HEART THAT FALLS Chapter 36, a glee fanfic

Re- uploaded this chapter because of spelling mistakes etc, hope it's better :0)

Chapter 36

"Come on guys seriously... Nsync?" Kurt asked exasperated as he sat on the settee in the Warblers room, he crossed his arms as he watched the Warblers dance around with Liam and John. The two boys were performing their song (Nsync It's tearing up my heart) hoping for a chance to sing lead in the next concert, well old peoples home anyway. The Warblers were a bit shocked by their song choice at first but soon got into it as they watched the two boys dance through their routine, and they were pretty good surprisingly.

"Come on lighten up!" Blaine said as he grabbed Kurts hand dragging him up on to his feet. "Dance with me?" Blaine asked with a goofy grin as he wrapped his arms around Kurts waist. Kurt tried to pull away out of his arms but Blaine held him tighter, with a sigh he gave in and relaxed as he wound his arms around Blaines neck.

"You can't slow dance to this Moo Moo" Kurt said as he rolled his eyes at Blaines smug grin. Blaine slowly frowned at the new nickname, Kurt had been trying a few lately, Snuggles, Munchkin, Sweetness and Blaine didn't know why.

"Kurt.." Blaine said to him his frown still on his face as he looked into his boyfriends eyes, wandering if he could just dive right into them and be lost forever. Blaine was shook from his mind freeing his thoughts as he heard his boyfriends voice.

"Yes sweetcakes?" Kurt asked innocently as he looked back at his boyfriend. Blaine opened his mouth to answer before he slipped his eyes sideways to look behind Kurts shoulders. he scowered at David and Wes as they sniggered behind them.

"What's with the nicknames?" Blaine asked as he looked back at his boyfriend, he choose to ignore the two IMMATURE boys behind Kurt as Wes swooned into Davids arms.

"Oh I'm just trying out a few... you know to see what they sound like" Kurt said shrugging his shoulders as he started to move with the music swaying them in time with the off beat. Blaine looked at Kurt for a moment as he thought about Kurts words, trying to work out where this sudden interst in nicknames had come from.

"Why?" Blaine simply asked frowning in puzzlement at Kurt as he allowed him to move them.

"Well you call me babe..." Kurt said blushing slightly as Blaine smirked back at him. "..I just wanted to find a nickname for you... you know something special" Kurt blushed even more as Blaine did his aaahhhh face at him, he hated this face as it made him feel about 6 years old so Kurt slapped Blaine on the arm as he grinned back at him.

"Ow what was that for?" Blaine asked as he pouted at him, Kurt narrowed his eyes at his boyfriend not happy with Blaines faces that he had chosenat to wear at this point in time.

"Don't make fun of your boyfriend when he's trying to be romantic" Kurt said as he lifted his head, raising his eyes as if ignoring Blaine. Blaine just smiled slightly he didn't take this to heart he knew that Kurt was just playing.

"How the hell did I get so lucky to have such a gorgeous and loving boyfriend" Blaine whispered as he looked lovingly at Kurt, Kurt turned his head slightly, tilting it down so he looked up at Blaine through his eyelashes shyly. He was never comfortable with compliments, he never felt he deserved them especially since Jessie and Dave. Blaine leaned in and Kissed Kurt softly on the lips, conveying all his feelings without pushing too far as Kurt returned the kiss.

"AAAhhhhhh, that's so cute" Wes and David said in their boyish voices from behind the two love birds. Blaine pulled away and glared at them over Kurts shoulder but they just grinned back they knew he was joking from the glint in his eyes, Kurt turned his head and glared at them too but with a small smile on his lips causing the lads to laugh.

"Anyway..." Blaine said as he raised his eyes making Kurt turn back around to face him as they once again ignored the two boys. "You know I just want any exscuse to hold you in my arms" Blaine finished with a goofy grin on his face as Kurt blushed deep red as they both swayed to the music.

"Boys!" A voice shouted over the music but no one took any notice and carried on singing and prancing around, oblivious to the fact that they were now being watched.

"WARBLERS!" the voice shouted even louder making everyone jump, they stopped and look around towards the door. Blaine and Kurt jumped apart as Prinicipal Standish stood by the door his arms crossed over his chest as he waited for silence, the boys eyes slid to the side of him as the noticed a gentleman standing with him his eyes darting around the room, he seemed to be looking for someone. Everyone started to mutter wandering who this person was, nobody seemed to recognise him. He must of been about 26 years old judging by his dress sense and the age of his face.

"Sorry sir" Wes said as he approached the two men, as he was head Warbler he tended to sort out any problems that arose when practicing got a bit boistrous, the principal turned and looked at Wes. "Liam and John were just showing us their song, they wanted a chance at lead" Wes said indicating to the two boys who had just climbed off the table and were currently sneaking to the back of the room.

"So I see" Principal Standish said as he looked back around the room his arms falling to his side, he raised his eyebrows as he watched the boys disperse and take their seats. Kurt and Blaine sat back down on the settee that Kurt had just been sitting on, both boys blushing as they placed their hands on to their own laps to make sure they never held hands or touched. PDA's were ok in front of the other students but in front of teachers it still made them feel uncomfortable.

"Sorry sir we'll try to keep the music down, and calm down the dancing" Wes said as he fidgeted nervously as he glanced back at the Warblers, each of them looked ashamed and embarassed that they had gotten so carried away.

"He's not here" The young man said frowning as he turned to look at Principal Standish after he had scouted the room, he seemed worried and agitated about something. "If he's not here then where is he?" He said more urgently as he scanned the room one more time. Wes frowned as he watched the man, each of the Warblers started looking at each other muttering, wandering who this bloke was and who he was looking for. "I thought you said he would be here?" The man's voice rose slightly as he became more uneasy.

"My Knight please calm down... " Principal Standish said calmly as he tried to appease the agitated man, he just looked at the Principal and frowned at him in amazement.

"How the hell can i calm down when ..." Mr Knight started to say, his voice beginning to rise again as a mixture of worry and anger ran through his body.

"Please Mr Knight" Principal Standish said more forcfully his own voice starting to rise, he looked around at the boys watching the scene unfold in front of them. "We're all worried" The principal said as he turned back to Mr knight, he laughed at this statement and looked towards the boys in the room raising his eyes at them in disbelief.

"Obviously" He said sarcastically " I bet they haven't even noticed he's not here!" Mr Knight said as he indicated to the lads who where now staring intently at them, each of the boys frowned and looked at each other trying to figure out who was missing as they shrugged their shoulders.

"Who's he looking for?" Kurt whispered to Blaine as he looked around the room. Blaine looked at Kurt frowning then around the room shrugging his shoulders.

"What's going on sir?" Wes asked worry and concern in his voice, he had no idea what was going on or who this bloke was but he didn't like it. Principal Standish turned towards Wes opening his mouth as if to make a reply..

"We're looking for Jeff... Jeff Livesly... has anyone seen him?" Mr Knight blurted out to Wes then to the other lads in the room before Principal Standish could even make any sort of reply. Each of the boys looked at each other before realising that Jeff actually wasn't in the room. Whispers spread around the room asking each other if anyone had seen Jeff, nobody could say when they had seen him last.

"Mr Knight please... This is my school and I will ask the questions" The Principal said sternly as he frowned at the young man beside him, Mr knight looked at him and laughed again raising his eyes.

"Well if you had listened to me in the first place " He said angrily his face reddening with the strain of trying to keep his control. "We wouldn't be in this mess!" Mr Knight shouted as his control lessened, the lads jumped alarmed by this bloke who knew Jeff having a go at their Principal.

"I know... and I have appologised, but we are a boarding school not a prison" Principal Standish said more calmly but still firm as he noticed the lads worried faces around him. "The lads are free to come and go as long as they inform the staff" he said as he turned back to the young man beside him.

"Yes I know... I ralise that" Mr knight said more calmly noticing the worried and scared looks on the lads faces too, he was a stranger to them and here he was having ago at their head teacher. "But this was different you know that" Mr Knight said as the anger was replaced with worry again.

"Sir" Kurt said as he stood and walked towards the two men concern evident on his face, Principal Standish turned and looked at Kurt his face softening even more as he saw the concerned expression on his face, "What's going on?" Principal Standish paused as he tried to find the right words to use.

"Jeffs been missing since Sunday Lunchtime..." Mr Knight jumped in again before Principa; Standish could say anything.

"We think!" Principal Standish added as he gave the gentleman beside him a warning look. The mutterings around the room grew as each boy listened to the fact that Jeff had been missing since Sunday.

"What do you mean missing?" Blaine asked as he stood his eyebrows furrowed at the principal and Mr knight, he moved and went and stand next to Kurt.

"Nobody has seen him since Sunday lunchtime" Principal standish said as calmly as he could as he felt Mr Knight become more agitated beside him, confusement ran through their minds as they tried to comprehend what was happening.

"But that was 2 days ago!" Wes blurted out in surprise, his forehead frowning in confusement. "Surely someones seen him since then... I mean we have to sign the register everyday didn't the teachers know he was missing?" Wes questioned the Principal who was standing with a reddening face emdarrassed.

"Didn't you boys notice?" Mr knight asked Wes looking at him, Wes's face dropped and his eyes slipped to the floor ashamed that he hadn't noticed Jeff wasn't around. Mr Knight looked at the other boys each in turn, each dropped their heads in shame.

"It's not that easy with Jeff" David said as he went to Wes's side. "He's very sneaky, sometimes we don't know he's a round until he pops up and says anything" David said to the man who still didn't seem too impressed with them.

"You mean he's that invisible to you all that he goes unnoticed for 2 days" Mr Knight said angrily to David "That must make him feel soooo good about himself" He snapped as he ran his hand through his hair frustrated with the boys and the school.

"Look it's no good blaming everyone, that will not help to find Jeff" Principal Standish said as he tried to calm Mr Knight down. "You know as I have told you that he's been signing in, just not going to class or his room..."

"That means he's on school grounds?" Kurt butted in as he took a step forward his forehead creased as he started to think. "There can't be that many places to hide?"

"This is Jeff we're talking about... remember" A voice rose from the back of the class, everyone turned to look at the boy that had spoken. Neil stood leaning against the wall. "If he dosen't want to be found.. he won't" Everyone looked at each other nodding their heads as they silently agreed, Mr Knight walked towards Neil an unreadable look on his face as Neil stood from the wall as the man approached him.

"Your Neil" The bloke stated as he looked at him frowning as if he was trying to work a few things out in his head. Neil looked around him then back at the person in front of him his eyes wide confused that this man knew him, then he noticed that everyone was staring at them and whispering and he began to blush. "Sorry... I just recognised your face from the videos"

"What videos?" Neil asked as he frowned in confusement he had no idea what this bloke was talking about. "Who are you?" Neil asked quite sharply as his forehead creased even more at the man in front of him.

"This is Jeffs older brother" Principal Standish from across the room as he looked at the older and younger males before him. Neil looked at the Principal then back at Mr Knight he had no idea that Jeff had an older brother, he felt the slight pangs of hurt at another point proven that Jeff never confided in him.

He should of been able to tell me anything Neil thought to himself frowning What else has he been hiding?

"I didn't know he had a brother.. he never said" Neil said quietly as he looked more closely at the man before him, there was no real family resemblance. "I mean he never spoke much about his family, he got quite defensive actually... I tried to get him to talk but he just closed off from me" Neil added shrugging his shoulders as he tried to get his head around what was going on, Neil lowered his head as he heard the whisperings around him once again.

"Didn't think they even spoke to each other" One lad said to another.

"Thought Neil hated Jeff... he was always ragging on him" another boy said. Neil felt his heart break at the thought that Jeff might of thought he hated him like everyone else, that wasn't his intention but he was just hurt and was lashing out.

"Well that's not surprising... I'm Kevin nice to meet you finally Neil" Mr Knight said as he held out his hand, Neil hesitated before he allowed him to take his hand and shake it.

"Look may be you can help me" Kevin said as he reached inside his trousers pocket, Neil watched him as he brought out a memory stick holding it out in front of him handing it to the young boy before him.

"What's that?" Neil asked as he took it out of Kevins hand turning it over, "I don't understand?" Neil frowned as he looked confused at the item in his hand then back up at Kevin. Kevin paused before answering Neils questions trying to put his next words in to order without giving away too much.

"I give Jeff little projects to do, music projects. " Kevin said slowly as he looked down at Neil as he looked up at him still confused. "Depending on his... problems I get him to put them to music... help him to figure things out and he uses his friends as the stars, so to speak, rather than himself" Kevin carried on as he looked around the room. "You two and Neil..." Kevin said as he pointed to Kurt and Blaine who had been standing quietly watching this little interaction. "Are his favourite people to film... very dramatic, alive with the flare of life, I think he said" Kevin added with a small smile as Kurt smiled shyly back at him.

"But he said they were for You Tube" Blaine said as he frowned at Kevin not really understanding. Kevin simply shrugged his shoulders as he looked at the three boys in turn.

"He does put them up but only after he's shown me and we've talked about why he chose that music, those people etc" Kevin said as his voice etched a bit.

"Anyway" Principal Standish said gaining everyones attention, "We still need to find Jeff so if we could?" He added as he indicated to the school laptop on the table in the corner of the Warblers room. Kevin reached for the memory stick and took it out of Neils hand, he held it in front of him and indicated for Neil to follow him.

"Jeff left this at mine sometime after Sunday lunchtime after he had come to see me... well he posted it through my door" Kevin said as he walked over to the laptop, Neil followed behind him listening intently followed closely by the other Warblers. "I didn't find it 'til about an hour ago as I went away on a Job... the only reason I came back was because I'd forgotten some paper work... but that's beside the point" Kevin said waving his hand adsently at the confused boy behind him as they reached the computer. He handed Neil the memory stick back and Neil sat down on the chair in front of the computer, opening up the laptop and turning it on he inserted the stick into it , loading it up he clicked on the last file. His eyes quickly scanned over the names of the other files that popped up wandering what secrets they held.

"We've had a look at it " Principal Standish said as he came to stand beside Kevin and Neil, followed closely by Kurt, Blaine, Wes and David. All 5 boys stood with a mixture of confusion, worry and shame that they never noticed their friend had been missing for so long, or that they knew absolutely nothing about him!. "We know he's filmed it on some part of the grounds but we just don't know where... and I know that you boys tend to investigate parts of the school that you shouldn't" The principal said knowingly as he raised his eyes at the boys as he looked around the room at Jeffs fellow Warblers, all the lads tried to look innocent as if they had no idea what he was talking about. A silent 'We will address this later' was evident on his face as the lads fidgeted under his stare.

"Ok we're ready" Neil said as he clicked the file, everyone stood silently as they watched the video in front of them. The Warblers took a sharp intake of breath as Jeffs face came in to focus.

"What happened babe" Neil whispered as Jeffs battered face appeared before them.

Jeff fiddled with the camera to get the right angle, satisfied he walked over to a bed and reached for his guitar, Picking it up he started to play.

"Hey bro " Jeff said into the camera with a small smile. "I know we haven't planned a new project but..." Jeff started to say before his voice hitched, Jeff took a deep breath "... Well I hope this explains why I sent you this... You'll have to excuse my voice it hurts a bit when I sing" Jeff said as he pointed to his face, his eyes moist from tears.

(TAYLOR SWIFT ~ TIED TOGETHER WITH A SMILE)

Seems the only one who doesn't see your beauty
Is the face in the mirror looking back at you
You walk around here thinking you're not pretty
But that's not true, cause I know you...

Hold on, baby, you're losing it
The water's high, you're jumping into it
And letting go... and no one knows
You cry, but you don't tell anyone
That you might not be the golden one
And you're tied together with a smile
But you're coming undone

O WoWooo hoooo

I guess it's true that love was all you wanted
Cause you're giving it away like it's extra change
Hoping it will end up in his pocket
But he leaves you out like a penny in the rain
Oh, cause it's not his price to pay
Not his price to pay...

O Woooo hooo

You're tied together with a smile
But you're coming undone... oh
Goodbye, baby
Goodbye, baby
With a smile, baby, baby

Oh oh

Jeff looked at the camera as he came to the end of his song, silent tears fell from his eyes.

"I'm sorry bro... I let you down" Jeff whispered "I... I just fuck up everything... no matter what I do everything just gets so messed up...I love you bro" Jeffs voice broke as he tried to control his tears. "Do me a favour.. Tell Neil I'm sorry.. I didn't mean to hurt him... I did try believe me I did ...and... I love him more than he will ever know"

Jeff stared at the camera for a moment before he reached over and turned of the camera "Peace out!" He said as the last image was of Jeffs face battered and bruised as the screen fell black.

"I know where he is " Neil whispered as he wiped his eyes, he'd been so stupid! He jumped from his chair and ran for the door, pushing past anyone that happened to get in his way.

Jeffs secret is about to come out which brings back into focus Kurt, Blaine, Jessie and Dave. Kurt has been trying to push aside the fact that he will have to make a decision about where he goes from here, concerning justice for him for what happened. Although his family have touched the subject of him going to the police Kurt has yet to come to terms enough to make that next step. Will Jeffs secret change his mind or will he continue to bury his head in the sand hoping it will just go away?