Chapter 1

"Rachel! Rachel!" Kurt squealed running through their apartment aimlessly.

"Yes?" She sighed barely lifting her head from the magazine she was not very interested in. She was just a little bored of Kurt doing exactly the same thing for the last week, counting down the days.

"It's today Rachel, today!" Kurt jumped over the sofa earning a scream from Rachel as she thought 150 pounds of gay was going to fall on top of her.

"I know, you've been counting down the days for a year Kurt." She sighed dramatically again. Knowing Finn was still weeks from visiting.

"But Blaine's moving here today." He gleamed giggling and sitting himself across from the already rather successful brunette.

"I know Kurttt." She dragged his name. "And we're all very very excited. I'm actually pretty amazed you made it last this long. I mean, me and Finn aren't exactly stable since he left the army."

"But that's you and Finn, Rachel." He tapped the end of her nose and threw the living magazine he knew for a fact she wasn't really looking at across the floor.

"Hey!"

"Shut it Berry! Let me be happy!" He gave her one of his signature looks and shrugged off the bad mood that she was trying to impale on his life.

The truth was, Kurt was ecstatic. Did he think him and Blaine were going to get back together after the break up? No. Did he think Blaine was going to leave him to live in New York with Rachel for the rest of his life? Yes. But everything worked out the original way that Kurt wanted. He had a place at NYADA, he still worked at Vogue as an intern on weekends and he would be finally living with his best friend and boyfriend in officially the greatest city in the world.

The only down side to Kurt plan was that he was getting no parts. It's not like he hadn't been auditioning for places on Broadway, or any performing work that he could find. NYADA practically forced their students on to any stage they could find. But no-one wanted him.

Rachel on the other hand was doing well for herself. She'd already played Maria professionally in a small production of West Side Story, and had gotten a gig on Broadway as a dancer. It wasn't that Kurt was jealous he was just, yeah jealous. Time to start thinking that a career in Vogue might be the way forward for him.

"What time do you have to go pick Blaine up?" Rachel asked from the kitchen where she was unscrewing the top off a bottle of water.

"The cab will be here in 10 minutes." He looked at his designer watch. "I'm sorry if I've annoyed you over the past week, I really am." Grabbing Rachel's hand he gave his more sincere apology possible for the amount of adrenaline buzzing around his body right now.

"It's okay." Rachel laughed that strange but adorable laugh she always did. "I'm sure I must be torture when Finn comes to visit."

"What's exactly going on with you two? You're so off and on! It's too much to keep up with."

"We're casually seeing each other." Rachel made the marks with her hands. "I mean, he knows I have Brody here. And let's face it, he's a whole lot of temptation." She laughed as Kurt nodded along fondly thinking of Brody in the morning with only a towel wrapped around his hips as he cooked for him and Rachel. "So we're taking things easy again."

"But you're allowed to sleep with Brody?"

"But I'm allowed to sleep with Brody." She nodded enthusiastically laughing once again.

The year had been pretty easy for the two of them. They'd both gotten used to the big city quickly and much to Kurt's surprised, they'd got on extremely well for a couple of people who used to hate each other three years ago.

Kurt's alarm sounded for him to go pick up Blaine from the airport. "Shit I have to go!" He jumped up from the space at the couch and went to grab a coat. "Last chance Rachel. You're sure with him being here? I mean he can still go home? Find another apartment, i'm sure he wouldn't mind he doesn't see this place as his yet so he could just-"

"KURT!" She shouted above him rambling as he usually did when he got nervous. "Just please go pick up Blaine so I can give him a hug and he can make me some of his famous sugar cookies. Go, go on." She shooed him out of the apartment standing to watch him leave.

"Thank you." He kissed the small girls cheek and she laughed shutting the door behind him.

~0~

"Okay, here's fine thank you." Kurt stopped the cab driver outside the terminal Blaine was supposed to come in at.

"Do you want me to wait?" The particularly angry driver took the money from Kurt's hand and looked in the back checking Kurt wasn't some idiot to mess up his cab during the 15 minute drive.

"Urm- no." He smiled politely really thinking that it'd be better to wait an hour or a nicer driver. "It's okay, we could be some time. Thanks." Kurt opened the door and stepped on to the pavement when Teenage Dream started to play from his phone.

"Honey!" He practically screamed looking at the entrance to the airport.

"I'm just getting my bags okay? I won't be too long I don't think."

"Oh no its okay, I'm going to try and get a cab driver."

"Didn't you have one coming here?" Blaine screwed his face up that adorable way when he was confused, Kurt could sense it.

"Yeah sweetie but he was a douchebag."

Blaine just chuckled down the phone, trying not to sound as excited as he really was. "Okay well I won't be too long!"

"I love you!" Kurt felt like he couldn't say it fast enough. He made sure that every single time they stopped talking that Blaine knew he loved him, and now it seemed even more important because now they wouldn't have to say it over text or phone calls anymore.

"I love you too." Blaine continued to chuckle to Kurt. Hanging up the phone Kurt walked, well skipped in to the entrance of the airport and headed for the arrival section to wait for Blaine.

The minutes turned to hours, the hours turned in to what seemed like days. When literally Blaine probably appeared after about seven minutes of waiting. But it seemed like years to Kurt. He hadn't seen his boyfriend in four months unless you counted the every two day Skype dates they promised to stick to after their last break up. They'd decided it was easier for Blaine to study for his finals if he wasn't thinking about visiting Kurt all the time, and Kurt hardly ever got the chance to head back to Lima anymore.

His small simple smile turned in to a face splitting grin as he saw a small boy turn the corner of the pathway, suitcase and hand luggage in tow with turned up jeans, black converse and an old Dalton fight club t-shirt. His curls were loose and wild like he'd not used his gel in a while, or at least 24 hours.

"Blaine!" Kurt squealed and put his hands over his mouth, removed some tears from his eyes and opened his arms out to his boyfriend. To be honest after so long he didn't really have any idea what to do with himself. As Blaine got close he rushed to Kurt's arms, dropping his suitcase to the floor and gripped him tightly, letting the tears fall from his eyes too.

"I missed you so much, like so much." He buried his nose in to the crook of Kurt's neck breathing in the scent that he missed so much.

"I missed you too; it's been strange not seeing you." Kurt pulled back taking in Blaine all in one. "You look tired are you okay? Was the flight rough? But gosh you're in New York Blaine! With me, you got in NYADA I'm so proud of you! First time, I love you so much you know that don't y-" Kurt's rambles were cut off by Blaine's lips being firmly pressed to his own. Feeling the tears from Blaine's cheeks mix with the ones that were equally falling from his own eyes Kurt relaxed in to his lovers arms like he hadn't done for months. Bring his hands up to cup Blaine's face he deepened the kiss and played with the curls that were around his neck.

"I love you so much." He breathed resting his forehead on Blaine's.

"I love you too." Blaine looked deep in to Kurt's exploding eyes, the thing he'd missed the most, getting lost in them. They were puffy and stained red from Kurt's crying but they were still Kurt's. No-one else's.

After composing himself for a moment, Kurt released his grip on Blaine and went to get his suitcase off the floor. "Come on, Rachel can't wait to see you!" Kurt grinned.

"I'm so excited to see her! And Brody! I haven't seen him since, well you know." He trailed off realising the last time he saw Brody was the night that him and Kurt had split up.

"You don't need to worry about that anymore Blaine." Kurt grabbed his hand to walk out of the building and towards the line of cabs. Kurt felt so much more comfortable in New York doing these things with Blaine. "We both agreed it was a mistake and behind us."

Blaine nodded slowly, annoyed with himself that Kurt always had to remind him of this.

Once they'd got a cab and heaved Blaine's bag in to the back they settled in the seats. "So, how's Finn?"

"Same really." Blaine sighed. Now that Finn had officially moved back to Lima to work with Burt in the garage Blaine was the closest contact to him, so he rightly got all the questions from Kurt and Rachel. "Does Finn ever change?" Blaine laughed a little.

"No you know what I mean!" Kurt tapped him lightly on the arm. "Have you two been hanging out a lot?"

"We did at first, I mean I was pretty much his only really good friend back at home except Mr Schue." Blaine thought for a moment. "But towards the end not so much." Finn started working at McKinley with Mr Schue on the glee club considering he knew the ins and outs of show choir and it became an official paid job for Finn to have on the side. It also helped that all his old friends were there considering the majority of them had moved on to bigger and better things. It just meant that Finn had something familiar that he could make of his life, something he seemed to be searching for. And working at McKinley full time really seemed like it was suiting him.

"I think towards the end seeing me, Artie, Sam, Jo, Tina and Brit move on made him a bit sad, you know? Like he was reliving what happened to everyone last year. So we stopped hanging out as much." Blaine added.

"What about my dad? Is he okay? His heart?" Kurt panicked a little and if he was honest he was excited to see Blaine to ask about his father. He never liked to pry over the phone.

"He's fine Kurt." Blaine laughed a little. "You'd be the first to know I promise. I'm a little sad to leave Carole. I started Friday night dinners at your place when my finals started." Kurt's eyes enlarged a little at the news. He knew his family loved Blaine, but not 'Friday night dinners without Kurt' much.

"Oh, well that's good." He added slowly gazing out of the window.

A few minutes passed of sweet silence when Blaine broke it. "You okay?" He tapped the back of Kurt's hand that was resting on the seat in between them.

Kurt just nodded. "Yeah, fine." He managed a smile. Maybe he should be spending more time in Lima.

Once the short car journey came to the end, Kurt once again paid the slightly more polite driver and Blaine dragged the suitcase from the back of the car.

"Seriously Blaine, what the hell do you have in here?" Kurt pulled it towards the building waving to Rachel standing at the window to their level 6 apartment.

"Kurt I had to move the majority of my life in one more, be grateful I have unloving parents or they'd be a moving van." Blaine laughed a little, it had got to the point where he could make a little joke about the way his parents were, and he didn't mind so much around Kurt.

They hopped in to the lift and came out right in front of their apartment. Blaine had been here twice before but the fact that this place was now officially his and he was paying rent made it seem all the more incredible.

"Blaine!" Rachel basically jumped him planting kisses all over his face once the door had swung open. "I missed you!" He squealed and hugged him tighter as he lifted her black boots off the ground a little. Kurt sighed moving his things in to the middle of the room next to the couch. "How was the plane?" She gleamed dragging him towards the living area.

"It was okay actually, no awkward middle seat like last time." He smiled sitting in the chair he usually did when he came to visit. "So!" He patted his knees. "What are the plans?"

"Well I wanted to take you out, show you what New York was really about but as Rachel said, we did that the last time you came." Blaine nodded along making sure that Kurt knew he was already pretty familiar with the area and city. "You're on sugar cookie duty!"

"Wait what?!" He looked shocked towards the kitchen. "You guys are making me cook? Seriously, I just got here."

"This is your place now Blaine and I haven't had your cookies in like forever. So Kurt's going to go and unpack your things and we're going to head over there so we can catch up!" Rachel grinned like a child. She and Kurt had been off on holiday from NYADA for two weeks, and they still had eight to go. Boredom was already kicking in when Brody wasn't around for entertainment.

Blaine begrudgingly got up from his comfortable chair and allowed himself to be lead by Rachel in to the kitchen hearing Kurt's voice fade away in the background "to promise to bake you cookies at least twice a week." He emphasised by holding the ring up which was still firmly placed on his finger.

"So Blaine, how's everything going? Excited to be here? Of course you are!" Rachel spoke fast, but it was something Blaine was incredibly used to by now. After their rocky meeting, he'd actually grown really fond of her.

"I am actually, I mean I can't believe I got in to NYADA on the first try, if Kurt didn't do it then I was sure that I couldn't!" He gleamed a little too proud of himself.

"I mean I had to chase them up to get me in!" Rachel looked shocked while she stirred the flour and sugar together. "But I suppose I am very persuasive." They both laughed a little.

"That's true!" Blaine agreed. "How's it going? Do you like the classes and stuff?" He moved across the kitchen to get the butter from the fridge and measure out the right amount.

"It's amazing Blaine! You'll learn more than you ever think you will, I can promise you. I mean I look back at our nationals win and I just think how much I suck! At the time I thought it was incredible but when you learn with the best at NYADA you realise you really do suck!"

"Thanks for the pep talk Rach." Blaine laughed flicking a little bit of flour in to Rachel's face.

She opened her mouth in shock. "No you didn't Blaine Warbler!" She squealed tipping some flour over Blaine's curls as he cried something about no amount of shampoo will rid his curls of flour for the next week now.

~0~

Once the pair had finish baking and they'd all ordered pizza, the three students sat on the floor on an old blanket reminiscing about old times in the glee club, something that was still very fresh in Blaine's mind. Soon enough the pizza had gone and Rachel broke out the fresh cookies from a few hours ago.

"Oh my god Blaine!" She gushed. "These are incredible I can't believe how much I missed these."

"You could have just told me to send you some." Blaine laughed a little.

"It's not the same when they've been in air mail for two days." Kurt picked up a biscuit and started to nibble on the edges.

Everything went quiet for a moment; a comfortable silence which was bound to happen every so often when they'd ran out of things to talk about.

"Blaine?" Rachel had turned in to the shy school girl again, the one that sits with her legs cross and started to pick bits off her cookie. She was about to ask about Finn. "Can I ask you something?"

"Go for it." He looked quizzically at Kurt and they both knew.

"What's Finn really been like without me? I mean, has there been anyone else or?"

"Wait aren't you dating that Brody guy?" Blaine looked between Kurt and Rachel for an answer but Rachel just put down her cookie and started to comb through her hair like she did when she got nervous.

"I mean, no, yeah, kind of. Finn said that we should see other people."

"-But she's a mess without him." Kurt fake whispered to Blaine.

"Brody's lovely, like incredible actually. But I honestly just miss Finn. Has he- has he been with anyone else?" She almost whispered not wanting to know the answer.

"You guys don't know?" Blaine sat up a little more straight feeling that his two best friends might not know the ins and outs of McKinley anymore.

Rachel's eyebrows furrowed together. "Don't know what?"

"Jeez, well, Finn and Tina."

"What?!" Exclaimed Kurt, not quite believing what he was hearing. "You mean like really? No, I don't believe it."

"No, i'm being honest. Finn nearly got fired because of it. Because he works at McKinley now. You knew that right?" Rachel nodded along. "Well he almost got fired because I suppose Finn was lonely because of you..." Blaine motioned to Rachel. "and Tina was lonely because of Mike and it just happened. They were seeing each other on the sly for about three months before Sue found out. And then well you can guess."

"No, Tina!" Rachel seemed to be in shock. She could have imagined a pretty blonde type, almost like Quinn maybe. Someone who looked like herself even. But Tina was too much to take in. "Why would he do that?"

"Well he knew you had Brody. I suppose he was just looking for someone too. It's not like he cheated right?" Blaine shrugged trying to make sense of the situation. It was literally all alien to him now he wasn't around these people all the time.

"No, I suppose he didn't." Rachel sat in silence and Kurt looked to the clock.

"Baby it's getting late we should sleep, I have a day planned for us tomorrow." Kurt nudged Blaine's shoulder as they attempted to start to clear the food away.

"Boy's leave it. I'll do it. I don't think I'll sleep for a while." Rachel coldly said.

Wearily Blaine got up from his spot on the floor and went to kiss Rachel on the forehead. Kurt had already made his way in to the bedroom. "I'm really sorry Rach."

"It's not your fault." She smiled weakly and watched him pad towards the bedroom where he'd curl up with his boyfriend and fall asleep in his arms. When she'd be right across the room, behind a sheet which split up the rooms, on her own in her double bed without Brody who'd gone visiting family. And without Finn who was probably now, in her mind, somewhere banging the fuck out of Tina.

~0~

"I'm really sorry about what happened with Rachel, I thought word might have gotten back to you guys or something." Blaine sighed sliding in to bed and watching Kurt finish his skin routine before bed, a little comfort which Blaine knew would always happen.

"Don't worry about it. Once Brody gets back she'll forget about Finn again. Honestly."Kurt glanced at Blaine through the mirror, smiling slightly at the sight of his very perfect boyfriend lying in his bed once again. And there for good this time. "I'm so happy." He smiled again turning around to get in to bed.

"Why's that?"

"Because you're lying in my bed."

"I know we haven't seen each other in a really long time but i'm really tired Kurt can we please just not tonight?"

Kurt stared at him for a moment, almost ashamed by what Blaine was saying. "Blaine, no." He just shook his head and leaned down so that his head fell on to Blaine's chest and his arms snaked around Blaine's waist. "I love you, but not everything's about sex." He punched the younger boys side. "I'm just happy that you're here, and staying. Like i'm lying here and not dreading saying goodbye at the airport tomorrow." Kurt sighed listening to Blaine's heart beating rapidly in his chest, just like it usually did when Kurt was around.

"I love you so much."

"I love you too." Blaine flicked off the light switch and with the glow of the kitchen light still blazing through the divider, they drifted off easily.