Authors Notes

This is my first fanfic so please be kind. I LOVE Glee and Klaine so this is my contribution to the KLAINE fandom. I DO NOT own Glee and don't wish to tarnish it or it's positive message in any way.

I'm very interested in the Anderson family and their back story so I wrote this which is my version of Blaine's issues with his Dad. I've also changed the K&B relationship slightly assuming they met as children. It revolves around Blaine's realisation of his sexuality at 17. I have rated this M so please avoid Chapter 14 (if you wish) as the smut is very much in there, you can skip from 13 to 15 it still works.

All comments are reviews are very welcome and thank you for reading, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Chapter One - Beginning

Its 5.30pm Friday afternoon, Kurt and Blaine (as usual) have met up at Kurt's after school to discuss the evening ahead. Kurt is lying on his bed reading a magazine "so, where do you wanna go this evening? The new bowling place on Freemont Road looks like fun…. "He glances at Blaine who is sitting on the floor staring intently at a DVD cover ….

Getting no response to his question Kurt raises his voice "earth to Blaine…. "

Blaine looks up from the DVD toward the bed "mmm…. What did you say?" Kurt rolls his eyes and leans over the side of the bed smacking Blaine playfully over the head with the magazine "I said, do you wanna go to the new bowling place on Freemont tonight?"

"Ouch" Blaine smirks rubbing the side of his head, "go easy on the curls dude, they don't like to be smacked" Kurt just laughs and slides off the bed sitting on the floor next to Blaine. "What's that?" he asks taking the DVD out of Blaine's hands "oh, it's the last Harry Potter movie on DVD, I bought it today. I was just thinking I can't believe it's all over" "yeah" Kurt says nodding his head and staring at the DVD "can you believe it's been 10 years since the first movie came out…. Remember? It was a couple of months after you moved here, my Dad took us to see it"

Blaine nodded, allowing his mind to drift back to that time in his life 10 years before standing nervously in line with Kurt and his Dad waiting to see the movie….

The Andersons had just moved to Ohio from San Francisco. Mr Anderson had been promoted at work and moved the family (along with Blaine's beloved dog 'Putty') to Ohio. Blaine was a shy 7 year old and on his first day at his new school he was assigned a 'buddy' to help show him around. His name was Kurt Hummel.

Mrs Snow was a kind and understanding teacher. She was very sensitive to the 'situation' with the delicate boy Kurt in her class. He had lost his mother to cancer the previous year and was a little 'different' to the other boys. Mrs Snow hoped by making Blaine and Kurt 'buddies' Kurt would have a friend (who was a boy) to play with, and Blaine would not feel so alone at a new school. Even though Kurt happily played with the girls Mrs. Snow was aware he was frequently alone and felt he really needed a friend.

Blaine remembered their first lunch break just the two of them sitting together in the playground eating cheese sandwiches in silence. "Where are you from?" Kurt finally spoke "San Francisco" Blaine replied "my dad had to come here for work so we moved" after a short silence Kurt piped up "I have a fish, his name is fishy" "cool" Blaine replied "I have a dog, his name is Putty, and he sleeps on my bed" "cool" Kurt replied.

Even as a 7 year old Kurt was different. He was smartly dressed and always wore a scarf, carefully placed around his slender neck. Blaine wasn't sure then, what made Kurt different to other kids but it didn't matter to Blaine. They quickly became friends and discovered they lived 2 streets away from each other. They were similar in so many ways, but what Blaine remembers the most was just feeling comfortable around Kurt and Kurt felt the same about Blaine.

As the years passed their friendship grew. They had been through so much in the 10 years since they met. Bumps and scrapes, broken bones, Burt's heart attack, Kurt's new step mom and step brother, and of course Kurt 'coming out' aged 14. Girlfriends, boyfriends, break ups, yes; they had lived through it all. Even when Blaine's family moved to a better part of town, and the boys started attending different high schools, (Blaine went to the private school Dalton Academy, and Kurt went to McKinley High) it didn't matter, their friendship remained as strong as ever.

It was that friendship that found them sitting on Kurt's bedroom floor one Friday afternoon discussing the evening ahead. "Yeah" Blaine finally said shaking himself from his daydream "wow 10 years...yeah bowling sounds great let me give Amy a quick ring and see if she's interested" Kurt sniggered a little "I'm sure your girlfriend will be thrilled to spend her Friday night bowling with YOUR best friend" Blaine frowned a little looking at Kurt "Amy likes hanging with you, …..You think she doesn't like you?" "Nah" Kurt replied laughing off his own comment

Blaine smiled holding his cell phone to his ear "hey, it's me. Yeah….. Ok….. I'm at Kurt's…..yeah, we were thinking of heading to the bowling place on Freemont ….yeah…. in an hour ….cool we'll pick you up on the way….see you then"

Kurt deduced from the side of the conversation he had just heard, Amy was coming bowling and they were picking her up in an hour. He felt slightly disappointed as he was hoping she would say no. He really fancied an evening in with Blaine, crashed out on the couch watching Harry Potter. "So" Blaine finally said "is Simon coming too?" "Oh yeah" Kurt replied, jumping slightly as he had drifted into a minor daydream of he and Blaine watching the movie together, "I'll give him a quick call but yeah I'm sure he'll come with us"

1 Hour later Kurt and Blaine were sitting in the front seats of Blaine's car; Kurt's boyfriend Simon in the back, heading toward Amy's to pick her up. Kurt couldn't help staring at the way Blaine's hands gripped the steering wheel. He'd always loved how strong Blaine's hands were, rough and slightly hairy. He himself always felt so feminine, and loved how masculine Blaine was compared to him. Even though he was taller than Blaine he was physically weaker and always felt safe when they were together.

A minor incident at the mall the previous year when a couple of idiots had called Kurt a 'fag' behind his back sent Blaine into a fury. Kurt had watched in shock (and slight delight) as Blaine had kicked one guy in the shins and pushed the other guy into a wall. Kurt was used to the odd stare and negative comments at school but had learned to ignore it. However, Blaine always reacted to defend his friend and secretly Kurt loved it.

They pulled into the driveway of Amy's house. As the car came to a stop the front door opened and Amy came out smiling. She was a petite blond, 17 and attended McKinley with Kurt. In fact it had been Kurt who introduced them at a party the previous year. Amy climbed into the back sitting behind Blaine, "hi" Blaine said smiling at her in the rear view mirror, "you look great", Amy smiled reaching out her hand to rest it on Blaine's right shoulder, he placed his hand over hers briefly "thanks" she said,"hey Kurt, love the scarf" Kurt smiled politely and hoped she would stop touching Blaine's shoulder so he could concentrate on driving the car. Amy turned to Simon "hey, great to see you" Simon smiled "you look great in those jeans" Amy blushed a little and Kurt couldn't help stealing a glance at Blaine to see if he reacted to Simons' compliment of his girlfriend.…..

Even Kurt had to admit the evening was fun (despite the 'horrific' shoes), all four laughed and cheered during all the games, Blaine was his usual competitive self, winning all the rounds except one. Simon had spilt ketchup on his favourite white shirt and spent most of the evening sulking about the stain it would probably leave.

Kurt kept a close eye on Amy and Blaine trying to read their body language. He was pretty sure Blaine wasn't really that into her but you could never really tell with Blaine. He had dated lots of girls since he and Kurt were around 13 but as far as Kurt could tell none of them had been 'special'.

Even though Blaine and Kurt shared every detail on all aspects of their lives, and knew almost everything about each other, they never discussed sex. They had never shared intimate details of any of their relationships. Blaine had of course told Kurt the first time he had kissed a girl, but after Kurt came out a few months later and started dating boys it was the one aspect of their lives they didn't feel the need to discuss or share.

Kurt always wondered if Blaine was still a virgin. He wasn't sure if he had had sex with Amy or any other girl, and even if he had, he probably would not have told Kurt. Kurt himself was definitely 100% a virgin. He had dated a few boys, no one serious, kissing, and light touches over clothes was as far as he had gone with anyone. He hadn't really met anyone who made him feel like he needed sex that badly. He had 'the talk' with his Dad. Burt had made an extra effort getting lots of information about safe sex for boys (with other boys) but, in all honesty Kurt felt pretty unemotional and unmoved when it came to anything sexual. Maybe he just wasn't ever going to want sex with anyone and to be honest Kurt was ok with that.

The bowling evening ended with Blaine winning (of course). Kurt awarded him an invisible trophy which he raised proudly above his head and continued to 'carry' carefully in his arms to the car. That was the kind of goofy behaviour that made Kurt die laughing but others just didn't really get. All four climbed back in Blaine's car and Simon spoke up "sorry to be a buzz kill, but I need to be at the store at 7am can you drop me off first?"

Simon worked weekends in the local Wal-Mart; it was where he and Kurt had met 3 months earlier. Kurt had accidently dropped a jar of nutella and it had smashed all over the floor. Simon had been sent to clean it up and found a beautiful boy he recognised from school apologising profusely to the store manager. After a few more apologies and a "don't you go to McKinley too?" Simon and Kurt struck up a conversation which ended with them arranging to meet later that day for coffee.

Blaine dropped Simon to his house and Kurt walked him to his front door, they spoke quickly to arrange a lunch date for the following day, kissed briefly and Kurt headed back to the car. When he turned around he was disappointed to see Amy had climbed from the back into the passenger seat and was kissing Blaine. Kurt opened the back door and climbed in. Amy and Blaine broke apart and turned to face Kurt. "So" Kurt said clapping his hands together "what are the plans for the rest of the evening?" Amy looked a bit awkward "I dunno, Blaine sweetie what do you want to do?" She rested her hand on Blaine's knee and gave him 'the look' Kurt described as her 'doll face'. Blaine shrugged his shoulders and looked at Kurt "what do you want to do?" before Kurt could answer, Amy interrupted, "Blaine, maybe you and I could spend some time at my place? My parents are out and we could have some time, you know, together" she quickly looked at Kurt "sorry Kurt, I don't mean to exclude you but Blaine and I get so little time together during the week, with him at Dalton, you know how it is" Kurt nodded looking at Blaine who just raised an eyebrow and looked like he wasn't quite sure what to say. "Yeah" Kurt replied "of course... I'm a bit tired anyway, need my beauty sleep, just drop me home". Amy smiled at him and Blaine started the car. Kurt sat back and watched as Amy continued to rub Blaine's knee in a slow circle as he drove.

Kurt jumped out of the car quickly when they arrived at his house barely looking at Blaine to say goodnight. Hurrying inside he ran up the stairs to his room and quickly closed the door. He leaned against it and slid down slowly to the floor. He pulled his knees to his chest and put his face against them. Without warning the tears started to flow, they just kept coming and coming. He sat there for what felt like hours sobbing and hugging his knees. His mind was spinning full of images of what Amy and Blaine would be doing at her place for the rest of the evening. He felt sick just thinking about it. Finally he lifted his head and said out loud "I'm in love with Blaine"