That 3rd Sunday was the last time they spent solid time together. Sectionals is approaching fast and both the groups are pulling kurt and blaine like crazy to practice. Blaine doesn't skip his park routine. Kurt can't make it as he has a lead role in it.
Days are going miserable for blaine and kurt. Blaine can't stop thinking about cutting . Every day,when David gets out of dorm for sometime, blaine takes this brutal way of relieving his pains temporarily. He is noticeably becoming exhausted and tired of living in a life full of lies.
Kurt is getting bullied and harassed more . Now that karofsky is getting more and more furious seeing kurt he waits like an Eagle to pull kurt into an empty classroom to personally threaten and beat him. Kurt starts to feel his insecurities invading his life.
With concealers and mirror always in his hands , he feels like checking the mirror every now and then. He couldn't stop it. Now,he just responds by nodding or one words. His focus is only on doing his best in sectionals ,that's a way of escapism for him. He finds himself becoming weak, physically and mentally.
It's lunch time one day and mercedes gathers to ask courage to ask kurt about the change after all noticing . Kurt is sitting with just a small bowl of salad ,just fiddling with his spoon.
Rachel signals Mercedes, virtually pushing her. Mercedes stands up and goes near kurt,who is sitting 2 people away.
' Hey kurt ,I am not hungry right now. Wanna come for a walk?'
Kurt thinks it can give him some relief
' Well fine.'
Kurt and mercedes drop their food in the trash can and walk towards the courtyard. Mercedes starts to feel kurt like a stranger ,not the charming boy holding his hands ,entangled with her's.
' Mind if I ask you something?'
'Uh..mm mercedes. '
'Are you fine? Are you happy?'
' What do you mean by that?'
Mercedes doesn't know to beat around the Bush
' you seem to be disturbed so much lately' she claims.
' no,I'm fine'
Kurt gets annoyed and raises his voice.
' I AM FINE! '
Mercedes doesn't want to wake the sleeping dragon in him. Kurt realizes his emotional out burst and turns to Mercedes
'I an sorry Mercedes. Just a migraine. Hey ,are you free this Friday?'
'Yeah sure. Why?'
' I am taking you somewhere. Now If you excuse me..' Kurt goes in haste. she sees Kurt disappearing in a snap.
Rachel comes behind her and asks Mercedes. She nods in disappointment.
David is noticing the sad blaine everyday. He doesn't speak so enthusiastically as he used to. Of course,he helps warblers giving suggestions on their practice ,though being a back up singer this time.
Blaine is increasingly getting frustrated with the dream .Not that he didn't like it,but it is really depressing for him when he couldn't find who it is or how to help him.
Friday is not an excuse day too. Kurt gets his daily dose of shoving, slur words and a new trend starts: aerosol paint sprays. Kurt's perfectly dotted canary yellow buttoned up shirt is ruined as he walks down the hall to the glee club. This makes kurt more mad ,but he can't react as he is pushed against the wall.
Everybody at the practice sees him coming miserable inside. He drinks some water to cool down a bit and collects his music sheet for the practice.
As promised,Mercedes goes with kurt to his car when Rachel stops them.
' where are you going? ' Rachel with her eager look.
' Just to the park' Kurt stutters.
' Well in that case,take me with you' Rachel sits in the backseat.
Kurt and mercedes roll their eyes and get into the car. All the way, Kurt's mind is roaming among the streets, blaine,sectionals ,home ,music and others . Rachel is ranting about finn,as they had some argument that morning.
Mercedes Is half minded hearing Rachel's rant and mostly listening to the radio.
Blaine is sitting at the park, his face clearly some stains of depression. His face lights up when he sees his adorable stranger friend ,but he doesn't come in single , he comes with 2 other people.
'Hey Blaine!Good to see you after long time!' kurt smiles
'Hey! how is it going?'
kurt nods yes while Mercedes looks confused. Rachel finds her spark in her eyes. this stranger is a treat to Rachel's eyes. Rachel keeps eyeing him and melting every time she sees his hazel ,pleasing eyes.
'who is this ,kurt?' Mercedes stands still confused.
' oh, this is my good friend,Blaine. Blaine, meet Mercedes and Rachel, my best friends'
Blaine stretches his hand to them for a warm handshake. Mercedes eyes kurt as she gives her hand. Rachel just stands there dreamy. Thus starts the conversation among the 3 friends and the stranger. Blaine tells about their meet,not the concealer part though,just a vague description.Kurt reminds silent ,in his own world, doing partial attendance with occasionally short sounds of showing his presence. Just in time their little chat is going interesting,Rachel's phone goes.
Rachel pats Kurt slightly after his fail in responding to his name called.
'Hey. My dads are calling home. Would you mind dropping me now?'
Kurt bites his lip,'uhh..yeah. I'll be back ,mercedes',and walks to his car.
Blaine: uhh...you seems to be so close to kurt.don't you?
Mercedes:i guess so. You seems to be close to him outside the school.
(an awkward silent prevails)
i don't know how to put this,buttt...DID you notice something different with Kurt lately?I mean i see a lot of change. He isn't charismatic and enthusiastic like before. He talks less even to me. He is getting short tempers. He isn't eating either.
Blaine sits there thinking hard.
Blaine: i don't know about that. I mean I've just been for a month and not in a continuous phase. i don't know if i can tell you this. But ,i actually met kurt that day in the pretext of giving his concealer back. He was crying badly the day before and he accidently left the concealer. I don't know if it is common for people to use concealers, but i think something is wrong with Kurt.
Mercedes remains silent, thinking of the concealer bill.
Blaine:Hey ,do you know something about that?
Mercedes:i don't know about that. Maybe we should keep in touch with each other,to monitor him. If you want, can we be friends ,so we can help kurt? If you do not want to ,i am not forcing you.
Blaine: Oh no,Mercedes. I am very glad to help him. I can see his misery on his face. I want to help me,that's why i befriended him.
Blaine hands his phone to Mercedes,'Here! put your number. I'll be in touch with you'.
Mercedes accepts it and puts in her number. Just then, they see kurt Coming back.
' Looks like Blaine's got a new friend,' Kurt smiles there standing.
'Yeah,i guess so. ' Blaine smiles.
'uhh..Kurt,it's time for us too. it's getting dark,come let's go', Mercedes gets up,nods at Blaine. kurt nods too, and Blaine sees them leaving.
The day has finally arrived. Sectionals is going to be held at the William McKinley. All teams start to arrive. Kurt knows The Warblers are there too, He will get to see Blaine .
Kurt wanders around the corridor hoping for a sight of Blaine anywhere. Just as he is walking down a corridor, with nervousness and his hands slightly trembling, He feels two hands from behind, keeping on his shoulders.
'Geez Blaine,you scared the crap out of me!'
'oh, did i scare you? i am sorry', Blaine giggling.
just then, Blaine witnessed a taste of how kurt is treated at his school. A group of jocks walks through the same corridor, pushing kurt onto a hard locker. Kurt instantly falls down, but Blaine catches him, when he hears,' What's up ,Lady?'
Blaine furiously starts to move towards the jocks, when Kurt holds his hand, nodding not to confront them. 'You came here for a competition,Blaine. You cannot involve in a fight here. You may be disqualified.'.
'But,Kurt..'
kurt keeps his finger on blaine's mouth.He holds Blaine's hand and leads him to the Auditorium. Blaine feels strangely good feeling kurt's hand on his.They part to their respective team, giving an awkward look on each other. They were holding hands!
it is showtime, and the Warblers are to perform first,followed by the new directions. Blaine sees awkwardly standing Kurt nearby. He walks slowly to him, patting his shoulder.
'Hey ,What's up?'
Kurt is terrified.' I am feeling sick. I may die on stage today. '
'Are you nervous?'
'This is my first time ,Blaine. I am scared that i'm gonna see the audience and faint there, or I'm gonna open my mouth and nothing's gonna come out.'
Blaine bites his chin ,trying not to laughing at Kurt's nervousness.
' Stop me if you don't want my opinion. Alright Kurt, When I sang for the first time on a stage like this,I was as nervous as you. I felt like i was gonna puke. I know how it feels ,kurt. And you know what I did?
I calmed myself and I thought of myself singing before a mirror. You are not going to singing for the audience ,kurt. You are given a chance. A chance to open your heart and sing.
Just go out there and sing for you, sing as if you are standing before a mirror, sing to a person close to your heart,kurt.'
Blaine pats Kurt's shoulders and moves back to his group. Kurt takes a deep breath and counts till 10- his usual way of handling stress and anxiety.
He eyes Blaine and tells his a small 'Thank you'.
Sectionals is on and the host introduces the Warblers.
On the stage are the Warblers- the handsome teenage boys ,dressed in navy blazers with red piping. They are eye treats to watch.
Jeff and nick get down slowly to perform their duet. Their voices are going so well and mesmerising . But Kurt keeps watching Blaine whole time from the back stage. His standing pose,his smile are the only things that captures Kurt's eyes.Try as he might, he can't take eyes from Blaine. The duet is followed by 2 solos, one by wes and another by trent, with usual doo waps.
It's the new direction's turn to perform and the people are busy arranging themselves in the crowd. Kurt feels a hand holding his,
' Let's do it!' Mercedes says with a warm smile. kurt suddenly gives Mercedes a big hug like going for a war.
The curtain opens with anticipating audience staring at the duo. Kurt's heart beats fast and Kurt can feel it, he might pass out anytime. Just in time his eyes meet a familiar hazel eye pair, an encouraging pair.
Blaine winks one eye at kurt ,just with hope to give confidence. Kurt smiles with a little confidence. The music starts and Kurt and Mercedes starts to sing 'I am changing' by Jennifer Hudson.
Blaine gets an unusual shiver, hearing Kurt singing for the first time. How did he miss this voice before? Kurt's sounds like an angel in Blaine's ear. He is so unique and that makes him special.
Kurt thinks of a mirror and nothing works. He goes for the next option of thinking of a person he loves.Kurt's eyes wanders between Mercedes and Blaine . He feels himself singing subconsciously to Blaine. He finds it good to cope up with singing. Besides, he finds himself liking Blaine to be the person to whom he is singing.
This is followed by an upbeat and it is Santana's turn. She starts singing ' Valerie' . The whole crowd goes in awe with the singing, brittany and Mike duo as dancers .
Rachel is sitting there in the crowd jealousy filled on her face ,but enjoying from inside,who cannot?
And there goes a group performance to end their awesome performance. The audience are pleased and they can see it through the standing ovation from the audience.
Kurt is still shivering as they move back stage and bang! Kurt doesn't expect this hug from Rachel.
'You were amazing, kurt. You were really' Rachel screams . Kurt is grinning , when santana comes running to go all lima heights at Rachel.
Kurt is taken away from the feud there ,by Blaine's hands. Kurt notices Blaine changing his place in the audience. It seems like he got two places for himself Kurt.
'Honestly Kurt, you are amazing! Where were you hiding all these years?'
'Under some staircase!' Kurt quickly responds which makes Blaine laugh hysterically.
Blaine goes near to Kurt's ear ' One day we should do a duet together' . Blaine urges to give Kurt a kiss on his cheek. But he can't.
He takes Kurt's hand and kisses lightly.
Kurt is shocked. He doesn't ask anything, but is totally shock. Blaine thinks if Kurt would slap him for this. But no, Kurt is shocked ,yet smiling.
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