Kurt didn't even think about the horrible day he had at school until Blaine had managed to pick up on his discomfort during Zumba that Tuesday night.
"Kurt?" Blaine called him out of his thoughts.
They had been dancing Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance', a personal favorite thankfully it wasn't as fast as the other songs they had been doing that night but he still struggled with his hands and found it to be painful to move his right hand, although he was getting better at shaking his bum and he had been having a lot of fun, with the ladies despite the concerned looks Blaine kept shooting his way during the dance routine but obviously his pain during class was too visible and he was afraid Blaine would make him leave when he told everyone to take a water break as he issued for Kurt to talk to him in the corner with his finger.
"Yeah?" Kurt asked breathing heavily after their workout.
Blaine was staring at his neck where the sweat had been trailing down and Kurt thought how disgusting it must be to look at and felt ashamed with himself to forget to wear deodorant as Blaine stared at his pale skin which became slightly exposed when he leaned over to give the towel back to Mercedes when he mouthed a thank you to her before talking to Blaine, as he had asked if he could burrow it for that exact reason to not look disgusting in front of Blaine.
He made a mental note to bring his own towel next time, because it was already covered in Mercedes's sweat which probably wasn't a good thing to add to his own.
Blaine held out to him a bottled water which people sometimes bought before class started.
"I didn't bring any money, thank you," Kurt shook his head.
"It's on me," Blaine insisted. Kurt blushed as he thanked him quietly again and took a long sip after Blaine opened the lid and handed it over. Kurt held it with his left arm and Blaine was watching him worriedly which was nerving Kurt.
"Kurt, are you okay? You seemed distance during practise and um…" Kurt knew Blaine was about to ask about his arm because the bruising there wasn't pretty and he was eyeing it no matter how hard Kurt tried to hide it with make up.
Blaine shot him a look as if to say 'is this okay?' when he went to pick up his right arm in his hands in a gentle gesture to trace the bruise with his palm so lightly it was like a feather on his skin.
"It's fine," He barely managed to say, but Blaine didn't look convinced because as he held Kurt's arm he watched when Kurt immediately shut his eyes closed hissing as Blaine pressed his fingers a bit firmer but still gentle on the bruise and asked 'does this hurt?' but of course he didn't need an answer after that sound Kurt made.
Blaine held it with his hands and sighed after letting go making Kurt feel a bit numb at how gentle Blaine had been holding it.
"I don't want to criticise you but… you're trying too hard, you don't have to use your arm if it's in pain, I saw you making that exact same expression while we had been rehearsing and I won't ask what happened because it's not my place to ask, but if you ever want someone to talk about your day or anything at all, I'm available okay, you have my number, feel free to use it other than to do roll call for Zumba class every Tuesday ...I would like to consider for us to be friends?"
Kurt honestly didn't know what to say to that and he was almost about to throw himself at this guy and cry into his shoulder but he held himself together and refused to let his feelings get the better of him.
"Do me a favour though?" Blaine continued as he watched Kurt's reaction.
Kurt managed to nod.
"The next song requires a lot of hand movement so please go slow in the next routine if you still want to participate, I don't want that bruising to get worst, but feel free to take a break any time, I'm happy to give you a discount and my offer still stands if you want to talk," He added with a serious note.
Kurt bit his lip as he wondered whether he should tell Blaine how it happened, because Blaine didn't seem to want to pressure him to tell him, and he really wanted to talk to someone about the bullying, he loved Mercedes and his glee friends but they just didn't get it sometimes.
Earlier that day
Kurt sighed as he was pushed against the locker in the morning when getting books out ready for class, just because he was a cheerio didn't mean he was popular all of a sudden, he retorted back a sarcastic remark to his bullies
'one day you'll all work for me', which of course they just laughed and walked of.
Mercedes was meant to meet with him but had a test that morning as he found out from her text which she was preparing for at home and said she would come later. She wanted to be mentally prepared for Cheerios practise at lunch time, it was one thing to have a test and then to have Cheerios right after and home economics was her worst subject.
Kurt disposed of the red wristband he always wore because of Cheerios uniform because it was damaged during this morning encounters with his bullies, and now not only was his favourite shirt wrinkled from the fall; Sue was going to murder him for not having the full uniform on, even though it was just a wristband, once a girl had forgotten her cheerios sneakers and had to do 30 laps around the school wearing just flats; he didn't even notice the throbbing pain since he was so used to it.
However as the day progressed his arm didn't get better, especially after cheerios as he walked out of the building to get a book he forgot in his car he had been tossed into the dumpster and by the time he had cleaned up for rehearsal in cheerios took place and he found, he was on the bottom of the pyramid for the competition in cheerios and was meant to hold up a girl on his hands in the rehearsal but his right hand was too sore and he lost balanced as he tried to keep them up.
It was just too much for his right hand and the girl he was mean't to help stay up came flying on top of him barely calling him a 'stupid fag' so Sue wouldn't hear and also leaving a bruise on his stomach because of the fall, the other girls all fell soon thankfully there was a mat on the floor but that didn't stop Sue from yelling at him to
'stop acting like a Porcelain Hummel and be a man!'
Mercedes thankfully noticed the bruising on his hand which was now a darker purple and asked Sue if he could have today of so he would be ready for competition, and that she would work with him on the weekend over the seemed to have noticed the bruising after Mercedes mentioned this but typical Sue just blew her whistle after nodding and told them to get the hell out of her gym.
Mercedes had asked him about it after rehearsals and he just muttered about the dumpster tossing and then they were interrupted with glee club's drama the trip to New York coming up making them forget about his arm and all was forgotten until that night with Blaine
Back in the present
"I'm Okay, but I will go slow," Kurt agreed, thinking that he wouldn't tell him now, as he had his job to do and it wasn't what you would normally do on someone you first met, it would also hurt his pride... maybe later he could take up on Blaine's offer if things escalated to a point where he couldn't handle it by himself any more.
He forgot about the incident himself as the next routine came on for 'Hey Soul Sister' which he was surprised Blaine had a dance routine for and had to look at his feet blushing as though pretending to concentrate on them when Blaine sang the part
'so I went and let you blow my mind'
directly at him with a smile. Mercedes had smirked at him but he just rolled his eyes and didn't notice that Blaine was still watching him every now and then but Kurt didn't look up until he had to know what came next. Mercedes had seen the interaction though as Blaine watched Kurt more than the others and gave Blaine a sympathetic smile when he looked to her for help as though to say ''Your boy is special, make sure he knows that'
Kurt finally looked up and their eyes locked. Blaine smiled even wider as he sang 'heeeey..heeeeeey...heeeeey'
"Don't feel shy to start singing, especially if I sound like a dying cat!" He called as the ladies laughed and joined in in the next round of 'heeeey'
When it was over and as Blaine said goodbye to both Mercedes and Kurt, Kurt leaned over to whisper in Blaine's ear "For the record, you don't sound like a dying cat,"
Blaine laughed.
"Well that's a relief, see you next week Kurt,"
Kurt smiled.
"Hope your arm get's better," Blaine whispered to Kurt just as he was walking out after saying goodbye to Mercedes.
His heart fluttered at the softness in Blaine's voice.
I hope you guys enjoy this so far, I might make this a weekly thing were you guys can join in with Kurt on his zumba experience, and you can look up the youtube videos to pretend you are in the classes yourself :p.
I love writing this so far, and I hope you love reading this, I've been working on this chapter all night trying to make sure there is no spelling errors and it souns interesting, and I hope it's interesting let me know!
If you want to look up the dance routines search in youtube to join in the Blaine Anderson classes at:
Zumba with Kristine - Lady Gaga (Bad Romance)
and
"Hey, Soul Sister" Zumba Class Choreo, Anna Lee Elquist
