Blaine Anderson had sprawled himself across the comfy leather sofa that had been positioned in the corner of the bar which was called The Hangout. The sofa was old and worn but it suited the style of the bar nicely.

The bar itself was small and mostly catered for young adults and college students. It even allowed students that were under the legal drinking age to come in and chill there as long as they didnt have any alcohol and most of the time that rule was respected by them. It was THE student hang out as they did a little bit of everything. There were comedy nights, karaoke, and live acoustics from students testing out their new compositions and then there were guest performers that the bar somehow managed to get in. Then there were the silly nights in between, like fancy dress, pizza nights or foam nights.

The bar wasnt open yet, it was around twelve oclock in the afternoon and it didnt actually open till four. Blaine was there because his friend, Sam Evans had managed to get himself a job there over the summer. He worked behind the bar, serving drinks to all the customers and he really loved it. His boss mostly let him and the others that worked there do what they wanted. They needed approval when booking anything for the nights but other than that he was pretty absent.

Sam often invited his friends to join him while he was setting up. It was very quiet when it was just him there alone. The bar was out of the way and not in a very busy area of New York so when there wasnt the students coming in it could sometimes feel a little deserted. Having the company of his friends seemed to make the time go quicker than just having some light music on in the background.

Blaine, along with Wes Montgomery and David Thompson often joined Sam on the afternoons that he was setting up because it was a great chance to just relax and hang out. They helped Sam out when he needed a hand but mostly they just sat in the sofa area and chatted across to Sam who was setting out the glasses for the evening.

They were especially glad of this hideaway today because at that present time all of the new first years to NYU were moving into their dorm rooms. Being second years they had all moved in a week earlier and got everything ready and unpacked. They knew from experience last year that the campus would be like a crazy town right now with all the freshers events happening and all the societies trying to convince people to join them. They just didnt want to be dealing with that chaos. Maybe that made them lazy but it wasnt like they cared about it.

The glasses that Sam was working with clinked together as he removed them from the dishwasher and under the bar where they were stored so that they could easily be grabbed when he and the others working behind the bar were serving.

"You know I love the sound of glasses clinking together." Blaine mused from where he had laid on the sofa. His head was on the arm of the chair and his feet rested atop of the other arm.

"Maybe you should come and actually help me." Sam laughed, chucking over a spare tea towel.

David looked up from his phone, "Someone got told!"

"Screw you guys." Blaine stuck his tongue out at them before getting up and walking over to the bar, joining Sam.

"Are we doing anything tonight?" David asked, chucking his phone aside and stretching his arms above his head.

"Well Im working tonight. What with all the new students this place is going to be really busy. Its all hands on deck for at least the next week." Sam said.

"So basically well be hanging out here tonight."

"If you want." Sam grinned, happy that his friends wanted to hang out with him even though he couldnt really hang out with them properly.

Blaine nodded in agreement. "I just know I wanna avoid my halls. I got some first years moving in next door to me. I have no clue who they are but I just dont want to be a part of that first night away from home. There will probably be tears and I just dont want to deal with that. Im probably just going to stay round at Amys tonight after this evening."

"Yeah I bet you are." David winked at him.

Amy was Blaines girlfriend. They had only been dating for six months, having met last year while out at a club. Really Amy didnt seem like the kind of girl that Blaine would date. She was very outgoing and liked to party hard whereas Blaine liked to chill out with friends, drinking or gaming. He wasnt really one for going out to clubs and going out dancing to music that only seemed to have one beat to it. It was strange that he had even gone out the night that he met Amy. Hed been dragged out by some of his course friends and had gotten ridiculously drunk really quickly. Hed met Amy out on the dance floor and they spent some time grinding together until she had invited him back to her room. Hed gone with her and theyd slept together that night.

It was very unusual for Blaine to behave like that. A lot of his friends were shocked. Sam had a hard time dealing with the idea for a long time and he just couldnt seem to understand the relationship that Amy and Blaine shared. They were two very different people and it showed a lot in the different things that they both did. Somehow though they had stayed together for six months and they didnt seem to be breaking up anytime soon.

"Dont be jealous, David. I cant help that the girls seem to love me." Blaine teased, knowing that David had been single for a long time and was currently going through a sexual dry spell. It was quite an area of teasing that David got from his friends. It didnt upset him though because they all had a good laugh about it.

"I wont be coming out tonight." Wes piped up from his seat.

"Let me guess. Studying?" David said, rolling his eyes.

"I have to get started early this year. I slacked over the summer and you know what my parents are like." Wes sighed.

That was true for both Blaine and Wes. Their parents were very strict about keeping up with their education though Blaines were not as bad as Wes. Wes parents were very involved in his schooling and they didnt want anything distracting him from the bright future that he was going to have. There was a lot of pressure on them to do the absolute best that they could and Wes seemed to take it to the extreme, more so than Blaine did. Blaine was very willing to go against his parents wishes and was always ready to have a good time, unlike Wes.

"The year hasnt even started. None of the classes have begun yet, how can you have school work to do?" Sam asked, looking confused.

"Its extra reading. My dad and I made a deal that if I got the highest grades this year then Id get to have a go at running my own division in the family business over the summer. Itd be a great opportunity and I cant pass it up." Wes explained.

Sam wasnt very understanding of that because unlike Blaine and Wes, he didnt have parents that had a lot of money to pay his way. He had to do it all by himself. He wasnt complaining. He was hoping to better himself which was why he had decided to go to college and luckily there had been things set in place which meant that he was able to get financial help that he needed. Really his family thought it was a miracle that he gotten any further in his education in the first place.

"We can arrange another night to do something with you then mate." Blaine reassured his friend.

Wes smiled at his friend.

Together they made a very weird friendship group and not everyone could understand how they had remained such good friends. All that mattered was each one of them would do anything for the other one, no matter what.

Even though none of them knew it, all of them were going to go though a few ordeals over this next year. Right now each of them had been fooling around and not taking anything too seriously. None of them had any idea of the growing up that would be done over the year for all of them.

As they all sat together, laughing and joking, they had absolutely no idea what back at the halls a boy was moving in that was going to change the way they thought about everything. Sometimes all it took was a little spark for things to change in someones life and that was definitely the case here.

The year was set for a lot of happy times. Many, many of them to celebrate. But, on top of that, it would also see some of the hardest times that any of them had ever gone through. The person that was going to set about all these changes for them was called Kurt Hummel. He didnt even know the relationship he would share with the boys, didnt even know that they existed eyt. And really it was amazing how the world worked like that and they were sure that anything could change something one day for the better.

All they had to do was to wait and see what the future would be. It was terrifying but they the best things in life always were.