Online Dating's not all it's cracked up to be (2/3)
Glee Secret Santa 2012 for Bexasaurous112 (2/3)
Part 1
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Jeff was munching on a cream cheese bagel and half listening to Jodie complain about their dance teacher when his phone buzzed with a new message. He checked it, expecting to see if Kurt needed him to pick up dinner again, but was pleasantly surprised to find one of the standard automated messages from that dating site he'd signed up to. He tapped the message and blinked curiously when he realised it was from a handle he didn't recognise, hoping that it wasn't from the last guy who had sent him pictures of his dick after two chats, he followed the link to the site.
Online dating's not all it's cracked up to be (1/3?)
SECRET SANTA 2012 Part 1/3?
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This is for bexasaurous112 who asked for a Klaine fic. I did some stalking and found out that she also likes Niff, so I came up with this idea. Unfortunately the prompt ran away with me, but due to winter assignments for uni, I couldn't get it all down, so this has turned into a 3 part story which will hopefully be updated by the end of each month.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It's not really festive, but enjoy!
Jeff and Kurt were glued to each other's sides throughout middle school. When Kurt began making clothes and character plushies for Jeff, Jeff would treasure them and when Jeff drew something for Kurt, Kurt would pin them to his walls until by the time the boys graduated from middle school, his room was a giant tribute to Jeff's artistic capabilities. So no one was surprised when, upon learning that Uncle Burt couldn't afford to send Kurt to Dalton Academy in Westerville too, Jeff glared defiantly at his parents and outright refused to attend the school which had been home at some point to every single Sterling man since the school's inception. Jeff's parents relented when Jeff came up with a 5 page report about how bad the bullying would get for Kurt and how Jeff would be negatively affected if the boys weren't there for each other. There were accompanying graphs at the end.
So Jeff and Kurt went to high school together. But as much as Jeff was plastered to Kurt's side, Finn Hudson and his cronies still managed to get Kurt alone and toss the petite teen into the dumpsters or chuck pee balloons at him. Then that creep Ryerson got fired for touching that senior and Kurt desperately wanted to join Mr Schuester's new Glee club. Then Hudson and a bunch of his jock buddies including that idiot Puck joined Glee as well as a bunch of Cheerios. Then for some odd reason, Mercedes smashed Kurt's wind shield causing Kurt to sob hysterically into Jeff's arms about liking Hudson instead of Berry. Jeff just pecked Kurt on the nose with his usual sparkling smile and said that Puck was insanely hotter than Hudson would ever be. Jeff was there letting Kurt clench his hand whilst Uncle Burt told them about the birthday with the sensible heels and Kurt practically lived off of coffee and Red Bull whilst forcing Jeff to get through finals. When Karofsky got more vicious and brutal in his bullying of Kurt, Jeff was there cleaning the cuts and scrapes, begging his friend to tell someone until they were sat in Principal Figgins' office with both of their parents listening to a recording of the boy in question threatening to kill Kurt if the boy told anyone about an unwanted kiss.
Jeff could easily recall the way that Mrs Karofsky had stormed out of the room, enraged not because of her son's bullying Kurt, but rather his attraction towards men. After Dave had broken down in the Principal's office, Kurt had instantly flipped his switch from scared teen to supportive friend and, even though at the time Jeff thought that he was insane, insisted that Dave not be expelled if he changed his behaviour. Needless to say, it was a shock to all the following Monday when Dave Karofsky forewent his usual lunchtime seat with the football team to sit with the Glee Club. And when Dave and Kurt were elected for Prom King and Queen, heads turned when Dave held out his hand and led Kurt through their first dance as prom royalty after Jeff had dragged him back in the gym to accept his tiara.
The class of 2012's final year at William McKinley marked a change in both Kurt and Jeff's relationship with each other. Despite many of their friends asking them why they didn't just date each other, the two teens had remained single...not for lack of trying. After several make out sessions and dates which ended awkwardly when both boys realised that although the other was incredibly attractive, their friendship made them feel more like brothers than anything else, they just decided to stop trying to force a romantic relationship between themselves just because everyone told them too.
In the boys' senior year, both Jeff and Kurt applied for multiple schools in New York and to everyone's insistence (apart from Rachel), Kurt also applied for a couple of fashion internships as well as Parsons, just in case he could not get into NYADA. In the end, it did pay off as Kurt readied himself to work at Vogue.com so that he could build up his portfolio before reapplying to a fashion school. In the mean time, Jeff was happily preparing for his first semester at NYU where he would be splitting his degree between art and dance, having found it difficult to decide between his two passions. Much to Rachel's disappointment, the two boys decided to share a flat alone together and leave her to the horrors of dormitory life. It worked out perfectly and the two best friends had soon noticed that the amount of drama in their lives had taken a nose dive, thus letting a (mostly) peaceful routine settle upon them. Occasionally, there was a bump in the road, like when Finn slept on the couch for a week after finding Rachel in bed with a guy named Brody from her dorms. Apart from that, and the occasional invasion of Kurt's colleagues or Jeff's multiple study groups, the boys easily let time pass them by. After all, loneliness wasn't an issue if you lived with your best friend, until Jeff found that it was.
Throughout the years, Kurt had dated three people. First there was Chandler who's excitable nature and lack of tact about his dislike of Jeff gave the blonde a permanent headache and an urge to punch something. After an incident involving Chandler accidentally sending a text to Kurt which was actually intended for a guy that he'd met at the sheet music store, Jeff was grateful that his friend had finally seen the light. Around Valentine's day during senior year, Kurt began receiving gorilla-grams which later turned out to be from Karofsky. They went on a few dates – to Breadstix and Scandals – but found that they had too much history between them to be anything other than friends. The third, and most recent, guy was someone Kurt had met whilst at Callbacks with Brody and Rachel. His name was Adam, and was for all intents and purposes, the perfect guy until he butt-dialled Kurt whilst going down on one of his colleagues. It had been disturbingly therapeutic when Jeff punched him in the face the next day. That had been two months ago and once Kurt had gotten over his heartbreak, he decided to focus his attention back onto Jeff's love life. After all, Jeff had never dated anyone other than his best friend and Kurt only knew too well how lonely the blonde was despite his bubbly exterior.
So, one evening, Jeff and Kurt sat together in Isabelle's office as the woman took it upon herself to help them create an online dating profile once she pointed out that the reason Jeff had no luck in bars was because everyone thought that he and Kurt were a couple. After Jeff created the profile, it wasn't long before people began messaging him and vice versa, resulting in Jeff looking perkier than ever.
Kurt and Jeff were the best of friends, they did everything together, to the point where they were often mistaken for being a couple. What neither boy realised as Kurt hemmed a pair of dress pants and Jeff got a ping during his lunch break on a sunny Thursday afternoon, was that Mrs Sterling's burst tyre all those years ago was a catalyst that drastically changed the boys' lives for the better and set them on a path to find their soulmates.
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Hey, I don't know you and I dom't even follow you but my dash directed me to your post about your mum and I have to say I'm so sorry. It feels like prying, like I'm not friends with you so I shouldn't be reading something so personal, but I read it and I felt so sorry that your mum is like that. I have a friend who's a bit like that; she used to say she 'wouldn't care one bit' if one of her family/friends was LGBT yet when we saw a gay couple holding hands in the park once she said something like 'well at least they don't have a kid with them' and that sparked a whole conversation about that because she thought that having dads was going to 'stunt your mental growth' and you wouldn't properly balanced. It sucks and she tried to hide her opinions when I was around from then on but little comments kept slipping out and I was fed up so I told her that I'd rather have her be straight with me and tell me she was against it now and try to never mention it to me again than have her be like this. She called a truce on that and we don't talk about any of it. What I'm trying to say in my weird way was that you're very brave for confronting your mum like that. I still haven't come out as pan to my family (only a couple of close friends) because I'm too nervous that the won't understand it and therefore reject it even though I know for fact they're some of the most understanding, open-minded people I've ever met. You're a very brave person for standing up to people and if you ever want to chat, to rant and rave, or just say hi don't hesitate to drop by my ask box :D
~ Becky xx
If there is any chance of another person going through the same thing, you're not alone. I'm not alone. I wanted to publish this because it proves something important: You may not know everyone on tumblr personnally. But a great part of them would still be there for you if you needed it.
