"I told you this isn't a gay thing, it's a you thing" - Wonderful :o))

I'm so happy, that I found this story! Great work!

I love this 3

Aw, great story! Terrific use of Burt, Blaine and even the supporting players (Puck, Beiste, Azimio) in this chapter. And love triumphs in the end - at least until school starts. Yay! Amazing first story!

I can't believe this was your first fanfic! This story is great - slimy slacker Anthony, Burt's talk with Dave, Kurt's whiplash emotions. LOL! So much love for the love triangle here. And very solid writing, very solid! You have Kurt's bitchy tone down perfectly ("You're quite the little Sherlock Holmes aren't you?")

Oh my God. This is the third time I've read this story. I love it more every time. The romance and the emotion of it is just raw and painful and perfect. This story is my number one favorite Glee fanfic. I've read some great ones but just the genuine way you portray these characters and how they think and feel...this tops them all. I'm reading Somewhere in Between too...loving it so far, even if I want to beat Dave and Kurt both for being so difficult.

I loved this story so much! For your first story, you've totally hit the jackpot! I love the drama and how the story flows and there's never a boring moment! You made it all incredibly beliveable and captured both Kurt and Dave so well! And the way you showed Dave's softer side and his sense of humour and love for Kurt were exquisite and really well written:) And honestly, the last two chapters I read on baited breath! It was simply beautiful and heart-breaking and heart-warming at the same time! I really can't praise you enough, I've been looking for such a good Kurtofsky story for a long time and I've finally found it:) Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece, you really rock:))

And I'm over the moon you've decided to do a sequel:)

This is one of the first big Kurtofsky stories I've read. I've read a few one shots and they were okay. I never really got the whole Dave changes for Kurt. You did it beautifully. The whole giving up Kurt and the fight with Blaine (I'm glad they didn't have an actual fight). Anthony was just hilarious and was sort of a "WTF" in respect to Dave because I'm sure that is what he might have been feeling half the time besides confused. Haha Kurt trying to protect Dave from hockey was so cute :D

"and Blaine seems like a good….son of a bitch!" Great line! But I hope you don't make Blaine Mr. Perfect, because perfect is awfully boring.

Ah, star-crossed lovers - so romantic! Good story so far.

Blaine's biggest problem is that he's just "Too

Flawless" ... and that makes him just a total Bore.

Poor Blaine is just so "perfect" (money, security, looks,

popularity, ...) that ... he's just 'Perfectly Bland'.

Thanks for making it clear that 'Sir Blaine-The-Boring' is the REAL culprit of ANY relationship problems for Kurt (or Dave).

Blah-Bland-Blaine.

This was a GREAT story ! D

There is just one thing I wanted to note (and I hope it does NOT sound like I am being critical or anything.

Like I said ... this story is really great D .. . but ... in reading through causes me to pause and wonder ... WHY do the fanfic writers on this board ALWAYS seem to make Azimio out to be 'the big bad violent homophobe guy' in their writings?

Ryan Murphy has NEVER portrayed Azimio as being any more homophobic or violent than Dave or Finn or anyone else on the show - YET - it seems on this board almost every writer wants to make Azimio out to be this horrific violent, ignorant, ghetto, homophobe AND 'the drive' behind all the homophobia and possible violence in the school.

That's unfair and does NOT fall into anything related to how Ryan Murphy has presented this character.

If anything Glee shows Azimio to be 'a follower' NOT 'the lead troublemaker' .

(If you notice – Azimio only seems to slushy and name call the ‘loser’ kids when Dave is around … a clear indication that Azimio just wants to fit-in with Dave and the other more ‘popular’ kids).

Also - I have both lived in and visited small towns in Ohio - and trust me - if Azimio were one of the few black kids at an all-white/nearly all-white school - there is NO WAY he would be the trouble-maker with anyone (let alone the leader of homophobic and violent acts).

And - most of the black people that I had met while in Ohio were about the most open-minded and accepting people anyone could ever encounter - (especially the black people who found themselves being among the few 'minorities' in ANY situation) - and I think this constant false (and violent and bigoted) presentation made of one of them is totally unfair.

If Azimio were TRULY one of the FEW black kids in an all-white / nearly all-white high school in small town Ohio (especially a middle class / upper middle-class one like Ryan Murphy presents McKinley as being) - from what I have seen of small town Ohio - he would NEVER hav even had the opportunity (or incentive) to practice homophobia or any other act singling any 'one' group out.

This is because Azimio would KNOW that IF he did any such thing HE would be THE NEXT person "singled out".

Ryan Murphy makes it abundantly clear that Azimio is NOT a violent person filled with hatred and bigotry - so much as he is simply a big, fat, insecure dork who (in an effort to fit-in among his jock buddies) simply 'follows' the crowd in pulling pranks on (ex. slushying) and even making attempts at hazing ANYONE (no matter if gay or straight) who isn't popular or ‘in with the in crowd’ (like he's so desperately trying to be) - so why the writers on this board seem to want to present this kid as being some sort of "to violent ignorant thuggish ghetto homophobe" is both offensive and confusing.

Again – the black people that I met when I stayed in Ohio (especially the jocks and other popular kids – but even the dorkier ones who just wanted a crowd to it into) were actually some of the most open minded and accepting people that I had ever encountered in my whole life (and, in all honesty from what I could see, few, if any of them seemed to have had any interest whatsoever in anyone’s personal sexuality or orientation).

Also – it seems to me that - if someone like Azimio ever had a problem with Dave being gay - it would (in my humble opinion) be more than likely due to, perhaps, Azimio being mad over (for instance) having felt or imagined pressure (by Dave and his popular crowd’) to cut someone out of his won life who he secretly and deeply cared about (ex. a cousin, an uncle or even another best friend – and not so much a brother or a boyfriend or anything, as I think it would be silly to have 1 show with more than 1 secretly-gay jock and almost no one would ever consider kicking a sibling out of their life just ‘to fit in with the crowd’) – all due to Azimio’s secret fear of being rejected by ‘the popular kids’ if he had decided to keep this person in his life.

Thanks for listening - and (other than this one annoyance with the presentation of the Azimio character) I think this was a really great story and look forward to reading more from you. )

What a great story, I can't wait to read more of your writing.

omg I was tearing when Karofsky was getting the shit beat out of him. HATE HOMOPHOBES!

I LOVE YOUR FIC! one of the best Kurtofsky fics i've read, I can't wait to read your sequel. Great writing skills btw for this being the first fic. Hope to read your work soon :D

So sweet, so beautiful...i have enjoyed your story so much that i would wish it would last much more chapters...but, everything has an end...

Thank you very much for this wonderful fic