A/N: So, after getting lost in another city, I'm back home, with another chapter of the fic ready :)

Unfortunately, this will be the last chapter, before the epilogue, which I intend to write like a preview of the next part of this fic. I'm planning to start it next week, so expect it soon.

Chapter 10

Blaine woke up with the sunlight on his face. He took in the light and the sound of the birds outside. He was feeling tired, as much as someone who passed through emotional stress could feel. He then noticed a hand over his stomach. It was Kurt, curled up right next to him on the bed. Usually, they would sleep in different beds or in air mattresses, even after becoming boyfriends, but the situations of their last evening asked for them to be together in the same bed. As he brushed the sleep off his eyes, he remembered Kurt asking him if they could sleep in the same bed. "I need to be close to you" was what he could mostly remember Kurt saying.

He looked at the boy at his side. He was lying down on his stomach with his arm on Blaine's stomach, while Blaine was on his back. His face was as precious as an angel, with lips slightly red, long eyes lashes and rosy cheeks.

"You make me feel like I'm living a Teenage Dream" he sang as close as he could to Kurt's ear, in a very low tone, and the he nipped at the lobe.

Kurt made a small movement next to him, snoozed loudly and said "You need to stop being so happy when you wake up" snoozing again between words.

"Morning to you too, sleepy head" he continued, as he teased his boyfriend, by tracing a line that went from the top of his neck, through all of his back.

Kurt chuckled as it tickled him.

"It's unbelievable. You take a shower with a guy, and suddenly he thinks he can do whatever he wants with you. Including tickling" Kurt said, standing up from the bed, in an annoying tone, that was obviously fake.

Blaine seemed to be too distracted over something not to make a comeback. It suddenly hit Kurt that he was wearing nothing but Blaine's underwear, which made him blush. Suddenly, he seemed much more self-conscious than the day before.

"Stop looking at me like I'm a piece of meat" he said, trying to hide his embarrassment.

Blaine stood up as well, and tugged him by the waist, as he tried to get away from Blaine's grip.

"Well, it's too hard when you're like than In front of me" Blaine said, looking at Kurt from head to the waistband of his boxers, with a lustful look.

"I love your lack of chest hair. Unlike me" he said, right into Kurt's ear.

Kurt gave in to what he wanted and placed his arms around Blaine's waist.

"I remember once, when I was secretly in love with you, that we went shopping with Mercedes, and I helped you change. I remember all I wanted to do was this" he said, smiling and placing a chaste kiss on Blaine's lips, feeling happy for the intimacy they had. If it wasn't with Blaine, he would never be able to tell anyone this kind of thing.

"I remember that day too, but what I wanted to do in that occasion was more like this…" and he kissed Kurt full on the mouth, his tongue meeting Kurt's in both of their mouths, while raising his hands, to hold onto the boy's hair.

Kurt broke the kiss to look directly at Blaine's hazel eyes.

"I will miss this so much if you go to Italy" he said, suddenly looking down, as Blaine immediately let go of waist and looked down as well.

"And you have officially killed it" he said, sounding angrier than he actually was.

Kurt took his hands and looked at him, waiting for him to have any kind of negative reaction towards his act, but when it didn't come, he pulled Blaine, so they could both seat on the bed.

"I know you don't want to think about it, since the pressure is over you, not me, but I feel like you need to tell what you're thinking Blaine. Don't you think it's fair to let me know what you've decided?"

"I don't want to think about it because I don't even know what to think about it. I know it sounds weird, but I have really no idea, Kurt." he answered, looking at Kurt and holding tightly to his hands.

"If I tell him I accept, I'll go to Italy, live in there for a year, and then I'll get back and everything will be the same. That's in our mind, but what if it doesn't? What if I change? What if you change?"

Kurt didn't know what to say. When he told Blaine to consider going to Italy, he wasn't thinking about their present or their recent future. He was thinking far ahead, in a time no one knew what could happen. But, as he started to think about Blaine actually living in another country, far away from him, he couldn't stop being jealous. He knew that Blaine would potentially meet other great guys, and he knew that Blaine loved him, but what could stop him from falling in love with someone else?

He sighed, and decided to answer his boyfriend's question.

"I know it'll be hard, Blaine, but what I can promise you is something that I've been able to promise you since we were seven years old" he closed his eyes, took a deep breath and continued

"I promise you that I'll always be by your side when you need me. Even if you change your mind and you decide that you don't want me for your boyfriend anymore. I will always be there for you, as your best friend. You know, deep down, that we can do this, and you have to believe in that good feeling, not the bad ones. You know me, Blaine, and deep down you know that, no matter what happens, I will always love you in the end" he said, and as he finished, he gave Blaine, who was almost crying, a really tight hug.

Blaine broke the hug, kissing Kurt's temple and simply looked at him, with the same eyes he had ever looked at him, but with a different shine on them. It felt like seeing for the first time.

"Thank you for being the most amazing person I know. I really hope that we can make it, so when I come back there will be the most amazing person here waiting for me. My best friend will be in here, but also the boy… the man I love. It'll be hard for me to be away from you during a year, but it would kill me having to live without you for the rest of my life. If I go, when I come back I know I'll be able to say to you that I love you like never before. I'll always love you in the end" Blaine said, and with a sigh, he continued,

"I'm going to Italy for one year, and then I'll come back home, to you"

Now, all Blaine had to do was speak to his father. After his decision earlier, everything he had to do, related to his trip, sounded much easier. The decision was the hard part, but luckily, Kurt made everything easier for him. It would be hard, he knew, but he knew he would always have Kurt, no matter what happened to both of them.

"Dad, can I speak to you?" he asked, by the door of his father's office. He was feeling tense about the conversation he would have, but anxious at the same time.

His father looked at him from his chair, and simply made a gesture for him to enter and sit down. As he seated, Robert looked at him.

"So, you have your decision made?" he asked

"Yes, I do. I've considered what would be better for me, right now and after that, and I decided to accept your offer" he answered. He knew that would have to be as polite as he could, in the situation his was finding himself, so he practiced his speech long enough to leave any detail of Kurt in it.

His father looked at him with a surprised expression, and when he was about to start talking, Blaine continued.

"But I'd like you to keep your promise, dad. You're my father, and I know you're trying to push me further. I know you know you're manipulating me, but even though you're doing it, I wanna be able to give you some pride. You'll be able to tell all of your friends that your only son studied in Europe, meanwhile, you'll leave me alone to live my life for the rest of it, in the way I decide is better for me"

He kept looking at his father, waiting nervously for his reaction, when the man smirked at him.

"I'm a man of my word, Blaine, and if I told you I'll never induce you to do anything you don't want to for the rest of your life, I'm telling you the truth. But, live this year in Italy, and then we can talk about it when you come back"

Blaine knew that, in Robert's mind, he still felt like he could change drastically in Italy, but deep down, he knew that, even if he changed, there was something inside that never would. And that was his love for Kurt.

It was finally summer break, and the boys were planning to have all the fun they could, before Blaine went to Italy. They were seeing each other almost every day and sleeping in each other's houses every weekend. It was just like any other summer break for them, except for the fact that it was their first as boyfriends, and also the first one when they knew they wouldn't be going back to McKinley together.

Blaine didn't want to think about leaving Kurt behind, and one of the things that made him feel a little better, was to include Kurt in every preparation of his trip. He would be living in Florence, with a high school program where they had several courses directed to the areas he wanted to study, and now, the only thing left for him to see, was the apartment he would be living in.

It was Thursday night, and they were meeting on Friday, at Mercedes' house, where there would be a pool party with the whole New Directions. It was getting closer and closer to the day Blaine would have to leave, and he wanted to spend as much time as he could with his friends, and his boyfriend.

As Kurt did his moisturizing routine, he heard Blaine's ringtone on his phone. He took it from his vanity and answered after the first ring.

"Hey, I was just ending the moisturizing routine" he said, as he answered it.

"Sorry, I miscalculated. Thought it would be already over by now" Blaine said, smiling on the other side of the phone.

"So, what's up?" Kurt asked, distracted with the products above his vanity.

"Nothing, I was just thinking about you. I kinda felt the need to hear your voice"

Kurt felt his heart swell with several different emotions.

"And I was thinking about us" he said.

"Maybe our minds really are connected" Blaine joked, turning on his TV, as he continued, "there's actually something I wanted to ask you, before I see you tomorrow"

Kurt got out of his chair and lay down on the bed. Turning on the TV, just like Blaine, he continued "okay, ask me then" he said, trying to sound a bit calmer than he truly was.

"Well, you knew that the photos of the apartment would be getting to my email tonight, right?" he asked, in excitement.

"Yes Blaine, I knew it and you're just making me curious now"

"Well, I got to see them and I wanted to show you. It's really incredible, with a huge bedroom, and a living room to kill for" he said.

"Oh, sure, kill your boyfriend's good mood by telling him everything about your great new apartment, when he has to live with his step brother's smelly socks" Kurt said, as sarcastic as ever.

"Shut up and listen to the rest of it" Blaine said, and as he heard a "fine" from Kurt, he continued.

"What I wanted to ask you was… if you wanted to come here after Mercedes' party, so you can look at the pictures with me, you know… since you're decorating it" he finally said, grinning just from imagining the look on Kurt's face.

Kurt's smile started widening as he listened to his boyfriend speaking.

"Are you serious?"

"About what part?" Blaine asked, smiling to himself.

"Well, everything, of course. But mostly, the last part"

"Oh yeah, it's true, all of it. Come to my house tomorrow and then I'll show you every photograph" he said.

"Of course I will. Oh my god, Blaine, I can't believe you're letting me decorate your apartment, baby! I already have so many ideas. I'll bring every single magazine I have in my house so you can give a look at the décor on them, and pick one that you prefer. We can even match it with your eyes. No wait that's tacky, but your eyes have a great color"

"Wow! I'm so glad I woke the decoration monster" Blaine said, laughing.

"Alright then, I hope you live in shitty apartments for the rest of your life, Blaine Anderson"

"But you can't do that, cause it would mean that you'd be living in shitty apartments as well" Blaine said, only realizing the meaning behind what he had said after actually saying it.

There was a silence on the other side of the phone, and he was hoping that Kurt wouldn't start to freak out about what he had just said, but after a moment of mutual silence, Kurt finally spoke.

"We wouldn't want that, right?"

"No, we wouldn't"

"I'll sleep now, so I can wake up fresh and ready to decorate"

"Okay now, bye, and don't forget that I love you"

"I'll never forget it. I love you too, Blaine"

Mercedes' party had everything to be perfect, until it started raining. The girls who were standing in the sun started to run inside the house, while the boys, who were by the pool, started to get out and run after the girls. As they got inside, Mercedes took a bunch of towels and gave them to get dry and get changed. After that, they all stood in her living room, watching the rain from the windows, and singing together, as Puck, Sam and Blaine played guitar.

As Kurt observed his friends, he could see some details about them, such as the ones who were smiling to the song, the ones who were concentrated and thoughtful, and the ones who were so obviously together. Rachel was placed between Finn's legs, while his arms were around her waist. Mercedes couldn't keep her eyes out of Sam, and every time their eyes met, they would both smile and look at another direction. Brittany and Santana had their pinkies intertwined, as Santana's head rested on the blonde's shoulder. Mike and Tina, as always, were kissing and looking at each other like they were alone in the room. Quinn couldn't take her eyes away from Puck, who would often look at her and give a smile.

As for Blaine, he couldn't stop looking at Kurt, and as he kept his gaze in his boyfriend, the more he felt like they were the only ones in the world. In love, and together forever.

Being a rich boy wasn't as easy as it seemed to be. In spite of having many advantages, he had the pressure to fit in the society their parents lived in. He was going to live in another country in order of that. But, with his friends, he could feel normal, like his money was the least important thing about him. He was treated like everyone else, and being like everyone else, with his friends, was what made him happy.

"Come on, Kurt, I need to sleep now. I didn't know it would take so long for you to choose a pillow case color for my bed" Blaine said, from the bed, while Kurt was placed in the study table, with the laptop on, choosing a palate of colors.

He turned around and showed a picture of a men's bedroom to Blaine, completely ignoring the other boy's complaints.

"Do you prefer this shade of brown, from this bed?" he asked, looking at Blaine.

"What I prefer right now is this bed, and me sleeping on it. Right now"

Kurt kept looking at him, and decided to make some questions that were disturbing him in the past few weeks.

He left the chair he was seated and lied down next to Blaine, on his bed. As the other boy looked at him, he held his cheek with his palm, and sighed.

"Blaine?" he asked

"Yes?"

"Can I ask you something?"

"Well, you asked me two somethings already. Go ahead and make a third question" Blaine answered, closing his eyes to the feel of Kurt's hand on his face.

"Do you think I would be able to stay with you? You know, not right now, but on winter break or something… I don't know, but I wanna be able to be with you for your birthday and stuff like that. I want us to be together in the special occasions that we never spent apart since we've known each other. It's quite important to me"

Blaine opened his eyes to look at Kurt, but instead of answering him, he kissed the boy, passionately on the mouth, and then kissing his forehead.

"Why do you think my mother made my father spend so much money on this? And why do you that one of the first rules she declared on him, was that he couldn't control my guests?"

"So, is that a yes?"

Blaine chuckled lightly and pinched Kurt's nose.

"Of course it's a yes. I already have so much planned for us in there. And why do you think my bed is king size, and the only thing I wanted to buy alone?"

Kurt suddenly felt his cheeks heat, and gave Blaine a shy smile.

"Okay, now we can sleep"

"Oh, finally!"

The airport was crowded, as many people seemed to return home from their summer trips. Even though he could see a lot of happy faces around him, Blaine wasn't feeling happy at all. He felt like he was saying goodbye to a part of his life, saying goodbye to people that stood behind him in the times he mostly needed. He felt like saying goodbye to his best friend, the love of his life. He felt brokenhearted.

"Don't be like that, Blaine. Think about what's waiting for you next year, honey" her mother said, holding his hand and smiling at him.

He looked at her and gave her a shy smile.

"Mom, can I ask you something?"

She raised his hand and kissed his knuckles.

"Of course honey"

"What would you have done if I've asked you to interfere in this?"

Emily seemed to consider for a moment, but then she motioned for him to sit down in one of the chairs next to them.

"I would have done anything for you, honey, if I knew that, in the end, you wouldn't blame yourself for what I had done. I would've interfered in any moment, if I knew that it wouldn't kill you later" she said, kissing his forehead.

"It kills me to see you go, but I promise you that, while you're in Florence, I'll do my best to make sure you'll be happy for the rest of your life. I know that you're strong, and you can do it, honey." She continued and, as she looked at the movement around, she saw a boy wearing black skinny jeans with a purple button down shirt and a black coat. She smiled at the sight.

"I'll leave you alone to talk to him now" she said, standing up and going in the direction Robert went to buy them some coffee.

"You thought I wouldn't come?" the boy asked, now standing in front of Blaine, biting his lower lip, in a pure demonstration of anxiety.

Blaine stood up and took the boy's hands, smiling.

"I knew you'd come, Kurt" he said, as he placed his hands in the boy's hips, approximating from him, and kissing him on the mouth, in front of the whole airport, not even caring about the glances they were receiving, or even if his dad could see it.

If it was any other circumstance, he would've heard a 'Blaine, stop with the PDA' from Kurt. But in that moment, a kiss from Blaine was all Kurt could ask for.

"So, have you checked in already?" Kurt asked, cupping Blaine's cheeks with the palm of his hands.

"Yeah, but I still have some time for coffee" he answered

"You always have time for coffee, don't you" Kurt joked, as Blaine seemed to search for something inside his pocket.

"What is it Blaine?" Kurt asked, when he saw that he was looking for something that was inside his jacket pocket.

As Blaine took out a robin egg blue box from inside his pocket, Kurt's eyes widened.

"Blaine Anderson, what do you think you're doing?" he asked, stunned by Blaine's action.

Blaine smiled and opened the box. Inside, there was a silver ring, much more beautiful and delicate than Kurt would've expected, if he had ever expected it.

"When you gave me the bracelet, I wanted to give you something too, but I didn't know exactly what. So, when I was at New York last week, for the closing of my mother's exposition, I saw it at Tiffany's and fell in love with it. Look, it has something engraved inside" he said, giving the box to Kurt, so he could take the ring and look at it.

When Kurt saw what was engraved inside, a single tear fell from his eyes.

It said Since we were seven and forever with a B next to it.

"It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen" Kurt said, grinning at his boyfriend.

"I thought it could be a symbol for us. Like a promise ring. That's why it has my first letter inside. Every time we get sad or lonely, or even when we want to give up on everything, we can look at it and remember we have each other."

"But… you don't have one" Kurt said, looking rather confused, wiping his tears away with the sleeves of his coat.

Blaine took another silver ring from his jeans pocket. It was exactly the same as Kurt's, except for the K engraved inside, instead of a B.

"Well, I was kinda hoping you could put it on me"

He gave the ring to Kurt, who placed it on his ring finger, grinning while he did it, never leaving his eyes from Blaine's.

As Blaine did the same to him, he kissed his hand.

"One day, it'll be in the other hand" Blaine said, pulling the boy closer to him and hugging him tight.

"I'm never saying goodbye to you" was the last thing he heard Kurt say in that day.

As the houses and buildings of Ohio turned smaller from the plane, Blaine could only think about Kurt. He lifted his hand, and kissed his knuckles, right in the place where his ring was.

"I will love you till the end, Kurt"

A/N: I know that some of you wanted Blaine to stay, but I just couldn't keep it from following the track originally had planned. So for the ones who got sad over the result, but I promise you that the next one will have great and cotton candy fluff Klaine all over :)

Thank you so much for reading and reviewing