Author's Note: This is what I think happened after Rachel revealed to Kurt and Mercedes that she and Finn got engaged.
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, I don't own it.
"It's not the same…" Kurt whispered to his friend late at night. The three of them, like always were sleeping in Rachel's bed with Mercedes' on the left, Kurt on the right and Rachel smack dab in the middle. Mercedes had already fallen asleep, being the one out of the three of them to always fall asleep first. If they were mean spirited individuals, Rachel and Kurt probably would have put her hand in warm water or froze her bra. But they weren't, so they didn't.
Rachel turned her head to look at her best friend and raised an eyebrow. "What isn't the same?"
Ever since Rachel had asked Kurt "..what would you do if Blaine proposed to you today?" he hadn't been able to get it out of his head. Even while they continued to watch Twilight and obsess about Taylor Lautner, it still floated around his mind like a black cloud. Not because he doesn't know what he would say, but because neither Blaine nor Kurt would ever think about proposing to the other at this point in their lives.
"If Blaine proposed to me." Kurt whispered back. "It's not the same. My relationship with Blaine is nothing like the relationship you have with Finn. You can't compare them."
"Why not?" She asked petulantly.
"For one, Blaine and I haven't even hit our 1 year anniversary, Rachel though to be quite honest, neither have you or Finn." He raises an eyebrow pointedly and she rolls her eyes.
"Finn and I have been dating longer than you and Blaine have, Kurt!" She says stubbornly and Kurt bites his lip and shakes his head.
"Have you really? Rachel, I love you and I love Finn. But marriage isn't something you should just jump into, especially with someone that you haven't been with for that long." He continues quickly before she can protest. "Sure, you had the summer before our junior year, and about 3 months during the beginning of our junior year but after that….you two weren't together until after Nationals."
"We were together in sophomore year too!" She said indignantly. Kurt snorted.
"You were with Finn, about as much as I was with Finn in sophomore year, Rachel and we both know it."
"So what? Why does that mean we can't get married, Kurt?"
"You're not even eighteen yet, Rachel. Why do you want to tie yourself down when your life is just starting?"
"I love him, Kurt."
"And love can continue without having to marry him. Look at Blaine and me, we're going to be apart for a year while he finishes his senior year, but that doesn't mean we're going to get married right after I graduate so we know we'll still be together. Our love and our dedication to each other will be able to survive the long distance relationship that we're going to have to have. You and Finn won't even have to have a long distance relationship if he decides to go to New York with us."
"Why are you trying to talk me out of this, Kurt?" She asks, not understanding her friend's motivations. She thought he'd be happy for her and his brother but apparently not.
"I don't want to see you fall into the same trap that so many other people have fallen into. I don't want you to become a statistic, Rachel. Just another pair of high school sweethearts married straight out of high school when there is no need. Can you honestly tell me that if you and Finn were to get married, that you'd end up in New York? That you'd follow your dreams? Or would you stay with Finn, wherever he is? End up getting pregnant and starting a family and giving up all the dreams you once had?"
"I can do both, Kurt."
"Not right now, you can't. I would love to call you my sister-in-law one day, Rachel. I'd love to help pick out your wedding dress, and choose the color scheme for the wedding. I can't wait to help you choose the flower arrangements and work the seating chart and everything else that I know you'll need help with. But I don't want to do that in between studying for Finals. Do you?"
"I guess not."
"You don't need to be engaged, to feel like you're connected to Finn. If you two are meant to be together, things will work out on their own. You don't need to force them."
There was silence, and neither of them spoke anymore. They were just facing one another on their sides on the bed. Rachel looked pensive and Kurt hoped that she was taking what he said to heart, because the last thing he wanted to do was have to call for an intervention amongst the parents to straighten this out. He loved Rachel, and he loved Finn deeply. But he couldn't help but think that this engagement was the worst thing to happen to the two of them since Santana let loose that she had taken Finn's virginity.
"Just because we're engaged, doesn't mean we have to get married right away, Kurt. We can have a long engagement."
"But will you? Would either of you want to wait? Take it from someone who knows Finn on a different level than you do, you're not ready to live your life with Finn and to be perfectly honest neither is he. You're young and in love. That's great. But both of you are also selfish because you're young. Are you really willing to compromise on your morals and values for Finn? Are you willing to live in a home that consumes meat? Are you willing to have a fiancé/husband who leave a constant mess in his wake that you'll have to clean up? Take it from someone who lives with him now, it's not fun." Kurt stares pointedly at her. "Trust me. Picking up after Finn is not as glamorous a job as it sounds, and to be quite honest it doesn't sound all that glamorous to begin with."
"You're not going to talk me out of this, Kurt."
"Doesn't mean I'm not going to keep trying." Rachel smiled.
"I love that you're looking out for me. But I can take care of myself." Kurt rolled onto his back. He hoped that she was right, but he was afraid she was wrong.