Blaine smiled and nodded his head. “You heard me. You get...the three main solos,” Blaine said as he got up and aimed his crumpled up napkin at the trashcan near them.

“Since...when was I good enough for three solos? I mean, let alone a solo in general?” asked Kurt, who was staring down at the table, his eyes widened. Did...he really just say that?

Blaine let out a sigh as his expression relaxed into a sincere expression. “Kurt, you're so talented. I'm so surprised Will never let you have a solo.” It was weird to hear someone call Mr. Schuester 'Will'. Then again, he wasn't a teacher anymore, so Kurt guessed he might as well get used to it.

He just nodded his head, sighing. “He used to always give the male solos to Finn,” murmured Kurt.

Blaine half-smiled. “I noticed.” He finished off his Drip and soon threw it away. He folded his hands on the table before him and looked at Kurt. “Now...you don't have to take the solos if you don't want them,” Blaine said.

Kurt shook his head. “No! Believe me, I want the solos. Just...still a little surprised is all,” explained Kurt.

Blaine looked down at his watch and let out a sigh. “Welp, I have to get going. I have to go visit my parents before I head on over to the football game,” said Blaine in a disappointed voice.

“You like football?” asked Kurt, just curious.

Blaine got to his feet and shrugged as he put his messenger bag on his shoulder. “No, not really. But I promised Puck, Finn, and Mike I'd be there to see them lose,” said Blaine with a smirk. “It was good seeing you, Kurt.”

Kurt nodded his head. “You too,” he murmured as he watched Blaine leave the coffee shop.

He stared down at his half-empty mocha and nibbled on his bottom lip. What was the real reason behind Blaine giving him the three main solos for Sectionals? He just couldn't stop asking himself why. He knew it wasn't just because he was 'talented'. There had to be other reasons.

“He gets what!?” demanded Rachel, her feet grounded to the floor and her fists clenched at her sides.

“You heard me. Kurt gets the three main solos,” said Blaine in a relaxed and calm voice.

Rachel was stuttering words together, making no sense whatsoever. She was basically having a mental breakdown. She was shaking her head as Finn came from behind Rachel, his hands on her shoulders to help calm her down. It didn't seem to help at all.

Kurt rolled his eyes as he sat in his usual seat, his knees crossed with his hands on his knee. “Oh my God, Rachel. Get over it!” he stressed.

Rachel froze, soon turning to glare at Kurt. “You're not even as good as me! I don't understand how you'd get the three. Main. Solos.”

“Rachel, that's enough!” ordered Blaine, not liking the fact that Rachel was talking that way towards Kurt.

Rachel shook her head. “No! I thought I was deeply appreciated here for the incredible talent that I possess. But I guess not!” she whined as she soon put her hand on her hip and strutted out of the room as if she owned the place.

“Thank God she's gone,” murmured Santana.

Kurt sort of felt guilty about this situation. He felt bad for the fact that Rachel was actually better than Kurt, he wasn't gonna deny it...so he didn't bother getting all upset about what she had said to him. By now, he was used to it...and he knew she meant well. He sighed and looked down at his hands, soon sitting back to cross his arms over his chest, shaking his head.

Tina leaned over to talk to Kurt. “Congratulations, Kurt,” she said, a sweet and sincere smile at her lips.

Kurt relaxed a little and returned the smile. “Glad someone's happy about this,” said Kurt in a low voice.

“Now, if you guys will excuse me,” spoke Blaine.

Blaine hurried out of the classroom, looking up and down the halls until his eyes stopped on Rachel, who was just opening her locker. He calmly walked over to her, calling her name out to let her know he was there. She looked at him and sighed. “And what do you want, Mr. Anderson?”

“Listen...I'm sorry that you don't get the three mains solos,” started Blaine.

Rachel rolled her eyes. “Save it,” she murmured as she took out her homework and slammed her locker door shut with such an angry force. “I just can't believe you'd have the guts to not give me the solos. Don't come apologizing to me when we don't win at Sectionals.”

Blaine sighed. “Look, Rachel...as I have said before, I'm sorry. But please just listen to me,” said Blaine, who was now hurrying after Rachel.

Rachel had dramatically whipped her body around and began walking away from Blaine, but the tone in his voice made her stop to listen to what he had to say.

Blaine waited to make sure she would really stay and listen. He sucked in a breath. “I've been watching you guys perform since you guys became a Glee Club. And upon watching, I've noticed something. You are so talented and amazing and perfect to lead the Glee Club...but you're so showcased, it's not even funny. But Kurt, on the other hand...his voice isn't. He has such a unique and different voice. We need that. We need that difference. You can't just expect us to be like all of the other Glee clubs here in Ohio. We need to be exclusive and different. Judges like difference.”

Rachel was biting her tongue, staring down at the floor as her hands gripped her books, her knuckles white. She forced herself to turn around and look up at Blaine. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. She let out a sigh, waiting for Blaine to finish. “Is that it?” she asked in such a small voice, her mind registering everything all at once.

“Yes.”

“Will you...at least let me help out with the set list?” she asked in a sad but hopeful voice.

Blaine smirked softly and tucked his hands in his pant pockets, slowly nodding his head. “Yes, you can help out with the set list.”

Rachel smiled and nodded her head, turning back around to walk away.

Mercedes would not stop staring at Kurt. It clicked in on Mercedes' mind who Kurt was beginning to grow a 'crush' on. She saw it by the way his eyes lit up when Blaine announced that Kurt would get the three main solos. Yeah, that would be the normal expression, but Mercedes had never seen that expression upon Kurt's face before. It was obvious.

And when Blaine came back in after obviously stepping out of the room to talk to Rachel about the situation, she knew perfectly well enough that her instincts were right. She watched as Kurt's eyes darted to Blaine, a pinch of passion setting in his eyes. She shook her head. Hell to the no.

Kurt felt a pair of eyes on him as he turned his head and looked at Mercedes' pissed-off expression. He pushed his eyebrows together and mouthed ‘what’. Mercedes just rolled her eyes, shaking her head as she turned her head and looked away.

Kurt threw his eyebrows together, confused. What was up with Mercedes' attitude all of the sudden?

A week had passed and all the Glee Club accomplished was the song that Rachel would be singing, I'm Done by The Pussycat Dolls. The Glee practiced singing acapella in the background. But Rachel was being so picky with all that was happening that that was as far as they had gotten by Friday.

By the end of Friday's Glee practice, Rachel hurried up to Blaine's desk. “Mr. Anderson? Would you please meet me at Lima Bean A.S.A.P?” she asked in an urgent voice.

Blaine looked up from the list of possible songs and nodded his head, assuming Rachel just wanted to talk about the set list. “Yeah, sure,” he answered.

Kurt, in the meantime, put his phone away as a million ideas raced through his mind. He had everything perfectly planned out. He knew that Blaine would be heading over to Lima Bean soon and somehow...the only thing that popped into his mind were roses. Yellow and red beautiful and perfect roses. In his opinion, it'd be the perfect 'thank you' for the fact that Blaine was basically the best Glee teacher ever, let alone that he gave Kurt his first set of solos. Heck, Kurt had never been blessed with a single solo before, so this was a huge deal for Kurt. But Kurt had a decision. Give the roses to Blaine in secret or wait for Monday when he saw him for Glee practice? Deciding that it would be a bit obvious of his crush for Blaine with the fact that Kurt’s gay, he wasn’t going to go through with waiting for Monday.

He hurried over to the nearest floral shop and picked out the very same bouquet that he had pictured in his mind. It was almost like it was meant to be.

“I know your secret.” Rachel had a proud expression on her face that really irked Blaine all of the sudden for some reason.

Blaine looked at Rachel over his cup of coffee as he slowly began to sip, seeing if the temperature was safe enough to drink yet. “My secret, Rachel?” he asked slowly, suddenly realizing that Rachel never actually told him what she wanted to meet at Lima Bean for. He had assumed it was for song suggestions for the Sectionals' set list for Kurt.

“Mr. Anderson, I understand that finding someone with the same sexuality is hard for you in such a small town like Lima, but choosing a student as a sexual partner is hardly an appropriate choice.”

Blaine choked on his Drip. “W-what? What are you talking about Rachel? I’m not-”

“I know you’re in love with Kurt,” she whispered loudly, leaning in across the table as Blaine’s heart fell directly into his stomach.

“What makes you say that?” he asks quietly, looking down at the table for a moment and then back at Rachel.

“The way you look at him.” Rachel shrugged and sat back in her chair, picking at the cinnamon roll before her as Blaine winces. “Plus, you give him all the solos,” she soon added.

“Rachel,” Blaine says firmly, glaring at her. “How many times do we have to go over this? Kurt gets those solos because he deserves them, not because I favor him over you. He’s the bravest guy I have ever met in my life. Through all the darkness of his life at McKinley, he shines through like the star he is.” Why can't she get this into her head? Blaine looked down again, sitting back in his chair, and he lied. “But I don’t love him, Rachel. Kurt’s a student. He means nothing to me. You’ve got your facts wrong,” he said in a short and snappy tone, getting defensive all of a sudden.

Why was he getting so defensive about this?

Just as Blaine began getting all defensive about the subject, Kurt was staring at the back of Blaine's head, clenching his jaw as he turned on his heels and walked out of Lima Bean, blinking back tears as he threw the yellow and red roses into the nearest trash bin.