AN: Inspired by lyrics from "Stay Together for the Kids" by Blink 182
Finishing the report I hit the save button, followed by the print button, and relax back in my desk chair. The history assignment was due tomorrow and I had started working on it the moment I had gotten home from school. Kurt had texted me once - call me when the report is done. I had smiled, touched that he remembered even a small plan such as school work. That smile had faded moments later when once again I heard my parents shouting downstairs. Hearing my father's shouted 'your son' I knew the argument somehow involved me once again. I had stuffed ear buds in my ears and let the sounds of Katie Perry drown out their voices.
As my report printed, I tentatively took one ear bud out. The arguing hadn't ended and from the sounds of banging cupboards and pans, it had been taken to the kitchen where mom was preparing dinner. I wasn't about to sit through a frosty dinner. Turning off my monitor and letting the report finish printing, I grabbed my cell phone and car keys and headed for the front door.
A half hour later I was standing on the front steps of Kurt's house, leaving a message on the answering machine for my mother about where I was. It was Kurt's dad that answered the door.
"I had to get out of my house," I told him, realizing that I had probably showed up unannounced at the Hummel-Hudson household at dinner time.
Mr. Hummel simply nodded, and opened the door wider. "We just sat down for dinner. Why don't you join us."
Not for the first time, I wondered why my parents couldn't get along half as well as Kurt's parents did as I stepped into the house.