Chapter 10- Sidekick
MASSIVE thanks to Magicgirl29 for this prompt! I hadn't thought of this and it's definitely about time that I addressed it! Again, many thanks!
"Kurt, make me a tea with some honey and lemon that would be great for my voice, thank you very much." Rachel whispered from the other side of the room.
Kurt put his hands on his hips and sighed. "Rachel, you do realise that I can't hear you! You're going to have to speak up a little bit if you want something!"
Rachel marched over to her bedside table and scribbled on the whiteboard that was put there 'in case of emergencies'. She held up the sign which read "Honey and lemon tea. Thanks."
Kurt drew back as though he had been slapped. "I'm sorry, was than an order? Because I don't answer to you, Rachel."
Rachel cleared her throat and sighed. "I know what this is about."
"Enlighten me."
"You are so jealous of my Showcase success that you're being massively more bitchy and you and I are growing apart because you can't handle that I won the Winter Showcase and that your NYADA acceptance was overshadowed by my triumph!"
"So the nightmare speaks. First of all, I am not jealous of your success. I am extremely happy for you. There's a difference, okay? I can handle the fact that you won, because I know that you deserved it and that you worked hard to get in and that you rehearsed your song until my ears died. Believe me, I know that you deserved it.
"But this does not give you the right to begin ordering me around like I'm some kind of winged monkey! I am my own person and I am concentrating on my education. Rachel, you have nothing to save your voice for anymore. The showcase is over. Your classes are barely rigorous because the winter semester has just ended. So if you're going to be a diva, you need to take it somewhere else because I am fed up of hearing about it."
"I'm being a diva? I believe that you are being the diva here, Kurt. You're complaining and bitching about how much I'm annoying you when the real reason for all of this is that you want success of your own and it's driving you crazy that your best friend is besting you at everything."
"Okay, here's the dope, Princess. Let's journey back to senior year. Remember our actual NYADA auditions? I excelled and you choked. If it wasn't for Tina, you wouldn't be here right now. Think about that next time you want to gloat about the fact that I didn't get into NYADA first time. I slayed 'Not The Boy Next Door' while you sung off-key and forgot your lyrics to the song that you killed at Sectionals."
"But I got in."
"Because you pestered her. I didn't think I had a reason to pester Carmen Tibideaux about hearing me sing again. If you hadn't have fucked it up the first time, maybe you could've saved yourself the effort of chasing Carmen all over the country for her to hear you again."
"Yes, but the point of the matter is that I got in, Kurt."
"And so did I. It might've took me a few months longer but I'm here too, Rachel. And we're living together. And you're becoming insufferable!"
"Oh, please. Ever since you and Blaine broke up, you've been nothing but miserable."
"My father has cancer, Rachel, believe me, there is a reason for my sudden mood changes. Blaine isn't why I've been acting differently or wanting to be alone a little bit more often than usual. I've already had to face losing my father once and now I might have to do it again. So thank you, Rachel, for pointing out my misery. Now if you actually thought about other people for a change, you might realise that I am not in the best of places right now. Yes, I do miss Blaine and it still hurts that he betrayed me, but there's a lot more than just him going on in my mind."
Rachel opened her mouth to speak, but Kurt held up his hand.
"No, it's my turn to speak. You've made your thoughts perfectly clear. Rachel, you are my best friend. I say that with complete love and jollity. But the point is that you have to steamroller your way over everything that's going on in my life to make sure that I have room to deal with your shit too! I am a person, Rachel Berry, and I will say right now that I refuse to be treated like a sidekick. I don't want to be that person that you brush aside every time something better comes along. This friendship is so unbalanced I don't even want to begin naming all the ways you've been a bad friend. Remember the student class president election last year? I was running against Brittany. Oh, and just because you thought Mercedes might get the part of Maria, you run as well, forcing the Glee Club and my own brother to think twice about voting for me! That completely hurt me, Rachel. And then you almost get me in trouble for stuffing the ballot box. Fair enough, that was you trying to help, but it didn't help. At all.
"Let's talk about how you completely sided with Blaine over the whole Chandler incident. Let's not forget that you cheated on Finn, Rachel, with Puck. But you actually cheated. And then Puck of all people stopped it! So for you to turn on me for simply texting another guy is absolutely hypocritical of you and it really hurt me. But I got over it, because I'm a forgiving person. If I can forgive Karofsky for threatening to kill me and sexually harassing me, I can forgive you for most things, too. But I literally feel like a living version of Mister Cellophane around you, Rachel. You're so consumed in your own little world that you don't realise that I'm here and that I have feelings and that I have things going on! NYADA isn't the only important thing in the world, Rachel. Your best friend is right here and the longer that you brush him aside, the more he'll begin to resent you and then you'll have nobody! Those fucking sycophants that you want around you all the time will disappear once they realise that you're a devious person!"
Kurt didn't want to hear any more explanations from Rachel and, having said enough, stormed out of the apartment much more efficiently than Rachel ever could.
