How Hard You're Trying (fic)

Title: How Hard You're Trying
Main Character: Kurt Hummel (as part of Kurt/Blaine)
Spoilers: 3.20 and 3.21 ("Props" and "Nationals")
Rating: PG-13 for implied sexytimes
Length: ~5,000 words
Summary: Every year, the seniors at McKinley High School vote for Teacher of the Year. Rachel and Finn are campaigning for Mr. Schuester, but Kurt wants to make up his own mind.

Author's Notes: In just before the deadline: an episode reaction to "Props" and "Nationals." This is very different from anything I've written before. Needless to say, the opinions of characters in this story are not necessarily my own, and most of the characters are definitely not my own – they belong to Glee and various corporate powers that be.

Thanks to lavender_love00 for encouraging me and reading through parts of this, to punkkitten2113 for reading through all of it, and to insatiablyyours and sin_fuego for help with Señor Martinez's Spanish. Any errors are mine. Or maybe Kurt's.

Title from Patty Griffin's "Nobody's Crying," which is not at all related to the themes of this story, and yet kind of is.

( Kurt has yet to find a urinal or toilet in any of the boys' bathrooms that doesn't have a "Vote for Mr. Schue, He Knows What's Good for You" flyer posted right above it.  )