If he made out of this weekend alive, Mike Chang was stopping at the nearest gas station and buying a lottery ticket, because he would clearly be the luckiest man in the world.

Standing in front of Matt and Leah's apartment, Mike shifted his weight from foot to foot. He tried to look for a sign that this would all turn out ok. After all it was for Matt's own good he was doing this. Clearly just talking to his best friend wasn't working. He had been forced to do this. Yes, forced. That was exactly what he was going to say when Matt inevitably cornered him on this.

"Are you ok?" Kurt asked, concern written all over his face. "You look like you're about to be sick."

"Just not used to all the driving." Mike lied. "I walk a lot in New York."

Yeah it had absolutely nothing to do with this ambush reunion he had set up. With Mercedes help that was. It this went bad, there was no way he was going down with the ship alone on this one. His girl (Was she still his girl? They hadn't really talked about it. But still, they were much clearer on where they stood with each other than the two stubborn idiots they were friends with, so that was saying something right there.) was in this up to her pretty little eyeballs. When Kurt started looking for someone to attack, Mike was pointing him in the direction of Lima and the Jones residence. Taking a deep breath, Mike attempted to will himself calm. If he didn't stop, Kurt was going to notice something was up. It was all going to be fine. Leah was going to open the door in a second and everything was going to go fine.

Of course if Matt opened the door it was clearly all going to go to hell. But it was going to be Leah. Leah was going to be opening the door. Any second now.

The door to 714C swung open to reveal a fashionable dressed blonde with a welcoming smile that faltered for just a second when he noticed two people standing in the doorway. "Hi! You must be Mike. I'm Geoffrey. Matt's told me so much about you."

"Yeah. Nice to meet you." Somehow he managed to get the words out of his throat and past his lips. Clearly he should have thought of a third option. If Geoffrey opened the door, Mike was going to be murdered, after a Misery style torture session. Why the hell didn't he even consider Geoffrey being here? Because it was far too logical?

Geoffrey turned towards Kurt, smile still firmly in place. "I'm sorry I just didn't know there was going to be two of you. I thought just Mike was visiting. I'm Geoffrey."

The side eye Kurt shot him pretty much confirmed his whole he was going to be murdered theory. Mike smiled hopefully as Kurt tried to keep from strangling him in front of a witness. "It was a last minute decision. Kurt. Nice to meet you."

Watching the two of them shake hands was almost like how Mike imagined it would be if Jennifer Aniston ever had to give an award to Angelina Jolie. Minus the way hotter girl on girl hair pulling. But still it was a little bizarre to see Kurt and the guy Artie had nicknamed Kurt 2.0 shake hands, barely concealing the fact they were sizing each other up. So that answered that question. Geoffrey obviously knew who Kurt was. Oh good. He just signed up for a weekend of passive aggressive romantic intrigue straight from the pages of Soap Opera Digest. When this weekend was over Matt as so going to owe him. This was his fault after all. Here Mike was doing this out of the kindness of own heart, trying to help his best friend and brother out, and what happens? A disaster. Yes, Mike decided suddenly, this was clearly all Matt's fault.

"Come in." Geoffrey finally motioned to them. "Matt should be here any minute. It all depends on when the last camper is picked up."

Kurt just about turned transparent at those words. Mike closed his eyes in exasperation. Geoffrey couldn't be living here. Matt moved slower than an iceberg. And Leah would have said something right? But Mike had to admit, the whole being there when Matt wasn't thing didn't look good. "So you stay here too?" he asked, trying to pretend Kurt wasn't shooting him a death glare to shut him up.

"No it just seems like it." Leah laughed as she came into the living room from the small hallway. "He magically disappears whenever the rent comes due."

"Leah. Beautiful as always." Kurt genuinely smiled at her as he crossed the room to hug her.

"See this is why I need you to transfer to OSU. You are too good for my ego." Leah teased. "It's been too long Superstar."

"You know how school can get." Kurt defended himself. "And I'm here now aren't I?"

"That you are." Leah nodded before turning towards Mike, moving to give him a hug. "Twinkle Toes."

"Hey Leah. Good to see you."

"You are either a genius or the biggest idiot on the planet." Leah whispered in his ear. "Either way, we're totally taping every minute of this weekend."


"You said they knew I was coming" Kurt hissed twenty minutes later when they were finally left alone. A clearly reluctant Geoffrey had been elected by Leah to head to the store for what she deemed necessary supplies for the night. Leah had quickly followed after him, promising she was just going to run out to the liquor store, but not before whispering instructions to Mike to text her everything that was happening if Matt came home before she did.

"I said they would be cool with it." Mike defended. "And Leah is. Matt will be too."

"Mike!"

"What? So I didn't mention you were coming with me. I thought it would be a good surprise for Matt. And you were just saying you haven't seen Leah in forever."

"And you just what? That we'd decide to re-create the ending of Love Actually?" Kurt rocked back on his heel and fixed his best "bitch please" glare on Mike. Mike at least had the decency to squirm a little at the accusation. Ok maybe he hadn't thought that exactly, that was more Mercedes's idea than his, but something close.

"I was thinking more along the lines that you'd be happy to see each other and be amazed at my epic surprise planning skills."

"I'm leaving. I'm going home." Kurt declared, waving his arms. "Just no. No. And people say I have bad planning skills? Oh no one can say that to me ever again."

"Come on. Don't leave." Mike grabbed his friend's arm. "Stay. It won't be that bad once Matt gets over the whole surprise thing."

"Yes because spending the weekend with your ex and your new boyfriend is just a recipe for fun and frivolity." Kurt shot back. "Did Jerry Springer get cancelled and you need a new train wreck to watch?"

"How's it going to be a train wreck if you and Matt are such great friends?"Mike shot back, smirking when he saw Kurt stop. Ha, he thought triumphantly. Had him there. Oh how it must suck to get caught up in your own web of denial. "Running out like this would imply you aren't nearly as over him as you claim."

"He has a boyfriend. I have a boyfriend. Are you forgetting this fact?"

"No. And if you guys are just friends then this will be a weekend of high school friends catching up. Nothing to worry about. "Mike pointed out, smiling as he heard the key turn in the lock. "Besides you can't leave now without trying to explain it without sounding like someone still hung up on their ex."

Kurt shook his head, narrowing his eyes. "I wouldn't sleep tonight if I were you."

"I'm hiding all the knives" Mike whispered, although he suspected right now Kurt would be able to carve his heart out with a cereal spoon.

"Mike?" Matt opened the door, a grin on his face. "Leah texted me you….."

Mike tried very hard to not laugh as Matt and Kurt locked eyes with each other for the first time since Christmas and his best friend's voice trailed off. Damn this was better than the soaps. He could spontaneously combust right now and neither one of them would notice.

"Kurt. I didn't…I didn't know you were coming."

"Yeah. Surprise."