Question 6: If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you choose?
"Care for some Brad Pitt?"
Blaine looked up from his homework to see Kurt in his pajamas, carrying a bucket of fragrant smelling popcorn and knocking on Blaine's open door.
"Bard Pitt, you say and popcorn, I see. What are we watching?"
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is airing in five. Care to join me?"
"You or homework? I'll always choose you." Blaine flirted a little to which Kurt responded by blushing an adorable shade of pink. Blaine wanted to rub his finger through Kurt's cheek to see if he would blush further. He was awakened from his daydreams by the same boy speaking to him:
"Thank Goodness you said yes, I've too much popcorn and I'm supposed to be watching my figure."
"Nonsense. You have zero need to go on a diet."
Kurt smiled earnestly:
"Thank you, but say that to my drama teacher."
"I will; I don't want to see you starving yourself."
Kurt giggled:
"I'm clearly not following what he says – I've plenty of popcorn and gorgeous men in my life."
Blaine's heart skipped a beat and the words were out of his mouth before he could prevent it:
"Are you dating someone?"
Kurt's reaction was as if he was offended by something Blaine had said. What? They could be best friends, more than that as Kurt himself had put it, and Blaine couldn't even ask about his love life? Even if Blaine's motifs were purely out of jealousy. Blaine stuttered:
"I.. I.. I mean, if you are comfortable talking about it…"
Kurt's smile returned to his face, timid at first, but then taking his whole face:
"There's no one, Blaine. Don't you think I'd have told you?" It was Blaine's turn to have a smile on his face. Kurt continued:
"I meant Brad Pitt. Wasn't him my invitation tonight?"
"Sure."
Kurt and his infatuation with Hollywood stars would get the best of Blaine someday. They had arrived at the couch and Kurt has taking his seat right in the middle. Blaine awkwardly looked for a place to sit trying to give the other boy some personal space. Kurt looked at him puzzled:
"Sit here, Blee; close to the popcorn."
The popcorn, right; that was why Kurt wanted him near, to share the popcorn. Not because Kurt was constantly craving for Blaine's body to be near his, like Blaine's body carved for Kurt's. To top things off, Kurt had recently exited the shower and used that shampoo that made Blaine want to snuggle his best friend and never let him go.
The film went on without any incidents. Blaine looked more than a couple of times to watch Kurt instead of the movie, but apparently Kurt wasn't aware of that fact. Before the end of the movie, Kurt started yawing.
"Already feeling asleep?"
Kurt smiled:
"No, I want to see the end of the movie."
Blaine wanted to prolong the moment with his roommate/love of his life. He started engaging in conversation:
"Crazy thing, isn't it? Growing younger…"
"Well, if you think of it, growing older has its own dose of bizarre; we are just used to it."
"In others, right? I think we are in constant wonder of seeing our own bodies losing its youth."
Kurt turned his full attention to Blaine by turning his torso towards his friend:
"I like to think I'm still young to worry about that."
Blaine chuckled:
"Say that to your nighttime routine."
A pillow hit Blaine right in the face, to which he laughed, which caused Kurt to smile too:
"It's called self-care."
Blaine would call the amount of time Kurt spent moisturizing 'being a diva'. But with a second look to Kurt's flawless skin, he decided to remain quiet. He really appreciated Kurt's skin. He really appreciated everything about Kurt. His beauty, his witty…
"Kurt, if you could grow older but keep your mind or the body you have nowadays, which one would you choose?"
Kurt bit his lower lip lost in thought. Blaine enjoyed the moment to lost himself in thoughts about Kurt.
"I think I'd keep my body. I like the idea that my mind will mature and sharpen."
"Well, if you live to be really old, your mind would…"
Kurt interrupted him:
"I don't want to talk about that."
"About you being an old man?"
"Yes."
"Even if you were a hot 90-years-old? With a 20's body?"
One of Kurt's eyebrows raised while he considered:
"Maybe I wouldn't need that much help… Maybe then I could survive."
Blaine was confused:
"You think you'll die young?"
"I rather."
"Why? You have so much joie de vivre?"
"Because I'll be a lonely old man. Isn't it sad?"
"Why would you be lonely? You're not making sense, Kurt."
A single tear ran down the pale boy's cheek:
"Because I'll have no one after my father passes away."
Blaine went against his better senses and cleared Kurt's tear with his thumb. The other boy came closer and made himself at home in Blaine's embrace.
"Oh, Blee, I'm so scared I'll die alone."
"Why, Kurt? Why? What about all your friends?"
"They'll have their own families and won't have time to take care of a decaying old man such as myself?"
"What about your own family?"
"I'm gay, Blaine. Society will never accept that I have my own family."
"I think you are wrong. I think I'll be a happy old man with my wrinkled husband and a bunch of grandchildren running around my feet…"
Kurt snorted, still in Blaine's arms:
"Can I borrow you dream?"
Blaine wanted Kurt to share his dream, to be the wrinkled husband, to raise their kids together… Focus, Blaine; stop thinking of the children of a man who doesn't love you.
"I'll do better than that, I'll make you a promise I'll always be by your side until one of us die."
"Thank you, Blaine. I don't know what I did to deserve such a wonderful friend like you."
Kurt said that and kissed his friend on the cheek. Even after he stepped back from the kiss, Blaine could still feel the warmth of Kurt's lips.
Kurt rubbed his eyes either to clean away some tear or out of tiredness. He looked at Blaine and asked:
"You didn't answer your question; mind or body?"
"Mind. I think I was born with the mind of a 60-year-old; maybe my body can finally catch up."
In truth, Blaine wanted to keep his heart the same as today for the rest of his life just to love Kurt the way he did.