A Revelation Song

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed." - Edgar Allan Poe. Blaine Anderson was a cynic, with good reason. All he'd ever known was tragedy. His father gone, his mother a boozy wreck, and his older brother ailing with an awful mental illness. . . All these things took their turn in shutting him down. So he shut it all out. Until he, after home-schooling himself, decided to slip into McKinley for junior year and met an insufferably optimistic and boyishly charming senior, Kurt Hummel, who is out to make the world a better place with sheer kindness. A beautiful love story and one full year later, Kurt is deployed overseas to follow in his father's footsteps as a great soldier. Blaine is stuck at home, with his promises and personal hells. Would it ever be worth it, to lose all he had. . . If it meant that he ever had something precious like that to lose?