Prompt: Frankie Boyle -"How did we go from talking about expenses to the basic laws of levers" - 'Mock The Week'

Kurt sat against his headboard, hugging his pillow close as he stared at the garment bags that held his uniforms. He didn't really want to go back to Dalton. It wasn't that he hated the school and the Warblers treated him decent. Quite a few he would even consider friends despite the short time he had known them. All of them on a whole had proved to be more supportive than the members of the New Directions had been.

Still he missed McKinley despite the harassment. He missed Mercedes and yes even Rachel. He missed being able to see his Dad every morning before school and in the evenings. To be able to put in a few hours at the garage side by side with him. To share a dinner table with him. They had only truly had one family dinner since his dad and Carole had gotten married and that had been last night after the competition.

A knock on his door made him look up to find Finn standing in the doorway, two glasses in his hand.

"Am I interrupting?"

"Only a pity party."

"Well, that I don't mind interrupting," Finn said, taking the reply as an invitation to come into the room. As Kurt didn't move from his position, the McKinley quarterback sat down on the edge of bed facing Kurt and held out one of the glasses to him. "Thought you might like some warm milk."

"You made warm milk?" Kurt asked, setting his pillow aside and accepting the glass.

"Well, mom did. I'd probably burn in."

Despite his mood, Kurt laughed.

"Are you okay? You've been kind of quiet since the competition."

"I'm fine."

"You know we both won last night. We should both be happy."

"Except now I've got to compete against you guys at Regionals."

"No one is upset that you're singing with the Warblers. We understand why you're at Dalton," Finn assured him, taking a sip of the warm milk.

"I thought going to Dalton would solve everything. It hasn't."

"Are people giving you a hard time there?" Finn asked, more than ready to head to the private academy if Kurt said they were.

"No, everyone's been really nice. It's just I feel more out of place there than at McKinley."

"That's what you get for being such an individual," Finn kidded him, getting another smile out of his stepbrother. "And what were with those dance moves you guys were doing. I could so totally do that choreography with no problem."

"Yeah, if the Warblers' routine had a bit more life to it, we so would have beat you guys."

The two stepbrothers continued their conversation until there was a knock on the door.

"I hate to interupt but the two of you have school in the morning," Burt said when he had their attention.

The two teens looked to the clock, surprised at the time. It was by far the longest conversation the two of them had ever had.