Burt's three-week-long hospital stay and the funeral left Kurt with an amount of bills that even the sale of his father's garage and his childhood home could just barely pay off.

Fortunately since his father had already signed the emancipation papers when he applied to college, at least now child services couldn't interfere with his plans. After some calculating Kurt found he just had enough money for a one-way ticket to New York and a week in a crappy motel left.

Of course Juilliard being not just some school but the best in the whole country, tuition there is sort of steep (meaning every semester costs a student about 30.000$). Needless to say there was no way for Kurt to get that kind of money (nobody would hire a 17-year-old without experience and the bank refused to give him a student loan without any securities for something as „uncertain" as ballet).

His only chance was the „Special Honors Scholarship", which was Juilliard's way of giving exceptional talent the necessary resources to make it big. Every semester one candidate was chosen by every faculty for whom the entire costs of their education at the school would be covered. Considering the amount of applicants every semester the chance of being elected were about one in a million.

But it was Kurt's only option left so he sat all his hopes on being that one. He knew he had the talent in him, he just had to make them see it, too.

If he failed he would need to find a job soon (unless he wanted to be homeless, which he didn't) and find a new dream. But he wouldn't think of failure now because he had one chance to show them all of himself, one chance to make it right. And he intended on taking it.

So on the 25th of July Kurt Hummel found himself getting off a plane for the first time of his life and stepping into the city of his dreams to get to the audition of his lifetime.