Klaine One Shots

How The Jock Got The Nerd

Football player Kurt and nerd Blaine AU

Football was the one thing Kurt Hummel never thought he'd enjoy until he actually tried it. The sport was just too barbaric for him to enjoy, he thought whenever he'd look from afar. But when he started making friends with Finn and Mike and yes, even Puck, he started going to more and more games. However, it wasn't until the kicker on the team tore his ACL and had to get a knee reconstruction that Kurt even tried out. 

At first it was a stupid dare. Rachel had challenged Kurt to try out, thinking that he'd never go for it, and if he did, they would just get a laugh. Kurt couldn't bare the thought of anybody laughing at him, more so than they already did, and he tried out. 

And somehow, he was actually good. And even more surprising, he actually enjoyed it. Yes, the practices with some of the neanderthals wasn't fun, but eventually they started to grow and accept the fact that they didn't have to be friends, but they did have to be teammates. At first, it was difficult to balance both glee club and football, but then glee club didn't make it past regionals and they were forced to dismantle. So football became his focus, and it actually wasn't that bad. And so, by the time senior year rolls around, Kurt had become a regular figure on the football team, and even earning the starting kicker spot on varsity. 

"Let's go, Kurt! You're going to make us late," Finn yells at him. Kurt sighs, adjusting the generic varsity jacket and grabbing his book bag. He rarely wears the jacket like the other members of the team do, preferring his own fabulous and breathtaking outfits, but the first day of school the football team always wears them. It's supposed to be some message of unity or something like that, so Kurt reluctantly shelves his normal outfits in his closet for one day and wears the red varsity jacket along with the white away jersey from last year. He still wears a pair of his trademark skin tight jeans, so he wasn't completely the same as the crowd. 

Kurt grabs the keys to his Navigator and yells goodbye to his father and Carole, Finn following close on his heels. The two boys head to school, their first day of senior year getting ready to begin. Kurt pulls into his normal parking space, and seconds later Puck's beaten down truck pulls in next to it. The two wait for Puck to get out, the familiar boy bounding quickly towards the two. 

"Your day can start, the Puckster has arrived," Puck gives an overdramatic bow to the two boys before doing his weirdly complicated handshake with Finn that ends in a bro hug. And despite being on the football team for the past two years, Kurt refuses to engage in a bro hug with any of the guys. 

"Hey Puck," Finn states, and the three of them walk into the halls of McKinley High School. They arrived later than normal, so the halls were already filled with students as they waited for the start of the year assembly in the gym. The three of them head for the gym, Finn and Puck talking animately about the team and how they would hopefully win a State championship (after years of sucking terribly) while Kurt walked on and inputted his thoughts whenever he felt like it. 

Kurt sees it too late in order to warn Puck, and so before he can even open his mouth, Puck collides with a solid body who wasn't watching where they were going. Puck takes a couple steps back, used to much stronger hits on the football team, while the boy that he bumped into falls back and lands painfully on his butt. Puck glares at the kid, and Kurt feels sympathy having been on the receiving end of that glare many times before getting to know Puck and becoming friends. 

"Watch where you're going, freshman," Puck practically growls at the kid. 

"Puck, shut up. You weren't watching just as much as him," Kurt interrupts, reaching forward to offer a hand to the boy. He accepts, and Kurt effortlessly pulls him up. Kurt looks over the guy as he does so, unable to help himself. He was wearing mustard yellow pants that looked as tight as Kurt's own, as well as a white pollo tee shirt. He even wore a black bow tie, and if that wasn't enough, yellow suspenders. And if that wasn't enough to show how much of a stereotypical nerd the guy was, he even had on a pair of black thick wired frames on his face.