Blaine took a deep breathe as he began to walk down the hallway of Mckinley High School the day before his first official day as a student there. It felt weird to be out of the familiar and comforting Dalton uniform. Now, he was was wearing a black polo, a pair of tight red pants with a white belt and a set of black dockers. His black, white, and red bowtie brought the whole outfit together and a pair of yellow sunglasses stayed hooked onto his belt. He saw Kurt at his locker using his hairspray to perfect his immaculate hairstyle and walked down to meet him while nervously straightening his bowtie.
"Hey you,' he said in a cocky and flirtatious voice that pulled Kurt away from the contents of his locker and made him look at his boyfriend.
"Well, aren't you a sight for these sore eyes." Kurt replied as he closed his locker door.
"Bad day?" Blaine asked as he placed his land onto the lockers and leaned against them.
"Bad week, more like it," Kurt said with a loud sigh as he turned away from Blaine to walk down the hallway. He fumbled through his bag searching for something when a thought occurred to him. "Wait, what are you doing here?" Kurt asked. "Shouldn't you be at a Warbler practice- you know- putting the fine tuning touches on a new Katy Perry show stopper?" he asked. Blaine laughed to himself. He couldn't believe his boyfriend hadn't noticed.
"Okay, for someone who loves clothes so much, I can't believe you haven't noticed that I'm not in my Warbler outfit!" Blaine said with a huge smile as he pointed to his outfit in exasperation.
"Wait, wait," Kurt stuttered with a large smile on his face as he held up his finger in disbelief. Blaine gave him a huge reassuring smile that told Kurt that his assumptions were true.
"Ohh!" Kurt cried as he practically jumped into Blaine's arms to give him a hug before breaking away quickly. "Wait, wait, you didn't do this for me did you? Because if you did this for me it would be really romantic for one, but it could lead to resentment, which can lead to anger, that can lead to a horrible, horrible, nasty break up, like you know on the Bachelorette, we watched it…" Kurt rambled.
"Hey, hey," Blaine said in an attempt to silence his boyfriend. " I came here for me- because I can't stand to be apart from the person I love." Kurt smiled back at Blaine. Blaine just wished that was the only reason why he had transferred to Mckinley. Yes, he loved Kurt and wanted to be with him more than anything, but it was more about the money. Blaine's foster parents, Kim and Tom, could no longer afford to pay Dalton's pricey tuition. Kim had lost her job as a nurse at the hospital and a bully-free zero tolerance policy wasn't cheap, so with four other kids in the house, they just couldn't afford it. So, Blaine was determined to make the most of his experience at Mckinley. He had Kurt and the New Directions seemed great. He was sure that he would enjoy being at Mckinley just as much as he had enjoyed Dalton.
"Well, I guess we'll just have to find a way to ease you into the New Directions now, huh" Kurt replied with an easy going shrug of his shoulders.
"I already have that figured out." Blaine said with a wink. He took Kurt's hand and lead him out to the courtyard where he had performed a rendition of "Somewhere Only We Know" to say goodbye to Kurt just last year. It felt right that this was where he chose to introduce himself again. The drums and the band started to play the opening notes to "It's Not Unusual" as Blaine began to dance. Kurt looked back at him with this look of complete awe and laughed as Rachel ran to his side. Blaine took off in the other direction and slid down the long handrail on the stairs. The other students in the courtyard looked around with confused looks upon their faces. Especially Finn, who seemed to want to say, "What the hell does this guy think he's doing?", but Blaine didn't notice. He was too into the music. He started to sing and was soon joined by the cheerios, which he hadn't planned, but whatever. He smiled at Kurt and took of his yellow sunglasses and threw them over to him. Then, he felt a hand on his shoulder as a pretty Latina girl came up next to him. Her name was Santana...if he remembered correctly. She danced next to him as he sang and distracted him enough that the rest of the cheerios could douse the glee club's purple piano with oil. Blaine danced with Kurt as the song ended and the band finished. Then, with one quick spark from a cigarette from some girl who looked a lot like a skank, the purple piano burst into flames. Everyone, along with Blaine who was out of breath from his performance, was left in the courtyard to stare at the burning instrument. That was not something that Blaine had planned.
A few people were smart enough to grab the fire extinguisher and put out the burning piano. "Well, that was something?" Kurt laughed.
"I didn't plan that ending." Blaine confessed. Kurt giggled and grabbed onto Blaine's hand.
"We should get out of here before Figgins or Mr. Shue finds out about the piano. Let's go to the Lima Bean. I'm buying." Kurt said. Blaine nodded and followed Kurt over to their cars. They got in and drove to the popular coffee shop in Lima. Kurt ordered for Blaine and brought his coffee over to him where Blaine sat at the table that he had managed to snag for them.
"So, I'm really glad that you transferred." Kurt said as he sat down in the chair opposite of Blaine.
"Me too. I think I'm really going to like Mckinley." Blaine told him.
"What does your family think about it? I know Westerville is about two hours away from Lima. That's got to be a long drive for you." Kurt said.
"Their okay with it." Blaine said hesitantly. He had never told Kurt that his foster family actually lived just outside Lima all along. He didn't feel a need to break Kurt's image of that perfectly put together boy that he met at Dalton. He assumed that Kurt thought he was rich and for now that was a good cover up story. He wasn't ready to tell Kurt about his startling past just yet. "I'm just glad that I get to be with you everyday." Blaine replied changing the subject. Kurt made an awe sound and grabbed onto Blaine's hand from across the table.
"Me too." he said. Blaine looked at his watch.
"I should really get going." he confessed. "You know, long drive and everything."
"Sure, I'll see you tomorrow." Kurt said. "I love you."
"I love you too." Blaine replied as he stood up from his chair and picked up his coffee cup to walk out to his car. Blaine really didn't need to be home. He just felt uncomfortable with Kurt asking about his family. One day he would tell him the truth, but that day wasn't today.
The next day, Blaine drove over to Mckinley for his first official day of school. He parked in a spot and picked his bag up from the passenger seat before locking the car. He walked into the school and picked up his schedule from the main office. He had made sure to sign up for glee club, which surprisingly at Mckinley was a class. He walked to Mr. Shue's office and knocked on the door because class hadn't started yet; despite the amount of people already in the choir room. "Hi Mr Schuester, I'm Blaine Anderson." he said.
"Blaine! It's nice to meet you." Mr. Shue said as he extended a friendly hand for Blaine to shake. "Well, I know that you know some of the glee club, but we might as well formally introduce you to everyone." Mr Shue said as he placed a hand onto Blaine's back and led him into the choir room. Blaine looked around in awe at the choir room. Mckinley's choir room was so much better than Dalton's, considering Dalton's was just an extra room that they happened to have. There were music posters everywhere and instruments that made Blaine very excited to be part of the New Directions. "Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for glee club's newest member, Blaine Anderson." Mr Shue said.
"Thanks so much everyone. I'm so thrilled to be here. It's going to be a great year.I can feel it. We're all going to go to Nationals." He said in excitement which earned him a pretty unenthusiastic round of applause.
"It there a problem guys?" Mr. Shue asked, obviously surprised at his club's lack of acceptance for their new member.
"I just want Blaine to know that we're not the Warblers." Finn said as Blaine went to take a seat next to Kurt. "You know, we're not into the bells and whistles, or-or the ball hogging." Finn added. That struck Blaine as something pretty rude to say. He hadn't even done anything to Finn.
"I'm-I'm sorry." Blaine replied. "Did I do something wrong?" He asked directed to Finn.
"Well yeah," Finn immediately responded. "You set a bonfire in our courtyard." Blaine was shocked. He hadn't planned or been the one to actually do that.
"Actually doorknob, that was an act of political protest." Santana said jumping in. Blaine let out a sigh of relief. At least Finn knew that it wasn't his fault and wouldn't be mad at him anymore...he hoped anyway.
"Which leads me to the next order of business," Mr Shue began. "Santana, you need to leave. It was you and the cheerios that set fire to our piano. How could you do that?" he asked in disbelief.
"Mr Shue- Sue made me." Santana retorted.
Brittany didn't do it." Mr Shue countered.
"Well yeah, I was gonna help, but I'm a water sign so…" Brittany said and trailed off. Blaine had the feeling that this girl was not the brightest person in the world.
"You're banned from Glee. Don't come back unless you can be as loyal to this club as the rest of the people in this room." Mr Shue told her while motioning to the doorway.
"You know what?" Santana said as she stood up from her chair. "I could use a break." she added before storming out of the room. That was not how Blaine thought his first glee club rehearsal to go. He had never planned to get someone in trouble for his performance. The rest of the class was spent rehearsing a new number that Rachel had suggested. It was different from the way the Warblers had done it, a little chaotic, but not bad. When the bell rang for the class to be over, Blaine and Kurt walked out of the choir room and into the hallway together.
"Want to hangout after school today?" Kurt asked.
"Sorry, I can't." Blaine apologized. "I just want to focus on school today. You know, get settled in and everything. Tomorrow?" he offered.
"Sure." Kurt agreed. "I'll text you later." he said before disappearing down the hallway to his next class. The rest of Blaine's day went pretty well. The classes, from what Blaine could tell, were way easier than the ones he had at Dalton. After the last bell rang, Blaine walked out to his car and drove home to his house just outside of Lima, not the fake house in Westerville like everyone believed.
When he opened the door, he heard, "Blaine!" and was met with an arm full of his nine year old foster sister Annie." "I missed you." She said as he lifted her up and settled her on his hip.
"I missed you too." He told her.
"How did your day go?" Kimberly, his foster mother asked.
"It went really good. I joined glee club today." Blaine told her.
"That's great." She said with a smile as she lifted an applesauce covered Sami out of her high chair. "Can you hold her for a minute?" Kim asked.
"Sure." Blaine replied as he set Annie on the ground and walked over to his two year old foster sister, Sami. The little girl smiled as Blaine took her in his arms and Kim wiped away the applesauce from her face.
"How was your first day?" he asked Charlie, his fifteen year old foster sister.
"It was school." She replied dryly as she lit her cigarette.
"Put that out now Charlotte." Kim yelled. "If you insist on smoking those things, I said to take them outside."
"Fine and I swear, if you call me Charlotte one more time" Charlie threatened.
"I'm sorry." Kim apologized. "Charlie, take your cigarette outside." Kim had learned not to fight with her anymore. Charlie was a girl who didn't listen to anyone and that wasn't going to change anytime soon. Kim finished wiping Sami's face free from it's applesauce coating and Blaine handed her back over. He took that moment to go over and say hello to his only foster brother, Lucas who happened to be Annie's twin. He was sitting in the big armchair in the corner of the room reading a book. Blaine went over and tapped his shoulder to pull him from his focus.
"Hey, how are you," Blaine signed to him.
"Good" Lucas signed back to him before returning to his book to read some more. Blaine laughed. Despite being deaf, Lucas was a pretty normal boy. He loved to read and play with Blaine, whom he idolized, whenever he could.
"Where's Tom?" Blaine asked Kim.
"At work." She replied. "You know him." she said with a shrug of her shoulders. Blaine nodded and headed up to his room to work on his homework. Luckily for him, he got his own room. His other siblings weren't so lucky. Annie, Lucas, and Sami all shared a room and Charlie was forced to sleep in a room that was so small it was almost the size of a closet. She didn't mind though. She was hardly ever home to actually care. Blaine set his bag on his bed and grabbed the only picture he had left to remember his old family. It was a picture of him and his brother, Cooper sitting in the front lawn eating ice cream. Blaine had been separated from his brother ever since the night he was put into foster care and he missed Cooper everyday. But, for now this was his life and it was pretty damn good. The other foster homes had been so much worse. Kim and Tom were a loving couple and all of his foster siblings were nice. Blaine guessed that the fifteenth try must be the lucky one when it comes to the foster system.