About two weeks after his surgery, Blaine's eye was fully healed. Luckily, that same night that he was given the go ahead by his doctor was also the night of Sugar's Valentines Day party. Blaine was so thrilled that he could actually go. He felt like he hadn't seen Kurt in forever and was missing him like crazy. He threw on a pair of tight fitting pants, a polo with with a blazer, and a fedora hat and walked downstairs to leave for the party.
"Blaine! Wait!" He heard Kim yell after him as he got into his car. He stopped and turned around to face his foster mother. She smiled and pulled out a heart shaped eye patch from behind her back.
"But my eye is better." Blaine laughed as he saw the red eye patch in her hand.
"Take it anyway." Kim told him. "It's appropriate for the holiday." Blaine smiled and took the eye patch, gave Kim a hug, and then got into the driver's seat of his car. When he arrived at Breadstix,where the party was being held, he slipped on the heart shaped eye patch and walked in. He snuck in very carefully. He didn't want Kurt to see him just yet. He saw Sugar and caught her before she could walk away.
"Blaine! Your back!" She exclaimed as she pulled him into a hug. "Is your eye all better?"
"Yup, I got cleared by the doctor this morning." He told her. "If I could, I'd like to sing a little something for everyone and...Kurt.' Blaine asked politely. She smiled at him.
"Of course! As soon as the God squad is finished." Sugar told him. Blaine nodded and stayed hidden until finally the God Squad finished their song. Sugar grabbed a microphone and walked out onto the stage.
"Jesus! Holla!" She yelled into the microphone. "Okay everyone, it's time for my extra special guest, back from the dead and cute and compact as ever." She said signalling to the back. Just then Blaine walked out from his hiding spot.
"Happy Valentine's Day everyone!" Blaine said. "This song is dedicated to all the lovers in the room." Blaine smiled pulled off his eye patch, flung it behind him and the band began to play the opening notes of "love shack". Kurt, who sat at a table with Finn and Rachel, was just beaming. Brittany, Mercedes, and Rachel jumped right in with back-up vocals. Everyone in the restaurant was dancing and having an awesome time. Blaine danced over to Kurt and held the microphone up to his face to tell him to sing but Kurt shook his head. Then, suddenly, Kurt pulled his own microphone out from under the table and began to sing. Blaine laughed. It was just like his boyfriend to be so prepared. Blaine pulled on Kurt's tie and then dragged him out onto the dance floor. At one point, Blaine looked behind him and there was a conga line behind following him throughout the restaurant. After that as the song ended and ton of balloons were dropped from the ceiling, which everyone proceeded to bat back up into the air. Kurt smiled and pulled Blaine close and kissed him, catching him off guard.
"Whoa!" Blaine giggled, blushing slightly. "What was that for?"
"I missed you. I'm so glad you're better." Kurt said.
"I missed you too." Blaine said. "This is the best Valentine's day ever!" The rest of the night was spent dancing and singing. It was more fun than Blaine had had in two weeks. At the end of the night, he went home completely and utterly happy. He was so glad he was better and knew one thing for sure. The New Directions were going to crush the Warblers at Regionals, which were in just about a week.
However, Blaine realized that he had spoke to soon, when Rachel and Kurt marched into glee practice, both with bitch glares on their faces. "They're up to it again, Mr. Shue!" Rachel said angrily.
"What? Who's up to what?" Mr. Shue asked.
"The Warblers!" Rachel roared. "Sebastian handed me these today at the Lima Bean and said if I don't drop out of Regionals, he'll post them all over the internet." Rachel said handing Mr. Shue the large manilla envelope. Mr. Shue started to pull the pictures up with Finn behind him, but quickly shoved them back into the envelope when he saw what they were. Finn, who was so shocked at the pictures, grabbed them out of Mr. Shue's and just stared at them for a minute.
"These aren't even real!" Finn yelled angrily. "That's it. I'm done. I'm leaving this classroom and I'm going to kick that Sebastian kids ass!" Finn got up and made a break for the door with Blaine, Puck, and Mike standing firmly behind him.
"Finn! Chill!" Mr. Shue told him.
"No! I'm not going to chill. I'm done chilling!" Finn yelled back at Mr. Shue.
"The official show choir rule book clearly states that any real perceived threat of violence, vandalism, or humiliation will be met with a swift and quick disqualification of the following parties with extreme prejudice." Artie jumped in as he a read a passage from the show choir rule book. "It's right here on bylaw 15, section 6, article 44."
"Guys, I will contact the headmaster of Dalton…" Mr Shue began.
"Like you did when Sebastian almost blinded me!" Blaine interjected. "What did they do then? Same thing that they're going to do now. Nothing." Blaine seriously could not believe that the Warblers were doing this. Those guys were supposed to be his friends. Then again, his so-called "friends" never would have tried to blind him or Kurt with a rock salt slushie. The Warblers were just different. He wanted to win so bad. Not only to win, but to show the Warblers that they were wrong for pulling all of these stunts and that they didn't get them anywhere. Blaine just felt like he needed to get all of his feelings of anger out, so when glee was over, he texted Kurt to meet him in the auditorium.
"You okay?" Kurt asked as he walked onto the stage. "You seemed upset. You know Sebastian-"
"Forget about Sebastian!" Blaine yelled, cutting Kurt off. "I'm not mad at you. I just don't want to waste anymore time on him. I want to focus on winning. I've got a new song I want to try out. The theme for regionals is inspiration and I think this fits the bill. Do you want to hear it?" Blaine asked. Kurt nodded and took a seat on a stool on the end of the stage. The band started to play and Blaine began singing 'Cough Syrup" He felt himself getting so into the music. This was the song of his life. Whenever he thought the pain was over, he was wrong, but needed to keep going. He thought about all his horrible foster parents from the past, the people who beat him up and had killed Casey, the guy that had molested Charlie and forced her to almost kill herself, the Warblers, and his own parents. As the song ended, Blaine crumpled to the ground with tears rushing down his face. Kurt rushed over and sat down next to him.
"Do you want to tell me what that was all about?" Kurt asked as he held onto his hand tightly.
"Just...everything in my life." Blaine said. "I have been through so much pain, more than anyone should ever have to and sometimes it just feels like it's all too much. I didn't tell you, but Charlie tried to commit suicide a few weeks ago. She was going to jump off a bridge and I had to talk her down off of the ledge. No one should feel so bad about themselves that they want to do that."
"She's alright now, right?" Kurt asked.
"For now." Blaine replied. "The weirdest thing was that, that was bridge that I was going to jump off if I committed suicide."
"Blaine…" Kurt gasped.
"It was before I met you." Blaine replied. "I would go and stand on that bridge every day and just look down at the water and think that everything would be so much better if it was just over."
"Do you feel that way now?" Kurt asked.
"No. I haven't felt like that since, I met you." Blaine replied. "The day that we met...was just a really bad day. After Warblers practice, I was going to go home and go to that bridge and I was gonna jump this time. Then, you stopped on the staircase and everything changed. After we talked, I knew that I couldn't leave you alone. I needed to be one to guide you during that really hard time in your life. I needed to be the person that I had desperately craved when I was going through the same stuff. You were the one thing that I kept living for. You saved my life, Kurt." Kurt was crying after Blaine finished. He lunged into his boyfriends arms.
"Promise me, you'll never go to that bridge again." Kurt pleaded.
"As long as I have you, I'll never need to go back to the bridge." Blaine replied. After school, the glee club went into the auditorium for rehearsal. With only a few days until regionals they needed all the practice they could get. Mr Shue and Miss Pillsbury walked in and from the look on their faces everyone could tell that something was wrong.
"Guys, I need to tell you something very serious and It may upset some of you, which is why, I brought Miss Pillsbury." Mr Shue began. "We found out earlier today that Dave Karofsky tried to commit suicide." Blaine felt his heart drop and saw Kurt visibly tense up. Blaine felt sick.
"What happened?" Rachel asked, her eyes wet with tears.
"Some kids at his new school, found out that he was gay and tormented him. he just couldn't take it. " Mr Shue told them. "I know that this is hard to process, but just try your best. Rehearsal is cancelled for today and we'll talk about this more tomorrow." Mr. Shue said as he walked off to the corner with Miss Pillsbury. Kurt suddenly bolted out of the room and Blaine followed close behind him. He followed Kurt into the bathroom where he promptly ran into one of the stalls and threw up into the toilet. Blaine knelt down next to him and rubbed his back. When Kurt looked up at him, his eyes were bloodshot and tears ran down his face. Blaine pulled his boyfriend into a tight hug.
"I feel responsible." Kurt whimpered.
'This isn't your fault."Blaine told him.
"Yes it is. During the week when you were recovering from your surgery, I kept getting this sweet notes and I assumed that they were from you, but on the night of Sugar's party, I found out that it was actually Karofsky. I told him that we could only be friends and he accepted that. Then when he went to leave, there was a guy from his new school that saw us. I don't think that I've ever seen anyone run out of somewhere so fast in my life. He kept calling me today and I ignored every single call. If I had just picked up the damn phone, maybe he wouldn't have tried to commit suicide."
"You didn't know. You aren't responsible for this. This was his choice and the feelings that he was having...nothing could have stopped him." Blaine told Kurt. Suddenly he got a text. It was from Sebastian. Why was Sebastian texting him?
Sebastian: Can you and some of your New Directions meet me at the Lima Bean? Please?
Blaine: Why? So you can blackmail us and try to blind me again?
Sebastian: Please...it's important
Blaine: fine
"That was Sebastian. He wants some of us to meet him at the Lima Bean." Blaine told Kurt.
"Why?" Kurt asked.
"He didn't say, just that it was important." Blaine replied. Kurt nodded and took his boyfriend's hand. They ended up taking Santana and Brittany.
"Let me break it down for you," Santana began. "From one bitch to another, all of this vicious, underhanded, crap has got to stop."
"Exactly, that is why I called you here." Sebastian replied. "First of all, Blaine, I am sorry about your eye."
"That means nothing to me." Blaine shot back.
"Just give me a chance." Sebastian replied. "I have no excuses other than a lame prank got completely out of control. Secondly, the Finn photos have all been destroyed. I want the Warblers to win fair and square and we're going to take donations for Lady Gaga's Born this Way Foundation. Win, lose or draw we're going to dedicated our performance to Dave Karofsky. I thought you might want to join us."
"Wait for the punch, you know it's coming." Kurt said to Blaine.
"No, not this time. For too long, I have treated everything like a big joke" Sebastian said. "It's all fun and games, until it's not."
"We'll consider your offer." Santana replied. "Come on guys." They all followed her out and were truly baffled by Sebastians change in heart. Regionals was a fair fight now that they intended to win.
The next day they met after school in the auditorium and sat in a circle. Mr SHue stood in the middle with a jar of peanut butter.
"Mr Shue, why do you have a jar of peanut butter with one spoon?" Mercedes asked.
"Yeah, there are fifteen of us here and I'm only comfortable sharing a spoon with about half of you." Sugar added
"Well, it's come to my attention, that our good friend Rory Flanagan has never tasted peanut butter." Mr Shue whole glee club looked to Rory in surprise. "Rory, if you don't mind." Mr Shue said as he handed Rory a spoonful of peanut butter. He hesitantly put the spoon into his mouth and ate the peanut butter.
"Oh my god, that's the best thing I've ever had." Rory laughed which made all of the rest of them laugh too.
"Mr. Schuster, while that's incredibly moving, it's kind of been an emotional week for some of us." Kurt interjected.
"Yeah Mr Shue, what's the point of all this?" Finn asked.
"The point is Rory just had a brand new experience, something as simple as peanut butter." Mr Shue explained. "You guys are young. I want you to promise me that no matter how depressed you get or how hopeless or alone you feel, you'll try your best to imagine all of the amazing experiences you have ahead of you."
"Mr Shue, I know that we're a little dramatic sometimes, but I don't think anyone would consider taking their own life." Mercedes interjected.
"I did." Blaine said quickly. He took a deep breath. This wasn't a story that he wanted to reveal, but he felt as though he needed to. "It was about two years ago. I was living in my fourteenth foster home and I had just been outed at school." Blaine began. He looked to Kurt and could tell he was surprised. Blaine and the bridge had only been the aftermath of a much bigger incident.
"I figured that because I was out that I could go to a dance with the only other gay guy in the school. While we were waiting for his dad to pick us up at the end of the night, three guys came and beat the crap out of us. I woke up in the hospital three days later and it was just my social worker in the room. Those foster parents weren't the best. There were like six other kids, so they didn't really have time for me. My social worker told me that my date and my only friend was dead and I was crushed. They sent me home a few days with some pain pills. When all my foster siblings were out with my foster dad, I locked myself in the bathroom and...chugged the whole of pills. Laying on that floor, in some much pain, was agonizing, but I knew that it would stop hurting if I just let time do it's thing. Eventually my foster mom came upstairs to check on me and she found in the bathroom with the empty bottle in my hand. She forced her fingers down my throat, but it wasn't enough. I was rushed to the ER and they pumped my stomach. The doctors kept me on a 72 hour psych hold and during that time, my social worker told me that I'd be moving to foster home number fifteen...where I'm still living. I wasn't okay after that. Just because you do something like I did, doesn't mean the feelings go away. There's a bridge by my house and I used to go and stand on the ledge every day just willing myself to jump off, until one day, the day I met Kurt, I felt like I didn't need to. We all have our problems in life, some of us harder than others, but still problems. I not saying that anyone should resort to what I did, but I believe that everything happens for a reason. If i hadn't of made that choice I would have never been placed with the family that I have now. I never would have met Kurt and I probably wouldn't be here today." Blaine told them. "Karofsky will work out what he needs to and it won't be easy, but he'll be stronger in the end." The whole glee club sat in shock at Blaine's story.
"There's always something that'll push you to the breaking point, but you have to keep going." Mr Shue said breaking the silence. "Right now, I want you all to say something that you're looking forward to." The whole glee club went around and talked about it and then they got to Rory.
"I know this sounds silly, but peanut butter really is amazing, Mr. Shue"" Rory began. "Do you know what I'm looking forward to? Winning at Regionals." Everyone smiled and were ready for this. It was finally their time to go and beat the Warblers at Regionals once and for all.