"Wait, is tonight too soon?" Blaine asked from his brother's bed as Cooper went through his bags of new clothes, reorganizing his closet, which was actually pretty stupid of him, considering he'd just be packing it all up in three days anyway.
"Way too soon, B. Don't be overeager." Cooper instructed, not looking over at Blaine.
"But… I just want to plan when we can hang out." Blaine complained.
"Really, I know about these things. Just listen to me." Cooper said, admiring yet another shirt he bought today.
"Oh you do? When's the last time you dated a girl?" Blaine teased.
"I had one over the other night." Cooper smirked.
"Good for you, but I wasn't asking about the last time you screwed a girl. I asked about when you last dated a girl. I don't want to screw this Kurt. I'm not even sure if I want to date him. I just want to talk to him." Blaine rolled onto his stomach and sighed dejectedly. "This is all just so confusing."
"I can't believe you already like this guy. You don't even know anything about him." Cooper chuckled.
Blaine turned back onto his side so he could look over at his brother, "Do you even know that girl's name that was over your house the other night?"
Cooper just chuckled darkly. The two of them spent the next few hours just talking about nothing in Cooper's room. Then, they had dinner and Blaine showered. By the time he finished, it was only 8 pm. He distracted himself with reading and then video games and by the time he checked the time again, it was too late to even consider calling Kurt.
It took him quite a while after that to fall asleep. The next morning, he was definitely regretting it. He woke up and dressed in his uniform and barely dragged himself to school. Blaine texted Wes and asked for him to buy an extra coffee, and met up with him at school. He thanked his friend and sat with him. It took less than five minutes for him to spill everything about meeting Kurt. Something about this guy made his stomach twirl and made him want to tell the world. Wes had a great deal of fun teasing Blaine, but in the end, advised Blaine to just suck it up and call him tonight and geek out to this Kurt kid as much as he wanted to, since obviously (in Wes's words), 'for whatever reason he's not annoyed by the fact you're a complete nerd.'
Blaine dragged through classes, only pepping up for rehearsal with the Warblers. When he got home, Cooper was on the couch, in his boxers, looking like he hadn't moved all day, watching some lame sort of Judge show on TV.
"The amount that you remind me of Hassan is astounding." Blaine snorted as he put his carrier bag on the floor and walked over to the couch, flopping down next to Cooper.
"Who the hell is Hassan?" Cooper asked
"Oh he's-" Blaine started, but was promptly cut off by Cooper.
"I swear to God, if you tell me he's a character from a damn book, I'm going to slap you."
"Never mind then." Blaine grumbled.
"You're obsessed with books, Squirt." Cooper said with a laugh.
"I am not." Blaine mumbled again.
"It's okay, that's what makes you you." Cooper said with a cheesy smile.
Blaine rolled his eyes and elbowed his brother. "Whatever. I'm going to go call Kurt now."
"Ohhhhhhh. Have fun on the phone with your boyfriend." Cooper teased as Blaine already started heading upstairs.
Blaine paced around his room, holding his phone until he finally hit the dial button. Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring. Five rings. Blaine started wondering if that was even normal. Maybe Kurt gave him a fake number that rang more times than a normal phone. And then, in the middle of the sixth ring, a beautiful but confused voice said, "Hello?"
"Hi. Um. Is this Kurt?" Blaine asked, his throat feeling dry and his heart beating loudly.
"Yes it is. May I ask who's calling?" Kurt asked, his voice just sounding even more beautiful than before.
"Um, yeah. It's Blaine. We met at the um bookstore." Blaine managed. Damn! When did he start saying 'um' so much?!
"Blaine! Hi. Yeah, I remember you. The geekfighter!" Kurt chirped happily
"Um. Nerdfighter." Blaine answered. And damn! He said it again!
' "Oh! I'm sorry. Nerdfighter." Kurt laughed a little and Blaine joined. Kurt asked when the laughter began quieting, "So are we still going to get together so you can tell me all about being a Nerdfighter?"
"Well that's why I was calling." Blaine answered, proud that he didn't 'um' once in that sentence.
"Well when are you free?" Kurt asked.
"Um. Well, basically anytime. Um. It doesn't really matter to me. When are you free?" Blaine asked. And there are the 'ums' again!
"Hmmm… Friday evening? We can meet at the Lima Bean. Do you know where that is?" Kurt offered after flipping through his daily calendar.
"Yeah, that's great." Blaine answered, grinning.
"Yeah, it sounds amazing." Kurt told him.
"Yeah." Blaine replied.
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"Oh this is ridiculous." Kurt laughed.
"Yes, it is." Blaine chuckled
"Well maybe I should go then." Kurt offered.
"I guess." Blaine replied.
"Well, you could always text me, I mean if you want." Kurt offered.
"Maybe I will." Blaine said, smiling widely.
"I'll see you Friday." Kurt said before hanging up.
Blaine held the phone to his chest, collapsing happily on his bed.