Keeping Up his End - Blaine and Tina

Summary: The Green Eyed Bargain struck, it's time for both parties to hold up their end. Up first, it's Blaine.

Warnings: AU - Klaine togetherness where there is no togetherness in canon.

Notes: I've decided that this is PART THREE of the 'Eye Candy' series. Part One was 'Eye Candy', Part two was 'Green-Eyed Bargain'. :)

Disclaimer: I own nothing. I simply borrow characters.

Blaine wasn't going to lie to himself, he had the easier job. He was gay, Tina was a girl. Sure, stranger things had happened, but this wasn't going to be one of them. He was quite happily committed to Kurt and Tina would just have to understand that, and respect it. She was his friend, first and foremost, after all.

He walked up to his locker and opened it, lost in his thoughts as he switched out his books for the day. He glanced up at the picture he had of Kurt pinned to the inside of the door and smiled.

"Hey Blainey," he blinked, pulling the door of his locker to and staring at Tina, who'd just appeared behind it, beaming smile directed right at him.

"You need to stay away from my brother," he said pointedly, lips twitching when she laughed. "How was your weekend?"

"Boring," she sighed dramatically, linking an arm with him as they started walking towards home room. "Mom tried to introduce me to some 'family friends' of the male persuasion," she made a face. "I told her to butt out, I'm going to college soon, then she'll be trying to keep me away from guys."

"Maybe she's worried?" Blaine suggested. "I mean," he went on. "You were pretty solid with Mike until he left... I can imagine he seemed like a good guy to your parents," he tried to put it delicately but ended up grimacing at her apologetically while she laughed.

"You mean because of the Asian factor?" She nodded her head. "They liked him, sure. Even met his parents a few times, everyone got along, then he left. I'm 17, Blaine, they can't really expect much outta me right now..."

"In an ideal world, sure." They shared an understanding smile and entered their homeroom.

"Anyway, how was your weekend? You said you were out of town?" She saw Blaine's eyes light up and raised an eyebrow, sitting down at the seat next to his in the back.

"I went up to New York," he grinned. "Kurt and I spent the weekend indulging my tourist needs. We saw Les Mis at the theatre, went for dinner at this gorgeous Italian restaurant in Little Italy then we went walking through Central Park and spent Sunday morning curled up watching old cartoons," he was gushing, he knew it. Just like he knew he was laying it on pretty thick, but the weekend had been pretty great and if he couldn't boast about it to his closest friends, who could he boast to?

"That sounds... amazing," Tina smiled, her eyes tightening and Blaine could see it for just how feigned it truly was. He scolded himself for hurting her like that but he didn't really have a choice. She wouldn't listen to anyone else; he'd already been through it all with Artie. "So you and Kurt... are back together?" Okay, that confused him.

"What? Back together? We were never broken up..."

"But I thought - I mean, you and Eli... and you went up to New York and told Kurt. Then you were all depressed..." she looked lost.

"Tina, nothing happened with Eli," he said gently. "He was a distraction, and I told Kurt when Eli made it clear he wanted more. I was down because I felt bad about what almost happened. I couldn't believe I could do something like that to Kurt."

"So nothing happened? At all?"

"No!" he declared. "Wait, have you been thinking I cheated on Kurt? All this time?" he watched her eyes widen.

"No! Maybe... I don't know! I thought... I thought something happened with Eli, then I thought you went to New York to tell Kurt, then he broke up with you, then... I don't know. You were just so down, I didn't know what to think," she slumped in her seat. "You've cheered up a lot lately and we've been hanging out a lot, I just thought - I don't know. Something changed."

Oh.

Oh!

"Tina," he sighed, reaching over to squeeze her hand gently. "Kurt and I... we're it. We'll always be it. I cannot imagine my life without him, I don't want to imagine my life without him. I've been happy recently because I got back an acceptance letter from NYU. I'm moving up there after school's out. I'm either gonna move in with Kurt, or we're gonna find a small apartment somewhere." He was quiet for a few seconds, looking at her downcast face and squeezed her hand again. "Hanging out with you recently has been amazing though. I've never really had a girl best friend. And don't worry! When I move to New York, there'll always be room for you to visit, I swear. Kurt said he missed you, so did Rachel. It'll be great, you'll see."

He watched her take a few seconds to pull herself together before she finally turned to him and smiled, a genuine smile this time.

"Seriously, why do the great ones have to be so gay?" she moaned and they laughed together.

"It's my curse," he shrugged, still grinning.

"I really embarrassed myself these last few weeks, huh?"

"Not at all!" he objected and she gave him a look. "Everything's forgotten, okay? Clean slate. New day!"

"Blaine..." she said gently, sweetly. "I straddled you like a cowgirl and rubbed vaporub on your fabulous chest."

He blinked at her, his eyes then widening.

"You knew I was awake!" he accused and she had the grace to blush through her laughter.

"Maybe," she conceded. "I am sorry though, I mean... really sorry. It was kinda creepy of me I guess," she made a face.

"You can buy me coffee while we work on Chemistry tonight at the Lima Bean, he decided and that was that.

During the walk between second and third period, he sent a quick text to Kurt.

I held up my end, your turn Casanova ;)

The reply he got couldn't be repeated in public.

Word Count: 997

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