Only You
Chapter 5
"It's him!"
"He's so cute!"
"Blaine, will you marry me?"
Blaine tried to hold back a sigh and grimaced as the teenage girls surrounded him at the entrance to McKinley, the same way they did every single day. Didn't they get the clue that he wanted to be treated like a normal person? That was the whole reason he decided to even come to a real high school. He had missed out on normal teenage experiences the last few years since becoming a celebrity singer, and now these obnoxious girls were slowly ruining the experience for him. He was Blaine Anderson, native Ohioan and senior in high school first and international pop sensation second. Of course none of them seemed to get that message.
Blaine smiled at the girls and signed a few autographs before he managed to escape down the hall. When he finally was free of the crowds, he turned around the corner of a deserted hallway, where he narrowly missed running straight into someone.
"Watch where you're going!"
The voice was instantly recognizable of course and Blaine gaped at Kurt. The other teen's impeccably groom appearance was marred by the red icy mixture that was falling down from around him leaving a puddle at his feet. Kurt looked completely pissed off and Blaine was hopeful that he wasn't completely at fault for it.
"What happened?" Blaine asked hesitantly.
"What do you think happened?" Kurt snapped in irritation. "I got a slushy facial."
"Who would do something like that?" Blaine asked, shocked.
"You obviously haven't been paying attention because the glee kids get this treatment all the time," Kurt remarked.
"But who did that to you?" Blaine replied.
"One of the Neanderthal football players who thinks it is funny to throw an icy drink all over the gay kid's head," Kurt explained.
"That's crazy," Blaine said horrified.
"What's crazy is that this WAS my brand new Marc Jacobs jacket," Kurt said sadly, before turning to open his locker. "At least I always bring extra clothes."
Kurt grabbed his bag and walked in the men's bathroom. When can out several minutes later with wet hair and a dry, new ensemble, he looked at Blaine in confusion. "You're still here?"
"There must be something I can do to help," Blaine said.
"You want to help me?" Kurt asked disbelievingly. "Why?"
"I've already told you Kurt, I think you're interesting," Blaine replied with a smile.
"Will I ever get a straight answer?" Kurt wondered aloud.
"Ok fine," Blaine said, annoyed. "I asked if I could help because I'm ticked at what they did to you and I would like nothing more than to teach them a lesson. You don't deserve that kind of abuse, nobody does! And it pisses me off that they treat you like crap just because of your sexual orientation, as if being gay is some sort of punishable offense!"
Kurt's eyes widened when Blaine stopped ranting, "Well I did asked for honesty."
"Let me make something very clear," Blaine replied urgently, looking Kurt in the eyes. "The reason why I follow you around, ask you questions, and talk to you is because you are different from everyone else at this school. I'm treated like royalty because I'm some big star by everyone, teachers, the other students, and even the glee kids. And yet you could see right through me that first day and judged me on my own merit."
"Believe me, it was nothing flattering," Kurt admitted.
"Exactly, you can see right through all the crap, and really it just made me want to know you," Blaine replied, watching Kurt's face closely for his reaction.
"Well," Kurt said, his expression softening. "I think I have an apology to make, I think I misjudged you, I'm sorry."
"I forgive you," Blaine said holding out his hand. "Friends?"
Kurt smiled, and shook Blaine's hand. "Friends."
Over the next few weeks there was a discernible difference in how Blaine acted around Kurt. He dropped most of the attitude, at least around Kurt, and Blaine seriously seemed to be trying hard not to aggravate him at all. And it was actually working. Kurt found that Blaine actually had a great personality when he wasn't acting ridiculous, he also had a great sense of humor, and he actually shared many of the same interests that Kurt did.
Kurt was now fully regretting his initial harsh treatment of Blaine because in reality, the singer was actually not that bad. Against all expectations, they were becoming better friends every single day. When they talked together at school or over the phone, all of the walls between then slowly started to fall down. Blaine confided in Kurt about his insecurities of being famous and how he was terrified to come out of the closet, and Kurt told Blaine about his worries of not making it into a performing arts college in New York, and about his worries for his Dad since his heart attack a few years ago. It wasn't long at all before they were best friends and Kurt couldn't even remember that he once despised Blaine Anderson.
And of course there were some other changes that had been happening at McKinley. Kurt had noticed that since he became friends with Blaine, people were suddenly treating him differently. Some of the popular girls who used to ignore Kurt's presence were suddenly complimenting his clothing, and asking him questions about Blaine. Even more surprising was that the jocks were even giving him a wide berth now, and it had been days since he had been slushied. All in all things have been nice in high school lately and Kurt knew that a huge part of that was because of Blaine.
Since Blaine Anderson joined glee club, suddenly everyone wanted to join the New Directions. Mr. Schuester had actually needed to turn people away, which was something he'd never had to do before of course. It was strange that the formerly unpopular club was not a hot commodity, though most of the members were treated no better or worse than before. Blaine had fit in with the club remarkably well, and he had also finally heard Kurt sing. Blaine's glowing praise that day had nearly made Kurt blush as red as a tomato.
Everything had been going so well lately that Kurt was happier now than he had been in a long time. Strangely enough high school was actually not the kind of awful experience that it had been the previous three years. One morning when Kurt was getting ready for school and humming the song he was planning on singing in glee later, when he suddenly heard a commotion downstairs. He gave his hair once last squirt of hairspray before he turned and went down the stairs.
"What is going on?" Kurt asked, when he saw his Dad and Carole standing right in front of the door. "I heard something loud."
"That would be the dozen reporters that are sitting on our doorstep right now!" Burt complained angrily.
"What?" Kurt gasped. "What do they want with us?"
"Uh Kurt," Finn said walking from the other room holding his open laptop in his hands. "I think they are looking for you."
"What?" Kurt asked, even more confused.
To answer Finn passed over the computer and when Kurt looked at the image he gasped. On the front page of some new site was a picture of him and Blaine walking down the hall together at McKinley. It was a completely innocent shot of course, but obviously someone saw something quite differently.
The caption read: Blaine Anderson's New Boyfriend!
"I'm going to kill him!"
AN: Well as promised, the update came today which is my 10th Anniversary writing fanfiction on . When I started writing fanfic I was a senior in high school (yes I'm old) and my writing was so awful that I shudder even looking at my earliest works (For a prime example look up Harry and Frodo's Big Switch, but I warn you it isn't for the faint of heart) and there were many times I almost gave up writing when someone flamed me. Over the years I've written over 100 fics ranging in fandoms from my earliest Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter stories, to other fandoms like Star Wars, Merlin, and most recently Percy Jackson and Glee. Writing for such a great community has taught me tremendously about writing, and I've truly enjoyed every step of the way. I may be an adult with an adult job and life, but I will never take for granted the joy that fanfiction has given to me over the years. So thanks to all of you who have made it such a fun ride over the last decade and I hope there will be many more to come!
I'll step off my soap box now to say that I hope you enjoyed the chapter, the next one should be crazy and let's just say that Kurt's not a happy camper. Thanks to all the amazing people who have favorite/followed/reviewed this story, you guys are great! I'm also always grateful for any feedback, it seriously motivates me when I write. Now I will end this crazy long author's note to say thanks for reading!