A/N: Happy Christmas Gracey! This story was requested by Gracey because the show Glee wasn't giving her enough Klaine (probably 'cause it's on break… hmm). If we owned Glee, you know there'd be more Klaine-ey cuteness.

One: Home for the Holidays

Kurt and Blaine were sitting in the living room of the Hummel-Hudson home. They were watching a DVD of a Christmas show Blaine had been in the year before. They were watching Blaine and a girl with wavy brown hair sing Baby, It's Cold Outside. Kurt noticed that at the end, when they were sitting on an oversized couch with her head on his shoulder, that both of them seemed to be mentally elsewhere. He also thought the girl looked familiar, but he couldn't place her name. Then the front door banged open. Kurt paused the television as a very familiar voice called, "Lou-Lou, we're here! Danny's putting his stuff in Finnie's room and I'm going to go put my bags in your room, then we'll be down stairs and we can catch up, okay?"

Blaine looked confused, but Kurt smiled. He replied, "Okay, Lex. Make sure you look presentable before you get down here; I've got a friend over!"

Lexi's voice was fainter this time, as she had started to run up the stairs before she said, "Alright. Sorry about calling you Lou-Lou, in front of your friend!" Kurt heard her footsteps upstairs, probably mixed with those of her friend Danny. A few minutes later, she, followed by Danny, walked into the living room. She began, "So, Kurt, who's your fr-" then she stopped and stared agape at Blaine.

"Al? What are you doing here?" Blaine asked the staring girl. It was then that Kurt realized that the girl from the Baby, It's Cold Outside video was his cousin Lexi.

"Kurt's my cousin – I'm home for the holidays! But what are YOU doing here, B?" Lexi replied, then she paused, realizing something. "DALTON! YOU KNOW EACH OTHER FROM SCHOOL!"

Kurt laughed and Blaine nodded. Lexi attack-hugged both of them simultaneously, bringing the two boys very close together - awkwardly close, considering that they weren't exactly dating. Yet. Kurt was determined to get up the courage to ask Blaine out before the new year started. Lexi, who was incredibly perceptive and had heard both boys talk about their poorly-disguised crushes on previously unnamed other boys, had figured out pretty much the moment that she'd heard they knew each other that the person Blaine had been telling her about all year was Kurt and vice versa. Not that either of them knew she'd figured this out. She wasn't planning on telling them any time soon, either.

"'Gitta, you've kind of zoned out. What're you thinking about?" Kurt asked curiously, when he realized that she'd released them slowly and not entirely intentionally.

"Oh, nothing you need to worry about, Lou," Lexi replied. The front door opened and she added, "Oh! Is that Finn?" then went running off down the hallway to greet her step-cousin.

Danny stepped forward and hugged Kurt. He said, "Hey, Lou. How's Dalton working out for you?"

"It's great. There are a lot of great guys there and I've made a lot of friends in the last year. I've really missed you and 'Gitta, though," Kurt replied.

"Hey, Blaine," Danny said, waving awkwardly.

"Hey, Dan. So Al's still crazy?" Blaine replied.

"She always has been. Kurt knows – of course Kurt knows, she calls him Lou-Lou. And she roped me into calling him Lou, too," sighed Danny. From down the hall, they heard yet another attack-hug in process. "I'll go rescue Finn."

Danny going off down the hall to separate Lexi from her cousin left Kurt and Blaine alone again in the living room. Before, it hadn't been awkward at all. But now that Lexi had forced them into standing pretty much on top of each other, it kind of was. The two boys had separated a little bit when she'd released them from her tight attack-hug, but they were still standing rather close to each other. They were, that is, until Danny left the room, when they exploded away from each other. Once they were safely on opposite sides of the room, Kurt said, "So…"

"That was bizarre," Blaine said.

"Nothing ever isn't, with those two around. They bring strangeness along with them everywhere they go," Kurt replied, glad that they had something to talk about.

Blaine, who also seemed relieved at having a topic of conversation, said, "So, why do they call you Lou-Lou?"

"It's short for 'Louisa' – like from the Sound of Music. When we were little, my mom and my Aunt Lydia –that was Lexi's mom's name – decided to call her Brigitta, because that's the name of the next younger von Trapp child. I guess at some point, 'Gitta decided that I should have a different name as my TSOM nickname than my real name, and Louisa just stuck," Kurt explained. "I don't know when they shortened it – actually I think it was Dan's idea, because Louisa's a girl's name."

Blaine laughed out loud. Down the hallway, they could hear Finn and Danny having a conversation, which meant that Lexi had abandoned them. She was walking loudly down the hall on the floor above them. Blaine and Kurt stood in the living room laughing for a little while, then Lexi entered the room energetically. She was followed by Finn, who said, "Hi Blaine. Alex told me you were here."

"Hi Finn," replied Blaine. He was fully aware, in that moment, of the fact that Finn would probably attack him if he ever hurt Kurt – not something he planned on doing any time soon (not least because he hadn't gotten up the courage to ask him out yet), but still the idea of dealing with Finn's wrath didn't seem fun.

Finn, who had obviously noticed that Lexi was bouncing off the walls with energy, said, "Alex, you need to relax. Seriously, did Danny's mom feed you sugar for the car ride?"

"NO!" Lexi replied. It should be noted that Lexi's real name is Alexa – hence the nicknames: Al, Alex, Lex, Lexi… and 'Gitta. But the last one has already been explained.

Finn sighed and walked back down the hall and then up the stairs to his room. Danny joined the others in the living room. "So, what are we going to do tomorrow?" he asked.

"Let's carol at McKinley!"