Music Inspiration: Afternoon Delight, sung by the Celibacy Club in Sexy ep of Glee S2 Ep 15.
Rating: M. Adult themes. Trigger warnings, again.
Ownership: I don't own Glee. What you don't recognize from Glee is from my imagination. Shout out and Kurt Cookies if you figure out ...
~ Converting Kurt E Hummel ~ Ch 6 Studying with Chandler ~
Chandler had waited so long, for Blaine to get out of his way, of Kurt.
Blaine had shot through, not just from Ohio, but from the continent. He was elsewhere on the globe, and Chandler was just so happy.
"Did you enjoy yourself at Rachel's party?"
"I did, thanks. Even though Blaine had no concerns with getting 'sloppy'. I didn't care to drink." Kurt opens his study books. "What about you, Chandler? Did you have a good time?"
"Yeah, it was really good. Loud music and all. How much fun was that spinning bottle game?" and Chandler enjoys the level of jealousy rising in Kurt's calmer soul. "Outstanding, isn't that what you'd said." Could Kurt's eyes get any wider? What a glare, Ooh...
"No, Chandler. It isn't part of the memories I want to keep." Kurt tries hard to quash the hurt, that burns him inside. "Let's just study, okay!" He pleads, and Chandler prides himself of Kurt's clear adoration of their time together.
Studying, working harder at getting out of the Lima Bean, burying himself in whatever he can, to get Blaine out of his system. He'd given the manager his resignation letter weeks ago, and she kept putting him on the roster. He needed to just walk away from their favourite coffee shop, but Sugar and Chandler, and lots of his other friends loved meeting there too. If Sebastian would just make an appearance, create a big scene, a big fight…. If only, if only.
For Kurt, Saturday afternoons were study afternoon delights. It was the highlight of his week, to meet up with Chandler and just reminisce a little, of his before life. Before falling for Sugar, falling for girls. Not that he'd told Chandler. Chandler probably just thought Kurt fancied him.
Chandler and him have been meeting at Kurt's family's new home. Kurt loves that the layout is a mirror image of Rachel's. Sometimes he imagines he's at her place. In the basement, what was Rachel's father's Oscar room, but Kurt's has sound and room controls installed in the upstairs lounge room. This is a fun feature, when you want to share your music between upstairs and downstairs.
It hadn't been hard to do, to get an identical kitchen set up like Blaine's mother's. That way, Kurt could have the best of his closest friends worlds. But now, with Rachel and Blaine gone, he felt more lonely. Now memories, dreams that would eventually lead to nightmares, were surfacing.
Before Sugar, is when he'd met Blaine. Before Sugar, is when he'd met Chandler. Before Sugar, is when he and Chandler had been texting, and Blaine had got real hurt. Before Sugar, before …. when he really, really loved guys. He'd been really proud and full of admiration for Blaine, being out of the closet. They were both happy to say they were gay, and Blaine nearly tip toed back into the closet.
Trying to concentrate on studying, trying to enjoy a little reminiscing was painful and also enjoyable. Reminiscing ...
The study table was big enough for four study partners. Big enough for table tennis, that's what he and Blaine had been doing with it, when the phone rang. They gently tapped the ball over the pretend net, and the phone rang once, twice and Kurt hit the ball real hard. Blaine ducked and Kurt grabbed the phone. "Hello again, who is this? What do you want? Why don't you say something? How did you get this number, to waste your money and time? Thanks for calling, again. And again." And he hangs up, again.
"Kurt?" Blaine asks concerned, his voice blending to Chandler's, he asks again "Kurt?"
"It's fine Blaine, Dad's changing the number." And he unplugs the cable. "So, I'm winning, you're losing. Play again?" Reminiscing over ...
The paper ball hits him on the cheek. "Whoa, what the?" Kurt thinks as he lifts his head off his study books, and tries to wipe his eyes and mouth, his mouth won't open, he can't speak like he wants to and he feels himself going slowly numb...
"Kurt, you've fallen asleep, again." Chandler scrunches up more paper balls, and throws them in a hurry at Kurt. "You know, I find you really cute when you talk in your sleep. And…."
Kurt freezes and watches as Chandler gets up off his seat, walks around the study table, kneels down next to him and gathers up the paper balls that had fallen all around him. Chandler stops, and looks up, into Kurt's eyes…. "Kurt, why did you pick me, to study with?"
No answer from Kurt, he's aware of what's happening but now he can't move. He doesn't like this, at all, he doesn't know why and his gut instinct is queasy and he's just sitting, looking, not thinking straight and not moving, just looking ...
"You know, there was a moment, when I said to myself ….." Chandler continues on, and on, and on. "...and how happy I was, that you gave me your number."
...Kurt wakes up in the basement, disco lights are flashing and the music is gentle at first, but every half minute it gets louder and louder….
He sluggishly sits up, and grabs for the mobile phone in his back pocket.
~ The power lines went out, and I am all alone ... ~