3-word prompt: puckurt -- "are you okay?" and "ice cream parlor" both from abby
set at the beginning of summer after their sophomore year and it's just a bunch of fluffy friendship really
"Holy shit-- Dude, are you okay?"
Kurt glances up from the sidewalk, knees still smarting from his fall. Except he hadn't fallen. He'd been tripped by a bunch of graduation-happy, dead-end idiots that will probably never see the world beyond Columbus, and even that's a stretch. Not that those thoughts are particularly helpful -- their nonexistent futures don't really ease the stinging in his palms that had begun after he'd just barely saved himself from hitting the concrete face-first.
Now, however, even the pain in his hands seems to lessen as he takes in the sight of Noah Puckerman standing over him. Kurt can feel the heat rising in his face as he hurries to his feet, and he knows it has nothing to do with the sun.
"What do you want?" he asks sharply, and Puck takes a step back, hands up in a feeble display of defense.
"All I did was ask if you were okay," he says, hurt. "Those assholes kinda roughed you up a bit."
"Yeah, well, it's nothing new," Kurt snaps. "You of all people should know that." Puck's expression falls.
"I know, okay? I'm no better than they are."
Kurt waits for him to continue, without luck, before saying, "So, why are you suddenly so concerned?"
"We're teammates, right? I gotta make sure you don't get hurt."
Kurt snorts. "I'll let you know if my vocal cords get severed somehow, otherwise I don't see how this has anything to do with the New Directions."
"You're good, though? No broken bones or... I dunno, crazy ambrosia shit or whatever."
"Amnesia?" Puck nods, putting his hands in his pockets as he watches Kurt, his expression unreadable. Kurt continues, slowly, "As your teammate, I'm fine," before wiping the excess dirt off of his hands and turning around to go home. God, he misses his car.
"What about as your friend?" Puck calls. Kurt stops, rotates on his heel to look at him incredulously.
"Friend?" Puck shrugs, staring at the sidewalk between them. "What makes you think we could ever be friends, Noah?"
Puck seems stunned; he opens his mouth and closes it without a sound, shuffling from one foot to the other as he finally looks Kurt directly in the eyes. Kurt thinks vaguely that he hasn't made eye contact with Puck before, except for isolated moments during performances that had nothing to do with each other. It's suddenly breathtaking, and the tension leaves his shoulders even as Puck starts to speak.
"I know we don't have much in common or anything, but I think you're pretty badass," he says, grinning a bit. "Not as badass as me, but still."
"Nothing trumps Puckasaurus, right?" Kurt says, only a trace of his usual sarcasm apparent -- a hard-won victory. He laughs as Puck immediately relaxes, nodding vigorously. "I still prefer your real name."
"Really?"
"Yes," he says simply, chin in the air. "Noah. It's a nice name."
"It's like the least badass name there is," Puck mumbles, crossing his arms. Kurt almost laughs again at how like a small child he looks, such a drastic change from the bordering-dangerous persona he'd come to know in his freshman year, along with the first half of sophomore year. Maybe there's more to him than Kurt has given him credit for.
"Does everything about you have to be badass?" he asks.
"Yeah, it does," Puck says immediately. "But you're my boy, so I'll let it slide."
"Your boy?" Kurt raises his eyebrows, can't help the small smile that sneaks up at the corner of his mouth.
"Uh-huh. And right now I think my boy needs a pick-me-up." Suddenly Puck's striding up to him and slinging an arm around his shoulders -- Kurt flinches out of instinct and almost misses the flash of concern on Puck's face. But then it's gone, and Puck is leading him down the sidewalk towards Lima's sparse main street, where all the small businesses and legal firms reside.
"I really don't want any alcohol, not after that disaster with April Rhodes--"
"I'm not talking about alcohol, dude," Puck says, shaking his head as he turns them around a corner. "What is the one thing that cheers everyone up?"
"A marathon of a favorite reality show?"
"What? No."
"Interior design?" Suddenly Puck stops, and Kurt nearly falls again out of surprise.
"Ice cream!" Kurt frowns and looks at the building that they're standing in front of -- it's Lima's single ice cream parlor, the OH! Cone. A lame play on words, maybe, but Kurt's spirits lift at the thought of a classic strawberry sundae as they walk inside.
"What'll it be?" Puck asks as he peruses the raised menu behind the counter with a kind of adorably excited expression. Kurt huffs out a laugh and scans the list despite the fact that he knows exactly what he wants.
"A strawberry sundae, obviously."
"With cheesecake bits?"
"I-- How did you know?"
"Hey, I dated that gir-- Mercedes, for a while. You guys are pretty tight, I guess."
"It happens," Kurt says, shrugging. "The weird kids with no friends and fabulous tastes in fashion find friends in each other."
Puck doesn't say anything until after they've received their orders -- for Kurt, a strawberry cheesecake sundae; for Puck, a medium twist cone.
As they sit down at one of the tables, Puck says, "We are friends, right? You're not just hoping that I'll go away soon so you can go do whatever you guys do in the summer, are you?"
"I don't do anything out of the ordinary in the summer, Noah," Kurt says first, rolling his eyes. "Sexuality has nothing to do with activities."
"Well--"
"Hobbies, I should say," he adds hastily; he knows that cocky smirk from glee club conversations. "Don't you dare bring sex into this."
"Too late, bro. But seriously, friends?"
"Friends," Kurt agrees -- how can he not? The guy is growing on him with each passing minute.
They eat the remainder of their ice cream in relative silence, only the clinking of the bells on the door interrupting it every so often. Kurt finishes his sundae first and spends his time thinking. He doesn't even notice that he's staring directly at Puck until the question bursts too-loud into his thoughts.
"Are you okay?"
Kurt smiles. "Actually, as 'your boy,' I feel pretty amazing."
A reasonable explanation of why I hate one Blaine 'Warbler' Anderson.
The first thing to say is that I enjoy Darren Criss. He's a good singer and performer. I have nothing against him because it's his job. Now, the main thing is Blaine's whole personality. To me, he is very two faced. He gave Kurt the speech to confront Karofsky, even though he never confronted his own bullies. He was just giving general advice without knowing it would work. That caused Kurt to get sexually assaulted, even if it was only a kiss. That's one of the biggest things. Second, he has a very arrogant attitude. Just because he goes to a private school and sings lead doesn't mean that he should see himself as the high and mighty. To be honest, I don't think he was that good of a mentor towards Kurt. In one episode, he's kissing Rachel. Then in the next episode, he tells Kurt that's he's not sexy. And then in the episode right after that, he kisses Kurt. He only kisses him because he's singing over a dead bird. First, kissing someone else, saying that you're not sexy, and then kissing you is completely wrong. His actions were wrong even if he thought he was doing the right thing.
Then there's the thing with Sebastian. he said their texts were friendly, but this is Sebastian, the guy who said he'd get with Blaine. Those were not family-friendly. Kurt's were. Yes it wasn't right that he felt good about them, but they were PG compliments towards Kurt, which he wasn't responding in kind too. He didn't flirt back. I'm not defending Kurt because he was in the wrong too, but Blaine made it seem like he did nothing wrong. And then in the most recent episode, Blaine cheats on Kurt after making him go to New York. He said it was Kurt's fault because Kurt wasn't there to have sex with him. Doesn't that seem wrong? And then when he meets Sebastian, they have this whole conversation in Dalton and you see Blaine blushing. The exact same thing that Kurt was doing.
And then, Blaine is a horny bastard. He takes Kurt out, dances with another guy, and then tries to make Kurt have drunk sex with him. Well when he was drunk at the party, he went for Rachel. It seems that he screws around when he's drunk. And then the whole thing with Sam wanting to sell sex at competitions. Blaine freaked out and said that "I'm not for sale." But it seems like he is when he throws himself at the warmest thing when he's drunk. They usually say you're true emotions show when you're drunk.
Also, I hate how Blaine thinks he's the best singer. Yes, Darren has a good voice, but Mark, Cory, Chord, Chris, and Kevin all have equally impressive, or even better vocals. Now again this goes to the writing of Blaine's character. And the facial expressions he makes throws me off. I'm not in anyway judging his appearance, but his face when he sings. I understand that he comes from a theater background as do many of the cast members, but they don't look like they're constipated. I know that this is a week point, but it's just a little irk for me when I watch him.
Then the whole thing with Blaine coming to McKinley. He said he wasn't doing it for Kurt, yet he throws it in Kurt's face later on in the season. And then he goes for a part in the musical that he knows his boyfriend really wants so he can prove himself as a versatile actor. But he auditions anyway. He does nothing to show his support for Kurt, because the entire time, he throws in a few words about how he wants it. You can see it on his face that he's not happy that his boyfriend is getting the lead. Ever since Dalton, Blaine thinks that he is the best thing ever, but he's really arrogant in these small ways.
So out of all of this, the general idea is that Blaine is:
1. arrogant
2. selfish
3. two-faced
4. bi-polar
5. a horny bastard
Sorry for the rant, but this is how I truly feel. I don't expect you to agree with all, or any of it. But this is why I don't like Blaine.