It's a 90's Thing - Chapter 10
Finn POV
For once no one left the choir room in any kind of hurry. Usually it’s like a race to see who can get to the door first without bashing into anyone. Puck and Rachel were still gone, Kurt had asked Mercedes to go and get them back; I guess he wanted to get this over and done with in one session too.
As she walked out of the room Brittany walked over and stood in front of us. She crouched down and rested her chin on the back of her hand with her elbow placed on her knee.
‘So..’ She looked closely at us, was kinda weird. ‘You two are really cute; One’s tall one’s short, one’s smart one’s sporty, one’s straight one’s gay. Really cute’
Kurt and I just looked at each other and chuckled.
‘Thanks Brit’ I really didn’t know what else I could say.
Santana called out to Brittany from behind us as she got up and stood next to her. ‘Brit, don’t be dumb, Finn kissed Kurt, plus they sang a power ballad, that means he’s gay too’
‘Oh… ok, your less cute then, but still pretty cute.’
I was so preoccupied with Santana and Brittany that I hadn’t realised Mercedes had managed to find both Rachel and Puck and bring them back here. Puck was rubbing his arm, I ‘spose Mercedes had had to hit him to get him to come back.
He strode over to the girls and stood behind as Rachel slowly walked over, head down.
‘So you love guys now dude?’ He had the same look he has on his face when he sees Rachel sing, or talk. Who is he to judge me with all the stuff he’s done? But I don’t care about that anymore.
I just leaned back in my chair to look past Brittany, straight at Puck. Santana noticed what I’d done and pulled her out of the way.
‘Puck, I don’t love boys.’
Kurt again moved his head stupidly fast; I’ve got to tell him to stop doing that. He had a furrowed brow; for once he was the confused one.
‘I love Kurt’. His expression slowly went from confused, to happy, to shocked. Shit. I’d just dropped the L bomb. It was an accident. Did I mean it?
Yes. Yeah I meant it. I love Kurt. It’s not even that difficult to say in my head. I love Kurt.
Now all I’ve got to do is stop my face from being so red, annoyingly that’s one of the few things I can’t control about myself, like my feet when I’m thinking about my arm movements.
I then realised that Kurt wasn’t the only one who heard that, the entire room had. Mercedes dropped her pencil, she was scribbling on a piece of sheet music on the piano, keeping an eye on the situation from behind. Puck had the same expression as before on his face and Rachel raised her head sharply to look at us, I’d never seen someone look so much like they were about to die.
Literally, for a second I thought she’d died. She was pale and I don’t think she was moving.
I didn’t really care about the rest of the room, they can deal with it as they like. I know Artie and Tina would be happy for us, after all they’re both of our friends. Quinn can get over it, she should be happy I’m not going to go after her now she’s with Puck. Matt, Mike, Santana and Brit were silent, whatever they think they’ll have to deal.
‘Anyone have a problem with this?’ I raised my voice a little and looked around the parts of the room I could see without turning around.
I turned my head to look at each person in front of me.
‘Santana?’
She shook her head.
‘Brittany?’
‘No way, I love gay guys’.
‘Puck?’
I looked at him square in the eyes.
He exhaled deeply and rubbed the back of his Mohawk.
‘Does it matter? What each of us does now doesn’t mean anything to the other. You’ve got Kurt, I’ve got Quinn’.
It surprised me at first that Puck was being so understanding, but even though he likes to appear it, he’s not a complete arsehole all the time.
‘Glad to hear it’ I gave him a little smile.
‘Rachel?’ She looked as if she just snapped back into the room. She uh and um’d a little before speaking.
‘In all honesty, I do.’
There’s a surprise.
‘I always thought we would be the Glee club’s power couple, the two stars who happened to be star crossed lovers. But truthfully I knew that we weren’t in the same league. So if you two are serious about this...’
She looked over at Kurt. He just smiled at her.
‘Then I suppose I have to get on board’ She sniffed, flicked her hair out of her face and gave us the smallest smile ever.
Kurt stood up, walked over to Rachel and placed his hand on her arm.
‘Thank you Rachel, that’s very big of you’.
‘Yeah, thanks.’ I smiled at her a little, waiting to see her reaction.
Rachel shot us both a smile that was obviously fake, but it was good for now. I wasn’t going to ask for miracles.
Kurt walked back to me and sat back down.
‘How about you?’ I squeezed Kurt’s hand as Santana and Brittany linked arms and walked out of the choir room, saying a blanket bye to everyone.
‘Well, I think you being in love with me is alright.’ He looked me in the eye and smiled. I just realised his palms were very sweaty, must’ve been because of the L word.
‘As long as you’re ok with me being in love with you that is.’ He lent forward and gave me a peck on the lips. I couldn’t believe it, we’d done the love thing, and it didn’t feel weird, or forced, or fake. It felt right.
As everyone except Mercedes, Artie and Tina filed out of the choir room, murmuring to themselves, Kurt gave me another peck.
‘Guysssss!!’ Tina finally got up from her chair and rushed over to us when everyone had left. She looked the most excited I’d ever seen her look. ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’
Kurt let go of my hand so Tina could hug him as he stood up.
‘No one knew Tina…Well, almost no one, but that’s special circumstances.’
Kurt gave a little look to Mercedes and giggled.
‘Oh I should’ve known’ Tina dramatically crossed her arms but still had a huge smile on her face.
‘I’m really happy for you Finn’ Artie rolled himself over to us and gave me a fist bump ‘and we know Kurt too well to know that he’s got enough happy to go around at the minute.’ He adjusted his glasses and looked over at Kurt. Who yes, looked like he had more than enough happy, and that made me happy. The fact I make the boy I love happy is all I need right now.
‘Oh and if he says he’s pregnant, take a tip, don’t believe him without looking it up first. He smiled up at me and chuckled.
Funny, nice to know I’ve been properly accepted, the playful teasing has started. I like it.
‘Oh and damn guys! That performance! You shouldn’t have stolen its thunder by smooching!’ Mercedes had sat down where Kurt had been before; she hit my knee playfully. ‘Not that it wasn’t kinda hot’.
‘No comment’ I heard Artie say from my left, raising his hand.
‘Thanks Mercedes, I'm really pleased with how it went, I’m just grateful that Kurt offered to sing with me, I don’t think I’d have had the strength to sing it alone.
I heard an ‘awww’ from both Tina and Mercedes as I looked at Kurt. He beamed back at me.
‘You see? We’re a power couple, never mind you and Rachel’ He walked over and sat on my knee. He wrapped his arms around me, put my arm that was closest to him around his waist and looked back to Artie and Tina who stood (and sat) in front of us.
‘Yeah, what are you guys gonna do about her? She looked really freaked out’ Artie asked.
‘I have no idea, despite her sand paper like speaking voice and her overbearing attitude, she’s a decent person so she’ll come around eventually.’ Kurt explained what we’d talked about earlier to them.
‘And if not’ Mercedes tapped him on the back. He turned his head around as much as possible without falling off of me. ‘She can just do one right?’ She gave us a big teethy smile as Tina giggled.
‘Well, hopefully it wont come to that’ I replied
‘Yeah or I’ll have to take female lead… ooh actually… I could go for that.’ Kurt tapped my leg and gave me a fake nod and wink. I just laughed at him.
‘But we’ll have to see. We’re just going day by day at the moment aren’t we, this is new for both of us.’ Its true, I have no idea what another day will bring.
‘Yep’ Kurt said softly. ‘New, but incredible.’ He nuzzled my chin with his nose as the bell rang for lunch.
He stepped off of my lap and linked arms with Mercedes as we walked over to the door.
‘Oh yeah, just remember though white boy’ Mercedes turned them both towards me and started walking backwards. It’s chicks before dicks, so you better treat my boy right’ She winked at me and turned back around. She and Kurt giggled.
Lunchtime, I'm starved after the twenty questions.
For once no one left the choir room in any kind of hurry. Usually it’s like a race to see who can get to the door first without bashing into anyone. Puck and Rachel were still gone, Kurt had asked Mercedes to go and get them back; I guess he wanted to get this over and done with in one session too.
As she walked out of the room Brittany walked over and stood in front of us. She crouched down and rested her chin on the back of her hand with her elbow placed on her knee.
‘So..’ She looked closely at us, was kinda weird. ‘You two are really cute; One’s tall one’s short, one’s smart one’s sporty, one’s straight one’s gay. Really cute’
Kurt and I just looked at each other and chuckled.
‘Thanks Brit’ I really didn’t know what else I could say.
Santana called out to Brittany from behind us as she got up and stood next to her. ‘Brit, don’t be dumb, Finn kissed Kurt, plus they sang a power ballad, that means he’s gay too’
‘Oh… ok, your less cute then, but still pretty cute.’
I was so preoccupied with Santana and Brittany that I hadn’t realised Mercedes had managed to find both Rachel and Puck and bring them back here. Puck was rubbing his arm, I ‘spose Mercedes had had to hit him to get him to come back.
He strode over to the girls and stood behind as Rachel slowly walked over, head down.
‘So you love guys now dude?’ He had the same look he has on his face when he sees Rachel sing, or talk. Who is he to judge me with all the stuff he’s done? But I don’t care about that anymore.
I just leaned back in my chair to look past Brittany, straight at Puck. Santana noticed what I’d done and pulled her out of the way.
‘Puck, I don’t love boys.’
Kurt again moved his head stupidly fast; I’ve got to tell him to stop doing that. He had a furrowed brow; for once he was the confused one.
‘I love Kurt’. His expression slowly went from confused, to happy, to shocked. Shit. I’d just dropped the L bomb. It was an accident. Did I mean it?
Yes. Yeah I meant it. I love Kurt. It’s not even that difficult to say in my head. I love Kurt.
Now all I’ve got to do is stop my face from being so red, annoyingly that’s one of the few things I can’t control about myself, like my feet when I’m thinking about my arm movements.
I then realised that Kurt wasn’t the only one who heard that, the entire room had. Mercedes dropped her pencil, she was scribbling on a piece of sheet music on the piano, keeping an eye on the situation from behind. Puck had the same expression as before on his face and Rachel raised her head sharply to look at us, I’d never seen someone look so much like they were about to die.
Literally, for a second I thought she’d died. She was pale and I don’t think she was moving.
I didn’t really care about the rest of the room, they can deal with it as they like. I know Artie and Tina would be happy for us, after all they’re both of our friends. Quinn can get over it, she should be happy I’m not going to go after her now she’s with Puck. Matt, Mike, Santana and Brit were silent, whatever they think they’ll have to deal.
‘Anyone have a problem with this?’ I raised my voice a little and looked around the parts of the room I could see without turning around.
I turned my head to look at each person in front of me.
‘Santana?’
She shook her head.
‘Brittany?’
‘No way, I love gay guys’.
‘Puck?’
I looked at him square in the eyes.
He exhaled deeply and rubbed the back of his Mohawk.
‘Does it matter? What each of us does now doesn’t mean anything to the other. You’ve got Kurt, I’ve got Quinn’.
It surprised me at first that Puck was being so understanding, but even though he likes to appear it, he’s not a complete arsehole all the time.
‘Glad to hear it’ I gave him a little smile.
‘Rachel?’ She looked as if she just snapped back into the room. She uh and um’d a little before speaking.
‘In all honesty, I do.’
There’s a surprise.
‘I always thought we would be the Glee club’s power couple, the two stars who happened to be star crossed lovers. But truthfully I knew that we weren’t in the same league. So if you two are serious about this...’
She looked over at Kurt. He just smiled at her.
‘Then I suppose I have to get on board’ She sniffed, flicked her hair out of her face and gave us the smallest smile ever.
Kurt stood up, walked over to Rachel and placed his hand on her arm.
‘Thank you Rachel, that’s very big of you’.
‘Yeah, thanks.’ I smiled at her a little, waiting to see her reaction.
Rachel shot us both a smile that was obviously fake, but it was good for now. I wasn’t going to ask for miracles.
Kurt walked back to me and sat back down.
‘How about you?’ I squeezed Kurt’s hand as Santana and Brittany linked arms and walked out of the choir room, saying a blanket bye to everyone.
‘Well, I think you being in love with me is alright.’ He looked me in the eye and smiled. I just realised his palms were very sweaty, must’ve been because of the L word.
‘As long as you’re ok with me being in love with you that is.’ He lent forward and gave me a peck on the lips. I couldn’t believe it, we’d done the love thing, and it didn’t feel weird, or forced, or fake. It felt right.
As everyone except Mercedes, Artie and Tina filed out of the choir room, murmuring to themselves, Kurt gave me another peck.
‘Guysssss!!’ Tina finally got up from her chair and rushed over to us when everyone had left. She looked the most excited I’d ever seen her look. ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’
Kurt let go of my hand so Tina could hug him as he stood up.
‘No one knew Tina…Well, almost no one, but that’s special circumstances.’
Kurt gave a little look to Mercedes and giggled.
‘Oh I should’ve known’ Tina dramatically crossed her arms but still had a huge smile on her face.
‘I’m really happy for you Finn’ Artie rolled himself over to us and gave me a fist bump ‘and we know Kurt too well to know that he’s got enough happy to go around at the minute.’ He adjusted his glasses and looked over at Kurt. Who yes, looked like he had more than enough happy, and that made me happy. The fact I make the boy I love happy is all I need right now.
‘Oh and if he says he’s pregnant, take a tip, don’t believe him without looking it up first. He smiled up at me and chuckled.
Funny, nice to know I’ve been properly accepted, the playful teasing has started. I like it.
‘Oh and damn guys! That performance! You shouldn’t have stolen its thunder by smooching!’ Mercedes had sat down where Kurt had been before; she hit my knee playfully. ‘Not that it wasn’t kinda hot’.
‘No comment’ I heard Artie say from my left, raising his hand.
‘Thanks Mercedes, I'm really pleased with how it went, I’m just grateful that Kurt offered to sing with me, I don’t think I’d have had the strength to sing it alone.
I heard an ‘awww’ from both Tina and Mercedes as I looked at Kurt. He beamed back at me.
‘You see? We’re a power couple, never mind you and Rachel’ He walked over and sat on my knee. He wrapped his arms around me, put my arm that was closest to him around his waist and looked back to Artie and Tina who stood (and sat) in front of us.
‘Yeah, what are you guys gonna do about her? She looked really freaked out’ Artie asked.
‘I have no idea, despite her sand paper like speaking voice and her overbearing attitude, she’s a decent person so she’ll come around eventually.’ Kurt explained what we’d talked about earlier to them.
‘And if not’ Mercedes tapped him on the back. He turned his head around as much as possible without falling off of me. ‘She can just do one right?’ She gave us a big teethy smile as Tina giggled.
‘Well, hopefully it wont come to that’ I replied
‘Yeah or I’ll have to take female lead… ooh actually… I could go for that.’ Kurt tapped my leg and gave me a fake nod and wink. I just laughed at him.
‘But we’ll have to see. We’re just going day by day at the moment aren’t we, this is new for both of us.’ Its true, I have no idea what another day will bring.
‘Yep’ Kurt said softly. ‘New, but incredible.’ He nuzzled my chin with his nose as the bell rang for lunch.
He stepped off of my lap and linked arms with Mercedes as we walked over to the door.
‘Oh yeah, just remember though white boy’ Mercedes turned them both towards me and started walking backwards. It’s chicks before dicks, so you better treat my boy right’ She winked at me and turned back around. She and Kurt giggled.
Lunchtime, I'm starved after the twenty questions.