This chapter was literally based on the song 'Changes' by David Bowie suddenly popping into my head, I thought it fit nicely. :D Well actually it was based on Glee, but Changes is the general theme of this one.
You'll see what I am talking about in a second, but I thought my radio was possessed once. We turned it off and it was still playing!
Anyways, please review; I would really like feedback and such. :O
His car radio was possessed. There was no other explanation for it. David Karofsky was convinced that his radio could read his mind. It was as though it knew every single thing he was thinking about right now, and found the perfect song to mess with him. No, he wasn't crazy at all. Unlike Brittany's suspicion that her cat was reading her diary, Karofksy was sure that his radio was seriously reading his mind.
"I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind. There was something so pleasant about that place. Even your emotions have an echo in so much space."
"I'm not crazy!" He yelled at his radio, before he realized that a shouting match with his radio wasn't the best display of 'not being crazy.'
"Well, I think you're crazy, I think you're crazy, I think you're crazy, just like me."
Sighing and not eager to continue shouting at the radio, Karofsky quickly changed the station for the umpteenth time on this not so lovely drive to school. Unable to listen to full songs, only parts before he changed it, he had already heard snippets of: 'Everything' by Lifehouse, 'All by myself' by Celine Dion, 'You're the one that I want' from Grease ( He wasn't even sure why that was on the radio), 'My Best Friend' by Hot Hot Heat (Which caused a thought in his mind that made him want to go drive into a wall as this one made him think of Azimio), and ' Boulevard of Broken Dreams' by Green Day. Almost to school, he hoped this would be the last time he would have to change it.
"Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strain).Ch-ch-Changes, don't want to be a richer man. Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strain). Ch-ch-Changes. Just gonna have to be a different man, Time may change me, but I can't trace time. I watch the-"Karofsky quickly turned off his car as he had made it to the school, just in time too because he was either insane now or on the brink of going insane. Simply turning off his radio before getting to school hadn't even been a thought in his mind. He was too far obsessed with his theory to prove to himself that his radio was possessed. Getting out of his car, Karofsky could only think one thing: 'Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.' The damn song would be stuck in his head all day.
It had been two days since the kiss. Well, one full day, this would be the start of the second. He still tried to not think of it as often as possible, but that seemed to have the reverse effect. The scene kind of just kept replaying over and over in his mind. Of course he hadn't gone to school the day before, he wouldn't have been able to handle it. He could barely handle it today, but he was sure he could make it. His mom had understood something was wrong with him after the state he had come home in, and allowed his absence for a day. This morning she had even offered to let him stay home again, but on one condition: he told her the actual problem. He had grabbed his stuff and left.
"'Sup Karofsky, Mah boy!" Karofsky found himself high fiving his best friend in front of school, surrounded by a couple other jocks and he was absolutely confused as hell. Yesterday Azimio wasn't talking to him and now he was all of sudden his boy? He had planned to come to school and make up with Azimio, but Damn, that was easy. He found himself wondering what he did right.
"Sup, Azimio." He replied a little happily, and was about to say something else when he was suddenly cut off by the sound of another football player's voice.
"Hey look who it is, Sam! Saaam, come here. We have a gift for you!" By gift, he was sure he meant 'we are going to throw you in the dumpster.' Usually, you would suspect a
slushie but none of them seemed to have one yet today. Poor Sam. He had to go and join those Glee Losers. He usually swung by without incident seeing as he was also a member of the football team, but the Glee Club and Football Team just wasn't something that should be meshed together. In their eyes it just wasn't right; it was why they had to remind him of the choice he had chosen on occasion. Sam lifted his head up to look over at them and actually started to walk towards the group of boys who were all too eager to do something to him. Except Karofsky whom almost actually looked petrified.
Vowing to change oneself was easier than actually putting it into action. He was almost in a full panic by the time Sam was actually there but he wasn't about to shout out for them to stop it or anything. Where would that put him on the social ladder? The Defender of the Gleeks?
"Hey guys, you have a gift for me?" Sam asked rather innocently. Sometimes he didn't think Sam had a brain. All the jocks had started a sort of semi-circle around him with a sort of ravenous look in their eyes and all Sam simply did was stare back at them, his hands a little awkwardly stuffed in his jean pockets. Brave or dumb. Karofsky wasn't particularly sure, either way he was probably more relieved than Sam at the sound of the bell ringing.
As if realizing what was going on suddenly, Sam smiled dumbly and backed up slowly. "Woops, sorry guys, gotta go. Perhaps you could give me that 'gift' later." He then made a run for it. Lucky for him he was so in shape that no one bothered to follow him right away. Karofsky still didn't understand that guy. It was as though he knew what they were going to do all along and had planned for it, even the bell ringing that very second.
"Aw damn, I wanted me a loser to throw." Karofksy managed to refrain from looking at Azimio in a kind of revulsion as all the others seemed to console him. These were the people he hung out with everyday, yet today it was if he suddenly realized how horrible they all were. It was as if his conscience was slapping him in the face repeatedly, finally getting him to wake up and truly see things for what they were.
"Well, I have to get to class too dude, see ya later man." He said, and did a sort of handshake with his best bud before saying goodbye to the others and walking off a little unnerved at the new thoughts that were flowing through his mind.
His thoughts weren't the only thing changing. Everything seemed bizarre today. The first thing he heard after sitting down in first period was an announcement that started off with a little chime.
"Students… it has come to my recent attention and Ohio's that Figgin's is an unfit principal. So they fired him, effective immediately and put me, Sue Sylvester,in his place, Congratulations, that deadbeat is gone and now things could really get done around here." The rest of the announcement was literally just evil laughter from Sue, and a bit by Becky in the background, before it just cut off. It was short, and the last lines were kind of 'interpret as you will,' but it had caused a kind of widespread panic. He saw a couple people around him freaking out and his teacher basically having a meltdown about it, but he felt oddly calm. What was Sue Sylvester going to do that Principal Figgins hadn't? Even he would admit to being scared of her, but she had virtually already been in control of the school anyway.
Most of the rest of the day pretty much went by without fault. It was like the world had decided it would be good to do things his way today. Nobody had questioned his absence the day before and he figured that no one mistreating him in any way or calling him gay was a good indication Hummel hadn't told anyone about... the kiss, or what it probably meant. He was however still extremely paranoid about the whole thing. The guy's best friend spread gossip faster than the media after all and he was bound to tell her all about it. How could he not?
At least that was what he thought. Coming down the stairs Karofsky certainly didn't expect to see Hummel and he especially didn't expect to see the guy that was standing next to him. Just seeing this guy had triggered something, making him angry. He seemed prim, proper, refined. Everything Karofsky wasn't. Glancing at the uniform, Karofsky couldn't help but think Kurt went man hunting at other schools. A thought that had led him to blurting out the question of whether or not this was Kurt's boyfriend.
Instead of answering the question, Kurt turned everything back at him by reminding him what he had done. Kissed him. To which Karofsky made sure to look around to make sure nobody heard before pretending like he didn't know what he was talking about. Childish but totally the way to go. If he walked away now maybe he wouldn't have to deal with this.
Then Pretty Boy talked as though he was the savior of his life and Karofsky couldn't help but push him backwards in a small fit of rage. He understood Kurt coming back at him with all this but who the hell gave this guy permission to join in? Angry, Karofsky stalked off, still hoping desperately Hummel wouldn't tell anyone else.
Which lead to the death threat. All he could keep thinking was that Kurt was going tell everybody and the words had sort of just come out of his mouth. It made him sad to know Kurt really thought he needed to watch out for his life, as he learned the hard way a couple weeks later.
Again, he found his life streaming all into one big blur where he found he was hating himself more and more. Things became bad, so much so that he felt he was no longer controlling his own words or actions. He was watching his life from the sidelines, booing frantically. Even he needed to be rescued from himself.
Over the course of the following weeks he had successfully made himself prime enemy number one of every single one of those Glee losers. They had even attempted to attack him. There was only one person that had succeeded in actually scaring him however, and that was Burt Hummel.
It had only been a coincidence that he'd been walking by their room that day, but the monster inside him had seen Finn and Kurt dancing and couldn't pass up the opportunity to make fun of them. How was he to know that the guy in there was Kurt's dad?
Along with all of that, Karofsky had managed to establish himself as even more of a creep in Kurt's eyes then he already was. Even he didn't know why he took the cake topper. The only thing he was sure of now was how he ended up being in this meeting with Principal Sylvester, Kurt, Kurt's dad, and his own dad, Paul Karofsky.
"Your kid threatened the life of my son."
"Porcelain, is that true?"
"It's not true, I didn't say anything…"
"That's what he said…he said he'd kill me if I told anyone."
"Told anyone what?" This was it. Kurt was going to tell everyone in this room, everyone including his father. Scared, he could only look at Kurt, waiting to hear the words come out of his mouth again. That he kissed him.
"Just that… he was picking on me." Karofsky couldn't stop the huge sigh of relief escaping from his mouth, but it had shocked him. How was it that Kurt Hummel could still be the better person than him? Karofsky still felt the need to defend himself however, and instantly retaliated.
"He's making all this stuff up."
"That right?"
"Hold up a sec., you have been acting differently lately David. You used to get A's and B's. You're talking back, you're acting out and now we're sitting here. Let me ask you, why would Kurt make that up?" Now, Paul Karofsky was normally an 'all for his son' kind of guy. He was proud of his football and his hockey, but he had most of all been proud of his grades. His grades that still hadn't risen back to their former glory, which Dave was sure his dad was disappointed in. These were probably those consequences he had said would come, in the form of whatever they would be. His dad was taking their side.
"Maybe he likes me." What the hell had just come out of his mouth? Obviously his father was thinking the same thing as he gave him a really strange look. Karofsky honestly wanted to go bang his head against a wall. How could he have said that? So calmly too. The only thing Kurt had revealed was that he, David Karofsky, was picking on him, Kurt Hummel. Where in that whole thing would he have pulled out 'he liked him.' He obviously had just made things worse for himself if that look was an indication of anything.
"I think we're wasting our time here. It's your job to protect the people." Saved from anything awkward at the moment by Burt Hummel, Karofsky turned to look over at Sue, whom he was talking to.
"Couldn't agree more. After hearing both sides of the story you are hereby expelled. I will not have one student threatening the life of another. If you don't think this is fair, well you could appeal to the school board. You'll leave campus immediately." There it was, Principal Sylvester's final verdict. Karofksy had underestimated her. Someone had finally done something about his bullying; he was no longer a student of Mckinley High School. No longer would he be able to attend the same school as his best friend Azimio, or any of his friends for that matter. No longer would he be a jock here, and definitely not a bully. He was nothing here anymore. Things had changed alright; his life. It had become even more miserable.
"So, your expulsion was overturned?"
"Yeah, my mom freaked out when she heard and dragged my dad with her to argue to the school board." Karofsky said casually. He would be starting back at Mckinley again in a matter of days. Still, his mom had gotten angrier at him than his school when she had heard about the reason for his expulsion, and he was now grounded for the whole time he was expelled. She had only let Azimio through the door because he had been friends with her son for so long that this was almost his house too. She hadn't even stopped to think that Azimio was bullying other children along with her son.
In a fit of rage his mom had practically ripped all his game consoles out of the wall along with his television set and took them down into the basement until she was no longer mad about this. Which she promised to be for a very, very, very long time. Hopefully it was an exaggeration, but for now it left Karofsky and Azimio with nothing better to do than to talk, which might have been a good thing.
"Dude, I knew you were bullying that Hummel kid too much."
"Every think we are bullying everyone a little too much?" Karofsky said a little sullenly, and before Azimio could even speak again he continued his mini rampage. "Honestly, this is how I've got into this situation in the first place… and the more I think about it, it isn't even fun. I guess it was at first… but now… it's just…"
"Just what man? Y'think I am overjoyed over it? I dunt like to be a horrible person, but who would be if we weren't bullies, we would be right down there too, with the ones we bully. For us it's be on the top or be on the bottom, there's no way we could be those silent spectators now." It was a sort of inspirational speech, well, coming from Azimio. He had forgotten after all these years that his friends possibly thought as deeply as him sometimes. That was what bothered him the most; they were losing themselves in all of this.
An awkward silence passed before Azimio spoke again.
"So Hudson's mom went and married Hummel's dad." Another awkward silenced passed as Karofsky processed this new information. It suddenly made sense; why they had been dancing. They had probably been practicing for the wedding. The cake topper too. It's rightful place was on top of a wedding cake, yet here it was somewhere in this room.
"Can we not talk about Hummel?" Karofsky said a little moodily. He figured that his friend would just put his grumpiness about the subject down to him getting expelled because of him. Karofsky had been trying not to think of Hummel all week, and luckily his dad hadn't come at him with any unnecessary questions, so he was safe for now.
"Sure dude, you won't even have to see Hummel again actually, I promise." Azimio said knowingly. Surprisingly, Karofsky hadn't really seen his best friend in person since the last day he had been at the school. They had texted, but Karofsky had been rather non responsive. Still Azimio had found out what had happened and had finally found his way into his house today. It wasn't like Karofsky was just going to throw him out either.
The subject they had never gotten around to was why Azimio had suddenly started to treat Karofsky right again. It was simple really; he had been upset for that one day, but Karofsky was his best friend, he couldn't stay mad at him for long. He was able to tell he was having issues… so he let him off the hook on those reasons. Well, and one more reason. Azimio had decided to observe him closer… he wanted to know exactly what was up, and he was now gauging his reactions to things. Especially to Hummel's name.
"Why is that?" Karofsky asked suspiciously.
"Because he's transferring schools and will be gone by the time you're back."
