AN: this is part of a personal challenge/project filling all the prompts of past Kadam weeks, and posting one every day from March 28 to May 8th, 7 prompts per year 5 previous rounds (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 last two managed by vcg73) the first week of May 2-8 will present to you the offering for the Kadam Week 2021 you can search for more on tumblr

This is the offering to Kadam Week 2014 prompt 1: Shut up and kiss me

When Kurt was on his way back home to New York, after returning to Lima for visiting his father's and be there for the medical appointment. He found himself in shocked stupor, he couldn't believe what happened there, how dare they… All of them…

Starting with Blaine, who really should have known better than propose to someone who wasn't even dating him, and, well no there were soo many things wrong with Blaine and his non existent reasoning...

Sadly wasn't as surprised as he should have been that so many people followed and fell for the charming schoolboy face Blaine put on...
Kurt still wasn't able to understand whether it was just the pure Blaine effect, if the boy had mind control powers that would transform people into mindless zombies, willingly agree to any crazy idea the boy came up with.

That the new directions were there, it was of no surprise, after all Finn had been more than eager to explain how Blaine was this year's new Rachel.

A thought that in and on itself was frightening. The world simply wasn't big enough for two egos of that magnitude.

That is dad had been involved, it had felt like a betrayal. That on top of apparently losing his father to the mindless army, Kurt was also expected to be happy about receiving it. That he was supposed to be grateful that a schoolboy, who still had to ask mommy and daddy for their credit card to pay lunch and everything else, had the gall to propose…

It was simply frustrating. Kurt had been working and saved for college since he was able to start holding tools in the garage, while Blane wasn't even aware what it meant to do anything beyond homework...

It had been the worst of the wake up calls that Kurt ever had, about how unsuited to be together he and Blaine truly were. It was a pity it came only when Kurt moved to New York and the wanker couldn't handle that Kurt had work to do, money to earn and people to start networking with.

It wasn't such a difficult concept, at least not in Kurt's world. If you wanted to have a place to stay then you had to pay rent, you had to take care of bills and grocery, and finally you had to talk and start making friends with people or you'd drown alone and there would be no one close by who could help you out if you needed help…

Kurt had spent years swimming to keep his head above water alone.

And Blaine had chosen willfully and intentionally to cheat on him, to punish him, because Kurt had things that were higher priority than wait on the whims of his ex...

He still couldn't believe it, then maybe he should have known something was wrong when his dad had taken Blaine along the previous christmas, as if having the cheater around was a pleasant surprise... Though if Kurt was to think back on it, that horrible surprise had kept up with the whole general unpleasant theme throughout the whole holiday.

But that was back last year, and Kurt had thought he managed to explain to his family that he was over and done with Blaine, with Lima, with New Directions drama, and if things didn't start to get better soon with Rachel and Santana as well.

The little vipers had flew there to be part of the grand production, providing more peer pressure, when they both knew about Adam…

But oh no, Blaine called and of course the whole world had to bow down and give him what he wanted...

Why no one ever seemed willing to listen to him?

The part that was still making him foaming with rage and wishing to burn to the ground Dalton. Making sure to have trapped inside beforehand, all the idiots following the foolish hobbit. It was that even after he said no, even after he pointedly refused the ring and set it down, everyone simply congratulated the "happy couple" for being together...

It really felt like he wasn't being listened at all, he had before sung Mr cellophane, but damn if that moment wouldn't have been a perfect representation of that song.

And it was not a pleasant feeling, though if he was honest with himself, it was pretty much more of the same.

It had been a little comfort realising that neither Carole nor Finn had been there, and as soon as he landed he sent a text to the both of them about it.

Finn message was short and to the point "They did what? OMG we didn't have the permissions for such thing, Lil bro I would have told you if I knew, please tell me you didn't say yes to him?"

which was promptly replied with "I did say NO, to it and to Him, but I'm not sure anyone in there actually cared to hear my answer... I know they were all celebrating and congratulating the 'happy couple' as I walked out of there and called a cab"

Kurt didn't need to read the string of raging and mad emojis Finn smashed together to know someone was going to hear about it all.

No the real surprise came from Carole, who after the message called him almost immediately "Honey, I'm pretty sure I'm not that much in need of glasses to have misread it, but can you please tell me that I got it wrong? that Burt hadn't actually driven you to a wedding proposal when less than a year ago he was ready to kidnap Finn away to prevent him from marrying too young?"

Kurt sighed defeated "Wish I could Carole, dad actually did, I'm not even sure if he's still there, I left after saying no, but people were all already celebrating the 'happy couple' and there was something that looked terribly like bottles of champagne on the catering tables... Which I hope dearly was just sparkling cider, but knowing the lengths Blaine is willing to go, and his fondness for alcohol I wouldn't actually bet on it..."

Carole sounded like she was almost in tears "Oh honey, I'm so sorry, I really thought Burt knew what he was doing, but tell me is that why Finn was pissed since he heard about christmas?"

Kurt was surprised to hear about that, Finn hadn't said anything to him, he hummed softly "I'm not sure about that Carole, but dad did bring Blaine here when he told me he had cancer last christmas, and it wasn't a pleasant surprise, nor was it that much fun having to play nice with my cheating ex while he cosied with my dad on my couch watching sports together..."

Carole sounded hesitant "Do you want me to talk with him I could..." but she stopped herself realising that there was very little to be done.

Kurt smiled feeling a wave of affection for his step mom "Thank you for offering Carole, I appreciate it more than I can truly express. There's one thing you could do, you could keep an eye on dad for me, if he had been as swept into the rush and happiness swirling around, he might not have yet noticed that I was gone, or if he did he might have been worrying. Could you please check on him and try to remind him I have a life in New York, one that I tried to tell him about and that doesn't involve Blaine Anderson in it?"

Carole hummed her assents "I'll take care of your dad Kurt don't you worry, guess that means we can stop having Blaine over at family dinners on fridays then?"

Kurt sighed at the news "Please do so, if Sam complains that Blaine is his friend, then just remind him that fridays dinners are just for family and Blaine isn't family and could stop for dinner on other nights if just Sam's friend... Unless they have something to disclose. In which case please do pass on the message that Sam should totally tell his boyfriend to stop hitting on me when I've already turned him down."

Once he reached the loft Kurt found to his dismay that all his stuff had been packed, boxed and was ready for shipping, with the labels marking Lima as their final destination.

It was a low blow, and even worse was the fact that when he searched, all of his most valuable things, like his tablet and his laptop, were still where he left them.

If it was a joke it wasn't funny at all, but then he considered that maybe it was a sign instead, that he should take the hint and allow the two witches to live together and keep the loft.

He made a quick decision as he searched the loft for all his possession, he put them on his bed and then he called his landlord.

Over the phone he asked if there was a chance he could have someone else take over his share of the lease, and when the landlord confirmed that he didn't care who was on the lease as long as the rent got paid a plan formed into Kurt's mind.

He thanked the landlord and said he would call back with all the correct information, then he made a quick job of collecting all that was needed, he rechecked the boxes and refolded his clothes in a way that it would not ruin them…

In less than an hour he had two suitcases ready with what he would need for both work and school for about a couple of weeks.

He had found a storage unit that had the pick up service, was not so far from Nyada. But more importantly, that was close enough to Adam's current apartment that he could maybe get to stay with him for longer than just the time he'd need to ask for and be assigned a dorm room...

The good thing about the Nyada housing office services was that there were enough lodging to house all the admitted students. Which it was why everyone could fall back on that during their school years without much warning...

Kurt made few more calls, and paid for two weeks for the storage unit. As that would be enough to know exactly what he was going to do. He splurged on the pick up service, and leaving the loft behind half empty, all his own things packed and removed from the premises within a couple of hours.

Having put in in the storage also his own bed as well as his pull out couch was well worth it the fifty bucks it costed, especially knowing that Satan would have nowhere to sleep because of that.

He passed by the landlord to give back his keys and submit Santana as the other co-signer of the lease, removing his bank account coordinate and adding instead hers. Kurt took gratefully back his share of the deposit, and walked out with his life in two suitcases.

He then picked up the phone and made the most important call of the day, the one to Adam.

"Hellu Da'ling how are you doing? Was your flight ok? I thought you'd arrive earlier today, tell me everything how were things back home? "

Kurt smiled ad the onslaught of questions and excitement into his boyfriend's voice before he was even able to greet him "Hello luv, I've so much to tell you and to be honest I missed you terribly, any chance I could actually come to your place and stay for a couple of days? I have two suitcases and I promise not to take over all your apartment, just a tiny bit"

Adam chuckled, "Love you're welcome to come any time, only thing is... If I have other friends over and in need of the couch I might actually have to beg you to entrust your virtues to my gentleman's honour and share my bed ..."

Actually fishing for information Kurt asked coyly "And what if I'd be more amiable of sharing my bed instead? Didn't you said it was way more comfortable than yours?"

Adam's laugh ringed into his ear as Kurt descended the stairs of the subway, and reached the platform waiting for his train.

"Well I'm never opposed to sharing your bed Love, but it would be quite the problem with it being at the loft and us being in my little shoebox..."

Kurt hummed noncommittally and boarded the train "I'll be there soon, thanks for taking me in."

Once Kurt reached Adam's apartment the place smelled of freshly baked cookies, the scent of sugar, apples and cinnamon was comforting and delicious.

Kurt left his suitcase just inside the door, and he could hear Adam still moving in the kitchen probably taking out of the oven the cookies responsible for the homely scent through the house.
He walked in and seeing that Adam was not near the oven or anything in which he could get hurt Kurt hugged him from behind and started placing little small kisses from the nape of Adam's neck moving forward toward his final destination.

Adam turned and wrapped his arms around Kurt before capturing his lips into a sweet kiss which turned hotter with very little effort on either of them.

Finally being in Adam's arms felt like coming back home, and realising that, might or might not have made Kurt's eyes shine with ushered happy tears... He was finally home… now he just needed a way to talk Adam into letting him stay… Forever sounded like a good starting time…

"Hi... I've missed you" Adam's words were whispered against Kurt's lips, Kurt simply kissed him once more before closing his eyes and confessing "Not as much as I've found myself missing you, I'm glad to be home, going back to Lima was even worse than I could have ever imagined."

Adam hummed and hid his smile against Kurt's skin. He was so happy that Kurt now considering New York home. Or maybe it was specifically being with Adam himself that made Kurt feel that way, unwilling to ask more details on the matter he softly asked instead "Do you want to tell me all about it? I can offer cuddles, cookies and the best cuppa you can desire"

Kurt didn't hold himself back and moaned, practically melting into Adam, "Please that sounds heavenly... Keep up making this kind of offers and you'll be unable to make me leave your couch like forever... "

Adam chuckled "If that was supposed to be a thread love it didn't work that well, though I hope at some point you'd rather choose my bed instead of the couch, but I won't complain either way, and at the moment I'm more than happy and I couldn't think of anything better than sharing those freshly baked and still warm cookies"

Kurt snorted and offered coyly "Oh I can think of something better. The problem lays in the fact that if we keep this up you won't even be able to roll me off the couch, if I were to eat as many of your cookies as I wanted not only my figure couldn't handle it, but I'd become as round as a ball."

Adam grinned against Kurt's skin and started to nibble on Kurt's neck teasingly, his hand sneaking under Kurt's shirt whispering suggestively "Oh but that is all part of my great Master plan, feeding you as many delicious cookies as you desire and help you work them out"

Kurt chuckled and pulled Adam toward the couch "Easy tiger I'd rather avoid trying working out around a still hot oven, you're all the hotness I can handle."

Adam raised a wiggling eyebrow with a grin on his lips that rivalled the proverbial cat's with the cream, "Is that so?"

Kurt nodded humming softly and finding himself suddenly being lifted. He laced his arm around Adam's neck and locked his legs around Adam's waist, letting his boyfriend carry him back into the living room and toward the previously mentioned coach

Adam sat down and kept Kurt on his lap, before returning paying attention to Kurt's lips engaging once more into sensual kissing, aimed at familiarising and rediscover one another after even few days apart. Kurt adjusted his position so that Adam's legs were both between his, and he rested comfortably on both the couch and Adam's lap.

Kurt licked his lips and inhaled slowly the scent of home, not realising he closed his eyes.

Adam took his time admiring the wonderful man in his lap, and when said man finally opened his eyes once more Adam started playing with Kurt's hair and asked softly "So care to tell me what happened? I'm in no way complaining about this, but I am a little worried that you felt the need to anticipate our meeting by many hours and with a plan to stay longer than just the evening."

Kurt snuggled closer and allowed himself to melt on Adam, his body finally losing all the tension that had kept him rigid and going this far for so long. He rested his head on Adam's shoulder and started telling all that happened since he went back to Lima "First thing that I want to tell you is about my dad, docs said it's all clear and that's such a relief. I'm not sure I even have the words to describe it."

Adam hummed listening, his hand running gently up and down Kurt's back, his fingers savouring the feeling of even that small skin on skin contact.

"Then the craziness that seems a constant over there, began and you wouldn't believe half of the things that came to pass over there, absolute rubbish"

Adam felt Kurt tensing again so he nuzzled his face on the top of Kurt's head prompting gently "Do you want to tell me anyway love?"

Kurt sighed softly and resumed his tale "Somehow my ex brainwashed the majority of the population and convinced my ex show choir group to actually band up with the other two local groups. And you know for what? To set up this grand production at Dalton"

At that point Kurt stopped, still trying to work his head around the whole event, searching for the words to actually describe the kind of over the top, blown out of proportion and theatrical event meant solely to highlight the lengths Blaine went to the whole affair truly had been…

Adam wondered if the sudden silence was a preamble of something sinister that was going to happen, so he asked the first thing he tried to recollect "Isn't Dalton the private school you attended for a while?"

Kurt nodded reflexively "Yeah that's it, in fact the whole procession lead us to the same staircase where I first met Blaine... The manipulative vermin actually had the gall to propose to me in front of so many strangers, and some of our friends were there as well" Kurt grimaced at that, the thought alone still able to make him cringe.

"And worst of all my dad drove me there… And do you want to know what was the funniest part ever? Even when I said no. When I refused to wear the oh so expensive ring Blaine had bought 'just for me' as if even when we were together it was me the one more likely to stray and needing the reminder to keep others away..."

To put it mildly Kurt was pretty upset by the implications, and with good reasons. He then continues after reigning in his mounting rage "cherry on the cake, Satan and Miss Diva, both of them who have known for quite some times now that you and I are together, they all kept congratulating the 'happy couple'."

Kurt had gotten incensed while he retold the event, and while the air quotes on happy couple were evident in the tone of his voice, the need to somehow let out the frustration at that allowed for a very dramatic flourish of Kurt's hands as he punctuated every word.

Adam looked as taken aback and irritated by the whole thing as Kurt had been, he cleared his throat and asked incredulous "Is the water over there spiked with something? Because this sound just plain crazy, I can't think of anything else that could lead to something of that scale to happen otherwise… You two weren't even on speaking terms as far as I was aware..?"

Kurt shrugged "You and me both to be honest... The funny part was that there was also a party ready to be consumed. And if I saw correctly there was champagne and all the telling of a big scale celebration. Most interesting though was that while I was leaving, Blaine was still receiving congratulations... I wonder how long it took for people to notice I left, or even if they did notice at all…"

Adam held Kurt close and said softly "Love I'm so sorry you had to go through that, and I'm sorry the two harpies you live with did that to you."

Kurt held on to Adam tighter and snorted "That's not all they did though... I left and went to the airport while everyone was starting their party, and once I got back to the loft I found most of my stuff boxed and ready to be shipped back to Lima. Of course those did not include my sewing machine, my tablet, my laptop, or actually anything of value that could have been either used or sold for a decent amount of money."

Adam frowned but couldn't say anything to that because then Kurt kept talking, showing off exactly why he was considered one of Madame T's favourite, with his ability to keep carry on a note, or in this case a conversation.

If Kurt had been impressed with Adam's own ability to say his recruitment speech fast enough to hold it all in a single breathe, hearing Kurt talking, explaining and modulating each word to carry on his emotion without apparently taking a breath it was... well breathtaking and even more impressive than Adam could hope to be.

"So this is what happened and the reason why it took me a while before I could actually call and tell you I was back. I was soo pissed that they both were there, that they just assumed I would drop everything to return with an ex. Who not only had cheated on me just for punishing me, because there's no way that it was a mistake, there were too many times when he could have stopped but didn't, and then he actually rushed here to tell me of it in person... Lemme tell ya that was the cherry on that cake, and sadly it was the kind of food advertising cake, one that looks awesome and it's made with foam and shaving cream."

Adam blinked, trying hard to follow the whole ordeal. Because the more incensed Kurt became, the faster he seemed to speak, and suddenly Adam was keenly aware that he might very well have fallen quite deeply in love with Kurt and all his sides.

"But all that aside I thought that if they felt so sure I should move out from the loft that I found. That I should take my name of the lease that I bargained for. Then maybe it was just the time to leave. I had first to contact the landlord asking if it was ok for me to pass my part of the lease to someone else, and leave their name and details. And when he said yes I had first to collect all that was mine. And then I took a storage unit for a couple of weeks to hold everything that I wouldn't need straight away. I paid for the collect and transport service, it was a little splurge but more than worthy the chance to walk away before the wicked witches could come back from oz."

Adam raised an eyebrow pleasantly confused, not as much for the description, which was perfectly adept to describe the two women Kurt apparently used to share living quarters with.
But more for the fact that Kurt was saying those words. The same Kurt who had defended the 'friends' he had from Lima with everyone who tried to tell him they were toxic influences and he would do so much better after dropping them off on the side of the road.

And as far as Adam and other members of the Apples were concerned, for those two, the term friends was to be used very lousily, but this far Kurt had been their fierce protector.

For Kurt to finally get the hint and act on it, well it almost sounded like a dream come true to Adam, because even as the official boyfriend, there was only so much he could do.
He didn't want to be bossy and controlling, he just wanted Kurt safe and happy. But you cannot cage an animal and then puff your chest and saying you're keeping it safe, cos you're just caging it...

Kurt kept going on with the explanation completely oblivious of the sparks of hope his words caused in Adam's mind.

"So I put everything I could need for the next couple of weeks in the two suitcases I've arrived here with, and when everything that was mine, including the furniture like my bed and the couch you insisted on saying it was so comfortable. When all that had been taken to the storage unit I stopped by the landlord's office, got my share of the deposit back and passed on Satan's detail, including the bank account coordinate so that the landlord could take from her the deposit and the rent that's coming up in two days time."

Kurt grinned mischievously as he kept going

"I checked, everything's very much airtight and the witches cannot come back at me. Then finally I called you and came here. And I didn't want to impose on you, but I also didn't really want to go to a motel either. And I had to ask if you were ok with me staying here, at least for a few days, just long enough to see if I need to talk to the housing office about moving into the dorm or not.

After all that's still a pretty valid solution since I'm still in school, but if you instead were ok with it and didn't mind much if I sort of moved myself in with you? I mean you obviously don't have to actually say yes or even agree, but if you could think about it, I'd appreciate it. I mean I'd love to stay with you and wake up with you every single day and I'm not saying that only because I do need a place to stay"

It took Adam longer than he would have liked to admit to actually filter all the words coming from Kurt like a river, and finally grasping the gist of it.

Kurt had walked away from Lima and the toxic people that come from it, and needed to know if he should make plans to simply move in with Adam and make this their place, or if he should instead checking over the housing office at Nyada and go live into the dorms. And he made sure to not put pressure on Adam himself, he took all his stuff into a storage unit… Come to think about it probably when they were talking before about sharing Kurt's bed, what Adam thought was just a line had probably been instead a first veiled attempt to broach the subject, or at least test the waters and see if it could be a viable solution or not.

Adam grinned and listened as Kurt was still going on…

"I know it's too soon, and probably I should have waited for you to raise the subject, but at the same time this was a perfect occasion. The witches were already ready to get rid of me. I thought, at worse, I can still go to the dorm, I guess that too would be an experience, not one I'm particularly fond of trying, but I'm sure I can manage at least until I find a new place and "

Adam had heard more than enough so he interrupted Kurt, quickly taking his chance now that his words were starting to slow down a little

"I agree that you should come and live with me, I agree that we should get rid of my bed and place yours in our bedroom instead because it's definitively more comfortable. And if I do recall correctly your very comfy couch was also a pull out, so if that's the one in your storage then it would be nice to move it in here replacing this one.

After we've clarified that I do want us to go sleep in our bed, and wake up in each other's arms each and every morning, for as long as we both desire to do so. And clarified also that first, we get the chance to properly celebrate the happy news of you moving in and us living together. And after that, we will call our friends and move the new furniture and your sewing machine in. Now with all that said, there's just one more thing I have left to say, and it's this… Shut up and kiss me."

Kurt had blushed at Adam's fast paced speech and determined final demand. Kurt smiled brightly and whispered "As you wish"

Adam took the occasion and quipped sassily "I see your lips moving that means there's still too much talking and not enough kiss.."

Kurt didn't allow Adam to finish his sentence and proceed to do as instructed, thoroughly kissing his lover.