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Kurt wondered, not for the first time, if he was going to be like this for the rest of his life - cuddling his best friend through a broken heart while he remained all alone.
He shook his head, figuring that was ridiculous.
He’d at least get a dog first.
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“Coffee break?”
Blaine looked up from his laptop to see Tina leaning against his door jam, holding two steaming mugs of coffee. He could smell them from where she stood and he nodded at her, suddenly eager for the caffeine pick up. “Please,” he said, saving his document and closing the lid of the laptop.
“How’s your day been?”
Some days, that was a loaded question for Blaine. Lately, he had been having more and more sessions with students. Some regular, some new but each of them brought their own problems that Blaine wanted to try and help fix or at least offer solutions for them to fix.
“Long,” Blaine replied.
Tina set the mug in front of him and sat in one of the two arm chairs off to the side of his office. He got up and joined her. It was where he liked to sit and chat one-on-one, rather than trying to talk with a desk between them.
Blaine took a long sip of his coffee before putting it on the floor next to his chair as he sat down across from Tina.
She pushed her long black hair over her shoulder and crossed one leg over the other. “Spill,” she said.
Tina was the music teacher of the school. She ran the glee club as well, and occasionally Blaine would join them, eager to sing with the students for an afternoon. She was amazingly talented and they had been friends since college - where they had met.
Tina was also one of his best friends. She and her husband, Mike, had helped Blaine through his break up with Dale. They let him get drunk and cry on their shoulders whenever he needed to and Tina had been the one to encourage Blaine to start dating again. Blaine loved her like the sister he never had. She was an amazing person and he was glad he had such a good friends in her and Mike.
“One of my students is struggling with his sexuality,” Blaine started. “He’s so scared that his dad is going to hate him and I just wish I could protect them all, Tina.”
“I know you do,” Tina said fondly. “It’s what makes you a good counsellor. You relate and they don’t see you as some old teacher that’s breathing down their necks for their homework.”
“Subtle dig about my age there, Tina,” Blaine teased.
Tina threw him a wink and took a sip of her coffee.
Blaine sighed and looked down into his mug like it held all of the answers. “I’ve encouraged him to take his time, to test the waters at home first. The last thing I want to do is tell him to go for it - to tell his dad and for his dad to react badly. I want to keep my students as safe as possible.”
“You’re doing the right thing,” Tina replied. “You know you are.”
Blaine nodded. “I know. I just wish this still wasn’t an issue. We’re in the twenty-first century, gay marriage is legal in half of the country and the other half is slowly coming to realise that they’re falling behind the times.”
“Come to glee club this afternoon,” Tina suggested. “Sing out your worries with the kids. It’ll be therapeutic.”
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Blaine took another sip of his drink and a moment later, someone was knocking on his office door.
“Mr Anderson?”
Blaine looked up. “Come in.”
Hayley, one of his regulars, looked between him and Tina.
Tina got up off her chair. “I’ll leave you two alone,” she said smoothly. “I’ll see you in Glee, Blaine.”
Blaine nodded and got up to shut the door behind her. “Have a seat, Hayley.”
Hayley dumped her backpack by the chair that Tina had just vacated and Blaine sat back down opposite her, letting Hayley spill whatever was on her mind to him. She had a lot of struggles at home and she visited Blaine almost daily. Blaine was glad he could be there for her, if nothing else to be a soundboard for her to vent to for half an hour or more.
Hayley was a bright student and she often reminded Blaine of how much he loved his job. She had progressed so much since she had started having regular sessions with him and Blaine was proud. Before visiting him twice a week, Hayley’s grades were C average and with his help, she was getting A’s and B’s regularly.
Whenever Hayley didn’t need to vent, Blaine would help her study, guiding her along to the answers she knew all along but hadn’t seen yet.
They talked through Hayley’s worries and by the time the bell sounded to end the school day, Hayley was feeling much better. Blaine gave her shoulder a gentle squeeze and she left his office with a smile on her face.
Blaine slipped his phone into his pocket and headed to the choir room for Glee club. He sat at the piano and started to play while he waited for the members to all arrive.
Half way through his song, Tina joined him at the bench, immediately picking her place in the song to start playing, singing along with him. Before he realised it, the members of the club had all arrived and were singing along with them.
Tina was right - singing your worries away was therapeutic.
“Mr Anderson, your voice is so dreamy,” Ann, one of the members said. He chuckled and thanked her before taking a seat at the back to watch the other members have their turn in the spotlight of the day.
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