Prompt: Elizabeth Corday - "This whole situation. It's all helped me see things more clearly. He's gone, so many of my friends are gone. There's no reason to stay. Not for me, not for them. I suppose I've known that for a long time now, but it's just hard to move on, isn't it? It's hard to close that chapter."- 'ER'

Sitting in the Chang's living room, looking through song lyrics on the internet, wasn't how I had been planning to spend the night before my mother's wedding but it was necessary. I had found a way to get Kurt to accept my apology and show him I had changed. Words alone wouldn't be enough and it couldn't be between just the two of us. I needed to show him that I had changed and that I accepted him in front of others.

I had knew I couldn't pull it off alone and Mike had been the perfect choice to help plan it. Not only wouldn't he tease me as Puck would, or give me a lecture like Rachel, Tina or Mercedes, but I needed his dance and choreography skills. Of course first we needed to locate the right song.

"So what's with the sudden change of heart?" Mike asked breaking the silence.

I glanced to my left to see that he was still looking at his computer screen. "What do you mean?" I asked, not sure how to answer the question.

"Well, you haven't exactly been supportive of Kurt through all of this stuff with Karofsky and all of us have noticed your general lack of enthusiasm over this wedding. Now, you're planning this. I was just curious as to what's changed."

It was a valid question and as Mike was giving up sleep to help me, one he deserved an answer too.

"I guess finding out how serious the situation was with Kurt and Karofsky opened my eyes to how much a part of my life he and his dad have become despite me fighting it. I realized that the problem wasn't with them but with me not wanting to let go of the past. I felt like my mom remarrying and accepting Burt and Kurt as part of our family was a betrayal to my father but he's gone. Nothing is going to bring him back and Burt and Kurt understand it having been through something similar. It's time to move on and there's no reason we shouldn't all do that together. Does that make sense?"

Mike looked over at me before answering. "Perfect sense," he assured me.

Relieved I glance back down at the screen and the list of songs. One title popped out at me - "Just the Way You Are." Clicking at the link I scanned the lyrics. The chorus was perfect as was one verse but the rest of it I knew even with my new outlook on things I couldn't sing to Kurt. I let out a sigh ready to continue my search.

"What was that for?"

"I thought I had found something. The chorus works and the verse does but not the rest."

"Let me see," Mike said, putting his laptop down and moving next to me. I pointed out the verse that worked to him and he nodded. "Then let's do this," he said as he laid out a plan to me.