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Chapter Four, or All The Other Dates.

Even if Kurt never thought it actually would happen, signs began to show up right before his eyes - signs telling him that Blaine and Rachel were dating.

Not only was it because of the fact that whenever Kurt called Tina, or went out for coffee with Mercedes, or watched TV with Finn, they all would tell him the very same thing - everything Rachel talked about nowadays was Blaine, Blaine, Blaine. Without exceptions.

"I can't believe she always has new things to say about him" said Mercedes when they sat at the Lima Bean. "At first it was only just what they had done during their dates, but now..."

She rolled her eyes.

"It's what they say and what she thinks during them" she finished.

"Please don't quote" hurried Kurt.

Mercedes smiled and nodded. "Yeah, no, I try not to remember it all."

They paused the conversation to sip their coffee and, for Kurt's part, think.

"So what's your plan?"

He looked up, surprised. "What?"

With a shrug, Mercedes began to stir her coffee.

"Don't you always have a plan when these things happen?" she asked.

Kurt jerked his head.

"Give her another makeover, why don't you" suggested Mercedes and laughed briefly.

Kurt joined her laughter, but discontinued suddenly - it was actually quite possible to trick the gullible Rachel into something of the sort a second time. Apparently, Mercedes noticed and could see what he thought.

"Oh no" she said. "Don't you even. That was just a joke. What you need, is a real plan. A new one."

And she was right, very right. It was becoming clear to everyone that Rachel was invested in this relationship, in a way only she could be (creepily much, that is). The question was, of course, how invested Blaine was.

Kurt smiled. "I've got this" he said. "I saw this one in Mean Girls."

"How's it going, then?"

Blaine raised his eyes from the books. "Excuse me?"

"How's it going with Rachel?" asked Kurt without looking up from his essay, but also without caring about it.

"It's- fine" said Blaine, and continued to read.

"Just 'fine'...?"

Their eyes met when they both leered to each other. Blaine seemed both confused and somewhat displeased with the question.

"What is that suppose to mean?" he asked.

Kurt shrugged and looked down again. Like there wasn't a worry in the world, he said: "Well, I just thought that 'fine' sounded very, you know... unstable."

At this, Blaine pushed his books to the side and leaned forward. "Okay" he said. "Something's obviously going on, so just tell me."

"What do you want me to tell you?" mumbled Kurt to his paper. "That it seems like Rachel is ready to marry you, while you just think it's 'fine'? Then, there you have it."

He knew that these words could make Blaine react in two different ways, and two ways only. Either he would become irritated, and sass at Kurt; or, Blaine would - as Kurt would put it, and he did - do "a typical Finn". Suck it up and believe everything anybody would tell him, that is.

Obviously, Kurt hoped for the second reaction. But to see that, he needed to look up.

And fortunately for Kurt, Blaine seemed to take in the information.

"'Ready to marry me'" he said and wrinkled his eyebrows. "She's a little- forward, yeah, but..."

Kurt nodded. "Forward is an understatement."

When he could see that what he said actually went straight into Blaine's mind, Kurt suddenly felt a little bad. It sure wasn't right to say such bad things about Rachel - especially considering they weren't true. Not completely, at least.

It was time for the next step.

"Blaine... my friend" said Kurt in a businesslike voice as he put down his pen. "Have you really thought this whole- dating Rachel idea through?"

With a tense expression, Blaine sighed.

"We've talked about this, Kurt" he said. "I can date whoever I like."

"You make it sound like I'm your dad or something" said Kurt and sighed too, before continuing. "What I'm saying, is that you are- you're curious, Blaine. Curious about how it would be to date a girl, am I right?"

Blaine's lips tightened.

"I've never dated a guy" he mumbled. "I'm curious about that too, but I don't date the first boy I meet just because."

Sadly, but point taken, thought Kurt, and noted that Blaine actually seemed to have thought this through.

"Well" said Kurt, voice shaking slightly. "Well, I'm just thinking that it would be wrong to lead her on."

Blaine opened his mouth, but closed it again; I'm listening.

"What if you rememb-" Kurt bit his lip, "what if you realized that you are gay? Again, I mean, that would break Rachel's heart!"

While Kurt probably looked as if he tried to win a staring contest, Blaine seemed to be drowned in his own thoughts.

This is working, thought Kurt, hopeful, as he waited for a reaction.

Suddenly, Blaine began to gather his books. He raised from the table.

"I'm not talking about this with you any more" he said.

And with those words hanging in the air, he left.

Kurt wrinkled an eyebrow. "What was that...?"

"What did you tell Blaine about me?"

Kurt felt confused. "What?" he said sleepily.

"Blaine told me that you have problems with us dating!" said Rachel on the other line. "Wait- are you jealous?"

Kurt loathed that satisfied voice she always had whenever something became dramatic in just that normal amount that she liked. It was like he knew that she was excited, but she tried to act as if it was awful, oh so very awful.

When Rachel had called him, about 48 seconds earlier, Kurt had been on his way to go to bed. He had even put his pajamas on, when his cell phone ringed, and a light voice of a teenage girl nearly blew his ear out.

"What are you talking about" he mumbled, trying to think clearly. It didn't seem to work.

"You know what I'm talking about" said Rachel. "But see, this time, I win."

That sure woke him up. Kurt couldn't help himself from gaping widely. "Excuse me?"

"Well" said Rachel nonchalantly, "you're always the one who wins, Kurt, isn't that right? You get everything, all-"

"Solos?" suggested Kurt and felt anger fill his chest. "Boys? Privileges? Love? Two parents?"

He paused.

"Yeah. Of course I do" he finished.

Rachel fell silent for quite a long moment, but then said, slowly: "Kurt..."

"Good night, Rachel."

He hung up.

That's fantastic - now Blaine knew what he was trying to do; Rachel was either extremely angry or pitying him; and Kurt himself felt like crap.

Maybe it was just time to let it sink in.

Blaine and Rachel were dating, and they were-

They were in love with each other.

"I'm so sorry, Kurt."

Mercedes tried to catch his eyes, but Kurt wouldn't let her. She leaned over the table and patted his shoulder.

He smiled slightly. "It's fine" he said, looking down.

"I'm sure there's some kind of way to fix this" said Mercedes encouragingly. "And if there's not, then you will get-"

"Hi, ladies!"

Rachel's joyful voice made them both jump in their seats. With a bright smile, she danced around the table and sat down. It took a moment for Kurt to notice that she was dragging Blaine after her. He waved to Kurt.

"Hi there" mumbled Kurt.

When Blaine had sat down between Rachel and Mercedes, Rachel began her spoken-of story parade.

"Me and Blaine" she paused and looked at him, "my boyfriend, I mean" - she turned to Kurt and Mercedes again - "have just been on the best date ever! I repeat - ever! We went to the theater and saw this musical, that I have never seen before, but it was great, and then we went to Breadstix-"

Kurt almost felt how he checked out and tried to give Blaine a meaning look, but when Blaine's eyes were nailed onto Rachel, and his mouth was curled up in a smile - Kurt realized that he had lost him.

He had lost Blaine to Rachel. Just like he had lost everything else to her too.

But he wasn't going to let this happen again. It was time for a real plan. He just needed to wait for something good to come up, something that he could use - as they said in Mean Girls.