tough leather.

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So here's what you missed on Glee:

Kurt spent his last days as seventeen in the company of friends, specifically throwing a birthday bash with Santana - ( "We're turning eighteen, not eighty.") - and Puck, and being rather aghast at the fact that the latter slept with Betty Rizzo and didn't even know it - ( "Don't even look at me like that, man. I

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Sewing class has become one of the highlights of Grace's week, if she's completely honest. Of course, she prefers ballet class and always will, even though she finds a great deal of her class time devoted to making sure that she's concentrating more on her dancing than on Tony Stonem. She's fully aware of how ridiculous it is at this point, but that doesn't make Monday and Thursday mornings any easier.

Today, as she's putting her things away, Grace is a bit surprised at the force with which Kurt puts his sewing materials away. She spent most of class thinking that perhaps she was reading too much into his mood, but she can't just let it go, now.

"I'm not sure what the drawer's done to you, but I think you've taught it a lesson," she says, trying her best not to sound like she's prying.

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If there's anything that Kurt Hummel can say about Grace Violet, it would be that he's pretty sure anyone would be hard-pressed to lie to her face. Although they haven't known each other for very long, Kurt feels that he's never had a reason to see Grace as anything but supportive, beautiful, the type of girl that one would want to hide behind glass to admire, if not for the strong spine of steel that one can also observe in her, the one that demands to be let out into the world, turning and dancing and whirling all at once.

A princess, perhaps, but one constantly running from those who would draw a fencing around her.

In fact, it's only her presence that calms Kurt for the time being, a quick arch of his brow aimed in her direction before he shakes his head. "The drawer hasn't done anything," he confesses, not planning on lying to her if she asks. "But it's a very convenient scapegoat, and one that I'm hoping, against all odds, won't fight back."

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Grace presses her lips into a thin line and frowns. Maybe it would have been better if she hadn't said anything at all. She nods, folding a piece of fabric possibly smaller than it really needs to be folded.

She can understand his apprehension with simply blabbing his problems to someone he's only been acquainted with a few weeks; Grace had known Mini and Liv for what seemed like ages, and she hated feeling as if she'd dumped her problems on them. It's not as if her problems are more important than anyone else's.

"Kurt," she says, looking down at her hands for the moment, "I know that we haven't known each other very long, but if you ever want something more than just a scapegoat for... for whatever it is, 'd listen."

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The last thing that Kurt honestly wants to do is to get Grace worried over something which Kurt is at least partially to blame for. He's seen the way that teens behave at school, he knows that flirtation doesn't necessarily mean anything at all. That a friendship or a relationship is only so much as both involved parties want to make it, and he was foolish enough not to ask before diving straight in. His own lack of foresight is to blame here, and the frustration of knowing that only seems to twist even more in his stomach as he glances over at her with a small shake of his head.

"I would come to you with everything if I could, Grace, believe me. I know a good listener when I see one," he replies with a raise of his brow. "But I just don't know how cathartic it'd be to go on at length about my inability to read a boy's signs correctly. If anything, it might only prove more frustrating. The sort of thing that'd make me swear a vow of celibacy, or at least swear that my love is only meant for the stage."