Over the next few weeks Kurt and Blaine got to know each other further, quickly becoming best friends. They ate lunch with Mercedes, Brittany, Santana and Rachel, a girl from Blaine's Geography class. They got close, talking about their interests, which collectively was music. They talked all about the songs they loved to sing in the privacy of their bedroom, and others that were sung not so privately. Rachel blabbed about her impromptu performances her and her dads often gave to her neighbours.
"We should really do something together, I mean we all love to sing. Maybe we can find more people that can sing with us?" Mercedes suggested.
"What like a club? Please. Middle school is already hard enough. We don't need to be classified as singing freaks and get pulled down further," Santana rolled her eyes.
"But so what? It's not like we have many friends outside of our circle. Heck maybe we'll make more friends! I'm sure we're not the only people to enjoy singing," Blaine retorted. He loved performing and if he got a chance to do it with his friends there's no way he'd pass the opportunity.
"Fine whatever, I guess I'm in but what about supervision? We need a teacher to actually lead the club."
"What about the Spanish teacher? Mr. Schuester? He usually spends his lessons playing his guitar and singing songs. I'm sure he'd love to do it," Rachel suggested, "I could ask him when I go to Spanish."
"Great idea! That's it, we're gonna get a glee club!" Mercedes cheered.
Mr. Schuester gave the okay almost immediately after Rachel asked, thus commencing glee club. He even went as far as to give a name to their club, the New Directions. Blaine was thrilled to be finally joining a club in the new school. He even met new people during the formation of the club, including big-shots Noah Puckerman and Finn Hudson. He was confused as to why they would want to showcase their singing and join glee club but he let it slide in favour of not starting drama.
Their first glee club meeting started two weeks after their discussion at lunch and the original six couldn't be more excited, especially Kurt. He wasn't even expecting any of these amazing things during middle school and here they were, being presented to them on a silver platter. It also meant that he would spend so much more time with Blaine and he was not complaining about that. He liked being around the boy during school and even the few times they've met up on weekends. Kurt knew deep down that it was more than just friendship that he was feeling towards Blaine but he didn't want to make things weird by bringing them up. He didn't even know if Blaine looked at boys the same way Kurt did and he didn't want to risk their friendship to find out. Besides, he's in middle school and it's long before his time before he even finds someone to love. He's happy to be just Blaine's friend for now.
Blaine and Rachel took the role of glee club captains because everyone agreed that they had leadership qualities and admirable singing voices. They decided to start out the first few weeks of glee club just practicing and learning how everyone can harmonize together, then worry about competitions. Most of the songs they sang were Broadway classics much to Kurt's delight; unfortunately most of the club didn't feel the same.
"Mr. Schue? Can we do songs other than Broadway and old tunes?" Mercedes asked one day.
"Um, sure Mercedes what did you have in mind?"
"I don't know something a little more pop? I wanna sing something that makes people wanna move, not put people to sleep."
"I have you know that the songs we're singing are classics. I'm sorry some of you aren't cultured enough to see that. Remember this is glee club not crunk club," Rachel shrieked.
"Oh shut it Berry. Aretha has a point. The songs we're singing are okay and all but no one wants to listen to that. Other than the seniors we perform to every week," Santana commented which shut Rachel up effectively.
"You're right Santana. If we're gonna be performing to our student body we need to modernize things. We have to decide what songs we can sing to certain audiences. So, we're gonna have a vote. I want you guys to write down some songs and put it in this hat here," Mr. Schue took out a hat from the costume drawer and set it atop the piano, "they gotta be age appropriate and I will be checking. I'll condense it down to five songs then we can vote and decide who's gonna sing what. Sounds okay?" The entire glee club agreed. It would be fair and they would finally be able to put their own musical preferences into consideration.
The rest of the time was spent submitting songs and calling dibs on songs. Kurt started writing down every single song he knew before he chose three that he would put in the hat. Instead Blaine only had one song he would want to sing in front of the student body, mainly Kurt. He put the song in the hat and prayed that Mr. Schue would pick it from the many already in there.
In the end, Mr. Schuester had picked out Somebody to Love by Queen, A Thousand Years by Christina Perry and Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. He had decided that the first two would be a group number and a duet, which left everyone to fight for the Katy solo. Blaine was worried. He had recommended the song but with everyone wanting to the solo, his chances to sing it were low. He needed to sing the song to Kurt. He finally wants to risk it all and show Kurt how he feels about him. The song is perfect and if he misses the opportunity, he doesn't think he'll gain the courage to make another attempt again. He has to find some way to convince Mr. Schue to give him the solo.
"Mr. Schuester?" Blaine stepped into the teacher's office after school hoping to talk to him about his issue.
"Blaine. What's up?" he put down he music book to give the student his full attention.
"It's about the solo for the school assembly. I'd like you to consider me to take it, especially since I recommended the song. And I just really want to sing it so please?" Blaine begged. He didn't like how he was sounding so desperate but he wanted the solo so badly.
"Actually Blaine I was really only considering you and Rachel since you two are my lead vocalists and since you recommended the song I guess I could let you have it."
Blaine was ecstatic, "Really? Thank you Mr. Schue!" he wanted to hug him but resolved to just jump on the spot to avoid the awkwardness.
"No problem Blaine. But you're gonna have to prepare yourself for Rachel's wrath," Mr. Schuester warned.
Blaine remembered Rachel and her almost manic behaviour when it came to solos, "Got it. Thank you Mr. Schue." Blaine left school feeling accomplished.
