Chapter 4 – Always the one Apologising

As Blaine pulled into the McKinley High student car park all he could think about was his conversation with Sebastian and what he would be facing when he walked into the choir room. During his first class which happened to be English Blaine found it hard to concentrate on what the teacher was saying, mainly because he could see Rachel and Finn giving him dirty looks out the corner of his eye. He knew that Finn would find out, but since Rachel obviously knew meant that the rest of the glee club was bound to know by now as well. Blaine found it difficult to pay attention for the rest of the lesson, and the same went for his next class which held Santana, Brittany and Tina. Santana spent the lesson giving Blaine death glares, Brittany was too busy drawing unicorns to pay him or anyone else any attention, but it was Tina who surprised him the most. Since first entering the classroom Tina had sat down next to Blaine and had even proceeded to striking up a conversation with him as she worked on her assignment. As she finished putting the finishing touches to her loin and its cubs she turned to Blaine to voice her support.

"For what it's worth Mike and I believe you did the right thing."

"I'm sorry?"

"Your argument with Kurt, don't get me wrong he's fun to hang with most of the time, but sometimes I feel he turns into Rachel the other 60% of the time. I know he's had it rough but it's not fair to you."

"What did he say exactly happened?"

"He said that you guys were having a sleepover at Rachel's and at some point you just got up and left, and that you guys had a huge argument outside Scandals before you stormed off. I think the whole glee club knows by now, Rachel and Finn may have helped to some degree."

"Did he say what we argued about?"

"Yes and no. He said that you were there with Sebastian and you were dancing rather close to him, and something about you being drunk again."

"So basically everyone is giving me dirty looks and the silent treatment because I was out with Sebastian instead of Kurt."

"Pretty much, he was leaving out quite a bit and when I tried questioning him about it he snapped at me and said that I was siding against him."

"Why are you siding against him, not that I don't appreciate your support, but he has been your friend a lot longer than I have been?"

"Our mum's are in the same social group so to speak, along with Mike's mum, but don't tell his dad about that." Blaine gave a quite snort of laughter at that. "I know it's not much but your mum talks about you a lot and I know she's been away for some time now with your dad on his business trip. I don't know what's really going on but since you can't tell Kurt who he can and can't hang out with, he can't do the same to you, yet he does. Don't get me wrong, I love Kurt, but I feel that he's being completely unfair and if you want to be friends with Sebastian then you should. You know Sebastian reminds me a lot about Santana, she used to do nothing but torment us along with Quinn and Brittany not that Brittany ever had much say in the matter. Same with Puck actually, and speaking of Puck he's Switzerland in all this although he agrees more with you than Kurt."

"Thank you", was all Blaine could say to her at that point. He really wished that people gave her more credit, she was an amazing friend, a great performer, and she along with Artie had been with New Directions from the beginning, and not once had they ever quit or left unlike everyone else.

They spent the rest of the lesson in silence as they finished their assignments. Tina had drawn a family of lions in a jungle, while Blaine had ended up drawing the Warblers hanging out in Dalton's court yard. Brittany as he later found out had drawn unicorns, rainbows and for some reason care bears, Santana on the other hand had drawn herself as an evil witch that looked more like Morgan Le Fay with her head and a little hunchback by her feet that looked awfully like Sebastian, which made their teacher raise her eyebrows as she left with Brittany in hand. Blaine spent most of the day with Artie, Mike or Tina, mainly because they were in his classes, and for a change they ate their lunch in the court yard before going to the choir room to face the music, so to speak.

When they entered the choir room Blaine saw that Finn, Rachel, Mercedes, Santana, Brittany, Rory and Kurt were sitting on one side, while Sam and Quinn were sitting on the other with Puck sitting in the middle. The four of them crossed the room and sat down next to Sam and Quinn. When Mr Schuester walked into the room 5 minutes later he saw the glee club sitting on opposite sides of the room which meant that there was some dispute going on. Making a decision on the spot he walked over to the whiteboard and wrote 'Teamwork' in big black letters. "Ok, this week we will be covering songs about working together. Something that inspires you to work together as a group. Yes Rachel?"

Mr Schuester, we are always performing songs in a group about being there for one another. If I may, I suggest we perform songs about betrayal. We have all been betrayed by someone at some point; it would make a nice change from our usual songs ex specially given recent events."

"Given recent events I think it would be best if we continued with our more inspirational chose of songs, as a lot can be learned from them. Now I don't know what has happened, but we have regional's coming up so we all need to be working together as a team as that is when we're at our best." Mr Schuester set them into pairs; Finn & Puck, Rachel & Quinn, Santana & Mike, Rory & Kurt, Mercedes & Tina, Brittany & Artie, and Blaine & Sam. Hopefully by putting together this way would help them move past whatever it was that had his glee club divided, William Schuester had never been so wrong in all his life. The only pairs that had managed to work together by the end were Blaine & Sam and Brittany & Artie, William Schuester claimed that this was going to be a very long week.

This continued over the next few days, Kurt and Blaine weren't speaking to each other because according to Kurt Blaine wouldn't apologise for what happened at Scandals, and he wasn't going to. Things continued like that until Thursday afternoon when Mr Schue finally had enough and had sent both Blaine and Kurt to go see Emma stating that glee club was divided until they sorted whatever this was out. So there they were on Thursday afternoon sitting in Emma's office instead of the choir room. This could only go one of two ways, they could either sort this out now or it was going to make things worse.

"Ok, so who would like to start us off, Kurt?"

"All right then. It started on Saturday, we were meant to be having a sleepover at Rachel's when Blaine just got up and left, he said he was going to Scandals. I went to go find him later on that night only to find him dancing rather closely with one Sebastian Smythe. We got into an argument about Blaine being drunk and other things. Honestly I think this goes back further than Saturday, seeing as how whenever Blaine has something to say he usually makes me sit on a stool in the auditorium while he sings a song. Then there's the constant argument about Blaine hanging out with Sebastian not to mention he hasn't been with New Directions for very long and he always seems to manage getting a solo. After all that he doesn't do anything to make me even feel like his boyfriend lately, he doesn't do anything special or even make me feel like I'm his one. Don't even get me started on the amount of performances he gets, how his voice sounds well with just about everyone's and how…"

Blaine just sat there as Kurt kept talking, the more Kurt said the more Blaine got steamed, he couldn't believe what Kurt was saying. He'd had enough and the pressure had finally gotten to him. Once Kurt had finally stopped talking Emma turned to him asking if he had anything to say or add. Knowing that he'd be spending the rest of the afternoon with a punching bag he decided to at last voice his frustrations.

"As a matter of fact, yes I do. First of sometimes I have trouble portraying my emotions so I sing them instead, second Mr Schue hands out the solos so it's not my fault and I can't help it if Mr Schue likes the way my voice sounds with others during a performance. As for Sebastian he is a friend who I care about, I can't tell you who you can and can't hang out with so why do you think you can do the same to me. Every conversation we have all you can talk about is NADA this and NADA that, most people send applications to more than one collage in case they don't get in to one or more of their chooses. Ever since transferring to McKinley I've barely seen my Warbler friends because you refuse to go to Dalton and instead make me hang out with all your friends. Also you asked me to transfer to make your senior year special but when I came and Finn did nothing but have a go at me you didn't do or say anything to make him back off. You are always putting bronzer in my moisturiser which I only use on my hands; it looks weird if a person only has tanned hands. Then there's you always snapping your fingers at the waitress as if snapping your fingers will make her go any faster."

Blaine took a moment to regain his breathing and his thoughts. All Kurt could do was look at him in confusion which only angered Blaine more. How is it that Kurt isn't aware of at least some of what he's said, and he couldn't believe that Kurt was mad at him for what Mr Schuester does during glee practice. Sucking in a deep breath of somewhat fresh air Blaine continued his little rant.

"You say I never make you feel special, well you've never done anything like that for me except for the one time after I got the part of Tony in West Side Story. I'm always telling you how great you look, how amazing you are, how great your performance was and how special you are, the only thing is, is that you don't seem to listen because you are too busy going on and on about NADA. Don't even get me started on how you are also always going on about New York. Then theirs you complaining that I don't support you half the time and I don't understand what it's like. Last year you asked me to go to junior prom with you but not once did you seriously think about how that would affect me, yes I told you about being bullied at the Sadie Hawkins dance but there was more to it. Last but not least, why me? Why should I be the one to apologise? I'm always the one apologising for something I didn't even do." Blaine turned to Emma hopping she'd say something to Kurt, when she didn't Blaine got up and left, he had an appointment with his punching bag.

Blaine spent the better part of Friday morning trying to figure out a way to make an apology said genuine. While he had been working out with his punching bag after leaving Emma's office and had calmed down somewhat he realised that Mr Schue was right, at the moment because of them glee club was divided and with regional's coming up they really couldn't afford it. So that was why he had decided that even though he wasn't wrong he would attempt an apology even if he didn't really mean it so they could move on that and he was sick and tired of half of ND either giving him the silent treatment or being downright rude to him. It wasn't until after glee practice that Blaine decided was the best time to apologise especially given how practice had gone.

"Kurt, can I talk to you for a second?" He asked as Kurt was leaving the room with Rachel and Mercedes.

"Only for a second, we were planning to go see a movie later on."

"I won't be long. Look Kurt I know a lot was said yesterday and I truly believe that we still have a lot to sort out but Mr Schue is right, regional's is coming up and we need to be at our best which only ever is when New Directions work together as a team. What I'm trying to say is that I'm sorry for what happened Saturday night and I hope that we can move past it." That was as good as an apology as he could muster, defiantly not worth a mornings worth of thinking about.

"Apology accepted that's all I really wanted. I know I can be a little pushy when it comes to Sebastian but that's only because I worry about you. Listen Rachel, Mercedes and I were going to get some pizza for dinner and then watch a movie at my house, would you like to come?"

"Thanks for the invitation but I think I'll pass. It's been a long week so I think I'll just go home and sleep the weekend away."

"The invitation still stands if you change your mind, I'll see you on Monday." With that Kurt gave Blaine a quick kiss on the check before hurrying after Rachel and Mercedes.

When Blaine got home instead of having a shower and going straight to bed, he took a shower and for some reason called Sebastian. Sebastian picked up on the second ring, "Hey sexy, haven't heard from you for a while what's up?"

"Hey Seb, I was just wondering if you'd like to go see a movie. I've had a really crappy week thanks to Kurt and thought you'd like to make fun of my misery."

"That doesn't sound like me at all, although a movie sounds much better than sitting here watching Thad bet Jeff at chess for the 6th time in a row."

"Friday night and that's what you guys are doing?"

"Sad isn't it. How about this I come pick you up and we can get some dinner first?"

"Sounds like a plan, I'll see you later then."

"Or a date." Sebastian said as he heard the dial tone on the other end.

"What did you just say?" Trent asked him from the other side of the room.

"Nothing. Listen guys as fun as this has been I've got places to be, I'll see you all later." I grabbed his jackets and left them to their game.

"I bet you $20 bucks he off to see Blaine." Jeff said as Thad took is bishop.

The Warblers continued placing bets as Sebastian pulled up Blaine's driveway. "Your taxi has arrived." Sebastian said as he bowed down when Blaine opened the door for him. Sebastian had even opened Blaine's door for him as he got into Sebastian's car. "Which movie did you have in mind for us to see?" He asked as he headed to the pizza parlour.

"You'll just have to wait and see."

After eating their dinner which Sebastian had insisted on paying for they made their way to the movie theatre where they stood in line to get their tickets, popcorn, drinks, and in Blaine's case several packets of sweets. "What? Kurt never lets me buy so much junk food." As the movie trailers came to an end and the theatre went dark Sebastian realised that Blaine had taken him to see The Hunger Games, he had wanted to see this movie for weeks now. Once the movie came to an end and they made the drive back to Blaine's house Sebastian had to admit that this had been the best night he has had in a long time, it was made even better when Blaine had invited him to stay the night.

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