Chapter 4: us against the world.

"Shut up," he chuckled" its okay," he said, taking my hands and pulling me into a passionate kiss. As of this moment, everything was right in my world.

…………….

But then came the next morning.

After the movie, Kurt and I got back each to his own room, and frankly everything was perfect, Kurt didn't freaked out when I told him I loved him, he asked me to be his boyfriend and I got to hear him sing again.so the universe had to ruin everything. When I went out of my room to eat breakfast, I noticed something on my door step a second before I stepped on it.it was a beautiful white rose with a note attached to it. I opened it up.

"I remember it was your favorites flower…would you meet me today after mandatory training? Emma says she needs to talk to us both."

I smiled at the note, I was happy and concerned. I loved my silly romantic Kurt, but I wonder why his mentor wants to talk to us?

When I walked towards the dining room, I had a strong and strange feeling that everyone was staring at me. I knew I wasn't hallucinating when as I ate my apple and fought the urge to look for Kurt, Rachel told me:

"Why does everyone who is not a tribute is staring at you and Kurt?" She whispered and took a sip from her coffee. I looked up fast enough to see how about 20 pairs of eyes looked away from my direction and tried to look busy,5 more pair of eyes were still staring at me(just in a less obvious way) and the rest were staring at Kurt who was smiling and laughing with his friends. What was going on here?

It all becomes much, much worse when I entered the training center. All of the people that used to avoid looking at me Couse I wasn't interesting were now looking at me. What have I done? I walked to the furthest booth(the one where you learn how to light fire) in order for people to leave me alone but even then people reached out to me. The first was Rachel.

"So you found out why are they staring at you yet?" She said and sat next to me.

"Leave it, Rachel." I said, not even looking at her.

"Did you or didn't you?"

"I will second that question," I heard another voice I didn't recognize; I just knew she was one of the career tributes.

"Im sorry, who are you?" I tried to sound as polite as possible.

"The legendary Mercedes Jonas, singer, fashion icon and also your boyfriends best friend," she smiled at me and I tried to sound as convincing as possible when I said:

"He is not my boyfriend." and then, the strangest thing happened. I could hear about 5 people whispering things like yeah…right and sure you are. In sarcastic voices .I didn't knew what interfered me more, the fact that they all eavesdropped on us or the fact that they were now whispering stuff I couldn't hear but were probably about me. I looked at Kurt but he didnt seemed bothered with anything." no I don't know why, but I would like to find out."

"Then do it and make sure telling," she said and walked back to her place next to Kurt. I needed some answers. But before I could do something, I noticed Will was next to me signals me to stand up. I did and Rachel stood up after me.

"Whats wrong?" She asked him." We are in the middle of training,"

"You can go back to your business, I just need Blaine." He said and turned to me. "Bring your boyfriend and meet me outside in a minute."

"He is not my boyfriend," I defended and he just rolled his eyes at me.

"go." he ordered and walked out of the room. I took a deep breath and walked to Kurts direction.

"You," I started, trying to sound as cold as possible when I turned to Kurt who talked to me in the bitchiest voice I ever heard coming from him.

"What do you want hobbit?" he turned to me and fold his arms over his chest.

"Somebody wants to talk to us outside, now." I said and he nodded.

"See ya later guys," he said and walked towards the door, I quickly followed. I waited for the door to close behind us and that we passed the tracksuits guys before whispering.

"You had to bring up the hobbit thing didn't you?" he just rolled his eyes but smiled, his hand slipped into mine.

"Sorry, I was in character," he apologized and I smiled at him too until we saw Will and Emmas (who was standing next to him) faces.

"We have something to talk to you about," Emma whispered." Follow us and don't drag any intention to yourself." she whispered once more and then Will and her turned around and walked down the hall and towards the next one and the next one until we reached an area in the building Kurt and I didn't recognized.

For mentors only!

A sign spared in front of us but neither Will nor Emma seemed to mind. Finally we reached to a short hallway with only 3 doors. Will told us to enter to the last room and we did, Emma locking the door behind us.

"What is so important?" I asked.

"And why do we need to come all the way here to hear it?" Kurt added.

"Thats simple, we have no cameras here," Emma said.

"what we are about to tell you is top secret, we aren't really allowed to do it, but as your metros, we are supposed to do everything so you will win, so we thought we will make an exception." will said and pulled our attention toward the screen that was in the corner of the room.

"We want to show you a part from yesterdays The Glee Club okay?" Emma said and Kurt and I nodded. Not really understanding what happening. The screen came to life, presenting us a very thinking-he-is-so-handsome Rod Remington and Andrea Carmichael.

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Im Rod Remington,"

"And Im Andrea Carmichael,"

"And welcome to another show of The Glee Club, the show that brings you everything you need to know of what is happening behind the scenes of this years Glee Games. The tributes are only here for 2 days and still so much have happened."

"Our first topic is-" Will pressed fast forward in the remote controller.

"Aren't we supposed to watch this?" Kurt asked.

"Only what you need to see," Emma explained and everyones intention was back on the TV screen again.

"In the few minutes we left, there is the klaine riot everyone wants to hear more about," what the hell is klaine thought and by the look on Kurts face I could tell that he thought that too. My answer came quickly.

"For the people who dont understand what we are talking about, klaine  how we call our new favorite tribute couple, Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson, the male tributes from districts 2 and 10.we first saw their shocking meeting at the parade and then their 3 hour long talk on our roof-"

"All of their moments together available on our website,"

"I cant believe they let people watch this," Kurt said angry. I couldn't say anything Couse I was shocked and was busy imagining president Sues head spinning on a stick.

"I know this is upsetting guys, but listen." Will ordered.

"We all wanted to know what is really happening between them and now we got it, something happened only a few minutes ago in our movie room…"

"Oh god no." Kurt said in terror, a second before our entire would you be my boyfriend scene appeared on the screen. I buried my head in my hands in embarrassment.

"Please turn it off," I begged and Will did." what was that for?" I asked in frustration.

"You need to be happy about this; they are helping you get sponsors!" Emma cheered." I bet people were staring at you today?"

"Everybody was staring at us," Kurt corrected her." at Blaine mostly," he added and I looked at him confused." its true," he said to me.

"Thats because he is the miserable one," Will said.

"Im not miserable," I defended.

"You are, you loved the same boy for 12 years, you haven't seen him for 9 years and you still love him and when you say it he doesn't say it back, of course you are miserable." Emma said and I saw Kurt looking away from me, I squeezed his hand.

"I told you people here love love stories, and your love story is the best from all the other we have this year." He said without thinking and I saw how Emma sent him a warning look.

"What other love stories?" I asked.

"We cant tell you, it's a-"Emma started saying but Kurt interrupted her.

"It doesn't matter, what I want to know is how our relationship is good in any way? We are two guys in case you forgot."

"Kurts right, when we were at district 10,everywhere we went people Cursed us, threw stuff at us or beat us up…"I said and Kurt nodded.

"Well, its not like that here in the Gleetol, look, I saw a lot of the comments on your videos, people here really love you," Will said and Emma nodded.

"They say you changed their life, that you are bringing them hope," Emma added. "Because everything is against you, Kurt doesn't remember anything, you are two guys, coming from opposites worlds and on top of all you are entering a Glee game!"

"So we are about to die and they love it, how is that going to help?" Kurt asked.

"Because you are not necessarily going to die," Will said and looked to the door.

"Its locked and there aren't so many people here anyway, we are safe." Emma said and Will sighed before turning to me and Kurt.

"this year, the Gleetol noticed that the people are starting to be more…rebellious...so they decided to give them more hope, good things and show them how nice they are…so in this years games…we are going to have two winners." Both I and Kurt stared at him with shock for a few minutes, trying to take in the new information. Two winners. Both of us can go out alive after this.

"Really?" Kurt asked unbelievably and both of our mentors nodded. I on the other hand, couldn't talk at all. I had too many things going on in my head, both me and Kurt can live, that was good news but nobody can assure that is what going to happen so as hard as it was I tried not to get my hopes up.one of us can die and then what will be with the other one? I don't know if I will be able to say goodbye to Kurt now when I finally got him back....I was lost in my own thoughts for a while, until I felt Kurt pulling me towards the exit.

"Thank you, for everything." Kurt said to Emma and Will who only smiled back and nodded. Kurt and I walked at the empty hall.

"Wake up!" I heard Kurt saying and woke up from the trance I was under.

"w-what?" I mumbled and Kurt stopped walking and stood in front of me.

"Whats wrong with you? Are you sick? You haven't said a word and I had to drag you out of the room," he said in a worried voice and rests his hand on my forehead to check my temperature.

"Im fine, Im just…"I started saying but I sighed, not knowing what to say.

"Whats going on?" he asked me in a soft voice, pulling me closer.

"Not now, I need to know what they said while I was day dreaming." I tried to change the subject.

"you didn't missed a lot, they said to show a lot of PDA in front of the cameras and make sure the other tributes know nothing, but when I told them that Rachel and Mercedes already know they said we need to tell them that everything was an act to get sponsors, but thats fine Couse we are not gonna do half of those stuff." Kurt said simply and I raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Im not gonna look for a camera and then drag you into a fierce make out session in front of it!" Kurt said and blushed.

"That doesn't sound like such a bad idea…"I said and Kurt blushed redder. How cute can one person be?

"Enough with that, we have some serious things to do," Kurt said and grabbed my hand.

"Like what?"

"I think the training center is empty by now, so we can train. We need you to know how to fight until the games and one day is not a lot."

"I know how to fight," I said defensively.

"Sure you are," Kurt said sarcastically and rolled his eyes.

"I do!" I said in a surprisingly childish voice that made Kurt chuckled.

"So why aren't you training? I never saw you holding any weapon, let alone using one. The first day is going to be a blood bath, and I might not be able to protect you without it being obvious." Kurt said and I nodded.

"I know, but I have no choice, Will say we aren't supposed to show our strengths before the games." I said and Kurt sighed.

"what weapon do you use anyway?" he asked and I rubbed the back of my neck, not knowing what to answer." great…"Kurt sighed." you mentor apparently forgot the fact that you have to fight for your life in the Glee games, not only get sponsors."

"Well, we could have got a lot worse than that, Will and Emma must really want us to win if they are risking at telling and showing us things we are not supposed to know"

"Good point." Kurt said as we entered the training center after that people started at us all the way to here. "Come on. We don't have a lot of time before everyone will come back from lunch."

"Fine, what do we do first?" I said, ready to get my ass kicked.

"What weapon do you think is best for you?"

"I have no idea Kurt, on district 10 you don't have bows and arrows or bayonets or any of what we have here, if someone enter your house at midnight you just pick up the closest pan or guitar and go check whats wrong." I said and Kurt chuckled.

"So what are you good at?" Kurt asked and it took me a few seconds to answer.

"Everything that little people are usually good at, climbing, hiding, sneaking…"

"Thats good; Couse you will have to stay really low at the games so the other tributes wont make you a target. Not an important one at least." Kurt said and walked to where all the battle weapons were." come on, let start."

"Are you sure we should do it now? What if somebody catches us?"

"come on, you are my boyfriend, only to get sponsors of course, so its my job to help you, even if you cant win." he said and I smirked.

"how kind of you," I said and grabbed an ax from the wall and looked at Kurt with a sly smile." bring it on Hummel," I said in a teasing voice and Kurt smiled arrogantly. I was confident, which later appeared to be a very big mistake.

-Boom-

Kurt and I spent an hour at the dammed training center, trying to find a weapon for me to fight with, but nothing.

"Argh!" I fall on the ground once again, Kurt smirking above me.

"Maybe swords aren't your thing as well," he said, barely stopping himself from laughing. I rolled my eyes." we should try a shorter sword maybe," he said and offered me his hand.

"You are enjoying this aren't you?" I asked, taking his hand and standing up, walking to put the sword back in its place.

"I wasn't even trying," Kurt said defensively and followed me.

"Thats what you enjoyed it," I said and he smiled." Its hopeless, I will die at the first day anyway…."I said and Kurt sighed, walking closer to me and taking both of my hands in his own.

"First, nothing is hopeless. And second, you are not gonna die at the first day, or the second, or the third or any other day because Im not gonna let you, we are going to win this thing and we will live long and happy life, both of us." He looked me so deep in the eyes that I couldn't do anything but nodded.

"I havent tried the bows yet." I whispered and walked away from Kurt and picked out the closest bow, picked up an arrow from the large pile and stood in front of the human shaped target. I didnt really know what Im doing so I tried to copy what I saw in movies.

"What are you doing?" Kurt stood behind me.

"Maybe I shouldn't fight face to face with someone, I can just climb a tree and shot who ever get close." I said and aimed the arrow one last time before shooting.it hit the target.2 inches away from the heart. Neither Kurt nor I believed it.

"Are you sure its your first time?" Kurt asked me and I nodded slowly." so lets check if it wasn't beginners luck," he said and handed me another arrow." do it again," he ordered ad I took the arrow, this time aiming a little higher, hoping this one wont miss the target by too much. This time the arrow hit the heart.

"Thoughts?" I asked, proud of myself.

"Bows, it is." he said, wrapped his arm around my waist and pressed a short soft kiss on my lips.

"What was that for?" I whispered.

"We are one step closer to winning; we only have two more things to do." He said simply.

"Fighting till our death, and?" I asked and Kurt leaned closer to me so our lips were almost touching.

"Getting a lot of sponsors…"he whispered and I closed the distance between us. With all the moving lips and heavy breathing I barely noticed the sound of footsteps coming down the hallway.

"Did you hear that?" Kurt whispered and pulled away, stepping away from me.

"Everyone coming back," I said.

"I will see ya tomorrow okay? I cant go anywhere tonight or they will suspect." Kurt said and I nodded, running towards the other exit, closing the door behind me at the exact moment everybody else entered.

That night it was even harder than usual to fall asleep, and I woke up about 10 times during that night. I couldn't stop thinking about what the hell am I doing? I wasn't ready to any of this, I had no idea how am I going to survive, or if I am gonna end up sane after this. I took a deep breath. I had to do it, tomorrow is the last day we have at the Gleetol, I just need to give a great interview, eat a lot, and get a good night sleep(that for me seemed like the hardest mission) and then comes the almost impossible part, winning a Glee game.