"Kurt, thank you so much for earlier! I spoke to Finn and I feel a million times better! He might even come visit in a couple weeks and I was-"

Rachel stopped mid-sentence. She looked up and Kurt's eyes were red and watery. She leaped to his side. "Kurt, what is it?" she asked, with such genuine concern that Kurt couldn't help but break down into floods of tears.

She ushered him to the small twin settee, and sat him close to her.

Rachel waited patiently for Kurt to answer her. As soon as he started talking, he relayed the majority of his and Blaine's conversation to her in one go, afraid that if he stopped talking for too long he'd not be able to continue.

Rachel was quite simply stunned.

"Wow….. I mean, I never saw that coming. Did you know you and Blaine technically have been official longer that Finn and I?"

Kurt just starred at her.

"Sorry, you probably didn't want to hear that. Just…. Wow, Kurt."

"Wow." Kurt agreed. The pair slumped back against the sofa cushions, and Rachel curled around Kurt, hoping her arms could be of some small comfort.

Kurt remained utterly miserable, day after day. Try as she might, Rachel just couldn't get him out of his funk. She tried cooking him a meal, baking him cookies, singing to him. When that didn't work, she even offered him the chance to sing a Barbra Song himself. As Kurt politely declined the offer, she realised it was going to be no easy task to help Kurt get over Blaine.

Kurt threw himself into his school work. He was very studious and conscientious by nature, always trying to do the best that he could. So to further take his mind of the break up, Kurt elected to take another class. It was quite late in the term, so he had a lot of catching up to do.

One lunch time, Kurt sat by himself in a small café which was down the road from his campus. He first stepped in the small coffee shop to apply for a job, much to no avail. The owner very politely told him there were no positions available. For the next three days, Kurt couldn't get the delicious smell of the café out of his head, so he eventually returned there for a drink after class. This soon became part of his routine and he'd often come and sit in the café to complete his classwork during the day.

Usually, he found the place peaceful and quiet. Unfortunately, that day he wasn't so lucky.

"Kurt, there you are!" exclaimed Jenna, a tall red-headed girl he shared many classes with. "We were wondering where you'd got to!"

Just on cue, Michael appeared next to Jenna.

Michael and Jenna were both fellow NYADA students. As Michael Hamilton, Jenna Heart, and Kurt Hummel, they were all sorted into the same tutorial group. Coincidently, they also shared a lot of their classes together. Before long, they knew each other's schedules as well as their own and would walk to and from their lectures in a trio. Of course, being NYADA students they all had a shared passion for performing, but as they spent more time together, they found they had more in common. Before long, they were friends.

For a moment, Michael looked at Kurt and then the table, before finally committing and pulling out a chair and joining him. Jenna followed suit.

"Sorry, I've been busy," mumbled Kurt.

Jenna looked at him sympathetically. Kurt had told them both what happened. They knew something was wrong the second he showed up at college the morning after his phone call with Blaine. Kurt didn't even try to lie to them; he didn't have the energy.

She placed her hand over his. "Kurt, we know you're upset. And of course you are, but you don't need to hole yourself away and mope. You were so, so excited to be in New York. And Blaine broke things off so that you would be free to enjoy everything to the full."

Michael nodded his agreement. "What's done is done, he gave you a gift. Embrace it."

Kurt watched them both awkwardly. "I just….. don't feel like doing anything."

"You're in a rut." explained Michael. "You're in a vicious cycle of moping and being depressing. And it's time to snap you out of it.

"I asked around and found a really nice bar not too far from here. So tonight, we're going out and you're coming with us. It will just be us, a few chilled drinks in a chilled bar between friends."

"I-"

"No!" interrupted Jenna. "No excuses. You're going. I will drag you there if I have to."

Kurt knew she'd live up to that threat, so reluctantly he agreed.

"We're going to have so much fun!" Jenna grinned.

Michael and Jenna told Kurt they'd personally escort him from his apartment to the bar. So after classes ended for the day, Kurt went back to his flat, had dinner and showered. Then he began the long process of choosing what to wear.

Even though Kurt really wasn't in the mood to be sociable, he figured he may as well try to enjoy himself. And that would only happen if he was dressed impeccably. He eventually decided on a dark teal shirt that was just on the right side of being too tight. He paired it with black skinny jeans and a black skinny tie. It was quite demure for him, but striking enough that Kurt was happy with it.

Kurt was ready, with over half an hour to spare. He wondered into the living room to find Rachel. He thought he'd invite her along for the evening. She had done a lot for him for the last couple of weeks so he wanted to start making it up to her.

As he asked, Rachel's face fell. She then awkwardly told him she couldn't go out that evening because she and Finn and a Skype date.

Kurt's heart sank. He decided it would probably be best to wait in his room after that. He opened his laptop and saw that Jenna was online. He wondered if it was too late to cancel.

That's when it happened.

Blaine Anderson went from in a relationship to single

Kurt reread the sentence on his newsfeed a dozen times. Pain, longing and heart-ache washed over him. Kurt didn't want to be the first to change his relationship status. It seemed petty, but as long as it was there, he felt like there was a part of him still connected to Blaine. Since Blaine hadn't updated his profile either, Kurt figured Blaine felt the same.

He wondered what changed Blaine's mind. What pushed him to doing it all of a sudden?

He wondered if he had met someone.

Kurt slammed his laptop shut and fought back tears.

Before he knew it, there was a buzz on the intercom and Jenna and Michael were waiting for him.

It was time to go out, have fun and leave Blaine in the past once and for all, Kurt reasoned.

Kurt looked up at the sign incredulously.

"A gay bar. You've brought me to a gay bar?"

"Well yeah…." answered Jenna. Kurt just shook his head.

Michael looked slightly sheepish, but Kurt didn't know if it was because he felt guilty for the fact that they lured Kurt here under false assumptions, or because they were at a gay bar.(Michael was straight. Jenna teased him about it relentlessly – how he was most likely the only straight man in a college with mostly women. )

"Well, come on then." Michael finally spoke. "Let's go in!"

"The sooner we're in, the sooner we can leave…" Kurt grumbled. Jenna elbowed him in the rib.

Kurt soon found himself sat awkwardly and alone on an uncomfortable bar stool. He was currently sipping his third drink, despite the fact that he had no idea what it actually was. He originally opted for a virgin cocktail, but Jenna and Michael resolutely refused. Instead, they selected him a fruity drink that very definitely contained alcohol. It was nice enough, and the floaty feeling it left him with was pleasant, so Kurt drank on even after his friends stopped.

Jenna and Michael had gotten up and left him somewhere during the second drink and they were currently dancing with each other very awkwardly. Well, Michael was dancing awkwardly. Jenna was having what looked like the time of her life. Alcohol clearly had a greater effect on her small frame.

The bar was nice enough, Kurt supposed. It certainly put 'Scandals' back in Lima to shame. The décor was more tasteful, the music current and the clientele were certainly younger and more attractive. What surprised Kurt most, however, was the attention he received. No fewer than a dozen men had shown some form of interest at Kurt, be it an elusive gaze or an unsubtle leer. Two men had even asked Kurt if they could buy him a drink, and a third asked him to dance. Kurt just looked incredulously at the first guy, a relatively attractive man Kurt would have guessed to be 20. He thought it was some sort of joke. But when the boy insisted his sincerity, Kurt politely declined. He was out to forget about Blaine and enjoy himself, not flirt with any random guy who walked his way. It would be easier, Kurt figured, if he didn't compare every person in the room to his ex-Boyfriend. He'd notice if a guy had gelled hair, brown eyes, wore bowties, was particularly short…. Basically, he managed to see Blaine in everyone around him.

Kurt stared wistfully at the dance floor, debating internally whether to join his friends to take his mind off things. He wanted to, but he was worried it would just bring back memories of the last time he danced in a club. With Blaine.

He was pulled from his decision making by the slurp of his straw; his drink was empty. So foregoing the dancing, he ordered a fourth mystery cocktail. He probably shouldn't have, but the three prior drinks had definitely affected his mental reasoning by that point. As he waited for the bartender to pour in brightly coloured liquid after brightly coloured liquid, he pulled out his phone.

11:27 pm

One New Message from Rachel Berry

Hey Kurt! Just wanted to check you were having a nice evening :) xox

Kurt began to tap in a quick reply, regretting ordering another drink a soon as he realised how difficult texting was. He was pulled from his 7th consecutive attempt at correctly spelling "Hello," by a cough from behind him.

"Hey there, gorgeous," the person crooned into his ear. "I noticed you from across the bar an-"

Kurt turned around came face to face with none other than Sebastian Smythe.

Sebastian, recognising Kurt as soon as he faced him, looked repulsed.

Kurt, recovering from his initial shock at seeing Sebastian, just laughed for what happened to be the first time in weeks.

AN ~ Did you kind of forget about Sebastian up until now? I hope so, you were meant to! Kurt certainly did….But I can assure you, from now on, Sebastian will be back in full force! Thanks for reading and reviewing! :)