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CITC
Chapter Notes:
"…
He kissed my lips, I taste your mouth
He pulled me in, I was disgusted with myself
Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you, thinking of you
What you would do if
You were the one who was
Spending the night
Oh I wish that I
Was looking into your eyes
…"
'Thinking Of You' – Katy Perry
When Blaine woke up the next morning to the sound of Lady Gaga's hit 'Born This Way' he shook his head and blinked, trying to determine where the noise was coming from. It didn't take him long to realize that it came from his phone which was lying next to his head.
Before he could reach for it and turn of the music however he heard a low curse and the music stopped. Remembering why he would be waking up at 6 in the morning to a Lady Gaga song nonetheless Blaine smiled.
"Kurt?"
Another muffled curse.
"Blaine? Did that wake you? Oh my god I'm so so sorry you know how I always set my clock early for my moisturizing routine and…"
"Kurt. Kurt!" Blaine yelled trying to interrupt Kurt's rambling.
"Yeah?" the younger boy asked sheepishly.
"Good morning." Blaine smiled as he had finally gotten him to listen "It's ok baby I don't mind waking up early if the first person I get to talk to in the morning is you."
Kurt chuckled softly at the cheesiness of saying something like that, and Blaine could practically see the other boy in front of him blushing. Suddenly something buzzed, but when Blaine checked it hadn't been his phone. Realizing that Kurt had grown impossibly quiet Blaine was starting to worry.
"Baby, are you ok?"
"Yeah." Kurt replied in a voice that showed Blaine very clearly that he wasn't.
"What is it?"
"Nothing, really…Karofsky just texted me asking me whether I was still meeting him in front of the school early today and what had been wrong yesterday."
Blaine remained silent while he tried to process all of that. Because yeah, logically he knew that Kurt and Karofsky were boyfriends here and that none of what happened between them would be a repetition of the first time they had kissed (the incident in the locker room of which he didn't even know if it had really happened) but it still made him terribly angry.
Also there was a tiny small part of him that was afraid. Afraid that something would develop between Kurt and Karofsky, that Kurt would start to have feelings for the jock. And he was jealous because Karofsky got to be with his Kurt, while he himself had to play nice with Sheila. He emitted a groan.
"Blaine? You ok?"
"What? Oh…yeah…I'm fine nevermind me." Blaine replied quickly "Just the thought of you and Dave gets me every time." he finally admitted lowly. "We still on for the game tonight?"
"Your girlfriend will be there huh?"
"Yeah, she's a cheerleader."
"Will Wes and David come?"
"Don't think so. It's not Dalton you know? The only extracurricular thing they care about is Glee and apparently Glee is not very popular."
"Yeah tell me about it…"
"You don't have to come if you don't want to. It was selfish of me to ask you. You don't know anyone there and…"
Kurt melted a little inside as he realized that Blaine thought he was being selfish because he had asked Kurt to come see him. But the truth was that Kurt wanted to see him every bit as much as Blaine wanted to see him.
"I'll be there, I promise."
"Cool." Blaine beamed widely.
"Text you later?"
"Yeah. I love you."
"Love you too."
Kurt hung up the phone and sighed as he looked at the clock. It was only like quarter past 6 now. More than 12 hours until he would be seeing Blaine again. He sighed again and forced himself to get out of bed and start his moisturizing routine.
In his own room Blaine did pretty much the same, before he too got up, sneaking down the stairs to make himself some breakfast.
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When Kurt's dark Navigator pulled up in front of the school the parking lot was pretty much empty except for Karofsky's large red truck and some teacher's cars. Kurt was tired, he hadn't gotten nearly enough sleep last night, but Blaine was definitely worth a little bit of sleep deprivation.
The hands of the countertenor shook as he got out of his car and locked it behind him. He looked around, but there was no one to be seen so he swallowed hard and walked up the stairs to the school entrance.
Suddenly someone wrapped his arms around Kurt's waist and pulled him tight, locking his lips onto the pale skin of Kurt's neck sucking forcefully. Shocked, Kurt dropped all of his stuff and yelped loudly, struggling against his attacker until he realized who it was.
Inwardly shaking while strong hands roamed over his body, closing in on the waistband of his tight white jeans.
"Dave!" he shrieked as he realized that the other was attempting to reach inside. "Not here!"
The jock groaned and turned him around, pressing him up against the doorframe. Kurt noticed faintly that Karofsky hadn't pushed him very forcefully, and he was grateful for that. It didn't seem as if Dave was an abusive boyfriend. One positive thing about this morning at least.
"Hey baby boy." Karofsky grinned, pinning Kurt against the wall with his own body successfully.
Kurt tried to remind himself that Dave was just a teenage boy with teenage boy hormones, but he couldn't help but think of Blaine and how much of a gentleman he had always been towards Kurt. Also the nickname? Kurt was surprised to find that while it didn't bother him at all when Blaine called him baby, being called baby boy by Karofsky felt almost like an insult. Maybe because it sounded a lot like lady boy.
"Hey." he replied, finally remembering where he was.
Karofsky just raised an eyebrow at him, but he let him slip away, albeit reluctantly, when Kurt struggled against his hold a little.
"You're acting weird." the taller boy remarked.
"Not in public, Dave please. Everyone could see." Kurt pleaded, figuring that saying 'I'm sorry but I didn't know why I'm with you, maybe because I thought I had no other option, but I have an amazing, loving, caring, gorgeous boy waiting for me elsewhere so you're kinda superfluous…yeah…no hard feeling ok?' would be a really crappy idea.
The jock groaned, obviously annoyed, but he let it pass. Kurt could barely contain his sigh of relief as Karofsky just followed him inside, walking to his locker, watching intently as Kurt locked his books away and took those he would need for the day.
Kurt could barely resist the urge to squirm under the way Karofsky was looking at him, checking him out unashamedly. He couldn't help but wonder if that would have been what would have happened if Karofsky in that alternate reality would have come out and would have managed to keep his boys under control anyways. He shuddered slightly.
"You cold?" Karofsky asked casually.
"Nah I'm fine." Kurt smiled, happy to see that Dave's good core was still there under all of the hormone-driven-macho-behavior.
But he was even happier when he saw Mercedes approaching them with Sam, hurriedly engaging them in an animated conversation about Glee and solos. He had never been more relieved when the bell announced his first class.
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Blaine almost ran over David when he arrived at his school, too lost in thoughts about how Kurt was already with Karofsky by now to really see the poor guy until it was almost too late.
"Oh my god I'm so sorry." he yelped, jumping out of his car to check whether everyone was ok.
"Don't dream and drive." Wes scolded him, carefully assessing his boyfriend to make sure he was ok.
David just waved it off and looked at Blaine expectantly. "So? You found your Kurt. Now what?"
Blaine sighed, leaning against his car as he started to explain them everything.
"Wait so…what? He's coming to our school? To the game? Tonight?" Wes asked disbelievingly.
Blaine nodded affirmatively.
"Whoa…Guess that means we're coming too huh?" David asked.
Blaine just stared at him with a deer-in-the-headlights look that made both of the boys laugh.
"Come on the kid doesn't know anyone here, but if what you're saying is true then he knows us right? We can't let him walk up into those stands all alone especially if that girlfriend of yours will be all over you as usual he'll need some friendly support." Wes explained matter-of-factly.
Blaine thought about that for a moment before smiling at his two friends gratefully.
"Thanks guys. I don't know what I would do without you." he said, meaning every word of it.
"Ahh don't sweat it. I just wish we would get to see that world you told us about. With Dalton, its zero tolerance harassment policy, the Rockstar Warblers and everything, it just sounds absolutely amazing." David smiled.
"It is." Blaine replied, a little sad as his thoughts returned to the school and all the things they had experienced there.
It was hard to believe that it all could have been nothing but a dream.
"Would you give us his number?" Wes asked.
Blaine shot them a questioning look, but he decided that he owed them the benefit of a doubt so he handed them his phone showing them Kurt's number.
"Cool. Ok we gotta go now." And with these words they left, leaving Blaine to stare after them completely dumbfounded.
But he just shrugged it off after a moment and decided to get his books, completely unaware of the group of his friends staring at him from the distance, all up front a fuming Sheila. He also had no idea that, as soon as they were out of sight, Wes and David had nothing better to do than to pull out their phones and text Kurt about some idea that had just popped up in their heads.
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"Hey there Porcelain, what's up with you being glued to your phone like that all day?" Karofsky asked, trying to sneak a peek at the screen.
Kurt almost smiled at the familiar nickname, quickly stuffing his phone into his pocket as he turned around to face his…boyfriend. It still took some convincing himself to be able to call Karofsky that.
"Oh? Nothing. Nothing. Just catching up with some friends?" the brunette stated.
It wasn't a lie per se, but if Dave had any idea who those friends were and why he was catching up with them he would have most likely been very unhappy, to put it carefully. Thankfully enough the jock just shrugged it off after a moment.
"Whatever. We still on for tonight?"
Kurt just blinked at him.
"You know? Finn not home, you're parents out visiting relatives, empty house all to ourselves? Ring a bell?"
Kurt went from normal to white as a sheet in less than a second as he realized what it was exactly that Karofsky was suggesting.
"Urm…I…just…I…erm…have to…" he stuttered, now blushing under the inquisitive stare of the older boy. "Mercedes." he finally choked out "I have made plans with Mercedes."
"Oh? I thought Mercedes was going on a date with Sam tonight?"
Kurt felt the desperate urge to bang his head against the wall repeatedly. What kind of world was this where Karofsky knew about Mercedes' dates?
"Did I say Mercedes? Silly me of course I was talking about…Mary." Kurt blurted out, inwardly cringing at this poor excuse for a cover up "she really needs a lot of help with her French…another time though ok?"
And while Kurt all but ran into the choir room for Glee, Karofsky looked after him with a frown.
"Who the hell is Mary?"
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Wes and David sat far away from Blaine at lunch, together with their fellow glee club members, but they didn't let him out of their sight.
The raven haired boy was sitting at his usual table, surrounded by his friends and admirers who were staring at him as if he hung the moon, like usual. But although he was smiling and telling jokes, the two boys could tell that Blaine was damn uncomfortable in the situation.
And as they saw how miserable he looked when his girlfriends lunged at him, kissing him passionately under wolf whistles and catcalls of the whole surrounding group, they turned their attention to their glee mates and told them about their plan.
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Kurt was so relieved when he made it home without arousing any more suspicion than he already had. His dad was at home early waiting for Carole to come home from work so they could get going.
"Hey there kiddo." He smiled at his son from the couch.
"Hey dad." Kurt sighed, dropping down next to him.
"Tough day?"
"You have no idea. I just feel so out-of-place I can't even tell you." Kurt groaned burying his face in his hands.
"I wish I could tell you how to deal with this, but I really have no idea." Burt replied.
"I know I know." Kurt said, shooting his father a reassuring smile. "It's enough to know that you're always here for me dad." he continued in a small voice.
"Always kid, always." Burt promised "So…any plans for tonight?" he then added casually to somewhat ease the tension.
"Initially Dave wanted to come over." Kurt confessed "But I told him I've made other plans. That's not even a lie. I'm gonna be at a football game of Blaine and his school."
Burt just stared at his son.
"Well now I know it must be love. There's no way anyone'd be able to drag you to a game otherwise."
"Daad." Kurt laughed, swatting his father's shoulder playfully.
Carole chose that moment to come in, asking Burt whether he was ready. Burt stood up, eying his son carefully for a moment before he hugged him.
"Just be careful ok?"
Kurt returned the hug and promised his dad that he'd be careful, telling him to take care as well.
When his parents had left Kurt walked up to his room, starting to get ready, since he had to get to the game early, to meet up with Wes and David.
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Blaine was nervous to say the least. He was the first one of his team to walk onto the field, taking a look around and trying to get himself an impression of the other team, the field, and of course, the audience.
He allowed his eyes to drift over the stands, looking for Kurt, or Wes and David for that matter. But before he could find either of them his vision was blocked by the face of his girlfriend.
"Hey Blainey boy, how are you doing? Excited about the game?" she asked sweetly.
"Yeah yeah sure." he replied halfheartedly. Trying to look over her head to find his friends, which was proving difficult because he wasn't tall enough.
"Oh don't worry I'll be there to cheer you on all the time." Sheila continued, before pulling him in for a deep kiss, that left both of them gasping for breath (for completely different reasons).
"What was that for?" Blaine asked, trying to hide his frustration.
"For good luck." the blonde replied, kissing him once more before she bounced off to her friends.
Blaine sighed, looking after her for a moment, before returning his attention to the audience, feeling slightly uneasy when he couldn't find anyone of his friends.
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Blaine had no way of knowing that Wes and David had dragged Kurt to the choir room the second he had arrived at Jefferson High.
"Guys, do you really think that this is a good idea?" the pale countertenor asked, looking at the faces of the Blackbirds.
If he hadn't been so worried and excited he would have paid more attention to the fact that between Wes, David, Jeff, Nick and Thad, the boys in the room were pretty much the Warblers, with a little less self esteem and an a lot smaller amount of fans.
"Yes." David insisted.
"But…I can't just…we can't just…" being at a complete loss for words Kurt motioned towards the door and then back to the group in front of him helplessly.
"Yes. Yes we can." Wes said, and for a moment Kurt was waiting for the banging of the infamous gavel, which, of course, didn't come.
The rest of the group, that had not been filled in entirely, just on the fact that Blaine and Kurt were in love, that Kurt was the reason Blaine was no longer an asshole and that since they couldn't be together Blaine thought he was gonna lose Kurt and needed some reassurance. And they would be damned if they would let the raven go back to his old self.
"Guys! We're not even together here! I can't just walk onto that field and bust a groove in the half time! I'm pretty sure Blaine would not appreciate that! And neither would his GIRLFRIEND!" Kurt yelped, trying to get his point across desperately.
"That's bullshit and you know it." David intercepted, leaving Kurt to stare at him slackjawed, because he sure as hell wasn't used to David using words like this.
"Kurt you should have seen him today, he was miserable! I'm sure he thinks you'll drop him the first chance you get." Wes added, a little calmer than his lover.
Kurt just stared at them like they had lost their minds.
"Guys…look…I know you just wanna help but please…this is just…" Kurt stopped, looking at the group in front of him, and sighed. "Ok. Fine. But why this song?"
The Blackbirds grinned and started to explain to Kurt that the song they were going to sing had to fulfill several criteria.
First, it had to have a catchy beat that would please the crowd and keep them excited.
Second, it had to get the message across. The message being that Kurt loved Blaine and that he wouldn't run of with Karofsky.
Third, it had to be subtle about that, because as Kurt had said himself, in their current situation it would be a shitty idea to go out there and serenade Blaine openly. There would be time for that after they had figured out a way to come clean, until then it was mostly important that Blaine understood.
And fourth, which was, as Kurt suspected the key factor, it had to be a song the Blackbirds had been preparing so they could be sure to offer the audience a decent performance. Kurt would just have to hurry up learning the lyrics, but thankfully that had never been a problem for him.
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When the half time approached and Blaine's teammates (and coach) were about to kill him because he had been distracted all the time, looking for Kurt in the audience, the raven was starting to get really worried. What could have kept Kurt from showing up? Had he decided to rather spend the evening on the couch with Dave, like they had used to?
Blaine cringed at the thought, hating that this reality was making him doubt the love he and Kurt shared. But when the first half of the game was over and the Ravens (his team) had somehow managed not to be losing by now, something else caught his attention.
"And now, as an addition to the half time show of our Dragonflies (at that point Blaine was wondering what it was with his school and animal names for its teams) we will hear THE BLACKBIRDS!"
Blaine stayed on the field, looking at the approaching group, when suddenly he recognized Kurt amongst them and his heart started flattering like a hummingbird's wings.
The blackbirds took their positions on the field, while the cheerleaders were waiting on their cue. Kurt, who was wearing a headset, sought Blaine's eyes and shot him a blinding smile, before he turned his back on the audience and started to sing:
Another day is going by
I'm thinking about you all the time
But you're out there
And I'm here waiting
And I wrote this letter in my head
Cuz so many things were left unsaid
But now you're gone
And I can't think straight
Kurt was pretty insecure about this whole, but he knew he couldn't go back now, so he decided to make the most of it, as he turned around to meet Blaine's eyes, as if trying to force him to understand what he was trying to say.
This could be the one last chance to make you understand
I'd do anything
Just to hold you in my arms
To try to make you laugh
Cuz somehow I can't put you in the past
I'd do anything
Just to fall asleep with you
Will you remember me?
Cuz I know I won't forget you
Blaine's heart was beating painfully in his chest as the gaze of Kurt's eyes lingered on his. He knew that the song had been most likely chosen by either Wes or David, but it didn't really matter to him.
For all he cared Kurt could have been singing in Latin, because what really mattered to him, was that Kurt cared enough about reassuring him of his love that he would come to a school where he knew absolutely no one, prepare a song in about half an hour and perform it in front of a large, possibly unwelcoming audience.
Together we broke all the rules
Dreaming of dropping out of school
And leave this place to never come back
So now maybe after all these years
If you miss me have no fear
I'll be here I'll be waiting
This could be the one last chance to make you understand
And I just can't let you leave me once again
Blaine shot Kurt a blinding smile, trying to show him how much he appreciated what Kurt was doing, as he sensed how nervous Kurt had to be about this. When his beautiful boyfriend (to hell with this strange reality or whatever this was) returned his smile, Blaine couldn't even explain why he was so happy.
I'd do anything
Just to hold you in my arms
To try to make you laugh
Cuz somehow I can't put you in the past
I'd do anything
Just to fall asleep with you
Will you remember me?
Cuz I know I won't forget you
Blaine had to fight hard to suppress the urge to run up to Kurt and kiss him right then and there. Blaine had never been serenaded before and to be serenaded right here, like this, from the person he loved more than anything else, was the most amazing feeling Blaine could imagine. But he figured that maybe it wasn't the what, when ore where that counted, but the who.
I close my eyes and all I see is you
I close my eyes I try to sleep
I can't forget you
Nanana (...)
And I'd do anything for you
Nanana (...)
I'd do anything
Just to hold you in my arms
To try to make you laugh
Cuz somehow I can't put you in the past
I'd do anything
Just to fall asleep with you
Will you remember me?
Cuz I know I won't forget you
Kurt hadn't walked up to Blaine or anything, but when the song ended and everyone else bowed to the applause (yes the audience was easily impressed, it was very likely that they would be harassing the Blackbirds right the next day) Kurt just stood and looked at Blaine, his face slightly flushed and his eyes sparkling with all the love Blaine knew was shining in his eyes at the moment as well.
The Blackbirds left the field, the Dragonflies took their positions and Blaine jogged over to his team, still grinning like an idiot. He wondered briefly, when he had turned into such a mushy, cheesy romantic, but the answer wasn't that hard to find, as soon as he had found Kurt, his world had suddenly started to look a lot more pink and fluffy (well metaphorically speaking…mostly…Kurt did give him that fluffy pink heart shaped pillow for their one week (don't judge, young love is precious) anniversary).
And with his eyes wandering right past Sheila and her cheerleaders to Kurt who was sitting in the audience now cheering for him, Blaine managed to lead his team to another glorious victory.
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After the game Blaine told all of his teammates and his girlfriend that he had promised his father to get home early and that he would catch up later, and rushed off to the parking lot where Kurt and the Blackbirds were already waiting for him.
Not caring about the other boys, because somehow he couldn't bring himself to see anything but the Warblers in them, Blaine scooped Kurt up in his arms and kissed him passionately. When they broke away Kurt smiled brightly.
"I take it you liked my song?" he asked teasingly.
"You have no idea how much." Blaine replied a little more serious, sobering Kurt up a little.
They turned around to face their friends.
"Thank you for doing this guys. I don't even know what to say."
The Blackbirds smile collectively and waved dismissively before they left, except for Wes and David who stayed a little longer, taking in the entirety of the couple in front of them.
"Huh…I would have never guessed, but you two just look really right together." Wes smiled.
"Yeah like a salt and a pepper shaker." David teased "Seemingly completely different but sort of useless without each other."
The others laughed at the 'interesting' comparison, before the two friends said goodbye as well and Blaine and Kurt were left alone on the so far empty parking lot.
"Wanna come over to my place for a bit?" Kurt asked softly. "I'm sure dad would love to meet you, they're coming back tomorrow around noon…but I guess you'll have to get home…" he added lowly.
"No!" Blaine hurried to counter. "I'll just call my dad and tell him that I'm out with some friends and that I'll be back sometime around lunch time tomorrow, he won't mind, it'll give him time to work on his stuff tomorrow before we spend some quality father-son time together."
Kurt's eyes lit up at that, lit up in a way that made Blaine felt like he would have swam to Europe and back just to see it again.
A short phonecall (with announcement of the victory) later, Blaine was all set to go, and each of them got into their car, without kissing first, because the parking lot slowly started filling with people, and Blaine followed Kurt to his house.
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Neither of them noticed the tall, dark figure that had walked up to them when Wes and David had left and stared after Kurt and Blaine contemplatively now. Once they were out of sight, David Karofsky, who had been watching the game because an old friend of him, who he knew from a football camp five summers ago, had been on the opposing team, walked to his car with a frown.
He was trying to figure out why HIS boyfriend would be singing to someone else, before driving off with that person, on a night when he had assured him that he was going to be studying. And he really, really didn't like the conclusion he arrived at as he got into his car, getting on his way back to Lima.
Chapter End Notes: Soo…that's as far as this chapter goes and if you made it here I'm impressed, I know it was once again a little bit of a longer one…but now it's like 2:30, and I like this as an ending point…so yeah :D
Thank you for reading and I hope you liked it chapter, and I would love for you to let me know what you think :D
I also want to thank those of you who have favorite this, put it on alert, and especially those who reviewed the last chapter…so thank you *lessthan3*
The song is called 'I'd Do Anything' and belongs to Simple Plan
I hope that you enjoyed this and I will try and update as soon as my schedule allows and the interest in this story demand it :D
Hugs and Butterfly Kisses,
CITC