When Friday finally came, Blaine had the worst butterflies in his stomach. The cast list was going to be posted today and Blaine really wanted to get the part of Tony. On the other hand, he wanted Kurt to get it too. Having a boyfriend was so conflicting… As he looked down the hall, he saw Artie rolling over to the bulletin board with a white paper in his hand...the cast list. Blaine walked over to Kurt at his locker.
"Are you ready?" He asked. Kurt nodded and grabbed Blaine's hand as they walked down to the bulletin board.
"I'm afraid to look." Kurt said as he buried his face into Blaine's arm. Blaine took a deep breath and looked down the list.
Maria - Rachel Berry
Tony - Blaine Anderson
Anita - Santana Lopez
Riff - Mike Chang
Officer Krupke - Kurt Hummel
Blaine couldn't believe it! He had actually gotten the part. He covered his mouth with his hands in disbelief. "I got Tony!" He exclaimed before throwing his arms around Kurt, who hugged him back, but was less than happy about his own part. Blaine, although he was happy about getting Tony, couldn't help but wonder about Mercedes,who had been battling Rachel all week for the part of Maria. Like always, Rachel had gotten the part. He figured that it would all blow over, but boy was he wrong. The next day glee club was absolute chaos.
"You know what girl Chang, if you cry every time someone gets a hangnail, it kind of starts to lose it's effect." Santana said in a snarky voice.
""It's not a hangnail!" Tina insisted. "Mercedes was one of glee's original members. I feel naked in here without her." she added as she dabbed away another tear.
"Yeah, well, get used to it. Because, without her singing for us, we're going to have to perform naked for the judges to vote for us at Sectionals." Puck replied dryly.
"No." Mr Shue said authoritatively. "I will not let this setback crush our spirits. I mean, we have handled worse." he said.
"Than losing one of our best singers?" Mike said in an attempt to point out the obvious.
"Kind of hard not to blame you, Mr. Shue." Quinn said. "Think you were too hard on her in Booty Camp." Quinn did have a point. Out of everyone, Ms Shue did push Mercedes the hardest, but she had been improving.
"I blame Artie." Tina interjected. "Why couldn't you have just given Maria to Mercedes?" she asked.
"Because, that would have damaged my integrity as an artist." Artie said in an attempt to defend himself. Just then Rachel burst in through the door with a smile on her face.
"Sorry, I am late! I was putting up posters for my...my campaign." She said happily, until choking on the word campaign. Blaine couldn't help but notice his boyfriend's scowl. Kurt had told him the other day that he was running for Student Body President and Blaine couldn't of been more proud. Mckinley needed a president like Kurt. He had spent a very long conversation on the phone with his boyfriend after Rachel announced that she too, would be running. To put it nicely, they weren't really on speaking terms.
"Did you airbrush out you're jowls?" Kurt shot at her in a nasty voice.
"No!" Rachel yelled back as she flopped down in the seat next to Finn.
"Look, look, just stop everybody." Finn said as he stood up from his chair. "So, we lost a singer, so they cancelled the musical…" he began before Rachel cut him off.
"Wait! What?" Rachel said dramatically. "No, no, no, you can't cancel my musical."
"Sue cut the funding." Mike interjected.
"The point is, right now, we shouldn't be turning on each other!" Finn said.
"I agree." Blaine said. He was fully prepared to back Finn up on this. He was, after all, completely right in this situation. "I can only speak from my experience with the Warblers, but no show choir's just one person, it's a team. When we lost a Warbler, we just replaced him with another one." Blaine added.
"Which is easy when your waiting list has a waiting list." Finn shot back at him in a less than nice voice. "Dude I know you're a big deal at Dalton...or whatever, but we don't wear blazers here. So, take a seat, I'm trying to give a pep talk." He added as he motioned for Blaine to sit his butt back down. Blaine was so frustrated. He didn't even know what he did to make Finn so angry at him. He hadn't been anything but nice to him since he got to Mckinley.
"You know you don't know anything about me?" Blaine shot back.
"What did you say?" Finn replied looking at Blaine like he was crazy for standing up from himself.
"You don't know anything about me." Blaine repeated.
"Oh I don't" Finn said.
"Finn, don't." Kurt begged. He could see where this was heading and it wasn't anywhere good.
"I know you're a little rich boy from a fancy private school whose Daddy buys him everything and an attention hog who thinks he's better than he actually is." Finn shot back. Blaine could feel his eyes watering.
'Shut up!" He cried. "Me a little rich boy." he laughed. "Yeah, I'm so fucking rich that I live in a foster home with four other foster children. Is that how rich I am?" he shouted back at Finn. "Yeah sure, I bet my dad just buys me everything… you know from his jail cell. The only thing that I ever got from that man was two broken ribs and thirteen stitches in my head when I was eight years old. So, keep talking Finn about how much you know me." Blaine said.
"Blaine I…" Finn began.
"No, you don't get to talk. You don't get to make assumptions about peoples' lives." Blaine said a tear running down his face as the glee club stared in shock. "I can't stay here right now." Blaine said as he turned to Mr Shue. He picked up his bag and made a break for the door. Kurt was right behind him.
"Blaine, wait!" Kurt called. "Do you want me to come with you?" he asked.
"You know what...no, I just want to be alone." Blaine said before walking swiftly away from his boyfriend and leaving him standing in the hallway. Kurt was so pissed. He charged back into the room and punched Finn in the arm.
"OW!" Finn yelled. "What the hell?"
"You just had attack him." Kurt said. "Do you even know what he or his foster siblings have gone through? What he told you was the nice version." Kurt yelled. "Blaine's lived in fifteen fosters homes and was separated from his brother because of it nine years ago. His foster sister, Charlie was abandoned in a park while she was strung out on crack because her mom did drugs while she pregnant with her. Annie and Lucas were abandoned by their mother at a hospital because she didn't want to take care of them, especially Lucas because he's deaf. Sami is only two years old and she's an orphan because a drunk driver hit both of her parents and killed them." Kurt yelled. "Out of everyone here, I would expect you to understand not wanting to bring up the past." Kurt scowled.
"I didn't know." Finn replied in a less than apologetic voice. "Tell him that I'm sorry." he added with a shrug of his shoulders.
"I'm not cleaning up after your mess." Kurt yelled back. "Handle it on your own." Kurt said before grabbing his bag and leaving the choir room.
Meanwhile, Blaine had just gotten home. "Blaine?" What are you doing here?" Kim asked.
"I just...couldn't be in school." Blaine said. "It was just a really tough morning and I couldn't stay."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Kim asked.
'Not really…" Blaine muttered. Just then the baby monitor went off and Sami started to cry.
"I'll go get her." Kim said.
"No, I'll go." Blaine said as he walked up the stairs into Annie, Lucas, and Sami's bedroom. Sami was standing up in her crib, her face bright red with tears. "What's the matter, huh?" Blaine said as he entered the room. Sami stopped crying and held out her arms for him to pick her up.
"Bane!" She cried.
"Hi!" He said as he picked her up. "I know, I'm not normally home." he cooed. He sat down in the rocking chair in the corner of the room and placed Sami on his lap. He gave her a pacifier as she nestled her head into his chest. "Oh Sami, I had such a bad day." he muttered. The little girl looked up at him with her big brown eyes. "People think that they know me, but they don't. No one knows me." Blaine said. Sami, being much too young to actually understand him, just stood on his lap staring at him. She took out her binky and dropped it as she leaned forward and kissed Blaine on the forehead.
"Bane!" She said after as it to say, are you better now?
"Aww, thanks Sami!" Blaine laughed. He stood up from the chair and threw her up in the air which sent her into a fit of giggles. "Come on let's go play toys." He said as he put Sami on his hip and went down stairs. He played with Sami for most of the day until Annie and Lucas came home. Charlie was god know's where, like always.
"Blaine!" Annie yelled as she threw her Tangled backpack down, which almost tripped her brother. "What are you doing home?" She asked as she ran to give her foster brother a hug.
"I just didn't want to be at school today." He told her.
"Will you have a tea party with me? Please? Sami can even play too." She begged. "Please, please please?"
"Okay."Blaine sighed. He picked Sami up and let Annie pull him up to her bedroom.
"Here! You can wear this tiara!" Annie said as she pulled a glittery pink tiara out of her dress up box.
"Come on Ann, don't you have like a regular crown or something?" He asked.
"No… Kim didn't get me one of those." Annie said her hands on her hips.
"Fine." Blaine said as he took the tiara and put on his head. "Does Sami get one?" he asked.
"She can have this one." Annie said handing him a tiny purple one. "I don't like it that much so if she drools all over it it's okay." Blaine took the tiara and put it on Sami's head. Then, Annie ran over and grabbed her toy tea set and set it on the floor. They played nicely until the doorbell rang hours later. Blaine set Sami on the floor and walked downstairs to open it. When he opened it he saw that it was Kurt who was on his porch.
"Kurt? What are you doing here?" Blaine asked his arms crossed protectively over his chest.
"I-I came to see if you were okay." Kurt said as a little laugh escaped his mouth.
"You think what happened today was funny?" Blaine said angrily ready to slam the door in Kurt's face.
"No! Blaine no!" Kurt said immediately. "But I have to say that pink suits purple jewels may be a bit much though." he giggled. Blaine sighed. He still had the tiara on his head.
"I was having a tea party with Annie and Sami." He said quietly.
"Well, you're a very good big...foster brother." Kurt stuttered. "I basically cursed out Finn and I punched him in the arm." he added quietly. "He didn't have any right to talk to you like that."
"No, he didn't." Blaine agreed. "But, I'm thankful that you tried to defend me. Do you want to come in? I'm sure Annie wouldn't mind another guest at her tea party." he said with a smile.
"I would love too." Kurt said. Blaine took Kurt's hand and led him into the house. He took the tiara from his other hand and put it on Kurt's head.
"This looks way better on you." Blaine said with a smirk.
"Please, Mr. Anderson. I can make anything look good." Kurt chuckled as he started up the stairs.
"Hey Annie, I brought you another guest." Blaine said as he and Kurt went into Annie's room.
"Kurt!" She said excitedly as she ran over and gave him a hug. She led him both of them over to her tea set and they played. Even Lucas came up later that night because he was bored. He signed something to Blaine.
"Sure we can buddy." Blaine said as he signed back.
"What did he ask?" Kurt asked Blaine.
"He wants to know if we can all watch a movie together." Blaine said. "How does that sound girls?" Blaine asked.
"Yeah!" Annie replied as she took off running with her brother downstairs. Kurt took the tiara off of his head and looked at Sami. She stared up at him curiously and then she held her arms up to him.
"Oh, you want me to pick you up." Kurt said in a surprised voice as he picked the little girl up in his arms.
"See I told you she would warm up to you." Blaine said with a smile. They all went downstairs and Blaine popped in Toy Story with subtitles. They watched that and before they knew it, it was ten o'clock.
"Okay, guys tomorrow is a school day." Kim said. "You need to get to bed. This little one is already out." Kim said pointing to Sami in Kurt's arms. Kim leaned down and took the sleeping little girl out of his arms. "You should probably head home too Kurt." she added. "Annie, Lucas, let's go." She said while signing to Lucas. The four of them went upstairs and just Blaine and Kurt were left in the living room. Kurt got up from the couch and Blaine followed him over to the door.
"I'll see you tomorrow in glee, right?" Kurt asked hesitantly.
"Yeah, I'll be there." Blaine said.
"Good," Kurt said. "Good Night." he said as he waved and then walked to his car. Blaine waved back as he drove away.
The next morning, Blaine drove to school like always and walked into the choir room. The only one there was Finn, because Blaine was very early.
"Hey." Finn muttered.
"Hi." Blaine replied.
"I just wanted to say sorry for yesterday." Finn muttered again not making eye contact.
"It's fine, I guess." Blaine said.
"Good." Finn replied. Blaine sat down in a chair on the opposite end of the choir room. He was still very angry at Finn and he had a feeling that he wasn't all that sorry, but he was doing this for Kurt. After everyone started to come in, Blaine went over to Mr. Shue and asked him if he could sing something. Mr Schue had agreed immediately.
"Okay, everyone." Mr Shue said as he started glee club. "Blaine's got something that he wants to sing." he announced. Blaine stood up and walked to the center of the choir room.
"I know that yesterday was a hard day for all of us, I know it was for me, I wanted to sing something that was just for fun." Blaine announced and then pointed at the musicians as they started to play the opening bars of "Last Friday Night" by Katy Perry. Blaine started to sing and instantly a lot of the glee club was into it and having fun. Blaine took Kurt's hands and pulled him up from his seat and took him out to dance. Even Finn was having fun. Blaine was beginning to think that maybe Finn was sorry. For once, he felt like everything was going right.