A/N: The amazing Lauren this made this readable for you all, but I couldn't stop myself from doing last minutes changes... So every mistake is mine.
Enjoy!
The last week before school started went by in a blur; shopping for school supplies, shopping for clothes for two fashion interested boys who were about to start a school without uniforms and a lot of therapy for Blaine. He had spoken to Hannah like he'd promised Kurt; he'd even brought Kurt with him on one occasion. They spoke about his fear about flashbacks and the fear of falling asleep during class. They spoke about his other fears as well, but the talk he and Kurt had, had decreased them.
The fear of falling asleep in class due to sedatives and lack of energy was an issue neither Hannah nor Blaine could do anything about. They spoke a lot about it, and about different solutions; take the sedatives away, which would increase the risk of flashbacks and panic attacks. Having only one class a day, which wouldn't work since Blaine would be in high school for a very long time. Blaine might fall asleep in class, or he might be able to stay awake. The worst thing that Blaine thought could happen was that his teachers became increasingly angry with him, which wouldn't happen since Carole and Burt would speak to them along with Blaine the first day of school.
The fear of a flashback was the biggest fear for Blaine. They couldn't pinpoint what could trigger a flashback and they couldn't force a flashback to happen during therapy for Hannah to guide him through it. But they practiced to be mindful and different relaxation exercises.
Hannah had a suggestion for Blaine; it would make things easier if he had something he could hold on to if and when he would be afraid of a flashback. Something to remind him of the reality. Hannah wondered if he would be cool with wearing a bracelet or if he could have something in his pocket which he could grab to force him back to the reality.
When Blaine had taken his nap after that therapy session, he woke up and looked at Kurt, who was still sleeping. Blaine smiled at the sight. He woke him up with kisses. Kurt woke up with a smile and turned to face Blaine.
"Hi hon!" He said.
"Hi my love. Sleep well?"
"Mmmhmmm. I didn't think I would fall asleep."
"But you did."
"I did. I think you were asleep before your head hit the pillow, and not soon after, you started snoring. Your snoring is so relaxing to me."
"What?" Blaine looked at him.
"Yeah, it's so calming hearing you breathe that evenly. It's not like you snore super loudly!"
"I remember when we were on one of our first dates, we had watched a movie where this guy had snored so loudly and no one else could fall asleep. I don't remember the movie, but I remember you saying that you never could live with someone who snores. You said you needed completely silence to be able to sleep."
"Yes, I remember that as well." Kurt said with a smile. "Well, things change I guess! No it's just relaxing for me, I start breathing in the same pace as you, and then I can't stay awake."
"I love you, Kurt!"
"I love you too!"
"Do you remember... This summer... The fourth of July?"
"Yes?" Kurt asked.
"That morning?" Blaine blushed.
"We got engaged?" Kurt stated.
"Yes!"
"Are you asking me if I remember me getting engaged to the love of my life? Seriously? I could never forget that!"
"Well... Ummm... Hannah said... Or... I thought..." Blaine sighed and sat up on the bed. Kurt followed suit.
"What?" Kurt asked.
"Well, Hannah and I spoke about having something that would ground me in reality when I fear a flashback. She suggested a bracelet or something I always would carry in my pocket." Blaine looked up at Kurt who nodded for him to continue. "Well, I thought... Maybe... If you'd like... We could buy rings?"
Blaine blushed furiously and looked down. He missed Kurt's happy tears starting to form in his eyes and the one that made its way down his cheek. But, he did feel Kurt's body crashing in to his when his fiancé threw himself in his arms.
"Yes! Yes! Of course I want to wear an engagement ring!" Kurt said. He laughed out loud before showering Blaine with kisses.
"Really?" Blaine laughed as well.
"Yes, of course!"
"Well, should we go shopping then?" Blaine asked him. "I still have money left from the birthday gift I got from Burt's parents!"
"You mean right now."
"Why not?"
The phone rang in the office and Burt hurried from under the car he was fixing. He reached it and answered.
"Hi honey!" He smiled when he heard the voice of his wife on the other end, totally worth crawling out of under the car.
"Hi."
"So, we're alone for dinner tonight. Any thoughts?"
"Alone? Where are all the kids?"
"Finn's at Puck's and Kurt and Blaine just went out. They were heading to the mall."
"The mall? Didn't Blaine have therapy today?"
"Yes, he had, but he seemed... I don't know. Something's up with them."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, first at all they are leaving the house on an evening when Blaine had therapy, and they looked like I had caught them doing something they shouldn't have done. I don't know really..."
"Okay... I'll be home in an hour, pizza in bed?"
"Perfect. See you then!"
Kurt parked the car at the mall and they went in. They were happy and kept grinning at each other. They went directly to one of the jewellery stores, the one that had a small rainbow flag on their window.
A tall man greeted them when a signal indicated their arrival. He smiled at them when they approached the desk.
"Can I help you?" He asked.
"Yes, we'd like to..." Blaine started and looked at Kurt.
"We're buying engagement rings!" Kurt beamed towards the man.
"Oh, congratulations!" The man said. "Here's our selection, feel free to look and to try them on."
"How does it work with delivery and inscription?" Kurt asked him.
"If you choose a pair today you can collect them tomorrow."
"Wow, that's awesome!" Blaine said.
"I'll leave you here to look and try. Let me know if I can help you!"
"Thanks." Blaine said and squeezed Kurt's hand.
They sat down at the table and looked at the collection. They had had a discussion in the car about what kind on ring they wanted to have. They both wanted a plain gold band, they wanted something that could go with anything they might wear during the years to come. They found the one, or rather, the two, they wanted to buy. The man came up to them and helped them to try out the right sizes.
"Have you decided on what you want to in script?"
"Yeah, our names and the date."
"Okay." He pulled out a paper and they wrote down their names.
"You just want your first names? Since they both are pretty short you could have your family names as well. Or that might be strange when you get married and might change names? Or what are your thoughts about it?"
"Umh... Neither of us will change name when we get married, but I think it's enough with just the first names. Or?" Blaine turned to Kurt.
"First names!" He said.
"Wow, you're young but have already decided to not change your names, you have already talked about it! That's impressive!"
"Well, we already have the same last name, that's why we won't change it. We haven't talked about it, because there's no need." Kurt said with a voice that signalled to the man that this wasn't something they wanted to discuss further.
"Okay then. So, if you pay half now and half tomorrow?" The man asked.
"Perfect." Blaine said.
When they were done in the jewellery store they went out hand in hand, still grinning at each other.
"Fags!" They heard the disgusting shout from far away. Kurt immediately dropped Blaine's hand. Blaine flinched at the sound and looked down. Kurt sighed; he didn't want this to destroy their day.
"Come on, let's get some tacos to go and bring it home." He said.
Blaine nodded and followed him to the take out restaurant.
The following day, the Friday before school started, Kurt and Blaine went to the jewellery store and picked up their rings. After they got the little box they went back home. They had planned to surprise their family with a barbecue that night and they spent the day preparing the food and had time to cuddle.
"This has been the perfect day before school start." Blaine said in the afternoon when they were about to take a nap.
"I think so too. There's no one else I'd rather share this day with."
"Kurt, I need you to know that I love you so much. You saved my life, not just that Friday when your parents let me stay here and you found out about everything, but when you started at Dalton. You came in to my life and you made me dream about another life, Kurt. You made me realize there's another way of living. You were so proud of yourself and it blew me away.
"I've been in awe of you since the first talk we had. Every day after school I'd lie on the mattress in my bathroom thinking of what you had said. You made me stand a little taller; you made me stop apologizing for being me. You've helped me so much. You're the one I'll always want to have next to me, Kurt. There is no one else for me. I love every part of you and I'm gonna spend every moment of my life loving you."
Blaine looked at Kurt; both of them had tears running when they met in a sweet kiss. Blaine was quick to deepen the kiss. He opened his mouth to welcome Kurt's tongue. Blaine let his hands press Kurt closer and pinned him to bed. Without stopping the kisses, Blaine undid the buttons on Kurt's shirt and trousers. When he was done he pulled away from Kurt's mouth and pulled him to a sitting position. He undressed his upper body before he went back to Kurt's mouth and kept kissing him. Kurt wasn't as careful as Blaine, he ripped Blaine's shirt of him while kissing him and pulling his hair. Blaine chuckled at his desperate moves but let him be undressed.
Blaine kissed every inch of Kurt's torso. He paid extra attention to his nipples, which lead to Kurt moaned loudly. When Blaine reached the hem of Kurt's trousers he stopped kissing him and removed the trousers and boxers, both at once. He knew that Kurt always was freezing on his feet during sex so he left his socks on. Kurt was to turned on to notice, otherwise he would have protested, he thought it was so weird having socks on during sex. Blaine didn't mind at all, considering that the alternative was a cold Kurt.
Blaine removed his own jeans and boxers before he went back to his fiancé. He ran his tongue up and down along Kurt's hard dick and moaned when he tasted the precum. Kurt lay panting and moaning loudly. He tried to shift them, so he was on top, but Blaine wouldn't let him.
"No, let me love you." Blaine whispered into Kurt's ear when he once again tried to move them.
Blaine went back down and slowly let his tongue tease Kurt's cock on his way to his perineum. He pressed his tongue hard against it before he licked the entrance of Kurt's hole. He held up one of his fingers to Kurt's mouth.
"Suck it." He said.
Kurt was happy to obey and they both moaned when the finger got wet. Blaine pulled out of Kurt's mouth and slowly pushed it in to his hole. Kurt moaned when Blaine stretched him with one finger, then two, then three. He whined when Blaine removed the fingers but he knew it soon was going to be even better. Kurt wasn't in a state where he could think what he could do for Blaine, or if he should move or not. He was just hormones, wanting and needing.
He had expected Blaine to shift him over, they would only ever have sex with Kurt on his knees, so he was more than a little surprised when he felt Blaine pressing his dick into his hole and then lowering his body over Kurt's. Kurt moaned loudly when Blaine reached his special spot.
"Open your eyes, baby, let me see you." Blaine whispered into his ear.
Kurt wasn't aware of having closed eyes but he forced them up and looked at Blaine; sweaty, hair standing in every direction, eyes blown.
"Fuck, Blaine, fuck. I love you so much!" Kurt panted.
"I love you too honey, so much." Blaine said.
They made love. Blaine moved slowly in and out of Kurt while they looked deep into each other's eyes.
"Kurt... So close now."
"Come for me baby!" Kurt said.
Blaine increased his speed and before long they both came screaming.
Before Blaine could pull out and remove the condom, he fell asleep on top of the sleeping Kurt.
Kurt came back to reality an hour later. Still tangled in each other, but during the sleep, Blaine's dick had pulled out from Kurt and had even lost the condom that had wasted its content all over the bed.
"Hi my love!" Kurt said when Blaine opened his honey colored eyes.
"Mmmh." Blaine mumbled.
"You wanna sleep more?" Kurt asked while combing Blaine's curly hair.
"No." Blaine said but didn't move or open his eyes again.
Kurt laid still, looking at his fiancé for a while. Then he slowly untangled himself from Blaine who whined a bit by the lost of contact. When Kurt was free, he held Blaine close and kicked the duvet up from the end of the bed. He covered his sleeping boyfriend before standing up. Kurt was covered in dried cum and he headed to the shower.
Blaine hadn't moved when Kurt came out of the shower. Kurt put on clothes and pressed a kiss on Blaine's forehead before he went downstairs. When he reached the kitchen the doorbell rang and he hurried to open so Blaine didn't wake up. Outside stood Puck with a bag.
"Hi." He said.
"Come in!" Kurt said and opened the door for him.
"I'm sorry to impose." Puck said.
Kurt frowned; it was so unlike Puck to say something like that.
"You're not imposing, come on in. I'm the only one here though, oh well, Blaine's here but sleeping."
Puck moved indoors and closed the door behind him.
"May I borrow Blaine's bed for a while? I have a really bad headache or is he sleeping there?"
"No, he's sleeping upstairs in my bed. You can crash in his bed, that's totally fine!" Kurt smiled to him.
"You sure?"
"Yes, Noah, come on. I don't think anyone has slept in here since you slept here last." Kurt said as he opened the door to Blaine's room.
"Okay." Puck said and moved inside.
"Can I do anything else?" Kurt asked. He could see Puck hurting but he didn't know how to address it.
"No, I just need to sleep." Puck whispered.
"Okay. Sleep tight." Kurt said to him and went back to the kitchen.
Carole came home to find Kurt in the kitchen making salad for dinner. She hugged him.
"Welcome home!" Kurt said.
"Thanks. Are you alone at home?" She asked him.
"No, not at all. Blaine's sleeping, I was just about to wake him up. And Noah is sleeping in Blaine's room. He came here about an hour ago, he seemed really down but he didn't say anything."
"Okay. I have to take a shower, and then I'll talk to him."
Kurt nodded and did the last things with the salad. He went upstairs and into his room. Blaine was still sleeping, he had crawled into a little ball under the covers. Kurt sat down on the bed and combed through his hair. It made Blaine stir and he opened his eyes and looked at Kurt.
"Hi." Kurt said.
"Hi. Are you up?"
"Yes, for an hour. I tried to wake you, but you didn't seem to wake up."
"I don't remember."
"I understand that. Dad and Finn are coming home soon, and then it's time for dinner. Puck's here as well."
"Okay." Blaine said and yawned. "I'll go and shower."
When Blaine was in the shower Kurt stripped the bed and changed into clean sheets without dried cum on them. He smiled at Blaine as he came out of their shower.
"It seems really stupid that I have a room downstairs when I never use it. It could be Puck's room for when he's here, so he knows he has a room." Blaine said while putting on clothes.
"You don't think you'll use it when we have to study?" Kurt asked him.
"We could move the desk up here, it would fit another desk in here, then we have two desks to study at. It was just a thought, if you don't think it's a good idea, then forget it!"
"I think it's a good idea, I just don't want you to have to give up your first real room."
"But I don't need my own room. If I could share a room with you, I'd be totally happy." Blaine said and smiled to Kurt.
"I love you!" Kurt said and moved towards him.
They met in a kiss and a hug in the middle of the floor.
The evening was warm and they ate outside. Puck had woken up from his nap and had a talk with Carole, a hug with Blaine and some game time with Finn and was slowly getting back to his normal self.
The family dinner had evolved to now include a much bigger family than the original 4, and they were all happy about it. It was a loud and chatty dinner. Rachel had been bummed that she wasn't allowed to join them, but Finn was rather happy to just be the family, and she was about to join them later.
When all the barbecue, salad and bread were done, Kurt and Blaine offered to clear the table. They looked nervously at each other as they carried out the cake they had made for dessert. They had handed out plates to their family before they went inside to get the cake. They lit the two candles on it before walking outside. The chat died down when they stood at the end of the table. Kurt put down the cake on a side table before he took Blaine's hand and turned to his family.
"We have something to share with you. The only way to react to this is by happiness. We do understand any doubts and/or objections you might have to this, but we don't wanna hear it." Kurt started with.
"In all of you, I've found love, support and strength to rebuild myself. I'm so grateful for that; I love you all very deeply." Blaine continued. "You have given me a family when I needed it the most. I now know how wonderful families can be. Some day, I see myself, not starting a new family, but extending this family. I know now that I want to do that with Kurt. He's the love of my life, he's the light of my life and I want him to be the center of my life forever."
"In the early morning of the fourth of July, we made a decision that we now will make official." Kurt said and took out a small, velvet box from his pocket. Carole inhaled deeply.
Kurt turned to face Blaine and Blaine did they same.
"Blaine, I love you and I want to be yours for the rest of my life."
"Kurt, I love you and I want to be yours for the rest of my life."
Kurt took out Blaine's ring from the box and put it on Blaine's finger. Blaine did they same and they kissed. They turned to their family.
"We got engaged on the fourth of July, but we wanted to do it official in your present as well." Kurt said with voice, thick with emotion.
Blaine let go off Kurt's hand and moved the cake for the side table to the big table. It was a chocolate cake with frosting in blue. It said "Kurt and Blaine forever". It had two rings, overlapping each other like the Olympic Rings. In each ring stood a candle. Blaine put down the cake and looked at his family.
Carole and Burt were both looking at them with their mouths opened. Finn had tears in his eyes and Puck had tears running. Blaine turned to Kurt and smiled at him.
"Well, now there's cake!" Blaine said.
It was the one thing that broke the spell they all seemed to be under. Carole, Burt and Finn all stood up and hugged and kissed them. Soon tears were running in all their faces.
"I'm so happy for you guys!" Finn said.
"I know you were up to something, but this was more than I ever could have hoped for." Carole said.
"I love you both so much. You take care of each other!" Burt hugged them both.
When they all sat down, Puck cleared his voice and looked at Blaine and Kurt.
"I came here tonight hoping for a peaceful, normal evening. My home is filled with hatred and violence at the moment and I can't take it. I needed somewhere to be safe, to heal again. Like you said Blaine, this is the place for rebuilding. To be a part of this moment with you..." Puck had to swallow hard a couple of times when his voice broke before he could continue.
"This is what I dream of for myself; this is what I will dream of for my kids in the future. I know people might think, or even say, that you're young, you're only in high school and that it's too early. But for you two... You both have been so much. The safety and the love you have found in each other is rare. I don't think everyone finds it even. When you find true love, seize it! And that's what you did. I'm so happy for you, and I'm so grateful to be a part of this tonight."