Three things to start out with…

1. I have an apology regarding the last chapter. Chapter 6 was giving me a lot of trouble, so when I finally finished it, I was just so sick of looking at it that I posted without doing my final proof reading. It was pointed out to me in one of the reviews that there were several distracting spelling errors and the like, so I have gone back and edited that chapter to fix those things and promise not to post without my final proof reading ever again. I know how distracting stuff like that can get, and I really am writing this story for all of you to enjoy, so I'm going to try my hardest to clean up my chapters before I post them.

2. One of my lovely reviewers guessed the movie! Of course, you'll still have to read on to find out what it is…

3. Sorry this chapter is so short. I tried to think of ways to flush it out a bit, but nothing hit me. On the bright side, only two more chapters and they will both be up no later than next Friday! (That's right! Three updates in less than a week! It will probably be a record for me . . . . ) They're kind of short too, but hopefully enjoyable enough to make up for that.


Baby you're not alone
'Cause you're here with me
And nothing's ever gonna bring us down
'Cause nothing can keep me from loving you
And you know it's true
It don't matter what'll come to be
Our love is all we need to make it through


Blaine waited by the row of lockers, fiddling with his pocket watch and checking the time every twenty seconds. There was still a half an hour before classes started, and he was pretty sure that Kurt wouldn't be at school for at least fifteen minutes, but he was still nervous. He didn't want to run into him too early. Blaine had a plan and he was sticking to it. Finally, he spotted the person he was looking for.

"Artie," he called, pushing himself away from the lockers and taking a few steps to meet him. He opened his mouth to say something more, but faltered. He hadn't actually thought of how he was going to ask this of Artie. He just knew that he needed his help. "Look, uh, I was hoping to ask a favor of you."

Artie looked him up and down with a coldness that Blaine hadn't expected. Sure, he wasn't BFFs with everyone in New Directions yet, but he liked Artie and he thought they had at least become friends.

"I have nothing to say to you." Artie maneuvered his chair around Blaine and continued over to his locker. Blaine turned to face him, his brain still trying to process what was going on.

"Are you angry with me?" he finally managed to ask. Artie didn't look at him as he opened his locker and started transferring books between his bag and locker.

"Kurt told Mercedes about your fight. She told Tina, and Tina told me. You seem like a pretty nice guy, but Kurt and I have been friends for much longer, so my loyalties lie with him."

"Well, that's actually what I wanted to talk to you about," Blaine said, leaning up against the locker next to Artie's. "I know I screwed up, and I wanted to make it up to Kurt, but I need your help." Artie looked up at him, suspiciously.

"How?" Blaine smiled. Now that he had Artie talking, he was sure that he could convince him.

"I've got it all planned out. Mind if we take the rest of this conversation to the AV room?"


Mercedes had been trying to pull Kurt into Tina's and her conversation for a while now, but he hadn't been particularly enthusiastic about anything they'd brought up. He was too upset about everything that had happened with Blaine. He wasn't sorry for the things he'd said. He meant every word of it. But that didn't make the fight any less depressing. To make matters worse, Blaine hadn't been in class this morning. Granted, Kurt hadn't really wanted to see him. He was still much to upset about what had happened the night before, but now he felt a bit guilty that this fight may have made Blaine leave Glee. He knew how much the other boy loved to sing, and Kurt didn't want to be the reason he couldn't do so with New Directions.

Of course, it may have been a good thing Blaine wasn't there, at least for that morning. The story of his and Blaine's fight had made it all around the gossip circle and almost everyone had spent the first five minutes of class assuring Kurt that he could do better than Blaine. To be honest, it hadn't done much to cheer him up. Thankfully, that was all interrupted by Artie rolling in just past the tardy bell and offering a quick apology to Mr. Shue, who then launched into their assignment for the week. It was a big dance number, much to Kurt's disappointment. It wasn't that he didn't like dancing. He just wasn't feeling particularly in the mood for that this week, what with everything that had happened.

Kurt didn't know what he'd been trying to accomplish with confronting Blaine. Did he expect him to completely open up then and there, telling Kurt his entire life story and exactly why he never seemed capable of being himself or showing more affection for Kurt in public? He just had to accept the fact that he and Blaine were different, and there was never going to be anything between them. That was what hurt the most. He hadn't just lost a boyfriend. He had lost one of his best friends too.

It was that gloomy thought that was preventing Kurt from really hearing anything Mercedes and Tina were saying right now, as he nudged the limp leaves of salad around his plate. They had been talking between themselves for about five minutes, and Kurt had absolutely no idea what the subject was.

There was a break in the conversation, and Kurt looked up, wondering if they had said something to him and trying to figure out how best to convey the fact that he could care less about whatever it was. But the two girls weren't looking at him. They were looking at something over his shoulder. Mercedes was grinning, and Tina looked a bit shocked. A few people at the tables past them were looking in the same direction, and conversation through the entire cafeteria was starting to die down. Before Kurt could turn to look for the cause of this disruption of the McKinley lunchroom's normal chaos, he heard a very familiar voice, amplified above it's normal volume, yet still sounding soft and low.

"You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.
You'd be like Heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much."

Kurt slowly turned in his chair, and there, standing on one of the tables across the room, was Blaine, holding a cordless microphone and looking directly at him.

"At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you."

Blaine stepped down from the table onto a bench, walking to the end before hopping off of that and onto the floor, all the while making a slow progression across the room towards Kurt.

"Pardon the way that I stare.
There's nothing else to compare.
The sight of you leaves me weak.
There are no words left to speak,"

Kurt stared at Blaine, who was now almost halfway across the room. The gears in his mind were stuck, trying to battle it out between the different feelings raging through his head. He was shocked at seeing Blaine being so public about this when he'd done nothing but hide since they came to McKinley. He was also more than a little bit giddy at the fact that Blaine was singing him a love song.

"But if you feel like I feel,
Please let me know that it's real.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you."

The giddiness won out over the shock, as Blaine jumped onto a table and threw his head back to sing the chorus.

"I love you, baby,"

People hastily moved their lunches out of the way as Blaine strode down the long table, singing his heart out.

"And if it's quite alright,
I need you, baby,
To warm a lonely night.
I love you, baby.
Trust in me when I say:"

Blaine did a little spin and jumped from the table. He was only a few feet away from Kurt now, and he couldn't keep the blush from his face as Blaine approached.

"Oh, pretty baby,
Don't bring me down, I pray."

Blaine dropped to his knees, and if Kurt hadn't been so fixated on his boyfriend's eyes (Yes, boyfriend. He was pretty sure this meant Blaine wanted him back, and Kurt definitely wanted Blaine back.), he probably would have been horrified with the thought of him kneeling on the dirty cafeteria floor.

"Oh, pretty baby,"

Blaine jumped to his feet again, closing the distance between the two of them. He took Kurt's hand and pulled him to his feet.

"Now that I found you, stay
And let me love you, baby.
Let me love you."

The music continued to play, but Blaine didn't sing the next verse, or the chorus. His mouth was a bit busy, considering Kurt had just pulled him into a kiss. He didn't care who saw. He didn't care what they thought. And by the fact that Blaine was kissing him back just as fiercely, he knew that Blaine didn't care either.


And the movie was…? 10 Things I Hate About You! For those of you who haven't seen that movie… have you been living under a rock or something? Go out and buy it right now and watch it. It's amazing. The song Blaine sings to Kurt in this chapter was sung by Patrick (played by Heath Ledger) as a sort of apology to Kat (played by Julia Stiles). It's pretty much my absolute favorite instance of a character singing a song in a movie that is not a musical.

Anyway, as usual, I love any kind of feedback. I even like negative feedback. Actually, no. That's a lie. I don't really like it, but I know I need it if I want to get better, and I do like improving my writing. So if there's something you don't like, let me know. I'd appreciate it if you did it at least kind of nicely, but I'm open to criticism. Throw it out there!