From the voice mail of Kurt Hummel
(or) interlude.
"I promise, that one day, everything's going to be better for you." Donnie, Donnie Darko
Please leave a message after the beep.
Hey, Kurt. It's Rachel. Berry.
Been a rough few weeks, huh?
I don't really know what I should be saying. I don't even know why I'm calling. We've never really gotten along and I know I'm not your favorite person in the world but it feels like this is the…I don't know. The one thing we can connect on.
Boys are stupid. People are stupid in general, I know, but boys kind of take the cake. All of the stupid decisions in history have been because of some boy or another. Really, if we had a woman president things would be a lot better…alright, that's not the point.
Let me start again.
Boys are stupid, and I know the ones in our school have been giving you a hard time. They've given me a hard time, too, even though I'm more well endowed then half the cheerleading team. Boys have always been more close-minded, and that's a fact. They're used to being in control and they like it that way, and change of any kind threatens it, that control. So they have to tear it apart and they have to make sure it never puts itself back together…
God, you're a boy. What am I saying?
I guess I forget sometimes.
Look, I'm not used to heart to heart conversations, especially not on the phone. But your in trouble, you haven't been in school, everyone's saying your just…dead. Inside, anyway. And I was sitting in my room and thinking about you and me and how wrong it is, what they're doing to you and what they did to me and what they do to everyone. It's not fair and I know that, and I wish I hadn't given you such a hard time about Finn or that stupid solo because…no matter what, I'll always have an easier time. There are more straight boys then gay ones and I'll always have more options then you will and no one will ever hate me because of who I love like they will with you and I can't stop thinking about how you haven't been to school in almost a week and what might have happened and what's been happening and…
I need to shut up.
You're a great kid. You don't need to be anything but that. You don't have to try to change yourself for anybody. Your not hurting anyone. And you don't deserve this. No one does. You don't have to call me back, but talk to someone. Don't let those meat heads win.
Okay, so…bye.
A/N I wrote this around chapter two for some mysterious reason and I thought there's been kind of a lack of Rachel in the story thus far. I always kind of felt like she and Kurt have been the ones who are most connected, just because they're both really isolated and both really huge divas. Anyway, if you feel like it doesn't really fit with the flow of the story let me know.