Chapter 2: Artie Abrams
When Tina dumped Artie for Mike, he was devastated to say the least.
Tina was his first girlfriend, ever and he wasn't so sure he was gonna get another one anytime soon. So yeah. Pretty devastated. So when Tina and her new boyfriend, Mike Chang turn up on his door one Tuesday morning in the middle of June, he's a little confused, and a little hurt.
The thing is, they're still sort of friends. They have five classes together and even if they didn't they still see each other at glee club every day, so there's really no escaping her, them. It's fine though, he's made his peace with it (for the most part).
"Wh-What are you guys doing here?"
"Well, remember a few weeks ago when we had that glee assignment about our goals?"
"Um yeah.."
"After glee club ended me and Kurt kind of hung back read everybody's dreams out of the garbage."
"Why would you do that, Tina? That is such an invasion of privacy!" Artie huffed, turning his wheel chair around and crossing his arms.
"Why didn't you tell me you wanted to dance?" Tina asks, stepping inside his house to face him.
"Because I didn't want you to make fun of me." Artie says, preferring to look at her knees than her face.
"Well, I'm not here to make fun of you, Artie. In fact I came here to make your dream come true, sort of, anyways."
Artie's head shoots up at that and it's the first time they make eye contact in ten minutes.
"What do you mean?"
"You want to dance, so I brought you the best dancer I know." She winks at Mike who's standing awkwardly in the doorway.
Mike takes this as his cue to walk in and says, "Have you ever heard of tutting?"
It's the first week of September now, and Artie can now say with confidence that it's been the best summer of his entire life. He's gotten pretty good at tutting, thanks to Mike. They spent nearly every day together during the summer in his basement. Sometimes Tina would tag along and she'd sit on the floor and take videos of them to put on YouTube and Tumblr, one of which has over 5,000 views. Other times Mike would bring Brittany and they'd have dance offs and the loser would buy everyone lunch.
Artie has since gotten over Tina because he can see how genuinely happy Mike makes her and he can't hate him for it because Mike is practically the nicest guy on the planet. Also because he may or may not have a small, teensy weensy (microscopic, really) crush on Brittany.
Most of all, he really just can't wait to get back to school and glee club so he can show everybody what he's learned, show everybody what he can do now.