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Chapter 8: Reconnecting
Santana Lopez and Rachel Berry walked through the hallway of the apartment building, where their new roommates lived. "What do you think they will be like?" Rachel asked her best friend.
"Hopefully good people." Santana said. "Though if they aren't, we all know I can rip them a new one."
"I'm concerned because they are both guys." Rachel admitted. "What if they try something with us?"
"I'm not worried about that." Santana told her. "If they ever tried anything, all the guys in the New Directions would be after their necks. I just hope they aren't homophobic."
The two girls arrived at the door to room number 608, before Santana knocked. They heard a call of "One minute!" before the door was yanked open. Standing in front of them was a young man, their age, with wild, curly, black hair, expressive hazel eyes, and triangular eyebrows. He was wearing a light blue top, with black pants, brown loafers, and a polka-dot bow tie. He looked up at Santana and Rachel, his eyes alighting on Santana.
"You must be our new roommates. Come on in."
Rachel however, stared at him in shock. Here was Blaine Anderson, who she hadn't seen in years, and he was one of her new roommates.
Santana looked at Rachel in confusion. "Rachel, you look like you've seen a ghost."
Rachel turned to her, eyes wide. "That's because I have."
Blaine looked at her in shock, not believing what he was seeing. Here was Rachel Berry, who he hadn't seen since the night of the Sadie Hawkins dance, and she was one of his new roommates.
"Blaine, who is it?" Rachel heard, and watched as Kurt Hummel stepped out of the kitchen.
He was dressed more laidback then she had ever seen him. He was wearing black jeans, with an ivy green top, silver belt, and black shoes.
As Kurt wandered out of the kitchen, his eyes went wide. Standing in Blaine and his living room, was Rachel Berry and a Latina girl.
Santana looked between her two new roommates and her best friend in confusion. "Okay, what is going on?"
Blaine sighed. "That's going to be a rather long story. I would suggest you sit down."
He led the two girls into the living room, and sat down on the couch opposite them, Kurt next to him.
"Do you remember the Sadie Hawkins dance our freshman year of high school?" Rachel asked Santana.
Santana nodded. "That was a fun night. You went with Artie, Mercedes, Tina, and those two gay boys who disappeared after that night."
Blaine looked at her in confusion. "You went to McKinley?"
Santana nodded. "That's how I know Rachel. But how do you two fit into this?"
"We were the other two boys with Rachel that night." Kurt explained. "The ones who 'disappeared'."
"You never came back." Rachel said, accusingly. "We waited for you, but you never showed up the next day. After about a month, we gave up on the idea of you ever returning."
"Let us explain Rachel." Blaine said. "It will make a lot more sense."
"As you know," Kurt started. "Blaine's dad was coming to pick us up from the dance. While we were waiting for him to show up, the football team arrived, led by Karofsky, Azimio Adams, and Noah Puckerman. They all had baseball bats. They beat us senseless, and Blaine's dad ended up finding us. Our parents refused to let us go back to McKinley after that, since the justice system refused to let us prosecute our assailants, claiming our eyewitness accounts 'weren't enough evidence'." Kurt rolled his eyes.
"So our parents had us transfer to Dalton Academy in Westerville." Blaine continued. "That's where we stayed for the next four years."
"Dalton?" Santana looked surprised. "That was the school we were supposed to compete against for Sectionals our junior year."
Rachel nodded. "Yeah, but then they got moved to a different Sectionals and we never went up against them.
"You two were a part of the New Directions?" Blaine asked, surprised.
Rachel nodded. "Us and all of our friends who are showing up to help us move in."
Kurt looked down at his phone, which pinged with a text message, before groaning. "The Tweedles decided to have a party to welcome our two new roommates tonight, at our apartment." He told Blaine. "Why they never have these parties at their apartment, I'll never understand. They live in a huge penthouse, while we have this small two bedroom apartment.
"Because they like to be annoying." Blaine said. "Let's pull out those snacks now that our new roommates are here. When are your other friends showing up?" He asked Rachel.
"Any minute now." She told him.
Kurt and Blaine disappeared into the kitchen to get the snacks, and Santana turned to Rachel.
"What are we going to do Rachel?" She asked her best friend, concerned. "We both know Puck is showing up to suprise Quinn."
"We'll have to deal with that when he arrives." Rachel said, sighing. "Best case scenario, Kurt and Blaine don't recognize him. But I don't think that will happen."
Suddenly, the doorbell rang, and Rachel walked over to the door, pulling it open to reveal Artie, Mercedes, Tina, Quinn, Brittany, Mike, and Sam.
"Hi!" She said, hugging Mercedes and letting them in. "Come in."
"I thought you had two roommates Rachel." Tina said, looking around.
"They are in the kitchen pulling out snacks." Santana explained.
Mercedes looked up as a man walked out of the kitchen. He was dressed in a light blue top, with black pants, brown loafers, and a polka-dot bow tie. He also had wild, curly, hair, but she couldn't see his face because of the containers of snacks he had in front of his face. Something about him struck a bell with Mercedes, but she didn't what it was.
Suddenly, he tripped, causing the snacks to go flying foreword. Mercedes, who was the closest, leaned over to catch him and the snacks. She looked at his face and gasped. Blaine Anderson, who had abandoned the rest of them at McKinley, was staring at her.
"Blaine, are you okay?" Mercedes heard calling out from the kitchen.
All of the New Directions turned around to see Kurt Hummel standing in the doorway of the kitchen. He was dressed in black jeans, with an ivy green top, silver belt, and black shoes and was carrying more snacks.
"Blaine? Kurt?" Artie asked shocked.
"What going on?" Tina asked, looking at Rachel and Santana, the former of whom was trying to shrink back.
Mike and Sam looked on confused. "Why don't the guys bring our stuff up from the car?" Santana suggested. "The girls can put everything away."
"I'll stay up here." Artie decided. "I'm not going to be much help."
"Am I interrupting something?" A voice called from the doorway. The New Directions turned around to see a man with curly, strawberry blonde hair, and a man with wild, curly black hair and green-grey eyes leaning up against the doorframe.
Kurt lit up. "Shane! Reed! Come on in." Shane and Reed walked into the apartment, looking at the New Directions quizzically.
"I thought you were only getting two new roommates Kurt." Reed said, turning to his best friend, the confusion evident on his face.
"We are." Kurt explained. "The rest are helping them move in."
Blaine turned to his brother. "Shane, why don't you help the guys move Santana and Rachel's belongings up here? Reed, Kurt, and I will help the girls move in."
Shane nodded, knowing his brother would explain, and left with Mike and Sam.
"What's going on?" Quinn asked, confused. "You guys obviously know them."
Blaine sighed. "Let's go sit down. We'll explain." He said, leading the group over to the couches.
"What graduating year is everyone?" He asked Rachel.
"Everyone but Sam is our year. Except Sam didn't transfer in until his sophomore year anyway, and Brittany repeated senior year, so she graduated his year." Rachel explained.
"Kurt and I went to McKinley our freshman year." He explained to Quinn.
"Yeah, except you transferred out and left us there." Mercedes said, bitterly.
Blaine sighed. "Yes. Kurt and I did leave, but we haven't had a chance to explain why yet."
"Let Blaine explain Mercedes." Rachel told her. "It will make a lot more sense."
"So our freshman year, McKinley had a Sadie Hawkins dance." Blaine started to explain. "Kurt and I decided to go together, since no one was going to ask the two gay boys to the dance, and we had been best friends since we were five. We were in a group with Rachel, Tina, Artie, and Mercedes, since we were all friends at the time. After the dance, my dad was coming to pick Kurt and I up, so we said goodbye to everyone and went outside. While we were waiting for my dad to show up, the football team, led by Karofsky, Noah Puckerman, and Azimio Adams showed up."
Quinn paled. She had an idea where this story was going, and it wasn't good.
"They had bats and they beat the living crap out of us. We ended up in the hospital, and our parents transferred us to Dalton, were we went for the rest of high school."
Quinn gasped. "I didn't think they would actually do it."
The entire group whipped around to look at her. "Quinn, what do you mean?" Tina asked, leerily.
Quinn sighed. "At the time of the Sadie Hawkins dance, I was dating Finn. Puck tried to get him to participate in beating you two up, but Finn refused and told me about it. I didn't think they actually went through with it. We never heard any mention of it, so I thought they backed out." She turned to Kurt and Blaine. "I'm so sorry. I could have stopped the whole thing, years ago."
Kurt shook his head. "There was nothing you could have done Quinn. They wouldn't have listened to you."
Mercedes turned to Kurt and Blaine, tears in her eyes. "I'm so sorry. I didn't think. Will you forgive me?"
Kurt smiled at her. "It's okay Mercedes. I understand, and I forgive you."
"Are you dolphins?" Brittany asked curiously.
"Dolphins?" Blaine asked, looking at Kurt, the confusion on his face.
"Dolphins are gay sharks!" Brittany said, eagerly.
"Then we are dolphins." Kurt told the naive girl.
Suddenly, yelling was heard for the hallway.
"How dare you come here!"
"I don't even know you!"
"Shane, what's going on?"
"Everyone needs to calm down."
The door banged open, and Shane strode in dramatically, Mike, Sam, and a man wearing a military uniform stood behind him. Quinn stood up in shock.
"Puck? What are doing here?"
"I was coming to suprise you." Puck told her, coming over. "Everyone told me that we were helping Rachel and Santana move into their new apartment, and I was going to suprise you here. But than that psycho started yelling at me when I arrived, and I don't know what I did." He said, pointing at Shane.
Kurt turned to Rachel, shocked. "You knew about this?"
"We didn't know what to do about the situation." Santana explained. "It was going to come out eventually."
"Everyone needs to calm down." Reed said, shooting a pointed look at Shane. "We will never figure everything out, if everyone keeps shouting at each other."
Shane grumbled but sat down on the coach, the rest of the New Directions following suit. Puck looked on, completely confused. "What is going on?"
Quinn turned to her boyfriend. "I'll explain, since Blaine and Kurt already explained this story twice. Do you remember back during our freshman year, during the Sadie Hawkins dance?"
Puck nodded. "Yes, but I don't know what that has to do with anything."
"Let me finish." She told him. "Back then, you, along with the rest of the football team decided to beat up two boys who went to the dance together. You tried to convince Finn, but he refused and told me about it. Back then, because I never heard anything more about it, I thought you decided not to. I learned today, that that wasn't the case. Blaine and Kurt are the two boys from the dance, and Shane is Blaine's brother. He recognized the name on your uniform."
Sam whirled on his friend. "Puck, is this true?"
Puck nodded. "You weren't there, but I wasn't the nicest guy freshman year. Finn too, though he wasn't as bad as me. I was a bully, and I'm not proud of it." He turned to Blaine and Kurt. "I'm truly sorry for what happened back then. I'm not the same person I was six years ago."
"I believe you." Kurt told him. "Let's leave it in the past?"
Blaine turned to his brother. "Shane, can you leave it in the past too?"
Shane grumbled, but nodded. Blaine looked at the time on his phone, before swearing. "The Windsors are arriving for the party in twenty minutes. You all are invited, but we need to finish setting it up."
"I wonder what Wes' news it." Reed said, as he pulled out a microphone. "He seemed really excited when he texted in the group chat."
"I hope he hasn't gotten together with Tabitha." Kurt grumbled. "We all know that girl and I hate one another. Wes may be my friend, but I could never stand his girlfriend. I was so happy when it turned out they weren't soulmates."
"Maybe Wes finally found Ashley." Blaine suggested.
"Wouldn't that be nice." Shane agreed.
"Speaking of soulmates." Mercedes said, turning to Kurt and Blaine. "Have you two found your soulmates yet?" Blaine and Kurt nodded. "Well, do we get to meet them?" Mercedes asked, excited.
Kurt chuckled. "Cedes, Blaine and I are each other's soulmates." Her jaw dropped open. "We've been engaged since graduation."
"Wait, wait." Santana stopped them. "We're living with you two while you're engaged?"
"Don't worry Santana." Blaine assured her. "We don't plan on getting married till after college. We wouldn't have been looking for roommates if we were planing on."
"Shane and I are engaged too." Reed said, holding up his and Shane's hands. "We actually live down the hallway from you guys, so you'll see us a lot."
The doorbell rang, and Reed, who was closest, pulled it open to reveal an African-American man, two tall twins with bright blonde hair and ice blue eyes, a man with shaggy black hair and pale skin, an Asian man, an elegant woman with golden brown hair and hazel eyes, and a woman with long, brilliant red hair and bright green eyes.
"Hey guys!" Reed said, pulling the door open wider, his eyes alighted on the woman with the red hair. "Who are you?"
Wes wrapped his arm around her waist. "This is my big announcement. Everyone, meet Ashley Milton, my soulmate."
See I promise I didn't forget about the McKinley gang.
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