HIII. Well I'm a huge Starkid fan so I've decided smush fandoms together. To start it off, Blaine is going to be portrayed very similarly to the college Darren Criss. Long unruly curly hair, lack of fashion sense, full length pants…I promise eventually it will all make sense. Also, because I just love everything Darren, Kurt and Blaine are going to be students at you guessed it The University of Michigan, Darren's Alma Matter. Also, since my creativity is just so extremely high, Blaine's friends are going to be based off of Team Starkid, and yes they may have the same names. Example, Lauren will become Lauryn, while Brian is Bryan. However people like the very amazing Joey Richter may become Rick, (like his alter ego Rick Richter) but Joe will most likely remain Joe. As I go on and realize things may be unclear I'll add something to the end of the chapter or before in order to clarify whatever was going on in my head. Also Kurt's friends will be the New Direction members who just happened to attend UMich alongside Kurt. And yes, Kurt will be based off of Chris more than the actual character of Kurt. Please don't hurt me I'm nice. Anyway, I hope you enjoy, I might as well just throw you in now. Welcome to Ann Arbor….

If you asked Kurt Hummel why he chose the University of Michigan you'd never get an honest straight forward answer because in all honesty, he wasn't sure why he chose such a school. He applied to a school or two in every section of the United States. Pepperdine in the west, NYU in the East, Vanderbilt down south, he even shot the University of Wisconsin an application just for the hell of it. Granted UMich was a joke, he never actually had a thought in his mind about going there. It never even occurred to him that he would end up there, but he did.

He realized after his dad's second heart attack that Pepperdine was out of the question, along with the University of Wisconsin (not that he ever planned on being a cheese head). He looked at his list of schools crossing off everyone as he went. NYU was gorgeous, and in the lovely New York City but it was too far, he realized the 10 hour drive would be a little tedious if anything ever happened to his father.

Vanderbilt was closer in proximity, a 6 hour drive there but did he really want to go to school in Nashville? Kurt may have had a voice, but he didn't have one that would or could be respected in a place like Nashville. Let's be real, Kurt was no Blake Shelton.

The only school left was the University of Michigan located in Ann Arbor which was only two hours and ten minutes from Lima. Far enough to say he was away, but close enough to come home for holidays, birthdays, and god forbid anything happened to Burt again, Kurt would drive the 126 mile drive in less than two hours.

Kurt loved musical theater, and he knew that the University of Michigan had a pretty good theater program so he became a student at the University of Michigan's school of Music, Theater and Dance. I mean who wouldn't want to go to a school that had Arthur Miller, Gilda Radner and the James Earl Jones as alumni right?

Kurt wasn't alone. Mike Chang, Santana Lopez, Brittany Pearce, Sam Evans, Mercedes Jones and the ever lovely Rachel Berry joined him as well that freshman year. Dave Karofsky even became a Wolverine that year.

Kurt fell in love with Ann Arbor after the first few weeks he spent on campus. The small city easily became home, and after two years of waking up to orange and red leaves in the autumn, snow in the winter, and daises in the spring Kurt knew that he made the right decision.

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It was Thursday. Kurt loved Thursdays. He wanted to pretend like it had nothing to do with the fact that he had minimal classes on Thursdays and no class on Friday, but it was evident that he loved Thursday's for those two very specific reasons. After his last class Kurt took a stroll to the Starbucks in downtown Ann Arbor. Kurt realized early on that the Starbucks coffee in Café ConXion was not high quality, and he'd much rather prefer the piping hot cup coming from the actual Starbucks that was literally 10 seconds from campus.

As he opened the door to the coffee shop the scent of gourmet coffee and pastries flooded Kurt's nostrils. He had forgotten to meet Rachel for lunch at Barbour after his 12:15 class. Rachel enjoyed Barbour because it had quite a few vegan dishes on the menu which pleased Rachel immensely. Because he skipped lunch he was incredibly hungry and the giant chocolate chip cookie in the display was taunting him.

As he got up to the counter he looked down to see a petite brunette ready to take his order.

"Hey." She said with a smile. "What can I get for ya?"

"Grande nonfat Mocha and a chocolate chip cookie please." Kurt pulled a few winkled bills from his jeans, and searched for a few quarters in his backpack.

The girl handed Kurt his cookie in exchange for the money in his hand. "Your drink will be ready in a sec. You can get it right down there." She smiled again and placed the crumpled money into the register. Before she could help the next customer an extremely goofy boy came through the backdoor knocking into her almost knocking her to the ground.

"Jeez Blaine!" the girl said, obviously acquainted with the male in the matching green apron. "You know you should watch where those big feet land. I understand your lack of balance since your feet are a little big for your small frame B." She smiled again as he gave her a playful glare.

"Shut up. My mom said I'm still growing." Blaine pulled the levers of the machine clearly making Kurt's mocha.

"That's cute. Does she still cut your chicken nuggets for you B? Mommy doesn't want her wittle baby to choke." She laughed and handed the change to the last customer.

"I loathe you Lauryn." Blaine said as he pushed the lid onto Kurt's cup. "Grande nonfat mocha?" Blaine called as Kurt scurried to the counter. As he took the cup he took a long glance at the boy in front of him.

This Blaine couldn't be more than 5'8, 5'9 max, and his hair was dark brown, long, curly and completely unruly. He paired his black polo with dark washed jeans that hugged his thighs, but didn't strangle them. And Kurt could vaguely see a pair of green almost hazel eyes peaking through a bunch of perfect ringlets. Kurt exited the coffee shop as the banter between Lauryn and Blaine continued.

Kurt had been going to that Starbucks for almost two years now, and yet he had never seen that Blaine character before. Maybe he was new, which wasn't realistic since he seemed to know that Lauryn girl pretty well and she had been working there for as long as Kurt could remember. Kurt had even seen her walk the halls of UMich a few times.

He sipped his coffee and opened the door to his dorm in South Quad. He threw his backpack onto his bed and noticed that Finn was nowhere to be found. Kurt shrugged and toed off his shoes before hoping onto his bed and opening his laptop. Kurt wasn't much of a facebook stalker, but after seeing the pair of eyes on that barista, Kurt needed to investigate more.

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Kurt signed onto his Facebook and clicked on the search bar. As he typed in the name Blaine there was only one person that shared the same network as Kurt. Blaine Anderson, University of Michigan Class of 2017 Kurt read on the white and blue page. So he's a sophomore. Kurt thought as he tried to click on Blaine's profile picture. He was private, there was no way Kurt was photo stalking. Kurt continued to eye down the page that left little information besides the fact that Blaine actually attended UMich and was in fact a year younger than Kurt. He looked to the side 76 mutual friends. Seventy eight? Could seventy eight people Kurt knew really know who this Blaine guy was? Kurt closed the laptop and pulled his phone out of his pocket. He dialed Rachel's number and waited until she picked up.

"Hello?" She asked out of breath. Kurt checked the clock. 4:13, Rachel was at the gym.

"Hey Rach. How do you know Blaine Anderson? It said that you're friends on Facebook…" Kurt wanted to sound like he personally had met Blaine when the only thing that slipped through those rose colored lips to Kurt was "Grande Nonfat Mocha" and let's be real, the words weren't necessarily directed to Kurt.

"He was in one of my theater classes last year. Why?" Rachel wanted to snoop, she was extremely good at that.

"Just wondering."

"He's cute." Rachel said, an obvious smirk approaching. Kurt could hear it through the phone.

"I didn't notice."

"Sure you didn't. I mean who would notice those hazel eyes right?"

"I hate you."

"Love you too. Now let me finish and you can tell me all about your need to facebook stalk Mr. Anderson over dinner. I'm thinking Grizzly Peak tonight."

"Off Campus dinning. I could use a beer actually."

"Oh yes. Our Thursday tradition. A beer? To possibly get over an extremely dreamy hobbit?" Rachel asked.

"This is coming from the girl who is smaller than the average sized hobbit."

"You drive me crazy Hummel. Grizzly Peak, 8 o'clock. Show up this time please?"

"Of course. Bye Rachel."

"Bye Kurt."

Kurt hung up the phone and threw it on the desk. It was scary how well Rachel knew him.

Okay! So there was my first shot. I hope this all makes sense. I did some research for locations of things so I'm trying to be as accurate as possible. If anything is unclear please let me know! I'll fix it ASAP. Please review! Thanks! : )