I decided to do a sequel to my other story Whatever words I say I will always love you. If you haven't read it, you probably should, or you might not understand this story.
I'm not sure what's going to happen, I'm mostly writing this because it's fun and it takes my mind off other things. Ah well!
It had been three years.
Blaine Anderson and his unofficial boyfriend Kurt Hummel had both moved up into the sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For their own safety they hadn't gone official again since they tried it in their third year. It just wasn't worth the constant terror that they (or more accurately, Kurt) had to endure.
They kept meeting in the Room of Requirement once a week. They both spent all their holidays at the castle as it was one of very few opportunities for them to spend time together outside of the Room of Requirement. Although Blaine was forced to go home for Christmas in their fifth year because his mother didn't think it was healthy for him to be away from home so much.
It wasn't ideal, and they both suffered from the constant hiding and lying to their friends, but it was the only way they could be together. There had been some bumps in the road and they had almost broken up a couple of times, but they had always sorted it out in the end.
Neither of them had expected them to make it all the way into their sixth year. They had been together for about three years, give or take, and that was more than the relationships their friends had been in. Kurt had lost count of all the times he had been forced to stay up all night in the Gryffindor common room because one of his friends had been dumped.
His friend Rachel, who was in Ravenclaw, took a little more work since they couldn't talk in either of their common rooms. Instead they had to sneak off to somewhere else in the castle, but as Kurt didn't want anyone but him and Blaine to know about the Room of Requirement, they often got caught by patrolling teachers when they snuck out during the night.
She needed consolation about every other month because she broke up, fought with or was generally heartbroken over Kurt's stepbrother Finn all the time. They had broken up, dated others for a while, gotten back together and then went through it all again. Sometimes Finn would come to him and beg him to help him understand some girl he was dating because he was too self-centered sometimes to understand when he had done something wrong or what a girl expected from him.
Kurt was quite good at reading girls because even though he didn't have any first-hand experience with dating them, he had plenty of experience with comforting girls who had been hurt by boys. So he was really good at what not to do, which in many cases helped his guy friends understand their own problems.
Mercedes had broken up with Sam because she thought he was too immature, which Kurt really thought was a pity because they were so great together.
She had dated plenty of guys after him, most recently a not too clever boy from Hufflepuff who insisted on believing that Kurt's actual name was Dolphin because Kurt's friend Brittany called him that. Kurt didn't like any of her new boyfriends as much as he liked Sam, so he always tried to fix them up again.
Mercedes had figured it out though, and was much more careful now when taking his advice regarding her love life in case he was just trying to spin her into the waiting arms of Sam.
Kurt really enjoyed fixing people up. He had managed a few lucky combinations and some that turned out to be quite disastrous. During one of Rachel and Finn's breaks he had introduced Rachel to a boy in Ravenclaw who had seemed really nice at first, but later turned out to be insanely jealous with an explosive temper. He had gone absolutely crazy when he had caught Rachel talking to one of her male friends in a hallway after class, and in an attempt to hex the boy he had landed himself in the hospital wing for a week when the curse backfired.
But there had been a few successful ones too. For example, his friend Rory from Hufflepuff had been really heartbroken after his girlfriend broke up with him, so Kurt had introduced him to a nice girl from Gryffindor in the year below them. They had been together for seven months now.
Blaine often complained about this new-found interest in other people's love lives, because it took up so much of Kurt's time that, in addition to his enormous passion for fashion, it didn't leave much time for their own. But, to Kurt's defence, the only reason he spent so much time planning dates for his friends was because he couldn't take Blaine out on a proper date himself, and he had all these amazing plans that would otherwise go unused.
This usually shut Blaine up because he felt so bad for depriving Kurt of that pleasure.
"What do you think of this one?", Kurt asked thoughtfully and held up a picture of a red dress which, to Blaine, looked like every other red dress he had ever seen.
"It's really pretty", Blaine answered.
"Is it better than this one? This one looks better with her body type, but this one really goes great with her eyes", Kurt said and held up another picture.
"Either one will be great", Blaine said.
"But don't you have a preference?", Kurt pressed on.
"I'm sorry but I really don't. To me they look the same", Blaine said.
Kurt sighed and turned back to the handful of pictures he had in front of him.
He continued shuffling them around, holding one up for him to consider and then putting it away, without consulting Blaine again.
He gave a theatrical sigh as to let Blaine know he was slightly upset that he didn't care more.
After a few of these, Blaine put away his quill and turned away from his homework that lay spread out on the table in front of him.
"What is it?", he asked impatiently.
"You could at least pretend to care", Kurt said and glanced his way.
"I'm just not in the mood to pick out the next dress for the big Finn and Rachel-date", Blaine said. He tried to stay patient but didn't manage it too well.
Kurt sniffed indignantly and turned away.
"I'm sorry, but why would I care what Rachel wears to her date? The only date I'd be interested in plotting an outfit for is a date with you and that's not going to happen, so why bother?", Blaine said and returned to his homework.
Kurt turned to look at him again.
"Is that what this is about?", he asked.
Blaine hesitated.
"Forget it", he mumbled and bent lower over the parchment he was working on.
"Why are you being so difficult? Can't you just talk to me?", Kurt asked.
He put away his pictures and went over to Blaine's table and Conjured a chair next to him that he sat down on.
They were, of course, in the Room of Requirement.
"It's just- I'm sick of planning dates for every single person in this castle except for us", Blaine said.
"But we can't-"
"I know. I know it's the only way and I know it's worth that sacrifice but it still sucks. All of our friends are in and out of relationships, going on dates and holding hands in the hallways. And all I can do is watch you from across the classroom and think to myself that, if I'm lucky, maybe I can admire you for just a few more seconds without anyone noticing. How pathetic is that?", Blaine said and looked up.
Kurt smiled sadly.
"It's horrible for me too. But we just have to put it in perspective. If we went on an official date, we would get beaten up and the stress of it all would probably make us break up. This way we can at least see each other without being afraid of ending up in the hospital wing", he said.
"I know. It's just so unfair", Blaine sighed. He buried his face in his folded arms and made an agitated sound.
"Why are you so upset about this right now?", Kurt asked and stroked Blaine's hair out of his eyes.
Blaine mumbled something but it was too muffled for Kurt to make out the words.
"I can't hear you", he said gently.
Blaine shifted his arms slightly so his mouth was free and said, "Valentines Day is coming up."
"Oh", was all Kurt could say.
They were silent for a while.
"But we'll just spend Valentines here like usual", Kurt said soothingly.
"I can't. Sebastian made me promise I'd go on a double date with him", Blaine mumbled.
Kurt felt a sting of jealousy at hearing this, which annoyed him because he knew it was completely unnecessary.
He forgot that he was supposed to answer, which made Blaine look up and, unfortunately, catch a glimpse of the envy in Kurt's eyes.
"I didn't have a choice. I turned down his double date-ideas last time he asked me, I can't do it again", Blaine said.
"Of course", Kurt said in a hollow voice.
"Kurt", Blaine said softly and straightened up. "I wouldn't go if I had a choice. Maybe we can meet up afterwards."
Kurt nodded.
"Who is he going with?", he asked with forced disinterest.
"Santana", Blaine answered.
"And you?"
Blaine hesitated.
"One of her friends. I don't know her name. She's, according to Sebastian, 'easy to get with'. Look, if this makes you uncomfortable I can pretend to be sick or something", he said anxiously.
"No, of course you should go. She sounds nice", Kurt said tensely.
"Kurt-"
"No, it's fine. Really", Kurt interrupted him.
"Who's being difficult now?", Blaine mumbled.
"I'm sorry", Kurt said sincerely. "It's just unfair that she gets to go with you when I can't."
"But you just said-"
"I don't care if it's the right thing to do or if it's better for us in the long run. I hate watching you go on dates with girls that look ten times better than me when it should be me you go on dates with", Kurt said sadly.
"You're forgetting two very important things. First of all, I'm gay, so even the prettiest girl in the world wouldn't catch my interest. Second, I love you and no one else, and going on a couple of pointless dates with girls I'll never speak to again won't change that", Blaine said soothingly.
Kurt couldn't resist smiling.
"It's ridiculous, I know", he said and shook his head.
"Well, I feel the same way when you go on dates", Blaine said.
"There's no needs. I usually scare them off in the first five minutes. You on the other hand have a whole bunch of fangirls following you around", he said with an amused smile.
Blaine's mouth opened and closed like a fish.
"I don't have fangirls", he finally managed to get out.
Kurt raised an eyebrow.
"Of course you do. Have you never wondered why the library is always packed with girls as soon as you go there? They're never there unless you are", he said.
"You're making that up", Blaine said firmly.
Kurt rolled his eyes.
"Fine, you can keep denying it all you want", he said and got up and walked over to his own work again. Then he added, "But you should be careful so they don't slip you a love potion."
Blaine blushed.
"I told you I was sorry about that", he said ashamedly.
Kurt grinned.
"I know", he said.
"Don't you have some dresses to look at instead of teasing me?", Blaine asked.
"I promised Rachel I'd be done by Friday and it's only Tuesday so I have some time for teasing you too", Kurt said sweetly.
Blaine grimaced.
"Okay, I won't get in the way of your essay writing. I'll just leave you alone", Kurt said and smiled.
But Blaine wasn't planning on writing much longer. Instead he abandoned his work and, with a innocent smile, sat down next to Kurt who had re-focused on the pictures of dresses.
He watched Kurt who sketched down a few different dresses on a parchment without acknowledging his boyfriend's prying eyes.
"I'm done with my essay, if you could tear yourself from your planning for a few minutes", Blaine said enticingly.
Kurt smiled, though he didn't take his eyes off the parchment.
Before he could respond, Blaine had tugged him away from his sketches and kissed him.
Not that he objected.