The Only Exception- Glee

14. Blame it On the Alcohol

"That's amazing!" Kurt exclaims. "She has a girl crush on you... Wait a second, why'd you say yes. You can't lead her on."

"Yeah Blaine," Becca agrees, "She's really fragile right now. It would crush her."

"Who says I'm leading her on?" Blaine asks them both. He knew he was gay, but now he was questioning a lot. "When we kissed, it felt good. Same with Becca."

"It felt good because you were drunk and Becca's Becca." Said girl just stayed silent throughout all of this, letting the two guys talk it out. That was until Kurt said something that hurt. "Bisexual is a term that gay guys se in high school so they can hold hands with a girl and feel normal for a change."

Not wanting to sit there and let her best friend be biphobic in front of her, she went to get more napkins for them all. She can't believe him. She knows that Blaine's a bit confused about his sexuality but she figured that was fine. The girl does believe that he's gay but if isn't, she's not going to stop supporting him.

Taking a seat back down, Becca notices that Blaine's gone. "So I guess I'm confused too then?" Becca looks at her friend who looks extremely guilty.

"That's not, that's not what I-" Kurt tries to grab her hand but she pulls it away. Sighing she looks at her, "You're not. I know you're not confused and I mean it when I said I'm proud of you for telling Finn... And I know you experience biphobia and I don't want to be apart of that problem..."

Last summer, the two went to the Cincinnati Pride Festival over the summer and had a blast. They meet a lot of supporting people coming from different backgrounds and had different sexualities and genders identities. This was still a culture shock for both of them since neither teen knew many LGBT+ people personally. Never once has either of them been surround by such an open and accepting community.

But even in the most accepting communities, there are still issues with it. There were people that the duo met that weren't as accepting to other within their own community like someone who is transgender, nonbinary, asexual, bisexual, and pansexual to name a few. There was even one person who told Becca to her face that she was just a "straight person looking for attention" which stung a lot. And her 'ex-friends' from Caliornia would say that spout that exact same biphobic bullshit but added that by being bisexual means she's transphobic because somehow being bisexual meant that she 'wouldn't date a trans or nonbinary person'. Which Becca countered saying that she would because A, trans women are women and trans men are men and B, the definition of bisexual is attraction to more than one gender, not just two.  Then her friends claimed that claiming she would date anyone regardless of gender was pan erasure. Which it's not since bisexuality is basically the umbrella/ common label and pansexuality fits under bisexuality. Yes they are two labels that mean pretty similar identities, but people have a preference to use one or the other. Becca tried the pan label, but preferred the bi one. 

The worst was that Kurt knew about this. He's sat through countless rants from Becca about the biphobia she has experienced in her life and he saw it as just as bad as some of the verbal homophobia he has experienced. Like from just little things like customers at the tire shop never believing that Kurt knew a thing or two about cars. He never wanted to be that person to someone he saw as family.

Becca wanted to leave right after, but she stayed. This was so unlike Kurt to say these things so she heard him out.  "It's just... Blaine's the only gay guy I know and it's fine if he does end up being bi that doesn't mean I don't have a shot. It's just, Rachel gets everything. The solos. The guy. Now Blaine... I just wish I could have something for once. If it was you he asked out, I'd be jealous but I'd get it."

"I wouldn't do that to you." Becca tells him, "I wouldn't go after someone who I knew my friend liked."

"I know and for the record, I already regret it." Kurt says, "What I told him. I was angry and hurt and I lashed out without thinking. It wasn't okay what I said and I'm going to apologize to him tomorrow. And you don't have to forgive me since I know you've been insulted before about being bi, but I need to make it clear, you are valid."

Becca looks away, letting his words land before grabbing his hand. "Thanks Kurt.... He was a pretty good kisser and he had a love sick look on his face when he was looking at you."

Letting go of her hand, he laughs, "Don't get my hopes up." 

Author's Note: 

It's a long one so read on if you're curious! 

By far, this is my favorite episode of all of Glee. Just everything about it is iconic and hilarious. I remember when I was in middle school, I would watch this episode on repeat. This episode was just pure comedy from Rachel's House Party Extravaganza to one of Blaine's most iconic lines 'I'd say bye but I don't want to upset you'.

Speaking of the biphobia, I'm all for changing how Glee tackled things and removing or changing plot points. As a Kurt fan and a bisexual women myself, I am offended by what he said. It's something that I disliked But it's still realistic for someone his age to say something ignorant like that which is why I wanted to combat his reasoning for why. But I also wanted to make it clear that I don't think Kurt's a biphobic person as I think that this statement was Ryan Murphy letting his biphobia out in the open more directly... So I'm fixing that and giving him an actual reasoning to his statement. Plus bisexual representation is something I'm very passionate about and Glee did a terrible job with it. I will be having Brittany use the phrase 'I am bisexual' at some point since she never explicitly said it herself on the show and I will be having Becca come out to the club eventually. I also may make some straight characters... Not straight in the coming chapters. 

Now onto the other thing that I'm changing: Finn not being a homophobic jock and actually trying to combat his internal homophobia to not only be a better person but better for his loved ones. Maybe it's my love of Cory Monteith which makes me difficult to hate his character too much, but that's my plan. I'm pretty good at separating character from actor for the most part, the only time this fails is any scene with Ryder with Marley and the scenes with Puck holding Beth. But overall, I'm pretty good at separating character from actor.  

But in regards to making Finn not homophobic, there is one major thing that he does coming up that is extremely homophobic. The Finn outing Santana plot line. Unfortunately, I am going to keep Santana being outed as much as it pains me to because I think it's crucial for Santana's development as a character. I haven't decided how exactly I'm going to tackle this whether it be more accidentally (Finn talks to Santana in an empty classroom but the door wasn't locked or something) or remove Finn completely from the situation (and someone put two and two together on Santana and Brittany). Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as so far the only thing I know for sure is that I want to make sure Santana is the main focus of her coming out story. 

I'm excited for the next coming chapters since the rest of the episodes are like some of my favorites in regards to not only what I've written but in the show itself. 

Thank you all for reading, the votes, and the comments! Stay safe everyone!