It was almost 10 o'clock at night when New Directions and the adult chaperones bid goodnight to Meredith, Andy and Brenda. They thanked them profusely for their hospitality and vowed to stop by and say their final goodbyes before they left Victoria Beach.
They weren't tired at all. So they settled in for an evening of talking, TV and games.
Finn and Sam started watching Wheel Of Fortune on TV and shouting out their pathetic guesses, which eventually attracted most of the group's attention.
Some of the others were more refined in their activities. Blaine retreated to a corner of the farthest couch with a local newspaper from a few days ago. He wasn't really paying much attention to what he was reading anyways.
Quinn had brought a bunch of nail polish and so she, Tina, Mercedes and Sugar were painting their nails. Kurt had a magazine in his lap and occasionally looked down to read it, but mostly stared at the TV with a vacant look.
"Hey Tina" Quinn said as she added a coat of dark purple to Tina's ring finger.
"Yeah?"
"Have you told Mr. Schue about the prank plan?" Quinn asked in a lower voice. Puck was busy yelling his answer so he wasn't able to hear them. "You'll be needing their participation, too."
"You're right" Tina said.
"This has to be perfect" Quinn reminded her.
"Yes. They're out on the deck, right?" Tina asked, looking at the door and at the windows.
"Yeah, as soon as I'm done with this hand, you'll be done so you can go talk to them" Quinn said, dipping the small brush back in its bottle.
"Mercedes, you should get a job doing this" Sugar said, admiring the beautiful pink flowers that Mercedes was painting on her hands.
"Thanks" Mercedes said. "Nail art is defiantly a backup plan if singing doesn't work out."
"My backup plan is trophy wife" Sugar mused.
"Shocker" Quinn said with a chuckle. Sugar reached over and as best as she could with freshly painted nails, she hit her.
"Remember when Rachel told Santana that the only job she'd ever have is on a pole?" Tina laughed. "I think Sam fell off his chair from laughing at that."
"When Rachel is passionate, her insults are grade A" Mercedes said. "It's hilarious because she just spits them out. You don't expect it."
"I heard my name" Rachel called, looking over at them.
"That's because we're talking about you" Quinn called back with a smile.
"Only good things, I presume?"
"Sure" Mercedes winked at her.
"There!" Quinn said, dramatically putting the polish brush back in the bottle for good. "You are all polished up."
"Thanks, girl" Tina said, admiring the job. She stood up. "And now, I'm going to have a chat with the teachers."
She went to the door, slid on her flip-flops, and stepped outside. It was cooler than she remembered.
"Hello Tina" Will said, noticing her come out. He, Emma and Sue were sitting on plastic lawn chairs with glasses of wine in their hands.
"Can I talk to you guys?" Tina asked, smiling.
"Should I be worried?" Will asked.
"Not really" Tina said.
"Okay then" Will nodded.
Tina hurried over and pulled up a chair.
"Is this about Blaine and Kurt?" Emma asked.
"No. We don't really know what happened anyways" Tina said. "This is about a prank."
"Oh goodness" Will said and took a sip of wine.
Tina giggled. "We need your help."
"If I remember correctly, there was some pranking going on in Florida" Will said. "If I also remember correctly, you were locked in a closet for a night."
Tina nodded and smiled at the memory. "But this isn't a prank on me."
"Who is it on?" Sue asked, looking very amused.
"Puck" Tina said.
"Is it safe?" Emma asked.
Tina nodded. "Here's the plan. Tomorrow night, when Puck falls asleep, we're gonna do a few things. One, duct tape him into his sleeping bag. Two, hide everything. All our suitcases, shoes, everything. There can't be a single trace of us. Then, the next morning, we're gonna get up earlier than Puck and leave. We'll use Mercedes' camera to secretly film it all because Puck will think we left for Ohio because us and our things will be all gone."
"You know, female asian, I must say I'm quite impressed with this little prank you came up with" Sue commented with what Tina assumed to be a smile.
"Oh, um, I didn't come up with it fully myself" Tina admitted.
Sue sighed. "You lost the opportunity to take full credit of someone else's work. Shame."
"Santana and Rachel helped. The three of us are in charge" Tina said to Will and Emma.
"Why Puck?" Emma asked.
"At first it was because the first time we went swimming, he me dragged me into the water. I vowed to get revenge. But now it's because it's funny. He's a perfect target" Tina smiled.
Sue nodded fondly. "Revenge. I like it."
"So will you guys help?" Tina asked hopefully. "It won't work unless you're on board."
Will glanced at Emma and Sue. The three of them nodded. "I'd be okay with that."
"Sure" Emma said.
"Sue, you'll participate the way they need right?" Will asked with a slightly accusative tone.
Sue nodded. "I love a prank just as much as the next gal."
"Thank you so much" Tina grinned. "Oh, this will be perfect!" She stood up. "We'll tell you more closer to the event."
Will nodded. "Plan this through. We don't want it to be a waste."
"We will" Tina nodded. A gust of cool wind blew suddenly she she shivered. "Oh, I'm cold. I'm going back in, now. Thanks again."
"No problem" Will nodded with a smile. Sue chugged the rest of her wine.
After Wheel Of Fortune, there was a nature documentary about spiders on TV. Some of the guys were extremely amused and loudly exclaimed their disgust every few minutes. The girls found the show too gross to watch so they read through the stack of magazine that they had brought. Blaine, who had given up on pretending to read the paper, sat with the guys and found some amusement in seeing Sam pretend to gag and Puck's faces when the spider viciously ate a dead bug. Santana and Mercedes took Blaine's discarded paper and were vandalizing the pictures.
"This is great practice for the yearbooks" Santana said as she drew a sombrero on some old man.
But after an hour and a half, they had grown tired. The spider show had ended and they were all bored.
"I'm actually falling asleep here" Mike shook his head.
"Sa-a-ame" Artie yawned, making Quinn, Joe and Rory yawn shortly after.
So they put their pyjamas on and slowly got ready to sleep.
When Blaine got out of the bathroom and walked back to the circle of sleeping bags, he was crushed to see that Kurt had moved his sleeping bag across the circle. Needless to say, Blaine softly cried himself to sleep. No one had the heart to tell him to be quiet.
It was an awful sleep for many of them. Both Kurt and Blaine couldn't sleep and due to their restlessness, it woke several others up too. Blaine simply lay in the dark and once in a while dozed off only to be woken up by light footsteps across the room. He knew it was Kurt, who had a habit of walking to the bathroom every hour or so, and he was secretly glad that Kurt wasn't sleeping well either.
On Kurt's fourth trip to the bathroom, he did the same thing he did each time before: pace around slowly in the tight space, wash his hands as if he was trying to wash away the sadness, and simply stare at his refection in the mirror.
But as Kurt grew slowly tired again and was about to make his way back to his sleeping bag, he heard faint tapping on the door.
"Kurt?" came the barely audible whisper. It was Rachel.
Kurt slowly unlocked the door and let her in. She firstly hugged him.
"Can't sleep?" she asked him gently.
"Nope. Did I wake you?"
"I think Blaine's whimpering did" Rachel said honestly. "I know you needed someone to talk to, so here I am."
Kurt sighed and sat down on the floor. Rachel slid down next to him.
"I don't even know what to say" Kurt said after a pause. "I'm just so angry and sad and hurt."
"Did you mean what you said at the end? About not talking to him again?" Rachel asked him.
"No" Kurt said. "But I just wanted him to understand what I was feeling and how mad I was."
"Do you want to break up with him?" Rachel asked.
"No, never" Kurt answered. "I just don't understand him sometimes." He paused as if he was deep in thought. Then he turned to Rachel. "Did you think he was being clingy?"
She slowly nodded. "I could tell something wasn't right. Sometimes it seemed that he was afraid that if he didn't get to you right away, someone else would."
"But he had to do it in such a childish way" Kurt said.
Rachel sighed. "I'm not disputing that, but I think you have to take a step back and see where he was coming from. He's right, you know. Next year will be really different. You may be in New York and he'll be in Lima at a school that he came to for you. He's just scared that the distance will tear you apart."
"But look at everyone else! They're in the same boat. Mike and Tina, Brittany and Santana, Sam and Mercedes...You don't see any of them acting that way."
"Maybe they've sat down and talked about things" Rachel said.
"We did too, though" Kurt said.
"But it didn't seem to be enough. I think the reality of Graduation and this trip hit him hard and now he's scared that it'll be over too fast. You need to sit down with him and talk things through with him. Reassure him" Rachel advised.
"The worst part of it all is that he didn't seem to care about how I was feeling" Kurt said.
"But he does" Rachel said.
"Sometimes I doubt it" Kurt muttered. He yawned.
"See, you're tired now" Rachel smiled.
Kurt nodded. "Oh, Rachel. There are days when I really can't stand you. But then there come moments like this and I remember why you're my best friend. Thank you so much" he said and hugged her.
"No problem" Rachel hugged him. "I love you and you should never be sad."
They stood up and made their way back to the sleeping bags.
Sure enough, if Kurt listened carefully, he could hear Blaine sadly sniffing.
Kurt sighed and curled deeper into his sleeping bag so his ears were covered.
Morning brought another glorious day. The sun lit up the room, but despite the happy feel, the attitudes of the teens were cold. Will woke them up by saying that they shouldn't waste away their last full day by sleeping. That wasn't a very cheery thing. To add to that, Blaine looked like a mess. His hair was wild, his clothes were crumpled and there were bags under his eyes. Across the sleeping bag circle, Kurt barely looked better. He had bags too and his hair was a slightly better mess. He didn't look half as upset as Blaine did.
"Okay guys, because we're down to the final days, don't open anything new. Finish the boxes of cereal that are already open and stuff like that, okay?" Will told them, holding up an opened box for emphasis.
"Here we go" Puck said, untangling himself from his sleeping bag.
"Time for another day" Mercedes stretched.
"Our last day" Tina reminded them. She leaned over to Santana. "Which means we have some work to do."
A/N
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