AN: Wow. The most recent episode of glee was terrifying. The cinematography, the silence and the acting from this episode made it seem so much more bone-chilling. I was so scared for Britt when she was trapped in the bathroom and the Sue and Becky thing is a serious dilemma. I actually think glee managed to pull it off. Oh and this is a very short chapter!
Blaine began smoking again regularly. It had been about two days since his and Kurt's fight, and they didn't really know how to talk over it. Kurt was right: there was something wrong with Blaine, and it frustrated Blaine that Kurt knew.
A strange tension settled upon Kurt and Blaine. They were afraid to talk to each other after the fight. In the hallways, when they passed by each other, they would make awkward eye-contact and quickly look away. They never talked, never called or texted, and Blaine found himself never at Kurt's house after school anymore. Burt would always ask Kurt, "Did you break up?" and Kurt would reply, "I don't know."
And if things couldn't get any worse for Blaine, he couldn't find a job. Not anywhere. Not even at the Lima Bean. He didn't know if it was because people purposefully didn't want to give him a job due to the way he looked and acted or if it was because there were genuinely no jobs. Either way, Blaine's anxiety and stress levels grew everyday. He was forced to wake up in a house that he knew could be taken away from him if he didn't do anything. His mother was indifferent to the situation, as always.
Glee practices were every Tuesday and Thursday after school, and on his way out, Blaine would walk by the choir room He could hear muffled singing voices and instruments. He never looked inside in fear that Kurt might see him, but he always forced himself to walk by just because.
On Wednesday morning, something strange happened.
Kurt was standing at his locker with Mercedes, talking about how Regionals was coming up in about two months and if they would make it to Nationals or not when Kurt could feel a strong gaze settle upon him. Since Kurt was used to being bullied, he'd developed a new talent: the ability to tell when someone was getting too close to him without even turning around. He was sure every bullying victim had this sixth sense.
Kurt turned around, and standing across the hall from him was Karofsky.
He didn't know where all of these stares were coming from recently. Karofsky sort of lay off Kurt in the physical sense. The locker slams and tosses stopped after Kurt began hanging out with Blaine so much, but Karofsky never failed to deliver Kurt creepy stares when he thought he wasn't looking. But these stares didn't look like they were supposed to be menacing or "I'm going to kill you" kind of stare. It was more like he was observing Kurt, collecting information and shipping it off to his brain. And that...that's what made it all the more terrifying.
"Kurt?" Mercedes said. "...Are you even listening to me?"
Kurt drew his eyes away from behind Mercedes where Karofsky was standing and said, "Sorry, what?"
The next time Kurt looked up, Karofsky was gone.
AN: I'm sorry the chapter was so short, I've been spending the whole weekend packing for a school music trip to Philadelphia and I won't be back until Saturday, but I didn't want to leave without posting nothing. The next chapter will be longer, I promise.