-Blaine p.o.v-
A week later Jeff, Nick and I arrived at football practise, Coach said,
“Blaine where is your Kurt? I thought he was coming today?” Everyone looked at me, I was about to speak but Sebastian cut me off,
“Coach he is here on full scholarship, I would think that he is more focused on his studies, I mean the poor boy he couldn’t even pay for his own school uniform, let us not worry him about having to pay for the football kit,” I felt so angry at him, I am knew Kurt would love to play on the team, Coach just looked at Sebastian before saying,
“Well I am sure if his academics are outstanding then we can arrange some form of payment for his kit, Blaine you will go and get him now,” Sebastian looked pissed, I nodded and ran to our dorm, I saw Kurt sat on the floor reading. I said,
“Kurt, Coach wants to see you,” he jumped out of his skin and looked up at me,
“really?” I nodded and he got up following me back to practice where coach had everyone running round the track. Coach saw us coming and smiled, he said,
“Blaine go and join the others, 2 more laps,” I nodded and ran off to join the group. Glancing back as coach took Kurt over to the bench and sat down.
-Kurt p.o.v-
I was nervous, I knew why his Coach wanted to see me but I was still nervous. She took me over to the bench and sat down gesturing for me to sit as well, she smiled kindly at me and said,
“Now I understand you are here on full scholarship so grades come first but I saw you running with Blaine and as we have discussed, Blaine is the fastest on my team and you are faster than him. Are you ready maybe to do some practise...can you kick a football?” I shrugged I had never played football before, I looked down and said,
“I have never played before?” I looked up and his mouth was open in shock. He said,
“Well let’s get moving then BLAINE!” Blaine looked round and came running over.
-Blaine p.o.v-
I ran over to coach and Kurt who looked slightly bewildered and frightened. I reached them and coach said,
“Okay Kurt has never played football, I want you to work with him today, take a ball and ignore everyone else,” I nodded and grabbed a football coach had given him a pair of trainers so we headed away from the team. As soon as we were out of coach’s ear shot Kurt breathed out deeply,
“that was so scary,” just laughed and set the football down,
“Okay let’s do a lap of the field and then we will get started,” we started to run. I took a shortcut because Kurt was so far in front of me. I met him back at where we had started.
We started with some simple exercises but he was a very fast learner and soon I had him scoring, he was better than the majority of the team. I smiled at him. I was right about my feeling that he was good at lots of things. Suddenly Sebastian kicked the football purposefully at Kurt just as he was about to shoot to me again, Kurt kicked the ball and scored before the ball smashed into his face. I tensed, worried considering what happened with Kurt last time he hit his head. Thank-fully he seemed okay and Coach Beiste just had a nice long yell at Sebastian.
-Kurt p.o.v-
I am now back in school full time, Blaine really has helped me to get back on my feet. I now carry my injection everywhere because we have worked out that the sooner I am treated, the less of an after illness I will have. Blaine woke me this morning and I went into the bathroom to get changed, we had sport today so I grabbed my kit which coach had given me. I was starting training today as well and I was so excited. We were going to go to breakfast this morning so I took my pill so I would hopefully be able to eat something. I looked up and saw the three of them smiling at me. Nick and Jeff were holding hands, they always are and I think they are really cute together. Blaine gestured for me to come with them so I got up off my bed and we walked to breakfast. Blaine and I are so close now but Sebastian still keeps trying to get between us, I like Blaine and he likes me, I was so happy when he told me he liked me, we aren’t like together or anything because as Blaine had said to me; we shouldn’t rush into anything, we would take our time.
-Blaine p.o.v-
We walked into the breakfast hall and grabbed our food before sitting down. Kurt just had fruit while Nick, Jeff and I all had cooked breakfast. We knew not to pressure Kurt about food and him eating breakfast was a big step forwards so we were all content that he was eating the fruit he had. Sebastian’s comments were getting worse and worse but Kurt had learnt to basically ignore them. Sebastian was laughing at him this morning, Kurt didn’t normally come down for breakfast so we usually sat with them, now Kurt was here he was annoyed we didn’t sit with them and he had a target for his bullying. Suddenly he said,
“He probably worked as a whore, he is that kind of person probably sold by his bitch of a mother because he was so worthless,” I saw Kurt’s face, he may be able to ignore most of Sebastian’s comments but that as just over line, I slammed my cutlery down and Kurt jumped a mile in the air.
Stalking over to Sebastian I just lost it,
“JUST SHUT UP, WHAT HAS HE EVER DONE TO YOU? WHY CAN’T YOU JUST KEEP OPINIONS TO YOURSELF, THEY ARE STUPID, UNNECCESSARY AND IT IS ALL BECAUSE YOU FEEL THREATENED. YOU DON’T KNOW THE FIRST THING ABOUT HIS LIFE YET YOU ARE JUST TOO SELFISH AND CONCEITED TO EVEN GET TO KNOW SOMEONE, INSTEAD YOU JUST MAKE COMMENTS CONTINUALLY. YOU ARE A HORRIBLE PERSON, DON’T EXPECT ME TO FOLLOW YOU ANYMORE, I HAVE REAL FRIENDS, YOU DON’T EVERYONE HERE JUST OBEYS YOU BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO, GROW UP GET A HEART AND MAYBE YOU WILL HAVE SOME ACTUAL FRIENDS,” I almost hit him but I felt someone grab my arm and drag me away. I was so angry, I saw Nick and Jeff along with everyone else in the school gaping in shock at me, I didn’t care, Sebastian just smirked and sneered,
“Don’t worry Blaine, go and play with you little dweeb friend, we will get you later, your opinions don’t matter anymore,” I went to try and hit him again but the hand on my wrist stopped me. I turned around and saw Kurt looking fearfully at me while tears streamed down his face. I quickly took him out and then we ran back to the dorm. I slammed the door behind us and he flinched before backing away from me. I just closed my eyes, trying to calm myself to some reason. I went to him and gently said,
“Kurt I didn’t mean to scare you, I am so sorry, please he just makes me so angry,” I held my arms out and he hugged me still crying,
“Don’t worry Blaine, thank-you for defending me,” I gently hugged him back trying to stop his tears. I was dreading practice tonight, Sebastian was going to make it a living hell for both me and Kurt.
Once Kurt had calmed down we went to lessons. Math as per usual was a breeze for Kurt and hard work for the rest of us. Mr Button had had to buy new math books because Kurt had done every single book he had, he really deserved his full scholarship, there is nobody who is more worthy of it that him. He is top of every class by miles and his grades are the highest they can be.
Our last lesson was sport. We changed, I saw the scars on Kurt’s back once again. He saw me looking and smiled at me reassuring me that they didn’t matter. We went out to join the class and coach, he smiled at Kurt because this is his first sports lesson. We warmed up running up and down and round and round the court. Coach then said,
“Okay guys how many of you skate?” a murmur ran through the group, Kurt looked at me wide eyed. Coach said,
“Everyone go into the cupboard and get a pair of skates, then we will go to the rink,” I grabbed Kurt and took him into the cupboard. I had my own skates because I was on the hockey team. I found Kurt a pair, his feet are tiny so we had a bit of a laugh as I made sarcastic comments. I grabbed my skates and he took his, We followed coach to the rink with the rest of the class. Kurt had clearly never seen an ice rink in his life and coach just laughed at his face. I put my skates on and then helped him because he was struggling to do his up. The ones of us who were on the team had to pair up with someone else and coach would take whoever was left. Me and Kurt were already a pair. Coach told us all to get on the ice, we had to make sure that our pair was comfortable on the ice and could skate a little, we would improve slowly. Kurt suddenly said to me,
“Is it a bit like gymnastics?”I looked at him,
“Figure skating yes, ice hockey No. Why do you do gymnastics,” he looked really embarrassed and nodded looking at his feet. I smiled and encouraged, “Good coach will be pleased to know that, do you fly?” I wondered whether he would know what that was but he nodded. I smiled, he was exactly what coach was looking for, for the team.
I got him on the ice and he was very unsure of himself. We started slow, I just got him to stand on the ice, no moving just balancing, he seemed okay with this so I gently pulled him along while he just concentrated on his balance. Just like with football he was a very quick learner and I soon had him racing me up and down our strip of the rink. Coach suddenly called our names and Kurt just started to spin, I gaped in shock as he spun looking like he had been figure skating his whole life. He stopped himself and grabbed the side because he was dizzy. Coach’s astonished expression turned to a smiling one as we chuckled at Kurt. He managed to skate over to us and said,
“Kurt are you sure you have never done this before, because you are amazing,” Kurt smiled at the praise he was getting. I said,
“Coach he does gym, flyer,” Coach looked overjoyed and looked at Kurt seriously,
“ Tomorrow lunch young man, you will come with Blaine,” Kurt nodded instantly. We continued to work on his skating, I taught him how to dodge and avoid tackles. Just as coach said to stop he tackled me spectacularly and I fell straight to the floor in shock. Coach looked very impressed, Kurt helped me up and we skated to the side and got off the ice. We laughed to ourselves as the rest of the people who were new to skating were complaining about their butts hurting because they fell over so many times.
We went back to the changing room where Jeff and Nick were gushing to Kurt about how good he was, Kurt was beaming. We went headed back to the dorm to change for football practice. Coach had had Kurt’s new kit sent over, it had his name on the back and everything. Kurt was basically dancing round the room while the three of us just laughed.
We headed to practice and Kurt’s eyes were all sparkly, the smallest things really did matter so much to him...