"Sorry, Mr. Will. I was warming up, I'll go put it on now." Kurt said with a smile.

He started towards the boys dressing room, only stopping when he spotted Blaine.

He didn't think he'd ever seen Blaine look so sad before.

Was something wrong? Was he getting nervous again?

Putting on his costume could wait.

"Why so sad? I thought you said last night that you weren't as nervous anymore."

"I'm not nervous." Blaine said as he looked down at his feet.

"Then why are you crying?"

"I'm not crying."

"You look like you're crying."

"Well, I'm not. I just... got some of the fur from my costume in my eyes."

"Blaine, why are you lying to me?"

Blaine bit his lip and continued to look down.

"If you're nervous, you can tell me."

"I'm not nervous. Well, I am, but that's not what this is about."

"Then what's it about?"

Blaine sniffled and continued to look down at his feet.

"Blaine..." Kurt sighed and pulled his friend into a hug, rubbing his back lightly. "It's okay, whatever it is, I'm sure it can't be that bad. You'll feel better once you're out onstage performing, that always makes me feel better."

Blaine hugged him back and buried his face in Kurt's shoulder.

"You're going to be amazing. I think so, the whole cast thinks so."

"My parents..." Blaine mumbled into Kurt's shoulder.

"I'm sure they're going to love your performance."

"No, they're not... they're not coming."

Kurt blinked a few times in surprise and pulled away to look at Blaine. "What?"

"They're not coming to see the show anymore."

"But... why not?"

"Well, I didn't think they were going to have the time, but I invited them anyway, and they said they were going to come." Blaine wiped the tears off his face, or at least attempted to, it was a bit hard with the paws the costume had covering his hands. "But Miss Emma just said they called and told her they didn't have time."

"I'm sorry, Blaine."

"It's okay... they never have time to come see me."

Kurt frowned. "Never?"

"No, they missed my school science fair too, and when I was in the spelling bee..." He sighed. "I guess I should've seen it coming, I just thought they were really going to come to this one..."

Kurt didn't know what to say. It wasn't fair that Blaine's parents never came to see anything he did. But what could he do?

He pulled Blaine into another hug, rubbing small circles into his back again.

"Don't worry, Blaine. Mr. Will said they're going to tape the show, you can always show your parents the tape later." That didn't seem to comfort Blaine too much.

"You can have my dad."

"What?"

"I'm sharing my dad with you. He's out in the audience, we'll just pretend my dad is your dad too, then you'll have somebody out there who's cheering for you."

"You mean... you're going to share your daddy with me?"

"Why not?"

Blaine smiled a bit. "Thank you, Kurt."

"You're welcome." Kurt said before pulling away from the hug. "I have to put on my costume, the show starts in a half hour."

He started walking towards the dressing room, but stopped as a thought came to him.

He wasn't in costume yet... he could sneak out and see his dad.

He made sure no one was watching him as he snuck into the audience, looking around for his father.

He smiled when he finally spotted him.

"Dad!" Kurt shouted, racing over to his father.

"Kurt, what are you doing, I though all the campers had to stay backstage."

"I had to tell you something before the show started, it's really important!" Kurt stated. "My best friend Blaine is playing the cowardly lion, and his parents cancelled on him. They said they didn't have the time to see him in the show."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

"So I told him we could share a dad for today so that he would have a parent in the audience. I just wanted to make sure you cheered a lot when he bows, so that he has a dad who's proud of him."

Burt smiled. "You are your mother's son." Kurt smiled too. "You got it, kiddo."

"Thanks, dad. You're the best." Kurt said, hugging him before running backstage to change into his costume.

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So far, the show was going just as it was suppose to. Not a single mistake was made.

"Do you suppose we'll run into any wild animals?" Rachel asked.

"We might." Tina replied.

"Animals that eat straw?" Kurt did his best to sound scared.

"Some, but mostly lions, and tigers, and bears." Tina stated.

"Lions?" Rachel said over dramatically.

"And tigers?" Kurt added.

"And bears." Tina said. Kurt couldn't help but notice she hadn't stuttered once since the show started.

"Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my." Rachel started, soon, all three of them were chanting that line over and over, waiting for Blaine to make his entrance.

Kurt glanced off stage, and felt a little nervous because... Blaine looked terrified back there. What if he got too scared to come onstage? Sure, Kurt said he would cover for him if he made any mistakes... but how could he cover up Blaine not even coming out?

But Blaine took a deep breath before racing out onto the stage and roaring as loudly as he could, causing Rachel to scream and Kurt and Tina to stumble back in fear, just like they were suppose to.

Kurt wished his character wasn't suppose to be so terrified, because he wanted so badly to smile when Blaine got every single line right.

His performance was perfect. He remembered ever line, every dance move, every song lyric.

When it came time for him to take his bow, Kurt knew his father wasn't just cheering for Blaine because Kurt told him to.

Blaine really deserved all that cheering, because he did an amazing job.

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"I am so proud of you." Burt said as he hugged Kurt.

"Thanks, dad."

He saw all the other kids hugging and talking to their parents, Rachel's dad's even brought her flowers, but Blaine was sort of wandering through the audience alone.

Blaine was about to turn around and go backstage when...

"Hey, Blaine! Over here!" Kurt yelled, smiling when Blaine looked and started walking over to him. "Blaine, this is my dad. Dad, this is Blaine."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Hummel." Blaine said quietly.

"You did a great job up there, kid."

Blaine's face lit up. "You really think so?"

"Of course I do."

"Wow... thanks, Mr. Hummel."

"Hey dad, there's going to be a big camp fire tonight where everyone is going to make smores and tell stories and stuff, can we stay at camp a little longer so we can go?"

"I don't see why not."

"You want to sit with me and my dad at the camp fire tonight, Blaine?" Kurt knew some kids were leaving to go home with their parents right after the show, but Kurt had a feeling that Blaine would be one of the kids staying at camp late for the camp fire, and Kurt didn't want to leave him all alone.

"Sure!"

Kurt smiled. It was his last night at camp, and possibly the last time he saw Blaine. He was going to make sure they had fun.