Alright. Here goes. Hope you like my surprise ;)
Oh! Don't own that one show who is having their season finale tomorrow night…what's that called again…Oh yeah! GLEE.
So it turns out that hospitals don't really like to let random people take their patients.
It took 30 minutes of convincing and a call to Blaine's parents before the hospital finally let us take him. Thank god we had his doctor and a few nurses, who talked to us while we visited and got the idea that we were good kids, on our side or we might still be fighting the front desk about it.
Blaine looked relieved to finally be out of that hospital. "Seriously guys. I was about to go INSANE. Johnny Depp and Gerald Butler can only hold me for so long." There was only one difficult aspect of the situation. He had a wheelchair. So it took us another 20 minutes to get Blaine in the car and figure out how to fold the wheelchair. So it took about half an hour to get to the hospital, an hour to even get to the point of leaving, and it'll take another half hour to get back.
God have mercy on my soul because I know for a fact Kurt Hummel is about to make me wish I was never born.
That was my thought as we were pulling into the driveway. The half hour that it was SUPPOSED to take to get back turned into an hour and a half because of the lunch rush traffic. I'm about to die. Why do I think that, you ask?
Kurt is standing on the porch, glaring at us.
We didn't even have time to get out of the car before he attacked. "Three hours you were gone. THREE HOURS DAVID. And it didn't occur to you ONCE to call me. Why in god's name were you an hour and a half late in getting back? Tell me that."
Dani, Blaine and I glanced at each other, scared to shit. "Kurt, just calm do—" I started.
"Do not tell me to calm down David Alexander Karofsky. I…I'M IN A RAGE! Seriously do you know how worried I was? I was about to call an investigative team and WHY ARE YOU ALL WEARING THAT SAME WINNING GRIN?" He was right. All three of us were grinning like idiots.
Blaine started cracking. "Because Kurt, you just used your first Starkid reference." Dani and I burst into giggles.
"Yeah Kurt. Congrats. You're officially part of the family!" Dani exclaimed.
"This calls for a group hug! Come here Kurtie!" I said. We caught him off guard, that's for sure, so it as easy to pull him in and for Dani to drag Blaine to the front seat for the most awkward hug ever.
"Ow, ow ow ow ow ow. Guys, guys watch the arm!" We all released, still giggling like idiots. At least Kurt seems to have calmed down.
"Look Kurt, it took a half hour to get to the hospital right? Then it took us FOREVER to get the hospital to actually release him to us, then it took another FOREVER to figure out how to get Blaine in the car with his broken limbs, speaking of which, can you help get him out and up the steps? Then on the way back we hit major traffic. It never occurred to us to call because we were having too much fun jamming to the radio in standstill traffic." I said, while getting the wheelchair out of the back and attempting to unfold it. It's harder than it looks alright? Kurt just gave me this pathetic look, came over, and unfolded the thing in one move. Hey, cut me some slack. They had to spend a week in those things. I didn't.
"You still could have let me know. I'll get Finn and Puck to come help carry Blaine and the chair inside." Blaine looked like he was about to protest, but Kurt held his hand up. "Don't even bother dummy. They need the exercise. Besides, they do it all the time for Artie. You're part of the family, therefore they are willing to do it for you."
"That's all fine and dandy Kurt, but why are they at my house?" Oh shoot Kurt! It was supposed to be a surprise.
"Alright, fine. You caught me. We're having a little welcome back party for you. Please enjoy the fun, will you?"
He laughed. "I don't think that'll be too hard for me. I love being around you guys." Soon after he said it, he was being lifted off the ground by me, while Puck and Finn had a thumb war to see who would have to carry the chair. I swear, they are so dumb sometimes.
Kurt led us inside and I must say, the cake he was making smelled so delicious that I almost dropped Blaine. Apparently he had the same thought. "Ugh, Kurt what's baking? Whatever it is smells remarkably good."
Kurt smirked. "That my boyfriend is the smell of your welcome back cake made with love. Gives it that extra lovely smell. Pun intended." Blaine and I rolled our eyes at that one.
"Really Kurt? I think we get that it was intended." I said, sarcastically. He shot me the evil eye. I smirked. "Sorry. It's just too fun to mess with you."
"Yeah, well look where that got us before." He said coldly. I tensed and looked down, finding the dark blue carpet suddenly very interesting.
Blaine looked up at me and back at Kurt. "Kurt, that was a little uncalled for. He was just kidding." But Blaine didn't even need to say it. Kurt already looked remorseful.
"I know. I'm sorry. It's just the lack of sleep from the past few nights. I get cranky when I don't sleep." I nodded, but made it my mission not to say anything else for a while. We had cake and watched movies, and I'd laugh at the appropriate times, but I just couldn't shake that comment for some reason.
Finally halfway through the fourth Harry Potter, Dani said something. "Okay David. You've been sitting here moping this whole time. What's wrong?" I looked around to see if she had caused anyone else to turn and look. Luckily no one seemed to have heard her. I just shrugged. "Look I know something's wrong." She turned to find Blaine, who was very awkwardly snuggled into Kurt's side. It was so funny to look at that I almost cracked a smile. Until I remembered Kurt and got depressed again. "Hey, Blaine?"
He turned to look at her and said, "Yeah?"
"Would you happen to have a room your house that would provide me access to a piano?" He gave her a weird look, but nodded.
"Yeah. It's down the hall to the left. Why?"
"Oh, no reason. Just need to have a chat with my brother. I promise, everything will still be in tact after we're done."
I heard Puck whisper, "If they weren't related, I would definitely have just pulled a 'that's what she said'." I threw a pillow at him. "Hey! What was that for?"
"Work on your whispering Puck. She's my sister. Get your mind outta the gutter, man." I saw him turn a deep scarlet and sink deeper into the floor.
I followed Dani to the music room and stopped in my tracks at the door. This is any music lovers dream. I was a room about as big as the choir room. Along one wall was a line of guitars, most signed by various artists, on another wall was a line of different stringed instruments, in one corner was a drum set, in another was a grand piano, and lastly there was a collection of various brass and woodwind instruments. Then out of no where, in the middle of the room was a booth, with the control panel on the back wall. I could live in here. I looked over and saw Dani quickly pull herself together and go to the piano.
"So Dave, what's eating you?" she asked, as she started playing a random tune on the piano.
I sighed and situated myself inside the open booth. "Nothing really. Just that comment Kurt made earlier. It's just bugging me for some reason. Then the fact that it took this long for someone to even notice that something was even wrong. I just felt alone."
"Well, like Kurt said, he hasn't gotten a lot of sleep the past couple of days. And now that he has to house you because dad's a homophobic douche bag, I can only imagine that he lost even more sleep last night."
"Can we not talk about dad right now? Last night was horrible and I don't want to think about it for a while."
She nodded. "But just know Dave. You're not alone. I'm here, and I think you have quite a few people in that living room who would support you if you came out. I'm not saying you have to right now, but I don't think you'd be alone." Her eyebrows quirked and she smiled. Next thing I know, she's playing the opening chords to "Not Alone" by Darren Criss.
(Dani, Dave, Both)
I've been alone
Surrounded by darkness
And I've seen how heartless the world can be
I've seen you crying
You felt like it's hopeless
I'll always do my best to make you see
Baby, you're not alone
Cause you're here with me
And nothing's ever gonna bring us down
Cause nothing can keep me from loving you
And you know it's true
It don't matter what'll come to be
Our love is all we need
To make it through.
She kept playing. "You gonna sing it with me Dave?" I laughed and nodded.
Now I know it ain't easy (No it ain't easy)
But it ain't hard trying (It's so hard trying)
Everytime I see you smiling
And I feel you so close to me
And you tell me
Baby you're not alone
Cause you're here with me
And nothing's ever gonna bring us down
Cause nothing can
Keep me from loving you
And you know it's true
It don't matter what'll come to be
Our love it all we need
To make it through
I still have trouble
I trip and stumble
Tryin to make sense of things sometimes
Oh, I look for reasons
But I don't need 'em
All I need is to look in your eyes
And I realize
Baby I'm not alone!
Cause you're here with me!
And nothing's ever gonna
Take
Us
Down!
Cause nothing can keep me from loving you
And you know it's true
It don't matter what'll come to be
Our love it all we need to make it through
I don't matter what'll come to be
She stopped playing and had a huge smile on her face. I did too. "Will you do the runs with me Dani?" Now it was her turn to laugh and nod.
Our love is all we need
To maaaAAAaaaAaaAkkke it
To maaaAAAaaaAaaAkkke it
To maaaAAAaaaAaaAkkke it
To maaa—
I stopped because I realized that I was joined on that last one by a voice that wasn't Dani's. I looked at her and she still had this gigantic smile on her face.
I turned around to see none other than Darren Criss himself.
He smiled. "Aw come on man. You were supposed to finish that run with me."
I laughed and shook my head. "Take it man. It's your run. I'll come back with the last word."
He shrugged. "If you insist."
To maaaAAAaaAakke it
Throooooouuuuuugggghhhhh
We couldn't even make it through the last word because of how awful it sounded and how badly it made us laugh.
He walked over to me. "Yeah, it doesn't work as well when you just jump in. Guess it's a good thing we didn't let Draco maybe it was the fact that we only had three people, in which case, we sort of needed Draco. Hi. I'm Darren Criss."
"Hey, I'm Dave. I talked to you the other night?"
"Oh, that's right. Been using the advice I gave you?"
"Sadly, not really. Haven't gotten much of a chance to yet. My dad now knows that I'm gay if that counts."
"I'll take it. And who's that lovely lady with the mad piano skills?" I saw Dani blush.
"That, would be my little sister Danielle, Dani for short."
He smiled. "Well Danielle, Dani for short, it is nice to meet you. You have a really nice voice too. Can you play anything else?" Of course she can. On top of being a nerdy spy cheerleader, she also knows how to play 5 instruments. It's a wonder she hasn't exploded from all her awesomeness.
So I left them to their bonding and went back to the living room, in a much better mood than I was going in.
That is until I saw the faces of everyone else in the house. Blaine had a look of complete guilt and sorrow on his face, Kurt, Santana, Finn, and Brittany had sad, apologetic looks on their faces. Rachel had a look of pure anger on her face. Everyone else just held disbelief in their features.
"What?" I asked.
Rachel lashed out. "I'll tell you what. You relentlessly picked on Kurt and Blaine for being gay while you were the whole time!"
My world froze.
"What?" I managed to whisper out again.
"Dave, let me explain," Blaine said. "All throughout the house are speakers that allow us to hear anything that happens in the music room. If one of us are recording something, or writing something new, it gives us the chance to hear it wherever we are in the house so we can put in our share of criticism later. The microphones and the whole sound system aren't turned on though unless any key on the piano is touched. We've heard all of your conversation since Dani started playing the piano. All of it." Including the part about me being gay.
"Look man, aside from maybe Rachel, none of us have a problem with it. Your sister's right. You're not alone in this." Sam said. I could hug that guy right now.
"Guys, I was going to tell you at some point in time. But I thought it would be later, after all of this cleared up. I mean as you heard, I just came out to my dad last night, and it didn't go well at all. I'm living with Kurt and Finn right now until further notice. Rachel, I understand why you're mad; your dad's are gay and you're just upset that I could ever do that to someone when I knew exactly how they felt. I'm sorry. I just never wanted this to happen. It's not something I asked for. I just hope that you guys can be here for me when I do decide to tell the rest of the school." When I addressed Rachel, I saw her eyes soften just a bit, but she still held her defense. Everyone else just smiled and nodded in understanding.
"Dave, we'll be here for you man. It's what we do." Finn piped in.
"Yeah. Have you ever known us not to accept someone for who they are?" Tina asked.
I smiled. "Thanks guys. Rachel, I know I'll have to work on you, so I just want you to know that any comment I ever made about your voice was a lie. It's amazing. Ask Kurt. You moved me to tears at regionals. Something I still resent you for." She smiled a bit. "Now the outfits, I can't honestly say I love those." Darn. Made her glare again. "Sorry! They can just be really over the top and really annoying to look at. Anyways. Thanks again."
"Yeah, yeah. Can we get back to the movie? You can't just cut into my Harry Potter time like that!" Blaine shouted. We laughed and returned back to our original positions on the couch and floor.
The more that I think about it, the only person I have left to tell is Azimo.
But I'm sure the minute I tell Az will be the minute the whole school finds out. I just have to figure out if I want it to be sooner or later.
Sooooo…Surprise! Darren's here! Next chapter I'll explain and everything. I could do it now, but I'm really tired and don't want to type anymore. I hope you liked it! The next thing I post will probably more than likely be another Glee cap so be cautious about opening the next one I guess.
Have a good week!