A lovely chapter story dedicated to GinnyGirl998 (originally going to be a oneshot but it became way too long for that!). It's Darredith, so be warned. Hope you all enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Team StarKid, Darren Criss, Meredith Stepien, or a pair of pink Wayfarers. I do own two pairs of pink Wayfarers though ;)

11:00 A.M.

Meredith Stepien opened the door to her apartment to see Darren Criss darkening her doorway, smiling widely and holding his guitar case in his hands. His dark, curly hair was more unruly than ever, and he was wearing his signature pink Wayfarers on his eyes. She grinned back at him and placed a hand on her hip.

"Darren! What are you doing here?" Meredith was very surprised to see her old StarKid friend there, and he just grinned wider at her.

"Can I come in?" He motioned into her apartment, and Meredith blushed light pink, opening the door wider and stepping aside so Darren could enter the room. As he passed by her, she backed up into the door as much as possible to avoid touching him, not wanting to have her old feelings return back when he was probably in a relationship with someone in L.A.

"Wow, it's really nice in here." Darren set his things down behind the couch and looked around the small apartment, smiling softly at the little touches of Meredith he could see poking out here and there. He moved to a bookshelf just behind the couch and perused through the books she had hidden in there, not hearing the door close. Meredith came in from the doorway to see Darren looking at her books and she quickly shooed him away from the bookshelf, motioning for him to sit on the couch.

"Yeah, I guess it's not that bad." She shrugged and sat down in the smack middle of the small couch, causing Darren to sit extremely close to her so he wouldn't fall off (not like he minded any, though). "I could've done better though."

They both sat through an awkward silence, running out of things to say, and Meredith looked at the clock.

11:07 A.M.

She sighed heavily and then Darren suddenly stood up. She was slightly surprised but used to Darren doing strange things. "We should make a fort!" Meredith could only look at Darren in confusion, not sure what he was up to, and he took her hands, pulling her up to a standing position. "Mere, where are you spare blankets?"

"Why are we making a blanket fort, Dare?" Meredith stopped him with a hand on his chest and he sighed dramatically.

"Because it's fun, and I'm not gonna be here for long. Now come on, let's go!" She nodded and pulled Darren towards the closest closet, where all of the blankets were stored. As soon as Meredith opened the door of the closet, Darren pulled out as many of the thinner blankets as he could, and he handed Meredith a stack of them.

"Where are we going with these?" She raised an eyebrow and he just grinned at her.

"My dear Meredith, I know you always like having an empty room in your apartments. So I'm heading towards where I know it'll be!" Darren led the way to the back of her apartment, and he opened the door to a bright white room that was completely empty. He dropped the blankets onto the ground and Meredith copied him, not sure what she was doing because she had never done this before.

"What do we do next?" Meredith asked him, and he gave her an incredulous look.

"Have you never made a blanket fort before?" He raised an eyebrow at her and she shook her head. Seeing this, he gasped and place a hand on his chest, and then he took her hand. "We need four chairs, a bunch of safety pins and rubber bands, and a crap load of pillows!" Meredith giggled and led him into the small kitchen, letting go of his hand to pick up two chairs. Darren followed her lead, picking up the other two chairs, and they both went back into the empty room. She quickly ran into her room to get safety pins and rubber bands and she handed them to Darren.

"Now, here's how this works." He said. "You take two blankets and safety pin them together, to create a big long blanket." Meredith nodded and took some of the safety pins from him to hold, and she moved around to the other side of the blankets. They both held up the end pieces of two blankets and started pinning them together.

"I'm learning how to make a blanket fort today. It's somewhat exciting!" Meredith giggled as she opened her last safety pin, and as she threaded it through the end pieces of the blanket, she poked her finger. "Oh fuck!" She hadn't thought that she had poked it that hard, but she looked down at her finger to see that it was bleeding. Not wanting to get blood onto the blanket, she dropped it and looked at her thumb with a frown on her face. Darren saw this and finished the last safety pin he was putting on before going over to her.

"You okay Mere?" He asked, and she shook her head, holding her finger out to him. Darren frowned and tutted. "Ouch, babe, that's gotta hurt." Before Meredith could do or say anything about getting a band-aid, he lowered his mouth to her finger, and he licked up all of her blood and the small poke she had gotten from the safety pin. Meredith could only watch in slight fascination as his tongue darted back into his mouth, and then he straightened up, grinning widely. Darren pulled a band-aid from his pocket and put it on her tiny wound before grinning widely.

"Thanks." Her voice came out in a breathy gasp and he winked at her before pulling away, showing her how to set up the rest of the blanket fort, and they fell into an uncomfortable silence.

"Hey Dare?" Meredith looked over at him as she was tying a rubber band around the blanket on the chair, and he looked up from his task of putting weights on the blanket.

"Yeah Mere?" He raised an eyebrow and Meredith finished tying the rubber band. She started putting weights on her side of the blankets and then asked her question.

"How long until you have to go back to Los Angeles?" Meredith was hoping he'd say a few days, but she knew that he would never say that unless it was the summer. Still, he hesitated before answering her question, and he had picked up a bunch of pillows.

"I go back tomorrow." He said sadly, and he threw the pillows into the fort before looking back at her. He continued speaking in a more cheerful tone. "So it looks like you're stuck with me for 24 hours!" Darren grinned widely at Meredith, and she smiled back, somehow able to ignore the butterflies in her stomach at this news.

24 hours was going to go by very slowly.

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~Lady Legend