"I think you're incredible. Blaine, I mean it. I've never stopped looking up to you, not since that day you first completely threw me by telling me what rock stars the Warbler were before I knew you were their leader." What a thing to do. How had he had any chance other than to fall heads over heels? A teenage dream indeed.
Kurt took Blaine's hand, making sure their fingers were interlacing as he held on to it. "I think the work you're doing is really important. A friend of mine, Hartley Rathaway. He did a lot for the play, most of the final arrangements and a lot of the composing, he's some kind of musical genius, it's annoying. He was born deaf and he keeps doing productions with sign language. I think you should meet him. Maybe you could widen your programme. You'd stay in Lima, but the programme could be state-wide. Nation-wide."
"I don't know if I could do that. That's a lot of organising and fundraising. I'm more of a 'local streets with a bucket' sort of activist. But I could meet him, if you want. It would be fun to have friendly competitions with other states..." Blaine wasn't sure he was enough of a go-getter to make these things work but he did think sign language productions of musicals could be super handy for his non-verbal kids to learn. "Maybe he can adapt me some scenes to practise with my kids."
All of which could be super handy. "It's all cool but just, you know, keep expectations low for what I can do. I'm not being super down on myself, I know I can be, but God. I can barely get my actual paperwork done. I'm so bad with this stuff." So the idea of creating a program seemed daunting. "My only truly finished project in my whole life was scrapbooking your senior year."
"You don't have to meet him. Although if it is because you're wary of organising and fundraising, you shouldn't, because that's what he does. I mean, he's intense about it. It's hard to describe." Kurt frowned, trying to think of the right words to explain Hartley to someone who hadn't met him. He was hard enough to explain to most that had met him, very easily misunderstood. "Remember all the times in your life when you've felt things are unfair? The way you felt then, that kind of anger and drive to just do something. Scream or, I don't know, revolt. Yell at Karofsky in the locker room or stare down your brother in that sexy way you did."
Kurt did remember that in all the right ways. He cleared his throat and shrugged. "Anyway, Hartley is kind of permanently on that edge, I think. And he gets things done. He'd get the project off the ground. He'd just need someone who's charming like you to make people like the project."
"Well, I can definitely hit him up. If I can get the time off." Blaine leaned over and took his phone, opening up his chat with his boss to ask her if he could have time off. He asked Kurt the dates and then added them in, sending them off into the hands of fate. New York again. Jesus, his heart was racing.
"Well, I'm excited for the food. Most take out here has under 3 stars in hygiene so it's always a bit of a gamble." He did miss New York in some ways. Some small, less scary ways.
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Kurt took Blaine's hand, making sure their fingers were interlacing as he held on to it. "I think the work you're doing is really important. A friend of mine, Hartley Rathaway. He did a lot for the play, most of the final arrangements and a lot of the composing, he's some kind of musical genius, it's annoying. He was born deaf and he keeps doing productions with sign language. I think you should meet him. Maybe you could widen your programme. You'd stay in Lima, but the programme could be state-wide. Nation-wide."
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All of which could be super handy. "It's all cool but just, you know, keep expectations low for what I can do. I'm not being super down on myself, I know I can be, but God. I can barely get my actual paperwork done. I'm so bad with this stuff." So the idea of creating a program seemed daunting. "My only truly finished project in my whole life was scrapbooking your senior year."
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Kurt did remember that in all the right ways. He cleared his throat and shrugged. "Anyway, Hartley is kind of permanently on that edge, I think. And he gets things done. He'd get the project off the ground. He'd just need someone who's charming like you to make people like the project."
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"Well, I'm excited for the food. Most take out here has under 3 stars in hygiene so it's always a bit of a gamble." He did miss New York in some ways. Some small, less scary ways.