Prompt: Mouth McFadden - "It's easy in the dark. But pretty soon the lights are gonna come back on an we'll go back to being who we really are, right?" - 'One Tree Hill'
I was going back to McKinley to finish the school year. It was ironic really. This was the place I had left to avoid rumors. To not have people make jokes about something they were only guessing at. Now, here I was about to walk back into those halls with my most sacred secret exposed.
Yet this was the only place I had any friends left, which was another source of irony all in it's own.
"You can do this," a quiet voice said from my left. Looking down at it's owner I found myself looking into the calm face of the kid I had bullied only last year. The guy I had forced to run from this school because of the tormenting that I was a part of. Someone who was much stronger than me, because he had never let any of that break him like I did.
"We've got your back," Blaine added, from beside Kurt. I thought of the offer he had made to me during our first meeting, right after I had kissed Kurt and wondered if my life would have been better if I had come out then on my own terms.
I felt a hand come to rest on my right shoulder, and I turned to look in that direction. I found myself staring into the determined expression of my old teammate whom I had harassed for befriending and standing up for Kurt. Now he was willing to do the same for me.
There was no going back. As much as I'd like for me to wake up and find out these past couple of weeks were a big nightmare and go on with my old life, I knew that wasn't possible. There was no more hiding in the dark. Somehow, facing people I knew with my unlikely allies seemed so much easier than facing a new place alone.
Knowing I had at least three people on my side, I started for the familiar steps of McKinley High School not sure what the day was going to bring but knowing at least I wouldn't face it alone.