Kurts POV

"Ugh", Mercedes says looking at her Chemistry test. "I can't believe this. How come I have a D and you an A+, Kurt? Way to break a stereotype" Smiling at her I say "Well, I've never been a fan of stereotypes. Plus, I told you to study with me!" "Well, you know I've been on a date with Sam yesterday-"

Oh, of course I know. She told me at least 100 times about it. Bragged about it, that is.

" and it was just soo sweet we've been on that funfair in the city and he bought these little pink teddy bears! You know, these ones we've always wanted?"

She smiles, clearly thinking about the memory.

She looks pretty when she smiles, and she always smiles when she talks about Sam.

I ought to be happy for her, I tell myself, but it's really hard. "Anyway, we've spent all day together. So you can't blame me for, well, not acing that test!" I look at her. "Oh, yes I understand your situation. I mean, I would if I had a boy-"

"Oh, and when Sam kissed me! I mean, it was weird, that teddybear, the pink cotton-candy, the Ferris wheel, it was just... just like the very first time he kissed me, remember?"

First I think of this as a rhetorical question - Seriously, forget about her first kiss? She tells me about it every other second! As I don't answer immediately she asks startingly "Kurt? Hellllo? Did you forget it?"

"Maybe I would, if you let me" I joke and she laughs - almost like old times again, as suddenly a high voice tears our moment apart.

"I cannot believe what is happening here", Rachel squeals, walking determinedly towards us, followed by the other Glee Club members into the light Choir room. "A wild Rachel appears", I murmur under my breath.

Rachel's voice becomes higher when Mercedes starts laughing at my joke. "What is so funny, Mercedes? Guys, hereby I call an emergency meeting, fellow glee clubbers."

She goes up to the front with her arms akimbo and waits for everyone to sit down. "As it seems there has been a case of, well how can I put it - " "Screwed up tests!""Even though I wouldn't have put it into these exact words - Noah is right. Except for Mike and Tina everyone failed the science tests! Except for Mike and Tina, everyone did! Even me !" Rachel looks horrified by the mere thought. "First, I failed that test, too so could you please stop being so racist?", Tina asks. Her dark hair shows blue highlights." And, second, I heard that Kurt got an A+" Yes, damn right. I spent so many nights studying and now all of that work had paid off.

My grades couldn't be better which is so going to help me to get into NYU. There's no way that I'm going to stay here forever.

No chance. "You did?", Brittany asks in amazement - wait, it's not just her.

Why does everyone besides Mercedes and Tina look so amazed? Excuze-moi? "Yes, I did, Brittany." I answer cooly. Or, at least I hope it comes off cool. I probably sounded like Brittany when she's drunk. There's an awkward silence Rachel interrupts "Well, what I meant to say is that we should probably be focusing on school work more. While my dads would never let anything get in the way of my opportunity to perform, I gathered that not all parents share that way of thinking. This was just a friendly reminder. Since Mr Shue is currently sick I took the liberty of undertaking the glee club for that undefined amount of time. Oh, and I have a splendid idea for this week's assignment!"

"Oh this is going to be good." someone says and everyone knows what is going to happen now.

"Who said you could rule this place just cause Mr Shue takes a week off?", Santana asks. "It is not my intention to rule this place, I just want to- " "play the boss? "No! Directing a glee club means taking responsibility and there's a lot of stuff to do and I simply wanted to protect you guys from that, from that... effort. Furthermore Finn and me are the captains ever since you elected us and..." "Elected ?" Santana laughs without humour. "What do you think you are now, president? We simply chose you guys because we didn't want beards drawn on our faces which wouldn't have made a difference for you and your nasty facial hair" She shakes her black hair and purses her lips provokingly "But if I recall all of us were in the photo which pretty much makes the voting invalid"

Rachel hesitates and that's when the only guy I've ever fallen for - aka my step brother ( our parents married later!)- stands up for his girlfriend "Guys, I think Rachel is really just trying to help you when she directs glee club! It's not like she's giving all the solos to herself" he looks anxiously at Rachel "You aren't, are you?"

"Of course I'm not! Actually I just wanted to introduce this week's assignment." She goes up to the board and writes in black capital letters Chemistry.

Usually I'm all worked up for an assignment. But, chemistry seriously? How am I supposed to write about Chemistry when I don't even... have it with someone? No sparks flying anywhere, who am I kidding? I haven't even had a boyfriend yet!

"All of us should be able to find a song about Chemistry, I myself have found about eleven songs I will most certainly present for you guys! It's not rocket science so I hope everyone will gladly present their songs in the course of this week" "Rocket science is science about rockets " Brit, of course. All of us share a half confused half unbelieving look when Rachel says "I've been studying for Chemistry for about a week so, naturally, I thought I would ace this test, so this is why I came up with this wonderful assignment. As the captain of glee club I already prepared a number which I would like to present now. You can tell me how excellent it was afterwards" Chemicals React by Aly and AJ starts playing and Rachel starts singing. You can say what you want about her but she really can sing and she doesn't only sing it's like she's giving a song a complete new meaning, a new life only she knows about.

You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm walkin' on broken glass
Like my worlds spinnin' in slow motion
And you're movin' too fast

Her voice sounds incredible when she ends the song:

Welived
Weloved
Wehurt
wejumped
We'reright
We'rewrong
We'reweak
We'restrong
Welivedtolove

But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
Watch the chemicals react
And just like that
The chemicals react

"I hope I gave you enough inspiration for your own song choice", Rachel quickly shouts over the sound of the ringing bell as we move out of the room. Sometimes I pity Rachel. People don't give her enough credit - well, they'd if she wasn't so annoying - anyway she tries so hard to please us. Despite her flaws she has actually always been there for us and I really miss her and our sleepovers with Mercedes.

Since they both have been dating it's like they completely forgot about me, like I don't matter. Which I do when it comes to my dad. Like she knows what I'm thinking she comes up to me "Kurt, is something wrong? You didn't look so pleased during the song. I know it isn't quite our genre still I'm always open to expand my singing range and -" "The song was incredibly well sung, Rachel. It's just ... Can I tell you something? Do you promise not to tell Finn?" "I- sure, Kurt, what's wrong?" "I- I am just lonely I guess. I feel like I don't have anyone to talk to and-" "But you have Mercedes, and me, and Finn, and- well you have all of us. You know that you have our back, don't you?"

"Of course, Rachel still I think...well, you wouldn't understand anyway" I give up and want to go but there's something in her eyes telling me not to. "You may be lonely but you're never alone. I guess I know where this is coming from. How about the two of us going to Breadstix tonight? We could, well, look at the ... food they have there? I mean you don't need to go if you don't want to but ... I'd really love you to go with me." "That sounds perfect! After school?"