Morning comes a little too early for Kurt. He's never been a morning person, but he drags himself out of bed. Lord knows how long it takes for him to get ready in the morning and he doesn't want to be late. Kurt picks out an outfit that's stylish but not too over the top for school. He doesn't want to paint a target on his forehead for the bullies, but that doesn't mean he wants to look like the rest of the cattle at the school. After he does his skin regimen carefully, Kurt is ready to grab a quick breakfast. He needs to be at school in 15 minutes.

Kurt rushes downstairs, passing his father, and grabbing a granola bar from the pantry. He quickly signs, See ya Dad! Love you! and rushes to the bus stop just in time for the bus.

Kurt gets to his homeroom and finds the seat he sat in before. Hopefully Blaine will take the seat next to him. He pulls out his notebook just in case. Andrea walks in signing her greeting to Kurt. They talk briefly before Kurt's attention is drawn to the door where Blaine is walking through. Their eyes meet and Blaine smiles which causes Kurt to blush and break eye contact. Blaine takes the seat next to Kurt and takes the notebook off of Kurt's desk.

Hi Kurt! How are you today?

Kurt laughs silently at Blaine's boldness, and quickly writes a response.

Hi Blaine. I'm fine. How are you today? Kurt shyly hands the notebook back to Blaine.

I'm doing great. I like your outfit today by the way.

Kurt takes back the notebook as the teacher walks in and starts talking. He reads Blaine's response and thinks he's so adorable. Kurt catches Blaine's eye again and smiles brightly at him as a way of saying thank you for the compliment.

The rest of the class goes by quickly. Both Kurt and Blaine were too busy listening to the teacher to pass notes. When the bell rings, all the students part ways to go to their next class. Kurt won't see Blaine until his lunch, which gives him time to think of the proper way to ask Blaine to his house on Friday.

His class flies by per usual, and to his surprise no one has bothered him in the class. Maybe because he has his interpreter there and no one wants to get in trouble with her. "Hmm…Having an interpreter wasn't such a bad idea after all. Dad:1 Kurt:0" Kurt thinks. When the class is over every student files out quickly to head to the cafeteria.

Most people can make it to the cafeteria without difficulty, but that doesn't seem to be the case for Kurt. After he says bye to Andrea, he walks only half way down the hall before he's shoved into the lockers. It stings of course, but Kurt has had practice over the years covering up his pain. He will never give a bully what they want, not anymore. He doesn't want to be seen as weak, or disabled. So, Kurt pulls himself off the lockers and attempts to keep walking and ignore of course the biggest bully of them all, Dave Karofsky. Dave though doesn't want to just let Kurt ignore him because what's the fun in that? So Dave pushes Kurt again and then slams himself into Kurt pinning him to the locker so that they're face to face. Dave begins his verbal abuse on Kurt who can't hear a thing. He wonders to himself, why does Dave waste his time verbally abusing him when he can't hear? Kurt does see though. Dave isn't talking so fast that Kurt can't read his lips, and maybe he's doing it on purpose. But Kurt has never told anyone that he can read lips, except for his Dad, Andrea, and Blaine. Dave keeps ranting:

"You're so disgusting, you fag! Why do you even breathe?! You're such a waste of space, so useless. Why would anyone even want you? You can't even hear! You're not like the rest of us. How can you even stand yourself?!"

Kurt can feel tears welling up in his eyes, but he doesn't want them to fall. He can't satisfy Dave by showing weakness or even showing that he understood him. Kurt closes his eyes and fades away into the silence. Why didn't he think of this in the first place? Why did he allow himself to even try to understand what Dave was saying? Sometimes Kurt was too curious for his own good.

Dave kept screaming at him. He could feel the boys breathe coming at him, and people were probably staring at them. Why wasn't anyone stopping this? But Kurt just kept melting into the silence. It was the safest place right now. He could block out the boys razor sharp words, and wait until he's out of breathe to speak anymore.

Suddenly, Kurt felt himself being released very suddenly. It felt like Dave had been pushed. Kurt peeks his eye open so he could see what had happened. When Kurt opens his eyes fully, he sees Dave on the ground and Blaine standing in front of him facing Dave in a protective pose. Dave's eyes were so big; surprise and shock were written all over his face. Dave was shouting at Blaine, and Kurt was trying to read his lips, but couldn't. Blaine might have said something back but he couldn't be sure. Kurt was interrupted from his deep concentration by Blaine tugging him down the hallway and into the boys bathroom. He pulled out a notebook and pen and wrote to Kurt.

"Are you ok?" Blaine wrote hurriedly.

"I'm fine Blaine. Happens sometimes. You shouldn't have helped me. Now he'll be after you."

"I don't care what that ingrate does to me. He shouldn't have been doing what he was doing or saying what he was saying."

"It's nothing new. I've been called useless and a fag before. It happens and I get over it." Kurt was trying to downplay how hurt he really was. Kurt just wanted this to be a good day. He wanted to be happy, and ask Blaine to his house and just be happy to have a real friend for once in his life. Now everything was ruined. This day just needed to be over. Thankfully he had a piano lesson after school today. He needed to get lost in music right now. He needed to be soothed and comforted and to forget how cruel the world was. Music has been the only thing to do that, not even his dad could do what music did for him.

When Kurt looked up at Blaine. Blaine looked shocked for some reason. Kurt made a "what" gesture with his hands. Blaine started writing again.

"You know what Dave was saying to you?"

"Of course I know. I told you I could read lips." Kurt didn't know what was so shocking to Blaine.

"Yeah, I know you told me that but I thought that the person had to be, ya know, talking really slow or something. Sorry if I'm offending you I just… I'm trying to learn. I guess that's why you closed your eyes."

Blaine could be too adorable sometimes. He looked so shy, like he was just waiting for Kurt to blow up at him like the first day. He again, felt a little sorry that he exploded on Blaine that day. He wanted Blaine to be open with him. He wanted Blaine to know him, and for him to know Blaine.

"I'm not offended Blaine. I'll answer any question you have about me. I'm a pretty good lip reader. You don't have to talk so slow for me to understand. Actually, it's better if you talk at a normal pace or the words look distorted. If you talk too fast then it's hard to keep up and I may catch a word here or there. I know Dave was saying something to you, but I couldn't catch what he said. Do you mind telling me what he said? Oh, and don't hesitate to ask me questions. I want to get to know you better"

"It's not important what he said to me. Maybe I'll tell you later, but I just want to forget him right now and focus on you. I want to get to know you better too Kurt." Blaine wrote with a little blush. Kurt was so amazing. Blaine doesn't know how he is even real. He's so strong. Blaine really did want to get to know Kurt, and try to understand him.

Kurt smiled so big after reading Blaine's message. He forgot about how cruel Dave was earlier today for just this moment while watching Blaine. Kurt found his courage in that instant.

"Blaine, would you like to come over to my house this Friday after school?" Kurt handed Blaine the notebook and bit his lip while he waited for Blaine's response. He didn't have to wait long before the notebook was being place back into his hands with an answer.

"Yes"

Maybe it wasn't just music that could make him forget about the cruelty of the world around him. In that moment he was so overjoyed about having Blaine in his life he couldn't remember what happened earlier. The only thing on his mind was that for once in his life he had a genuine friend who didn't mind overcoming the obstacles of him being deaf.

As the week passed by, Kurt only that of Blaine and how on Friday he would be with Blaine.