19. "family time"

[no_indoor_voice]

[It's Monday evening, the night before the West Side Story auditions, and Tybalt hasn't seen his not!son since certain... revelations the week before.

Failure at human feeling that he is, Tybalt nevertheless finds this disconcerting, and is therefore interfering.]

Boy?

[Knock knock knock on your bedroom door, Kurt.]

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[tender_crook]

[There is an emphatic lack of answer.]

[no_indoor_voice]

Boy.

Open the door.

[tender_crook]

[NO
YOU OPEN THE DOOR

Kurt has cried until there is nothing left to do but cough and choke. He is not receiving visitors.]

[no_indoor_voice]

[joggling the handle]

[tender_crook]

n--augh--

[well some noises appear to run in the notfamily]

[no_indoor_voice]

[door opens]

[tender_crook]

[Kurt didn't even have the energy to shove the dresser in front of it.

He doesn't even respond when Tybalt enters, laid out on the bed in a state of half-undress. He is so flushed and disheveled that he looks like he's been struck in the face.]

[no_indoor_voice]

...what happened.

[tender_crook]

Get out of my room.

[He rolls over.]

[no_indoor_voice]

There's food downstairs.

[tender_crook]

Not hungry.

[no_indoor_voice]

...something.

[tender_crook]

[this is the most pathetic voice in the universe]

You should be at work--

[no_indoor_voice]

It's evening now.

[tender_crook]

[There is the sound of a lot of sniffling.]

[no_indoor_voice]

[...comes a little closer]