Chapter 2: Welcome Comity

"You could do so much better Blaine."

That's all he heard, in the small span of time that was Blaine's life, that's all he heard. All Blaine ever wanted was control over something, anything. He always did everything just to live up to his parent's standards or more likely his fathers, his mother simply sat idly and watched her son suffer. Blaine had been searching for control since the age of ten only to find it at when he turned twelve.

A small double sided razor, that's all Blaine needed, no would tell him his cuts weren't deep enough or if they were to shallow. He could control where he wanted the pain and when, no questions asked.

"Blaine you can't keep being lazy soon you'll have to leave the house and fend for yourself and average grades aren't going to get you anywhere."

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"Why can't you be like your brother? Straight A's all year!"

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"Don't be a failure Blaine life doesn't work out for failures."

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"This isn't good enough Blaine you have to push yourself"

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"This is just disappointing Blaine."

His mother's screams stopped him from sliding the razor once more across the side of his ribcage. The control disappeared when the razor was slapped from his hand, he was back to reality.

The blood from the deep cuts was dripping heavily down his side and seeping into the waist band of his pants. He felt hollow again and his mother's yelps for help slurred and disappeared into nothing but a high pitch ringing in Blaine's ears. He had been doing this for three years and never got caught once, until now.

"Alrighty guys get your trays, Nick think you can tell Kurt the basic's about the dining room?" Cricket pointed to Nick as he picked up a tray for himself.

"Yup, c'mon Kurt." Nick gestured for him to come closer.

"Alright so basic rules of the cafeteria:

One. When you're done with silverware set it aside on the table or give it to the closest nurse in the cafeteria.

Two. Only juice and water in the mornings and you get the choice of soda at lunch and dinner, they have no caffeine by the way.

Three. You can get seconds or thirds if you want or finish early.

Four. Stay away from the adult tables you may sit wherever you want just avoid the adult patients at all costs."

He stated simply and quickly before grabbing a small carton of orange juice and sliding to the serving bench.

"Morning ladies I'll take a bagel and a hash brown please." He greeted the serving ladies behind the trays of food. They handed him his food and he slid along the line, Kurt eyed the multiple breakfast foods.

"Uhm I'll have a bowl of oatmeal and some toast." He simply requested and thanked the ladies quietly before following after Nick who was grabbing cream cheese and saltines from small baskets at the end of the line.

"Here you're going to need this for the oatmeal, trust me." He whispered and tossed two non-calorie sweetener packs onto Kurt's tray.

"You can sit with me and some buds of mine unless you prefer not to." Nick smiled and started to head toward the table area. Kurt simply followed behind and weaved through the patients and nurses who were already sitting.

When they finally sat down Kurt found himself surrounded by three other patients he remembered seeing briefly around the nurses desk this morning.

One a girl with a light brown bob hair cut and dark green eyes and dark olive skin, she sat with her hands on her lap and wore a cheery smile.

The second patient was a tall boy with a crew cut and brown eyes, his lip was cut and had a little bit of dried blood around it. He was simply chugging down a glass of water and stuffing small pieces of a hash brown in his mouth.

The third stranger was another boy with nice blond hair that was swept over his eyes, he was slim and looked quite frail. With his head looming over his tray and his hair in the way his facial features were hidden.

"Guy this is Kurt, Kurt this is Colene, Thomas and…I'm sorry you must be knew too. I'm Nick what's you name New Kid Number two?" Colene giggled at him and Thomas waved a little before returning to his food and the blonde boy just shook his head.

"Nick this is Jeff, he's not much of a talker but I got him to tell me his name when I sat down." She gestured to the thing boy and smile a bit trying to get his attention. Nick simply stared at Jeff for a while before returning to his bagel.

"And Hi Kurt, like Nicky said, I'm Colene and this is Thomas. May I just say you are quite a cutie?" She smirked and reached across the table to pull a stray hair away from Kurt's eyes.

"Colene! Personal space!" Cricket yelled and warned her from across the room, she simply dropped her arm and pouted.

"T-Thank you." Kurt whispered before taking a small bite from his plain toast.

"So new kid wha are you here fo?" Thomas mumbled through a mouthful of food, Kurt froze at the question. He didn't know if he was allowed to say so or even if he should tell them. Colene glared at Thomas and elbowed him in the arm.

"Sorry about him, you don't have to tell us if you don't want to." She said softly and smiled.

"If it makes you feel any better Colene and I will tell you our reason for being here." Nick shrugged and sipped from his carton of juice.

"S-sure, will you go first? You d-don't have to." Kurt stuttered in a hush voice.

"I'm here for self harm." Colene said low but seriously, Kurt shot her a sympathetic look.

"And I'm here for running away from home believe it or not, my dad told the police I didn't seem mentally stable so they sent me here instead of juvie ." Nick explained and shrugged.

"That doesn't make sense don't they n-need to like test you or something to do that?" Kurt asked, puzzled that they would just toss anyone in here because one person says their unstable.

"Well obviously not because I'm here." Nick giggled and patted Kurt on the back. Kurt nodded and bit the side of his cheek before taking a deep breath.

"I'm here for trying to kill myself." He blurted out without a stutter or whispering, he just said it. The table was silent and Colene shot him a sympathetic look and rested her hand over his.

"So am I." a small voice said and they four patients turned to Jeff who was rubbing his palms together nervously.

"He speaks!" Thomas cheered earning a glare from Colene again.

Kurt was about to ask Jeff why but then Cricket walked up to the table.

"Hey guys just checking up on ya, you guys respecting the new kids?" He chuckled and sipped from his bottle of apple juice.

"You know it Cricket." Thomas smiled

"Yeah Crick you know we're good kiddies but hey who's getting new roommates cuz I saw a third new kid this morning." Nick asked with questioning eyes.

"Well I know Jeffie here is gonna be rooming with Kurt so you're probably get the third newbie to keep you company." Jeff actually looked up and gave Kurt a small smile his eyes had a flicker of hope.

"Awesome! I guess we'll finally have a full ward heh?" Nick joked.

"Nope I heard someone's heading out tonight so we'll still be one short from being full. Any ways Colene when you're done with breakfast fallow Patricia, the doc wants to see you, ok?" Kurt noticed the smile fall from Colene's face and dropped her head down.

"Eat up guys you got five more minutes before rec time." Cricket said before heading back to his table.

"Wha-whats rec time?" Kurt asked Nick hesitantly.

"Oh it's like free time it's an hour long, basically you can hang in your room or go to the art room and do some crafts. After that we have an hour in a gymnasium for kickball, then while everyone starts heading in for counseling we get to go outside, we do more stuff after but I'll tell you about it when we get there." He explained before finishing off his bagel.

Kurt didn't even touch his oatmeal and he only finished one piece of bread before all the patients were called to line up. He left his tray and silver were on the table and followed Nick and Thomas as Colene stayed at the table and Jeff shuffled behind Kurt.

"How long will I be here?" Blaine asked nervously as he walked down to his room with his father.

"Until you're better." He stated coldly and handed Blaine his bag of clothes.

"Will you come visit me?" Blaine didn't know why he bothered asking but he didn't want to stay silent.

"I'll see what I can do." He stated before opening the door to his new place to sleep.

He saw one bed had a red notebook and messed up sheets and the other was nice and smooth.

"Looks like you have a roommate. I would help you unpack but I uh have a meeting to go to in ten minutes and I have to drive so I'll have your mother call you later." He said quickly before shuffling out of the room not even looking at his son one last time.

Blaine sighed and through himself on the clean bed and dropped his bag on the floor, he slowly lifted up the side of his shirt and felt over the rough gauze that now covered his cuts. Unfortunately the nurse found the razor he hid in the bottle of shampoo he brought so he didn't have anything to block away the fact he was in a place like this.

Suddenly there was a small knock at the door, Blaine immediately shot up into sitting position and pulled down his shirt.

"Hi you must be Blaine I just came to tell you that most of the patients are in the art and craft room if you want to join them, I know your roommate is there so if you want to meet him…" A short blonde nurse in purple and blue tie dye scrubs asked calmly.

Blaine just stared blankly he didn't know what would happen if he went around the other patients, are they mean? Are they far more unhinged than Blaine?

"Don't worry all of them are about your age and they're nice, c'mon I'll walk you there." She gestured for him to follow as she walked out of the room. Blaine hesitated a few seconds before giving in a following her.

"So Kurt you like drawing or anything?" Thomas asked as he pulled out a pack of colored pencils and a purple folder from a shelf filled with coloring books and crayons.

The art room was interesting, surprisingly colorful; the walls were lined with painting and pastel drawings from previous patients all very well done. There was molding clay, a button maker, watercolor paints, canvas's and so much art supplies all over the room. Right by the door there was a mural of two dolphins with small purple and blue fishes swimming around, Kurt stared at it for a few moments and noticed a small D.S. scrawled in the corner with black paint.

"Kurt?" Nick pulled his attention away from the mural and waved him over to one of the tables where he was cutting out pictures for a collogue. Jeff sat across from him beading together a bracelet and Thomas was sketching out multiple anime characters. Kurt watched closely as Nick glued cut outs of guitars and multiple celebrities on to a poster board.

"Why did Colene need to see the doctor?" Kurt asked after a few moments of watching his peers.

"Probably because she flipped a tit yesterday afternoon." Thomas shrugged and pulled his focus back to his drawing.

"Colene kind of freaks out when people mispronounce her name or at least that's what I heard from some of the other patients. Yesterday she was dozing off on the bench by the nurse's desk and I guess someone said her name wrong and she just…freaked out." Nick explained sounding worried.

"I didn't see everything but I heard her yelling, I was in here when it happened but I know they had to put her down and separate her from everyone else for a while." Nick eyes wondered off as if he was replaying everything in his mind.

"Put her down?" Kurt asked.

"If you get too hyped up the nurses will give you a shot in your ass to calm you down." Thomas chuckled.

"Thomas don't scare him, don't worry Kurt it's only if you get really out of hand. I heard it's very rare in here." He said calmly.

"He just happens to be one of those rare cases." Thomas snorted and smirked at Kurt.

"Dude what the hell that is none of your business!" Nick snapped and elbowed Thomas in his side before storming out of the room.

"Told you." Thomas hissed as he grabbed his side where Nick had elbowed him.

"I-I'll go check on him." Jeff surprisingly offered before standing up and walking after Nick.

"Well that was interesting." Kurt thought

Blaine now walked with the nurse quietly down the cold hallways of the ward, he saw a few patients walking around the nurse's area, and they didn't seem too bad. Blaine hated how there was barley any windows in the ward; he wanted some kind of proof that there was still a world outside this place.

Suddenly a girl with a thin frame and short dark hair appeared a few feet away walking forward down the hallway.

"Hi Colene." The nurse greeted and smiled.

"Oh Hey Nicole and new kid?" The girl picked up her pace a little bit and got closer to Blaine.

"Wow we are getting a lot of cute newbie's aren't we?" She smirked.

"Blaine this is Colene the resident flirt and goofball." The nurse, Nicole introduced her.

"Hi Blaine." She gave a small flirtatious wave and smiled.

"Think you can show Blaine to the art room, introduce him to everyone?" Nicole asked.

"Of course follow me Blaine, see you later Nicole." She waved goodbye and started to lead Blaine down the hallway by the small of his back.

"So where you from Blainie?" She asked sweetly.

"Uh Westerville." Blaine did a double take when he saw something familiar in her. Her profile, he had seen it before.

"Really? So am I!" She cheered, "I go to Cyber School so it's no wonder I've never met you before." She explained.

"S-so what do we do here exactly?" Blaine asked as they walked.

"Oh we do tons of stuff like play sports, draw, hand out, eat, sleep, dance, and go bonkers. You know the usual." She giggled and playfully touched his shoulder.

"I like to sing." Blaine whispered.

"Cool I like to sing to but trust me I'm not any good, are you?" Her tone was kept constantly sweet and a smile never fell from her face no matter the size.

"Well my uh music teacher says I'm talented but I…I don't know." He shrugged.

"Well if you feel comfortable I would love to hear you sometime and I know some other people in here that looove music." She bubbled.

"S-sure."

"And here we are the art room. I can introduce you to some of my friends if you want?" She offered as they walked into the room filled with teenagers doing multiple crafts. Blaine simply nodded and followed her to a small table with two boys one that looked his age and the other a bit older.

"Hey guys where's Nick and Jeff?" She asked with a confused tone.

"Nick lost his shit and Blondie went to comfort him." Thomas snickered, the other boy didn't bother to turn around.

"Well I need your attention boys, meet Blaine another newbie to the ward. Blaine this is Thomas who has no filter or sympathy period and this is Kurt another newbie who is just as cute as you." She giggled and slid and gestured to each boy.

Finally the boy named Kurt turned around and Colene was right he was cute, really cute.

"Hi." Kurt said faintly with a small smile.

"Hi." Blaine replied with a small squeak of nervousness.