"You're never going to find that connection with anyone, Rachel, if you keep sabotaging yourself. Trust me, I know. I also know it's a really hard lesson to know how to open yourself up to someone and let them in, but until you do, all you're going to project is a negative vibe about yourself. So, sure, you have done some some nasty and awful things in the past. You've hurt people. It just sounds to me like your comfort zone is being alone because you're afraid of what will happen if you try to get what you want and it doesn't work." With his fingers entwined together, Kurt put his hands on his chest for emphasis. "And I know that concept better than anyone right now. I know what it's like to constantly live in fear of yourself. You don't want to get like I am, Rachel. You just don't. You can be happy if you want it, but you can't be scared of it. And that takes a lot to learn, and sometimes? Sometimes you need to let someone else help teach you how to get it. That's Blaine for me. He came into my life at a time I least expected it and he was opening my eyes up to a whole new world and what I started to see within myself terrified me because I had never experienced those feelings before. I think you have experienced those feelings, and I think that it didn't turn out the way you hoped, so it spooked you and now you have never figured out how to lay your heart on the line again. You're scared if you do, it will get shattered all over again..."

He shook his head slowly. "No one ever gets used to loneliness. We accept it, but we never get used to it. Hell, I've had people around me for many years now, but I was still lonely within myself. The loneliness you're talking about isn't physical distance from people, it's emotional distance. But only you can fix that. Running away won't help. It's just going to create even more distance. You can't keep letting your emotions cause you to lash out at people, or you will be left with no one. Rachel... you need to talk to Puck, and I think you know why. Really talk to him, and make him talk to you."