After Harry and Blaine's first date they had a second and then a third, on which they finally became official boyfriends. Harry treated Blaine right, bought him gifts and promises him presents and 'treats' (Kurt didn't want to know what they were). Harry was absolutely perfect for Blaine, although Kurt didn't really know that much about him he just knew. But on December 18th Kurt started to get a bad feeling about Blaine…

December 18th was the last day of the Winter Term at Dalton Academy School for boys. Having packed all their belongings Wes, David, Thad, Kurt, Nick and Jeff were all lounging about in the senior commons waiting for Blaine to finish packing and come and join them.

"Blaine going home with you Kurt?" Wes asked Kurt. Kurt thought for a moment,

"Probably, I mean he knows he can come whenever he likes, heck, he does come whenever he likes. He must have, like, four places to call home." A couple of the boys tried to count on their fingers before Thad gave up and asked,

"Four?"

"Yeah, his own house, my house, here and at Harry's." Just at that moment Blaine shuffled into the room. He'd taken to doing this a bit more lately, giving up on his previous puppy-like behaviour. "Hey, Blaine, are you coming back to ours or are you going somewhere else?"

"I'm going to Harry's house." Blaine muttered as he sat down on one of the sofa unconsciously leaning on Kurt.

"Come on man, it's Christmas! You should be happy and smiling, not grumpy!" Nick gabbled.

"Just shut up Nick! I don't want to be happy. You are annoying me so much lately. All you ever do is annoy me so I'm going to go and get my bags and leave you all here to be happy about a time of year that is for little kids only. Blaine stormed out of the room and Kurt looked to Nick with a look of sympathy,

"I'm sure he didn't mean it Nick."

"But he did Kurt," Nick sounded defeated, as if he'd had the conversation many times which, in all likeliness, he probably has, "haven't you noticed how distant and depressed he's been lately? He is so not the Blaine we all know and love."

Lying in bed that night Kurt thought about the change in Blaine. It had happened gradually, he slowly lost his confidence then the flinching, that Kurt has been told was what happened when he first transferred, came back and he started shutting people out.

December 18th was the date that Kurt truly thought about how Blaine was now a shell of the man he used to be.