Monday morning; same routine: Wake up, blast Lady Gaga and some Beyonce while showering and debating between Armani and D&G for a good portion of an hour, eat breakfast, drive to school, "make new friends" with the Neanderthals, spend first period cleaning off my fabulous clothes, then trudge through the day until Glee.
My life had become a rut, between school, glee, dumpster dives, and deciding what to wear, I, Kurt Hummel, have hardly a moment for my favorite pass time: Finn. Yes the Finn Hudson: The tall, stupidly cute, quarterback of my dreams. The dream so far off, so desperately far that even Sarah Palin can't see it from her house. The dream that Finn would give up women all together and come running into my arms. Oh, I have realized that this dream is quite impossible, for one, Finn was dating Quinn, Quinn, the president of the Celibacy Club, even though she's pregnant, pregnant with Puck's, not Finn's baby. Except that Finn didn't know that. Damn Mercedes and her big mouth spilling out such juicy gossip. I really should tell him, after helping him find his song for the Ballad assignment, and "You're Having My Baby", finally telling the Fabray's the truth. But Quinn got kicked out and is now living with Finn! My plans never seem to work out! Second, he is unbelievably the straightest person on the planet, there is now way he'll ever want me… I'm dramatic, sue me.
Oh well, at least I am closer to Finn now. We have bonded at least a little bit over helping me onto the football team, glee, and the whole Quinn thing, but in the back of my mind I will always know that crushing on Finn is a pointless as Rachel trying to be popular. Maybe if he can't love me back, at least we can be friends. But seeing him so in love with Quinn, and then turning around to be in gleek freak love with Rachel, hurts so much, I know that I need to stop.
So here I am sitting in glee dreamily watching Finn sing another lead with Rachel, thinking how I can ever love someone who could never return my feelings when the bell sounds for next period. Before we can leave Mr. Shue says, "Well, I feel that we are a strong force with our twelve members that we have now, but maybe having more members might do us good. For this week's assignment, I want you all to at least try to find some new recruits." Damn, now there's going to be more people to steal solos away from me, I'll never get one, I think lamely.
"Mr. Shuester", Rachel starts, oh god here it comes, "I for one believe that I speak for the whole glee club when I say that our group dynamic right now is quite perfect as it is, despite their lack of years of training that I have had-"
"Shut your trap man hands", Santana snaps icily.
"We need more members, Rachel. So you will all look for new kids to try to join, just no sex crazed performances alright?" Mr. Shue asks, still bitter about the "Push It" debacle.
We all nod at proceed to leave for our next class, Rachel fuming she didn't get her say storms our first, followed by all the normal people. As I head to my next class I can't help but think that maybe Rachel was right, terrifying I know, but having more people won't help us this close to sectionals and I really want a solo. Selfish I know, again, sue me. So I decide I'll just say I tried to find someone. No one will really know the difference and it's not like anyone else will actually find a new recruit.
The next day rolls around and I am sitting in glee when I see Mike come in with some guy I've only passed in the halls. "Mr. Shue", Mike says "I found a new recruit!" pointing to the new guy.
"That's excellent Mike! Why don't you introduce him for the club?" Shue asks.
"Yeah. Hey guys, this is my friend, Henry Landon. We've been in soccer together since 3rd grade and he wants to join. He is a pretty good singer from what I've heard, and he dances with Birttnay and me at the Y." Mike says. As watch the scene unfold, I begin to take in the full appearance of this new Henry character. He's tall, not Frankenteen tall, but taller than Mike, he has medium length light brown hair with icy blue eyes. What? He's a boy, I'm a teenage boy who just happens to like other boys, and I can check him out if I want to! He has the same body type as Mike, considering they play soccer together, and oh look at that! Is that an earring? Sexy. I know, I'm a horny teenage boy, who isn't? And he dresses nicely, not as good as me, but much better that any other boy I've seen.
"Hello, everyone, I hope you will all allow me to join", Henry adds. Wow, his voice is so soft and playful, almost like a light-hearted child. I could totally be a poet.
"Of course you can join!" Shue begins, "but of course you have to at least audition with a song. Got any up your sleeve?"
"Hmm. Dare You to Move by Switchfoot. Psht, typical boy song, nothing I haven't seen before, but it is a decent song, I'll give him that. While in my thoughts, Mr. Shue mentioned for Brad to play and Henry began.
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened beforeWelcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should beMaybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here
Wow, he hit that high note, I don't think most of the guys here could do that, Kurt thought.I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before
The whole room was in stunned silence. He was amazing. Oh my god that was so good, his pitch was perfect and he had so much emotion and vibrato. I'd even say he's better than Finn. My thoughts were interrupted by the huge applause of the club and a few cheers and cat calls from the girls. "That was great Henry, really, you blew us all away. Welcome to New Directions!" Shue exclaimed.
"Thanks!" Henry beamed with a mega watt smile. Kurt's heart tugged a little.
Oh hell no.