Thank you all once again for the reviews. Special thanks to NeverKnewICouldFeelLikeThis for the help with the Spanish in the last chapter, I've now corrected that. Hope you enjoy this chap.
Sara xxx
Hunter, Blaine, Rachel and Mercedes started searching the school for Kurt. They checked Kurt and Hunter's room, the library and several bathrooms, "Does this school have an auditorium?" Rachel asked.
"Yes, but it's locked at night so there's no point in looking there." Blaine replied.
"Let's check the gardens." Hunter suggested.
"No, I know Kurt, if there was a way to get to that stage he'd of found it within hours of being here." Rachel insisted.
"Yeah, my boy would head for the stage." Mercedes agreed.
"Look I know you're his friends and if he was angry or stressed I'd agree with you, but he's upset, confused and emotional and I'd really think he'd head out to the gardens." Hunter insisted.
"No offence but I think we know Kurt a bit better than someone who's known him three weeks." Mercedes dismissed Hunter.
Hunter turned to Blaine, "Will you escort the ladies to the auditorium while I go check the gardens?" Blaine nodded and directed a disgruntled Mercedes and Rachel in the directions of the auditorium.
Hunter turned and headed for the main doors and just as he was about to exit someone called him, "Hunter wait I'm coming with you."
"Sebastian I don't think that's a good idea."
"Look I caused this, if I hadn't called them everything would be fine."
"No, all you tried to do was cheer him up. You were the only one that noticed he was missing home and you tried to do the right thing. You couldn't have known that was going to happen. There were three other girls in that room who could have changed were that conversation was going, hell, anyone could tell he wasn't comfortable talking about that stuff. But in some way I think that Santana girl was trying to help Kurt be happy, even if it blew up in her face."
"That girl would go far if she could learn how to use a little tact. She reads people well, she pegged you and Kurt for relatives and she knew we'd be listening. The girl is perceptive, she knew what she was doing and she pushed it. Kurt would never of admitted whether he like me or not. Did you know he only thinks I tolerate him because of you and Blaine? Cause I thought we were actually starting to get on, I thought I was dropping enough hints to show I liked him. He never said the names and the girly references bothered him."
"No-one here did. I don't think he lets one person know everything, not even Uncle Burt. I think there is way more to the stuff that happened at his old school than any one knows but for some reason Kurt thinks by not giving the full story he's protecting the people he loves from worrying about him, like he doesn't deserve it."
"Really? But that's nonsense."
"Who knows the full story of you and Luke? Were did you get those bruised ribs from last year 'cause they didn't come from a fall?," Sebastian just stared at Hunter, "You and Kurt aren't that different when you look at it, neither of you open fully up to any one person and if something upsets you no-one could ever tell because you'd never let anyone see."
"Okay you made your point. Let me go to Kurt and try to fix this please?"
Hunter looked at Sebastian running scenarios through his head, if he went Kurt would most probably be dismissive of what had happened and left it at that, if the girls and Blaine went Kurt may talk a little but only enough to satisfy them that he was fine, so maybe Sebastian was right and he should try to fix it.
"He'll be in the rose garden, they were his Moms favorite." Sebastian went to leave, "Sebastian," Sebastian turned, "He's a lot more vulnerable than he lets on and if you hurt him..."
"I know... I know..." Sebastian nodded and left.
Kurt sat on the bench looking at the flowers. He tried to think of ways out of this mess, by morning the everyone at school would know he thought Sebastian was hot and his friends back home would know he was slightly crushing on someone else who would never want him yet again.
"Thinking of ways of disposing of Satan's body because I know a few people who could help with that." Sebastian took a seat next to Kurt.
"Great just what I need a friggin' comedian." Kurt mumbled to himself trying to ignore Sebastian's presence.
"Well you do set it up so nicely with your amateur dramatics."
"I thought even you might actually wait till tomorrow to carry on with my humiliation."
"Oh Kurt, if I wanted to humiliate you I'd go get the photo album Hunter thinks no-one knows he's got hidden in your room and re-wallpaper the dinning room with beautiful collection of cute pics of you at varies ages." Sebastian leans in and adds, "Personally my favorite is the one of you playing in the mud in your underwear."
"That would be better than this. I bet every boy at this school has a picture like that somewhere even you."
"There's nothing wrong with thinking I'm hot you know and I can't say I'm surprised, pretty much any gay guy who meets me thinks it, why should you be any different and the fact is I am hot."
"Good job we're outside, your head might be too big to fit in the hallways and would you tell me when the support group meets now I know I'm one of many."
"Look your friend," Kurt rolled his eyes, "Kurt she is your friend believe it or not she wants you happy. I don't think she wanted or intended to hurt you, I think she wants you to start living a normal life." Kurt expression started to turn to anger, "Calm down a second and think about it for a minute. From what I gather you couldn't ever express if you liked someone at that public toilet of a school you went to for fear of what would happen to you. But here you can and in fact the male version of your girls actually does exist if you want coo about hot guys, I've been told by a reliable source that I've been usurped in the 'who's got the hottest ass poll' by your-self, Thad and Simon as your biggest fans. You're not used to being open about certain things and I understand that, I keep a lot of stuff in for similar reasons, but here if you want to tell the school you wanted to marry Mr Jenkins it would be cool, well apart for the fact that we may have to have you sectioned for it."
Kurt looked confused, "I don't get you, one minute you're all human and shit then you just revert back to sarcasm. You really want to know my problem with all this?" Sebastian gestured for him to continue, "I don't have a massive issue with people knowing I think you're hot, my issue is I don't get why I think you're hot. You don't like me and I not your biggest fan either so how the hell do I think you're hot when every-time you open your mouth I want to stuff a sock in it to shut you up."
Sebastian start you get a little annoyed, "Look , I'm trying here okay. I'm not the most open person either, I have built-in defense mechanisms just like you and sometimes they just surface, so give me a break and try not to over analyze everything I say. I have never once said to you I don't like you and for your information if I didn't, Blaine and Hunter could never get me to pretend I did, so lose that ridiculous idea of yours for a start. So yeah at first I was suspicious of you. You transferred in, no-one knew anything about who you were or why you suddenly came here except Hunter and he didn't tell anyone anything. I may have judged you a little bit to quickly when I found out you were coming from a public school."
"A little is a bit of an understatement."
"Okay a lot, happy now." Kurt nodded, "When we went to the restaurant we seemed to have banter going at first, which I thought was fun. You see it's rare anyone one can out bitch or is as witty as me but you matched me word for word, how could I know the name thingy was an issue for you."
"I'm a little sensitive about being liken to a girl, the football and hockey guys did it all the time at McKinley. I even had to use the girls changing room and bathrooms 'cause they kept telling me if I wanted to act like a girl and fuck boys I should act accordingly."
"Shit, Kurt I..."
"Don't you feel sorry for me I'm not telling you this for you to start pitying me and anyway the girls bathrooms were cleaner and less smelly."
Sebastian raised an eyebrow, "And you expect me to control myself when you say stuff like that."
"Never said I'd make it easy for you did I?"
Sebastian started to laugh, "No you didn't. So maybe we should wipe the slate clean and try again without all the other crap?"
"We could try."
"Good, I'm still going to call you Princess, it suits you."
"I can live with that Timon."
"We should go put Hunter out of his misery, your girls keep telling him how they know you better than anyone else and I think he may actually burst if we don't get back and save him." Sebastian stood and held out his hand to Kurt to help him up, "But you need to protect me from Ferrari or what ever car she's named after, that one was going to kill someone and I think I'm second on her list after Satan."
Kurt laughed as they started to walk back towards the main building, "Did you really call Santana?"
Sebastian turned and looked at Kurt, he had two choices one; tell the truth and open himself up a bit or two; try to lie his way out of it. Sure Kurt thought he was hot but Sebastian wanted more than that, "Yes I did, I saw the way your mind would wonder when certain things happened at rehearsal or how you would watch people inter acting and sigh. Kurt it's only natural for you to miss your old Glee club and things people do will remind you of them. Most of the guys here wouldn't know how that feels like as we grew up with parents you hardly see and most of our life in boarding schools, you get used to people coming and going and that's not you and at times I could see it, so I made a call, it's not a big deal really."
Sebastian turned and started to walk again, "Wow, you like me." Kurt sing-songed.
"You think I'm hot don't forget." Sebastian and Kurt started to laugh.
This chapter and the last one had to go this way so I could get the boys on a level playing field. Now I've got the angsty stuff out of the way it's time to start getting them together. Happy times are coming get ready for confused friends, flirting and Burt and Grandma in the next couple of chapters.
Sara xxx