"No way!" Kurt gasped "That..is that...Sebastian?"
"Ya," Blaine nodded, "changed his ringtone on my phone to that after the rock salt slushy as a warning. He's only contacted me once before since then, and that was when he wanted to apologize after the Karofsky thing last year."
Both boys sat in silence as the phone blared on. Both of them knew that Sebastian had claimed he'd turned over a new leaf, but neither were sure whether to trust him yet. The whole thing with Hunter and the trophy had only blurred this line even further, as neither was sure whether Sebastian was in on the plan. The phone stopped ringing, but only for a minute before it started blaring again.
"Go on," Kurt said seriously, " answer it."
"What?!" Blaine exclaimed "You're kidding! I thought you hated him!"
"Ya, and I hated Karofsky too before he changed." Kurt said bluntly.
Blaine's eyes widened, praying Kurt wasn't implying what he seemed to be."Kurt..." Blaine started.
Kurt picked up on his train of thought. "Blaine, he wouldn't call you TWICE..wait..." Kurt listened to the phone stop blaring and immediately start again, "scratch that...3 times unless it was really important. I'm not saying it IS like when Dave tried to kill himself, but I wouldn't think that was completely impossible. I regret everyday not picking up the phone when Karofsky called me. I don't want you having that same guilt if it turns out that he needed you. Plus," Kurt smiled deviously "the sooner you answer and talk to him, the sooner we can get back to using your mouth for other things!"
Blaine smiled slightly and nodded. He pick up his phone and answered it just as it was about to stop ringing again. Before speaking, however, he put the device on speaker phone. Anything Sebastian could say to him, he could say to Kurt.
"Hello?" He said tentatively, "Sebastian?"
"Blaine!" Sebastian exclaim through the phone, "You finally picked up!"
" ya, sorry," Blaine said " I'm kind of hanging out with Kurt at the moment. He's home from New York. That reminds me, fair warning, he's in the room and you're on speaker phone."
"Hello Meerkat." Kurt said.
"Oh, hey Princess!" Seb said happily," that's great. I was actually going to ask Blaine for your number when we got done talking. It'll be easier his way, though. I'll be talking to you both at the same time."
Blaine and Kurt looked at each other. Sebastian Smythe, the boy who last year had openly said he hated Kurt, had threatened to blackmail his stepbrother, had been lusting after his boyfriend, AND had tried to hit Kurt with a rock salt slushy...wanted to talk to him? This officially called it. Something was DEFINITELY wrong!
"Um, Sebastian," Blaine said awkwardly, " not to be blunt, but is everything ok? I didn't exactly expect you to call me and, no offense, but you wanting to talk to Kurt is a little odd to say the least."
"What? Oh, yeah!" Sebastian said nervously, "every thing's...fine...well, not really I guess. Um, this is really awkward but...would you guys mind meeting me at the Lima bean? I..I kind of need some help, and it's not really the easiest thing to explain over the phone."
Blaine and Kurt's eyes both got huge. A scared Sebastian was not something they'd seen or heard before. The fact that he was asking THEM for help only added to the situation. If he wanted to meet them somewhere for help, it was something really big. Something serious.
"We're on our way!" Kurt said almost without thinking.
"Yeah," Blaine agreed instantly," be right there."
"Oh man!" Sebastian sighed in relief, " thank you guys so much! You have no idea what that means to me."
"No problem." Kurt said
"See you soon Sebastian." Blaine said
"Right! Bye guys!"Sebastian said quickly. There was a click as he hung up on the other end.
