When Kurt woke up again a few hours later, it was to the sound of Santana arguing with Rachel in the hallway. His headache had gone away for the most part, and he didn't get anymore head rush when he sat up. Blaine was snoring slightly beside Kurt, and he couldn't help but smile a little. Normally, if it was anyone else, Kurt would've woken them up just to stop the snoring, but this was Blaine. He managed to make even snoring look cute.
"Rachel! I need to take a shower, god dammit!" Santana's voice traveled down the hall and that's when Kurt looked at the clock. It was almost noon. He and Blaine had all day to do whatever they wanted; maybe if he could get Santana and Rachel out of the apartment they could have a movie day -
Kurt stopped mid-thought. Shit, shit shit. Blaine was still here, and Rachel and Santana were awake. There was no way he could sneak Blaine out, not without one of them seeing him. Santana knew how Kurt felt about Blaine before Kurt had, but Rachel was totally oblivious. What would they say when they learned Blaine and Kurt were dating now? Well, wait.. Were they dating? They'd kissed a few hours ago, but neither of them had said anything about becoming exclusive. Had that kiss meant anything to Blaine, or was it just a spur of the moment thing? Did Blaine even want to be with him?
Blaine stirred in the bed beside Kurt with a soft grumble that normally would've made Kurt smirk from it's cuteness. The blankets ruffled by Kurt's leg and then a hand slipped around his waist, pulling him back so he was laying down again. Instead of curling into Blaine's side like Blaine had expected him to do, he lay flat on his back, staring at the ceiling.
"Kurt?"
"What is this?" He blurted. "What are we doing? Cause I know what that kiss meant to me but if you're not looking for a relationship or that type of commitment you can just tell me now -" Blaine silenced Kurt's rambling with a soft kiss on the lips.
"I want you," he whispered into Kurt's ear. "I want to be with you." Kurt shuddered from the closeness and the feeling of Blaine's hot breath against his skin, but he nodded.
"Okay,"
"Okay?"
"Okay." Kurt wasn't fully convinced. After all, things had moved pretty quickly between them. It'd been only about a month since they'd first met and besides what they'd told each other, they didn't know much about the other. As if Blaine could read his mind, he sat up and pulled Kurt up after him, so that they were looking each other in the eye with the blankets draped over their legs.
"Kurt," he said without breaking contact with him. "Iwant you, okay? I want to take you out on cute dates and have dinner with your friends and your step brother as your boyfriend, and I want to have movie nights with you and sleep overs and stay up all night talking about pointless stuff. I want to be with you."
"I-" Kurt couldn't speak. No one had ever been so blunt about what they wanted with him. It made his heart swell in his chest and he wanted to cry from the sheer happiness. Finally, after almost a year, someone wanted him. "I want you too," he choked out. Blaine chuckled before kissing his cheek.
"I'm glad." he said. He moved his hands from where they had been grasping Kurt's in between their legs and stretched his arms over his head with a soft groan that filled the room. His shirt rode up a little over his hip and Kurt tried to focus on the wall because god those V-lines and the little trail of hair leading from Blaine's belly button to the waistband of his sweatpants made Kurt want to lean over and make out with him right there. There was no time for that, though. Now that Kurt knew; knew that Blaine wanted to be with him and wanted him, it was time to let the girls know, and Finn. Kurt was sure the girls would be happy for him, Rachel would probably want to throw a party, and Santana probably wouldn't show it but she didn't have to. He and Santana understood each other even without words, that was just how their relationship worked. Finn, on the other hand, was the one person who's reaction Kurt couldn't predict. How would he feel about his room mate and his brother (Kurt had dropped the 'step' part of it a long time ago) dating? I guess it's time to find out, I guess, Kurt thought.
"We uh.. we should get up. I have to let Rachel know I'm still alive," Kurt stood. The loss of heat from Blaine's body against his and the blanket on his bed made him shiver when the cool air in his room hit him, and he looked around for a sweater to wear while Blaine sat up again in bed.
"What do you mean?" Blaine asked, pulling a sweatshirt over his head.
"I kind of stormed out yesterday," Kurt said. "After.. what happened. I came home for a couple hours but then I left, and I didn't tell Rachel or Santana where I was going. I just left." Blaine could hear the guilt in his voice, and reluctantly threw the blankets off his lap and stood. Kurt turned and opened the door, walking into the hallway. Suddenly Blaine was really nervous. He'd already met both Rachel and Santana, but as Finn's roomy, not as Kurt's boyfriend. How would they react to seeing that Blaine and Kurt were together now? Or to the fact that he'd obviously spent the night?
He followed silently behind Kurt to the kitchen, taking in the apartment for the first time. It was nice, and just a little bigger than his and Finn's. The furniture made it look like home and Blaine guessed it had all been picked out by Kurt.
"Jesus, Rachel! Come on, you're using all the hot water!" Santana was standing in the kitchen, yelling down the hall towards where Blaine assumed was the bathroom when he and Kurt entered the room.
"Hummel, tell her to get the hell out of the shower before I go all Lima Heights on her -" Santana stopped in the middle of her sentence, taking in the sight before her. Blaine half expected Kurt to say something, but he didn't. Kurt and Santana just exchanged a look and then Santana moved her gaze to Blaine.
"Better take care of my boy," she said. Blaine nodded firmly but didn't say anything, and Santana looked from him to Kurt, then back again before nodding once more and moving out of the kitchen so she could resume yelling at Rachel to get out of the shower. Once she was out of the room Blaine let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding in.
"How did she.. she just knew." Blaine couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a question or a statement.
"Me and Santana are close, she just knows. I think she may have been expecting it for a while, anyway." Kurt said. He moved to the fridge and took out orange juice and then reached for a cup from the cabinet before sitting down at the table. "Are you hungry? We have a choice between cereal and cereal." He winked at Blaine and Blaine let out a little laugh.
"I'm okay," he said. "I should probably go home, let Finn know I'm alright. I didn't tell him I'd be out all night." Kurt felt himself flush with embarrassment. He would never let himself forget how drunk he'd been last night, and he promised himself he would never let it happen again, not around Blaine. Rachel came storming into the kitchen then, a towel wrapped around herself as she muttered profanities about Santana being pushy and ungrateful under her breath. She didn't notice Blaine sitting at the table across from Kurt.
"Rach?" Kurt chanced. He knew how she could get snappy when she was pissed, but he had to tell Rachel about Blaine before she heard through Finn, or else she wouldn't talk to him for weeks. Now was as good a time as any other.
"What?" She snapped, standing up from where she had previously been bent over rummaging in the fridge. She seemed to remember suddenly that it was Kurt, and her eyes softened and her tone changed. "You're home, good. I was so worried about you, are you okay? Do you wanna talk about it?" Kurt avoided her questions and dropped his arms from her waist.
"Rachel, you um. You remember Blaine, right?" Kurt hesitated. He knew that Rachel would be happy for him, but she didn't seem to notice Blaine standing next to him.
"Yeah.." She turned her head and mouthed an "oh!" when she noticed him. "Nice to see you, Blaine."
"Nice to see you," Blaine countered with a nod.
"Wait, what.. what are you doing here? You live with Finn." she said. God, Rachel wasn't stupid but sometimes she was so slow at catching on to things.
"You're right," Blaine laughed nervously. "I spent the night here." Way to be subtle, Kurt thought, shooting a look at Blaine who just shrugged.
"Oh," Rachel said, finally understanding. Kurt was glad he wouldn't have to spell it out for her. "So you two are.. together, then?" She asked with a raised eyebrow and a small smile playing across her mouth.
"Yes," Blaine said firmly, the biggest smile Kurt had ever seen on his face. He smiled too as Rachel moved to envelope him in a hug, squeezing his waist tight and squealing excitedly.
"Kurt! I'm so happy for you!" She squeaked. Kurt laughed.
"Thanks, Rach." She let go of his waist and turned to Blaine, a firm look on her face.
"You better not hurt him, mister." She said, jabbing a pointed finer into Blaine's chest. "Or I will hunt you down and kill you myself."
"I won't," Blaine said, holding three fingers up. "Scout's honor." He chanced a small smile.
"I prefer pinky promises." Rachel exclaimed, holding out a pinky towards him. He dropped his hand and interlocked his pinky with hers. "Pinky promise?" she asked.
"Pinky promise," he said, breathing a sigh of relief when Rachel's huge smile returned briefly before she dropped her hand and pulled him into a quick hug too.
Blaine left about an hour later leaving Kurt with a quick kiss, and Rachel followed him out, both of them headed for Finn's. Kurt was leaving it up to Blaine to deliver the news to Finn, and made him promise to call afterwards. Santana and Kurt were in the living room together, watching a movie on the couch, although neither of them were really watching it. Kurt was too busy worrying about how Finn would react to the news, and Santana was busy looking a Kurt.
"What?" Kurt asked after enduring five minutes of Santana's staring.
"Nothing, Hummel." She said, but Kurt didn't turn away. He knew there was something she wanted to say, so he waited. "I'm just.. are you sure about this? About Blaine?"
"About Blaine?" Kurt asked. "Of course I'm sure."
"You guys just met like a month and a half ago, ya know? What do you know about him besides the fact that he's Finn's room mate and he's apparently got money?" She asked.
"I know more about him than that, Santana. I didn't go into this relationship blind." Kurt snarled.
"I'm sorry, Kurt. I didn't mean it like that," She assured him. "It's.. I know I act like I don't care about anything, but I do. I care about you Kurt. Me and Rachel both saw what happened to you after Adam cheated on you, and I don't want that to happen again."
"It won't," Kurt said, even though he didn't know. How did he know Blaine wouldn't cheat on him? He didn't. But he wasn't gonna enter this relationship without trust. He had to trust that Blaine wouldn't do anything to hurt him. Their relationship was still new and there was a lot to learn about each other, and Kurt wasn't about to ruin it before he let that happen.
"Do you trust him?" Santana asked.
"Yeah," he said. "Yeah, Tana. I do."
"Then I trust him too," she stated. Kurt didn't say anything, he just shuffled in closer to her on the couch and cuddled into her side. Santana wasn't really an affectionate person and she didn't like talking about her feelings, which was why it had taken so long for her and Britney to finally get together, but she was good at showing them. She pulled Kurt closer and wrapped the blanket covering her shoulders around both of them, and they settled in together on the couch to watch the rest of the movie.