“Are you sure about this? I mean, we encouraged you to be friends with Kurt. But confronting this guy was not part of the plan. You don’t need to do this.” David says, keeping his hands on the wheel. “ I told you, I’d rather be there, Kurt thinks it’s the right thing to do, he doesn’t have to do it alone.” I respond. “Just text us the moment something bad happens, nobody knows we left.” Wes adds. “I will.” I promise.

����������� We get to the parking lot at McKinley High,I text Kurt to say �where I am and a few minutes later he walks over to us. “Hey..hi Wes, David, nice to see both of you again.” His eyes are still a bit puffy, he seems tired and weak. “Lead the way.” I say, patting Wes goodbye, they look worried, I feel nauseous. “They drove you here.” Kurt speaks. “ Yeah I don’t have a car.” It was taken until they’re sure I don’t drive it through a wall. “Thanks for doing this, Blaine.” Kurt says.
����������� He pushes me behind a tree. “There he is.” Kurt points out a burly guy, brown hair, jock jacket, backpack. Kurt was right, this guy’s gigantic. I lean on the tree for support.

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“No, Seth let’s just leave.” I plead. “ Blaine, you have to fight back, we will fight back.”
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I take a deep breath. Place my free hand onto my eyes. “Blaine?” Kurt asks.
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BAM! “Let him go you asshole!” Seth screams. I drop to the floor clutching for air, people will notice a small dent in the lockers tomorrow. But they never do anything about it..“What are you gonna do about it Fletcher?” my attacker screams into Seth’s face. “Make sure you won’t be able to wake up the next day if you lay your hands on him again.” “You got some nerve threatening me. I could take you both down with one swipe.” “You don’t scare me.”
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“Don’t be afraid. I’ll be right here. Have fun tonight.” Seth whispers.
“Thanks. I will.” He walks into the gymnasium �with Tricia. And Justin takes my hand, we walk under the cheesy banner. It reads The Sadie Hawkins Dance.
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“I’m..I’m..fine. It’s probably the blazer, or my necktie’s a bit tight. Never you mind. So shall we?.” I say. “Okay”, Kurt replies. I sense some fear there. Of course he’s terrified, I’m terrified and I don’t even know the guy. “Don’t be afraid. I’ll be right here.” And I start walking toward the direction of Kurt’s tormentor.

Kurt follows behind me as Karofsky walks down the stairs: “I got you back.” I say as I take a deep breath knowing this will not end well.

“Excuse me,”

“Hey, lady boys. This your boyfriend, Kurt?” �

“Kurt and I would like to talk to you about something.”

“I gotta go to class.” He shoves Kurt to get past us.

“Kurt told me what you did.” This is gonna piss him off for sure. �

“Oh yeah? What's that?” He snarls.

“You kissed me” Kurt speaks, He looks so vulnerable.

“I don't know what you're talking about.” Karofsky makes sure no one hears.

I start to get to the point, what we came here to do. He starts to walk away. “It seems you might be a little confused, and that's totally normal. This is a... a very hard thing to come to terms with, and you should just know that you're not alone.” He snaps.

“Do not mess with me!” The next thing I feel is a boulder crashing through me, the wire fence ringing in my ear. He’s could knock me out right here. I’m ready for it.

But it does not happen. “ You have to stop this!” Kurt screams. He pushes Karofsky off me and I gasp for air. Kurt just did that. Vulnerable, compassionate Kurt had the strength to push this giant away..

“ Well, he's not coming out anytime soon.” I manage to say, Swiping the creases off my blazer and breathing in and out. We’re okay. Karosfky now out of sight.

����������� Kurt sits on the stair tread, we did not succeed. He has his head down when I ask: “What’s going on? Why are you so upset.” “Because until yesterday I had never been kissed...or at least, one that counted.” I fall silent. Poor Kurt , his first kiss, stolen like that. I have nothing. No words I know can comfort him. “Come on,” I say. “I’ll buy you lunch.” Yes, I can offer a distraction, maybe we can talk about sectionals again over some food. I take out my phone, send a quick message to Wes saying that everything’s fine.

Kurt drives us to a local restaurant, Breadstix. He manages to smile when I open the door and let him in first.

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