Author's Note:

Hello! This is the penultimate Christmas Klaine Fic for the second album. *sniff* I have really enjoyed writing these and I hope that you have enjoyed reading them just as much. :D

This story is going to be set at the time that Klaine are at now in Season 3, so not future or small Klaine. I am actually looking forward to writing it because I haven't written much present Klaine. So this should be fun! :D

I am currently enjoying beta-ing for my beta, alexagirl18, she is currently writing drabble nonstop, she has become addicted to it. Her New Year's resolution is to post a Drabble a Day, which is the name of the fic! Go check it out! :D

Also, another close friend of mine, Lily Criss, is currently working on a good Klaine fic, so go and read it! :D

Some of the characters are from the Daltonverse created by CP Coulter, mainly Shane.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, not a pine needle.

"It won't be too bad." Kurt said, trying to free Blaine's hair of gel.

They were lying on Kurt's bed, Blaine with his head on Kurt's stomach, and Kurt was, trying to break Blaine's hair out from its case of gel with the premise of stroking it.

"Are you serious?" Blaine said, opening his eyes and looking up at Kurt. "Christmas with my family. It is going to be so awkward."

"Are they all…like your dad?" Kurt said, not sure of how to phrase the question.

"No, not all of them." Blaine said, slight relief in his voice. "My cousins and my mom's family are ok. Some of my dad's siblings are fine, they are getting better."

"So is your dad the worst?" Kurt asked, he felt sorry for his boyfriend. He has the best father in the world, he was accepting and loving and open minded. Yet, here was Blaine with a father who was the complete opposite. Kurt had witnessed the awkward conversations that they had about football and school on a couple of occasions.

"Yeah, I suppose so." Blaine chuckled, almost sarcastically, if that was possible. "And he's the one that has two gay sons."

"Does he know about Shane?" Kurt asked, surprised, he didn't think that Mr. Anderson knew yet.

"Oh no, not yet." Blaine said, shaking his head slightly. "But I think that he has his suspicions. Reed is over a lot at weekends and during holidays, and he isn't always very…subtle."

"You said that before about Micah." Kurt said. "You would think that he would learn."

"Hmm…part of me thinks that he wants to be caught though. That would make it a damn lot easier. He wouldn't be asked questions about girlfriends every time he comes home, no girls being thrust at him at family parties, no favouritism from our father…" Blaine mused. "But I hate to think what would happen to Reed if dad did catch them…"

"Shane wouldn't let him get hurt; you can tell that just from watching them when they're together." Kurt said. The way that Shane watched Reed was full of love, but also quite intense, yet subtle. It looked like he was watching for any signs of Reed about to fall or trip or hurt himself so he could be there to stop it. There was no way that Shane would let Reed get hurt at the mercy of his father, he would do everything in his power to stop it.

"Yeah, but also what it would do to Reed mentally, but then, Reed is stronger than he looks." Blaine said, coming to the conclusion that it would be ok, and he should stop worrying, or worry less, about his brother. "It still doesn't solve my problem of having a terrible Christmas."

"No, but then neither does you telling me that it's going to be terrible." Kurt said, smiling down at Blaine. He had almost managed to set Blaine's hair free.

"I suppose not." Blaine said. "Can't you come with me?"

"No, Blaine; that would make it much more awkward." Kurt said. "Can you imagine your dad's distress?"

"That would be quite funny." Blaine said; laughing at the image of his father getting all uppity at Kurt and Blaine being together, whilst he knew that there was nothing he could do about Kurt coming.

"You could always just make your dad feel as uncomfortable as possible, that would also be entertaining." Kurt suggested, he thought that, although he loved Bkaine and wanted to spend as much time with him as possible, Blaine should spend Christmas with his family this year. Yes, it was his first Christmas with Kurt as boyfriends, but they could have many, whereas, this time next year, Blaine's family's dynamic was bound to change. If and when Shane came out to his parents, who knew what would happen. Would Blaine get the blame for 'converting' his brother? Would his dad even speak to them? Would his family be torn apart because of his dad's views? Kurt thought that Blaine should at least have one remotely happy time with his family before it changed.

"I guess I'll have to settle for that then." Blaine said, knowing that no matter what, he was spending Christmas with his family.

About to take off. I'll text you when we're grounded again. Wish me luck. Love you. B x

Kurt read the text as soon as it arrived, he had had his phone glued into his palm ever since lunchtime. It was the day before Christmas Eve, and not only was Kurt bored, but he was missing his boyfriend. He didn't think that it was possible to miss someone this much. He had only said goodbye to him this morning.

Blaine came over at eight o'clock, before Kurt was awake, let alone ready to leave the house. But Blaine knocked on the door and was let in by Burt, who greeted him warmly, but with surprise. He was used to Blaine turning up, but not usually this early on a day that wasn't a school day. Burt was up though, because he had a car that he needed to finish working on before Christmas. Burt let Blaine go straight up and wake Kurt, although he had to stop himself asking for a picture of the look on Kurt's face.

Blaine climbed the stairs, praying that the room that he thought was Kurt's, was, even though it couldn't have changed in a day. He knocked on the door and there was a grunt from inside. Blaine knew that Kurt wouldn't have opened his eyes so he was safe to go in unnoticed. He stepped inside and walked over to the bed and knelt down beside it. He kissed Kurt on the cheek.

"Good morning, gorgeous." Blaine said happily, awaiting the reaction from Kurt.

"Hmm…" Kurt said sleepily, then he realised what had just happened. No one kissed him or called him gorgeous apart from Blaine. He sat bolt upright abruptly.

"Blaine!" Kurt squealed, either from delight or shock. "Oh my god! What are you doing here?"

"I came to take you out for breakfast on the last day that I shall be with you before after Christmas." Blaine explained, putting one hand on the back of Kurt's head and kissing his forehead.

"But-but you didn't tell me!" Kurt exclaimed.

"That's what makes it a surprise," Blaine said smugly and happily.

"But I'm unprepared! I'm not ready to see you! I'm a mess!" Kurt said frantically, waving his arms around him.

"If we move to New York together, I'll see you like this every day." Blaine reasoned, getting an annoyed look from Kurt.

"Yes, but you don't need to see me like this now." Kurt moaned.

"I want to. You look cute when you've just woken up." Blaine said, smiling at Kurt.

"No! No! I'm not cute!" Kurt said, actually sticking his fingers in his ears.

"I beg to differ…" Blaine said quietly, knowing that Kurt could still hear him. Slowly, Kurt removed his fingers from his ears, still looking at Blaine suspiciously.

"You know that you're going to have to leave the room whilst I get dressed…" Kurt said, subtly hinting to Blaine that he was going to get ready as he usually did, even though he had turned up.

"Aw, really?" Blaine said mischievously.

"Yes, Blaine!" Kurt said, grinning despite his outraged tone.

"Damn." Blaine said, getting up from the bed. "I guess I'll go downstairs then."

"Bye!" Kurt said as Blaine kissed him on the had gone to the Lima Bean for breakfast, they talked over their plans for Christmas again, when they would phone and have Skype conversations. Blaine was looking forward to these sessions; he could get away from his family for at least half an hour and spend it with Kurt.

Kurt quickly replied to Blaine's text, telling him to make the plane go at lightning speed so that they talk sooner. Blaine smiled at this when he received it, glad not to be the only one who was missing the other. Shane noticed this smile and started bombarding his brother with questions.

"Is that from Kurt? What does he say? Where is he? Have you heard anything from Reed?" Shane asked very quickly. He was sat across from Blaine in the jet, he was anxiously awaiting news from Reed, but he knew that he wouldn't get any before they landed. Reed was flying to New York, he had left an hour before Blaine and Shane, and his flight landed just before, so he couldn't text Shane. Also, Shane had stupidly put his phone in his suitcase that had his uniform in, that had been sent ahead of them.

"Um…yes…not saying...at his house and no, isn't he still flying?" Blaine answered slowly, trying to remember all of the things that Shane had asked him.

"Yeah…" Shane said, his voice full of longing.

"You can text him when we land, before the madness starts." Blaine said, he was secretly happy that Shane couldn't text Reed.

"Damn. I'd almost forgotten about that." Shane said. He put in his earphones and listened to his iPod for the rest of the flight. Blaine did the same, they were both dreading the next few days, the only people that they could rely on to be easy to be around were each other, so they had plenty of time to talk later.

When the plane landed, they got off as quickly as they could, so that they could have some chance of contacting their significant others. Blaine had composed the text he wanted to send to Kurt before they had got off the plane, so he just pressed send as soon as he stepped out of it. Shane practically ran into the airport to find a pay phone so he could call Reed.

When they finally left the airport, they got into the car that was waiting for them and it drove them to the Andersons' winter home.

Kurt had been trying to do homework to fill the time when Blaine was flying, but he couldn't his mind kept straying and he found himself typing things like : 'I think that this could be improved by planes should move faster', 'The way the character displays their longing for their boyfriend to get a signal or internet connection' and 'In Romeo and Juliet, the character of Blaine is portrayed as courageous and loving, and the character of Kurt looks up to Blaine, and loves him from the moment he sang Teenage Dream.'

He gave up eventually and went online. He made the mistake of getting into a conversation with Rachel about Finn, he had to say that Blaine had arrived and they were going to have a make out session, but even then she was reluctant. Luckily she didn't know that he was away for Christmas. He settled for texting Reed, both comparing stories of their woes and watching TV.

It was 7pm on Christmas Eve and the Andersons' party had just begun. Blaine was dressed in clothes similar to what he wore every day: blazer, shirt, bow tie and coloured trousers, and no socks. His hair was perfectly gelled and he was stood in the living room of their house, rocking back on his heels every now and then, it was getting awkward and boring.

Shane was stuck with a girl that he had got on with last year who their dad was pressuring Shane to talk to. You could see that Shane wasn't interested and his mind was clearly somewhere else, but he kept talking to the girl for half an hour. Blaine had a couple of visits from his grandparents, who made small talk with him and then walked off to sit down. The Brightmans had been invited too, their parents were good friends. But the Tweedles had been ushered away from Blaine as 'they know him too well' and should 'find some other friends to talk to.' His mother kept looking over at him, looking worried, but Blaine just smiled back at her, assuring her that he was ok and enjoying the party. He wasn't though, and he knew that she knew that. He resorted to sitting on a sofa and going on his phone. He sent Kurt a text.

Party is as awkward as I said. Dad is trying to make Shane chat up a girl. Not going to well. Blaine x

He knew that Kurt must've been waiting for this text because he got a reply almost immediately.

Aw, sorry. Me and Reed are missing you two. I might not tell him about the girl though…We don't want him turning up now do we? And then I may have to come too… :D - K x

Blaine smiled at the reply and laughed quietly to himself. This was a mistake though, however, because as he was trying to type a reply, a few of Blaine's cousins who had seen, came over to bug him.

"Who are you texting then?" One asked him, he guessed that it was Grant; he didn't look up from his phone.

"Oh, my…my friend." Blaine said, settling for that, it was easier than getting teased.

"Friend, eh?" Another asked, he recognised the voice to be Harry.

"Yep. My friend." Blaine answered.

"Are they important?" A female voice asked, he didn't recognise it so he was forced to look up. This was a bad move as Grant sneakily looked over his shoulder and saw the part of the text that said 'Love Blaine x'.

"Harry!" Grant stage whispered over Blaine's head.

"Yeah?" Harry whispered back.

"It says -"

"Harry, Grant, who are these two?" Blaine interrupted them, not wanting them to continue.

"Oh, our girlfriends." Harry said, gesturing to the two girls. "You've met Alice before haven't you?"

Blaine remembered meeting the brown haired girl before, but only briefly. He smiled at her.

"Nice to see you again." She said, smiling back.

"And this is Luna." Grant said, gesturing to his girlfriend. She waved shyly at Blaine.

"Hello, nice to meet you." Blaine said, offering his hand to her.

"And you." She said quietly, shaking his hand, smiling at him. "Grant talks about you a lot."

"Oh really?" Blaine said, turning to his cousin. This was a revelation.

"Do I?" He asked Luna, she nodded. "I guess I do."

"What does he say?" Blaine asked, curious to see what she had heard.

"Oh, about the Warblers and Dalton and your musical abilities." Luna explained. "He gets jealous sometimes."

"Really? Of me?" Blaine asked; Grant had never shown any envy of him before.

"You're so talented at music and stuff, it's hard not to be." Grant said with a shrug.

"How is Dalton anyway?" Harry asked. "I heard that Shane transferred. That must be strange."

"It would be…" Blaine said. "If I was there."

His cousins took a few moments to realise what he had said, they hadn't heard anything about Blaine moving, so they didn't take it seriously at first.

"Wait…what?" Grant asked, confused.

Blaine wasn't at Dalton? But…Blaine was Dalton…

"I transferred." Blaine said simply, now he knew that he would have to tell them about Kurt. "To McKinley High."

"When?" Harry asked, still not entirely believing Blaine.

"At the start of the year." Blaine stated.

"Why haven't we heard about this?" Harry basically demanded, he thought that his parents would have told him, or that Blaine would have done.

"My parents haven't said anything to me." Grant said, wondering why his parents wouldn't have told him.

"I guess they didn't know. My parents haven't really told anyone." Blaine said, this wasn't the first time that this had happened.

"Why not?" Harry asked, still confused. "Why'd you move anyway?"

"I guess they don't want people to know." Blaine answered. He had to tell them now. " And why? Because I fell in love."

Alice and Luna squealed slightly, before realising that they had squealed and stopped.

"What?" Grant asked.

"I fell in love, so I moved." Blaine repeated.

"Again, why do we never hear about this?" Harry said, looking at Grant to make sure that he hadn't heard it either.

"Because my parents didn't want you to know. My dad didn't want you to know."

"When did it happen? This love?" Harry asked.

"He moved to Dalton from McKinley because he was bullied and then he went back near the end of the last semester. And I followed him because I couldn't bear to be apart from him." Blaine said, smiling at the soppiness of the story.

"Aw! That is so sweet!" Luna said, smiling herself at the story.

"Well, I guess my parents don't think so." Blaine said sadly.

"You would think that they would be; now they only have to pay one set of school fees." Grant grumbled.

"You would, but my dad would rather that I kept my feelings to myself than save him money." Blaine said sadly again.

"What's he like…your boyfriend?" Alice asked.

"He's the best. He's funny, loving, lovable, strong, handsome, talented…" Blaine trailed off.

"He sounds perfect…" Luna said, causing Grant to look at her in mock outrage, a hand to his mouth as if to cover a gasp. "He's gay, Grant. You don't need to worry."

"Blaine, make sure your boyfriend doesn't steal my girlfriend." Grant said sincerely.

"Or mine." Added Harry, Alice rolled her eyes, taking Harry's hand in hers.

Blaine laughed slightly, hoping the same. But he knew that it wouldn't happen. But he agreed with them, Kurt was perfect.

"When do we get to meet Mr. Perfect then?" Grant asked.

"Um…well, he's in Lima right now, so not today." Blaine said, surprised at how his cousins' faces fell at this news.

"Naw, I want to meet him now!" Harry said.

"Well, unless we can fly to Ohio and back by the time the party finishes then sorry, Harry, we can't." Blaine said, slightly relieved that Kurt couldn't meet them.

"Wait…" Grant said, this caused Blaine to worry. "That was him you were texting wasn't it? The 'friend'?"

"Yes…why?" Blaine said, getting suspicious. He didn't like the look on Grant's face.

"So he has a phone?" Grant asked.

"Of course." Blaine answered.

"Does he have a webcam?" Grant asked.

"Yes."

"Does he have Skype?" Grant asked again, an evil grin creeping onto his face.

"Oh no." Blaine said, it dawned on him what Grant wanted to do.

"Does that mean yes?" Harry asked. Blaine nodded. Harry and Grant high fived. "Yes! Great thinking, man!"

Alice mouthed 'I'm sorry' to Blaine from where she was standing. Her boyfriend was currently doing some strange kind of victory dance. Blaine smiled uneasily at her, worried about what was about to happen.

"Come on then, Blaine!" Grant said happily. "Let's go!"

Grant knew that Blaine had Skype, they had used it before and he knew that Blaine had brought his laptop because if he could Skype his boyfriend, then he wouldn't leave it behind. Especially if his boyfriend was so perfect.

Before Blaine knew it, he was being half dragged out of the room by Grant, who had Luna in his other hand. Harry was already out of the room, but he had left Alice behind.

"What's going on?" Shane said to Alice. He didn't really know who she was, but knew that she was with Harry.

"They're going to Skype Blaine's boyfriend." Alice explained, smiling at her boyfriend who she could just about see running up the stairs. "Apparently he's perfect."

"He's pretty good." Shane said. "Want to go up?"

"Yeah, ok. Beats being down here." Alice said. "No offence."

"None taken. It's boring down here." Shane said, and took Alice upstairs to Blaine's bedroom.

"Wait! Harry!" Blaine said. His cousins were acting like hyperactive five year olds. "Let me text him first, and we need to wait for my laptop to turn on anyway."

"It's already on. You left it on." Harry said, he had the computer on his lap and was looking at the screen through narrowed eyes. Blaine had put a password on it. "Hey, Blaine…what's your boyfriend's name, anyway?"

"Yeah, you didn't say…" Grant said, now also staring at the screen.

"Kurt. He's called Kurt." Blaine said, smiling slightly. "Oh, hey Shane."

Shane and Alice had just entered the room, Blaine didn't know exactly why Shane had followed, but he had a good idea.

"Yes! We're in!" Harry exclaimed, Blaine's password: Kurt. "Hi Alice."

"Hello." She said fondly. "What are you doing?"

"Hacking into Blaine's computer so we can surprise Kurt." Harry explained as if it was normal.

"Kurt?" She asked.

"Blaine's boyfriend." Luna said to her friend, also quite interested in meeting Kurt.

"Ah." Alice replied, sitting down on the bed next to Harry.

"Look, guys, he's not going to be there. I only just sent him the text!" Blaine said, trying to stop them. He knew that his cousins would be able to get into his account and call Kurt before he could have any warning.

"Too late." Shane said, peering over the top of the screen. Blaine could now hear the beeping noise of an outgoing call. He sighed and sat behind everyone on his bed. Shane sat next to him.

"Hey Blaine, didn't expect you to-" Kurt's voice said out of Blaine's laptop before he saw that sat behind the computer wasn't just Blaine, but other people. "Blaine, honey? What's going on?"

Blaine took the laptop from Harry and put it on his lap, and was quickly surrounded.

"Hey, Kurt." Blaine said. "I made the mistake of telling my cousins about you and they wanted to meet you, but you're in Lima. So they decided to Skype you instead."

"Ok…" Kurt said, he saw Shane in the background and was relieved to see someone he knew. "Hi Shane! How are you?"

"I'm fine," Shane said, he couldn't hold it in much longer. "Have you heard from Reed?"

"Not since you were on the plane. He left just after Blaine texted me." Kurt said, looking at Shane sympathetically.

"Oh yeah, I called him." Shane said. Although none of Shane's family knew that he was gay, and they certainly didn't know about Reed, the cousins couldn't care less about Shane and Kurt's conversation, Grant and Harry just looked anxious to talk to Kurt. Alice was trying desperately to calm Harry down, she didn't want him to seem like a creepy idiot, but it failed and she was just left with her head rested on his shoulder.

"Blaine, who are your cousins?" Kurt asked, wanting to know who the people were who were seeing into his bedroom.

"Of course." Blaine said, remembering the reason why they were talking and pulling himself away from staring at Kurt's face. "My cousins, right, this is Grant."

"Hi Kurt!" Grant said loudly, waving maniacally.

"And this is Harry." Blaine said, pointing to Harry, who greeted Kurt and waved at him with more gusto than Grant.

"And the girls?" Kurt asked, he doubted that they were also his cousins by the way that Alice was still resting on Harry, but he still thought that he should know who they were.

"They are their girlfriends," Blaine said. "Alice and Luna."

"Hello, pleasure to meet you both." Kurt said warmly with a smile. They greeted him back. Now there was the awkward time where no one knew what to say and they just sat there. Until Grant started a conversation.

"So…I hear that you're perfect." Grant stated.

"What?" Kurt said, shocked by this statement.

"Blaine said that you were perfect." Grant said, Kurt spluttered. "And we wanted to see if it was true."

"You said I was perfect?" Kurt asked, talking directly to Blaine.

"Not in so many words…" Blaine said, blushing and scratching his neck.

"Aw, well I think that about you, Blaine." Kurt said, smiling broadly, clearly forgetting that other people could see.

"Are they always this cute?" Harry whispered to Shane. Shane nodded in response. Grant waved a hand in front of Blaine's face to bring him back to the room, Luna jabbed him for doing so.

"Ow!" Grant said, turning to his girlfriend. "This means war."

Luna, Alice, Shane and Harry all ran away from Grant as quickly as possible. They knew what was about to happen, unfortunately, Blaine was still in his Kurt induced haze, and didn't respond so quickly.

"Ow!" Blaine yelled; he felt something hit the back of his head.

"Oops, sorry, Blaine. I didn't mean to hit you." Grant said, not looking very sorry at all.

"Excuse me, Kurt, I may just have to throw my cousins out of the room." Blaine said apologetically. "I'll be back soon."

"I'll be waiting." Kurt said before ending the call.

Blaine closed the lid on his laptop and gave Grant a look that could kill.

"Can I just say…You and Kurt are adorable." Grant said before opening the door and bolting out, closely followed by Harry.

"I second that." Alice grinned and slipped out of the room after Harry.

"I apologise for my boyfriend and my friends. Especially my boyfriend." Luna said. "He doesn't behave."

"Oh, I know." Blaine said. "I've grown up with him. He reminds me of some friends of mine."

"Do you mind if I…?" Luna asked, gesturing to the door.

"No, no, of course not." Blaine said. "See you later."

Luna nodded at the brothers and left the room.

"Shane, do you want to go too?" Blaine asked, not being subtle at all.

"No…oh! Yes, yes, I'll go." Shane said and left, leaving Blaine alone in his room.

Blaine walked back over to his bed and reopened his laptop, typing in his password that his cousins had found all too easy to guess and going straight to Skype and calling his boyfriend.

"You're back quick!" Kurt said happily.

"Grant and Harry cleared off pretty much as soon as Grant shot me. Alice and Luna followed suit quickly enough, as did Shane, when I told him to leave." Blaine explained.

"Note to self: next time I want to leave an awkward situation, shoot someone in the head with a nerf gun." Kurt said, grinning.

"May not always be the best tactic." Blaine chuckled.

"No, no, but it cleared a room then." Kurt said smiling. "Your cousins are nice."

"Yeah, I suppose, they definitely seem to like you." Blaine said. "Well, they did before they spoke to you anyway…"

"Hey!" Kurt laughed.

"Their girlfriends are nice too, they put up with them very well." Blaine said. "Not sure if I could cope as well as they do."

"No," Kurt said. "But then you've got me."

"Yes, I have." Blaine said. "And I wouldn't have it any other way."

"Me neither."

A/N: I hope you liked that! I have been working on it for a while now off and on. Well, about a day anyway. :)

Grant and Harry delved into Tweedles territory, but I love the Tweedles! I was going to have the Tweedles at the party, but then it was a family party, so why they'd be there, I don't know. And Shane is pining over Reed and Mr. Anderson is basically ignoring his son, which is why his cousins haven't heard about the transfer.

The Romeo and Juliet idea for Kurt's homework mistake came from my beta, so here is her credit for that. I loved the idea, it was genius! :D

Love DH :) x