spot between Mercedes and Blaine. Blaine smiled in thanks to him, softly muttering a quiet 'thanks,' that has Kurt smiling. Mercedes smiled too, having heard the quiet voice, even though no one else did.
'Hey, he's got a really nice voice when he's not screaming,' she thought to herself with a smile as she turned his attention back to the front of the room.
"Well, now let's get onto our new assignment!" Rachel sat up a bit at Mr. Schue's words. "I've decided to try something we haven't every really covered much…" at that, everyone sat up a bit more, excited to hear what the week's theme would be.
Pulling something out from behind the piano, the Spanish teacher placed a straw hat on his head, smiling at the group.
"Country!"
"What do ya say you and me go bribe Finn to sing a Taylor Swift song?" Mercedes asked Kurt as the trio walked out of the Choir room at the end of class, Blaine on Kurt's left and Mercedes on his right.
Kurt frowned. "No deal. I would, in fact, that would be absolutely amazing to see happen, but I spent the rest of my allowance for this month on my new shoes." He stopped walking to show Mercedes a brand new pair of Stacy Adams by raising his tows into the air, his heel digging into the ground. He admired the shoe a bit before he continued walking, Blaine and Mercedes keeping a smooth pace with him. "The old ones had too many slushy stains on them. There are only so many times you can remove that syrup without ruining the leather exterior on shoes," he said, sighing dramatically.
Blaine laughed softly, earning a joking glare from Kurt and a grin from Mercedes. Kurt then linked his arms threw the other two's, the group walking down the hall arm-in-arm.
"So, Blaine, you likin' Glee Club so far?" Mercedes asked him after a moment of silence. The shorter boy turned to her with a smile, and nodded. She smiled back before continuing. "Good. So, you thinkin' you wanna join us for this week's assignment, or are ya gonna sit it out? I'm sure Mr. Schuester wouldn't mind if you didn't do it, I mean, Mike hardly ever does the assignments unless they've got a real good dance beat."
Blaine bit his lip in thought. Did he want to do the assignment? He wasn't that into country… it's not like anything really stood out to him. So much country was about heartbreak, he couldn't really relate to any of it. Making up his mind, he turned to Mercedes with a small smile and shook his head.
"Well, I have the perfect idea for a song!" chimed in Kurt. Mercedes laughed, mumbling an 'of course you do' with a small shake of her head. Blaine chuckled softly at the two, finding their conversations quite amusing. "Oh, you'll see Mercedes, I'll make Rachel's performance seem like last week's McQueen scarf."
"If you say so, white boy. If ya say so…" she said between quiet laughter. With that, the bell rang, and the three began to turn in their separate directions to their last class.
"Oh, wait!" Kurt exclaimed, turning to grab Blaine's wrist. The younger boy flinched at the action, but quickly turned around to face Kurt with a small tilt of his head. The countertenor's face was slightly tinted with a faint blush as he bit his lower lip softly. "Uh, I was just wondering if… if you'd mind coming to the hospital with me to visit my dad today? I mean, I completely understand if you don't want to, it's just I-"
Blaine silenced him, raising his hand. "Of course I'll go," he whispered softly, smiling at the taller boy. "Meet me outside the back door." And with that, Blaine turned and headed to his class, leaving Kurt to just watch him in a complete love-struck faze. Feeling a tap on his shoulder, he jumped, clutching his chest when he saw Mercedes.
"Oh, Mercedes… don't do that, you scared me!" he breathed out, causing a laugh from his friend.
"Well, you'd have noticed me if you weren't watchin' that man of yours!" she said, causing Kurt's face to blush. "I swear, boy, if you don't ask him out soon, I may just lock you two in a closet until something happens!"
"I do believe you're beginning to turn into Santana a bit," he joked, grabbing his friend's arm, and looping his own into it. "Come on, I do believe you have American History next?" he asked with a smirk. She just laughed, and nodded.
"Of course you know my schedule. Now get your butt over to English before I drag you there!" The two laughed, waving to each other as they parted ways.
A/N: Looky, looky, Blaine speaks words! And tehre is kind of a pattern of when he speaks... Not like, where in the chapter, but... ahh, you'll see soon enough. Kurt's smart, he'll bring it up at the hospital.
So, the song Kurt's going to sing. My friend actually had to find one for me, and I'm now completely in love with it. I can just see Kurt singing it for some reason... not sure why. It's a really good song though, and I'm going to continue to taunt you by telling you how epic it is and not telling you the song! But ya, I'm not a big country music person... but my friend is. So, she's in charge of all the music for that chapter. Hell, I'm not a very musicaly-inclined person, so I only know a little bit of music (well, a little compared to how much she is), so she is now my music consultant xD
Anyways, next chapter, to the Hospital! I feel I have been neglecting the fact that Burt's been in the hospital... Kurt's been acting happy-happy-joy-joy... to be honest, it's because I keep forgetting Burt's in the hospital and the timeframe I'm currently at. I almost put Sam in this chapter, then remembered "Oh ya... he's not in Glee yet..." and headdesked for the 900th time while writing this chapter.
dadiva18-Aww, that really means a lot! Thanks for your support~ I'll try and update faster from now on, I've been pretty sucky about that... heh...
redrosegal-YOU ARE EPICLY LOVED, how's that? :D And I told my friends, and one of them said "You're nice... when you're not mean... which is hardly ever..." xD
Annie24601-Thanks :3 I think I'm getting over my mix of illnesses. And yes, I love that nickname xD I wish he'd gone with Tickle-me-dough-face though xD And yes, Blaine does need to open up more... Kurt's like, an open book to him! Why can't Blaine be? D: Why am I asking you questions about my writing? I'm so confused...
Maiqu-SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE, SUE WAS WORRIED, RUN!
TonyJ-Thanks :D
PaigeTurner.x-Thanks :D And if it makes you feel better, I'm almost 14, and tend to be more advanced in things than most people my age (according to my teachers, but I still don't believe them...)
Tori Sohma-Seriously Tori? That's kinda frightening xD Maybe I tapped into your mind while I wrote it o3o You and me do have a kind of physic link sometimes xDD
AweSoMeLAgain-Thanks! And I've helped out a few friends with self harm, so I kind of took the emotions they told me about it and mixed them into one, trying to make them fit Blaine. I've never met anyone who was bulimic though - I'm glad to hear you're able to talk about it though, that is something I feel is really important, being able to share your experience about it to others. And don't worry, I have a similar problem - all my thoughts just, come out without me even noticing it a lot.
- Thanks! :DD And as you can likely tell now, just sittin' out for now... FOR NOW. I really do want to get him in there singing, but I have a good idea for his audition. I just need Burt good and out of the hospital first (I plan on him waking up soon), and to learn a bit more about Blaine first. Get him to speak more than a few sentances at a time, and make his voice less hoarse and more used.
Well, anyways, long weekend this weekend! I think I'm partially busy during it, but I know by fact that redrosegal wants me to get a chapter to her by... Friday I believe, so we should have something up this weekend that will hopefully be acceptable! Again, really sorry this was only... 1,854 words. I wanted it to be longer, really, but... I'm lazy D:
~Joshua