I woke up in my own bed this morning. Who knows how my mum managed to carry me. Well, I guess I am short…

It wasn’t long after I got ready and had breakfast that mum was dropping Abbey and I back to school again. “Bye Mum.”
“Be careful sweetheart. I love you.” She told me. I smiled back at her. “Bye Abbey.”
“Gee, Thanks. I love you too, mum.” She replied with a cocky grin. I saw my mother roll her eyes before she started to drive off.

Once again I ended up in the hallway. And again I felt that fear that at any moment I was going to get hurt.

I found my new locker and decided to dump all my textbooks. I was carefully organizing my books when I felt a pair of hands snake around my waist. I jumped assuming I was going to get attacked. I turned around just to see Kurt hugging me.

“Sorry,” he apologised. “ I didn’t mean to scare you! I just like hugs.” He confessed. I smiled at him. I forgot exactly how gorgeous this boy was. “It’s not your fault. I just have to get used to thinking that not everyone wants to hurt me here.” I told him, so I wouldn’t hurt his feelings. He looked at me apologetic.
“I would never hurt you. “

I smiled him. I decided to break the tension. “How was watching the Lion King?” I asked him. He just started to ramble on about the movie and I tried to pay attention but my eyes kept wandering from his lips to his eyes.

I saw him laugh and we just stared at each other. Out of the blue, I felt like an ice burg hit my face. I opened my eyes, which were stinging. Kurt and I had been slushied. I saw these Jocks insulting us. I couldn’t make out much of what they were saying except the word ‘fags.’

As soon as the jocks turned at the end of the hallway. Kurt pulled me into the bathroom. “I am incredibly sorry, Blaine!” He sobbed. “If you didn’t hang out with me this wouldn’t of happened!”
“Hey Kurt. Kurt. Calm down. Listen to me. It’s all ok. I’m used to all this. “ T assured him. “They slushied you at your old school?” Kurt asked as he began cleaning my face. “Yeah. “ I told him.

Once we were clean. I was staring at my clothes. All stained with red dye. Lucky I have a jacket I left in my bag. I put it on and saw Kurt staring at me. “What?” I asked him playfully. “Your hair looks so cute when it’s not gelled!” He told me smiling.

Oh, god. I didn’t see it before. It looks ridiculous. I won’t have time to fix it before class. Kurt however was still smiling at me. “Come on, curly. Let’s get to class.” He said, as he grabbed my hand and took me out of the bathroom.

By the time lunch came around, we had no other encounters with any jocks, which was great. I also found out so much more about Kurt. I found out he was really close with his Dad. Also he loves cooking and his coffee order is a non-fat mocha. I also discovered that he looks like his mum. He was also telling me about all his Glee club drama.

He told me to come and sit with them all at lunch. I agreed. Not knowing what was in store. If Kurt loved all of them, they must be great people. Right?

Kurt led me to the table and I saw a group of kids goofing around. They all looked different. I smiled. There were jocks and cheerleaders as well as nerdy looking kids as well as a kid in a wheel chair and a Goth looking Asian girl. I felt for once that I might be able to belong.

“Hey guys.” Kurt said grabbing all of his friends’ attention. “This is my new friend Blaine. He is from Westerville. I invited him to come sit with us.”

I was greeted with a bunch of smiling faces. I was so shocked. I was never greeted like this in any other place I’ve been to. It was so uncanny and surreal!

“Blaine.” Kurt said patting my shoulder, “this is Santana, Brittany, Tina, Mike, Artie, Mercedes, Quinn, Rachel, Finn, Sam and Puck.”

“Hey, guys. Thanks for letting me sit with you.” I told them sitting down. I wonder if they know I’m deaf. I mean, if they are close to Kurt, he may have told them. Not that it’s a secret or anything.

Sooner or later that Rachel girl began to talk to me. “So Blaine, will you be joining Glee club?” She asked and her face looked quite serious. Before I could reply she quickly started talking again. “I think it would be great if you do. I think we need more singers in the background while I am showcasing my talent.”

I couldn’t do anything but stare at her. Was this chick for real? I mean seriously? Didn’t Kurt say they were like a family? Doesn’t everyone get solos or whatever? I did see that Cheerleader, Santana, roll her eyes.

“Umm, sorry Rachel. I won’t be joining. I don’t sing.” I told her. “I’m deaf.”
“Oh, I’m sorry.” She apologised genuinely.
“I don’t care if you’re deaf. You’re hot.” Santana chimed in. I blushed hard. Oh god, I saw Kurt laughing.

I saw the blonde cheerleader, Brittany; I think her name was, staring at me. “Is everything ok?” I asked her.
“Are you a dolphin?” She spat out.
What? Did she just say dolphin? What?

“Umm, sorry?” I asked her.
“Are you a dolphin?” She asked again as if it made perfect sense. “Oh, Dolphins are gay Sharks, by the way.”

Wait, what I’m still confused. I looked to Kurt.

“She is asking if you’re gay.” He informed me.

“Oh, Yes. I am g….a dolphin.” I told her. She suddenly looked so excited.
“Does that mean you and Kurt are going to be Dolphins together and make Gaybies?” She asked.

I saw most people on the table blushing and laughing. “Uh, Britt. Don’t think so.” Kurt answered for me. And I swear I saw the dark girl, Mercedes say “Yet.”

The rest of Lunch was great. I talked to most of the guys (besides Kurt) about Football and to the girls about Vogue magazine and other fashion news.

At a point I caught my sisters’ eye from across the room and she was smiling at me. Wow, I’m sitting with a group of friends. Never would I have though this would be happening.

I look over at Kurt and I know he can sense my joy. New happiness, with friends. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

By our lockers that afternoon, Kurt was warning me about Karofsky and Azimo.

“They may be thick in the head. But they are strong. And I care about you. I don’t want them to hurt you. So watch out. Please.” He pleaded.
“Of course.” I replied.

“Anyway, Blaine do you want to go out for coffee this afternoon?” Kurt asked me.
“ You’d like to go somewhere out of school with me?” I asked him.
“Uh, yeah I did ask that.” He pointed out, laughing.
“I’d love to Kurt.” I replied as we shut our lockers and headed out side. “Hang on, I just have to text my mum.” I told him as I pulled my phone out. Slowly sending my mum a message.

The car trip to the coffee shop was short and we didn’t speak much. We soon approached a cute shop called the Lima Bean.

“Hi, I’d like a medium drip and a non-fat mocha please.” I ordered, smiling. I knew I remembered Kurt’s coffee order and I truly wanted to see his face.

“Ahh, remembered my coffee order I see.” He teased.
“Of course, I did.” I replied with a wink.
If we weren’t flirting before we were so totally doing it now.

When we got our coffees we sat at a table in the corner. Kurt began to speak as soon as we sat down.

“So, I’ve talked so much about me. Tell me more about you.” Kurt demanded, sweetly. “Well, there isn’t much to tell.” I told him. Kurt rested his hand on mine, still hot from the coffee cup. “Please Blaine. I want to know you.” Kurt stared at me with his gorgeous eyes and I knew I couldn’t resist.

“Well, like I said there isn’t much. My passion is art. I love it especially drawing. I want to pursue it once I’m finished with school. I love Disney and Tim Burton. So I’d like to work for animation or something. It’ll be fun. I also love watching tv, my favourite show right now would have to be Doctor who, because I love the sense of escaping reality. And I am obsessed with Harry Potter. I’ve been deaf my whole life so I have subtitles on my tv the whole time. That’s pretty much it. Anything I don’t know about you?” I finished.

“Wow, Blaine. That’s incredible. You have to show me some of your drawings sometime.” Kurt commented.
“Well, I don’t know if they are any good.” I confessed to him.
“ If you are passionate about it, I’m sure it’s incredible!” He told me truthfully. “Well, I’m sure I’ve mentioned everything about me. Finn, one of the guys you met at lunch is my stepbrother. Umm, until you came I was the only out gay guy at our school. So thank you. I’m pretty sure you know everything. Like how I love fashion and Broadway. “ Kurt rambled.

“You’re cute.” I hadn’t meant to say it out loud but it accidently slipped. I felt my cheeks flushing as I grabbed drunk more coffee to hide behind the cup.

Kurt just smiled and once again held my hand.