Glee and Prejudice

Tina

Outside the building, while the ball took place, sat Tina Schuester, her dress spoiled and her confidence shot. She was sitting on a stone bench beside a manservant, looking down at her shoes, trying not to cry. She heard footsteps running then noticed that there was someone standing in front of her. Still looking down, Tina croaked, trying, still, to hold back tears. "What are you doing here? You should be in there enjoying yourself."
"I thought I would enjoy myself more out here."
Tina looked up at the man's face and saw that it was the gentleman she had been dancing with before. "You think so?" Tina looked at her surroundings. They were nothing extraordinary, and the air was not fresh due to the horses of every guest of the ball. Nothing out here made it more enjoyable than outside except, perhaps, Tina herself. The girl smiled at the thought.
"I do indeed," he responded. The younger Michael Chang was not known for talking a lot, so this response was satisfactory for Tina.
She cleared the empty space on the bench. "Please, have a seat," Tina smiled.
Mr. Chang instead held out his hand to Tina. Music from the ball, though softened, flowed out of the doors and windows, surrounding Tina and Mr. Chang. Tina took the hand that was held out to her and started to dance, despite her wine stained dress.
Everything that Mr. Chang hadn't said aloud, he said with his dancing. He was fluid, graceful, and confident.
The evening went by in a blur as the two danced. Neither said a word, but, before they knew it, the band stopped playing and guests started to file out of the building. Tina and Mr. Chang sat side by side on the bench, their shoulders nearly touching though there was plenty of room for them both.
Kurt and Rachel soon exited, with Brittany trailing behind, talking to some young gentleman she had just met. Kurt approached Tina, looking sympathetic. "I'm so sorry I didn't come out to help you, sister."
"As am I," Rachel nodded.
"It was alright," Tina glowed, "Mr. Chang here helped me."
Kurt and Rachel shared a glance then looked to the gentleman that Tina was referring to.
"Thank you, Mr. Chang, for supporting my sister," Kurt  stated with a curious lilt in his voice, "you are a gentleman, sir." Kurt then led his sisters to their carriage. Tina walked away from Mr. Chang, glancing over her shoulder at him every few seconds to see his face and say, once again without words, goodbye.
In the carriage, every question was asked. Kurt and Rachel's questions, of course, explored the nature of Tina and Mr. Chang's relationship, while Brittany's questions were a bit more abstract. Tina did not mind giving full answers to her beloved siblings, but, in exchange, she asked for Rachel's stories of Mr. Hudson. Rachel was more vague than Tina in her descriptions of the night's events, but just as generous and much more dramatic. Rachel's accounts helped further form Kurt's good opinion of Mr. Hudson. "The man was quite a contrast to his family and friends," Kurt remarked to his siblings' agreement, "His friend Mr. Anderson believed socializing or even noticing his company was unnecessary, not to mention what Mr. Puckerman did to poor Tina."
"Family," Tina looked from sibling to sibling, "with the exception of the formidable Mr. Finn Hudson, can we all promise to not humor any of the party, whether that be romantically or otherwise?"
Kurt easily promised this after quickly snapping himself out of an unrealistic and strange fantasy which he did not understand himself, but the others had some more trouble. Rachel was insistent on giving them another chance, and Brittany had trouble seeing what any of them had done wrong at all.
"Fine. Next time we see them, you will agree with us, though," Tina sighed.