Disclaimer: I own expensive loose leaf tea, a plethora of notebooks, and an annoying phone, but not Glee and not the Tim McGraw song that inspired this.
Kurt arrived at the restaurant calm but apprehensive. He knew Blaine said that Sebastian had changed, but Kurt would always see him as a sleazy, manipulative meerkat. He saw that Blaine and Sebastian were already seated on one side of a booth in the diner, looking to be deep in discussion. Blaine looked up and smiled when Kurt walked up to the table. Sebastian looked up a few moments later, shooting a quick smile at Kurt before looking back to Blaine like he was trying to convey a message.
"Have a seat Kurt," Blaine exclaimed, gesturing across the booth. Kurt noticed the smile forced at the edges and he refrained from sitting.
"Look, Blaine, seriously, I told you I was going to do this alone and that's fine. I don't want to cause a problem-"
"Kurt, that's not what we're arguing about, so don't. It's something else," Sebastian interrupted, sounding exasperated. Aside from the initial statement of Kurt's name, Sebastian had been looking at Blaine again. Glaring almost.
"If the two of you are having problems, maybe Blaine shouldn-"
"Shut up Kurt," Sebastian shouted. "Please," he tacked on after a pointed look from Blaine.
"I'm going with you Kurt. End of story. It doesn't matter if Sebastian is okay, although I would prefer if he was. I am going with my high school best friend across America to cross off his bucket list. And we're going to have fun doing it. I'll call Sebastian every night and every morning; I'll send postcards like an old fashion lover; I'll post pictures to all the social media websites. And I'll try to convince you, Kurt, to get treated."
Kurt and Sebastian were saved from having to respond by their waitress arriving. The blonde waitress was chewing gum and staring down at her steno pad. "Welcome to the Dashing Diner, my name is- Seb, B! Where's-"
"Bianca, hi. We brought our friend Kurt. He's a healthy eater," Blaine interrupted after the tanned waitress looked up and noticed who was at the booth.
"Actually, I've stopped my healthy eating. It didn't help me stay healthy, so why continue? I'll take a Diet Coke, only because it tastes better than real Coke, and do you have a fry and burger combo or basket? I'll take one of those if you do please," Kurt demanded. "Everything on it."
Bianca was stunned for a minute before she nodded, her pony tail swinging. "Do you two want your usual?" Sebastian and Blaine nodded in unison before Bianca walked away. The tree men sat in an awkward silence before Bianca returned to the table some five minutes later. She sat a red glass filled with Diet Coke in front of Kurt and turned to the married couple as she sat their drink choices before them. "Your food will be out shortly. Holler if you need anything before then."
"You two are going to drink shakes with your meals?" Kurt questioned, nodding to the chocolate shake in front of Blaine and the strawberry shake before Sebastian with a mixed look of curiosity and disgust.
"It's a tradition we started three years ago. They have fantastic shakes here," Sebastian answered before plucking the cherry off the large pile of whipped cream and popping it in his mouth. Kurt was surprised when Sebastian just placed the cherry stem on the table top.
"Not going to tie a knot with the stem and make some lewd comment about using your tongue Smythe?" Kurt questioned.
"Some people mature. I've changed Hummel, although you make me want to go back to using my mouth to push people away and keep them from getting close to me," Sebastian responded.
"Can't we just get along for dinner guys?" Blaine begged.
"I'll play nice babe, promise. I don't want to fight the last night I get to be with you for a while. As long as Hummel doesn't make a move on you during your trip and you call like you said, I'm okay if you go."
"Blaine's married. Taken guys aren't my thing, Sebastian. And I have a first name," Kurt shrieked, his voice getting louder and higher at an alarming rate.
"So, we have 'one burger and fry combo' all the way for you," Bianca interrupted, a tray of food balanced on one hand. " for Blaine with chardonnay vinaigrette on the side salad, a super burger for Sebastian, and an order of zipp zucc for the two lovebirds to share. I'll be back to check on you in a bit. Enjoy."
"Zip what? A what? You two have the weirdest orders," Kurt said, face scrunched up in confusion, earlier anger forgotten. The two across him laughed for a few moments.
"I ge A. A turkey, lettuce, tomato, avocado sandwich with non-fat mayo on wheat bread that's all toasted. Seb and I share an order of Zipp Zucc which is breaded, fried zucchini wedges. And then Seb gets the super burger which is a double burger with Swiss cheese, and avocado on parmesan sourdough. And after we're done with all this food, and our shakes, we'll split a slice of apple pie. We come here a lot. We've tried everything on the menu between the two of us, but these are our favorites. Although, if we're feeling particularly gluttonous, we'll eat a double fudge brownie nut sundae. Everything is delicious here though," Blaine explained. While he was explaining, Sebastian had been digging into his food, burger in one hand a piece of zucchini in the other.
"That sounds… You like avocados don't you? I'm just going to enjoy my burger," Kurt responded, taking a delicate bite of his burger. Sebastian didn't even look up from his plate of food, but thrust a zucchini wedge in front of Kurt. Kurt swallowed his bite of food before looking up at Sebastian with an eyebrow raised.
"Try the Zipp Zucc Kurt. It's delicious," Sebastian requested, his mouth full of fries as he spoke. Blaine smacked him on the shoulder and muttered something about 'manners' and Sebastian swallowed. "It could be worse babe, I could have you take a bite of my avocado-y burger," Sebastian joked.
Blaine cringed at his husband's habit to call people babe, expecting Kurt to explode. Instead, Kurt's musical laughter sounded across the diner. He then leaned across the table and grabbed Sebastian's hand holding his burger and pulled it towards his mouth. He took a huge bite out of Sebastian's super burger, moaning around the food before releasing the Henley wearing male's hand. Blaine and Sebastian's mouths dropped at Kurt's responding actions. "It is delicious."
After that, the trio finished eating, laughing and joking about old stories from their pasts. Once the food was gone and dessert had been eaten, they still sat at the diner booth wanting to spend more time in the laughing atmosphere of new and renewed friendships. Eventually, Bianca came up to their table and told them that the diner was open 24/7, but they probably should head out. Upon checking the time, the boys realized they had been sitting in the shared booth for five hours.
"We have to go home, but we'll see you in the morning so you can load Blaine up and get started on your trip, yes?" Sebastian questioned as the trip walked to their cars.
"Yeah, of course. You two are sure of this? I honestly don't have to have Blaine come with me," Kurt responded. The married couple assured the glaze eyed man that it was no problem. Kurt sat in his car a few minutes after Sebastian and Blaine left before starting it and returning to the hotel.
A/N: Don't expect daily updates, trust me this is a fluke. I had nothing much to do yesterday and could get away with sitting around and writing. I know where this story is going though, so it shouldn't be too long between chapters. I will tell you now though, don't expect much updating during the weekend. That's when I work.