Chapter 6 – Young Blood
It had been about a week after New Directions had won their Regional competition when out of the blue the Anderson's home phone started ringing. Due to this being a very rare occurrence it made Blaine jump about a foot into the air. Clutching his chest as if he'd just had a heart attack, he got up from the dining table where he had been doing his homework, and made his way into the kitchen where the cordless phone was sitting in its stand on the bench.
"Hello, Blaine speaking."
"Hey little brother."
"Cooper!? Mum and dad aren't home."
"Don't sound so surprised. Besides I know they're not home that's way I'm calling. I heard from a little birdie that the New Directions had won Regionals, congratulations."
"Thanks, but I'm sure that's not the main reason for you call… What little birdie?"
"Your right it's not, and he's not so much as a little bird, more like a tall blonde."
"Jeff! Of course, I should have seen that coming. So, what do I owe for this special little phone call?"
"Funny. Actually, I was calling to say that I know Nationals is in Chicago this year and that I will be coming to watch you guys perform."
"Really?"
"Yes. Look, I know I'm not always around and I know I defiantly don't show it but I'm proud of you Blaine and so are mum and dad."
"They are?" Blaine asked around his developing tears.
"Yes, they are. I know dad particularly doesn't say or show it, and it has taken him awhile but he has come to fully accept who you are. It may have been a blonde birdie who told me about your win but only because our beloved mother gave him my number and told him to update me. You may not have noticed as they were on a tight schedule but since they missed your Sectionals performance, they flew in specially to see you perform at Regionals. They are very proud of you and were hit hard by your performance of 'Fighter'. They would have told you themselves but you guys had left before they could find you, and they had to fly out straight after… Blaine you still there?"
Blaine was having trouble believing his brothers words, they just seemed so surreal. Even though he hadn't seen them he couldn't believe his parents had made a special trip just to see him perform, he knew that they loved him but actually showing it was another thing altogether. Not only that, but his father had also finally come around to accepting his sexuality. Coming back to reality he heard his brother asking him if he was still there. "Yeah I'm here. Hey, Cooper?"
"Yeah?"
"Thank you. I know I'm not always the most appreciative brother in the world, but thanks."
"I know, same here. And you're welcome, just because we aren't always there with you doesn't mean we aren't thinking about you. Besides like Bridget always says, you are and always will be the baby of the family. I got to go now, I was on a break from doing a scene from my latest project, and I'll tell you all about it next time I call. Love you bro, keep up the good work and stay out of trouble."
"Love you too, have fun."
Blaine was still in shock about what his brother had said that he didn't hear is phone go off. It wasn't until about the sixth ring did, he snap back to reality and quickly went to grab his phone of the table by his homework.
"Hello?"
"Relax killer, it just me."
"Sebastian?"
"The one and only. You ok, you sound a bit off?"
"Yeah, sorry. My brother just called and said some stuff that surprised me, nothing to worry about."
"Well if you're sure. I was calling to invite you to our losing party at Dalton Saturday night.
"Any excuse to have a party, lol, sure why not."
"That was easy. Sure, you don't have to be anywhere else."
"Haha, very funny. Besides it gives me something to look forward to, although why wait two weeks after Regionals?"
"The guys said it was a surprise, not sure what they have planned. They've become rather secretive lately, I'm actually starting to get concerned about their sanity."
Blaine laughed at that. "Trust me, they lost their sanity a long time ago."
"Glade to know, it's very 'comforting'. I should get going, see you Saturday night."
With that Sebastian had ended the call and Blaine was once again left to himself. He spent the rest of the afternoon doing his homework.
Blaine woke up on Friday morning rather early, in fact his alarm clock read 6:30am. He was woken by a rather weird and intense dream, a dream that had left him in a cold sweat. He was slowly starting to forget most of it but what he could remember left him very puzzled. For starters, Blaine could feel the warm hands roaming his body and remembered the feeling it gave him, yet couldn't remember who the hands had belonged to. Then there was the part where he lived in a two-story house in Los Angeles and had 8 kids, and despite their being wedding pictures and a wedding ring on his finger he didn't know who he was married to. There were pictures of 8 different children; 4 girls and 4 boys with two of the children being twins, on his bedside table and could hear the voices of children coming from down stairs. He had just gone to get up from the bed when a tall thin man with brown hair walked through the door. The man was just about to speak when Blaine had woken up. To him it felt real, almost like he was in the future. He didn't get a good look at the man but he did feel familiar.
Currently in his life there were two tall, thin guys with brown hair. Was this a weird vision of his future and if so, did that mean his future husband was right in front of him.
Deciding against going back to sleep Blaine went to go take a long shower, hoping the warm water would both help to relieve his sore muscles as well as to help relax his mind.
Once he was dressed and had breakfast, Blaine grabbed his school bag and left the house for school. Instead of driving to McKinley High Blaine found himself outside of Dalton Academy. After half an hour of just sitting in his car in the parking lot Blaine had finally left for school, and despite taking his little detour he was still early to start his school day.
"I'm telling you I saw Blaine's car in the parking lot this morning."
"You were just seeing things again."
"No, I wasn't. I'm telling you I really did see Blaine's car this morning."
"You say that about once or twice a week."
"But I swear to you, Blaine's car was in the parking lot."
"What are we arguing about?" Sebastian asked Nick as he walked into the Warblers common room.
"Jeff here 'swears' he saw Blaine's car in the parking lot this morning."
"It's the truth."
"So, what's the big deal?"
Jeff just through his arms up in the air. He had already tried telling some of the other Warblers what he had seen, he couldn't understand why they wouldn't believe him. It's true that in the past he had seen cars he thought were Blaine's only to later realise they were either the wrong colour but correct model or correct model but wrong colour. But this time he swears that he saw a blue ford focus outside this morning. In truth, Sebastian was right and that it wasn't a big deal but it did raise the question of what was Blaine doing here in the first place.
Jeff may not have been very fond of Sebastian when he had first transferred to Dalton at the start of the year but he was slowly becoming one of them, who knew there was actually a nice guy under all those layers. He silently thanked Sebastian for if it wasn't for him then they wouldn't have gotten to see Blaine these past few months. He couldn't believe just how much he had changed in the short amount of time he had been at McKinley. One of the biggest changes had actually been Blaine's wardrobe, he knew Blaine had a fixation with bow ties when he was younger, mainly due to the fact that his father was a business man, but recently it's been boarder lining on insane. In fact, Blaine's entire fashion choices had changed since meeting Kurt, not to mention his hair. All in all, since meeting Kurt Blaine's entire personality had changed, one that seemed to be moulded into someone who fit into Kurt's wants and needs.
Yet these past few months with Blaine hanging out with Sebastian all the guys had noticed the change in Blaine going slowly back to his old self, but with even more confidence. If you had asked him at the start of the year about Sebastian's influence on Blaine, he would have said that it was extremely bad but now he believes that Sebastian's influence on Blaine is a very good thing, possibly even the best thing to have happened to him this year. Truth be told it wasn't just Sebastian's influence on Blaine that was a good thing, it was also Blaine's influence on Sebastian. What happened to Blaine has made Sebastian open his eyes and become a better person. He hoped that Sebastian had managed to get Blaine to come to their party on Saturday. On previous occasions some of the other Warblers had tried to get him to come to other things they had invited him to, only for him to say he'll think about it and later call back saying he couldn't make it for whatever reason.
As it turned out Trent was the only Warbler to believe him about seeing Blaine's car and together they spent the morning devising plans about Blaine and Sebastian, mainly about going over to Blaine's on Saturday before the party and helping him with his outfit.
"I swear their up to something." Thad said during their study break later that day.
"Who knows, I can't keep up with anything you lot do these days."
"You know; you're starting to sound a lot like Wes."
"No one can sound like Wes other than Wes. Besides in order to be like Wes I'd have to carry around the gavel everywhere I go."
"True. I can't believe he took the original one with him and left a replica for a replacement."
"He'd marry that thing if he could."
"Speaking of Wes, what did he say?"
"He said he'll defiantly be here. Says we should have called him sooner. Not that I told him to his face, but he's right, we should have called him sooner."
"He's in College now, he has other things on his plate then worrying about us."
"You try telling him that."
"What are you guys talking about?" Nick asked as he sat down at their table. Nick had been doing some homework with Sebastian but he had just left to go to lacrosse practice.
"Giving up on Jeff and Trent as well as Wesley's love for his gavel." Thad, David and Nick spent the rest of their time talking about Saturday night before heading off to lunch.
Over at McKinley Blaine was eating his lunch out in the court yard with Tina, Mike, Artie, Sam, Quinn, Puck and today Brittany. Whenever Santana was away Brittany would hang out with them as she considered them her friends and would hang out with them more often if it wasn't for Santana. Don't get her wrong, she loved Santana but she also loved her friends and wished that her girlfriend would see things her way for once.
Brittany told Blaine that she was on his side and she was slowly working on Santana seeing that too. She also told him that Santana actually had a soft side for Sebastian as he reminds her a lot of herself. Quinn had gotten Blaine to open up and talk about the Warblers and soon the group of friends were in deep discussions about the Warblers and Dalton.
The rest of the day went by rather quickly and before he knew it it was already 9 o'clock Saturday morning. If Blaine was being honest he was actually looking forward to tonight. Warbler parties were always a blast, at least the times that he could remember. Blaine spent most of the day just chilling out, he told Kurt that he had a lot of homework to get through and was too busy doing other stuff to hang out this weekend in New York with him and Rachel. He wasn't sure why he lied to Kurt but it probably had something to do with the way Kurt would have reacted if he had told him that he was going to a party at Dalton where the 'Meerkat' was defiantly going to be instead of with him in New York.
At 5 o'clock Blaine went to go have a shower and get ready. He had just gotten out of the shower when there was a knock at the door followed by Jeff's loud sneeze. Only Jeff could sneeze as if his sneeze could blow a house down.
Blaine quickly put an old pair of shorts on before heading down stairs and opening the door. He was surprised to see that Trent was with Jeff but he welcomed them both in and offered them a drink.
"Thanks". They said in unison as Blaine handed them a can of Pepsi each.
"So what do I owe this pleasure?"
"What? We can't just stop by and see our friend."
"Jeff! I would have been at the party in less than 2 hours, you would have seen me then."
"True, but not dressed correctly."
Blaine looked at Trent puzzled "What's wrong with the way I dress?"
"Nothing if your hanging out with one Kurt Hummel."
"Trent and I are here to help you pick out the perfect outfit."
"Really?!"
"Yes."
"And why do I need your help finding the 'perfect' outfit?"
"Because we can't have you with flat hair and bow ties." Trent explained as he made his way into Blaine's room and over to his wardrobe.
It had taken the two boys the better part of an hour to get Blaine ready. Jeff and Trent had gotten ready before they had gone over to Blaine's. Trent was wearing a fancy purple button up with short sleeves under a black waistcoat and well fitted black jeans. Jeff was wearing dark blue jeans and a white shirt underneath a blue and white checked shirt that he had neatly rolled up the sleeves on. Both boys were wearing a pair of chucks on their feet, only with Jeff's having little hearts around the bottom that his sister had drawn as a prank. Once they were already Jeff sent a quick text to Nick to tell everyone that they were on their way.
The warblers common room was packed full of Warblers and a few other Dalton students who shared rooms with a few of the Warblers. There were also a few girls from Daltons sister school who were sisters or cousins with some of the warblers. Nick and Thad had gotten Sebastian to lend them his stereo system from home and were now playing Nickelback loudly through its speakers. For some reason most people didn't like the Canadian band but majority of the Warblers loved them, especially Jeff, Luke, John and some of the newbies Zane & Cain Lawson, Levi Jackson, James Hunter and Alex Wilson. There was currently over 20 people in the common room including Jeff's twin sister Jessica and her best friend Jamie, Nick's younger sister.
"How far away are Jeff and Trent?" David tried to ask Nick over the noise.
"Jeff just texted saying they were just leaving, so they shouldn't be too long. Where's Wes?"
"Auditorium. He said to give him a buzz when Blaine got here."
"Typical." Thad said joining in "We invite him to a party with old friends and he spends his time in the auditorium."
"He took a pen and some paper with him, he's no doubt coming up with imaginary routines for us to do."
"There here." One of the newbies, Dean Carter, told them as he left to inform Wes."
As he walked through the halls of Dalton Academy Blaine felt right at home, he couldn't believe just how much he had missed the place. Blaine followed Jeff and Trent down the few hallways that lead to the common room that the Warblers had claimed as their own. As if on cue the doors opened to reveal the other Warblers and to Blaine's great surprise and pleasure, Wesley.
"Blaine!" Wes shouted above everyone else and pulled him into a bear crushing hug until after Nick's continuous beating of his arm let Blaine go.
Once Wes let him go and he was able to breath freely again he looked around the room in search of Sebastian. He found him standing by the window with his mouth hanging open staring at him, their eyes locked onto each other and Blaine gave a wide smile, perhaps Jeff and Trent were right after all.
Jeff and Trent had dressed Blaine in black skinny jeans and a black button-down shirt, that hugged his body nicely, with its sleeves rolled up to his elbows and hung open at his neck, making him easy prey for a vampire if such things even existed in real life. His hair had a bit of hair moose in it to give it a bit of style otherwise it was curly in a sexy way. He wore a silver watch on his left wrist as well as black and white chucks on his feet.
From across the room Jeff and Trent were admiring their handy work and gave each other a high five before moving over to talk to Wes as Blaine went to approach the human fly catcher also known as Sebastian Smythe.
"You know, I can think of easier ways to catch a fly." He said as he finally stood in front of him.
"What?" Sebastian asked as he slowly came out of his trance, not even noticing that Blaine was no longer standing where he was being crushed to death by Wes.
"Never mind." Blaine said with a wink which made Sebastian blush a bright red. "It's nice seeing everyone so happy and enjoying themselves after such a loss."
"Yes, well as you know that's one thing the Warblers pride themselves on compared to the New Directions." Sebastian replied while trying to recompose himself.
"Your preaching to the choir my friend."
Just then Thad turned the music up a bit louder and on came Young Blood by The Naked and Famous, and it quickly turned into a sing along.
"We're only young and naive still
We require certain skills
The mood it changes like the wind
Hard to control when it begins."
Thad sung at the top of his voice, together all the Warblers sung the chorus.
"The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah."
"Take it away Jeff."
"Can't help myself but count the flaws
Claw my way out through these walls
One temporary escape
Feel it start to permeate."
Nick took up singing the next verse.
"We lie beneath the stars at night
Our hands gripping each other tight
You keep my secrets hope to die
Promises, swear them to the sky"
Once again, the entire room burst out into the chorus.
"The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah."
John and the newbie Dean picked up the next verse.
"As it withers
Brittle it shakes
Can you whisper
As it crumbles and breaks
As you shiver
Count up all your mistakes
Pair of forgivers
Let go before its too late
Can you whisper
Can you whisper
Can you whisper
Can you whisper
"All together now." Thad said although it was pointless as the room broke into the chorus drowning out whatever Thad was trying to say.
"The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah."
As the song came to an end the room erupted into loud cheers and clapping before starting up again with a different song, this time being Word of Mouth by Mike and the Mechanics.
"Now the world is gettin' older
There's a few things to be said
Do you believe the things they told you?
Do you believe the things you've read?
There's a rumour on the corner
But it's always been denied
'Cause they don't want you any wiser
You're just toein' the party line
From the west side to the east side
From the north side to the south
You'll never get bad information
If you believe in the word of mouth
Look out for those who still want to hang on
Look out for those who live in the past
Get out and listen to the whisper
Because the times are changing fast
From the west side to the east side
From the north side to the south
You'll never get bad information
If you believe in the word of mouth
You don't believe the information
You don't believe it when it's denied
So, when your readin' explanations
You have to read between the lines
From the west side to the east side
Through the windows I'm looking out
You'll never get bad information
If you believe in the word of mouth
Naaa Na Naa Na
Na Na Naaa Na
Naa Na Naaa Na
Na Na Naaaa
Na Na Na Naaa Na
Na Na Naaa Na
Na Na Na Naaa Na
Naaa Naa Naaa
From the west side to the east side
Through the windows I'm looking out
You'll never get bad information
If you believe in the word of mouth
Naaa Na Naa Na
Na Na Naaa Na
Naa Na Naaa Na
Na Na Naaaa
Na Na Na Naaa Na
Na Na Naaa Na
Na Na Na Naaa Na
Naaa Naa Naaa
From the west side to the east side
From the north side to the south
You'll never get bad information
If you believe in the word of mouth"
The evening continued in a similar manor and the later it got the more drunk everyone became. At some point during the night some fireworks were let off outside for the entire school to see, not that anyone complained.
Blaine was having the time of his life singing and dancing with all his old friends. Sebastian didn't stray from his side the entire night and it wasn't until after 2am that Wes declared that it was time for everyone to go to bed after one if the younger boys had fallen over for the third time in the last 10 minutes. Luckily for them Wes had remained sober so he took it upon himself to take everyone up to their rooms.
Wes had dropped Trent and John in their room and had provided to carrying Jamie and Jess into Nick and Jeff's room for safe keeping. Wes would be staying with David and Thad, and without even thinking about it when he had taken Sebastian up to his room, he had shoved Blaine through the door as well.
Once the door was closed and without even bothering to get changed Sebastian kicked off his shoes and plonked down on his bed with Blaine following suite. After a few minutes of talking and giggling the two boys fell asleep together on Sebastian's bed.
It is finally completed, yeah. When on word the songs paragraphs are grouped with no spacing yet when published on here they are spaced out which makes it hard to see the different verses.