Christmas day was a happy occasion for everyone. Blaine was the first to wake, he had surprises and he was ecstatic to give them away.
He started a pot of coffee and the smell must have drawn everyone else out of their sleep.
"God. What time is it?" Finn shuffled through the kitchen door, taking the mug Blaine handed him without question.
"Early." Kurt answered finding his way to Blaine and hugging him, resting his head and almost falling back asleep standing up.
"Merry Christmas, everyone." Carole said joyfully. She had candy cane striped pajamas and Burt walked in behind her wearing a Santa hat.
"I had no say in the matter." Was all he managed in response to everyone's stares at his head.
"I think you guys look positively festive." Blaine stated with a perkiness that everyone else envied and despised.
"So why are we all awake so early?" Finn was leaning on his hand at the breakfast table.
Blaine was nervous now that he had gotten to the point of giving away the gifts he had gotten everyone. He didn't want to make everyone uncomfortable, which he realized his spending habits sometimes did.
"I was wondering if I could give everyone their gifts now?" He looked around him at all the noses jammed in mugs trying to wake up.
"You didn't need to get us anything." Carole shook her head and laughed.
"I did though. You guys have been great to me and I was so excited getting everyone gifts. I hope you will all like them."
"Do you have like bags or something?" Finn glanced around Blaine who wasn't holding anything.
"Well none of them can really be wrapped." Kurt looked at Blaine and smiled, he knew that look.
"Here we go." Kurt stated simply, leaning into Blaine and drinking his coffee.
"Okay, I'll start with Finn." Blaine reached into the pocket of his sweatpants and pulled out a little envelope.
Finn took it with a smile and looked inside. His puzzled expression begged Blaine to clarify.
"They are Jet Blue vouchers. There are five roundtrip tickets to New York. I know you're busy with the shop, but they don't expire, and I can think of a few people that wouldn't mind you visiting more often." Finn stood and walked to Blaine giving him a hardy hug. "Thanks, bro. This is amazing. I can't wait to tell Rachel."
Blaine grinned at him. Rachel already knew. He asked her what he should get Finn, it had been her idea.
"Okay and now the lovely Carole." Blaine grinned at her and handed her an envelope as well.
She read what the card said out loud. "Because you spend so much time taking care of everyone else. Spend a little time taking care of yourself." She ran over and squeezed Blaine then backed away, "This is a weekend spa retreat in the mountains. I can't take this Blaine, it's way too much."
"Believe me at the end of the weekend it won't feel like enough." Blaine laughed and hugged her again. "You deserve it. Please take it." She smiled at him and backed away to the table.
Blaine's eyes landed lastly on Burt. He smiled mischievously at him and Burt anxiously tapped his fingers on his arms.
"What else could possibly be in a little white envelope?" Burt asked to no one in particular.
"Oh yours couldn't fit in an envelope." He walked to the living room and everyone followed dying to know what Burt's gift could be.
Blaine walked straight out the front door and Burt followed apprehensively. Blaine was standing on the front sidewalk barefoot and shivering a little. Burt walked to where he was standing, then saw it.
"Blaine, absolutely not."
Blaine laughed. "It's pretty non-returnable." Kurt scurried out and wrapped his arms around Blaine laughing at the gift he had gotten his dad.
"Oh Dad. You're going to hate my gift after this." Blaine swatted Kurt.
"He will still love your gift."
"Not after you got him a Corvette!"
Carole was giggling behind Burt and Finn was nearly drooling staring at it.
"Blaine this is absolutely ridiculous." Burt just shook his head in amazement and defeat.
"It may be, but it is yours." He pulled a pair of keys out of his pocket and handed them to Burt. Burt hesitated then grabbed them out of Blaine's hand.
"Fine, I will accept this unnecessary and extraordinary gift on two conditions. 1). You get your ass over here and give me a hug and 2). You ride shotgun for its maiden voyage around the block."
Blaine pretended to think it over. "Hmm. Deal."
He gave Burt a tight hug and they patted each other on the back. Burt pulled away and ran toward the car. Blaine followed behind him. "It's freezing and neither of you are wearing shoes!" Kurt yelled at them.
"Your boyfriend gave me a corvette for Christmas, let me have my moment!" Burt yelled back hopping into the driver's seat. Laughing like a giddy little girl.
"Did you know about any of this?" Carole asked Kurt.
"I knew he was going to go over the top. I didn't know how much." Kurt just laughed. Blaine was something else.
"If those were our gifts…Aren't you nervous as to how crazy yours will be?"
"I told him not to get me anything."
"He bought your dad a Corvette." Finn chuckled. "There's no way in hell he isn't getting you something."
"I only got dad a John Denver CD."
"A John Denver CD he can listen to in his new car." Carole reassured, putting a hand on Kurt's shoulder. "Let's get inside before we all get pneumonia."
Burt and Blaine were back after more than a block's worth of driving.
"A corvette? Really?" Kurt whispered as Blaine walked over to him, a smile plastered to his face.
"I saw the poster in the garage."
"You saw his dream car poster and thought I should get him that as a Christmas present on our first Christmas together?"
"Yeah…" Realization hit Blaine that maybe he had gone too far over the top. "Is it too much? Did I mess up?"
"You definitely did not. Everyone loves you. I'm no longer my dad's favorite son."
"Don't say that, Kurt. You're the reason I can afford to go over the top with Christmas gifts this year. You're the reason my album was so successful."
"You are the reason your album was successful. Shine a light on your own successes, Blaine." Kurt teased him with a tender kiss and a finger trailing up his chest before walking away. Blaine had to wait a moment before turning to Kurt's family.
They were passing their gifts around to each other. Blaine was sipping coffee, warming his feet under Kurt's butt when Carole handed him a box.
"What's this?" Blaine stared at the wrapped package in confusion.
"It's your present from our family."
"You guys got me a present?" Blaine was amazed. They didn't even know he was going to be staying with them until a few days ago, and they hadn't left long enough to get anything. So, they had it before he got there."
"Of course we did, dear." Carole reassured.
"You got me a car, Blaine. Open the damn box." Burt was laughing, this boy was so touched by receiving a tiny box, when he had just given away three presents worth more than the Hummel-Hudson house.
He smiled and opened it. The contents made him laugh.
"Ooo what did you get? What did you get?" Kurt straightened up to see what was in the box. He laughed as Blaine pulled the items out one by one.
"Playboy Gel."
"I've heard it's really good." Carole stated from across the coffee table. Obviously, her contribution.
"It is. Thank you. I love it." He pulled out the next item and smiled.
"We noticed you wear a lot of bowties." Burt grunted.
"It has little music notes on it." He chuckled showing Kurt, then placed it around his neck to keep it out of the way. He pulled the next thing out and looked over at Finn.
"You guessed right. Don't worry I stole it from Kurt's room. It's the other one he wore a lot."
"Thanks Finn." Kurt rolled his eyes at him.
"Hey Kurt. Can I borrow your sweatshirt that Finn stole from your room and gave to me as a gift?" Blaine rolled his head over to Kurt.
"I was going to give it to you anyway."
"Yay." Blaine slid it on over his t shirt.
"There should be one more thing in there." Burt said. Blaine looked into the box and smiled.
"A daisy." Blaine smiled over at Kurt.
"Yeah I made a contribution to this one as well though the daisy isn't for you. It's for my mom." Kurt looked down.
Blaine looked at Kurt wide eyed. "You want me to—"
"Can you come with me to the graveyard today?" Blaine just nodded his head and pressed his face into Kurt's neck. Kurt told Blaine he had never gone there with anyone else. Not even his father. He would walk or get dropped off and visit his mother's grave alone.
Carole and Burt both wiped tears from their eyes. "Kurt did you open the one from me?" Finn tried to get everyone back to a less emotionally vulnerable state.
"Yes Finn. Thanks. I can't believe you found a safari animal brooch I don't already have. Where was it?" Blaine kept his face pressed into the back of Kurt's shoulder as he listened to them talk, of all the amazing and thoughtful gifts he had received, he couldn't believe Kurt would surprise him with this.
After gifts and breakfast, they all got ready for the day. Kurt and Blaine snuck out to go to the graveyard.
Blaine drove Kurt's dad's SUV. Once they parked, Blaine grabbed the daisy from the cupholder and him and Kurt trekked over to a stone below a tree.
"Hey mom. I'm sorry it's been a while. I haven't made it home in months, but I've been busy. You see I met someone." He smiled at Blaine who was watching the sight before him with his almost trademark watering eyes. "His name is Blaine Anderson. Maybe you've heard of him. I don't know if they have radio where you are." Blaine laughed with Kurt. "Anyway, he's a singer and he is an amazing person and I love him very much. So much that I brought him to you." Kurt took a step toward Blaine who pulled him into a hug.
"May I?" He asked Kurt, gesturing at the grave. Kurt nodded at him and let go so he could walk closer. Blaine took a few steps then turned and handed Kurt the keys. "Go keep warm. I'm going to be a minute." Kurt grinned and made his way to the car.
Once he made it to the car, he looked over at the grave and saw Blaine was sitting cross legged next to it, putting the daisy up against the stone.
Once Kurt was about halfway to the car, Blaine took a seat and started talking.
"I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to be here, Mrs. Hummel. Kurt has told me so much about you and I wish I could have had the chance to meet you. Oh" Blaine laid the daisy across the grave. "I almost forgot, Kurt gave me this to give to you. I gave him daisies on our first date. Daisies always make me smile, that's why I give them to other people. In the hopes that it will make them smile too." Blaine frowned for a moment.
"I got all of Kurt's family extraordinary gifts today. I wish I could offer you the same joy of some extravagant item. Instead I think I will give you a promise. I love Kurt, with every part of me. I will love him until we are buried somewhere in this very yard. I promise you, Mrs. Hummel, that someday I am going to marry your son and do everything I can to make him the happiest man alive. That is of course if I have your blessing." Blaine looked around. Perhaps he had expected a sudden gust of wind or a leaf to fall. His eyes were downcast, he wasn't sure if he was just overthinking or if he should take it that Kurt's late mother didn't like him.
"She would have given it to you." Blaine nearly jumped off the ground. Kurt sat beside him.
"I thought you were in the car?"
"I thought we could talk together."
"Do you really think she would have given me her blessing?" The seriousness with which Blaine asked made Kurt warm despite the cold chill.
"She wouldn't hear the end of it from me if she didn't." Kurt laughed and Blaine scooted against him, putting a hand on his leg and resting his head back against Kurt's chest.
"Tell me all your favorite memories with her." Blaine smiled as Kurt immediately went into a long-detailed story about how him and her would put on performances of the Sound of Music on snow days. Blaine was so at peace with the rumble of Kurt's chest as he spoke and the quiet of the graveyard that he actually drifted to sleep.
Kurt looked down and saw Blaine's eyes shut. He would have been offended that his stories had bored Blaine to sleep but he knew that's not what caused the drowsiness. He turned to his mother's grave and spoke in barely a whisper.
"He doesn't know, Mom. But I'm going to do it. I'm going to ask him to marry me. I hope you can understand why I want it so badly. He really is the greatest person I have ever met."
Blaine shifted and Kurt went back into a story about his mom inciting his love of fashion with her insect related brooch collection. Blaine rolled his head up toward Kurt and smiled sleepily.
"I really wish I could have met her." Blaine whispered.
"So do I." Kurt frowned and Blaine kissed his cheek.
"Thank you for bringing me here. It is honestly the best Christmas present I've ever received."
"You don't think it's weird?" Kurt looked down self-consciously. He hadn't realized Blaine would take this so seriously. He figured he would just smile and kindly visit, not actually talk to his mother's grave.
Blaine turned his body so his and Kurt's knees were bumping, and he placed his hands on Kurt's legs. "I think it's beautiful. This was something you'd always done alone, and you felt comfortable enough to share it with me. I'm the luckiest man alive."
Kurt hugged him, and they sat on the ground in each other's embrace until they remembered how cold it was. They both turned back and smiled at the daisy against the headstone hand in hand on the way back to the car.
They sat around the table for a Christmas dinner. Kurt and Carole spent the whole day preparing it and Finn invited Rachel over since her and her dads didn't celebrate Christmas at their house.
They were halfway through the meal when Kurt turned to Blaine. "You've been quiet this whole time."
Rachel smiled, covering her lips with a napkin. Blaine glared at her before turning to Kurt.
"Just remembering all of this. I've had a really great day." He smiled to himself then looked down at his plate. Kurt eyed him suspiciously as Blaine pushed food around on the plate.
Blaine looked up at Kurt when he thought he had turned away. "What?"
"You're hiding something, Blaine Anderson." Everyone looked up from their food to witness the strange tension between the two.
"I don't know what you are talking about, Kurt Hummel." Blane hid a smile and over emphasized Kurt's name hoping the mocking tone would mask his voice.
"Blaine." Kurt stared him down and Blaine's eyes flicked to everyone at the table before attempting to stare down Kurt.
"Okay fine."
"Hah. I knew it. What is it?" Kurt smiled and got closer to his boyfriend.
"I wanted to wait until dinner was over to give it to you, but I guess I can now."
"No. Absolutely not. I said no gifts." Kurt crossed his arms and shook his head.
"I never agreed to that." Blaine laughed. During the conversation he had strategically never agreed to a no gift rule.
"Please tell me it was less than twenty dollars or something."
"I think once you know, you will be glad it was more expensive than that."
Kurt swallowed nervously, and Blaine turned to stand but paused when he heard Finn's voice.
"Ooo can we put down our guesses. Your excessiveness has become kind of a game for us."
Blaine laughed and nodded ready to hear his guess. "Uhhh. A car."
"He already got me one of those."
"For your safety," Blaine added trying to make it sound less like a gift.
Finn turned to Rachel, "I'm disqualified. I know already."
Everyone looked to Carole. "A house." They all laughed at how ridiculous that would be. Blaine raised an eyebrow then looked to Burt.
"Well it better be a ring before a house." Kurt rolled his eyes and Blaine stood and walked out of the room.
He returned a minute later with something behind his back. Everyone anxiously awaited the reveal. He pulled a hand out and set a magazine down in front of Kurt.
"It's an interior design magazine." Kurt looked at it, then looked closer and laughed. "It's my magazine. I dog-eared the pages of things I like."
"Flip to the middle." Kurt flipped to a marked page at the center of the magazine.
"I'm confused." He looked at the picture. He had expected there to be something tucked between the pages, but it was just photos of a flat in Paris. He studied the page expecting answers to come out.
Blaine slid behind him and bent over Kurt. He placed a small gold key on the page. Kurt looked at it, then looked at Blaine, then back at the page.
"A key?"
"Yes." Blaine smirked.
"To what?" Kurt looked at him uncomprehendingly. Blaine just flicked his eyes at the page until Kurt looked at it again.
"Oh my God." Kurt sprang from his seat and wrapped his body around Blaine's. "It's. Is it?" He was smiling so wide he couldn't speak.
"Yeah." Blaine laughed hugging him back and accepting all the kisses being placed over his face. "It's the place in the pictures." Everyone's mouths dropped. Rachel just grinned and clapped her hands.
Kurt pulled away, holding Blaine at an arm's distance. "But I mean. We can't live there. That's in France. It's. Blaine, you shouldn't have, it was way too expensive you have already given me so much." Kurt shook his head as he tried to deny the gift.
"Hey. Hey." Blaine put a finger under Kurt's chin. "It's not to live full time. I thought it would be nice for the European tour to have an actual place to stay. Plus, I know you love France and it's easy to go all over Europe from there on quick excursions. And I got quite a deal on it, I just have to do some photo shoots in it so the building can use them for a magazine."
"Blaine. It's amazing. And I told you no gifts but I guess I kind of knew you would get one anyway."
"Well I'm glad you like it. I can't wait to see it in real life for the first time."
Carole was laughing and smiling and telling Finn she should have put money on her guess. Burt was still staring at the two with a gaping mouth. Rachel was flipping through the magazine when Finn spoke up again.
"Is it like super wrong for me to ask exactly how much you made off this last album?"
"Yes. Finn it is." Burt reprimanded him from the head of the table.
He turned to Blaine who put a hand next to his mouth to shield it from Burt's view and mouthed to Finn. "A lot," He winked and laughed and Kurt slapped his shoulder.
Everyone helped to clean up dinner and they all lounged around waiting for the food babies to go away.
"Kurt, we better get going if we're going to make it in time to pick up Mercedes and Sam." Blaine whispered over to him.
"Oh yeah." They helped each other up and went to grab their things from Kurt's room.
"Where are you guys going?" Burt asked, unable to turn in his chair, this was the one holiday they didn't obsess about his food intake.
"Live Chat for Charity." Blaine stated with a smile.
Burt just looked at them until Kurt clarified. "We're going to take a live video that shows up online as we are taking it. Fans donate money to make song requests and Blaine performs them for the camera."
"Yeah. All the proceeds are going to go to The Trevor Project Foundation. It's actually pretty cool, after the Thanksgiving duet battle videos people asked me to do the chat with Kurt and our friends. We're going to do it in the park to see if we can get additional people to donate."
Kurt smiled then pushed him upstairs, so they could change and grab Blaine's guitar. Blaine put on his new music notes bowtie and Kurt adjusted it for him to make sure it was straight after putting on his jacket and scarf.
"How do I look?"
"Dapper." Kurt grinned and pecked him on the cheek. After Kurt found an outfit that was both warm and fashionable, they ran out the door to pick up Mercedes and Sam. Rachel had turned down the invitation, so she could spend time with Finn.
Once they were set up in the park, people were already starting to show up. Sam volunteered to hold the camera first. Blaine was standing with his guitar ready to give the intro when he tugged on Kurt's sleeve bidding him stand closer.
Kurt gladly linked an arm through Blaine's as Blaine smiled at the camera.
"Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone. I'm here live in my home state with some of my closest friends to raise some money for charity. How this works is you can donate to request a song. Just follow the link beneath the stream. Kurt and I will start you off with one of our favorite winter duets, and perhaps a fitting one as you can see it is pretty chilly in Ohio."
They sang their duet, clinging to each other to keep warm. They didn't have the music in the background this time, but their voices blended so well, that the lack of instruments gave it an eerie, beautiful sound. They smiled as they finished, and Kurt stepped out of the shot and pulled up the page to see what the requests were.
"The Day After the Dance." He whispered to Blaine still standing in front of the camera with his guitar on his back.
"Awesome. You guys are going to stab me in the heart and make me do all the emotional songs aren't you?" He sighed and pulled his guitar around. Many of his songs were on a piano but he had found a guitar variation for all of them.
He played the majority of the song. He knew that if he did them all start to finish he would never get around to all the requests.
"This one says Mercedes and Sam, Holy Night." Kurt read off the screen.
"Oooo that's a good one. Okay you guys are up." Blaine switched with Sam, holding the camera and passing off his guitar. Sam found a soft melody to play as Mercedes began.
The chat progressed this way. Many of the donations came in without requests. Some requests had to be turned down because no one knew the song. For the most part it was between Christmas songs and Blaine's songs. To make it more fun, people were requesting Blaine's songs sung by his friends instead of him.
He encouraged them to throw in some variation.
"Don't you just love when the cover is better than the original?" Blaine laughed high fiving Sam after his version of I Don't Mind.
"Okay everyone. We can do one more before we have to sign off for the night."
"Uhh the only request we haven't fulfilled says, 'Not Alone- Blaine and Kurt."
"They must know it's your favorite." Kurt eyed the user that had donated Sebby19, he had a brief thought but let it pass just as quick as it had come. He's not a problem anymore.
"You, you, me?" Blaine asked quietly, and Kurt nodded. He took the first two verses and Blaine took the last. They sang the choruses together and both put more emotion behind it, than it had ever had before.
After they were done, they started kissing and both had tears in their eyes. Sam turned the camera on himself. "Hello, Blaine Anderson fans. It was great singing for all you guys tonight thanks for the donations. Uhh. This has been fun. Oh okay they're done kissing, back to Blaine."
"Thanks, Sam." Blaine laughed with his head pressed against Kurt's. "Like Sam said, this has been great. All of the donations are going to the Trevor Project which I am super excited about. We got a few donations here at the park too, which is cool. I'm glad we got to spend our holidays together. Now if you don't mind, I have some cuddling and drinking hot chocolate to do. Have a great night everybody!"
As Blaine thanked the people that had shown up in the park to donate and watch, Kurt read through some of the comments on his and Blaine's pages.
BlandersonLover: KurtHummel BlaineAnderson Your duets are always perfect! Literally crying RN!
MonayBAE: KurtHummel When does your friend Mercedes release her solo album? Gurl can get it!
Kurt laughed and showed the comment to Mercedes who smiled. "You know it boy." She flipped her hair dramatically and they laughed together.
Sebby19: BlaineAnderson KurtHummel I think Blaine's dick up strangers' asses was a better donation to the gay community than this.
Kurt glared down at the comment. He knew he shouldn't, Blaine had always told him it would only frustrate him more, but he clicked on the user's name.
He scrolled the page. There was no profile picture and there were only two posts. One about donating the money, and the one Kurt had just read. He assumed it had just been created, Is it him?
He had been so distracted reading the comments, he didn't realize Blaine and their friends were over by a group of fans. Blaine jogged over and grabbed Kurt's arm smiling and pulling him in.
"One more song before we go home." Kurt thought they had already taken all the park goers requests, but the situation was made clear as they got closer. Blaine pulled Kurt right over to a little boy wearing a leather jacket and slicked back hair. He couldn't have been more than five and Blaine smiled at him like a puppy and tugged Kurt down to his level.
"Oh my gosh, hi, what's your name?" Kurt raised his voice as he talked to the adorable little fan.
"Joseph." The little boy stated quietly.
"Are you nervous, Joseph?" Kurt smiled, and the boy looked quickly at Blaine before nodding back at Kurt. He inched closer as he nodded. Blaine frowned a little that Kurt had won over the kid before he could.
"Let me tell you something, Joseph." Kurt grinned and turned Joseph's shoulders lightly toward Blaine. "Blaine is the nicest and sweetest guy alive. Don't be nervous to meet him. I'm sure he's super excited to meet you." Blaine smiled up at Kurt before looking at the boy. They were both squatting next to him and Blaine opened his arms. He quickly looked up at Joseph's mother and she nodded at him.
"Kurt's right, Joseph. It's awesome to meet you. Can I give you a hug?" Joseph smiled and ran over to Blaine, crashing into him. Blaine laughed as the boy squeezed him. Kurt looked up at Mercedes who had been taking pictures or a video since the beginning of the encounter.
"See Joseph that wasn't so scary." His mother cooed from a few steps away. Blaine waited for the boy to pull away first, Joseph kept his arm on Blaine's and Blaine just smiled at it. Kurt stood up next to the mother.
"That is such an awesome jacket, Joseph. Look we're like twins." He patted the back of Joseph's leather jacket which had a studded leather star just like Blaine's."
The mother turned to Kurt and smiled. "I was nervous about having Joseph meet Blaine Anderson, but now I can't imagine why."
"He loves kids." Kurt stated as the two watched Joseph point at Blaine's bowtie and Blaine told him it was a Christmas present from Kurt's family.
"He's very different from what I expected." Her tone was peaceful. As if she had been dreading bringing her boy to meet the rockstar for a while.
"I know." Kurt laughed and knelt down in front of Blaine and the boy. "Hey Joseph. Do you want Blaine to sing you a song?"
"Would you really?" Joseph twisted his head back to look at Blaine so fast, it had to have given him whiplash.
"It would be an honor." Blaine grinned at him. "Any song you want."
The boy thought about it for a minute then looked up at his mom. "The song from that movie with the elephant."
Kurt and Blaine looked between each other. Ready for Blaine to have to turn down some obscure song he didn't know.
"Come What May from Moulin Rouge." The mom remembered. Blaine looked up at her with a strange smile. "I didn't let him watch the whole movie, just the songs." She chuckled and Kurt made to stand so he could take a video of Blaine singing for the boy.
"No!" Joseph shouted from where he was now sitting on Blaine's leg as Blaine sat with his legs folded up. "I want you to sing with Blaine."
Kurt slowly lowered himself back to the ground and Blaine winked at him. The boy rested his chin on his hands as he waited for them to start.
Never knew I could feel like this
Like I've never seen the sky before
Want to vanish inside your kiss
Seasons may change, winter to spring
But I love you until the end of time
Come what may, come what may
I will love you until my dying day
Kurt smiled at Blaine before starting in on his part.
Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place
Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace
Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste
It all revolves around you
Blaine reached out the hand that wasn't holding Joseph up and Kurt took it in his, interlacing their fingers as they sang together.
And there's no mountain too high
No river too wide
Sing out this song
I'll be there by your side
Storm clouds may gather, stars may collide
But I love you. I love you till the end of time.
Come what may, come what may
I will love you until my dying day.
Joseph clapped, Kurt gave him a high five, and Blaine gave him one more hug before they all got up and went over to his mother.
"Thank you for bringing him to meet me. I love my fans of all sizes." Blaine tapped the top of Joseph's cemented hair and made a face at him.
"I'm sure he will talk about it for years." She smiled. "Say goodbye, Joseph."
"Bye Blaine. Bye Kurt. I can't wait for your concert over the weekend. I saved up all my piggybank money and mom's letting me go."
"Awesome. We can't wait to see you out in the crowd Joseph."
They watched as the two walked away, Joseph excitedly pulling on his mom's hand. "I want to be just like him, when I grow up." He looked back for a minute at the group they had just left, "Mommy, can I get a bowtie with music on it?"
Blaine smiled over at Kurt with watery eyes. "He said he wants to be like me."
Kurt laughed and pulled Blaine into a hug. "You are his hero. Remember that."
Mercedes and Sam led them to the car. They talked about all the great moments during the chat. They went through the fans responses to it. Most of all they talked about the little boy that everyone was still smitten with.
"I got the whole thing on video. He was so adorable with his little jacket and hair." Mercedes laughed turning to Blaine who was sporting the same look.
Kurt remained quiet, smiling every time Blaine turned to him and rolling around the box in his pocket. He debated getting down now. It was a beautiful night. Blaine was in the perfect mood and their friends were there to witness it. But Blaine said something that made Kurt let go of the box and join back in on the conversation.
"I know this has become my look to the fans, but I can think of something way more comfortable I want to change into when we get home."
"Yeah I'm ready for a calm night, warming up with tea and watching Christmas movies."
"Do you guys want to join us? We were planning on watching A Christmas Story."
"No. I think we are going to watch It's a Wonderful Life." Blaine looked over at Kurt surprised. It was Blaine's favorite, but he thought Kurt wasn't a fan.
"Ooo classy. Black and white movies. Are you going to curl up on your bearskin rug by the fire as you do it?" Sam and Mercedes mocked the two, but they were undisturbed by it.
As soon as they got home, Kurt ran up to his bedroom. Blaine's eyes just followed after him in confusion. He slowly took his jacket off and looked over at everyone else who was equally confused by Kurt's rush.
"I guess he really had to go to the bathroom." Blaine chuckled. Greeting everyone and telling them how the chat went.
"We saw part of it, there are pictures of you with a little boy in your lap." Blaine smiled at Carole who was looking at her phone with her eyes squinted and the screen tipped in a weird direction.
"Yeah. That's Joseph, the cutest little fan. He asked Kurt and I to sing Come What May from Moulin Rouge."
"He's dressed just like you." Blaine laughed.
"He was a sweetheart. Kurt had to win him over first because he was scared of me."
"Scared of you?" Burt cackled and Carole smacked his arm lightly.
"Burt, hush I'm sure Blaine could take you down in a second."
"She's right." He stated jokingly.
"Alright tough guy. Let's see what you got." Burt put his fists up and Blaine hesitated before doing the same.
"I leave for one second and you guys are at each other's throats." Blaine frowned for a minute then quickly turned away and walked toward where Kurt was on the stairs.
"We were just playing around, my love." Blaine kissed his cheek then furrowed his brow and started walking upstairs.
Kurt looked after him then turned to his parents. "We are going to watch a movie and get to bed." He said it too fast before he was launching himself up the stairs after Blaine.
Blaine was already changing pants when Kurt walked in.
"I'm sorry about my dad. I know that was probably a trigger for you."
"It's okay, Kurt. He didn't know, and I didn't think about it until he put his fists up. It was mostly my fault the way I spoke."
"Are you okay now?" Kurt reached a hand out waiting for Blaine to flinch away from it. Instead he took the hand and put it to his face.
"I'm great." He removed Kurt's hand and kissed it before turning to put Kurt's sweatshirt on.
"You're not going to wear the old one?"
"I thought I might try out the new one for a while." Blaine turned to him, a little confused by the sudden attention to clothes he was going to wear to bed.
"You can break the new one in in New York. Wear the old one tonight, it has more memories."
Blaine just tilted his head and raised an inquisitive eyebrow, but as Kurt smiled at him, he slowly set the new sweatshirt back down and put the old one on.
"Good?" Blaine put his arms out after he'd slipped it on.
"Perfect." Kurt grinned staring at the bulge of the box in the pocket that had gone unnoticed.
"Let's watch the movie." Blaine hopped on the bed as Kurt set the movie up. Kurt crawled up next to him and Blaine laid flat, so Kurt could rest his head against Blaine's chest. "My home." Blaine kissed Kurt's head with his eyes closed then slowly opened them to look down and remember that first night that the world knew about them.
That's when he realized the picture wouldn't have been the same. There was something sticking up in his pocket and not in the way he so often joked about.
"What's this?" He tucked his hand in the pocket and grabbed it. It was a small jewelry box. "Kurt?"
Kurt finally turned around. He put his elbows on either side of Blaine and laid against his stomach. He took the box from Blaine's hand and put his face against Blaine's chest to take a breath before looking up again.
He flicked open the box and smiled up at his boyfriend.
"Blaine Anderson. Our time together has been amazing. Every day I see more and more of the man I know. You and the world may think you are changing from who you used to be, but I've known all this time that you were just uncovering the person that has been there all along. I know our time so far together has been short and we are young, but I love you more than I ever thought loving someone was possible. You have your past and I have mine, but I would love to share a future together. Our arms can be each other's homes and when the world is quiet, we can be each other's songs. Will you marry me?"
"Kurt. I." Blaine couldn't even speak. He started nodding his head aggressively. "Yes. Yes." He reached for Kurt's face and pulled it up to his. "Yes."
Kurt laughed through tears and took the ring out of the box, sliding it on Blaine's hand. Blaine looked at it and smiled. The hazel of Blaine's eyes darkened in a way that made Kurt nervous.
"You look sad."
"I'm not. I could never be. I'm sorry. I just never thought I could find love and be this happy." He pulled Kurt into him and nuzzled his face into Kurt's neck.
"You're not alone, Blaine. You never will be again."
They laid in each other's arms smiling, laughing, talking until the end credits of the movie rolled. They hadn't watched one scene of it. It was late, and Kurt drifted to sleep against Blaine's chest. He reached for his phone and took a picture of Kurt on his chest, Blaine's hand brushing through Kurt's hair.
BlaineAnderson: In your arms, I am home.
*Attached Photo*
He waited a minute after posting to read through responses.
AndersonFan69: THERE IS A RING ON HIS FINGER. I REPEAT THERE IS A RING ON HIS FINGER.
Blainers4thewin: KurtHummel liked it so he put a ring on it.
*Attached Beyonce dancing gif*
Blaine laughed at the single ladies post. He scrolled through more.
GayMansGirlfriend: *Excessive sobbing*
SebandBlaine: We don't know that this is real. It could just be a class ring. From Dalton. Where him and Seb dated.
BlaineyDays409: I could literally never be happier than I am right now. Yay Kurt and Blaine #Klaine
UsWeekly: Could it be #Klaine tied the knot on a secret Ohio elopement? Keep up to date on all things Klaine with our tag #KlaineWedding
Blaine laughed at all the responses. Kurt woke to the sound of his phone buzzing repeatedly on the nightstand.
"Did you cause another riot?" He moaned.
"I couldn't help it." Blaine held his hand up and looked at the simple silver ring. "I'm excited."