First Impressions

Seventeen year old Kurt Hummel kept staring at his feet as he walked down a long and empty corridor of Dalton Academy, the only sound was that of his own shoes, slightly squeaking on the highly polished floor and that of the heels of the teacher walking in front of him. It had become habit for him, in the last month, to not make eye contact with people when he was walking in the halls of his old school, although he knew no one was going to hurt or threaten him here at this school it was why he had begged to go here, but he found it hard to break the habit. He followed the teacher in front of him, she was wearing a classy red pencil skirt paired with black high heeled shoes that were still pattering against the elegant marble floor, and it had a musical quality to it which surprised Kurt. He ran his hands down the front of his chest over his light gray cardigan sweater, making sure it was wrinkle free. He picked his head up and looked around, he noticed a few students who were both wearing their uniforms and looking at him with curiosity on their faces. Kurt really didn't like the idea of not being able to wear his fashion daily but maybe a uniform would make him fit in better. He kind of wished he had it right now. Maybe they wouldn't be so curious about him that way. Breathe Kurt, breathe...

The teacher led Kurt into a large room with very high ceilings and it was almost packed full of students, boys. There were broken up into small groups and where laughing and talking loudly with each other. Kurt didn't know how he was going to like all this rowdiness though. All of them wore gray slacks and navy blue blazers, which was the school uniform. Although some weren't wearing the blazers they had on red or navy blue sweaters instead, but all of them had ties on. As soon as he walked into the room he got some curious glances the same as the two he had met in the hallway. He quickly scanned the room then looked at his shoes again.

"Come on boys quiet down, I said quiet down..." The teacher called, the room fell almost completely silent at her words, which made Kurt look up at her. For the life of him he couldn't remember what she said her name was.

When Kurt realized that all eyes were on him and the teacher he felt his face flush slightly. "Everyone I would like you to meet Kurt Hummel, he has just transferred to us from William McKinley High School, where he was attending his junior year, be nice to him everyone." She laughed and smiled at the teenage boys, "Make him feel welcome..." She gave a few of the boys' stern looks, making Kurt wondered if they were trouble makers or something.

Kurt finally decided that he didn't need to stare at his shoes all the time. He slowly picked his head up and looked around the room, again, most of the boys were whispering to each other and smiling but there were a few that Kurt couldn't tell what their looks meant. He was glad though, he wasn't getting looks of hate. He was suddenly fully appreciating the school's no bullying policy, because he was pretty positive that he was going to get caught checking out some of the straight boys and didn't want to worry about getting beat up.

The teacher placed her hand on Kurt's shoulder, "Good luck Kurt." She smiled at him sweetly and then turned and gracefully strode out of the room.

It took a few minutes for the noise to pick back up again they were all slowly beginning to socialize with each other again. There were a few that were still looking at him. Kurt took the folder he had been given at the main office out of his bag and opened it. It held his dorm number and his class schedule and the rules of the school. He looked at the dorm number, 145, he wondered if any of the guys in here was his roommate.

"Hey..." said a boy with shaggy black hair and dark brown eyes stepping up to Kurt.  

Kurt blinked at him unable to find his voice for a few minutes. "Hey..." He finally responded.

"My names Nick Duval..." He held out a hand to Kurt.

"Nice to meet you Nick, I'm Kurt Hummel, but of course you already know that..."

"Nick, let the man breathe," Came another voice from behind Nick, "you can't hog all the pretty ones..."

Kurt scowled at this, did he just get called pretty. He shook his head as he watched Nick turn around to face the boy that had been talking.

"Thad shut up..." Nick spun back around so he was facing Kurt again. "So what room you got?"

Kurt glanced down at his papers, "Umm...145, do you know who my roommate is?" Kurt was hopeful.

Nick looked shocked as he listened to Kurt, he then glanced down at Kurt's papers as if he didn't believe him. "Wow..."

"What?" Kurt was nervous now.

"Hi, I'm Trent Nixon by the way," A bubbly voice beside Nick said.

Kurt couldn't help but smiled at this Trent kid, he was cute, he had short brown hair and was slightly on larger side with a round face but Kurt didn't mind that, "Are you my roommate?" He asked wondering if that was why Trent had introduced himself at the point he had.

Trent shook his head and looked at Nick, this made Kurt frown and then bite his lip, "So which one of you is my roommate then?"

"Blaine Anderson..." Trent was biting his own lip now.

"Okay who is Blaine Anderson..."

Nick's eyes roamed the room. "Look Kurt before you..."

"Before I what?"

Nick shook his head, obviously not wanting to finish what he was going to say. "Look over there...that's Blaine..." Nick motioned to the dark haired boy sitting in the back of the room in one of the leather arm chairs, with his knees brought up to his chest and a book in his hands. "Look, don't get your hopes up about him..." Nick was looking at Blaine. "He doesn't like being around people..."

Kurt glowered at Nick he was puzzled, "Then why is he in a room surrounded by people?"

"No, no that's not what I meant...He doesn't let people get close to him..." Nick didn't know if he was explaining it good or not.

Kurt was watching Blaine he was sitting all alone, there was no one around him, although Kurt noticed that some of the boys, he guessed freshmen, were sitting in one of the leather couches watching Blaine. He wondered if these boys had crushes on Blaine by the way they were watching him. Blaine seemed oblivious to it though. "What's up with them? Why are they staring at him like that?"

"That's Blaine's little fan club..." Trent told Kurt with a smile on his face.

"And Trent wants to be president of it, don't you Trentie?" Thad the one that had been bothering Nick earlier stepped up beside him and Kurt. "Hi, I'm Thad Harwood..."

Kurt suddenly had the urge to slap Thad. He didn't like the way he was talking to Trent. He was picking on him and Kurt didn't like things like that.

"I..." Trent started blushing furiously.

"Do you like Blaine?" Kurt gave Trent a warm smiling letting him know he wasn't picking on him. Trent nodded, his face turning a brighter shade of red. Kurt thought it was actually cute. He liked it when people had crushes. "Awe...does he know you have a crush on him?"

"See, it doesn't matter if Blaine did. He won't let any of near him in that sense..." Thad gave a sad smile to Kurt.

"Has he always been like that?" Kurt frowned.

"No..." Nick frowned too.

"No?" Kurt was hoping for more than that.

"It didn't happen till the end of last year, he just sorta changed..." Thad sat down on the sofa that was near them motioning the others to join him.

"What do you mean he changed?" Kurt was getting frustrated at the lack of more than one sentence of information.

"He used to be really bubbly, happy, always smiling, talkative, social..." Trent started listing of the things he loved about Blaine.

"And now..." Kurt hoped that Trent would continue.

"He's sad, quite, hardly ever has a smile on his face, and doesn't like people touching him..." Trent looked so sad, Kurt felt bad for him.

Kurt turned his attention back to where Blaine was sitting, he watched as one of the freshman boys got up off the sofa and approached him. Kurt was curious as to what would happen. They were close enough so they would hear.

"Blaine..." The boy chirped in a tiny shy voice.

Blaine rested his book on his knee and then looked up at the boy, one of his dark eyebrows raised.

"Umm...I was wondering if you could...umm..." The boy started fiddling with a ring that was on his finger. "Umm..."

Kurt watched as both of Blaine's eyebrows rose. He seemed like he was amused with this boy. Kurt couldn't take his eyes off of them. "Who is that boy?"

"That's Jeremy...he's a freshman and he worships Blaine..." Thad had a smile on his face.

"Why..."

"I keep forgetting you don't know Blaine..." Thad turned his gaze on Kurt. "Blaine is part of the Warblers, with the three of us; he sings the lead vocals, one of the sexiest voices I've ever heard..." Thad finished turning his attention back to the scene around Blaine. "The Warblers are like rock stars here..." Thad added putting things simpler for Kurt.

"Wait you mean your glee club is cool here?" Kurt was shocked.

"The coolest!" Trent beamed.

They all stopped talking and started listening again.

Jeremy was still fiddling with his ring he seemed to be having a hard time getting out what he wanted to say. "Umm..."

"Jeremy what is it?" Blaine asked, Kurt noticed he didn't seem annoyed or anything.

"I...will you help me with my French?" Jeremy finally got out, though Kurt had a feeling this wasn't what Jeremy had wanted to ask.

What Kurt wasn't expecting was the sexiest sound he had ever heard, Blaine had laughed, he had never heard a laugh like that before.

"Jeremy, I suck at French!" Blaine couldn't help the smile that played around his lips. He had to admit it was a good attempt at trying to spend time with him, but he should have picked a different subject. Jeremy looked crushed. "Oh, no...Jeremy I'm telling you the truth I SUCK, at French...ask any of the Warblers they will tell you, I'm sorry." Blaine gave him a small smile. Jeremy just nodded and then stared at his feet.

After Blaine had said that, Kurt turned his attention back to the boys sitting around him. "Does he really suck at French?"

"Yes...I've tried to help him, but he's hopeless..." Thad said with a frown on his face. Kurt wondered if there was more to that frown than just about the studying.

"Okay, this may sound dumb but can I ask you guys something?" Kurt chuckled nervously when they nodded for him to continue. "Are you all gay?" Kurt heard a loud laugh come from somewhere behind them, a tall, lanky teenager with light brown hair and a long face came over and sat down next to Kurt. "What?"

"This isn't a gay school...just a safe place for gay boys who get picked on...I'm Sebastian Smythe by the way..." The teen said with a smile on his face. "See Blainers over there, he had to come here because he got..."

"Sebastian you don't have the right to tell anyone that..." Trent shrieked.

"So Blaine is gay?" Kurt asked then started chewing on his bottom lip hoping that Trent wouldn't be mad at him for asking.

"Yes Blaine is gay..." Thad smiled at Kurt. "As for me, no I'm not but I don't care what sex you are if you're hot I like you...the plumbing doesn't matter to me..." Thad's grin widened. Nick and Trent both nodded to let Kurt know that they were both gay.

Kurt felt himself blush. He just became aware of how close Sebastian was noe sitting next to him. "Umm...can I help you?" Kurt didn't like his space being invaded unless he wanted it invaded.

"Are you a virgin?" Sebastian asked him bluntly with that same smirk on his face.

"WHAT?" Kurt shrieked and it brought a lot of attention to where they were sitting, including Blaine's attention.

"Whoa, no need to get your panties in a bunch, I was just asking..." Sebastian smiled when he noticed Blaine was looking at them. "Looks like you got his attention now..."

Kurt glowered at Sebastian, "Do you think I should talk to him?" Kurt asked as he watched Blaine turn his attention back to his book.

"You could try after all you are going to be living with him..." Trent shrugged sitting back in his seat a very sad look on his face.

"Speaking of that, why doesn't Blaine have a roommate already?" Kurt was curious he couldn't help it.

"Well after summer break...Blaine's aunt came back to school with him and she requested that he have a single room but there are only a couple of those available but since his last roommate was a senior last year that he could keep the room for himself unless they had someone that needed it and then they would be placing them in there with him. So I guess you are the one that needed it." Nick finished looking Kurt up and down.

Kurt chewed on his bottom lip again. He hoped Blaine wasn't going to hate him for taking over his room, forcing him to share. "Do you know why his aunt wanted him in a single room?" Kurt couldn't help the questions they just kept coming.

"No, none of us know what happened at the end of last year and over the summer...he just came back changed." Nick's forehead was creased with worry lines.

"That's not true there is someone that does know..." Sebastian stated. The three Warblers were staring at Sebastian now. "Oh come on you all know he knows..."

Kurt was really confused now. "Who are you talking about, who knows?"

"His ex roommate..." Sebastian stated as if it was the only reasonable answer. "You all know he was involved...Blaine..." Sebastian cut himself off at the look that were coming from the other three and then slummed back into the couch more.

Kurt was beginning to think that maybe Blaine seemed like he changed is maybe because he was sick of Sebastian...this thought made Kurt laugh to himself. "Okay, I'm going to go say hi..." Kurt decided and then got up, why are my hands clammy all of a sudden?  

Blaine sighed his eyes were starting to hurt from all the reading he was doing but he had to get it done this weekend, because he was behind on it. He loved reading but he had such a headache right now it wasn't even funny. He straightened out his legs stretching, then he glanced at his watch it was still early it was only four, why the hell did he feel so tired then. He pulled his knees up to his chest again and then laid his head on top of his knees hugging his legs. He glanced to his left there sitting on the small table beside the chair was a tiny black box that he hadn't noticed earlier. He frowned at it slightly, where'd it come from? He picked his head up and looked around him, wondering if he could figure out who had left it there. He could hear the three freshmen still sitting on the couch against the wall whispering to each other. Jeremy still looked sad.

Blaine did feel a little bad but he wasn't going to help someone with a subject that he was practically failing himself. He decided not to dwell on it he was sure Jeremy would get over it. He glanced at the box again wondering if he should open it. He slowly picked it up and opened it. There inside was a blue foiling wrapping...it's a condom...Blaine dropped the box as if it had burned him, he couldn't believe someone had done that, actually he could. Blaine bent over and slowly picked up the box making sure the condom was back inside it and then closed the box again tossing it onto the table.

Kurt was making a slow progression towards Blaine, due to all the guys now bombarding him with hi's and why are you here's, he never really took his eyes off Blaine though who was sitting again with his feet in the chair pulled up to his butt. Kurt couldn't help but smile. He took in Blaine's features the closer he got to him. He noticed that he had his black hair gelled and his skin tone was gorgeous, medium olive in color, even in the dim lighting Kurt wasn't blind to the fact that Blaine Anderson was the most gorgeous boy he had ever seen. Kurt finally got over to him and sat down on the old leather ottoman in front of Blaine's chair. You can do this Kurt...he told himself before he said anything. "Hi..." Kurt started shifting his feet back and forth slightly uncomfortably, he cleared his throat and Blaine snapped his head up, Kurt almost forgot how to breathe, Blaine had beautiful honey brown eyes with rings of green in them, his face was just perfect. Kurt started blushing furiously, what the hell Kurt? Pull it together; he's just looking at you.

Blaine was just staring at him, his eyes had a slight glassy look to them, and Kurt wondered if he was upset about something. "I'm Kurt Hummel...umm...your new roommate..."

Blaine shook his head, seeming to come back to himself. "I'm Blaine Anderson, nice to meet you. Welcome to Dalton." Blaine managed a smile but made no move to make any body contact with Kurt, unlike all the other guys in the room when they had greeted him.

Kurt sighed. "The guys have told me some about you so, I'm sorry if your upset about getting me for a roommate, I'll try to stay out of your way the best I can... we can stay out of each other's way if that's what you want..."

Blaine tilted his head to the side, but didn't say anything, he was now wondering what the guys had said to this Kurt because he seemed a little scared of him. "I don't bite..."

"What?" Kurt was surprised at this statement.

"You look like you're scared of me..." Blaine pointed out.

"No...I'm just nervous..." Kurt chuckled to himself again feeling himself blush again.

"Oh..." Blaine pulled his bottom lip in between his teeth. Why was he nervous, surely he's talked to plenty of guys before? Blaine shook his head when he realized he was still staring at Kurt. "Well I hope you like it here, and it's your room too, no need to make yourself invisible..."

"Okay, I guess I'll see you later then..." Kurt got up and made his way back over to where Trent, Thad and Nick were waiting for him to come back.

"Well?" Sebastian asked when Kurt sat back down.

Kurt shrugged, "He seems really nice..."

"He is really nice!" Trent gushed.

"I told him that I would stay out of his way if he wanted me too and he told me I didn't have too..." Kurt couldn't help the smile that came on his face, maybe things here wouldn't be so bad after all.

"Oh, sweet cheeks don't get your hopes up!" Sebastian growled.

"What do you mean?" Kurt was surprised at the way Sebastian said it.

"Because whatever you do if you make body contact with him he freaks, you want proof I will show you..." Sebastian got up out of his seat and made his way over towards Blaine.

Sebastian stopped in front of the chair that Blaine was sitting in. He was saying something to him but Kurt couldn't tell what it was, but Blaine stood up he had a frown on his face, and the next thing anyone knew Sebastian was pulling Blaine into a hug, this shocked Kurt but what shocked him the most was Blaine's reaction to it. It looked like every part of their bodies that were touching was shocking Blaine, like he was being electrocuted, he looked in pain. Blaine finally pushed Sebastian away from him rather hard, causing Sebastian to rub his chest where Blaine's hands had hit him.

Kurt felt his mouth was open and he snapped it shut. Blaine slowly looked in Kurt's direction and then Blaine leaned over and grabbed his things and then rushed out of the room, his book held tightly in his hand, Kurt could see his knuckles turning white. "What the hell did you do that for?" Kurt practically screamed at Sebastian when he sat back down on the sofa beside him.

"Just proving a point..." Sebastian shrugged. "Well that's always the reaction..."

Kurt suddenly felt anger effervesce through his whole body but he didn't really understand why, "Reaction...Reaction? He's not a fucking science experiment you know," He snapped, "He's a human, with feelings and..."

Sebastian blinked at Kurt a puzzled look on his face, "Whoa!"

"Well you don't have to be an ass..." Kurt shot at him.

Thad, Trent and Nick all laughed, "Look Kurt's new here and he's already got you pegged Seb..." Nick said and then laughed again.

Kurt liked being at Dalton, he positively felt a lot safer here, but he knew it was still going to take time for him to get close to people here and settle in to the routine of the new school and living arrangements. He exhale noisily, Blaine really is gorgeous and did have most beautiful eyes...

Blaine felt the anger boiling through him as he rushed out of the room, he couldn't believe Sebastian did that. "God I could so punch him right now..." Blaine said to himself as he headed up the stairs to his room. "And great I have a new roommate...this should be fun..." Blaine didn't know why but when he was frustrated he always talked to himself. Blaine practically ran down the hallway till he reached his door. He dropped his bag down on the floor near the door and then threw himself down on the bed. Get a grip Blaine...