I was meant to post this yesterday but I got so caught up with the olympic torch relay in my city and finishing Supernatural it got too late... This chapter is mainly a filler chapter for Klaine .. I also apologise in advance for any mistakes with New York i've only been there once and it was winter so my summer central park knowledge is limited, if anything is majorly wrong feel free to point it out, that goes for the rest of the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the original glee characters =)
Blaine awoke the next morning with a vague memory of the night before and no clue where he was. He slowly sat up taking a cautious look around the room, clean, stylish, modern, full desk in the corner. Suddenly he heard singing, a female voice, shit he thought, he was lying in a bed, naked, with a chirpy sounding girl outside. He'd actually done it, hit rock bottom with a one-night stand that he couldn't even remember. He knew he'd drank a lot last night, after Cooper insisted finding a club, but he surely didn't recall a girl in his murky memories.
Blaine groaned and fell back into the pillows trying to formulate a plan on how to get out of there as quickly as possible. After settling on the lowest excuse, family emergency, he swung his legs out of the bed deciding it was time to face the music, quite literally. As he proceeded to stand up, looking for his clothes, he noticed picture frames on a bedside table. Deciding he at least had to know who the mysterious girl he was about to run out on was, he walked around the other side of the bed to get a closer look. Sure enough there in the picture was a young woman, but she was not the only one in it, there standing next to her, with a huge dazzling smile, Kurt. Blaine picked up another photo frame situated on the other side of the table, Kurt again, this time the woman was not in it just Kurt and an older man, his father Blaine guessed. He placed the frame back on the table and sat back down on the bed, this was definitely no unknown woman's room, this was Kurt's room.
Blaine sat completely still, his search of clothes forgotten, why was he in Kurt's bed naked! He still couldn't remember the end of last night, the only explanation he could possibly come up with was that maybe he'd come onto Kurt when he was drunk, and he always got handsy with alcohol in his system. Blaine caught himself smiling at the thought of being that close to Kurt, the smile however quickly faded, was he on some kind of self-destruction mission? He could not have hooked up with his manager, he could not throw away his career, anyway he was straight, well he thought he was. Blaine had never really explored his sexuality, he'd gotten any girl he wanted with a click of his fingers and throughout his life he had never really been single. There was just something about Kurt that made him question his whole life before, maybe that's why none of his relationships had worked out, maybe he was gay or bi at the least (he actually couldn't forget the few women he loved, like Kayla). Blaine actually didn't mind if something had happened last night, he was kind of hoping it did.
Meanwhile outside the bedroom Kurt was sitting at the island counter coffee mug in hand, Rachel came skipping out of her own bedroom singing. Kurt noticed how quiet it really was without Rachel, vowing to relish in it when she was next gone. She had just gotten in from Ohio yesterday evening, Kurt hadn't even noticed she was back until he'd seen her signature red jacket hanging up in the hallway late last night.
"Rachel!" Kurt whispered harshly, "Stop singing you'll wake him." Kurt groaned it was now proven that Kurt, early mornings and Rachel equalled no filter, she was sure to pick up on the 'him' of the sentence. Rachel immediately stopped singing and titled her head giving Kurt a curious expression. Kurt sighed knowing that if he didn't tell her she'd either never leave him alone or go in the room herself, he was just giving her time to process and ask the question, 5… 4… 3… 2…
"Wake him up? Who's him? Why is he in your room? Why is he asleep in your room? Is something going on?" Rachel gushed out.
"Jesus Rach one question at a time please."
"Fine" Rachel huffed, "Who is he?"
"His name is Blaine, I signed him yesterday," Kurt explained.
"Do you bring all your newly signed artists to your bedroom? Because I sure don't remember Santana sneaking out" Rachel deadpanned.
Kurt glared at her, "If you don't want to know then I won't waste my time" Kurt snapped rising from the bar stool.
Rachel dragged him back down by the shirt "No I want to know, I just don't want a Tyler repeat. How long have you actually known this guy?" she asked softly.
"Since Saturday. And before you get all judgemental I never slept with him!" Kurt took a sip of his coffee to calm himself down before continuing. "Plus I trust him, he's Cooper's brother and is under contract it's not like he's going to leave. Anyway nothing will ever happen he's straight. So case closed."
Rachel just gawked at him, "I'm just trying to look out for you Kurt. So onto a more important note, you signed him right?" Kurt confirmed with a nod, "So are you telling me that a potential star is in our apartment now." The benefit of having a best friend as a record label owner was that she got to become friends with the singers and raise her own profile.
All conversation was over when they heard shuffling coming from Kurt's bedroom.
"Rachel" Kurt hissed, "Go! I need to talk to him alone."
With a pout Rachel begrudgingly walked towards her own bedroom. Blaine walked out of Kurt's room, minus a t-shirt, and stood awkwardly in the middle of the room.
"Uh..." he started to speak while rubbing the back of his neck "I, er, can't find my top."
Kurt just about caught Blaine's sentence, he couldn't pull his eyes away from Blaine's perfectly defined torso. He blushed when Blaine noticed that he wasn't looking at his face.
"Oh t-shirt" Kurt quickly shot up heading towards the couch "It's over here I think. You seem to turn into a stripper when drunk."
Blaine blushed "Yeah sometimes that happens. I've been told many of times that I could make decent money with it" Blaine feebly attempted to joke.
"Aha!" Kurt called triumphantly pulling the item of clothing from behind the sofa. "Here it is" he threw the top at Blaine who immediately threw it over his head.
"I want to apologise for anything I might've done last night" Blaine said sheepishly, "I'm not the worlds best drunk, I shouldn't have agreed to go with Coop."
"It's absolutely fine I kind of enjoyed myself, it was fun."
"About last night, did anything... With us?" he questioned embarrassedly.
Kurt stood confused for a second "Oh no! No! Nothing happened. You were in no condition to go home alone and after Cooper said something about an expensive rug I offered for you to come back with me. I gave you my bed as a precaution, after how much I seen you drink, as its closer to the bathroom."
Blaine felt a weird sadness when he learnt that nothing had actually happened. He knew that he'd ought to be glad but a part of him wished that something had happened so he could overcome the awkwardness and confusion.
"Oh okay" Blaine shifted on his feet, "well I guess I should leave you in peace" he said heading towards the apartment door.
"No you don't" Kurt called after him "I'm kind of your boss now and I've decided that me and you are going to spend the day together and get to know each other."
Blaine grinned at the fact that he wouldn't have to leave Kurt after all, and spending a whole day with him things were finally going his way.
"Sure we could do that. I can't defy management orders now, can I?" Blaine teased with a smirk.
Kurt could swear there and then that that smirk was going to be the death of him. "Okay" he laughed grabbing his wallet and keys, "decent coffee first though!"
After Blaine and Kurt had found a coffee shop on which they both agreed on they walked the streets of New York.
"I thought we could maybe start out getting to know each other at the park. It seems only fitting as that's were we first met" Kurt explained. Even though it didn't before the park now held a special place in his heart since Blaine fell into his life.
"Seems only fitting. So where in the park?"
"Erm I was thinking the tavern on the green," with agreement from Blaine they made their way to the tavern on the green and sat down in a shaded area.
"So, Kurt, I already know the basics and what Wikipedia taught me but I suppose we should start over as our first conversation didn't go exactly to plan" Blaine began.
"Okay" Kurt nodded, basics he could do that. "Kurt Hummel, 25, I went to NYU after failing to get a NYADA place. I'm originally from Lima, Ohio, survived McKinley, currently work as a music producer and I live with my roommate Rachel."
Blaine stated at Kurt mentally noting everything down about the man. "Wow that was basic" Blaine stated surprised, "I suppose I should retell my basics. Blaine Anderson..."
"Wait" Kurt interrupted, "It's definitely is Anderson? I know your Cooper's brother but I didn't want to assume you had to have the same name. It's just that your Facebook said Warbler." Kurt mentally shouted at himself, why did you mention Facebook; he's going to think you've been stalking him!
"Facebook?" Blaine questioned with a teasing tone "Been checking me out?"
Kurt stuttered trying to find the words to explain himself without sounding like a complete stalker. "Well erm... I had to check for safety, you could've lied and been a serial killer for all I knew."
Blaine chuckled "Nope sorry. So anyway Blaine ANDERSON, 24, originally from Westerville, Ohio, I attended Dalton, as you know, studied law in Chicago and moved out here after graduation. You know Cooper, I also have two roommates Puck and Mike."
"Puck?" Kurt questioned, the name sounding so familiar.
"Well Puck to us he's actually named Noah Puckerman."
"Hmmm... It's just I used to know a Puck in NYU studying music, he was there for about 2 semesters then he was never seen again. Probably a different one Puck is a fairly common nickname I guess."
"It probably actually is the same Puck to be honest" Blaine laughed, "He doesn't tend to stick at jobs or education for too long. However stick him in a room with his guitar and he'd be there for hours."
"So law" Kurt prompted dismissing the Puck led conversation, he was here to know about Blaine and he needed to know more.
"Yeah wasn't really my thing you know?" Blaine shrugged.
"So why study it in the first place?" Kurt knew he was close to overstepping a line but he had to figure Blaine out.
"My father" Blaine sighed "He wanted me and Coop to follow in his footsteps and become respectable. Don't get me wrong I loved studying law but doing that everyday for the rest of my life? It would've killed me and I really like living."
"I'm sorry" Kurt said taking Blaine's hands into his own, "I couldn't imagine what that must be like."
"Well the past is the past" Blaine shrugged, "So Rachel? I presume that was the girl I heard singing this morning" Blaine asked desperate to turn the conversation away from his father.
"That assumption would be correct. I've known her since high school; she's really alright once you get past the whole annoying aspect of her. Sorry if she woke you up with the singing, she's currently staring in Chicago so she was practicing."
"Chicago? I swear I've heard her voice somewhere before" Blaine speculated.
"Well she's done other stuff on Broadway. She was actually lead for most of our competitions in Glee maybe that's were you heard her."
"Hmm possibly. Wait!" Blaine exclaimed finally thinking he'd figured it all out, "was she the one who always sang with the freakishly tall dude?"
Kurt nearly choked with laughter, why did everyone always remember Rachel through Finn and Finn though Rachel?
"Yeah Finn. He's my stepbrother actually."
"Really?" Blaine asked shocked "Did you need higher doors?" He questioned again this time more seriously.
"He's not that tall. Case of small man syndrome there?" Kurt teased.
Ignoring the joke about his height Blaine carried on "She had quite a set of lungs on her back then, is she still like that now?"
"On Broadway I would certainly hope so."
"I'd really love to collaborate with her someday" Blaine mused.
Great a crush on Rachel already Kurt sighed, what kind of magnet does that girl have?
"We'll see" Kurt murmured knowing that Rachel would be more than happy to oblige if it meant gaining publicity.
"So any idea's about what you'd like to do music wise?" Kurt asked desperate to move the subject away from Rachel.
"Mmmm" Blaine hummed, "We'll I've been writing few songs, one is actually nearly done" thanks to you Blaine added on as an afterthought.
"Oh the mysterious original song you promised can't wait."
"Trust me you'll be the first one to hear it" Blaine promised "I'm actually curious as to when I'll meet the famous Santana Lopez, Cooper's talked about her in an interesting way to say the least."
Kurt gave a small laugh, "Trust me Cooper is not exaggerating when it comes to San, everything he says is most likely true."
Blaine looked truly shocked at this statement; he'd heard the tabloid rumors plus the rumors from his brother but when exactly was either reliable sources of information? Cooper always exaggerated, he'd spoken of Kurt in the past describing him as a control freak always uptight but Blaine couldn't see it Kurt was always so relaxed and cheerful. He'd been particularly excited about meeting Santana, she was such an inspiration to Blaine, the classic rags to riches story but with the added bonus of exceptional talent, he refused to believe that she was a big of a bitch as Cooper had described her. Kurt confirming this was starting to make him want to hide now, he had heard the stories of her making many journalists and presenters cry (after all he didn't live under a rock) but he always assumed they'd all been exaggerating. Blaine like to always believe the best in people he knew this set him up for a lot of disappointment but he truly believed that everyone deserved a chance in this world. Blaine was tough, he was used to getting knocked down by strangers and even by the ones he loved but even himself probably couldn't take a criticism from Santana.
Kurt caught the horrified expression on Blaine's face, "Don't worry even though she can be a bit forward and frankly, yeah, a major bitch, she's actually quite nice when you get to know her beyond her tough shell. It's a barrier, like a defence mechanism I guess, she was so used to being told she wasn't good enough and being knocked down she simply toughened up. One thing you must know Blaine, you have to be ruthless to survive this industry, be honest with not just other people but also yourself."
Blaine relaxed slightly, if he just turned his charm to full capacity he may just survive, plus he had Kurt on his side if anything went majorly wrong.
Kurt and Blaine sat for a while even grabbing lunch from a vendor, which turned into a shared lunch both eating bites from one another's food like old friends. After the same waitress had flirted with Blaine for the fourth time that day, they both felt it was a sign for them to move location. They both headed for the lake, an unspoken mutual agreement between the pair, finding a bench to rest on.
"You know I've been so caught up in living a New York life I've completely forgotten the biggest beauty of it, the park" Kurt murmured just loud enough for Blaine to hear. Blaine had to resist the urge to tell Kurt he was wrong and that he was actually the biggest beauty of the city.
"It's so peaceful and simple. I think this is the one place in the city where everyone is content and just enjoying life. No annoyed workers or noisy traffic." Kurt continued looking out over the lake while resting his head on Blaine's shoulder.
Blaine stiffened slightly at Kurt's actions, it seemed so personal yet so friendly. Kurt was a puzzle that Blaine was no closer to figuring out. One minute he could be distant and reserved the next he was close and literally lying on him. Blaine couldn't stop himself from inhaling the smell of Kurt's hair just feeling so relaxed like this was his life past, present and future.
Blaine kind of wished that he and Kurt could stay like this forever, he pondered again what these feelings could actually mean, was he just seeing Kurt as some sort of emotional rebound after Kayla? Blaine didn't want to waste anymore time worrying about something so trivial, deciding what will be will be. He followed Kurt's action, praying he wasn't overstepping any unsaid boundaries, and laid his head against Kurt's just watching the rowers on the water.
To any passer by the pair would have looked like a couple, young high school sweethearts maybe, taking time out from any drama in their lives just to be with each other, truly happy they'd found love and managed to keep hold of it. But to Kurt and Blaine the gesture was a simple boundary test, both unsure were they stood and what the other was thinking or maybe even feeling. Both knew that it was probably not the best idea to let their emotions control them especially as they were now working together, it didn't however stop either of them from hoping.
Thanks for reading ... Also i'd like to thank all those who have added the story to their favourites and alerts, theres been so many it means a lot