January – the month with the wow factor
Sunday, 26th January, 2015 – 12:05
From: Blaine Anderson (bdevon_anderson )
To: Kurt Hummel (khummel )
Subject: Your loft walls are camel colored.
That is all,
Blaine Anderson
Your future boyfriend
Day 1 – E-mail 1
-x-
Kurt takes a deep breath and smooths over his shirt before he opens the loft door. A bouquet of flowers is instantly shoved into his face, and he tries slap it away.
"Hi!" Blaine's voice says from somewhere in front of him, and Kurt pushes the flowers a little bit down.
"Hey!" he smiles back, "These for me?"
"No." Blaine shakes his head very seriously, "It's for your downstairs neighbor. We can swing by on our way down, right?"
Kurt rolls his eyes and takes the flowers completely from Blaine, "Let me just put these in some water before we go."
"So…" Blaine starts, trailing after Kurt into the loft, "First date… exciting, huh?"
"I'm not telling you where we're going." Kurt calls over his shoulder, "You said you like surprises, quit being a killjoy."
"You know, it's our first date, I don't think you're supposed to be this mean to me."
"Oh, yeah, you're totally right, we should go, we still need to drop off the flowers for my neighbor."
"Touche." Blaine laughs as Kurt puts the only existing vase in the loft, now overflowing with flowers, on the dining table.
"We can go now." Kurt grins, picking up his coat on the way out.
In the elevator Blaine pulls him close by the edges of his coat and buttons it cheerfully, topping it off with a kiss to the nose that makes Kurt blush and duck his head.
When they get to the street Kurt offers his hand with a questioning smile and Blaine beams as he accepts it immediately.
When they ride the subway they choose to stand holding onto the pole, but letting their bodies sway into each other's personal space. And best of all, they have silent conversations about the many people surrounding them that have them in stitches by the time they're shuffling off the train.
"This is a high school…" Blaine frowns when Kurt turns towards its open gate.
"Ah, so you can read." Kurt teases, "There goes my super original first date."
Blaine fixes him with a half glare, before he follows Kurt inside, "So now, can I know why we're here?"
"Okay, so I may have put too much hype on this and now you'll be disappointed…" Kurt says, before they go through the front door. "A girl that used to be in glee club with me is part of this huge, amazing support group for LGBT kids I try to collaborate with sometimes, and she heard about this, and she told me, and I thought it would be a great thing to be a part of, and I thought you might like it too."
Blaine gives him an easy smile, "I'm sure I'll love it, but you still haven't told me much, beyond LGBT, and high school kids."
Kurt holds the door for Blaine and they step into a school hall filled with banners and signs reading the likes of "Sing with Lexi!", "Help Lexi", "Play your part for Lexi!"
"There's this girl, Lexie. She needs reassignment surgery, but her father bailed on them when she came out, and her mother just can't afford it. So the drama club decided to put on Rent and my friend directed it. The proceedings go towards funding her surgery."
"Oh!" Blaine breathes, his face breaking into a wide grin as he turns on the spot to take in the whole thing. Next to the table serving as a ticket office, there's another loaded with varied snacks, "This is the best!"
"Yeah? You like?"
"I love!" Blaine grins, pulling Kurt into his arms and then kissing him soundly on the mouth.
"I'll get the tickets, you get the snacks?"
"What do you want?" Blaine says as they start walking.
"Nothing too much, because I was still kind of hoping to have some late dinner after this." Kurt shoots him a smile before they part ways to wait in different lines.
Kurt pays for the tickets, before he goes to join Blaine, just as he emerges from the snack table with popcorn and two huge slices of chocolate cake, grinning. Kurt's jaw slackens immediately while Blaine just laughs to himself and continues towards the auditorium.
"Don't even…" Blaine says before Kurt can open his mouth to criticize his choices, "You know you'll still want to eat something after RENT – I've seen you eat junk food, mister, you don't get to pretend about that. Besides the cake looked delicious, and I kind of needed an excuse to spend more money on food."
Kurt deflates and immediately regrets drinking as much as he did on his Homecoming party, two nights ago, leading to him stuffing his face in pizza and adorable mini cupcakes. But it was the day after his return, and his first day as Blaine's official boyfriend, and his first time hanging out with all of them and Blaine and he was significantly nervous. In hindsight, he has no idea what he was nervous about, that night was amazing and it still would have been without the alcohol abuse.
In hindsight he'll probably think he was stupid to be nervous about tonight, too. But for the moment all he can think is that it's the first time he's alone with Blaine for a relatively long stretch of time. So far, so perfect, but still Kurt's sure his heart won't stop speeding until he's alone back in the loft.
"Fair enough." He sighs, before, heart in his throat, he loops his arm around Blaine's, "You don't mind if we stop to say hi to my friend, do you? She's probably already inside."
"Not at all." Blaine shrugs, as they go inside the auditorium. It's not the best auditorium Kurt's ever seen – he'd go so far as to say even McKinley's was better – but the thought of this happening in a struggling school makes it all the more valuable.
He peruses the room, most of the seats still empty, seen as they got here a full half hour before the start. He finds Unique at the front talking to a group of people, "There she is!" he grins, "Unique Adams!" he calls, halfway towards her, and she turns, squeals and flails.
"Kurt Hummel!" she runs without even a glance back at the two people she was talking to, "You came!" she tackles him with a hug as soon as he's within reaching distance, "Oh dear! You even smell like Paris! It's delicious, let me live your life!"
Kurt laughs, "I can assure this is not what Paris smells like."
She beams, "I'm so sorry I didn't make it to your party, but you know how it is putting on these plays. The last few days are insanity, and every moment I wasn't here I was sleeping my anger off."
"Apology accepted. We'll just have to throw another party and have you come to that one, right?"
"Absolutely!"
"Hey, Unique, this Blaine, my boyfriend, Blaine, this is Unique, one of the best, most mind blowing voices and performers you'll ever meet."
"Oh my!" Blaine gasps, "In that case, I'm honored!"
Unique beams and shakes Blaine's hand before she turns to Kurt, "It's the brand new boyfriend?"
"Something like that."
"I see, I see." She nods, "And you're sure you don't want to switch lives?"
Kurt laughs and blushes, "Sorry…"
Unique rolls her eyes and scoffs, "Greedy bitch." To which Blaine sputters and Kurt cackles. "Anyway, boys, as fun as looking into your gorgeous faces is, duty calls. I gotta go make sure those kids haven't ruined my vision, yet! See you after, maybe! Tootles!"
They watch her leave until she's disappeared behind the curtain.
"Unique Adams…?" Blaine asks after a long silence.
"Yes!" Kurt gasps.
"Oh! So that's where I knew her from! Her name was all over the show choir blogs. She started in Vocal Adrenaline."
"And ended up with us." Kurt says triumphantly, "Let's find our seats."
"She was phenomenal, though."
"Yes, and the minute she switched teams she barely had a competition solo again, so you see…" Kurt sighs.
Blaine gives him a sympathetic smile, "I would've given you all the solos." He says leaning in to kiss Kurt on the cheek.
Kurt preens as he sits, "Flattery will get you everywhere."
Blaine just chuckles, and hands Kurt his chocolate cake. "Keep me company eating it now. It looks delicious, I don't want to split my attention between the stage and the cake." Kurt can't help snorting at that, and Blaine smiles sheepishly as he takes the first bite.
They eat their cake in silence, Kurt taking deliberately small bites and Blaine finishing his in five, which is when Kurt starts making appreciative noises and Blaine just rolls his eyes and pretends not to smile.
"So…" Kurt starts once his napkin is empty and his dabbed it over his lips, "Appreciate it fully?"
Blaine just nods, before he turns on his chair to face Kurt and announces, "So, I've gotta be honest here, that felt amazing."
"What? The cake, I mean, it was good-"
"No. You introducing me as your boyfriend."
"Oh…"
"I like it."
"Well, you are…"
"Absolutely." Blaine grins, "I don't know, ignore me… I just needed to get that off my chest." He laughs and shakes his head to himself as he turns back towards the still empty stage.
With a jolt to his heart Kurt does something that he's somehow failed to do tonight, as he takes Blaine's jaw into his hand, leans over and presses their lips together. They kiss gently and slowly for a while, until someone's shy cough pulls them out of it.
They look up to find a couple and two teenage kids. A red-faced woman mutters, "Terribly sorry, could you just let us squeeze through to those seats?"
"Oh!" They both fumble to get up, Kurt's bag falling off his lap to the floor. He hurries to catch it and as he stands back up and the family passes he glances towards Blaine, relieved to see him looking as flushed as he feels.
When they sit back down he takes Blaine's hand, and presses his face into his shoulder, trying to keep his laughter mostly quiet.
