“I’m fine. I have to go.” Blaine relied as he began to walk away from the taller boy.
Before Blaine got too far away from the boy he heard the small voice call out again. “Are you walking home?”

Blaine stopped in his tracks “Ya, what’s it to you?” he asked cautiously, not turning to face the boy.

“Well, I have a car. I can give you a ride home if you would like.”

Blaine’s breath hitched at this simple act of kindness, his thoughts raced as he argued with himself inside his head; on one hand it would take him a good two hours to walk home and it was already starting to get dark, but on the other hand Blaine was still unsure about this new boy, Kurt, that has decided to become part of his life. Blaine turned around slowly. “It’s your choice. I am fine with walking.”

“It’s really no problem, come on I am the Escalade over there. I am Kurt by the way.” The boy said with a smile as he gestured to a large black car.

“I know your fucking name, I met you earlier. And despite being in special ed I am not retarded.” Blaine spat, he immediately chastised himself inside his head for lashing out but he hated when people thought he was dumb, he might be crazy but he wasn’t dumb.

The taller boy looked at Blaine with wide eyes. “Oh, I am sorry, its just I am bad at names so I thought it…never mind lets just go.” Kurt quickly rushed towards the car and unlocked the doors with the remote. As the two slid into the large car Kurt pulled out a GPS and turned to Blaine, “What’s your address?”

“4923 Walton Circle.” Blaine said as he shifted uncomfortably in his seat. Kurt nodded and plugged the address into the computer. Blaine sat in silence willing the ride to be over quickly. He saw Kurt begin to rummage through his satchel and pull out a white IPod

“Would you like to pick out the music?” Kurt said as he held the small device out to Blaine.

Blaine raised his eyebrows, “maybe music would make this ride somewhat bearable”, he thought to himself. He reached towards the player, “Umm, ya I guess.” He said taking the IPod. Blaine began to shuffle trough the well stocked player, he approved of a lot of the music the boy had on there, Blaine was also shocked at the wide range of genres the boy had in his arsenal. Kurt seemed to have everything to Broadway standards to Top 40. Blaine decided to play it safe and turned on some P!NK music, hoping that would be satisfactory.

“You are a P!NK fan as well?” Kurt said as the car turned onto the main road.

“Yep.” Blaine replied, not allowing himself to gush over one of his favorite artists.

“I love her song Perfect. It’s such a great anthem. I am thinking about singing it in Glee club at some point.” Kurt said obviously trying to fill the silence.

“Perfect is a great song.” Blaine said quietly, as his mind turned toward the fact that Kurt was in glee club.

The rest of the ride was spent in silence to Blaine relief. As the pulled into the familiar development Blaine gathered his things as to make a quick exit from the car. Kurt pulled up in front of Blaine’s house as Blaine quickly jumped out the car, he muttered a quick thank-you as he rushed into his house.

Blaine quickly threw his bookbag and coat at the side of the door between rushing up to his room. His mind was racing and his emotions threatened to take him over. “Who was this Kurt kid and why did he care so much, there were other ways to get fucking credit for college or whatever the hell he needed. Why did he have to choose Blaine? Why did he have to come and try to force himself into my life? Why can’t people just leave me alone?” Blaine fumed as he paced back and forth in his room. It wasn’t long before Blaine heard the familiar and dreaded sound of the garage door opening below his bedroom, his father was home.

“Fucking fantastic.” Blaine muttered under his breath as he sat down on his bed and awaiting his father to come up to his room.