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Chapter 2: Living at Windsor

Kurt rolled his eyes. "I'm not completely sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing."

Reed considered this for a second before shrugging. "On the plus side, we will never be bored when we are here. Though, I'm sure how hard it will be to do homework, with those two around."

Kurt turned to Sam. "So Sam, where are you from?"

Sam looked a little embarrassed. "Lima, Ohio. I'm here on a scholarship. My dad's a real estate agent and my mom's his secretary. But Dalton is still expensive. My dad went here and he wanted me to have the same type of education as him. I managed to get a football scholarship that pays for half my tuition."

Kurt grinned. "I'm from Lima too. I'm also here on a scholarship. My dad owns a garage. I'm glad to see there is someone else in my situation."

A knocking sounded on the doorframe of the common room, and Kurt, Sam, and Reed, the closest to the door, turned around. Standing in the doorframe was an Asian boy, about their age.

"Hi." He said, waving at them. "I'm looking for David Sullivan. We met earlier today and he told me to meet him here."

David, who was on the other side of the room, talking to Kurt's crush Blaine, wandered over. "Oh, hey Wes. You can come in if you want." He turned to the trio standing there. "This is Wes Hughes. He's a freshman like us, from Hanover. We met earlier, on the way to our houses and I told him he could come over later."

Kurt waved at the boy. "Nice to meet you Wes. I'm Kurt and this is Sam and Reed." He said, gesturing to the two boys behind him, who waved.

Before Wes could say anything in response, the twins came running in, followed by Peter. Peter slid to a stop in front of the freshmen. "Keep them in here. I just got chased around the whole house by them."

As Peter stalked out of the room, the twins high-fived one another, cheering "Score!"

Wes raised an eyebrow at the group. "Is this normal?"

Sam just nodded. "Unfortunately. If you don't want to stay with the crazy, you can leave."

Wes shook his head. "No, I've only been at Hanover for a couple of hours, but it seems boring compared to Windsor."

"I can't believe someone would choose to join the crazy." Blaine said, shaking his head.

Wes shrugged. "Believe me, this is mild compared to what I go through on a daily basis."

The twins leaned under the couch and pulled out several Nerf guns. Ethan approached Kurt. "Nerf gun, Alice?"

Kurt considered it for a second, before shrugging and taking it. Evan shot Wes in the face, and another Nerf gun war started.

Several months had passed since that first day at Dalton. Kurt was slowly getting used to Dalton. The classes were harder at Dalton, and living at Windsor didn't help matters. Between the explosions from Drew and Satoru's room, that were quickly becoming hourly, and the antics the twins got up to on a daily basis, life was never boring. Kurt had become close friends with Reed in the time that he roomed with the boy, discovering they both shared common interests. He was also becoming close friends with Blaine, who he still harbored a crush on.

On this particular day, the Windsor boys, plus Wes, who was slowly becoming an honorary Windsor, were headed to the mall for their day off. They were going to the mall in Lima, before heading back to Dalton, since it was near Kurt's house. Sam had declined, deciding to go back to Windsor and work on a hard essay he had to turn in to Murdoch the next day, taking advantage of the quiet house to study.

Even though he had been at Dalton for a month, Kurt still hadn't come out to his Dalton friends, afraid of how they would react. They kept asking him if he would join the Warblers, and Kurt kept refusing. He loved singing, but it was one of the things the boys at McKinley Middle teased him about, his high voice. He didn't want to add fuel to the fire. Kurt knew Reed had probably heard him sing in the shower, and was grateful for his silence on the topic.

Kurt was nervous about the trip, afraid of his bullies from middle school showing up. The trip started out fine, with Kurt and Reed finding some clothes, Wes and David finding gifts for their girlfriends, the twins finding new materials for pranks, and Blaine and Joshua finding new music. As they started to walk out of the mall, Kurt heard a voice he dreaded.

"Hey fag!"

Kurt turned around to see Noah Puckerman and Finn Hudson, two of his main bullies from middle school, and several other jocks sneering at him. Reed felt his best friend stiffen at the sight of these guys.

"Hey princess. Is one of them your boyfriend?" Puck sneered.

To Kurt's suprise, the Dalton boys formed a barrier around him, with the twins, Blaine, Wes, and David stepping forward.

"Leave Kurt alone." Ethan said, icily.

"Ah, so you are all a bunch of fags." Puck grinned.

"So what if we are." Blaine said. "Just leave Kurt alone."

The football players got bored and left, but not before Puck and Finn both flipped Kurt off. Blaine turned around to find his friend shaking, with tears in his eyes.

"Hey." Blaine said, gently. "Are you okay? Who were those guys?"

Kurt sniffed and looked up at him. "Just some bullies from middle school. Why did you guys do that? You're not in school, you wouldn't have gotten in trouble."

Frowning, Wes turned to him. "Kurt, what do you mean?"

Kurt looked up at the boys with tears in his eyes. "I'm gay, okay. And I know at school you would have to say something, otherwise you would have gotten in trouble. But this is not school, you didn't have to say anything. And now that you know, none of you want to be friends with me. I'm just going to go."

Kurt turned to leave, but to his suprise, Evan stopped him and turned him around. Kurt closed his eyes, preparing for the worse, but it never came. The Dalton boys enveloped Kurt in a group hug. When they broke away, Blaine was smiling at his friend.

"We're Windsors, when have we ever been afraid of getting in trouble? We don't care if you're gay or straight, Kurt. We're your friends and anyone who's mean to you will have to go through us. And if it helps, Joshua and I are gay too, so you're not alone." He said, giving Kurt a hug.

Kurt's stomach did backflips. They knew, and they didn't care. No one was looking at him weird, they liked him, despite being gay. And his crush was gay! He had a shot. Except Blaine probably didn't think of him like that. He probably just considered him a friend.

The Windsors formed a tight barrier around Kurt, leading him out of the mall and glaring at anyone who looked at them funny. As the group left, Kurt was grateful for his friends, and knew that coming to Dalton for high school was the right decision.

Sam looked up from the essay he was typing up, as the Windsors entered the common room. He quickly noticed that something was wrong. The twins were not engaging in their usual antics and were quiet. Wes, David, and Josh looked severely shaken up, while Blaine and Reed had their arms around Kurt, who had dried tear tracks on his face.

Sam stood up, concerned. "What happened?"

"We ran into some old bullies of Kurt's from middle school." Wes explained. "They started teasing him for being gay. We stood up to them, but we're all a little shaken up. Kurt thought we were going to hate him for being gay." He whispered the last part to Sam.

"I wish I was there to help." Sam said, shaking his head.

"No, don't blame yourself." Kurt told the blonde boy. "It would have happened eventually and I'm grateful for everyone who stood up for me."

Blaine shrugged. "We're Windsors Kurt, we look out for our own. We all know that if it had been anyone of us, you would have done the same thing. And besides," He grinned. "Now I have someone, other than Josh, to gush over hot guys with."

Wes elbowed David, still watching Blaine and Kurt talk. "They so have a crush on each other."

David nodded. "Yeah, but Blaine's insanely oblivious, and Kurt won't do anything if he doesn't think Blaine likes him back."

"Are we plotting?" Ethan asked, him and Evan sliding over.

Wes nodded. "We want to get Blaine and Kurt together."

"Count us in." They said, wearing identical twin grins.

"Us too." Josh, Sam, and Reed came up behind the group.

"Kurt and Blaine are great for each other. Besides, Kurt deserves something like this in his life." Reed agreed.

The Windsors smiled at one another. It was time to get Kurt and Blaine together.

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