Prompt: The First Doctor - "To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose." - 'Doctor Who'
Leaving the administration building with my father I had mixed feelings about the new turn of events. I knew my father was happy that the school board had over turned Principal Sylvester's expulsion ruling and in a way I was too. After all, I may not have been the greatest student but I also didn't want to be one of those guys stuck working at a menial job all their lives because they never graduated high school. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life yet but I did know I wanted to play college football. That dream was a long shot to begin with but without a high school diploma I had no chance. Really I would have no future.
I had a chance again now though. I would be starting back at McKinley on Tuesday. I would be back with my friends and back to having a least a shot at achieving my dream. However, there were plenty of questions that I needed questions to, the most pressing of those being whether Coach Beiste would allow me back on the team. The school board had made it clear that me rejoining the football team was solely at the coach's discretion. Given the fight I had recently had with that Sam Evans kid, I wasn't sure if she would take me back.
Then there was the fact that five of my teammates would probably hate me even more now and resent me being back at the school not to mention back on the team. I knew the guys in Glee would be mad at me, seeing as this whole situation was caused by my treatment of Kurt. They had made it clear that they were willing to start standing up for him and I doubted that would have changed. No, Finn and his friends were not going to be happy I was coming back.
Then there was the matter of Kurt. His father scared me. My dad had always been supportive of me but he wasn't as aggressively protective of me as Mr. Hummel was of Kurt. I had a feeling that this situation wasn't quite over yet because I could see Mr. Hummel protesting the decision much as my father had the expulsion. With me coming back, would Kurt tell his Dad and the administration what had happened between us. If the fact that I had kissed him ever got out I knew I wouldn't be able to show my face in school again.
So yeah, I may have won the appeal but I wasn't going back to McKinley with a sense of victory. Instead, a cloud of doubt and fear surrounded me.
Was this how Kurt had been feeling these last few weeks?