Blaine walked into school with a big smile on his face. He loved going to Kindergarten. He loved being with all of the other kids. He loved playing games and singing songs. It was always a fun day there.

Blaine went to hang his backpack and jacket on the hook labeled "Blaine".

"Good morning, Blaine," his teacher said, walking over.

"Hi, Miss Rachel," Blaine said cheerily turning around.

"That's quite a nice bow tie you have there."

Blaine looked down at the green bow tie tied around his neck and looked back up at his teacher with a huge smile on his face. "Thank you! My mommy helped me tie it."

"Well that bow tie looks lovely. Why don't you go play with your friends?" she asked while as she went to greet some more of the students.

"Ok!" Blaine said before going over to play with some blocks with his friend Thomas. "Hi, Thomas!"

"Hi," Thomas said without looking up for the tower of blocks he was building.

"Can I play with you?" Blaine asked.

"Uh huh. Wanna help me build a big tower?"

"Sure," Blaine said grabbing some colorful blocks to help Thomas.

As they kept building, Thomas looked over at Blaine and asked, "What are you wearing?"

Blaine looked down at his outfit confused. "Huh?"

"The thing around your neck."

"Oh. It's a bow tie," Blaine explained.

"Why are you wearing it?"

"Cause I like it," Blaine explained like it is the simplest thing in the world.

"My daddy says bow ties are ugly."

"But bow ties aren't ugly."

"But my daddy says they are."

"No, they're not," Blaine said, sniffling. His bow ties were not ugly.

Before the boys could talk about it anymore, Miss Rachel had all the kids come to the circle so they could start their day. Miss Rachel seemed to notice that something was not right. Blaine was always so cheerful and now he seemed sad and he kept playing with his bow tie.

It was time for recess and Blaine was still being rather silent, which was highly unusual for Blaine. Miss Rachel pulled Blaine aside and asked, "Blaine what was going on? You were so happy this morning."

"Thomas said my bow tie was ugly," Blaine said softly as he looked down at his shoes.

"Your bow tie isn't ugly, Blaine," Miss Rachel explained gently.

"Really?" Blaine said looking up with a really hopeful expression on his face.

"Really," Miss Rachel promised. Blaine's expression and mood definitely changed. "Now go get your coat on."

"Ok," Blaine said happily as he went over to get his coat off of his hook.

As the day went on, Blaine had completely forgot about what Thomas had said in the morning about his bow tie. None of the other kids said anything about his bow tie so maybe Miss Rachel was right. His bow tie wasn't ugly.

However, at the end of the day, Blaine was sitting next to his friend Jacob on the bus ride home from school.

"Why are you wearing a bow tie?" Jacob asked.

"Because I like it," Blaine explained.

"It's ugly," Jacob said.

Blaine looked over at Jacob and said, "No it's not."

"Yes it is. It's ugly and it makes you look weird."

"I'm not weird," Blaine said.

"Yes you are. You wear bow ties. That makes you weird."

Blaine sniffled and tried not to cry. "I'm not weird," Blaine whispered again.

"Yes, you are. Only weird people wear bow ties," Jacob insisted.

By this point Blaine had tears sliding down his cheeks. Why was Jacob being so mean to him? It was only a bow tie.

Blaine got off of the bus, still thinking about what Jacob had said. Were his bow ties really ugly? Maybe Jacob was right. Maybe he could ask his dad. His dad knew the answers to everything.

Blaine sniffled as he walked through the front door.

"Blaine?" his father asked.

Blaine sniffled again and wiped the tears off of his face and looked up at his father with tears still in his eyes. His father just stared down at Blaine with a frown on his face.

"Why are you crying?"

"Jacob said my bow ties are ugly and then he said that my bow ties make me look weird," Blaine sniffled.

Blaine's father sighed. "Just get over it, Blaine. Boys aren't supposed to cry."

Blaine sniffled one final time before trying to force himself to stop crying. His dad was right. Little boys weren't supposed to cry. Boys were supposed to be strong and not cry. His dad never cried. Maybe his dad was right, maybe little boys shouldn't cry.

Blaine's father went to his study while Blaine ran upstairs to his room. All he wanted to do was cry, but he couldn't do that. "Boys aren't supposed to cry." His father's words just kept replaying in his head. Eventually, Blaine was able to stop crying. He got up and took his bowtie off and through it in the back of his closet. If he stopped wearing bow ties, maybe Jacob wouldn't think he was weird. And that's just what Blaine did.

The next morning, Blaine's mom was surprised that Blaine hadn't asked to wear a bow tie. After all, yesterday, he thought it was the coolest thing. However, she didn't question it much. And she didn't question it the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. Blaine had just stopped wearing bow ties.

Author's Note:

So it's different than any of the other installments of this series, so I'd really like to know what you guys think. And I know I'm late and I'm really sorry. It was finals week so I didn't have a ton of time to work on this and then I was having some issues actually writing this. But here it is. I have off until mid January so I'm really hoping to make some progress on this during that time.

Thank you to my roommate Rachel for being my unofficial beta with pretty much everything I write.

Also, there are some drabbles and such on my tumblr have not been posted here, if you are interested: klaineinatardis

Thank you for reading and please consider leaving a review. I love hearing what you guys think.