Kurt walked into his English class and sat down in his usual spot next to Mercedes and Tina.

"Hey Kurt!" Mercedes greeted him.

"Hey Girls." he replied.

"So, did you choose a song to sing for Gle Club yet?" Tina asked when Kurt sat down.

"I did." Mercedes said proudly.

"What is it?" Kurt asked.

"It's a secret." Mercedes winked.

"Well, whatever it is, I bet it will be amazing. I honestly don't know what I'm going to sing yet."

"Do you have any ideas?" Tina asked

"yeah, but nothing I'm really positive about." Kurt shrugged.

The bell rang loudly and everyone quieted down as the teacher, Mr. Flint, came walking in.

"Morning class." he said. "First thing's first. We have a new student." Mr Flunt looked down to his dest and skimmed his roll sheet. "Blaine.... Anderson?" 

He scanned the classroom looking for a new face. His eyes locked onto a boy sitting behind Kurt.

Kurt turned around to look at the boy. He was staring down at the desk as if he was ignorning everyone. He was small and his clothes looked pretty old and dirty. He didn't have anything with him except a torn notebook and a pencil.

"Blaine, would you like to come up and introduce yourself?" Mr. Flint said.

Blaine didn't say anything. He stood and walked towards the teacher and faced the class, but his eyes were staring down at his worn out shoes. 

"Go ahead." He said putting an encouraging hand on Blaine's shoulder.

Blaine looked up to the class. His eyes were a beautiful shade of hazel brown. Kurt couldn't look away. He felt like he could stare at them forever. 

"My name's Blaine." he said softly. "I'm 17 and a Junior. I transferred from Westerville Public High." 

"Uhh... Okay. That works." Mr. Flint said. "Thank you, Blaine. You can take your seat now."

Kurt watched as Blaine walked back over to the seat behind him. Mercedes passed a note over to Kurt. "He's kinda cute ;)" it said.

Kurt didn't reply to the note. He only smiled and tried to focus his attention to Mr. Flint ranbling on about the weekley schedule. 

But he couldn't. He could only think about Blaine's beautiful, hazel eyes, and how they sparkled when he look up and the lights bounced off his pupils. 

"Aright! Next thing on the list." Mr. Flint said loudly, cutting off Kurt's train of thought. "This semester, I want to try something different. Partners. Everyone is going to have a partner and every month or so, I will assign you and your partner a book to read and to write a report on." 

"I call Susie!" A girl called out. 

"Nope. I will choose your partners."

Everyone groaned. 

"But-" Mr.Flint paused. "I will put you suggestions into consideration. Everyone take out a sticky note and write down up to three names in this class that you want to be your partners for the rest of the year, and I'll look over them."

Kurt, Mercedes and Tina write each other's names on a sticky note that Mercedes provided.

Everyone handed in their papers to Mr. Flint. After about 20 minuets of looking over them, he finished. 

"Alright guys. Settle down." He started calling out names. "Tina. You and Mercedes will be partners." Kurt saw the two girls high five each other.

"Sorry, Kurt." Tina whispered. Kurt only smiled at her.

Great. He thought.  I'll probraly be stuck with Alzimio.

"Kurt. You and Blaine will be partners." Kurt raised an eyebrow and smile.

Mercedes poked Kurt in the stomach, mouthing to him lucky

“The first book you will be reading this semester is The Catcher in the Rye. It will be due in 4 weeks. That sould be more then enough time to finish. You’re all going to have to check out a book from the library or buy your own copy.

I want you to discuss with your partner your plans for the book report for the last few minuetes of class time.”

Kurt turned around to Blaine. He was resting his head in his arms on the table. “Hi.” Kurt said. “I’m Kurt.” Blaine lifted his head and gave him a small smile.

“I'm Blaine.” He said softly.

“So, how do you want to do this? You want to split up the book; you read half, I read half and we compare notes? Or we can both read the whole thing together.”

“Actually,” Blaine interrupted. “I’ve already read the book.”

“Oh, you have?” Blaine nodded. “That’s good then. I’ve also already read it. So this is going to be easy. We can just exchange notes, write up the report and we’ll be done. Do you want to get started after school today?”

“Could we do it later? I kinda have some things to do today.” Blaine said quietly.

“Okay, no need to get started right away. It’s due in a couple weeks, so we have time.”

The bell rang and everyone gathered their things to second period.

“What about this weekend?” Blaine suggested softly.

“Okay, works for me. Do you want to meet at the library or we can go over to my house?” Kurt said as he walked out of the classroom with Blaine.

“Library would be nice.”

“Okay it’s settled.

So where are you going next?”

“Uhm... I don’t know.” Blaine took out a sheet of paper from his dirty jacket. Kurt looked over his shoulder to look. 

“We have the same class. French with Madame Lori. We can walk there together.” Kurt smiled and lead the way.

The two walked together in silence. “Here we are!” Kurt said, breaking the silence, when they reached the classroom. “Madame Lori? This is Blaine. A new student.” Kurt said to the teacher.

Madame Lori smiled at Blaine and shook his hand. “Bonjour Blaine! Ravi de vous rencontrer! S'il vous plaît prendre un siège où vous voulez.” [Hello Blaine! Nice to meet you! Please take a seat wherever you want.]

“Très bien, merci.” [Very well, thank you.] Blaine replied to her.

“You can sit next to me.” Kurt said with a friendly smile.

They sat down in the second row to the front. “So, how long have you taken French?” Kurt asked. 

Blaine hesitated for a moment. “About 2 years. But my mom taught me a little when I was younger.”

“Bienvenue à la classe! Nous allons commencer” [Welcome to class! We will start.] Madame Lori interupped.

For the rest of the hour, Kurt and Blaine didn’t talk to each other. After French, Kurt told Blaine directions to his next class, and went their separt ways.

Kurt didn’t see Blaine for the rest of the day, besides lunch. Blaine was sitting at the table in the corner of the cafeteria by himself. He wasn’t eating anything. All he had was a bottle of water. And Kurt was pretty sure Blaine was reading a book of some kind.

At one point, Blaine looked up to find Kurt staring at him. Kurt gave him a little wave and a smile, and he smiled back. Kurt was going to sit with him, but before he could walk over, Blaine got up and left the cafeteria. 

****

The next day, Mr. Flint gave the class time to work on their reports. Blaine and Kurt both decided they would write notes on the book and they would write up the report together. So they both skimmed through the book, and quickly wrote down notes, until class ended.

During lunch, Kurt didn’t see Blaine at all, so he sat with the rest of the Glee club members like always. About fifteen minuets before class ended, Kurt walked over to his locker to get a book for his next class. As he was passing the auditorium, he heard smooth music being played on the piano. Kurt walked in and sat in the highest row, hopefully unseen. 

It was Blaine. He was playing the piano in the middle of the stage.

The song was slow and familiar. Then Blaine started to sing.

Let’s go all, the way tonight.

No regrets,

Just love.

We can dance, until we die.

You and I, we’ll be young forever.

Kurt snuck out when Blaine finished the song and walked off the stage.

He grabbed his book from his locker and walked back to the cafateria to meet his friends.

“What took you so long?” Mercedes asked.

“Nothing. I just stopped to talk to the friend on the way.” Kurt replied smiling to himself.