"I wasn't always like this," Sebastian said softly and so earnestly that Dave almost didn't hear him. He sank down into a chair by the door, four feet from Dave's bed, as if he could catch suicide. "Neither was I," Dave replied with a sarcastic smile.

Kurtofsky. Karofsky can't hide who he is forever. Kurt feels his own individuality threatened by the rules and codes of Dalton. But still, they hold on to that which traps them out of fear. If they can let go of their fear, they can find freedom.

Noah Puckerman rarely ever got up at such an early hour, the earliest hour to ever have the grace of his lovely badass presence was a slick ten minutes before the bell rung for his homeroom. But there was, as there always is, an exception.

He's never really missed a girl before. He never cared enough, really, to miss anyone.

Business becomes a guilty pleasure that takes both Puck and Rachel by surprise.