Third chapter! WOOT!
Kurt had been lost in sleep when his roommates alarm had gone off. Kurt eyes jolted open at the unfamiliar sound. He looked around the room, remembering where he was and why he was there. Burt had drove Kurt down to Dalton the day before, and helped him move his stuff into his room. Once his mattress and clothes were in his room, Kurt fell on top of his bed, instantly fallen asleep on his new bed. He was extremely exhausted and had completely forgotten about a roommate, who by the way was not in the room at that time.
Kurt looked over to see another boy frantically tap his hand onto the desk next to his bed searching for his alarm clock. After about 10 seconds of searching, he found the obnoxious alarm and turned it off with a click. The curly haired boy then turned his head around to look at Kurt.
"Sorry – I forgot to turn it off for the weekend – my bad." Blaine said as he put his head back down on his navy blue pillow.
"Blaine? You're my roommate?" Kurt tried to not show his excitement too much. If Blaine ever found out how badly Kurt was in love with him it would make this whole room situation awkward. Not that Kurt wasn't incredibly used to awkwardness. Hell, he was gay; his whole life seemed to be one gigantic awkward moment. But even despite his best attempts to hide his enthusiasm, Kurt had a big silly grin on his face.
Blaine scooted in his bed, lying on his stomach and shifting his weight to his elbows and smiled at Kurt. "Well yeah, I guess I am" he said charmingly. Blaine chuckled to himself a little when he saw Kurt still in a collared shirt and jeans, and that he had slept on an exposed mattress all night. "I got back around eleven last night. I was finishing up my history essay in the library and…" Blaine's eyes closed. "…crap – its Monday isn't it."
Kurt giggled while he straightened up, sitting on his bed. "I was going to mention that." Kurt stood up from his white mattress and rubbed his eyes. "Sorry for not waiting last night – I kind of…collapsed in my bed as soon as my dad left. I didn't mean to fall asleep."
Blaine sat up in his bed "Don't worry about it. It was a nice surprise." He was still smiling Kurt, almost as brightly as Kurt was smiling at him. Blaine stared at Kurt for a while, almost like he was in a trance. Kurt broke off the stare, wondering what it was all about.
"Do you mind if I get ready? Or do you want to use the bathroom first?"
"Uh….no…no go ahead." Kurt strode towards the bathroom, picking up some of his bags of clothes with him.
"Nice hair" Kurt said, smirking as he walked into the bathroom.
Blaine sat in his bed, rubbing his eyes, wondering why he had been staring at Kurt. It wasn't the first time it had happened. In fact, he would find himself often staring at him in the middle of Warbler practice. Wes and Jeff had made fun of him, declaring that Blaine obviously had the "hots" for Kurt. He denied all their claims, saying that Kurt was his best friend. Was he falling Kurt? No. No way, I wouldn't dare ruin our friendship like that. Blaine's thought were interrupted by Kurt yelling from the bathroom.
"AH! MY HAIR! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?" Kurt's hair had extreme bed head, even worse that the other night when Blaine showed up at his door.
Blaine laughed and responded, "Oh come on! It isn't THAT bad! C'mon man, we're roomies! It's not like my hair looks any better!"
"Yeah but STILL!" Kurt muffled voice shot back the other room. Blaine gave up and let himself fall back on his bed and continue to rub his face with his hands.
Love that Kid.
The bell rang for Dalton's last period of the day. Blaine lingered in the classroom, talking to Wes and David.
"I heard that someone moved in your room last night. Is he new?" asked Wes.
"Yeah, I knew the whole room to yourself thing wouldn't last long. I might have killed you out of jealousy, Wes snores like a pig." David said while playfully pushing Wes's shoulder.
"Yeah, it's Kurt actually!" said Blaine as he began to slide his books into his shoulder bag. As soon as he said the word Kurt he heard a chorus of taunting "ooo's" coming from his two friends. "Guys, chill, we're friends. Calm down."
"Being roommates brings two people closer together ya know. You never know what can happen in a dorm." Wes winked at Blaine. Blaine responded by shoving Wes in the shoulder.
"Shut up." Blaine said sternly while he finished gathering the rest of his belongings.
"Ouch, Blaine that was a little cold. I didn't know you could be so defensive!" David joked.
"Yeah Blaine, that hurt me, right here…" Wes put a hand on his heart and gave Blaine his best puppy-eyed look. Blaine rolled his eyes. "But still, dude, Kurt's staying at Dalton! This is gonna be so fun! Now all of the Warblers live here so we rehearse literally whenever we want!" Wes started to get a little overexcited.
"More practice hours? Yippee" said David sarcastically. "Maybe I should go talk to Kurt about moving back to Lima…?" He joked as the three left the classroom and started down the hall towards the common room.
"Oh shut up," said Wes, giving David a little glare, "we probably won't practice more, but now we can easily give more impromptu performances. You know, those nursing homes are always glad to see our smiling faces."
"Ugh, I hate nursing homes" said David.
"Stop complaining" replied Wes, who was still glaring at David.
"They smell like old people!" said David.
"Really, Dave? Nice observation! Never would have guessed." Blaine said as he chuckled at David. "So Wes, what's on the agenda for practice today?"
"Well, I was thinking we try doing something different" said Wes.
"Like, how different exactly?" inquired Blaine, giving Wes a weird look. The three sat down on the circled couches in the Victorian common room. Both Blaine and David had fixed their attention on Wes, waiting for his to tell them.
"Hey! Let's go get some coffee!" said Wes.
"TELL US!" Blaine and David said in unison.
Wes started laughing. "I was thinking that we could do a Hawk Nelson song. I know it sounds a little weird, but I think we could actually make it sound really good."
Blaine and David both looked at each other with confused looks. "Hawk Nelson?"
Kurt walked into rehearsal and was greeted by tons of Warblers telling him how excited they were about him moving in to Dalton. They all had new sheet music in their hands and were looking through them with confused looks on their faces. Kurt grabbed some music and read the top of the paper. It read, "California" by Hawk Nelson.
"Califo—? " Before Kurt could inquire about the odd sound choice, Warblers started to harmonize, mimicking sounds of a guitar. Blaine then started to sing out.
I'm not falling for anymore of these tricks,
I'm so tired of everything here,
The sun is calling me to the west,
Everyone's having fun out there,
My bags are packed as I'm looking out the window,
Everything is so outdated here,
I wanna move west where the sun is shining,
I want my friends to all be there,
Woah, woah
Kurt joined in on the whoa's that started right before the chorus. He was surprised at how good they sounded. Never in a million years would he have guessed that the Warblers would try a punk rock type of song. But here they were, belting out Hawk Nelson. Kurt joined Blaine on the chorus.
Let's pack up and move to California,
She's got lots of friends out there,
We'll never get bored cause we can go boardin',
Let's let the sunshine take us there,
Here, Blaine started singing to Kurt, he wasn't sure why, but it felt right. And Blaine always went with his gut feeling when he was singing.
I'm tired of taking it slow,
So tired but I'm not sleeping,
I'm wired about to pick up my board,
Cause we're all headed out for the weekend,
The Warblers got quiet and started a crescendo. Kurt loved this, they sounded awesome. And Blaine was singing to him which it THAT much better.
Let's pack up and move to California,
Hop on board before we get older,
Raise your hand and shout for California
Come on,
Come on,
Come on,
Let's pack up and move to California,
She's got lots of friends out there,
We'll never get bored cause we can go boardin',
Let's let the sunshine take us there,
Come on,
Come on,
Come on,
Let's pack up and move to California,
She's got lots of friends out there,
We'll never get bored cause we can go boardin',
Let's let the sunshine take us there,
Let's pack up and move to California,
Hop on board before we get older,
Raise your hands we're headed for the border,
Come on,
Come on,
Come on