⤷ the one in which the quiet girl and the dorky new guy fall for each other and sing more than a few times along the way.
♫ [s2-s6] [sam evans] ♫
published: 09.18.2020
completed: 05.21.2023
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With the arrival of his older brother Cooper at McKinley, Blaine was not having the best of times. After spending most of his life living in the shadow of his older brother, Blaine loved finally just having his place in the New Directions where people didn't associate him with Cooper. But now, it seemed as if everyone in the Glee club was fawning over his brother.
Well, not everyone.
Keilani hadn't been with Blaine when he first saw his brother at McKinley. But whenever Keilani wasn't staring wide-eyed at Coach Sylvester, terrified that if she broke eye contact the cheerleading coach would murder her on the spot, Keilani couldn't help but notice the way he was glaring at Cooper the moment Coach Sylvester brought him in the room.
She found Blaine at his locker, aggressively shoving his stuff into his locker as if he was trying to get out all his pent-up aggression and anger.
"I think you're going to damage your books if you keep doing that."
With an almost guilty look on his face, Blaine placed his last textbook gently in his locker before turning to Keilani. "Sorry," Blaine apologized. "There's just...a lot on my mind."
"Your brother?"
"Why do you think it was about Cooper?" Blaine questioned, surprised that Keilani had figured it out so fast.
"I saw how upset and uncomfortable you were when he was speaking to the Glee club," Keilani explained. "But, most of all, you just seemed really...insecure."
"How do you know that feeling so well?" Blaine asked softly, feeling a lot more comfortable admitting all of his thoughts to Keilani, who just being so kind to him about the whole situation.
"Because I've experienced it," Keilani confessed, causing Blaine to look up at her in surprise. "I've always felt like I was in the shadow of my older brother. I love him, but it can really suck sometimes."
"But, Keanu's like the best!"
"Exactly! He's perfect at almost everything he does. It's hard sometimes being the little sister of the guy who has amazing grades without trying, got a football scholarship Notre Dame, and is all-around just this amazingly kind guy. I know him and my family never try to make me feel bad next to him or compare us...but it still hard to deal with at times."
Even though Blaine felt a little better knowing that Keilani could somewhat relate to him about how he felt, the sight of his brother at the other end of the hall signing autographs for Rory and Brittany brought back his insecurities once more. "My brother's constantly made me feel like I wasn't good enough," Blaine admitted with a sad sigh. "My whole life, he's always told me that there was something I could be doing better, and usually it would be something that he would be doing."
