They all watched their teacher as he set up his video call with a local school. For someone who was young he was extremely confident but I guess you would if you did this for a living. Blaine couldn't stop watching him. He knew it was wrong but he just couldn't help it. Everything about this man just drew him in. He was of course gorgeous but it was the brains too, the humour the way he held himself. The confidence and the bravery. He was perfect. Blaine lowered his gaze and tried to focus on his assignment.
Kurt had just set the timer. He took a few steps back and waited. His hands was clasped in front of him. He never got nervous but knowing his students was behind him, knowing Blaine was there was making his fidget. The timer had just rolled down to ten seconds and as soon as it got to three he plastered a smile on his face and then the video call started. It was six students. Rebecca, Danny, Liam, Jacob, Sarah and Farah. As soon as they realised it was Kurt there was uproar.
"I told you it would be professor Hummel!" Liam said laughing and pumping his first up in the air. Sarah was currently the colour of beetroot and was nervously laughing along with Liam.
"Hello class." Kurt said professionally with a smile of his face.
"I'm so glad it's you professor! I don't think I would be able to listen to anyone else for the next hour and a half!" Danny said excitedly as he fist bumped Jacob.
"How are you Sir?" Jacob said turning towards the camera so he could see his teacher.
"I'm great thank you Mr Sanderson. How have you all been?" Kurt said sweetly before leaning over to take a sip of his coffee Blaine had made him. Ugh. What Blaine had made him.
They talked for about ten minutes. They was chatting away with him, telling them about there weekend. Sophie was currently telling him about an incident that happened earlier that day. The blush was excruciating red.
"He literally threw him out the room by his ears professor just because he couldn't answer the question!" Sophie said laughing and lowering her gaze when she seen Kurt smiling at her.
"I'm sure he had his reasons. I know you can be a little bit of a handful Mr Miller." Kurt said smirking at Liam.
"Dude, my ear nearly came off the side of my face." Liam said shaking his head. "He's got one strong grip professor Johnson I tell you."
"How come you're over video call? We have missed you." Farah said shamelessly swooning.
"I have recently taken a job offer. It's easier for me to continue my lectures through video call." Kurt said smiling at her. "But don't worry Miss Hassan, I've missed you too."
Farah was practically drooling over him. They all was, including the guys.
"Congratulations professor. I'm very happy for you!" Sarah said kindly as she nodded towards him.
"Yeah dude! It's about time you settled down. You're like a little whippet." Danny said and they all laughed including Kurt who grinned.
"You know me Mr Nelson. I like to keep myself busy."
They all nodded in a agreement and they started to turn over their pages and grabbing their pens and placing them in their hands.
"May we all begin?" Kurt said smiling and they nodded.
They boys watched him chat away with his students and the way they trusted him. He wasn't just their teacher he was there friend.
"Professor." Sebastian whispered moaning into Blaine's ear.
"Fuck off Seb." Blaine whispered back and pushing him away. He didn't know Kurt was a professor. It made sense now but hearing people call him it was making him think all kinds of things.
"The girls are drooling all over their books." Jeff said and pointed towards the screen and they all laughed.
"He's a little heart stopper that one." Nick said watching him place his hands on his hips.
"Imagine being twenty one and already having all the respect in the world. He could literally do anything." Wes said smiling at him. He had so much respect for him after the talk earlier today.
"Oh man definitely. He's a brain box." David said passing Wes a drink over to him.
"Thank you." Wes said smiling at his best friend.
"No problem man." David said smiling back.
"It must be hard though also. Knowing that much. Never forgetting a single thing. It must eat away at him brain." Trent said towards them all.
"Yeah dude. Imagine having to go through all of that and having to relive it every night? He must remember everything from it." Thad said lifting his drink up to his mouth.
"Do you reckon he even sleeps? Or even tries to sleep?" Flint said crossing his legs and looking over.
"I doubt it. It would be terrifying." Cameron replied. They all nodded.
"Do you think he's okay?" Blaine said who had lifted his gaze looking at his teacher concerned.
"I hope so." Wes said quietly.
"I hope you all remember our discussion?"
They all nodded. "Then let's get started."
"Earth is the third planet from the Sun. it is the only planet known to have atmosphere containing free oxygen, oceans and of course, life." Kurt smiled and continued. "Earth is the fifth largest of the planets in the solar system but it is smaller than the four gas giants. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune but larger than the three rocky planets, Mercy, Venus and Mars."
Kurt gave them a minute to write notes and Danny piped up. "What about Pluto Professor?"
"The international Astronomical Union downgraded Pluto because it did not meet the three criteria the IAU uses to define a full sized planet." Kurt said quickly before taking a sip of his coffee and placing it back down. "Pluto is now classed as a dwarf plant."
"Thanks Sir." Danny said meeting his his teachers eyes. Kurt smiled and nodded.
"What is the criteria for meeting the standards?" Sarah asked.
"For one, it has to Orbit around the Sun. for two, it has to have a sufficient mass to assume Hydrostatic equilibrium and for three, it has cleaned the neighbourhood." Kurt made quotes with his fingers. "Around it's Orbit."
Kurt could feel the eyes on the back of his head and he smirked.
"Pluto only meets two of these three criteria's unfortunately."
They students nodded and carried on making notes. He gave them a a few minutes before he continued. He pulled out the whiteboard that was currently next to him and pulled it over am started to write. He draw a large sphere and started to draw lines through it.
"The earth has a diameter of roughly eight thousand miles." Kurt pointed to the line running through it. "The earth may look round but it is not completely as gravity pulls matter into the ball." He draw a smaller circle inside the middle of it. "Earth is really an oblate spheroid because of its spin causes of to become squashed as its poles and swells at the equator."
"What about water Professor?" Farah questioned.
"Water covers roughly seventy one percent of the Earth's surface and majority of that is our oceans." Kurt replied back and Farah nodded.
"I will skip the conversation on the Earths Axis's as we have already covered that." Kurt said smiling and they nodded.
"How was the Earth created?" Liam said smirking and Kurt rolled his eyes laughing but and amused him.
"We really don't know. It's a completely mystery. Scientists think the Earth was formed roughly the same time as the Sun and some other planets around four point six billion years ago." Kurt laughed and they did too.
"Do you know what there summary is?" Jacob asked.
"Of course he does." Rebecca said blushing and nudging Jacob.
"They believe the solar system coalesced from a giant rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula." Kurt wrote the word down on the board so they could see it. "As the nebula collapsed because of its gravity, it spun faster and flattered into a disk. Most of the materials was pulled into the centre to form the Sun."
"That's so cool." Jacob breathed out and Kurt nodded
"Other partials within the disk collided and stuck together to form even larger bodies, including Earth." Kurt pointed to his drawing. "Scientists believe Earth started off as a waterless, mass of rock."
"Jesus." Danny laughed out and they all laughed too.
"You said seventy one percent of the Earth is made up of water but you also just said that the Earth was a waterless, mass of rock?" Sarah questioned.
"Increasing pressure deep within the Earth generated enough heat to melt the planets interior, causing chemicals to rise up and form water while others became gases of the atmosphere." Kurt replied back lifting his coffee up to his lips and she nodded. When she looked back up Kurt continued. "Recent evidence suggests the Earths crust and oceans may have formed within about two hundred million years ago after the planet took shape."
"Man if I wasn't into dudes before I'm definitely into dudes now." David said drooling over him.
They all laughed keeping there gaze on him.
"How does he just know everything? Like seriously?" Trent said watching the students faces light up.
Blaine watched him. The way his hands went up in excitement and he talked with his hands. The way the knowledge just flown from his mouth exquisitely. His eyes was pure and so full of life. He didn't think he had ever seen something so beautiful. Blaine carried on watching him. He wasn't just beauty, he was brains too. He had been blessed with both. Beauty may be dangerous but intelligence is lethal.
"I could listen to that silky smooth voice all day and night." Sebastian said smirking.
"He's not a toy Sebastian." Blaine said rolling his eyes.
"Oh please Anderson. You're thinking exactly the same thing. That Elliot doesn't know how lucky he is." Sebastian replied back.
Blaine was thinking it he just didn't want to voice it. He didn't just see him as a piece of meat, he genuinely liked him. This was going to be harder than he thought.
"The internal structure, the Earths core is about four thousand, four hundred miles wide, slightly larger than half of the Earths diameter and about the same size as Mar's diameter." Kurt wrote the measurements on the board. "The outmost one thousand, one hundred miles of the core is liquid while the inner core is solid. It's about four-fifths as big as Earths moon, one thousand six hundred miles in diameter. The cord is responsible for the planets magnetic field, which helps to defect harmful charged particles shot from the Sun." Kurt said robotically answering the question.
He loved giving lectures. Elliot never really understood it. He wanted Kurt to do more, be more. He didn't even know if he loved him. He was so confused. He wanted to be with Elliot but the constant nagging and controlling was really getting to him lately.
"Professor?" Sarah asked.
He didn't know if he was with Elliot because it was his first boyfriend, first person he had slept with, first person he had opened up to emotionally and physically. He didn't know if he was with him for the right reasons.
"Professor Hummel. Are you okay?" Danny asked concerned.
Why was he even with him? Really with him. Was he even happy? Did Elliot make him happy and Blaine Anderson. Someone who he had known five minutes was making him feel things he had never felt before. He felt sick.
"Kurt?" Jacob asked loudly leaning into the camera. Kurt snapped himself out of it and looked up at his students who was looking at him concerned. For the first time in his life he felt embarrassed. Kurt coughed and laughed.
"Sorry. I zoned out. Where was we at?" Kurt stuttered out. They went wide eyed.
"Do you need to take five Kurt?" Liam asked. They had never seen him zone out before, never mind stuttering his words.
"No of course not Liam. I'm sorry once again." Kurt smiled and gestured for them to carry on. They looked at him for a second an nodded.
"We was talking about the Earths mantle Sir." Rebecca said sweetly and Kurt nodded.
"Right." Kurt coughed and looked up. "So the Earths mantle is not completely stiff but can flow slowly. Earth's crust floats on the mantle much as a piece of wood floats on water. The slow motion of rock in the mantle shuffles continents around causes earthquakes, volcanoes and the the formation of mountain ranges."
They nodded and took notes but concern was plastered on their faces.
"Above the mantle, which has two kinds of crust. The dry land of the continents consists mostly fo granite and other light silicate minerals." Kurt wiped away the drawing on the board. "While the ocean floors are made up of mostly dark dense volcanic rock called basalt." Kurt wrote them down on the board and pointed to them. "Continental crust averages twenty five miles thick although it can be thinner or thicker in some areas."
Kurt took a breath. He could feel their gaze on him and he no longer felt happy they was watching. He was nervous.
"Water fills in the low areas of the basalt crust to form the worlds oceans."
"And where does the magnetic field come into it? You mentioned it at the beginning?" Sarah asked.
"The Earth's magnetic field is generated by currents flowing in the Earth's outer core. The magnetic poles are always on the move, with the magnetic North Pole accelerating in northward motion twenty four miles, annually since tracking began in the eighteen thirties."
Kurt took another sip of his coffee while they took down notes. It was cold.
The conversation was back and forth for the remaining of the time and after another thirty minutes it was the end of the lesson. They all clapped for him and he rolled his eyes.
"Professor Hummel killing it once again with them brains."
"Thank you Professor!"
"Thanks dude!"
Kurt laughed and nodded. "Pleasure is all mine. I'll send you over your assignments, they'll be with you shortly. Mr Miller please be good."
They all laughed and Liam responded. "Anything to make you happy Sir."
"Have a lovely rest of your day." Kurt said smiling and waving at them and they did the same. There was a chorus of goodbyes before Kurt leaned over and cancelled the video call. Kurt shut his laptop quickly and turned around.
"Thank you." Kurt smiled and nodded to his students. He felt his gaze on him again.
"Are you okay Mr Hummel?" Blaine asked concerned.
That fucking voice. Kurt swallowed and nodded. "Of course Mr Anderson. I'll see you all later on."
Kurt smiled and grabbed his laptop and made his way out the common room. He felt like he couldn't breathe. Everything was to much. He was so put together all the time but Blaine Anderson undid him. He quickly made his way to his office and shut the door but there was a knock a few minutes later. He took a deep breath and opened the door. Fuck sake
"Sorry Sir. I just." Blaine looked away and looked back again. "I don't believe you."
"I'm sorry Mr Anderson?"
"I don't believe you when you said you was okay." Blaine said softly before looking at him. Kurt felt like he was melting. Kurt didn't know why he said it but it just came out.
"Come in."
Blaine nodded and walked in. Kurt shut the door and locked it.
"Do you want a drink?" Kurt said smiling while he made himself a coffee.
"Only if you're doing one. I don't want to put you out."
Jesus. He can't be real. Kurt smiled and nodded and made him and Blaine a coffee. Blaine sat down and Kurt did too, the desk separating them. Thank god Kurt thought.
"Your lecture was incredible. I don't think I've heard anything so excellent. You look like you really enjoy what you do." Blaine said grinning. Blaine just wanted to talk to him, wanted to get to know him. He was trying not to step boundaries but he couldn't help it.
"Yes I do. I love it very much so." Kurt said smiling. "And thank you."
Blaine nodded and smiled. "Are you okay?"
Kurt pondered the question. He didn't know why he felt like telling him no but he decided not too.
"Of course I am Mr Anderson."
"I still don't believe you. I don't need a degree to notice that." Blaine said smirking gesturing to his countless qualification certificates that was placed on the floor ready to go up. Kurt laughed and rolled his eyes and before he knew it, words was thrown was his mouth.
"You're very distracting." Kurt said quickly, his gaze never leaving his. He seen Blaine swallow and nod.
"Does it makes you uncomfortable?" Blaine asked tilting his head.
"No of course not. Just distracting." Kurt replied back truthfully. Blaine nervously laughed and nodded.
"I'm glad I'm not the only one."
Blaine looked back up at Kurt. The air was thick with tension. It was suffocating them both.
"I think you should leave now Mr Anderson. I don't want to say anything I shouldn't." Kurt said lowering his gaze. Blaine nodded and looked away. He stood up and Kurt did too. They made there way to the door and Kurt had his hand on the handle and he felt a hand on his arm. Oh my god
Blaine quickly withdraw his hand in shock. "Sorry I'm just very touchy feely I didn't think."
Kurt nodded and let his hand drop from the door handle. Kurt turned towards him and his eyes finally met his. Blaine felt like he had been kicked repeatedly in the stomach, the air getting ripped away from him. They stood there staring at each other before Kurt moved forward ever so slightly and Blaine did too. They didn't stop looking at each other. Blaine lifted his hand hesitating doing so and placed it on kurt's face. Kurt closed his eyes with the touch and he tiled his head a little into it. He could hear Blaine's stuttered inhale and his eyes opened. Kurt leaned in closer so there lips was inches apart. They could feel there breath tickling each others lips and Blaine was about to close the gap but kurt's phone rang. They stayed there for a few seconds before Kurt pulled it out his suit pocket and answered it.
"Hello?" kurt stuttered out.
"Hey baby."
Kurt felt like shit. Blaine was still looking at him. Kurt leaned over and opened the door and nodded. Blaine lowered his gaze and left and Kurt shut the door tightly behind him.
"Hey you."
"How're you? God I've missed your voice."
Kurt didn't want to say it but he had too.
"I'm okay. I've missed yours too."
Kurt wanted to slap himself in the face. He made his way to his office again and sat down and leaned back into the chair.
"How's the new job?" Elliot said sweetly but there was a little venom behind it. Kurt noticed.
"It's amazing. You should come and see it."
"Yeah. I might take you up on that. When can I see you?"
"I don't know. I'm boardin-
"You're fucking boarding there? Are you serious? Please tell me you're joking?"
"No. I'm not."
"Are you free now?"
"Yes. I'm done for the day."
"Okay. I've got to go. Text me?"
"Of course."
The phone went dead and Kurt placed it on the table and sighed. Fuck my fucking life
Blaine shakily made his way back to his room. God that fucking man. He sat down on his bed and laid his head back. He was falling for his teacher. His fucking teacher. He couldn't shake him, the more time he spent with him the more he wanted him. He was just so intoxicating, everything about him. There was a knock on his door and he hoped it was him but it wasn't, it was Wes and David.
"Hey man!" Wes said smiling and Blaine smiled back and let them both in the room.
"Hey guys." Blaine said smiling and he sat himself on his bed and they did too.
"You can tell us dude." David said giving him a knowing look.
"I nearly kissed him." Blaine said truthfully keeping his eyes to his hands that was in his lap.
"Damn."
"We was talking and it just happened. I was this fucking close to his lips." He showed them with his fingers. "And then his phone rang."
"Jesus Blaine. He's our teacher." Wes said putting a hand on his shoulder.
"God Wesley you don't think I don't know that? I can't stop thinking about him and it's not even in the way Sebastian is thinking about him! He's just fucking perfect." Blaine said quickly
"We know he is Blaine we ain't blind." David said smirking. "But it's not illegal. He's only a few years older."
Blaine and Wes turned to him. "It's legal Blaine."
"He's right. Don't feel bad about it. Shit happens Blaine. Just be carful, I don't want you to get hurt." Wes said smiling.
"He has a boyfriend too Blaine." David added.
"I know guys. I just can't help the way I feel." Blaine said truthfully looking up at them.
They talked for another hour before making there way to the others. What they didn't expect was to see Mr Hummel. Dancing round the room with them all, without a suit on, in normal clothes. He was wearing a pair of washed out denim ripped jeans, wearing crisp white t shirt that was tucked into his jeans with a expensive looking chunky belt. He wasn't wearing his glasses, his hair was messy and the curls where more defined than normal. His left lower arm was tattooed. Black and white flowers trailed up his forearm from his wrist to his elbow. They didn't see them when he showed them his body, his arms was covered. He looked like a fashion, trendy young man. His red bottomed sneakers was dancing around the common room floor. Blaine felt like his heart was going to stop. Wes let out choked laughter looking at Blaine and David had his mouth wide open. Sebastian turned round to them and smirked and walked over.
"May you feast your eyes on Kurt."
Blaine looked back over. He was dancing between Jeff and Nick and Trent had ran over and grabbed him and they started to waltz around the room. His smile was blinding. His laughter was consuming. His body moved in ways Blaine couldn't wrapped his head round. Sebastian was right. This wasn't Mr Hummel, this was Kurt. He wasn't stiff and upright anymore. He was letting loose. Kurt went to laugh again and noticed his tongue. Oh my god he has a tongue piercing. They all noticed too and laughed.
"Damn he's like a total different person." Wes said shocked and they all nodded.
Kurt looked over from dancing and seen them staring at him he smiled and walked over to them.
"Hey boys." Kurt said smirking at there shocked expressions.
"Mr hum-
"Oh please David. We are past school hours. It's Kurt." Kurt said laughing. David nodded but remained shocked.
"Wow Mr Hu-
Kurt rolled his eyes and Wes laughed.
"Wow Kurt. You look completely different."
Kurt nodded. "This is me when I'm not working. I'm loud, eccentric and I'm wild. Get used to is Wesley, I can be quit the hand full."
They laughed at kurt's wink and Kurt turned his head to Blaine.
"Let's go and see the others!" Wes said and grabbed David and ran away to the other side of the room.
"Hey Blaine."
It was the first time he had spoken his name without the formalities. It rolled off his English accent.
"Hey Kurt."
Kurt laughed and looked down for a moment and looked up.
"You look amazing." Blaine said truthfully smiling at him. Kurt bit his lip and laughed nervously.
"Thank you. I erm." Kurt looked away. "Mr Banks wants me to have a life, a social life outside of work. It's legal and I'm happy for it. I just want to act my age."
Blaine grinned. "Do you want to dance?"
Kurt threw his hand back and nodded frantically. "I would love too."
Kurt reached forward and held his hand out and Kurt took it quickly. The touch felt electric. They was both staring at there hands before Kurt smirked and dragged Blaine into the middle of the room.
They danced for what felt like forever, all of them. They all couldn't believe in the change of their teacher. He was so free. Kurt had just stopped dancing with Jeff and was chatting away to him about fashion when they all heard a voice.
"Kurt."
They looked up and Mr Banks was standing there with Elliot. His boyfriend. The smile dropped slightly from his face.
"What are you doing here?" Kurt asked breathlessly.