"You want me back in the New Directions?" Blaine said. Finn's brow scrunched with surprise. Blaine didn't sound angry. He actually sounded incredulous, like that was the last thing he thought would happen.

"Yeah, of course we do," Jake said. "You're great-"

"And now it makes more sense," Blaine commenting, interrupting him. "I'm being used for my voice."

"No," Finn said. "You belong there."

Blaine froze as Finn said he should go back. A confusing mix of emotions ran through him. He closed his eyes, trying to control them.

Anger. He knew they weren't his friends. The New Directions only wanted to keep him for his voice.

Disappointment. He wanted to be their friend. Blaine liked them, but he knew - and accepted - that that could never happen.

Fear. He knew that Hunter and Sebastian planned to get him to take the steroids. Blaine was honestly afraid of if he would agree or not. The New Directions were a way to escape that.

Failure. He couldn't seem to stick beside any decision he made.

Loneliness. He missed them. Blaine missed his friends, and he missed Kurt.

No. He didn't. Kurt was out of his life.

However, he couldn't help but notice that his life had fallen to hell once Kurt was gone.

And once he had transferred to Dalton.

He opened his eyes, a tear rapidly falling down his cheek. Blaine would have wiped it off, but he didn't want to look even more pathetic.

"I - I," he stuttered. "I have to leave." He walked quickly around the New Directions, his head down, not meeting their eyes.

Blaine ignored how Finn grabbed his arm and just shook his grip off.

At the door, he paused. Half turning towards the group behind him, he spoke.

"You guys need to leave. We need our choir room for practice."

"Fine, Blaine," Finn said, anger making his voice louder. "Run away. Again. That's what you do, isn't it? That's why you're at Dalton again."

Blaine whipped around, trembling with anger. He lunged at Finn, shoving him backwards towards the wall.

"How dare you!" he shouted. "You have no idea what happened."

"A breakup?" Finn shouted, stepping closer to Blaine and making the smaller boy look up even further. "Rachel and I broke up. And yet, here I am, still talking to my old friends."

"Whoever said we were friends?" Blaine sneered.

"Look!" Ryder said, moving in between Finn and Blaine. Blaine clenched his hands into fists, feeling his fingernails dig into his palms.

"Blaine, I get it. You think that we only thought of you as Kurt's boyfriend. I can't speak for the others, but I've never met Kurt."

Blaine froze. Slowly, his hands unclenched. Ryder was right. Kurt had graduated before he had joined Glee. Looking at the others, he saw others nodding to Ryder's statement.

Kitty. Marley. Jake. Unique.

None of them had ever met Kurt.

Blaine felt as if his mind had short-circuited. He had believed that they never liked him. They had only tolerated him because of Kurt.

That wasn't true. Not for all of them, at least.

But what did that mean?

He knew he couldn't leave the Warblers. Well, he could leave Hunter and Sebastian. They weren't the reason he was staying.

It was Trent and David.

He had worked so hard with them, so that they wouldn't have to take the steroids.

There was no way he could leave them.

"I didn't realize that, and it's nice to know that you guys were – maybe even still are – my friends. But the Warblers are where I belong, and we've worked too hard for Sectionals for me to leave now. Besides, there's less than a week until the competition. Now isn't the time to change anything."

Blaine looked at each of the New Directions as he said this. Sam sent him a small smile as their eyes met. Blaine grinned back; he knew what it meant.

'I'm here for you.'

And that was exactly what he needed to hear.

"You guys should leave now. Before they send for security."

"We'll meet up sometime, though, right?" Unique asked. Blaine smiled.

"Yeah."

The New Directions smiled, every member happy with Blaine's response.

One by one, they left the room. Blaine watched them leave, a small smile on his face.

It seemed that there were more people that cared about him than he had thought.

Blaine thought it was a nice feeling.

Sam walked up to Blaine and clasped him on the shoulder.

"That went well," he said.

"And you didn't think it would?" Blaine asked, raising an eyebrow. His smile grew. Sam had looked a mix of annoyed and nervous in the beginning. It wasn't hard to tell that he'd thought the meeting would have been much worse.

"Considering the first plan was to ambush you in your dorm room and kidnap you for the weekend? No. I didn't."

Blaine chuckled. "That has to be the worst plan I've ever heard."

"Well… We are a bunch of pathetic ninjas…" Both boys laughed loudly.

"You really do have to go. Hunter's going to have my head for wasting practice time."

"Honestly, Blaine?" Sam said. "I think he'll just be glad that you didn't end up leaving for good."

Blaine thought about it for a moment.

"You know, I did consider it. But I think Dalton's the place for me."

"And we're okay with that. You're too good of a friend to lose, Blaine."

"Thanks, Sam. It's nice to hear that," Blaine said. Sam and Blaine stared into each other's eyes for a moment.

Then Sam blushed slightly and looked away.

"Sam?" Blaine questioned, his eyebrows scrunching up with confusion.

"Damn you, Blaine. Every time I look at you, I think of that conversation in the Lima Bean." Sam blushed even brighter. Blaine smirked slightly.

"You mean when I told you that you have a nice ass?" Sam blushed even brighter, not quite able to meet Blaine's eyes.

"Yeah," he said quietly. "That one."

"It's true, you know. Just a compliment," Blaine said. He paused. "I could give you quite a few more."

Sam met Blaine's eyes again. Blaine was surprised how embarrassed Sam was.

"I better leave. The New Directions already think something's going on between us."

Blaine raised an eyebrow.

"Do tell?"

"I was forced to repeat that conversation to them." Blaine snorted.

"I bet they loved that. A lot of drama. You did tell them why I did it, right, Sam?" Sam didn't answer. Blaine was referring to the fact that he was trying to scare Sam away.

"On that note," Sam said, not answering. "I think it's time I leave."

"Sam?" Blaine said, wondering why Sam hadn't told them.

Sam just turned and left but not before Blaine saw his face.

He was blushing again. Why?

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