Fifth Prompt Post
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He's not feeling it at Regionals, because there's Kurt, there's Kurt with Blaine and they sing some stupid duet and Kurt looks all happy and Puck is so close to fucking crying at he needs to dig his fingers into his throat just to stop it. Lauren barely moves from his side the whole competition. He's resolutely grateful for it, he doesn't care what people think, because he's barely away from Lauren and he hardly talks to anyone but her. Naturally, it all has to end, and even going home on a high from winning doesn't keep the tension out of his muscles when he walks home.
It's the day that Kurt texts him the baseball question that he starts to pull himself together. Of course it's right after he texts back his reply that he gets smacked in the face hard enough to split the skin under his eye. He blows off Kurt's next text while his mother holds ice to his face. "Do you love him?" He can't figure any other reason why his mother would still be with the guy. "Does it always hurt this bad? Being in love I mean." She doesn't have any answers for him and Puck never really expected that he'd like them anyway.
He skips class on Friday, avoids even Lauren because the new bruise is a little too obvious to curb her questions. He spends Saturday in his room, with Sarah on the floor playing quietly, with his guitar on his lap trying to write a text message to Kurt. He's not sure what he'd say, he never sent the first text, it was always just Kurt telling him where to meet. But he figures after the baseball question he could at least try something. Kurt did ask how things were, but Puck doesn't have the energy to lie, so he's not answering that question, and Puck doesn't really want to know how wonderful Kurt's new life is, so he doesn't want to ask anything about Dalton or his boyfriend. It leaves him wondering just what the hell he can possibly send. Which is why, three hours later he still hasn't send anything.
On Sunday night, he just sort of lets things go. Kurt knows what Puck said, Kurt hasn't brought it up, they're ignoring it. Kurt doesn't feel the same -Kurt probably doesn't feel anything for Puck- so Puck needs to stop with the stupidity and just get the fuck over it. It's all helped along by his mothers drunk boyfriend. Puck is used to him by that point, and how sad is it that he's used to an abusive drunk, he figures that even his deadbeat dad would be better than this fucker. For however long, Puck can't even remember when it started -before he was hooking up with Kurt anyway- his mother's boyfriend has been far too aggressive and confrontational. Puck figures it's partially his fault, he was in juvie when they met, he just had to deal with the guy. Taking a few punches wasn't a huge deal, even when it started to get worse, because Puck had his distractions, sport and glee and Kurt. But right then, on that stupid Sunday, Simon actually hits his Ma and that just doesn't fly.
It's the first time Puck's actually hit Simon, and it feels like a fucking release. There's yelling and shouting and Puck telling Sarah to get into her fucking room and close the door. Somewhere between Sarah slamming her door, his Ma shouting and crying and Puck's fist hitting Simon's jaw, Puck's head hits the wall, then his foot misses a stair or something and the next thing he knows he's in the back of a moving vehicle with the wail of a siren and just the noise of people talking over him. It's the last thing he remembers before waking up to Kurt Hummel's voice and just wanting his mother.
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