He and Sam, his soulmate, had been best friends since they were very small, Blaine couldn't remember exactly when they became friends, but he was so glad for it. Sam had always been very loving and accepting of everything, so it no surprise when Blaine came out to him at 14, it was Sam that told him it was ok.
At 15 his ring finger had turned light, and just before his 16th it started burning with his mark, in the morning when it said Sam's name, he was a little apprehensive. Sam was bi-sexual, at least he had told Blaine he was, but Blaine had no idea how Sam would feel about it. They were close like brothers, and when Sam got his mark of Blaine's name about 3 months later, they decided to just go with the flow and see if something developed.
They didn't date until they were in college, both of them had decided to study at UCLA, and had moved into together out there.
It was good...for the most part, but Blaine couldn't help but feel a little down about Sam. Their relationship wasn't really equal, Sam never liked the fine art things that Blaine had purchased for their apartment, considering them too frilly for his taste, so their apartment was drab, in Blaine's opinion. He felt like Sam didn't like flaunting that he had a boyfriend, and it was a little stifling.
Sam only really showed Blaine affection when he wanted too, he didn't push Blaine away, but it felt like Sam had been pulling away from him for years. They hardly went out on dates anymore, and the more Blaine pushed to spend time together the more it felt like Sam pulled away.
It was confusing. Sam always claims that he loves him, but sometimes Blaine doesn't feel that it's real, not true love, like what soulmates were supposed to be.
Blaine's work had been very busy, and he didn't get a lot of time off, but he spoke to his boss Katherine, who had agreed to give him at least 2 days, so that he could talk to and spend time with Sam. He was ecstatic as he left work that day to go home.
As he walked into the apartment, their favourite take-out in one hand, and his bag in the other, the apartment was quiet.
"Sam?!" He called, with a confused frown as he wandered to the kitchen to drop the bags, there was no answer.
He walked into the bedroom, and then the bathroom, tilting his head a little in confusion, before walking back into the kitchen. Once back in the kitchen he spied a note on the refrigerator.
Plucking the note off and sitting on a stool at the table, he sighed as he read through it.
'Blaine
Puck accidently booked the flights a week earlier, he's such a dick.
Had to pack up and leave quick to catch the flight, sorry babe.
I'll text you when we land, should be about 8 in the morning.
Speak soon babe.
Love Sammy.'
Blaine crumpled the note with a frown and threw it across the kitchen.
"Looks like a long weekend to myself." He sighed as he picked up the bag of take-out, and got a couple of dishes out, a bottle of wine out of the refrigerator and then walked into the living room.
Plopping down on the couch, he stuck his feet up on the table, and turned the television on.
Sam had meant to leave for his trip in a week, Blaine had expected to spend time with him for the next 4 days, he had to make a deal with Katherine, to work extra shifts next week, for 2 days off. And now what, he was alone. For the next week.
He turned on one of his favourite films and spent the night pigging out on his favourite food, vegging out on the couch, by himself.
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Blaine didn't get a text from Sam, so he decided to call him. He had nothing else to do for 4 days, it was already 7am, and he was sitting at the table with a mug of coffee in front of him.
"Hey baby!" Sam said as soon as he answered, and Blaine smiled a little.
"Hey! So Puck got the date wrong?" Blaine said and Sam sighed down the line.
"Yeah sorry, babe, I know you wanted to spend the weekend together." Sam said a little sadly.
"No, it's ok, Sammy, it's fine."
"It's all Puck's fault, the fucking dick." Sam said and Blaine laughed a little as Puck made an indignant noise in the background.
"So, what are you guys up to today?"
"Erm...not a lot, Puck is trying to convince me to go sledding with him, but I know that it might end in a disaster..." Sam trailed off as Puck said something, "No, Puck no way..."
"Hey, Blaine!" Puck's voice came down the line, as there was a shuffling back ground noise, and Blaine sighed a little.
"Hey Puck!" Blaine said and there was more scuffling noises, as Sam tried to steal the phone back.
"Tell Sam that he needs to have fun out here, it's awesome!" Puck's voice trailed away as Sam snatched the phone back.
"No, don't listen to him, he's being reckless." Sam said and Blaine laughed lightly again.
"Sammy, maybe you should try it?" Blaine said and Sam moaned down the line, "I'm not saying do something dangerous, but you might have fun?"
"Sure," Sam said and Blaine could tell he was thinking about it, "Hey it's like 7:15 there right? Katherine hasn't got her claws out this morning huh?"
"No, erm...no it's not that busy here."
"Oh ok, I better let you get back to work though, just in case."
"Yeah, maybe," Blaine sighed as he sipped his coffee, "But text me later ok?"
"I sure will, speak soon." Sam said in a softer sounding voice, and Blaine couldn't help but smile at it.
"Ok, love you Sammy." He aid and he heard Sam make a kissing noise down the line, and it made him laugh.
"You too, Bye."
As the call ended, Blaine sighed. What could he do for the rest of the day? He had no plans now, his plans were to be with Sam. He could call Santana, but she would have too much to say for herself about his relationship, or lack of relationship, and he didn't want to hear it right now.
He knew things had been going a little stale between him and Sam, especially within the last year, but he wanted to tough it out. Everybody has rough patches, but what makes relationships stronger is when you stick together through hard times, he hoped that was just what it was, just a hard time.
It would be over soon.
Now to figure out what to do. Maybe he should go out and clear his head. He could go for a walk, go to the grocery store, go and visit his brother.
Sounds like a plan...for today.
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Blaine was asleep when Sam had come home.
The last week had gone by very slowly, Blaine had visited his brother more times than he had within the last few months, in one weekend, much to Cooper's delight, but other than that, the week for Blaine had been hectic again. Back at work after his long weekend off, he was pushed for deadlines harder than ever, and his boss was being very mean to everyone this week.
Blaine was exhausted on the next Friday, when Sam was due home. He tried to keep his eyes open for him, but eventually sleep won and he fell asleep, still sitting upright on the couch.
Sam was shaking him lightly, and Blaine opened his eyes.
"Sam?" He asked groggily as he tried to keep his eyes open, spotting a tired smile aimed down at him.
"Yeah, it's me, what happened to waiting up for me?" Sam said as he pushed Blaine up into a sitting position, and Blaine smiled bashfully as he leaned into his boyfriend's chest.
"Sorry, I guess I was more tired than I thought." He said before letting a huge yawn erupt from his mouth, and Sam laughed quietly, chest bouncing underneath Blaine's face.
"That's ok, I'm tired too, so let's go to bed yeah?" Sam asked as he slowly tugged Blaine up with him, moving them towards the bedroom.
"Yeah, ok."
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As Blaine was sighing into another mountain of spreadsheets at work, Katherine tapped him on the shoulder from behind, making him jolt and causing a whole pile of papers to go crashing off of his desk.
"Oops, sorry Blaine," Katherine said as she watched Blaine sigh and bend to pick up the sheets, before casually sitting on top of his desk, "So I was speaking to the administrations office about this show that was coming up, and they wanted a representative to go over and see what the scope is before they invest money in it."
Blaine was only slightly listening to what she was saying, but he hummed along as he sorted through the ruined files on the floor, and she coughed lightly against the back of her hand.
"I told them, I am far too busy to go down to New York, it's just not my type of scene anyway, it's too drab and crowded," She droned on and Blaine looked up at her as he placed the papers back beside her butt on his desk, and she grinned down at him, "So they wanted me to recommend somebody to go in my place...guess who's going to New York in 2 weeks?"
Blaine blinked a few times.
"I don't know...Madison?"
"You, Blaine!"
"What?" He said shocked as he accidently knocked more papers to the floor, but this time he was too frozen to move, he just stared up at Katherine as his boss grinned back.
"Yeah, you." She said again, "I recommended you to go, let's face it, you're a hard worker, and you tell the truth, plus you are the only guy around here that loves theater productions and NYC, so will you take it?"
"Will I take it?!" He said as he stood up and grabbed at his hair tightly, a big grin plastered over his face, "Of course, of course I'll go. I've always wanted to go to New York."
"Just remember, you have a job to do while you're there." She reminded a little more sternly but a smile was still present on her lips and he nodded quickly.
"Of course."
"And I want a full report, by the time the first week is up ok?"
"But then why do I need 2 weeks?"
"You want to see the sights and experience NYC for what it has right?" She said with a smirk and he nearly lost hold of the squeal that bubbled up from his chest, "Plus you have to attend a show to get a feel for it, huh?"
With a wink she left, Blaine was still grinning like the Cheshire cat, and he did a little happy dance before he remembered the papers he was dancing on, on the floor and he bent to pick them up quickly.
As he dropped back into his seat, he looked at his calendar to mark his trip, and then grinned as he realised what his trip would fall on.
He was going to Pride in NYC this year.