Chapter 4

The next day Kurt came over to the house like planned and he and Nick went to the the brunette's room. "So, I've been thinking, in a few weeks, it's Junior Prom and since you're meant to be singing with the Glee Club I wondered if you would also be my date?"

"But... I wasn't actually... I'm just a Sophomore..."

"Nick please, we've been going out for over a month, I want to go to Prom with you," he said sweetly pressing kisses to Nick.

"OK, I will. Kurt, I'll go to Prom with you," he laughed kissing Kurt. Seeing Kurt out he raced to the kitchen to share his news. Olivia and their mom were baking cookies. "Mmm, these smell good, can I have one?"

"Careful they're hot," his mother warned. "You seem happy."

"Yeah, um.. Kurt asked me to Prom."

"Oh hunny!" His mother exclaimed rushing to hug him while Olivia looked at how worried Jeff looked. He mimed 'shh' and looked upwards signalling he would tell her later. With their mother fussing over Nick, Jeff told Olivia what he had heard.

"We have to do something Jeff, something bad could happen."

*I know but what can I do? Only you and Thad can see me?*

"I don't know," she said sadly.

Nick and his mother found a suit that agreed with the colour scheme the boys had agreed on and prepared for Prom just two weeks away. Their mother would be away again this weekend and Kurt was busy, so Olivia took the chance to talk to her brother.

"Nicky..." She said softly at his bedroom door.

"Hey sis, you OK?" She nodded and he waved her over to the bed where he was reading for English.

"Nicky can we talk?"

"Sure Olive, what's wrong?"

"I don't... I don't think you should go to Prom with Kurt." She said quietly.

"Why not?" Nick asked in disbelief.

"..."

"Olive, this is serious, why shouldn't I go to Prom with Kurt?"

"Because Jeff told me you'd get hurt," she whispered and Nick let go of her and stood up.

"OK Olive, this has to stop," he told her, "I have been patient with you on this Olive but it has to stop. Jeff isn't my boyfriend, he doesn't know these things and he isn't real."

"He is too!"

"No, he isn't you need to understand that Olivia. Kurt is my boyfriend, Jeff is imaginary!"

"No he isn't!"

"Go to your room Olive!"

"I hate you Nicky! You aren't my big brother no mores!" She screamed running out. Jeff watched as Olivia cried then shook the money of her allowance from her piggy-bank. "We're going Jeffy," she said to him.

*Where?*

"Thad's. I don't wanna be here no more." Olivia knew that to get to Thad's she had to take the bus three block's over. She had done it before, with Nick, but now she was going to do it alone. They waited until Nick was in the shower before crawling through the old dog flap. Getting on the bus after an old lady she gave the driver her money and went to sit by the woman. Getting off three blocks over she walked to Thad's house where her friend was playing on the porch with a puppy. She stood in the gate-way until he saw her and place the puppy on the porch. "That I need a hug," she said crying and her friend hugged her.

Thad's mother, shocked she had made her way there invited them in and soothed her son's best friend. When it began to get dark she asked when her brother was picking her up and she told her Nick didn't know she was there. Sending the pair upstairs she dialed the land-line to the Duval's home.