Chapter 2: New Enemy
Kurt followed Mercedes, Finn, and Puck to the Choir room after hitting his locker. He stowed away his extra clothes and gathered his books he needed before following his friends and eating the rest of his sandwich.
He kept having to switch the sandwich from hand to hand the entire time because Puck was still trying to pinch off a piece of it every time he wasn't looking.
"Puck, leave my sandwich alone already!" Kurt griped. "If you're so hungry, why don't you get your own sandwich from the cafeteria?"
"Because you already have one." Puck shrugged as they entered the class. They weren't the first ones there when they walked in and took their seats. Santana, Quinn, and Brittany were already sitting on their chairs, talking. A few minutes later, the seven of them were joined by Artie, Tina and Mike. And it didn't take long before Rachel flounced in and cut into everyone's conversations, like usual.
"ALRIGHT, GLEE CLUB!" Mr Schue yelled, running into the room. Everyone cheered and clapped. "Alright, alright, settle down."
"Okay, everyone, I hope you had a great summer, but now it's time to get to work. In a little over a month, we have Sectionals." Mr. Schue said, causing everyone to cheer. He motioned for them to settle down again before he continued. "Unfortunately, Matt has moved away, so we need to find a new member to qualify this year. So, I want every one of you to band together and scope out some new New Directions potential team mates. In the meantime, let's get our music on!"
The bad started playing and the class started to sing until the bell rang for next class.
The morning passed by fast for the New Directions, and soon they all met in the cafeteria for lunch. Kurt chatted with Tina and Artie as they walked from Kurt's locker to the cafeteria. Everyone else was already sitting at their table when they entered.
Kurt suddenly felt eyes on him as he walked with his friends and turned his head to look. What he saw gave him the chills.
Karofsky was staring at Kurt, predatorily, his eyes traveling up and down Kurt's body. When Karofsky saw Kurt looking, he gave a disgusted look again, like he did before school.
Kurt snapped his head around again and joined his friends at their table, trying to calm his breathing, which had spiked at the looks he had gotten from Karofsky.
"So, what do you think, Kurt?" Asked Mike.
"Sorry, about what?" Kurt said, shaking his head.
"About how to scope out new potetial members for Glee." Mike said.
"Oh. I don't know." Kurt shrugged. "Maybe we should just do what we do best."
As he went to eat his lunch, he heard silence. He looked up to see puzzled faces.
"I'm saying we should sing." Kurt explained, as if it were obvious. "We pick a song, practice and perform it for everyone, and hope that people see it can be fun and that it inspires someone to want to join us."
"Okay, but what song should we sing?" Asked Mercedes.
"Oh, I have the perfect song!" Piped Rachel excitedly. "We should d-"
"Oh, can it, Dwarf." Said Santana. "We need a song everyone can sing, not just something that will work for you. And we're not doing anything from one of your little Broadway Muscials either."
"Santana's right." Quinn said, agreeing with her friend and fellow Cheerio. "We need something modern and new, something that can showcase everyone's talent."
"So, what can we choose?" Said Artie.
"It's gotta be something good," added Tina.
"Oh, I have the perfect idea!" Everyone turned to Brittany.
They listened to her input and smiled.
"Brittany, that's perfect!" Said Mercedes. "That song will definately showcase all of our talents and inspire people to want to join us!"
"Okay, well, let's go practice then." Puck said, standing up from the table.
Everyone followed suit, except for Kurt. He had been silent since he had said they should sing to show people how fun Glee Club could be.
"Kurt, you coming?" Kurt jerked his head up and looked into Artie's concerned eyes.
"Yeah. Yeah, I'll be right there." Kurt said, pushing a smile onto his face.
"Okay. Don't take too long, yo." Artie said, wheeling himself after everyone else.
"No problem." Kurt said, as Artie rolled away. Kurt took a deep breath and stood up. He had been thinking about the way Karofsky had given him a disgusted look twice that day. He didn't know what the guy's problem was.
'He's obviously homophobic.' Kurt thought to himself. 'Everyone in this school knows I'm gay. It's no big secret now. I'm openly gay, people need to get over it already. Seriously, it's not that big a de-'
SMASH!
Kurt was slammed into the lockers. He looked at his attacker, only to see...
Karofsky.
Of course.
Kurt held his tongue as Karofsky walked past.
'Great.' Kurt thought, leaning on the lockers and sighing to himself. 'First day of school, and I already have a new enemy.'
The day passed relatively fast for Kurt. He met his friends to go over the song they were going to use to hopefully get new members of their club, work on costume ideas and choreograph a dance to the song. He went to his classes and finally, when the bell rang, he made it to his locker and then out to his car.
He survived with minimal body checks into lockers by the football team, and no slushie facials. He cheered inwardly as he took his keys out of his bag and got into his Navigator, starting the engine. He pulled out of the parking lot and drove home. Lucky for him, it didn't take long to arrive at his house.
Kurt pulled into the driveway and parked his car before heading up the path to his house. He unlocked the door and entered, walking to the kitchen. He found a note on the table from his Dad.
Kurt-
I may run an hour late tonight, got a call that there's a car with major repairs needing done. I should be home by six, instead of five, so I'm sure dinner can wait for an hour. I left some money for you to go shopping with, get something for tonight. I'll eat anything you make, you know that. I'll see you later.
-Dad
Kurt picked up the envelope that was under the not and looked inside. His Dad left him a hundred dollars, which was more than enough for dinner and extra groceries. He turned to the refrigerator and took the shopping list off the door. He glanced over it before adding a few items to the list quickly and heading out the door again.
