Chapter 1: Santa Monica
The Hummel Residence
July 14th 2010
After a journey that felt like it took years, Kurt Hummel finally arrived at his new home in Santa Monica, California. The small family consisting of Kurt, his father Burt and his step mother Carole, had moved to Santa Monica to be closer to Carole's family. Leaving all his friends back in plain old Ohio is something Kurt knew he'd struggle with massively but the reality of the situation had yet to hit him.
"Come on kiddo" Burt tapped on the car window, urging his son to get out. "Get some of the cases too." he added as Kurt moodily climbed out of the car.
He took his head phones off of his head and let them hang around his neck as he turned down the music he had been listening to, observing his new home. The house that stood in front of him had a modern design, large windows and smooth white walls. Each house on the street was almost identical, the only obvious individuality the houses had were the cars parked in their drives, aside from that there were only small, more subtle differences. Though this bugged Kurt he'd much rather this than the cramped, eye sores back in Ohio.
Grabbing his suitcases, he headed inside. he wasn't able to bring his whole wardrobe because Burt had limited him to two cases so he squashed his all time favourites into the two he was given and sold the rest, which earned him a fairly large amount of money.
"I wouldn't have wanted my precious collection anyway, a new start always requires a new wardrobe" he mumbled, trying to remind himself that he shouldn't collapse in a crying heap just because he was missing over half of his old wardrobe. "I'll unpack, then I will figure out where the nearest mall is and restore my wardrobe" he added as he closed the door to his room behind him. His room was already decorated with basic furniture as that's another thing they can't lug across the country. A simple bed frame and mattress were against the wall to his right, a wardrobe and a dresser to his left. Across from him there was a large window looking out over their backyard.
Kurt stood by the window examining the view, his dad had told him they'd be near the beach as an attempt to make the teen feel a bit better about the big move but this in actuality had the opposite effect. Burt had let it slip his mind that his son burnt easily, hated sand and therefore hated the beach. Eventually Kurt turned his attention back to unpacking his bags after concluding that he couldn't see the beach from here.
"C'mon Jeff!" yelled a rather peeved Nick Duval, walking out of the ocean as he watched his close friend Jeff Sterling stomp off across the beach in a strop.
"He'll get over it" Blaine Anderson reassured his friend, as he put on his pink sunglasses, finally taking his eyes away from the fiasco and laying back on his towel.
"I know, it's just- ugh" Nick flopped onto the towel next to Blaine. "he can be so frustrating sometimes. I mean, it's not like he didn't splash me first." Blaine playfully rolled his eyes under his sunglasses as he chuckled at the teenage toddlers.
"Sometimes I swear you're both toddlers." said Zander Brennan as if reading Blaine's mind. He sat up on the towel on the other side of Nick.
"Hey, I'm not that bad!" Nick frowned at the auburn haired boy, clearly somewhat offended by the comment and only proving the boy's point.
"See!"
The boys went back and forth with this for a minute or two before Blaine decided to head home, it was starting to get boring on the beach anyway.
Kurt had finally finished unpacking the remains of his old wardrobe at around 3:30 so he headed to a bus stop at the end of his road to get to the mall. Usually buses weren't his style but his dad was busy unpacking and as of right now he was lacking a friend with a car and driver's license... or one that was nearby anyway, so a bus it was.
He sat at the bus stop for a while, the bus seemed to be running pretty late. Someone soon joined him in waiting, the boy had untamed dark curly hair that dangled in his face a little and sun kissed skin. Kurt only realised he'd been staring when he noticed the odd look he got from the shorter boy and he quickly looked away. There was an awkward silence for a few minutes before his bus finally arrived 30 minutes late to save Kurt from the situation.
Approaching the bus stop, Blaine saw a boy, maybe about 17 with well styled chestnut hair and light porcelain skin but what stood out most to the curly haired teen was the burgundy jumper the boy was in. Surely it's too hot for that? Without thinking too much into it, he sat and joined him at the bus stop; he couldn't help glancing back at the boy. A shining blue met a golden, honey coloured hazel for a few precious seconds that seemed to last minutes before the fair skinned boy quickly glanced away. Blaine felt suddenly extremely awkward; letting silence overtake the pair until the next bus came and swept the blue eyed boy away.
He let out a breath he hadn't realised he'd been holding in and something deep down told him that this wouldn't be the last time they met.
A few days had passed since the encounter at the bus stop and Kurt still felt a little weird about it. He hasn't seen the kid since but he certainly wouldn't have minded if he had.
"Come on Kurt," Burt yelled upstairs to his son
"Just a second," Kurt was still running around his room packing his bag. After a lot of persuasion, he had been forced to agree to a beach day with his dad and Carole so it was very important he had a beach bag packed with lots of distractions for the inevitable boredom.
"You've been saying 'just a second' for the past ten minutes," the elder Hummel complained impatiently.
"All done," he said stepping out of his room with his bag over his shoulder, seemingly a little out of breath.
"Are you really going to wear that sweater to the beach, Kurt?"
Kurt now stood at the bottom of the stairs with his dad and step mom, he wore deep blue and red patterned swim trunks with a designer black sweater that was fitted but not too fitted, ya know?
"Yes," -he paused and opened the front door before theatrically glancing back over his shoulder- "yes, I am," before turning his head and heading towards the car with his family following.
Carole looked as though she was about to try and talk him out of it before Burt slowly shook his head as if to say let it slide.
Meanwhile none other than Blaine Anderson was already at the beach, like he and his friends had been everyday of summer so far.
At the point Blaine had almost stopped looking for those blueish green eyes but they were still roaming freely in his mind.
"But boats are fun" Nick had been trying to convince the group to hire a small boat for an hour since pretty much the start of summer.
"Can you even steer a boat?" Jeff would be the last of the friendship group to cave and it was clear that Nick had almost bullied him enough for him to give in. "And can we even fit four people into one of those things?"
"Blaine is small, it shouldn't be a problem" Nick answered, earning himself a smack upside his head from the curly haired dwarf next to him.
"Anyway it says they can fit six people in, we'll be fine," Zander added, reading the sign they were now all heading towards. They walked in silence for a few minutes before Nick suddenly stopped in his tracks causing the three other teens to almost comically walk into him.
"Dude, what's up?" Jeff noticed the confused look on Nick's face once he'd gotten his balance back.
"Is that guy wearing a sweater?" Nick said pointing; his frown grew as he squinted at someone in the distance. The rest of the group looked in the direction Nick pointed towards. And there he was.
"One second guys," Blaine finally spoke, breaking the silence that had formed after a few seconds of the group staring at this kid, "I'll be right back."
"At least the sea looks nice," Kurt mumbled to himself as he stood looking over at the gentle waves lapping onto the warm, golden sand.
"Hey," he felt a tap on his shoulder, alarming him, causing him to turn around.
And there he was.
Those golden eyes.
"Hi," Kurt breathed, sounding startled.
"I'm sorry, I've just never seen you around before." The shorter boy let out a nervous chuckle as he realised how weird this is. "What's your name?"
"Kurt, Kurt Hummel" -he held out his hold for the dark haired boy to shake- "and I just moved here actually, that's most likely why you haven't seen me around." Kurt smiled at the kid in front of him.
"Blaine" -he took his hand- "and I'm assuming you'll need a friend soooooo do you want to hang out?" He smiled raising an eyebrow waiting for the boy to accept, Blaine would not take no for an answer.
"Sure," Kurt let his hand fall to his side and followed after Blaine.
"So we're leaving Blaine with sweater weather?" Jeff asked climbing into the boat last.
"He should've moved faster," Nick shrugged as he sat by the front of the boat.
The three sat in silence as the boat floated into deeper water; Zander was bopping his head to the music coming through his headphones; Nick was concentrating on steering the boat; then there was Jeff, who was looking over the edge anxiously.
"Bro relax," Zander said noticing Jeff's tense posture as he clung to the boat. "You're not gonna fall in, the waves are pretty small today."
As if on cue a big wave crashed into the boat, causing an oddly high pitched squeal to escape the blonde's lips.
"Chill, it was one wave" Nick playfully rolled his eyes at his terrified friend.
"I-I'm scared of the o-ocean" stuttered the now trembling boy who was clinging to the side of the boat for dear life.
"Hm, I wouldn't have noticed," mumbled Zander who now had his nose in a book of short horror stories.
Nick glanced back towards the shore, expecting to see Blaine glaring back at him after being abandoned. Instead he saw that Blaine had gotten Mr Sweater Weather to help him build a sandcastle. "Blaine looks like he's having a good time."
This comment caused Zander to also peer back at the sandy beach. "I swear he's still a child sometimes," he let out a chuckle.
SPLASH!
A big wave had hit the boat and a loud splash followed after.
"Uh oh"
{21/09/19}
[A/N]: Hey! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter :)
I will probably struggle to update regularly with school but I will try my best!
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