It's been three years.
Blaine ran his hands over the piano keys catching the attention of Wes, who was busy folding the new menus. Wes glanced at the calendar and spotted the date circled in red. Today was the day Kurt died, three years ago. Everyone had moved on but it seemed that Blaine hadn't. Blaine had started composing and working again but he didn't really date anyone at all.
The door to the restaurant opened and the bell at the top of the door tinkled softly. Wes stood up and smiled at the customers.
"Welcome, how many people?" Wes asked.
"Five" A man with platinum blond hair and black dyed hair tips replied.
"Have a seat" Wes said gesturing to the table nearest to the large windows.
"There's karaoke here?" Another guy with black spiked hair asked.
"Yeah, help yourselves" Wes said handing them all menus.
"Sweet" The black haired guy commented and then opened up the menu.
"Hey boss, who's that?" The guy with blond and black hair asked pointing at Blaine who was still staring at the piano keys.
"That's the manager of the restaurant, Blaine" Wes replied wondering why the guy was asking about Blaine.
"Is he gay?"
Wes smiled. Now he knew why the blond guy asked about Blaine.
"Yes" Wes replied.
"Is he single?" Blondie asked.
"You'll have to ask that yourself" Wes said pulling out a pen and notepad.
Blondie nodded and then was pulled into food discussion by his friends. Wes waited for their orders on the side and a phone started ringing in the restaurant. Blaine started out of his reverie and then pulled his ringing phone out of his pocket.
"Hello?" Blaine cleared his throat and then smiled.
"Yeah I know the date, Finn. Yeah I'll meet you there at two. See you then" Blaine hung up and tucked the phone into his pocket.
"Who was that?" Wes asked discreetly.
"Finn, I'm meeting him up at two. Crap, it's already one" Blaine got up and ran up the stairs to his apartment.
"Are you guys ready to order?" Wes asked holding his pen at the ready.
"Yeah, where's the bathroom?" Blondie asked.
"Right down there, take a left" Wes instructed and Blondie stood up.
Wes wrote down all the orders and the black haired guy gave him Blondie's order as well. Wes ran into the kitchen and handed it over to David and then went to get drinks for the group. He returned to the restaurant to see two of the five had gotten up to mess with the karaoke machine.
Wes took his time to examine these guys. They were all dressed in either black or grey. Blondie had been dressed in all black and had a piercing in his lip. His platinum blond hair with black lips made his face look more defined and added mystery to him. The guy with black spiked hair had multiple piercings and was dressed in grey jeans and a black tee shirt with a black leather jacket.
Another guy had green hair dressed in an all grey ensemble. The youngest out of all of them had red hair and dressed in black jeans and a grey tee. The last one had blue hair and it was tied up in a ponytail. They looked like a glam rock band, the way they acted and the way they dressed. The guy with red hair started singing Decode by Paramore and Wes was taken aback at how strong his voice was.
"Order up!" David announced snapping Wes out of his thoughts.
Wes served out the food and then saw Blondie wasn't back yet.
"Where'd Skylar go?" The black haired guy asked.
"He's probably reapplying his foundation and checking his hair in the mirror" The blue haired one replied.
Wes shrugged and let them start eating. He then felt suspiscious as to where the Blondie had really gone. They all looked rather shady.
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Blaine sighed as he pulled on a fresh pair of jeans and a black shirt. His trench coat was in the coat closet near the door. He sighed and in his sock clad feet he went out to the living room. He had the shock of his life when he saw a punk rocker in his home.
"Excuse me? Who are you?" Blaine asked, examining the guy from head to toe.
"Sorry man, I was looking for the bathroom" The guy replied running a hand through his blond hair.
"It's downstairs, first door on you left. You can't miss it" Blaine said and the guy nodded.
"Thanks" the guy opened the door of the apartment and left.
Blaine sighed and then looked around the room. Nothing looked like it had been stolen at all. He grabbed his trench coat and then wondered how the guy could have gotten so badly lost. No one had ever come up to apartment like that. Come to think of it, Blaine had seen the guy staring at him in the restaurant.
He shook his head and went down the stairs where the guy was eating with his friends. Blaine said his goodbyes to Wes and then got into his car, ready to drive to the graveyard.
He parked outside and saw Finn waiting for him.
"Hey Finn. How's it going?" Blaine greeted his tall friend with a hug.
"I'm great Blaine. How's everyone at the restaurant?" Finn asked.
"Everyone's great. Velma brought Lily yesterday and we had her first birthday party. They really wanted you to be there but I explained that you were busy" Blaine replied.
"Yeah I know. I tried to get out of the meeting but I couldn't. After this I'll go to Wes's house and give little Lily her present" Finn said.
They entered the graveyard, each with a bouquet of roses and walked to the graves of their loved ones. There were already bouquets from Burt and Carole on Kurt and Rachel's graves and Blaine placed the bouquet he had brought on Kurt's grave.
Hi Kurt. I miss you alot, if you must know. Every day I feel the pain of you not being there. I had a dream about you yesterday. You were telling me how amazing heaven was and I believed you. Because all I want you to be is to be happy.
Blaine knelt on the grave and pulled out a rose from the bouquet and kissed it. He placed it on the grave and then stood up. Finn finished off his conversation with Rachel and then they turned to each other. Both of them sighed in unison and then turned to leave the graveyard.
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"It's sweet, isn't it?" Rachel asked leaning on Kurt's shoulder.
They were both seated on a bench right near their graves. They watched Finn and Blaine place the bouquets down and then take a step back.
"It's nice that He let's us visit the world on our death anniversaries" Kurt mused.
"I wish he would move on" Rachel said.
"Me too" Kurt replied.
Both of them faded from view as Finn and Blaine left the graveyard.
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Finn drove to Wes's apartment. Since the baby had arrived, Wes and Velma had moved to a larger apartment with two bedrooms and one guest room with ensuite. He rode the elevator and knocked on the door. The door opened and Velma squealed with delight to see Finn.
"I thought you forgot all of us, Mr. Managing Director" Velma said.
"Of course not. I couldn't forget the apple of my eye" Finn said picking up Lily in his arms.
She was cute with Velma's pale skin but Wes's brown eyes.
"Now that she's walking, is she a hassle?" Finn asked sitting down with Lily cradled on his lap.
"She nearly hit her head on the dining room chair. Thank god Wes stopped her" Velma replied.
"And what about work? Are you going to work?" Finn asked.
"I was going to find a nanny to take care of her. I'm holding interview tomorrow to see how Lily reacts to them" Velma replied.
"That's great"
Finn and Velma chatted for a while longer and then Finn left to go back to the office.
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"So you snuck up to his apartment? Did you see him naked?"
Skylar laughed at his friend, Shin's comments. He ruffled Shin's blue hair and Shin slapped his hands away.
"Yeah, real funny Shin" Minx, the redhead replied, sarcastically.
"I didn't see him naked but I did see him dressed in jeans and a shirt. That guy's got a great ass" Skylar commented.
"He looked depressed when he staring at the piano" Regent, the green haired one commented.
"And then he lit up at the phone call from that guy. Forget it Skylar, your newest has got a guy" The black haired one, Trey, said checking his spikes in the mirror.
"Then how come he had no pictures of the guy in his apartment?" Skylar shot back.
"Maybe he likes keeping his life private. Also, he wouldn't like people like you snooping around. Maybe he has pictures in his bedroom or on a computer" Trey argued.
"That does explain the ring you found, Skylar. That ain't no normal ring" Regent said.
"What ring?" Minx asked.
"I got this from a little pot on the coffee table" Skylar pulled out a chain and dangling from it was a ring.
"It's a plain gold thing" Minx commented after examining the ring.
"Maybe it's one of them couple rings" Shin suggested.
"Doesn't explain why he doesn't wear it" Skylar said.
"Dude, it might mean something to him. You shouldn't have taken that" Trey said.
"Yeah man, when he finds out it's missing, he might even become more depressed than he already is" Regent said.
"Then I'll return it. We'll go for lunch again there tomorrow and then Minx can sneak up there and return in" Skylar replied.
"Why me?" Minx asked incredulously.
"Because you're the youngest and you have a damn good puppy face" Skylar replied tucking the ring back into his pocket.
Minx pouted and Regent chuckled.
"Guess we're going back to Prince Charming's place again tomorrow" Shin mused.
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Blaine sighed as he leaned against the back of the couch. His head was pulsing wildly. Ever since he had told Wes about that Blondie in his apartment, Wes had thrown a fit about how the guy looked shady as hell. He had told Blaine to check for everything in the apartment in case anything was stolen. He had ranted until Blaine had run to the safety of his apartment.
He had swallowed two Advil and felt his headache leave him after a few minutes. True, the blond guy and his friends did look shady but Blaine couldn't exactly throw them out of his restaurant. After all, they did bring money in. Blaine switched on the stereo and his heart clenched when Kurt's voice began floating out of the stereo.
As if on instinct, Blaine saw Kurt asleep on his couch. He reached out to touch him and Kurt vanished, not even having been there in the first place. Blaine then opened the little pot on his coffee table and felt around for the chain and promise ring. After coming up with nothing, Blaine lifted the pot and looking inside. It was empty.
"Oh my god" Blaine shot up faster than a bullet and looked around on the carpet and even under the sofa.
"It's gone" Blaine tore down the stairs to find Wes locking up the door of the restaurant.
"The ring's missing" Blaine said grabbing a hold of Wes's shoulders.
"Which ring? The one Kurt had when he was at Dalton?" Wes asked.
"Yeah that ring. I haven't touched it in days and now it's gone" Blaine fretted.
"I knew it! That blond guy did steal something" Wes said.
"You can't just blame the blond guy. Maybe the cleaning woman or the guy who came to fix the AC" Blaine said.
"The cleaning woman wouldn't do that. She's been coming to your apartment for a year now. The AC guy stayed downstairs the entire time. I'm sure it's that blond guy" Wes argued.
"Do you have a phone number or anything?" Blaine asked.
"No, I'm sorry. I guess the ring's as good as gone" Wes replied.
"Maybe the guy pawned it off. I'll go check the pawn shops" Blaine said.
"All the pawn shops in New York?" Wes asked incredulously.
"To find that ring, I'll do anything" Blaine declared.
And the first chapter of the sequel comes to an end. I hope you enjoyed reading about the new characters as much as I enjoyed writing them. They are based off the glam rock band Cinema Bizarre so I'll be using the songs of Cinema Bizarre as well.
Onyxinlife.