Kurt and Blaine were sat at the ice cream parlour, not far from McKinley High. Kurt glanced over at the school building in the distance and sighed. Blaine swallowed his mouthful of strawberry ice cream and studied his face.

"Are you all right?" Kurt didn't respond, his gaze firmly locked out of the window. "Kurt?"

"Hmm? Oh, yeah I'm fine." Blaine followed his gaze and smiled when his eyes rested on McKinley.

"You miss it, don't you?"

"Some of it. Not all." Suddenly Kurt put his head down. "It's Karofsky." He said in a hoarse whisper. Blaine rolled his eyes.

"Don't worry."

Kurt didn't realise that Karofsky had spotted him too, and was trying to convince Danni that they didn't need to go to this ice cream parlour.

"Dave, what's the problem? I wanna go here. And besides, it's not even that busy." She grabbed his arm and marched him inside with her. Kurt's eyes widened when he saw Karofsky with a girl. Then he remembered that Dave wasn't outed yet. Blaine had noticed this, too.

"What's he doing?"

"I don't know. But it's not right to lead her on, whoever she is." Blaine turned to Kurt.

"We should talk to him." Kurt almost spat out his choco-shake.

"Are you insane?" Before he could say anything else, Blaine had pulled him to his feet.

"Come on."

"Blaine, no!" Blaine ignored Kurt's protests and dragged him over. They stopped at the table and Kurt tried to hide behind Blaine without making it look like he was hiding. Danni looked at them both.

"Can we help you?" She asked. Dave kept his eyes on Kurt, who refused to even glance at him.

"Yes, actually. We'd like to have a word with Dave, if that's ok?" She looked at Dave who was still staring at Kurt. She narrowed her eyes and then turned to Blaine.

"Oh, you're friends of his?" She stuck out her hand. "I am, too. Danni Granger." Blaine shook her hand.

"Blaine Anderson. Mind if we borrow him for a second?"

"No, go ahead." Dave remained rooted to his seat. "Dave, go talk to them will you?" She sighed. He blinked.

"Yeah. Be right back, Danni." She watched him leave with Blaine. Kurt stayed where he was. She smiled at him.

"Any friend of Dave's is my friend." She grinned. "What's your name?" He remained solemn faced, he seemed... worried.

"I'm Kurt." He said quietly.

"Danni." He forced a smile.

"I heard." He watched Blaine and Dave. Blaine was making a lot of hand gestures, and Dave was looking nervous, rubbing the back of his head every few seconds and glancing around constantly. Danni watched them too. This was confusing. "So, are... are you Dave's girlfriend?" She looked at Kurt and blushed a little.

"I, ah, I don't know yet." She laughed nervously. "We're just friends for now." Kurt nodded as the two returned. Blaine smiled and took Kurt's arm.

"It was nice to meet you, Danni."

"Yeah. You too, Kurt!" She called after them. She turned to Dave. "That was nice." He didn't reply. He was stirring his sugared dessert slowly. His eyes were cloudy. He wasn't in the same room, clearly. She clicked her fingers. "Hello? Earth to Dave? Are you ok?" He looked up and grinned.

"Yeah, couldn't be better."

"Hello you two." They looked up, and both their faces dropped, though neither saw that of the other.

"Hi, Puck." Danni said, little emotion in her voice.

"What do you want, Puckerman?" Dave snapped.

"I was just passing and I saw you both. Mind if I join you?" Danni couldn't believe her ears.

"Actually, we were just discussing a duet we're doing for Glee." She lied through gritted teeth. Dave frowned at her. He didn't get her sometimes. Puck looked surprised.

"Dave? Glee? This is a joke, right?"

"No." Dave growled. He gave his best threatening glance to Puck, who smirked.

"Oh, so you're the girl that Azimio slushied? I heard him talking about it with... a friend." All colour seemed to drain from Dave's face. "Are you two dating?"

"Not yet." Danni muttered. "Can you go now?" Puck laughed.

"Fine, whatever. See you later, Karofsky." They watched in disgust as he walked away.

"What's your problem with him, then?" Dave asked. She locked eyes with him.

"I could ask you the same." They stared at each other for a while, then continued to eat in silence.

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