4th October 2011

Blaine fidgeted in his seat as he watched, waiting for the door of their favourite coffee shop, the Lima Bean, to open.

"Stop that," Kurt chuckled, "it's going to be fine!" Blaine bit his lip, staring at Kurt for a few seconds and didn't answer, moving his gaze back to the door nervously. Kurt watched him for a few more moments, finishing his latte before deciding to lean over and stroking the back of his hand lightly. "Hey," he said gently, finally getting at least some of Blaine's attention, "don't worry, I'm sure I'm going to love him." He smiled as Blaine looked back at him earnestly.

"I want you to. I really like him."

"Then I'm sure he's the most amazing guy ever." Kurt smiled fondly. He had to admit he wasn't exactly jumping for joy at meeting Blaine's new boyfriend but, ever since the Valentine's Day in that very coffee shop when he'd got confused and thought Blaine had wanted to declare his love for him, he'd accepted that this was something that would happen eventually. If anything, he felt he should be glad of the fact that he'd had so long to build himself up for it. He didn't want to let it show, desperately wanting to be the supportive best friend that Blaine always was for him but, he was just as nervous as Blaine was. He wasn't exactly sure what he would do if he didn't like this guy but, if Blaine liked him, he couldn't be that bad, right?

He continued to watch Blaine for the next few minutes, still fidgeting with nerves and watching the door, not truly involved in the conversation that Kurt was trying to have with him. Eventually, his face lit up like Kurt had rarely seen before. A small, almost unnoticeable, pang of jealousy shot straight to his heart when he realised that Blaine used to look at him like that but hadn't been recently. In fact, recently, Blaine seemed to be doing everything he could to not look at Kurt all together, although Kurt convinced himself that he was just imagining things.

"He's here," he whispered to Kurt, grinning and getting to his feet. Kurt watched as Blaine stepped over to greet the tall boy that was headed towards them. Kurt couldn't deny that he was good looking but, and he convinced himself it wasn't due to jealousy, he already couldn't see himself liking this guy. There was just something about his slimy, smirking face that made him question Blaine's judgement. This was only made worse by the fact that, as this guy walked over to the table they had been sitting at, he promptly grabbed Blaine by the waist and pulled him in for a long deep kiss. Kurt watched as the guy obviously pushed his tongue into Blaine's mouth. He was close to throwing his coffee at them in the hopes it would make them just stop, especially as the smirking guy's hands were now moving down Blaine's back and grabbing his ass gently. Thankfully, Blaine seemed to have the sense to break the embrace.

"We're in public…" he blushed but Kurt noticed him also smiling slightly, clearly not too unhappy about it.

"And? I just felt like I needed to say hi to your ass too, it is fantastic…" the guy said smarmily, giving it another squeeze. Blaine giggled like a school girl, causing Kurt to visibly gag sarcastically, catching the couple's attention. "You must be Kurt," the guy smiled over to him. Blaine finally turned around, as if only just remembering his best friend was there.

"Oh yeah, uhm, Kurt this is Sebastian," Blaine smiled at the guy, placing his arm gently on his chest, "Sebastian, Kurt." Kurt could do nothing but smile at Sebastian in a way that he was certain was not as nice as maybe he should be. The two boys sat down facing Kurt as he looked between them. They sat in awkward silence for a few moments, not knowing how to progress the conversation.

"I've heard so much about you, Kurt." Sebastian spoke first.

"Well, that makes sense, I am Blaine's best friend." Kurt spoke sharply. He could see Blaine turn to look at him wide-eyed out of the corner of his eye. He was certain he was asking himself why Kurt was acting like such an asshole already. Kurt was asking himself the exact same question but refused to turn to look at Blaine, knowing that if he did, his jealously would undoubtedly instantly show.

"Indeed." Sebastian's smile didn't falter, "So, Kurt, I hear you're in the Glee Club at your school? We have something in common, I've just joined The Warblers."

"We do have something in common! I remember from when I was a member of the Warblers that they're all such great people." Kurt smiled a little too widely, happy to use the opportunity to rub his friendship with Blaine in Sebastian's face a bit, "Wouldn't you agree, Blaine? We had so much fun together, didn't we? Of course, it hasn't been the same since Pavarotti died. Oh, you wouldn't know who he was, Sebastian, but, suffice to say we were all incredibly saddened by that. Thankfully, I had Blaine there when it happened." Kurt reached out and grabbed Blaine's hand gently, not looking away from Sebastian. "He was so supportive and really helped me through it but then, I guess that's what you do for your best friend." Kurt stared wickedly at Sebastian, almost shocking himself at his sudden need to make him jealous.

"You were in the Warblers?" Sebastian raised his eyebrows at the new information before turning to Blaine. "You didn't tell me that…"

"Really? I thought I had," Blaine said bashfully. "Kurt was at our school for about 6 months, that's how we met."

"Funny, I thought, as boyfriends, you would tell each other everything…" Kurt raised his eyebrows and looked away for a moment, relishing having the opportunity to point out a kink in their new relationship. They sat in silence for a few uncomfortable moments, none of them knowing what to say, before Blaine took a deep breath to speak.

"Well, this is nice and awkward," Blaine said as he raised his eyebrows, "why don't I go and get us some coffee while you two keep getting better acquainted?" He quickly jumped to his feet before either of them could protest and rushed to the counter. Sebastian pointedly turned and watched him walk away before turning back to face Kurt.

"I'm onto you." He said, smiling slyly at Kurt.

"What?" Kurt tipped his head in confusion.

"I get it, you're into Blaine and you want to try and scare me away with all this cute 'best friend' talk but it isn't going to work."

"I honestly don't know what you're talking about." Kurt smiled sweetly. He knew exactly what Sebastian was talking about.

"Oh I think you do and, to be honest, although this whole doe-eyed act of yours is just adorable," he spoke patronisingly, "the sooner you realise that I'm the one that gets to fuck him and not you, the better." Kurt flinched slightly at the way Sebastian had just spoken about Blaine, as if he was a piece of meat. He couldn't deny he didn't understand the appeal of the thought of Blaine with very few clothes on but he was so much more than that and Kurt's feelings for Blaine hadn't had anything to do with sex. Kurt wasn't as certain that Sebastian felt the same way.

"Blaine isn't like that," Kurt said quietly. He cleared his throat before continuing slightly stronger, "Anyway, you don't know anything about our relationship, you could be getting in the way for all you know." Sebastian snorted at Kurt's hopefulness.

"Listen, Snow White and the seven chest hairs, if Blaine was at all interested in you, don't you think he would've done something by now?" Kurt didn't answer, instead becoming supremely interested in the empty coffee cup he was holding. He was right. Shit, he was right. "That's what I thought," Sebastian smirked, "so I recommend that you start at least pretending to love me because, I'm pretty sure I'll be around a lot from now on and I'd hate to see your relationship with Blaine fall apart because you couldn't be supportive of his first real boyfriend." Kurt didn't have a chance to answer him before Blaine came striding back to their table, trying to balance three paper cups in his hands. Kurt stared into his lap, not being able to forget the way that Sebastian had emphasised the word relationship so sarcastically, and mockingly. Damn, he hated this guy and hated the fact that he was right even more.

"How's it going, guys? I'm sure you've found a ton of things you have in common by now, right?" Blaine asked, grinning hopefully.

"Uhm… yeah, loads," Kurt looked up and faked a smile as he picked up his coffee, only drinking from it so he could be distracted for a few seconds.

Sebastian didn't stay for much longer after Blaine had returned and, for that time, Kurt tried his hardest to make conversation with him. He did his best to be polite and courteous, for Blaine's sake, seeing as Sebastian had been right, if he was going to be sticking around, Kurt was most definitely going to have to learn to like him.

As he was leaving, Sebastian had pulled Blaine into him for another long, and what looked like messy, kiss. Kurt watched them, trying hard not to make a sarcastic comment. He thought for a moment that he saw Sebastian open his eyes and glance at him, almost as if he was checking to see if Kurt was watching them, but put it down to his imagination and didn't think any more of it.

Sebastian finally released Blaine, who fell back down into the coffee shop armchair, grinning and practically swooning, and left. Blaine watched him walk away, making sure he was out of earshot before spinning around to Kurt.

"So, what do you think?" Kurt sighed deeply, he was going to have use all of his acting skills on this one.

"He… seems great…" He smiled weakly. Blaine looked at him questioningly for a few seconds before speaking.

"You hated him." He said.

"Not at all!" Kurt said, annoyed that Blaine had been able to see straight through him.

"Please, Kurt, you are not that good of an actor," Blaine giggled, picking up his coffee and taking a sip.

"Blaine Anderson, I am completely offended, I'll have you know I am an excellent actor!" Kurt placed is hand on his chest and over-acted his horror at Blaine's words before trying desperately to use the opportunity to change the subject. "As it happens, I've just been asked to play Tony in West Side Story at school."

"Wow," Blaine raised his eyebrows, impressed, "congrats Kurt, that's an amazing role."

"Exactly, so there'll be no more questioning my acting ability thankyouverymuch." Kurt said prissily causing Blaine to giggle some more.

"Ok fine, you're an amazing actor."

"Thank you."

"You still hate him, though."

"Can't stand him." Kurt smiled slightly, letting his cover fall. "I'm sorry, Blaine, I really tried…"

"No you didn't!"

"No I didn't but I wanted to try! I really did… I just… I just hate his stupid smirking face!" Kurt smiled apologetically and shrugged his shoulders. Blaine nodded, looking into his coffee, as if he understood. It made Kurt wonder if he saw it too, or if he'd had anyone else commented on it. "I'll put up with him though." Kurt offered.

"Really?" Blaine looked up at him.

"For you." Kurt half-smiled. Blaine grabbed his hand and thanked him, squeezing it slightly. As he did, Kurt was reminded of Sebastian's words. He was fairly certain Blaine would've done something about it by now if he was interested in him. That was the moment that Kurt decided he had to try and get over Blaine Anderson. At least I'll be in New York in less than a year, he thought to himself, certain that the distance would definitely help him get over Blaine. And even more certain that, that was what he now had to do.