A/N: Soo. If I ever don't update this for too many days at a time, someone PM me and tell me I'm slacking. Because I check my emails, but I sometimes lose track of the date. Anyway! Hi people. Do you love this story? Are you obsessed? Are you afraid? Are you very very very afraid? You should be. Because I don't own Glee. And also 'Being Alive' is giving me Klaine feels.
Chapter Six:
"Nick and Jeff heard a clamoring from the room next to theirs. Blaine was dressed in capri pants, bowtie, and sweater vest, throwing everything he owned into boxes. He was transferring to McKinley to be with Kurt. Nick and Jeff were supportive. Blaine called an emergency council meeting and named Nick as his successor. Then, he was gone."
"Warbler practice in ten minutes," Blaine announced, sticking his head into Nick and Jeff's room.
"You need to learn how to knock," Nick complained. "We could be naked."
"You need to learn to lock your door," Blaine shrugged. It was the middle of the afternoon, school didn't start for days, but most of the Warblers had come back early. In fact, most of the Warblers had stayed at Dalton all summer, like Nick and Jeff.
"But it's more fun to hear you scream when you walk in and see us naked," Jeff shrugged. "We like naked."
"Naked Niff, that's us," Nick said.
"Warbler practice, nine minutes, forty-seven seconds," Blaine said. Then he left.
"It's not even the first day of school yet," Jeff complained. "I wish Blaine would disappear and you could have all the solos."
"Hey," Nick said. "That's awful, don't wish that."
"Don't you want all the solos?" Jeff purred in Nick's ear, seductively.
"We have Warbler practice in ten minutes," Nick said, loosening his tie a little because it was getting a little too hot.
"I like a challenge," Jeff grinned, jumping on Nick.
"You're late," Blaine said from the center of the council's table when Nick and Jeff walked in.
"You'll get over it," Nick replied, taking his seat to Blaine's left. David had retained his position on Blaine's right. Blaine, obviously, as Wes's heir apparent, had become Captain and head of the council.
"As I was saying before esteemed Councilor Duval and his freakishly tall boyfriend arrived, this is going to be the best season the Warblers have ever had," Blaine said.
He babbled on and on about the numbers he had ideas for and this that and the other thing. He had said practice, not meeting. Everyone was practically falling asleep as they waited for the singing to start. Finally, as he finished his last sentence:
"Hit it Beats!" Blaine shouted. Beats hit it.
Wake you up in the middle of the night to say
I will never walk away again
I'm never gonna leave this bed
You say no it isn't working
And I say no it isn't perfect
So I stay instead
I'm never gonna leave this bed
"I don't know, I just really like Maroon 5," Blaine admitted when they'd finished. "I'll see you all tomorrow, I'm off to the Lima Bean. Kurt, you know." He skipped happily out of the practice room.
It was much later that night when Nick and Jeff were alerted to Blaine's return to the school. There was such a loud clamor coming from the next room, they couldn't help but investigate.
"What's going on?" Nick asked, pushing open the door to an awful sight. Boxes everywhere, and Blaine was throwing his things into them.
"I'm transferring to McKinley," Blaine said without looking up.
"No, you can't do that," Jeff said.
"Actually, I can," Blaine said. "Do me a favor and call an emergency council meeting, would you?" Nick and Jeff hesitantly left the room and stood in the hall staring at each other.
"This is all your fault," Nick said to Jeff.
"What?"
"You wished Blaine would disappear, and your wishes always come true," Nick accused.
"That's not true, they don't– they don't always come true," Jeff said.
"You wished my parents would let me come here, and they did," Nick pointed out. "And what did you wish on your birthday?"
"I wished that no matter what happens, we'll always be best friends," Jeff said quietly. "Because I Niff you and I messed up."
"Oh, honey," Nick said, putting his arms around his taller boyfriend. "You know we will be."
"But I can't help but think… what if we're not?" Jeff asked. "What if for some stupid reason we break up and we ruin our friendship?"
"We won't break up," Nick said. "Don't even say that, J, you're hurting me."
"Just, what if?" Jeff half-yelled.
"Don't," Nick begged. "Please don't." He wrapped his arms tighter around Jeff and pulled him in as close as he could get.
"We're 16, Nicky, how do we know what we want?" Jeff asked.
"Because we've essentially been together since we were 7, and I know I will never love anyone else," Nick said. "Just you." Jeff placed his lips on the top of Nick's head, kissing it softly. Nick tilted his head up so that his lips caught Jeff's instead. "I love you, J. You don't have to worry about those other guys, because they don't matter. All that matters is us. Us and our Niff."
"Us and our Niff," Jeff echoed.
"Ugh, get a room," Thad called down the hall, from where he'd just stepped out of his room to see Nick and Jeff pressed up against each other in the hallway.
"Blaine needs an emergency council meeting," Nick said. "Spread the word, would you?"
"Sure thing, boss," Thad said, sticking his head back into his room to let Trent know. "Five minutes."
"Let's get going," Nick said, trying to pull apart from Jeff.
"No," Jeff said, holding onto Nick tight.
"J, we have to go to the meeting," Nick scolded. "Blaine is leaving. He has to name a successor."
"He'll name you," Jeff replied.
"Says who?" Nick asked.
"Says me," Jeff said. "I wished it."
"You really have to stop using your power for evil," Nick said.
"Nah, it's more fun this way," Jeff said.
"Blaine? Five minutes!" Nick hollered in the direction of Blaine's room before hauling Jeff to the stairway.
"Settle down, please," Blaine said, not sitting behind the council's table like a normal person, but on it. "I have some news."
"Clearly."
"Regrettably, I am transferring to McKinley High, effective tomorrow," Blaine said.
"What?" Trent asked, absolute disbelief in his voice.
"While our classes don't start for several days, theirs started several days ago, and I don't want to miss any more days of being with my boyfriend," Blaine said. Loud protests. "Warblers, Warblers, please."
"You can't leave," Thad said.
"If you transfer, we'll be competitors," David pointed out.
"Yes, and may the best show choir win," Blaine said.
"No, you can't leave," Thad said. "That's crazy talk."
"Nick, Jeff, please back me up here," Blaine recruited.
"I don't want you to go either," Nick said.
"If you two went to different schools, wouldn't you do anything in your power to change that, so you could see each other every day?" Blaine asked.
"Yes," Jeff said immediately. Nick nodded as well.
"We should be happy for Blaine," Trent said, finally. "He's found someone he wants to be with, and that's more than most of the rest of us can say."
"Thanks, Trent," Blaine said. "Does anyone else want to be happy for me?"
"Yeah," Nick admitted. "I know from experience how it is to beg to transfer schools." Other Warblers reluctantly muttered their assent.
"Thank you," Blaine said. "I guess all there's left to do is name my successor and hold elections for my council seat."
"Have you chosen someone?" Thad asked. Blaine hesitated, then nodded.
"And?" Trent asked. Blaine hesitated again, biting his lip.
"All thirteen of you are extremely talented, and I don't want anyone to think I'm playing favorites," he said. "But, nonetheless, I am ready to announce that the successor to my position as lead soloist and head of the council is… Nick Duval." Nick let out a long breath. He had been expecting it, but he was still nervous. Jeff tackled Nick in a hug, yelling how he'd known it. The other Warblers cheered, almost forgotten for a moment that their star was abandoning them. "Um… here." Blaine handed Nick Wes's old gavel. "I promised Wes nothing bad would happen to it, so take good care of it."
"Thanks," Nick said, accepting the gavel. "I'll…treasure it." Suddenly, he'd set the gavel down on the council's table and was hugging Blaine tight. "You really think I can do this?"
"Of course I do," Blaine said. "I believe in you. And if you do half the job with this team that Wes did, the New Directions and I won't stand a chance." Nick laughed weakly and released his hug.
"Thanks, Blaine," Nick said. "I won't let you down."
"I know you won't," Blaine said. Nick returned to Jeff's embrace. "I guess all that's left is to replace Nick's council seat, since he's taking mine. Do we have any nominations?"
"Jeff," Thad said.
"Really?" Jeff asked, perking up.
"Second," David added.
"All in favor?" Blaine asked. Every hand in the room went up. "Congratulations, Jeff." Jeff was floored. "That's all I have… Nick?"
"I think we should sing one more song before Blaine leaves us," Nick said. "Beats?"
Summer after high school when we first met
Made out in your Mustang to Radiohead
Never thought that one day, I'd be losing you
In another life, I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises
The us-against-the-world
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don't have to say you were
The one that got away
The one that got away
Nick hugged Blaine one last time before Blaine left.
"We'll miss you, come and visit any time," Nick told him.
"I will, I promise," Blaine said. "Thank you guys."
And then he was gone.
A/N: This chapter and the next one should have been one chapter but I really wanted to use two different quotes. So I stretched them out and it's okay because the chapters start getting a lot longer starting right... now.
Discussion:
Favorite Katy Perry Song?
Favorite Maroon 5 song?
Mine are The One That Got Away and Payphone.
xoxo
Samantha.