It was Kurt's first day at his new school. He was nervous since he didn't know anyone there, let alone friends. Finn had been acting weird ever since they all had dinner with Brandon. He had a feeling it had something to do with him being gay. He and Quinn hadn't talked much but at least he knew he could sit with her at lunch.

He walked into the English classroom about five minutes into it and sat down in the first available seat he could see. Which was a seat beside the window. The person sitting next to him was a boy with obviously dyed blonde hair. He was wearing a red letterman jacket. A Jock. Kurt was almost offended by the fact that the guy thought he had everyone fooled by his obviously dyed blondeness.

"You know you're not fooling anyone."

The boy looked up and stared at him confusedly for a moment
"Uhm, what?"

"Your hair. It's dyed. Very obvious if you ask me"

"It isn't and to be honest you're kind of freaking me out."

"Whatever."

Kurt shrugged and looked out the window for the rest of the lesson. He found English classes boring. He'd already read the book they were supposed to be reading in that class.

The bell rang and he quickly walked out and took his schedule out of his pocket. He sighed, he had a free period and then lunch. How perfect. He had to find something to do.

He walked around the school for about half an hour when he saw a piano in one of the classrooms. He walked into the room and played a few notes. It'd been a while since he'd sung or played anything.

He sat down at the piano and started playing the intro to Defying Gravity from Wicked. It was his favorite musical. And he found the song fitting to his situation.

"Something had changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by
the rules of someone else's game."

He sat down and continued with the song.

"Too late for second guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes an-"

"-Oh my god you HAVE to join glee club!"

Kurt jumped away from the piano to see a short brunette girl wearing an animal sweater and a short light brown skirt standing on the other side of the piano.

"Fuck, can you like, try not sneak up on people!"

"Sorry! BUT about glee club, you should totally join!"

Kurt laughed and started walk out. He was not in the mood to talk to anyone. And the girl was kind of annoying and loud. He could Quinn about this glee club thing when he got home.

He was not lucky enough to escape this girl. She followed him and grabbed his shoulder
"Please? We need new members. We only have five and your voice is great. You'll do good as a background singer."

Kurt sighed and pushed her hand off of his shoulder
"No. Maybe later."

He walked a lot faster after that. He was not in the mood for school. He needed to get out.

When he walked out he was a couple of kids sitting on a cafeteria table. He saw that the guy had a briefcase. He and a few kids were betting on something.

He walked up to them and tried to see what they were betting on. On the inside of the suitcase was a picture of him and a bunch of money on the bottom of the briefcase.

"What is this?"

The guy quickly closed the bag and had the decency to look ashamed
"Nothing. Just hanging out."

"What are you betting on?"

The guy looked extremely nervous at being glared at in such a manner. Kurt took a step forward and the guy blurted out the answer.

"We're making bets on you!"

That threw Kurt for a loop. He was confused. Why people would bet on anything to do with him was beyond him. And then he remembered that he was the new kid and a kidnap 'victim' and sighed.

"Well, what are you betting on about me?"

"Finn says you're gay and some people don't see it, since you look like kind of a bad ass. What with the way you dress so we're betting with people about if you're gay or not."

Kurt really did laugh at that. He felt angry at Finn for outing him but it did flatter him that he wasn't so obvious anymore. Thanks to Brendan he always wore his leather jackets and skinny jeans.

"How many people bet I wasn't gay?"

The guy looked surprised that Kurt was taking this so casually
"Like, 20 people. One of them bet like, 500 dollars. She said you're too hot to be gay. I bet you are. I would know since I've got two fathers."

Kurt smirked
"Well, that's too bad for her since she now owes you 500 dollars."

They guy laughed nervously and looked at his friend who had been silent the whole time "I'm Ofe and this is my friend, Bird."

"Pleasure."

Kurt started to walk away and Bird followed him and put an arm around his shoulder
"Where are you heading?"

"I'm going to find a nice place to chill."

"Come on, I know a place."

Bird took him to a storage unit changed into a studio space. She called it the sanctuary. It was a very cozy place complete with two sofas and an armchair. Kurt immediately loved the place. He had a feeling he was going to be in that place a lot."

"How did you find this place?"

"My parents are rich and bought me this place."

Kurt nodded and sat down on the one of the small sofas. He looked to the right and saw all kinds of alcohol on the table in the corner. "Cool. I take it you guys party a lot?"

"Oh yes. Now that you're a part of this group I'll introduce them to you later. They'll be here soon. Now how about some drinks?"

Kurt smirked, stood up and took out the water bottle. He wasn't in the mood to get drunk. He had a bad track record with alcohol.

Bird laughed and winked at him
"You're no fun. So do you have a boyfriend?"

"No. I did, but we broke up about a year ago. After that it turned into a friends with benefits thing for a while. Now we're just friends. Best friends."

"Is he hot?"

Kurt smirked and winked
"Oh yeah, so damn hot."

They hung out in the sanctuary, just talking and getting to know each other. They were going to play Never Have I Ever with some water when Gabe and the others walked in.

"Hey is the party starting without us?"

Bird laughed and hugged him
"No. Guys this is Kurt, he was kidnapped as a toddler."

Kurt laughed and waved. He loved how casually she said that. He loved her inappropriate humor.

"Hey."

"Kurt this is Gabe. His dad's a cop. This is Puck, he's a self-proclaimed badass and then there's Ofe, you've already met him, he loves betting. He also sells prescription drugs."

Kurt looked at each of the guys and waved again. Puck was smokin' hot. Gabe was cute too. He was going to love being friends with these man hotties.

"So Puck, are you a real badass or do you just call yourself one?"

Puck took an offense to that and flexed his arms
"Dude, are you questioning by badassness? Have you seen my arms?"

Kurt felt his bicep and nodded
"Very nice arms, they are."

Puck was very satisfied with that answer and put his arm around Kurt on the sofa. Kurt had a feeling Puck was one of those people whose personalities were born flirty.

"Hey you're the kid on the news, you're Kurt Hummel, kidnap vic."

Kurt was really uncomfortable with people knowing about it, but unfortunately it was common knowledge about him being found had been on the news since he was discovered.

"Yeah… But my name's not Hummel, it's Stevens."

Gabe nodded reluctantly
"Okay, Stevens. Got it."

Bird stood up with a happy smile on her face
"Who wants to play Never Have I Ever?"

Puck raised his fist into the air
"I dooooo! Kurt you start us off."

Kurt laughed but complied
"Okay. Never have I ever had sex with a girl."

Puck took a sip with a smug look on his face. It was his turn now.
"Never have I ever watched a marathon of the desperate housewives."

Kurt laughed and took a sip. So did Gabe.

"Never have I ever sucked a dick."

Kurt winked at Gabe before he took a sip. Bird also took a sip.

"ooh adventurous Kurt. Never have I ever had sex in a friend's bed."

Puck and Kurt both took a sip.

"Kurt!"

"What? Brandon and I once fucked in out friend's madison's bed. She was passed out in the living room."

They all laughed and the game continued in good spirits.

Kurt got home at about 11 pm that night.

"Where have you been?"

Kurt looked up startled to see Burt standing there.

"Out. With my new friends."

Burt was clearly angry about something. He had that angry look in his eyes that he got every time Kurt called Lori his mother. Except now it wasn't laced with a bit of sadness, only anger and disappointment.

"I've been worried sick about you, Kurt. You skipped school! And to hang out with your new friends?"

"Yeah, I wasn't feeling like being at school. How'd you find out about that anyway?"

"Finn told me. I told him to keep an eye on you in case something happened."

Kurt was furious at Finn for exposing him to Burt. He bet Burt had no idea about the bet or the fact that Finn had outed him to the whole school. In little homophobic Lima, Ohio.

"You know Finn isn't the angel you think him to be. He outed me to the whole school! And people were betting on if I'm gay or not. Do you know how humiliating that is? On top of being 'the kid who got kidnapped' it's embarrassing as fuck!"

Burt looked shocked and disappointed now. But it looked like he wasn't mad at Kurt anymore. Kurt regretted his bout of rage. He didn't want Finn to get into trouble because of him, he was supposed to be his step brother and that had to count for something. He sighed and walked up to his room and got ready for bed. Hopefully tomorrow would be better than this day had been.

Kurt had just laid down on his bed when the doorbell rang. He sighed and stood up to go answer it. He walked tiredly down the stairs and opened the door.

"Brands!"

Kurt had the widest smile on his face and hugged the ever living daylights out of his best friend.

"What are you doing here?"

Burt walked into the room and answered before Brandon could even say a word
"I called him. You need someone you trust here so he's going to be staying with us for a few days."

"Thank you."

Kurt took hold of Brandon's arm and dragged him upstairs. He was so happy to have someone he could trust there.

"Now are you gonna tell me what happened to make you upset? And don't deny it, Burt told me you needed me here. He didn't say why but you're about to."

Kurt sighed and hugged his pillow.
"Finn outed me to the school. I got a few homophobic looks so that's nothing new. Oh and a girl heard me sing in the music room and asked me to join her glee club, I said no. Then when I walked out I saw kids betting. They were betting on if I'm gay or not."

Brandon didn't say anything. He didn't need to. He knew how much Kurt hated this. He laid down and pulled Kurt into his arms.

"It's going to be okay."

Kurt just hoped his mom would try to contact him soon. He missed her so much. He knew it was next to impossible. His phone was tapped, he had a new phone number.

Quinn burst into the room and started talking immediately
"Kurt! You should not have left school today because you missed one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. I'm going to be making fun of Sam because of this forever!"

Kurt and Brandon looked at each other and then back at Quinn. They were very intrigued "Go on."

"The glee club performed at the pep assembly today and they burst into Push It. With a very sexual choreography and everything. At first I was in shock to see them humping and crawling about the stage and then Sam did a body roll. On the floor. It was hilarious! You should've seen it!"

Kurt and Brandon were clutching their sides they were laughing so hard.

"Oh my god you can't be serious!"

"I am 100% serious, Brandon."

They all laughed so loudly that Finn walked in.

"Hey guys what's so funny?"

That made them laugh even more.

"You. Humping Rachel Berry on stage and getting slapped on the butt once by Sam Evans. Who even came up with that?"

Finn looked confused. He thought they'd looked badass.

"Rachel."

He walked out after answering. Clearly not in the mood to get laughed at.

"Well, I'm off to bed. Good night."

Quinn walked out of the room and into the adjoined bathroom. Kurt and Quinn shared a bathroom since it was in the middle of her and Kurt's room.

Brandon stood up too and hugged Kurt
"Good night."

Kurt smiled tiredly
"Good night."