A/N: It's been over 2 weeks since my last update on this story, and for that I apologize. I've been feeling very overwhelmed lately and have been having a hard time writing. I'm not sure how regularly I'll be updating from here on out (and, to be fair, I've never really had a regular upload schedule for this fic anyway), but I'll try to not make you wait too long. Thank you all so much for your patience, and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Kurt rings the doorbell, then takes a step backward to stand next to Sebastian as they wait for Rachel to let them in. She'd decided to throw a party since her dads are away again, and then Mercedes and Tina had insisted he bring Sebastian since they haven't actually seen the other boy since he and Kurt had become officially. Sebastian had agreed easily, and was almost too excited when he'd asked if Blaine would be there and Kurt said yes. He'd tried to make his boyfriend promise to be on his best behaviour, but Sebastian had only said that he'd try his best, which was... not very reassuring.

Rachel pulls the door open now, a wide smile spreading across her face when she sees him.

"Kurt!" she squeals, motioning the boys inside and pulling Kurt into a hug.

He hugs her back, then makes his way further into the house to unlace his boots and hang up his jacket.

"Hi Sebastian," she says a little awkwardly.

"Rachel," Sebastian says with a nod and a hint of a smirk.

Rachel still hasn't quite gotten over her desire for Kurt and Blaine to get back together. She's mostly stopped being pushy about it now that Kurt is with Sebastian, but Kurt knows she's still thinking it, and she isn't a huge fan of Sebastian.

And Sebastian knows it.

"Everyone is downstairs," Rachel says cheerily, looking back at Kurt now as he takes Sebastian's coat and hangs it up. "We were just doing some karaoke. I think Blaine was looking for a partner," she hints with a meaningful look, in the least subtle way imaginable.

"I'm sure he is," Sebastian says, and Kurt can hear the smirk in his voice.

"Come on," Kurt says, rolling his eyes and gesturing down the hallway, "let's go downstairs."

They make their way to the basement, Rachel following behind them, and true to her word, Brittany and Santana are on the stage performing a very lively rendition of Nelly Furtado's Maneater.

"Hey, Kurt," Mercedes says with a smile as she sees him stepping into the room, and she walks over to give him a hug. When she releases him, she gives Sebastian a hug as well, and Kurt smiles a little at the slightly awkward, slightly helpless look on his boyfriend's face.

"You better be treating my man right," she says with a grin, nudging Sebastian with her elbow.

"He is, don't worry," Kurt says, rolling his eyes fondly. "Did we miss anything?"

"Just Rachel doing a song from Funny Girl," Mercedes says. "I'm next though, so you're just in time for that."

"Glad I didn't miss it," he replies with a smile as Brittany and Santana finish their number.

"And that's my cue," she says brightly, planting a kiss on his cheek before making her way to the stage.

The party continues on, and Kurt manages to avoid Blaine for the most part; the other boy approaches him once while Sebastian is gone to get a drink, which is fine until Sebastian comes back and makes things really awkward. But, other than that, the party is good, and now they all find themselves sitting in a circle on the floor for a game of truth or dare that Rachel had suggested and Santana had insisted was the only good idea Rachel has ever had.

"Truth or dare?" Mercedes asks Tina.

"Truth," Tina decides.

"When did you first realize you loved Mike?"

Santana snorts. "That's the lamest truth I've ever heard."

"Shut up, Santana," Mercedes says, frowning at her, and then looks back to Tina. "Go ahead."

"We were just at my house one day," Tina starts with a small smile on her face, "we had been together for a few months by then, and we were just hanging out. We had music playing, and a good song came on and he grabbed my arm and pulled me up and started dancing. Just twirling me around and stuff," she reaches out and grabs Mike's hand, looks at him and grins widely, "and it was such a sweet moment. And it just hit me that I loved him."

"Gross," Santana says, and Kurt laughs under his breath as Mercedes rolls her eyes and pointedly ignores the other girl.

"That's really sweet," Mercedes says. "Your turn."

Tina looks around the room, and her eyes settle on Rachel. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare," Rachel says with a determined look.

"Oh, okay," Tina says, then she pauses to think for a moment. "I dare you to... kiss Quinn," she decides.

"You think I won't kiss her because she's a girl?" Rachel asks. "I have gay dads and a gay best friend, I'm not homophobic," she says, slurring her words a little, then turns to Quinn. "Pucker up," she says dramatically, then takes Quinn's face in her hands and plants a solid kiss on her lips.

The girl's lips move together, and everyone watches as Rachel's hand slides into Quinn's hair and Quinn's hand comes up to rest on Rachel's neck. When Rachel finally pulls away, after what seems like a solid minute but is probably much shorter, Santana lets out a wolf whistle. "Get it, Berry!"

"And that's how a kiss is done!" Rachel announces as she plops back down in her spot. "Blaine," she says, pointing at the boy.

"Dare I guess," Blaine says with a shrug.

"I dare you to kiss Kurt," Rachel says with a smirk.

"Um, I..." Blaine trails off, looks at Kurt awkwardly.

Kurt stares back, not sure what to say, because why would Rachel do that, except he knows exactly why Rachel would do that, and he looks at her and she's just grinning.

"Well what are you waiting for? Go ahead and kiss my boyfriend," Sebastian says, but Kurt can hear the challenge in his voice.

Kurt's head snaps to the side. "What?"

Sebastian shrugs, trying to act indifferent but Kurt can see the uneasiness in his eyes. "It's just truth or dare."

"I'm not– no," Kurt decides, "no, I'm not doing this. Pick something else."

"Kurt," Rachel whines, sticking out her lower lip and giving him her best puppy dog eyes.

"No, Rachel. Pick a different dare."

"Fine," she pouts, crossing her arms and looking up at the ceiling while she thinks for a moment. "Okay, I know, I want you to prank call Mr. Schue," she says with a giggle.

"Oh, um, sure," Blaine agrees, and Kurt can see the disappointment in Blaine's eyes but he really can't bring himself to care because all he's feeling is relieved.

Blaine pulls out his cell phone then, and Rachel is listing off the digits of their teacher's phone number because apparently she has it memorized, and then the circle falls into silence as they all listen to the ringing and wait for Mr. Schuester to answer the phone.

A voice cuts in, and there are a couple excited gasps before they realize it's an answering machine cutting in, after which there are a couple disappointed groans.

Blaine hangs up the phone. "I tried," he says with a shrug, "sorry."

"You tried," Rachel agrees solemnly. "I guess it's your turn to ask now."

"Santana," he decides, "truth or dare?"

"Dare," Santana shoots back immediately, a smirk on her face.

"I dare you to give Brittany a lap dance," Blaine decides.

Santana smiles widely. "I thought these were supposed to be challenging," she says, then grabs Brittany's hand. "Come on, babe."

She leads Brittany over to a chair and sits her down, then starts dancing to the music playing quietly through the room. It lasts for the rest of the song, and by the end Santana is straddling Brittany in the chair. As the song ends, she stands again, gives a small bow, and the two girls take their seats in the circle.

"Alright Smythe, truth or dare?" Santana asks, levelling Sebastian with a smirk.

"Dare," Sebastian says, smirking back at the girl.

She grins at him. "I was hoping you'd say that. I dare you to give Lady Hummel here a hickey. A very visible hickey."

Sebastian just smirks. "That won't be a problem at all," he says before turning to Kurt.

And then Sebastian's mouth is on his neck and a breathy moan escapes his lips before he can stop it. Sebastian licks at the thin skin over his pulse, nibbling lightly and sucking and Kurt is trying so hard not to make a sound but it's hard. He's squirming beneath his boyfriend's mouth, and he brings a hand up to hold the back of Sebastian's head to keep him there. He feels his boyfriend's smile as he sucks hard, and Kurt bites his lip to hold back the moan. Eventually, after what feels like simultaneously forever and not nearly long enough, Sebastian pulls away, leaving Kurt squirming and half-hard in his pants.

Santana whistles lowly. "Not bad," she says appreciatively.

Sebastian smiles cockily at her, then looks directly at Blaine.

"Truth or dare?"

"Hey, he just went, you need to ask someone else," Finn pipes up.

"No, no this is good. I want to see this," Santana argues, shushing the other boy. "Go ahead," she prompts with a devilish grin.

"Um... Truth," Blaine says carefully.

"You're no fun," Sebastian complains, rolling his eyes. "But fine. Tell me, Blaine, what do you hate more? Knowing you're not good enough for either me or Kurt, or knowing I'll be the one to get in his pants and you never will?"

Kurt's face flushes bright red. "Seb," he scolds, but his boyfriend doesn't look at him, he's just staring at Blaine with a dark look in his eyes, and Blaine looks a little lost, caught off-guard by the question.

"Blaine, you don't have to answer that," Kurt says quickly.

"No, he does," Sebastian argues, eyes not leaving Blaine's face as he smirks. "I want to know what he hates most about me stealing his boyfriend."

"Sebastian, don't be–" Kurt starts again, but Santana cuts him off.

"Shut up, Hummel, this is a good one. If he doesn't answer it now, I'll just ask it later."

Kurt glares at Santana, but he doesn't say anything else; he knows it's a losing battle now.

"So Anderson, which is it?"

"I, um..." Blaine starts, then trails off, and Kurt doesn't think he can look at him.

"Oh come on, that's not fair," Rachel cuts in, and Blaine looks relieved, "we need torespect people'sboundaries, Blaine is clearly uncomfortable with this question."

"Well Blaine doesn't seem to have a problem ignoring Kurt's boundaries so I'm not too concerned about respecting his," Sebastian sneers.

Kurt feels like his heart stops at the words, because how could Sebastian go there. In front of all these people? In front of his friends? They don't know, he hasn't told them any of this, he doesn't want them to know, and now Sebastian said that and of course they don't know everything just from those words but they know something and will they look at him differently now?

Mercedes frowns and looks between Blaine and Kurt. "What do you mean by that?"

It's too much, he can't deal with this right now, it's like he can't breathe, it's too much. He gets up, strides quickly out of the room, ignoring the murmuring behind him that he can't be bothered to try to make out. He breaks into a jog after he's left the room, and he's running by the time he reaches the front door, stepping outside into the cold air onto Rachel's front porch because he can't breathe but maybe if he can get some fresh air he can.

He leans on the railing, closes his eyes as he tries to take in deep breaths to calm himself. Several minutes pass, and he feels like he can almost breathe again, and then he hears the door open and shut.

"Kurt?" It's Sebastian's voice.

Kurt whirls around to see his boyfriend standing there, hand still on the doorknob and a concerned look on his face.

"You had no right."

"Kurt, what are you talking about? It's truth or dare, the questions are supposed to be hard."

"You had no right," Kurt repeats, his tone pitched slightly higher than usual, "to tell them that."

A flash of realization crosses Sebastian's face, like he hadn't even known what he'd done until this moment, and that almost makes it worse because how could he not know?

Sebastian of all people should know.

"Kurt, I didn't mean to... I didn't tell them anything. That won't mean anything to anyone."

"Of course it will," Kurt says, practically spits the words at him, "there's only one way to interpret that, Sebastian, what else could it mean?" He's almost yelling, and he doesn't usually get angry like this, but Sebastian just doesn't get it.

"Well so what if they know?" Sebastian asks, raising his own voice now. "Maybe they should know. He's an asshole, Kurt, they should know what he's like! Everyone wants you to get back together with Blaine because they think he's so perfect, he doesn't deserve to have everyone think that! They should know who he is!"

"It should be my choice!" Kurt is actually screaming now, voice ringing high and loud in the quiet night air. "You don't get to make that decision for me! If I wanted anyone to know I would tell them and I don't want them to know!"

"You're letting him get away with his shit and you shouldn't be, Kurt!"

"Who are you to tell me what I should and shouldn't be doing, Seb?" Kurt asks, voice low and dark. "Why do you care about this so much? This isn't about you, none of this is about you, would you just stop trying to make me feel how you think I should feel and accept how I feel? Why is that so hard? I don't know if you're just trying to get me to make the decisions you wish you made or what, but I'm not you and I can make my own decisions."

He knows as he's saying it that it's too far. And he doesn't even know how much truth is in the words, because Sebastian hasn't actually told him that anything happened, but he has a feeling, and judging by the expression that crosses Sebastian's face he's right. But even then, he just can't bring himself to care. "Just because you can't tell people about whatever it is that happened to you, that doesn't mean you can make me do it. You don't get to make that decision."

The two boys look at each other, eyes icy and cold, caught in a tense staring match until, finally, Sebastian breaks eye contact. He turns, takes the steps two at a time as he descends from the porch and then he starts walking down the road.

"Sebastian!" he calls out after his boyfriend. "Where are you going? You can't just leave!"

"Watch me!" Sebastian calls back, not even bothering to turn and look.

"It's the middle of the night!"

Sebastian doesn't respond, just continues on his way down the road.