Its been about 2 weeks since Madison overheard part of Kurt's conversation on the walkie talkie. She had tried to forget about it and since he was being so nice and friendly to her, she became fairly good friends with him. It was Friday afternoon and there was only one more class to endure for the day... and of course it's the worst one... her math class... trigonometry.

Lovely. The last class of the day HAS to be worst and longest... my luck...

Madison was walking toward the math hallway. The school was set up fairly easy. All the math classes are in one hall and all the language classes are one hall, etc. She had her large binder in her arms. It was too large to stick in her bag since she used it for all her classes. She started walking a little bit faster since there was only 2 minutes to get there.

Plenty of time.

Right as she rounded the corner, Kurt turned the corner, and they collided. Madison fell to the floor and her binder flew open and many of her papers were all over the ground. Kurt being the kindgentleman he is held out his hand to help her up and said, "I am sorry." But Madison was busy picking up her papers off the floor. He bent over and helped.
After they got up almost all the papers, Kurt stood and handed his pile to her and she smiled and quietly said, "Thanks." Madison stood up and stuffed all her papers to go into the binder.
While she was messing with her binder, Kurt looked down and saw a drawing on the floor. He bent over and picked it up and was looking at it. "Is zis yours?" he asked Madison. She looked up and nodded her head. It was the drawing she had doodled in history class a few weeks before. Kurt was curious and said, "Vat is it?" Madison stood up as well and said, "It's a few doodles I've done durin' class." she said and looked like she wanted it back.
"Vow, Zis is beautiful. Vhere did you get ze idea to draw it," he said and seemed not to act as surprised as his words were.
"Uhhm,.. well its from a dream I had.. actually several dreams..." she looked over at the clock on the wall and said "Com'on we're gonna be late." She started to walk down the hall to her class. Since he had the same class, he followed.

Why was he going AWAY from our class in the first place?...

After sitting in class for about 10 minutes. Kurt handed Madison a folded piece of paper. She took it and opened it. It was her drawing. She had forgotten to get it back from him. With it folded up, was another piece of paper. She opened it and it read:

"Madison, I am sorry if I sound nosy or anything, but where did you get the idea to draw this? I just was curious because it seemed very familiar to me. I am not sure where it is from, but I am sure I recognize it.
Could we talk after school, Liebe?
Kurt."

Why is knowing about that stupid drawing so important to him?

Madison wrote back on the paper.

"It is from my dreams. I have had some of the same ones several times. They are very vague and blurry, but I like to draw them for art projects and sometimes just for fun. Meet me at my locker to talk."

She passed it to Kurt and she watched him read it. He had a wondering face, then looked at her and nodded his head for the after school chat. School ended and Madison had waited at her locker for Kurt. It seemed to be at least 10 minutes of her leaning against the locker waiting.

Where the heck is he? He said he'd be here right after school.

She looked up at the ceiling and closed her eyes. A hand touching her elbow startled her. Kurt had walked up beside her. She stood up straight. "Hey. What took so long?" she said.
Kurt looked to his watch, "I am sorry to keep you vaiting. I had... uh.. trouble in the classroom, after you left."
"Oh, he gave you a hard time about that stupid 'no cell phones allowed ever' rule?" she asked him making fun of the crazed and strict teacher. Kurt's walkie talkie thing started beeping in the middle of class and he'd gotten in trouble.
Kurt chuckled at that, "Ja, but I am not in trouble."
"Thats good," Madison said and stood there, uncomfortably.
"Yes, vell ze reason I vanted to talk to you vas, I wanted to know.. if you could... go out to dinner vith me tonight?" he asked. He seemed nervous.
Madison looked at him, then at the ground, "You mean... uhh. like a.. a date?"
"Not quite a date. It will be vith my uh...family. Ja. Und I would like it if you... joined us." he said and smiled a sheepish smile. Madison looked quite shocked, and a little unsure. Kurt lowered his face so Madison had to see him, "Bitte?... Please?" he asked.
Madison carefully pondered it. "Wellll.. I don't know... I mean I don't want to mess with ya'll when your having a family dinner..." she said trying to find an excuses. She looked up at his face. "Mmmmmm.. welll... okay. What time?" she asked.
Kurt had a big smile on his face. "Around 6 o'clock..." he said. "Und I vill pick you up."
Madison started walking toward the school lobby. "Do you remember where the apartment is?" she asked. Kurt had been to her place, one time before to study.
"Vestvood Oaks apartment complex, apartment #61?" he checked.
"Yep." she said.

Good memory...I wonder what his folks are like...

"Ok well I have to go. I will see you tonight at 6." Madison said and started walking home. She didn't have her own car, and since her apartment she shared with her mom was only about a mile away, she usually walked to the grocery store for her mother, then walked the rest of the way home.

Later that evening

It was almost 6pm. Madison had actually dressed up a little nicer than normal. She wore a long sleeved white fish-net shirt, with a black shirt that had white words saying "Live, love, die..." and a pair of very nice black jeans the had a red ribbon sewed onto the seam of the legs. Her hair had been straightened rather than put up in its messy normal style.

Kurt came to her door, rung the doorbell. She came to the door; they didn't have to worry about her mom talking to them because she was at work... or somewhere...
They got in his car without saying a word. They were almost to the restaurant, when Kurt said, "Uhh,.., Madison."
"Yes?" she asked looking out the window.
"Just to let you know, my family, isn't really like me. I mean... vee are not exactly related..." he said.
"Oh, you mean you're adopted?" she asked.
"Ja,.. Vell sort of... I-" Kurt said.
Madison interrupted, "Its ok. I don't mind." she said, and the two remained quiet.
When they got to the restaurant, he opened the car door for her and they walked inside."Zey are already here," he said as he led her inside the dining area.

She started to become anxious. She hadn't met his family yet, and she wondered what they were like. She looked at people at each table they come upon. They finally stopped at a table close to the back of the restaurant. It was a six person, long table, and already, every spot was filled except two. Kurt helped her sit in her chair then he sat in his own chair, beside her. She sat on the foot of the table. She put her hands in her lap and looked up. She slowly looked down the table at each person.

At the other end of the table across from her was a bald man. He was looking at her when she looked up at him. She returned her gaze to her empty plate. She felt a shiver go down her spine.

Woah.. creepy...

She looked up again and looked at Kurt. He was talking to the lady beside him. The lady was sat about as tall as she did. She had light cocoa colored skin, and snow white hair.

Odd... she doesn't even LOOK old enough to even have one strand of white. Perhaps it's just an African American thing...

She looked at the people across the table from Kurt. The man sitting there had brown hair and wore a dark red pair of glasses.

Hmm.. funky shades..

And last, there was another lady, who had a dark reddish brown colored hair and fair skin.

Amazing... at least there's SOMEONE here that looks normal...