Blaine had a little spring in his step as he came in at 9:20PM, that night. Sucks I can' t stay out later though.

"Hi Blaine." Dad was sitting in the armchair of the living room, reading a book. Mom was on the couch. They obviously were waiting up for him. You gonna be waiting for me here every single night this summer?

"Hey."

"Did you have fun honey?" Mom sounded pleased. They were both strict but Blaine could tell if Mom had been rooting for him.

"Yeah, we had a great time."

"How was the movie?"

"Oh- uh, we didn't end up making it."

Dad furrowed his brow. "Why not?"

"We just got talking at the restaurant and stuff, and it got late, so..."

Dad looked skeptical. I'm not lying, don't look at me like that.

"You just stayed at the restaurant?"

"Yeah." Blaine said, then amended- "Well, the restaurant and then we were just kinda talking in the parking lot and stuff."

"...Talking."

"Yeah and listening to music. Kurt has some bands on his iPod I want to get." I could have just as easily made out with Kurt at the movie theatre as the parking lot you know. And he is my boyfriend, why do I feel like I have to defend myself for that?

Mom smiled. "Well sounds like it was a wise choice to skip the movie if time got short."

Yes! Mom I love you. Blaine put on his most responsible face. "Well I didn't want either of us to miss our curfews so..."

Blaine saw his dad steal a glance at Mom before he looked back at him. "...Glad you had fun."

Success! Blaine smiled and nodded, happily escaping to the kitchen. He grabbed a handful of pretzels from the bowl on the counter and then headed back out to the stairs.

"Oh Blaine- congratulations, Mom said you got your summer job."

Blaine leaned over the banister to talk, giddy at the reminder.

"Yeah it's going to be awesome. They pay better than Kings Island did too. Orientation is Thursday."

"Thursday?" Mom looked up. "Okay we need to talk tomorrow to work out the car situation then."

Blaine shrugged. "Cool. I'll try to find out if there's anyone else near me, maybe we can carpool sometimes."

Blaine's dad nodded approvingly. "That would certainly make things easier. Especially during the times your brother's going to be around this summer. Two cars for four people is going to be tight."

"Okay dad."

"You start your summer reading?"

"Not yet." Summer vacation started ten minutes ago Dad, I've got a bit of time here...

"I'm going to expect to hear some progress this week before your job starts. I don't want to hear excuses in August that you had no time because you were too busy working."

Ugh.

"Yes Dad."

"You hitting the sack?" Mom asked.

"Yeah, was gonna go online for awhile but-"

"Alright but we don't want you to get in a habit of spending all night on the computer Blaine. Just because it's summer doesn't mean you can be up all hours."

I'm sorry, did I do something wrong? Because I just came home 10 minutes early from curfew after passing all my final exams last week and doing all my chores before I went out. God.

"I know Mom."

"Lights out by 11, at the latest." Dad spoke, his attention returning to his book.

"Okay. Night." Blaine trudged upstairs to his room. Holy buzzkill.