David knew he was truly fucked when Wes stopped answering his calls. Jeff knew he was screwed when Kurt didn’t turn up to their fortnightly karaoke tournament. Nick knew he was damned to hell when Blaine never showed up for the private screening of Harry Potter they had promised to attend. They knew they had committed a mistake and Sebastian had apologized and apparently all was well, but they knew it wasn’t.

          Nick sometimes wished he had more balls. Like when he accepted the role of male soloist as endorsed by Blaine and voted on by the council only to shove off as soon as Sebastian came in. He literally obliterated the rule that the council ensures a fair judging by letting Sebastian run rod shod all over their work. To agree to go for a dance-off on the streets when they had vowed only to sing in public when coerced by a really close friend (even though the Gap was a disaster), the mistakes piled up like it was competing with the highest mountain and the question they all had was :

WHY DID THEY PUT UP WITH IT WHEN SEBASTIAN WASN’T EVEN THEIR FRIEND?

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          During Regionals, the maximum reaction they’d had was a formal nod from Blaine, one that he usually gave to the teachers back at Dalton. Kurt just gave them his bitch stare, the one he had said he would never give them because they would never do anything to fuck up that bad. After Regionals, at least according to Sebastian they were better but not friends. But for them, the most beautiful friendship which they had had for three years, vanished. They sometimes wished they had gone to see Blaine at his place as opposed to Blaine coming to Dalton to invite them to West Side Story. It would have meant they took all the pains that Sebastian made them go through while their friendship with Blaine would still have been intact.  

          It had come to the point where they had to scour the sites the New Directions put their videos on to get a glimpse of Blaine in it. It reminded them of all the times they had sat together in Blaine’s bedroom to see Kurt signing “4 minutes” on repeat. They had even tried going to the Lima Bean as they knew Kurt and Blaine were regulars there, but the blazers were quite a bit obvious and Blaine would rush away immediately.

          So when they saw an online poll with Blaine mentioned, their curiosity was piqued immediately. The question read as: “Since the talented (and loud-mouthed) Rachel Berry graduated, the newly popular show-choir group of McKinley High needs a new soloist. We have narrowed it down to four and need your opinion.

“The four options are:

Tina Cohen-Chang

Blaine Anderson

Brittany S. Pierce

Wade (Unique) Adams.

          They decided that even if they never got to talk to Blaine again, they could probably help out in secret ways, like one of those secret angels, but utterly human. They called a Warbler meeting almost immediately.

          When all the singers turned up and questioningly started looking at David, he said, “Even though we apologized, the hurt we caused Blaine is still too deep, yes offense Sebastian, and so we’ll repay him in the only way possible at the moment.” At the prompting of some junior, he continued, “There’s an online poll going on to decide the new soloist of New Directions and Blaine is a contender. I say, we all vote for him. And by all, I mean the entire student body who knew Blaine. They all loved him and this will be a nice, discreet way of helping him.

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          Later that afternoon, when Trent, Jeff and Nick went to the Lima Bean, they saw Kurt serving some cappuccinos to three girls sitting at a corner table. They waited till his attention was on them and once he came over, he formally asked, “What would you like to order?”

          Jeff said, “We request forgiveness and want to be friends again.” Kurt signaled to the owner that he was taking a break and sat down with them.  He said, “I’ll tell you one thing. Blaine doesn’t give his trust out that easily after the Prom debacle that happened at his old school. I, myself am so honored that he let me inside his defenses so easily. He actually trusted you guys. You were the ones who metaphorically and somewhat literally took care of him after he suffered through what was literally a gay-bashing. And once he had transferred to another school not only to be with me, but also to face his demons, you had to bring it up by bullying him.”

          Nick started to speak, but Kurt shushed him, “Don’t. You know this was coming for a long time. You guys know how much I confessed that the slushies hurt our eyes and sometimes even water would not help the burning. And then, you go and tell that to Sebastian, getting all buddy-buddy and then shove that trust in Blaine’s face, throw it down and stamp on it like a herd of elephants? Did you know we were going to report you till Blaine said he didn’t want your college applications to be declined because of it?”

          Kurt then realized they had an audience and immediately blushed at the speech he had given. But they did deserve it. He then calmly stated, “You’ll have to ask forgiveness only from Blaine. Now, would you like to order, sirs?”