"Dad, I gotta go. I'll be back in two weeks."

"You know I'm just a phone call away... ask the counselors if you can use the phone if you need me."

"I know, dad."

"And make sure you-"

"Dad! I have to go! I'll be okay."

"I'm sorry, it's just not every day that your twelve year old son leaves for two weeks."

"It's just camp, a lot of kids go. I'll be fine."

"Okay, I love you, Kurt."

"I love you too, dad."

Kurt hugged his father goodbye before heading onto the bus. He sat himself down, putting his bags down next to him. He looked out the window, but less than a second later was snapped out of his thoughts by a voice.

"Excuse me, can I ask you something? I'm new here."

Kurt turned his head to look at the boy.

"To camp, I mean. This camp, anyway."

"I am too, so I might not be the best person to ask if you have questions."

"Oh, well... I just wanted to know if this seat was taken. Everywhere else is full."

Kurt opened his mouth to speak, but the boy cut him off.

"If you'd rather sit alone, I could always stand until we get there..."

"Don't be silly, of course you can sit here." Kurt said as he moved his stuff. "My name's Kurt."

The boy smiled. "Blaine, nice to meet you."

"So, Blaine... first year too?"

Blaine nodded as he sat down, adjusting the baseball cap on his head. "Yeah. I use to go to another camp, but I didn't want to go back there this year."

"How come?"

"Well, I got picked on at that camp."

"Oh... I know the feeling, I get picked on at school a lot."

"Me too, so I guess I shouldn't be complaining."

Kurt bit his lip, looking the boy over. "I like your hat. My dad has a baseball cap just like that."

"Oh, thanks." Blaine smiled. "Normally I don't wear baseball caps."

"My dad wears them all the time."

"Don't get me wrong, they're cool and everything... it's just, I'm not really a hat person."

"Then why are you wearing one?"

"Well, I had to cut my hair off and I'm not sure if I like the way it looks now, so I was hiding it with the hat."

"Why'd you have to cut your hair off?"

"This kid at my school stuck his gum in it on the last day of school."

"Gross!"

"Yeah, I couldn't get it out, so my mom cut my hair shorter. I've never had short hair before, so I'm not sure if I like it."

"Well, take your hat off. I'll tell you how it looks."

"But..."

"I have great style when it comes to things like clothes and hair, just let me see."

Blaine sighed and removed the hat, biting his lip nervously.

"I like it!"

"Really?"

"Yeah! Your hair looks great short!"

Blaine smiled again. "Thanks."

"You're welcome."

Kurt smiled when Blaine kept the hat off.

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When they arrived at camp, Kurt was surprised to see Blaine go off by himself as they got off the bus. He had thought Blaine would want to stay with him... he'd thought they were becoming friends, maybe he was wrong, maybe Blaine just sat next to him because he had no where else to sit.

"Hey, kids! We're going to have a lot of fun this summer. My name is Coach Shannon and I'll be in charge of all the sports we play this summer. Over here is Mr. Will, he'll be teaching you all about music and performing, and then we have-"

Kurt tuned her out, looking at Blaine. He hadn't noticed how tiny Blaine was when they were on the bus. He sure was short.

"So go to Miss. Emma and she'll tell you all which cabins you'll be staying in!"

Kurt shook the thoughts out of his head, walking over to the nicely dressed woman who looked extremely uncomfortable being outdoors standing in the dirt.

"Okay, well, we have Finn Hudson, is Finn here?"

"That's you, man." a little boy with a mohawk said as he elbowed another boy who looked as though he hadn't been paying attention at all.

"Oh, here!"

"You are going to be in the green cabin, along with Noah Puckerman, Kurt Hummel, and Blaine Anderson."

The boy with the mohawk high fived the boy who apparently was Finn, obviously excited to be sharing a cabin with him. He knew he wasn't Blaine since he'd met Blaine on the bus, so this had to be Noah.

"Alright now... Rachel Berry, Mercedes-"

Kurt stopped listening again, watching as Finn and Noah went in search of their cabin, Kurt was about to follow, when he noticed Blaine.

"Hey! Looks like we're in the same cabin!" Kurt said, smiling as he raced over to Blaine. "How come you disappeared when we got off the bus?"

Blaine looked surprised by the fact that Kurt was excited to be in a cabin with him. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you still wanted to hang out, I thought I was getting on your nerves."

"Not at all! We can hang out all the time, if you'd like that."

Blaine smiled again. "Yeah, that sounds fun!"

"Great! I'm glad we're-" Kurt was going to say friends, but decided against it, afraid he'd scare Blaine off. "Cabin buddies now!"

"Me too!"

"Let's find our cabin." Kurt said, heading in the direction he saw Finn and Noah go moments before.

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"I don't get it, all the cabins are brown, where's the green one?"

"No, dude... that's just the name, we're not actually staying in a green cabin."

"Oh... well, what about this one, was one of our cabin mates names "Satan"?"

"Dude, that says Santana, that's a chick cabin."

"Oh..."

Kurt followed the sounds of the voices, smiling at the slightly taller boys.

"Hi, you're Noah and Finn, right? I'm Kurt Hummel, and this is Blaine Anderson, we're in the same cabin as you."

"It's Puck."

"Huh?"

"The name, I go by Puck."

"Oh, sorry."

"It's okay. Just don't call me Noah again."

"Do you have any idea where our cabin is?" Finn asked.

"I think it's over here, follow me." Kurt said. He was happy that Finn and Puck seemed so nice. He was so use to the boys his age picking on him. He watched as Blaine went a little further ahead of them, suddenly turning and shouting in their direction.

"Here's a cabin with a green sticker and our names on it!" Blaine said, Kurt smiled.

"Finally, we found it." His smiled turned into a frown however when he saw the inside. "This is it?"

"Yep!" Blaine said excitedly.

"I call top bunk!" Puck shouted as he threw his things on one of the two bunk beds, Finn taking the bunk below him.

"This place looks dirty."

"Who cares dude, it's camp!"

"Yeah, lighten up, Hummel."

Kurt glared at Puck before sighing.

"Which bunk do you want?" Blaine asked politely.

"Um, the bottom, I guess."

"Okay." Blaine said as he started putting his things on the top bunk across from Puck.

Okay, so maybe Kurt hadn't thought this summer camp thing through. Dirty cabins, sharing living space with three other boys, and he was pretty sure he heard something about sports earlier. Now he understood why his dad had tried so hard to talk him out of bringing clothes he actually cared about. Maybe it wasn't too late to call his dad and get out of this.

But when he looked at Blaine, he couldn't help but want to stay. Blaine seemed so shocked by Kurt wanting to sit with him, by Kurt being excited that they were in the same cabin. He obviously wasn't use to that... Kurt knew the feeling, and he couldn't just leave Blaine here all alone.

Maybe he could get through two weeks for Blaine. Maybe they'd become friends. Maybe this camp thing wouldn't be so bad. He could tough it out for Blaine's sake.

But as he watched Puck and Finn start a pillow fight, he sighed... this might be harder than he thought.