Just Us
Chapter 9
As the sun rose and the early sounds of shuffling feet emerged from the Hummel-Hudson house, everyone was back in their own bed. Much to Blaine's chagrin. After him and Kurt said their goodbyes in the backyard at around 4 in the morning, he realized he would have to go back to being completely alone.
Aside from about 30 minutes of sleeping curled up with Kurt, he hadn't even closed his eyes all night. Every time he did, his entire weekend just played over and over in his head, especially the parts where his dad and him got in physical confrontations.
He lay on the couch staring at the wall preparing himself to pretend to have been asleep for when everyone came downstairs. He felt a hand muss up his hair, he rolled his head back and smiled up at Kurt.
"That's going to cost you."
"I have to pay to touch your hair?"
"You're going to pay in bathroom time, now that I will take even longer to style it."
"No. I'm sorry." Kurt grinned, "No one dips in on my bathroom time. You can use the mirror by the door."
"No one?" Blaine faked betrayal. "Not even me?"
Kurt scoffed. "You of all people should know how important the coif is, Blaine." He reached up and ran his fingers through his unstyled hair. "It takes precision."
Blaine laughed at him and rolled over, shoving his face into the couch.
"Oh no you don't." Kurt dug his hands under Blaine trying to roll him back. "We have to go to school today."
"School." Blaine mumbled into the couch. Kurt couldn't quite tell if that was excitement to be going back to normalcy or slight panic at having to go back to normalcy after what had happened.
"Yeah, school. Now get up, I'll make breakfast."
Blaine perked up at the idea of food. Food made by Kurt especially. Kurt made him some things when they were friends, but he knew now that their relationship had evolved so would the menu of items Kurt would bake him.
"Are you coming?" Kurt leaned around the doorway of the kitchen. Batting his eyelashes at Blaine who was still laying on the couch daydreaming. Blaine didn't even answer, he threw off the blanket and sprinted into the doorway nearly toppling Kurt with an excited hug.
Kurt and Blaine sat in Kurt's car in the Dalton parking lot. Blaine drummed his fingers on his thighs and Kurt examined a line on his blazer smoothing his hand over it multiple times to get it to lay flat.
"So, what do we do?" Blaine stopped drumming and looked over at Kurt.
"Well usually we hang out in the senior commons until about 5 minutes before class then we go our separate ways. We do it pretty much every day." Kurt raised an eyebrow at Blaine.
"No. I mean." He paused unsure of how to put his words together. "Now that we are like…" Blaine used his fingers to point between the two.
"Now that we are dating?" Kurt chuckled.
"Yeah."
"What do you mean, 'what do we do'?" Kurt looked Blaine in the eye and squinted. "Are you scared we are going to get bullied or something?"
"I just don't want you to have to do anything you're not comfortable with. You're new to the school as it is. If you don't want to like…announce it or anything." Blaine was getting visibly more nervous as he spoke.
"Blaine." Kurt whispered.
"I just feel like you holding my hand or anything will just make you the center of attention or something."
"Blaine." Kurt cooed again.
"The Warblers might think you're trying to sleep your way into getting a solo or something. Even though I don't even have any say in who gets what. But I mean, they're just like that in the Warblers."
"Blaine. Please."
Blaine finally stopped his panicked monologue to look over at Kurt who was smiling at him. It made Blaine's heart melt to see Kurt's face upturned in a shy smile. His ears tipped with red and his lips curled in.
"Blaine. We can announce it to the world that we are dating, or we can keep it between ourselves because it doesn't matter to me whether people know or not." Kurt reached out and placed his hand over Blaine's quivering one. "Would I love to walk hand in hand proudly through the school? Of course. But I would also love to keep what we have to ourselves. I could go either way." Kurt smiled and ran his thumb over the bandages on Blaine's hands.
"Let's take things slowly. We have to ease our way back into the hum drum of school after what happened and skipping holding hands down the halls won't exactly be old news."
"Well I beg to differ, mister I-know-a-shortcut." Kurt laughed at Blaine who blushed and shrugged his shoulders.
"I got us there didn't I?"
Kurt took a deep breath and looked over at Blaine who was doing the same thing. "You ready?"
"Yeah. I'm ready." They slammed the car doors behind them and walked side-by-side into the school.
The gavel sounded trying to bring order to the chaos that was the Warblers after the final bell of the school day rang.
Kurt and Blaine sat closely on one of the couches talking animatedly to each other until the final gavel pound silenced them.
The council made a few announcements to start the meeting. Reminding everyone of the time frame they were on for regionals and other housekeeping comments. There was a silent pause after the last announcement was made. The room grew more tense.
"Now there is an important matter to discuss. One among us had been keeping an important life change from us. One that has changed them both emotionally and as we can all see physically as well."
Blaine grew tense beside Kurt and Kurt let his pinky finger wander to Blaine's thigh from where it previously was on the couch. Kurt was astonished they were going to bring this up in front of everyone at a Warbler meeting. How could they do that to Blaine?
He was about to speak up to stop them when they barreled into it.
"Blaine?" Blaine stiffened and turned his head to the front table. "How could you not tell us that you and Kurt were together?"
All of the air in Blaine's body came out in a slow stream as he relaxed. Then he laughed. Kurt turned. Blaine actually laughed a hardy loud laugh. Everyone in the room was a little confused. Kurt especially, Why was Blaine laughing like that? Was he about to blow the idea off like it could never happen so he would seem cool? Kurt absorbed all the tension that was previously in Blaine's body. This was the moment of truth. He was about to lose his boyfriend, he could tell.
Blaine finally stopped laughing and slapped his hand onto Kurt's thigh.
"Sorry guys. We wanted to keep it on the down low so it wouldn't distract from regionals prep. But yes." Blaine looked into Kurt's slightly watery eyes. "We are dating, and I am the happiest I have ever been."
The room broke out in thunderous applause and whoops and hollers could be heard bouncing around the acoustic room. Blaine rolled his eyes over to Jeff. "Thanks everyone. Thanks Jeff especially for blabbing."
Wes spoke up, "Actually Jeff didn't say anything. I just took a shot in the dark. Well not exactly, you and Kurt have been attached by one body part or another since before school this morning. And I don't mean to pry but did you guys drive here together."
"Uh saving gas." Kurt spoke quickly before pivoting the conversation, "Now what songs are we doing for regionals." Blaine rubbed Kurt's thigh and gave him a grateful nod.
