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"Sebastian Mortimer Smythe!", that same voice shouted.
The guys almost dropped Blaine who quickly stepped a couple of steps back from the pool. "Dude, you're called Mortimer?", Finn asked, surprised.
"Shut it, Hudson", Sebastian hissed, kind of embarrassed and glared at the person that new voice belonged to and who was strutting towards him and his friends.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Kurt Hummel", Sebastian said, smirking at him diabolically when Kurt slowly walked over to the edge of the pool. "Long time no see, right? What is it like, living your loser life? And why do you have the audacity turning up at my exclusive get together?"
Kurt, however, just boredly looked down his perfectly manicured nails. "Well, firstly, I could ask you the same, Meerkat. Secondly, I just wanted to bring you these. You forgot them at my place, remember?"
He opened his bag, put it down and retrieved a colored box. "How could you even sleep without your Winnie The-Pooh night guard all the time, Sebbie?", he asked the other boy, this time, it was him who smirked diabolically.
Sebastian blushed a bit and rubbed his neck.
"Dude, since when are the two of you friends?", Sam asked confusedly.
"We are NOT!", Kurt and Sebastian shouted in unison.
"We had only one play date when we were ten", Sebastian added indignantly. "Just because my parents took pity on that weird boy who always brought his fake tea party set to the playground."
Kurt rolled his eyes. "If something, you were weird. Which normal, sane ten-year-old talks about lawsuits and finances?"
"A smart kid who wants to plan his future", Sebastian retorted with narrowed eyes and snatched the night guard from his hands. "Besides, I don't use these anymore for years now."
"Well, I can see that, Horseteeth", Kurt answered dryly. "Maybe, it was a mistake."
Blaine gasped for air. Was it a good idea to mess with the most powerful kid at school, at his own territory? Kurt was about to bury his own grave but he didn't seem to give a damn about that.
For some reason, Sebastian was smiling at Kurt even though he should be pissed. "You know, Kurtie, it's hot out here." He nodded to the pool. "What do you say, are you in the mood?"
Kurt just shook his head and looked at him with a fake smile. "Thanks, but no thanks, Sebbie. I don't feel like swimming. Chlorine water is not good for my impeccable hair. Or my skin. Or every body part of mine." He turned on his heel. "Have fun with your superficial friends that only like you because of your money and your reputation. I can totally pass on that."
Before he could leave, however, Sebastian held him back with his arm. "I don't think it was a yes or no question, Gay Face."
With that, he pushed Kurt who fell and landed-right in the pool.
While all of Sebastian's friends cheered, Blaine insecurely looked over to Kurt who swam over to the edge of the pool with narrowed eyes. Gosh, he was sure he had never seen Kurt this pissed before, and he didn't want to know what he wanted to do to Sebastian because he dared to get his designer clothes wet. "Are you out of your goddamn mind? Those pants are from Gucci, and now, your hideous poolwater will ruin them forever!" Blaine swore, Kurt looked so mad he saw smoke come out of his ears, his face was red with anger. "That was a big, big mistake, Smythe. You are so going to pay for that, Meerkat", he hissed at Sebastian and angrily brushed the water from his eyes. "I'm going to make sure you are going to pay for it in this life, and in the next one as well, and if it's the last thing I will ever do. This time, you went too far, you little…"
Sebastian just laughed, cutting off the other boy's rant. "Serves you right, Gay Face. Your tons of hairspray you have been using must have messed up your brain. Congrats, you look less gay now. And Gucci? Puh-lease, that's no big loss - as if real men would wear a women's brand."
The killing glances Kurt threw him made even Blaine shudder, but Sebastian didn't seem to care. While Kurt climbed out of the pool, Sebastian motioned his friends to follow him. "Inside, we have a chocolate fountain with exclusive Swiss chocolate. Come on, fellas, let's leave this loser outside."
Before Finn followed the others, he threw Kurt an apologetic glance who in turn glared at him, and Blaine wondered why exactly.
In the meantime, Kurt had snatched one of the towels lying around and started drying himself.
"What were you even doing at Sebastian's place?", Blaine asked him with his eyebrows cocked.
"As far as I know, that's none of your business, Bledward", was the snappy answer.
With his head cocked to the side, Blaine watched him rub dry his arms and his neck. He would never figure out what was going on in Kurt's head, never. In the meantime, Kurt walked over to the bar, took one of the glasses and a bottle of Jack Daniel's Whiskey and poured some of the liquor into the glass along with little bit of Sprite.
"I was close to Sebastian's place, so I thought I could drop by, uninvited, and crash that lame party", he eventually explained.
Blaine furrowed his eyebrows confusedly. "Yes, as if Westerville was around the corner. Just tell me the truth, okay? I'm sure it's no big deal."
Frustrated, Kurt let out a loud groan. "Fine! I just wanted to get back at Meerkat for humiliating me day by day, and now, I got the perfect occasion", he started narrating while he took a seat on one of the barstools and took small sips of his cocktail.
Blaine nodded slowly. "Makes sense."
At that moment, something vibrated, and Kurt absentmindedly retrieved his phone from his wet pocket to turn it off. His phone that was inside a waterproof plastic bag.
In order to do the math, Blaine didn't need to be a genius. "Hold up…" He frowned at the other boy. "You knew exactly that Sebastian would push you into the pool. You provoked him on purpose, didn't you?"
Kurt threw him a strange glance. "Yes, Bledward. As I have already told you, I wanted to get back at him for making his jock-friends bully me all the years.", he said slowly. "My stepmother found his night guard among our old stuff this week, that's how my plan was born."
"But why didn't you wait with that until Monday? You just could have humiliated him in front of the entire school, unless…" All of a sudden, Blaine started grinning goofily. "You wanted to help me out, right? You knew that I can't swim and that I am scared of water. You wanted to make sure they don't push me into the pool, so you distracted them by provoking Sebastian! You do indeed care about me, admit it!"
At that, Kurt let out a scoff and rolled his eyes. "Yes, of course, as if everything was only about you. As if I would take great pains only to save your pathetic little butt. Let's be realistic, okay?"
"You like me!", Blaine sing-songed jokingly. "You like me!"
"Be quiet, and-" Before he could end his sentence, Kurt started sneezing, and Blaine threw him a worried glance.
"You must be freezing in your wet clothes. Shouldn't you better get home before you get sick or something?"
Kurt downed his cocktail and threw Blaine a killing glance. "I think I can take care of myself, Bledward." Just when he had ended that sentence, he needed to sneeze again, even his teeth were clattering a bit because of the cold breeze.
"I know, I know, but if you get sick, who will take care of my outfits?", Blaine asked him with his arms crossed. "Come on, let's drive home before you die of hypothermia. I will just text Sebastian that there is a family emergency."
"That's a lame excuse", Kurt commented, but Blaine had already tugged him towards the exit of Sebastian's spacious backyard. Inside, Sebastian and his friends were still busy throwing marshmallows, pretzels, and fruits into his three storied chocolate fountain, and Blaine was somewhat sad he would miss it.
But on the other hand, he wouldn't be allowed to eat anyway since his vampire self couldn't take human food.
Sometimes, life sucked.
…
Since Blaine wanted to thank Kurt for having saved him, he insisted on inviting him for dinner. His parents both had business dinners and Cooper was on another Tinder date, so the boys ended up ordering pizza which they ate on the roof next to Blaine's bedroom window.
In the meantime, it had gotten dark outside, the sky was full of shiny stars and the crescent moon was illuminating the night.
"I really owe you one, Kurt", Blaine spoke up and bit into a larger slice of his pepperoni pizza. "You totally saved me- for the second time."
"Without me, you would have been doomed", Kurt pointed out. "But that's what partners are for. One hand washes the other. I'm just sticking to our deal."
Blaine pensively looked up the sky. "The deal was that you help me faking that vampire thing and that I pretend I'm your boyfriend for a day. I don't think that helping me fighting criminals and saving me from drowning was part of the plan."
"Whatever, Anderson." Kurt took a sip of his apple juice. "Just consider those services extras. But I hope you are aware that our deal ends after prom, right?", he added matter-off-factly.
When he said that, Blaine's face fell. He was right, after Kurt got his date for the wedding, he wouldn't need Blaine anymore. They wouldn't go shopping together anymore. They wouldn't meet for vampire-movie-nights anymore. They wouldn't spend time together anymore. For some reason, Blaine felt sad about it.
"Can't we just…hang out together without needing each other for that deal? As..friends?", he asked tentatively.
Kurt laughed shortly and leaned back to the wall behind him. "That's out of question."
"And why?"
"Just… because, okay? We are no friends, so why should we keep spending time together?", he huffed.
When Blaine wanted to answer that he already considered Kurt his friend, he closed his mouth again. Obviously, Kurt was not interested in a friendship with him. Only that deal was important to him, that was all.
And that was a shame, actually, because Kurt was the only person who knew about him faking. Around Kurt, he could always be himself, he didn't have to worry about saying the wrong things.
Blaine gulped. If the secret got out, not only would Sebastian probably break up with him and drop him, like his jock and Cheerio friends, Kurt wouldn't want to hang out with him anymore as well.
In the end, he would end up all alone. And that prospect was terrifying him.