You can't use a half-loop stitch on china silk, it will pucker.

[tasteslikepnk.livejournal.com]

Who: tasteslikepnk, OTA
What: Shopping
When: Monday, lunchtime
Where: D-A-S-H and then some
Rating: Leaving it open

Taking the opportunity to spend her lunch away from the office, Rachel decided to do a bit of shopping, heading into one of the strip malls around the area. She stopped outside of the D-A-S-H store and glanced inside through the windows, waging an internal war on whether or not to go inside. The browse side of the war won and she pushed the door open and headed in, making a beeline towards the bathing suits. She declined help from the sales girl as she browsed, pulling out a couple of pieces before putting them back.

After finding a couple she liked, she turned,  bumping into someone. “Sorry, I didn’t see you there.” she said, tossing her hair back as she adjusted what she held in her arms.

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[justbeingaqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'm not surprised. Clearly you're blind as Stevie Wonder's pet bat if those are your choices."

Kurt was here to pick up an order for a dress he had chosen to buy and pull to bits in the name of his own designing. He had seen it in a magazine and his current college assignment was find something that you felt was a blight on the fashion world and remodel it into something worthy of a Red Carpet. Considering his opinions on the Kardashians, he wasn't surprised D-A-S-H housed exactly what he was looking for. He had been waiting for assistance when nearly got barrelled over by someone and although his ass nearly fell out of him when he saw who it was, as usual, he kept his usual Hummel cool outside.

He coked his head a little a quirked an eyebrow at his old rival. He vaguely remember references to her over the course of recent conversations, especially since meeting Blaine, but this was such a blast from the past, he wasn't exactly sure how to take it. This was the woman who basically made it impossible for him to get any spotlight in glee club, and he wasn't sure how he was supposed to feel about bumping into her.

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Rachel's ears perked as she heard a voice she vaguely recognized before looking the person in the face. Of course it was someone who would critique her choices. "Well, it's a good thing I didn't ask your opinion then, isn't it?" she replied, crossing her arms.

She eyed him carefully, before recognition fully hit. "Oh my God, I went to school with you didn't I?" she asked before answering it herself "You're the only real competition I had in glee club and I'm using that term loosely. What an incredibly small world." she mumbled the last bit of her sentence "You're looking...good."

[justbeingaqueen.livejournal.com]

If Kurt worried about people not wanting his opinion, he would probably never open his mouth. Good thing he never did. If someone was making an abysmal fashion mistake, he was going to blatantly let them know about it. At least, that was one of his favoured topics he liked to be vocal about. He was the epitome of a gay bitch, he had a lot of topics at his disposal.

"I wish I could say the same for you, darling," he responded with a small, haughty sniff. This was the chick who screwed his stepbrother over in the worst possible way, and even if Finn wasn't his stepbrother at the time, the loyalty still stood. Still, Kurt was being forced to play nice with Noah Puckerman for Blaine's sake, so maybe this was a similar scenario. But at the comment about Glee Club, he gave a dry laugh. "Competition? Are you trying to kid me or yourself? You never had any competition, you demanded the whole club revolve around you. No one else was allowed to be your competition. Half the school graduated still believing you were sleeping with Schuester," he said with a hint of a smug smirk. That was one of his and Quinn's better rumours, he must admit. But when a gay bitch wanted revenge, he always made sure it was fabulously sweet.

"How are those Broadway dreams coming along? Had your duet with Babra yet? Funny, when I was last there seeing some shows, I never saw your name anywhere in lights... huh." He tapped his finger to his lips, feigning deep contemplation.

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She rolled her eyes at this "I forgot you were never good at playing nice." If this was the same Kurt that Blaine was in a relationship with, she would have to have a serious talk with him about his choices in relationship partners. "I'm not trying to kid anybody for once. If you weren't such a mousy little thing you probably would have gotten more time." She scoffed, shaking her head "Whether or not I was sleeping with him didn't make a huge difference did it? He's still free to attempt to teach, so obviously it didn't do any good."

A slight scowl crossed her features "Well aren't you trying to be cute? It's funny how when you actually don't go for it you don't get it. I don't need my name in lights to get any kind of satisfaction from my life, though I can't exactly say the same for you."

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Kurt's lips quirked in a smirk. "Oh no, darling. This is me being very nice. The alternative is probably not something you want to be on the receiving end of, because the truth really hurts. It was McKinley. A pedophile rapist could have been hired to teach and no one would give a flying fuck. Despite your opinion of yourself, no one cared enough about you personally to really bother," he said with an indifferent shrug. "And those who tried to care, you stabbed in the back with bloody force and screwed them over anyway. With 'friends' like you, who needed enemies? There comes a time where people just... stop giving a fuck." Pretty much basically the story of his life when it came to interacting with some members of New Directions.

"You failed. Interesting." Her attempts to insult him were extremely boring. He knew when people resorted to calling people 'cute' as a way to be patronising, it was really scraping the bottom of the barrel. He looked at his watch, and then looked around the interior of the store with a small scrunch of his nose. Did he seriously have to be wasting his time making an effort with this woman? It was a brick wall. She hadn't changed an iota. He was distinctly remembering now why he all-but exited glee club in favour of the Cheerios. Her over-inflated ego left no room for critique on the bevy of faults she actually harboured along with the rest of the normal people. She thought she was pristinely perfect and so elevated above everyone else, Kurt couldn't stand being in the same room with her.

[tasteslikepnk.livejournal.com]

"Honestly, Kurt, I have heard worse than whatever bottled up anger you have reserved just for me. Do I choose to hear it? No, so you can honestly save it for a special day. If I actually cared about other people's opinions on me I would have to stay at home sobbing into my diary about how everyone hates me." She paused "Oh, you mean the whole baby incident, shit happens. For the record, we were never friends therefore the fucks given at all were none."

"You can't fail if you never try." she repeated, "Failing involves actually trying and giving a damn about the outcome." she let out a slow breath through her nostrils as she watched him check his watch and look around. "If you are so busy maybe you shouldn't have taken the time to grace me with your presence, but I'll do you the favor and leave, I have an actual job to get back to."

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"So, we had to sit through years of your mindless drivel about how fantastic you thought were and how successful you were going to be only for you to never even bother trying? Wonderful. I developed migraines for nothing." Kurt hitched his bag over his shoulder and side-stepped her with a disdainful glare. "Don't do me any favours, Berry. If you were going to bother with that, you could have done it years ago and had your failure loser self quit glee club to give the rest of us a chance instead of hanging around like a bad smell and making our lives a misery. For your information, it has nothing to do with your illegitimate sprog. I just really do not like you and thank god Finn has better taste these days. Enjoy your day. I'm sure McDonalds can't function without you as an employee. Flipping burgers must be awesome fun."

With that, he gave a roll of his eyes and walked away from her, not even bothering to look back. Of course everything had been too good to be true. Nothing was ever allowed to be easy and nice for him, was it?

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"Building up your tolerance for the rest of your life." She narrowed her eyes at him "The feeling is completely mutual, Hummel. For the record, Finn wasn't much of a catch in the first place. Right, and good luck on the new season of Ru Paul's Drag Race, I always knew you'd go far." She watched as he walked away before heading up to the counter to pay for her things. God she hated that asshole more than she realized.