Chapter 2

After the Warbler's performance, Jeff took Blaine on a tour of the Dalton grounds just the two of them. The blonde boy even insisted that Blaine bring his school schedule with them so he could show him where he needed to go for each of his lessons.

"Now you need to make sure you never forget anything for English because otherwise Ms Bowman will kill you. I mean hang you out of the window so you are only holding on by your finger tips and she will then time how long it takes you to let go. That woman is ruthless. Nick was late for her class by about ten seconds and he received an hour's detention every evening for a week. Plus it was when he just started school here and he was still getting lost on the odd occasion."

"She sounds lovely," Blaine just commented letting the over excited teenager continue with his description of the teachers and various punishments that he and several of his friends had had to endure over the years.

"One time, Nick and I stole Mr Moore's whistle– that sport teacher I was telling you about earlier? Well anyway, he used that god awful whistle for anything and the noise was bloody awful. We even hid it in the gym but the man never thought to look in there. I have no idea why he didn't just by another but he had some weird attachment to that thing, nobody had ever seen him without it before. He must have known it was us but he never had any evidence to prove it. It took him nearly a month to find it. Bloody hilarious I tell you but now he's even tougher on the pair of us. Completely worth it though."

"You remind me of Fred and George Weasley." Blaine said quietly thinking the blonde would be too excited to hear him but he was wrong.

"Oh my God! I actually love you. That is the best compliment anybody could ever give me. I mean seriously? Thank you! I have to tell Nick. He will be ecstatic!" Jeff grinned pulling his mobile out to fire off a text to his partner in crime. Seconds late Jeff received a text containing several different emoticons.

"Are you and Nick…?" Blaine asked curiously not knowing how to continue the sentence.

"No, no." Jeff said and for once his voice resembled a teenager's instead of an excited toddler. "We're best friends, that's it. Have been since he transferred here. I mean, we're close but just friends, that's it." Blaine wanted to ask more but he didn't want Jeff, the first person that had been nice to him outside of his family to think he was being pushy and decide that he no longer wanted to be friends with him. Were they even friends?Blaine still had no idea.

"So when's dinner here then?" Blaine asked changing the topic of conversation to something safer so that neither of them would have to feel awkward.

Several hours later, Blaine was back in the cafeteria choosing his dinner before joining Jeff, Nick and Kurt to eat. Nick informed him that Wes and David had wanted to have a private dinner just the two of them as they lived nearly four hours apart and it was hard to see each other during the school holidays. Jeff told him that it meant the pair of them were having sex. Nick hit him over the head causing Blaine to choke on his mouthful of shepherd's pie. Why would Nick hit him if they were supposedly best friends?

"You do get used to their weird friendship," Kurt said noticing the horrified look on Blaine's face. "We just think it's their way of getting out the sexual tension between the pair."

"We?" Blaine asked curiously.

"Well, us Warblers and most of the student population, well except the freshman's who haven't got a chance to see the pair. They're an old married couple."

"Just friends!" Nick and Jeff said together before grinning at each other and high fiving.

"Anyway, what do you think of Dalton so far Blaine?" Kurt asked.

"It's big."

"You get used to it, trust me." Nick said joining in the conversation and ignoring Jeff who was pulling funny faces beside him. "I transferred part way through last year and I thought I'd get lost going to every lesson. But everybody here is friendly and it's like they know you're new or something so they instantly have to help me. Thankfully I had Jeff or Kurt in all my classes which helped. It's completely different to my old school but great."

"Why did you change schools?" Blaine asked quietly before noticing the sad look on the three guy's faces and the way that Jeff moved slightly closer to the boy and squeezed his hand. "Sorry, you don't need to say."

"No, no, it's fine. Everybody here knows why anyway and you're bound to find out at some point. I was bullied at my old school. They called me names and threw slushies' at me. I finally told my parents and they moved me here. It could have been a lot worse but I couldn't cope any longer I guess. I ran." Blaine remained silent. He could tell that it hurt Nick to talk about it but Blaine wasn't ready to share his story yet. He knew that this boy would understand his feelings to a degree but never having somebody to confide in made it hard for Blaine to share personal information, especially with somebody he hadn't even known for twelve hours yet.

"Nicholas Sterling! You did not run! How many times do we have to tell you?" Kurt said firmly. "You changed schools so you could finally have a decent education without those Neanderthals."

"Yeah and if you hadn't come here, who would help me torment the teachers so much?" Jeff grinned getting a laugh out of the solemn boy.

"How the hell you two haven't been expelled or even suspended yet I don't know? You superglued everything in Miss Pearson's class to her desk and you only had a two hour detention for it."

"What can we say? We're her favourite students." Jeff smiled before the three of them started discussing every prank that had happened to the most hated teachers in the school.

After dinner, Jeff introduced Blaine to the rest of the Warblers and some of his other mates from school. Unfortunately there were so many new faces that Blaine couldn't remember all the names. While deep down Blaine understood that these guys wouldn't hurt him, Blaine was still extremely nervous around them and after about half an hour of being around the rambunctious teenagers, he made up an excuse to leave the room and head back to his dorm room.

Just as Blaine got into the hallway he felt a hand on his arm causing him to jump about fifty feet in the air. Is this when they beat me up?

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to make you jump. Are you OK?" Kurt asked panicking. After a few seconds, when Blaine managed to relax slightly after spotting the look of concern on the taller boys face, Blaine could answer him.

"Yes, sorry. Just not used to being touched," in a way that doesn't involve a fist or kick Blaine added in his head.

"You have nothing to be sorry for Blaine. I'll promise to keep my hands to myself, I know some people aren't that keen on being touched and prefer their personal space."

"My brother calls me a cuddle slut," Blaine quickly blurted out before clasping his hand to his mouth shocked that he had told Kurt something, that to him, was personal. Blaine spotted the small smile on Kurt's face and lowered his hand confused.

"He sounds fun. Well at least we've established that you don't have personal boundaries with family which is good at least. Any way I thought I would give you the honour of my company and walk you back to your dorm room." Kurt grinned and when Blaine gave the slightest nod the pair walked off in a slightly familiar direction. "So do you just have the one brother?"

"Yes, Cooper. He's older than me by nine years though so I don't see him that often but we talk on the phone a lot. He lives in Boston."

"Must be hard but at least you're close. I have a brother Finn. Well, step-brother but he might as well be my actual brother. He goes to a public school but I go home most weekends, depending on Wes' hectic Warbler practices. My dad married his mum last year and since Finn's been like a really protective, older brother despite my insistence that I can handle myself and that I'm three months older than him. But you've got to love the big lug."

"What about your mum? Did she remarry?" Blaine asked curious.

"She died of cancer when I was eight. It was hard and took a big toll on me and my dad but we had each other and mum wasn't in too much pain which I'm grateful for. The doctor's surprisingly managed her pain pretty well." Kurt said with a sad smile on his face. Blaine couldn't help but be surprised at how much Kurt was sharing with basically a stranger.

"I'm so sorry you had to go through that Kurt," Blaine said feeling that he had to say something. What the hell do you tell to a guy whose mum died nearly ten years ago?

"You didn't make her have cancer Blaine. It's hard but Carol, my step-mum, is great. She'd never try and take over as being my mum. She understands 'cause her husband died when Finn was a baby. He was in the army. Her and dad have been really good for each other."

"Normally when you hear about parents remarrying, the children are really angry about it." Blaine said thoughtfully.

"Nope. Neither was Finn. We all just sort of fitted together." Kurt grinned.

"Why doesn't Finn go here then? Wouldn't it be easier?" Blaine asked curiously.

"My dad did offer. Carol would never have been able to afford tuition alone so he obviously went to public school but he loves it there. He's quarterback on the football team and he's even in their show choir. We competed against each other last year and there was a rule of no talking about the competition at home after a week of us arguing. Literally, every other sentence we shouted at each other. It made it worse because that was before we moved house and Finn and I had to share a bedroom. When we weren't shouting at each other, it was really awkwardly silent. Like, painfully silent. Unfortunately their team won. Finn asked if I could transfer there too but the Warblers are my brothers and after hearing what happened to Nick…I didn't want to risk it. I'm just glad my dad could afford to send me here. Middle school was hard and I wasn't looking forward to High school but a long lost relative died and we inherited her money. We were struggling before but dad did some good investment and voila! I managed to attend Dalton for all four years of High school."

"Wow. Wish I could have been here for four years," Blaine muttered under his breath.

"I'm not going to pry. It seems like high school was tough on you but you're here now Blaine and we take care of each other, like brothers."

"Does that include Wes and David?" Blaine smiled and Kurt burst out laughing.

"No Wes and David don't," he smiled. "Neither do Nick and Jeff, God knows how long I've wanted to get them together but neither of them seem to understand their attraction to each other."

"What about you?" Blaine said timidly.

"What about me?"

"Is there anybody that you want to be with?" Where's this coming from? Why do I even care if Kurt has a crush on somebody? It's not like I want to go out with him. I barely know the guy. Nope, I'm not crushing on him, definitely not.

"There could be, I'd want to get to know him a bit more first before I can be definite if the attraction is there," Kurt grinned as they stopped in front of Blaine's door. Is he talking about me? No, even if I care – which I don't – he wouldn't be talking about me. "Well it was a pleasure walking you back to your room. I'll leave you in peace, I'm sure it'll be loud when Jeff finally returns."

"Thanks for keeping me company," Blaine smiled opening the door. "I'll see you at breakfast?"

"Of course, sleep well Blaine," he said smiling brightly before walking off.

With a soft smile on his face, Blaine watched Kurt walk off before he shut the door. With a sigh, Blaine decided that he should make the most of having the dorm room to himself and have a shower and get himself sorted before Jeff descended on his little haven.

By the time Blaine was showered and changed, Jeff still hadn't returned so he collapsed on his bed before calling his parents to let him know what he had been up to that evening and that he was OK. They asked if he had made any new friends and Blaine told them he was working on it. Not even five minutes after Blaine hung up on his parents, his mobile began to ring again. Noticing the ID he quickly answered it.

"I've been waiting for you to call me Blainers and I heard nothing! What the hell is wrong with you?" Cooper demand and Blaine just laughed gently.

"Hello to you too Coop. I'm good thanks for asking. How are you?"

"I don't give a damn about me, how are you? Do you like the new school? How about the guys? Is your roommate nice?"

"You do understand that if you want me to answer any of your questions you will have to shut up at some stage right?" Blaine said and could swear he heard Cooper pouting on the other end of the phone. Is he really nine years older than me or is he nine?

"Well start answering then." Cooper commanded.

"I'm actually good. Nervous about the first day of school tomorrow but it can't be anyway worse than Westerville. Jeff, my roommate, seems nice enough. He's really loud and excitable but acts like a puppy."

"It'll do you good to have a friend like that, it might rub off on you." Cooper replied. "What about other people?"

"Jeff introduced me to some of his friends at lunch and dinner. They're all in the show choir here, their called the Warblers. They're amazing Coop, they put on a performance after lunch and there is this one guy and his voice is just astonishing. I mean, it was amazing to watch him sing. It seemed to be as natural as breathing to him."

"Sounds like you've got a crush on somebody!" Cooper teased.

"I don't. Kurt's nice, that's his name. He walked me back to my room after meeting the other Warblers to make sure that I didn't get lost or anything."

"He's such a gentleman. Is he gay? I bet he fancies you, that's why he walked you back to your dorm room. Kurt and Blaine. Has a nice ring. Hey! You could be Klaine. People could point to you and go, oh look, there's Klaine. They look happy."

"Yes Cooper he's gay but I only just met him today. And him walking me to my room does not mean that he fancies me."

"Aww you're all defensive. That definitely means you fancy him. Aww this is your first crush. You're too cute Blaine!"

"You're unbelievable I so don't have a crush on him. I met him at lunch and we talked. Just because he's gay doesn't mean I have a crush on him. Other guys I met are guy and I don't have a crush on them."

"Are you just making friends with the gays? That's heterophobic Blaine! I thought our parents raised you better than that young man!" Blaine couldn't help himself but laugh at his brother. Since when Blaine was in hospital he had become very dependent on his talks with his brother and despite all the teasing, Blaine knew his heart was in the right place.

"There's Wes and David, their on the Warbler council and are dating while Jeff my room mate is gay and then there's Nick. Apparently they fancy each other," Blaine smiled.

"It sounds like it's great for you there. I'm really sorry Blaine, but I've got plans and need to go. I just wanted to see how your first day was. I want to talk to you in a couple of days to hear about any development in your relationship with this Kurt kid. Love you squirt."

"Love you too Coop." Blaine answered before hanging up. I'm going to be fine here Blaine decided before trying to get to sleep hoping than Jeff wouldn't wake him when he returned.

A/N

Here's the next chapter for all my lovelies reading this. I wanted to put it up last night but I finished it in an alcohol induced haze after I went out to the pub with my best friends (don't look at me like that, I only had three drinks and it's been a loooong week - I was desperate for my vodka). I'm so glad the drinking age in the UK is 18 and not 21 like America. Thankfully I didn't post it as otherwise you would have had to suffer through hundreds of spelling and grammar mistakes and not just the small, odd one that I haven't noticed.

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