A/N: From now on, the chapters will be in two different first-person POVs: Kurt's POV and Burt's POV. The chapter title will have whose POV it is. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Burt

The shop was quiet today. It's nearly two in the afternoon and we haven't had one appointment which my jerk boss took to mean that he could take the rest of the day off and leave me in charge of the shop. There was the other grease monkey, Jake, who was currently toying with an engine he'd been determined to get to work again in his free time. He's wasting his time, that thing is lost cause.

I sleepily watched a rerun of the Simpsons on the tiny TV in the corner of the shop and dreamed of ways to get back at my boss when a car drove up. I sighed, praying that they were just parking in our lot because another lot where they were trying to shop or eat was full. The shop wasn't too popular and most of the time our parking lot was more like overflow parking for the strip malls next to it.

I turned my gaze back to the TV to watch Homer continue being an idiot. I was dangerously close to nodding off when the bell on the door rang and I was jerked fully awake to see the shop's newest costumor. At first, I was sure I really had fallen asleep and was dreaming because there's no way a woman that beautiful was in the shop where I worked. There was no way a woman that beautiful was in Lima. She was young, looked a few years younger than my own twenty-seven. Now Lima was one of those tiny cities where you knew everybody and I'd sure as hell never seen this girl before, I would have most definitely remembered.

A stupid smile was starting to tug at my lips and I'm pretty sure I was drooling a little. It looked like she was in slow motion and I swear I could hear corny love music playing in the background. That was until she approached the desk and actually opened her mouth.

"Excuse me? I need someone to look at my car. It's been making these weird screeching noises everytime I stop and I really hope the brakes aren't going to give out while I'm driving, that would just be terrible..."

I didn't really hear anything after that, my head was spinning too much. She seemed really panicked and was talking a mile a minute.

I held up my hand to try and stop her. She finally trailed off.

"Sorry, Miss..."

"Davis," she said, "my name's Elizabeth Davis."

My heart gave this stupid flutter which made my want to cut it out and tell it not to do that anymore because seriously? I just met this girl, I mean Elizabeth. Victory! I knew her name now.

"Alright then Miss Davis-"

"Call me Elizabeth," she interrupted.

"Okay," I said, "Elizabeth, my coworker Jake is going to need to take a look at your car. It shouldn't take too long."

She glanced over at the clock and groaned. "How long is this going to take exactly?" she asked.

I shrugged. "Depending on what's wrong with it...maybe an hour or two?"

She sighed. "Alright. Is it okay if I just wait here?" she asked.

"Sure, that's what the waiting area is for," I said, pointing to the group of chairs, coffee machine and year-old magazines that the shop replaced about once a decade.

She nodded, handed over the keys to her car, and walked over to the waiting area. I told Jake he had a job to do and went back to the front desk. I tried to keep busy but I was distracted by Elizabeth. I didn't mean to stare at her but I was curious, luckily she never noticed. She seemed really on edge though, constantly tapping her foot and checking the clock on the wall for the time. It got really annoying.

I eventually walked over to her. "Is there something wrong?" I asked, making her jump. "Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to startle you, but you just see really on edge. Are you okay?"

She sighed. "I just promised someone I'd be somewhere and I don't know if this will be done in time. Thanks for asking. You're very kind. What's your name?"

"Burt Hummel," I replied.

"Nice to meet you Burt," she said, extended a hand for me to shake. I took it and smiled at her, prepared to get up and leave when she kept on talking. "Is Lima always this boring?" she asked.

I sat back down and shrugged. She laughed. "You Lima people sure don't talk much. I've been here one day and I'm about to start beating my head against a wall or dying of boredom."

I chuckled. If there was one thing I already knew about Elizabeth Davis was that she was far too big (spirited I mean, she was beautiful and not at all fat and oh God, I'm rambling in my head) and loud for sleepy, little Lima, Ohio.

"Yes," I answered, "it it always this boring. Which makes me ask, Elizabeth, what is someone as exciting as you doing in tiny, insignificant, boring, Lima?

Elizabeth blushed slightly and looked down at her hands where she was picking at some red nail polish off her thumb nail in a nervous way.

"I wouldn't say I was exciting but thanks. I'm in Lima because my parents live not to far away in an even tinier, more insignificant town and I wanted to live somewhere close to them."

"Where did you live before?" I asked.

"Minneapolis, Minnesota," she said, "I was going to college there but I graduated last May."

I nodded, wondering why someone would leave the largest city in Minnesota (which still wasn't saying much for the size of it) to live in one of the smallest towns in Ohio.

"So how do you like Lima so far?"

She sighed and shrugged. "I'm not sure, I've been so busy today, driving around town, picking up job applications that I barely had time to get the car into the shop, much less go sightseeing. Wait, oh my God, what time is it?"

And, she was panicking again. She checked the time and jumped up.

"I really have to go, it was nice to meet you Burt. Can I pick up my car tomorrow or something?"

I nodded and openned my mouth to speak but was cut off because she was talking in her fast pace again as she stuffed the contents of her purse back into the bag.

"Oh, Kurt is going to be so mad at me. I promised I'd pick him up and he's probably scared, this is only his second day in Lima and he doesn't know anybody-"

"Who's Kurt?" I asked.

"My son. It's his first day of preschool-"

I didn't hear anything after that. Of course Elizabeth wasn't single, and she had a kid. What should I expect, if I fell for her that fast, there must be a line of suckers long enough to go around the world twice. Just my luck though, I could've at least lived in denial about her being single for a little while.

I waited for her to finish talking. She waved goodbye and ran out the door, hailing a taxi. She jumped in and it sped off.

I sighed and went back to work at the desk, trying not to feel too much disappointment. I just wondered how it was going to be seeing her again tomorrow.

Yep, poor Burt. I have no clue what life was like in 1998 because I was really, really little so if that part of it ever seems unrealistic, tell me in a review or PM me.

Peace, Love, Glee

Julez