A/N: I wasn't planning on doing an update of this until I posted the Christmas chapter of Runnin' which will link up with this and the whole what's in the box that Blaine gave Marley to give to Mikki.
But then I thought to myself I want to torture Blaine some more - I know it's mean and horrible of me, but it's just so much fun!
So this is in the present time of where we kind of are in that of the 'what if' or 'alternate universe' stories spun off from Everywhere, and will then go into flashback, which is going to be in italics; and it's basically Blaine trying to work out Mikki and what is she all about; because I don't think at first even in the main story, probably up to where she and he did have that argument over Sebastian, that she had truly opened up to him and told him all that he would need to know to be in the main verse later to be married to her.
As you will see for this, Blaine is pretty much his own worse enemy; in that he really doesn't know how to be in a relationship and that is probably why he's so quick to jump to conclusions and such things, also as well she has this past that she doesn't want to tell him, it must mean she doesn't actually care for him; at least that is how he kind of sees it in head. If that at all makes sense.
Anyway, enjoy - review if you like; or leave a fave or follow. I don't write for the accolades, sure they're nice. I write because I enjoy it and I think that is the most important thing.
Love always
KJ xoxoxoxoxoxo
Chapter 3 :
Getting back to his house after a Friday morning show of Wake Up, where the co-host that had been bought in for Mikki's replacement; Mercedes Jones was let go, due to her inability to click with him; Puck walked into the house and slammed the front door shut.
"Thanks so very much" said Puck, upon seeing Blaine sitting on the sofa in the living area working on rosters for his work.
"Umm thanks for what?" asked Blaine, looking at his brother in law.
"If you hadn't decided to make a move on Mikki" said Puck, looking at him. "I'd still have her as a co host right now, and not now have to face another new disaster of one, with them having let go of the horror that was Mercedes"
"You can't blame me for Mikki leaving" said Blaine, standing up and facing his brother in law.
"Really can't I now?" asked Puck. "Because it was because of you and your accusations of her cheating on you, that this whole debacle started and she then made the decision to leave"
"No, that's not fair to say at all" replied Blaine, shaking his head. "Because you don't know that, what if Mikki and I weren't together; and he still came here to see her, it's not like her feelings would have been any different. She was always in love with him still, regardless of me and her being together; so you can't pin any of this on me"
Puck looked at him and laughed. "And you know she was still in love with him, because what?"
"She pretty much said one day, that she still in a way loved him" replied Blaine. "And that should have been a huge clue to not go any further into a relationship with her"
"She actually said that she was still in love with him" said Puck, looking to his brother in law.
"Not in those exact words, but more that she'd always love him" replied Blaine, shrugging his shoulders. "Guess that should have told me, huh"
"Yeah" replied Puck, with a nod. "Hey, I'm sorry man. I shouldn't have said what I said, I know this has got to be tough of you as well, I know how much you liked Mikki"
"Loved her actually" replied Blaine, with a small smile. "Even though I never actually got around to telling her that bit"
Puck looked at him and nodded and patted him on the shoulder. "Yeah, well you know what I am sure somewhere out there, there is another girl for you. Who is even more perfect for you then Mikki ever was, and one day you will find her"
Blaine looked at his brother and law and nodded. "Yeah, thanks. I'm just going to take this upstairs and finish these"
"Sure" replied Puck, looking at him with a nod as Blaine gathered up the rosters he was working on. "You know if you ever need to talk"
"Thanks" replied Blaine, with a smile to him and headed up stairs to his room; and as he did, he couldn't help but wonder what could have been and how there were so many signs and signals from Mikki that she wasn't over that of her previous relationship.
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Upon his first meeting of Mikki Kapowski, if you asked him what his first impressions of the brunette were, then he would of told you that he was most certainly impressed. However, his usual tricks and comments that would normally flatter that of any girl who came into the bar where he worked, didn't work on her and that then made the challenge of trying to crack the mystery of her even that more challenging.
As it would be though, as he soon found out; Mikki wasn't the type to fall for a guy easily and he often found that more times then he'd wish not to be at loggerheads with her, and always on opposing sides of a discussion; something that he knew also frustrated his brother in law as well, with how they acted towards one another.
When he along with Sam, and the rest of the family; went to Hawaii for a few days when the on screen hosting team were to be filming the show from there, the last thing he ever expected was to actually go on a date with the brunette haired beauty, muchly thanks to Sam; who had come to see that he was certainly enamored by that of her.
Whilst Mikki was certainly unimpressed it seemed at first, about the notion of being set up with him; agreeing to dinner, because he was paying; the two of them actually had a great time together, and he did indeed get to know more about the mystery that was Mikki Kapowski, and even more so be impressed that she indeed had a rather good singing voice and was that of a decent guitar player, when she got up at the restaurants karaoke night and performed an acoustic rendition of "Small Town Girl".
Walking her back to her hotel room, after dinner and then a walk along the beach; he decided to take that of a chance and kissed her, and was quite surprised when she too kissed him back.
The next morning when he then made the decision to go around to her hotel room once again, and offer to walk with her to breakfast, he gently hinted that maybe they could do it again sometime when they got back to San Francisco, and much to his surprise and delight the brunette girl agreed to this and he promised her that this time he wouldn't, as she had called it; bamboozle her into the date.
Upon getting back to California, he held true to his promise and took her out, to dinner and a movie; and whilst he did think he was getting closer to cracking the mystery that was Mikayla Kapowski, he also knew there was so much more that he didn't know about her yet, and he was eager to find out what depths there was to the girl who clearly was beginning to steal his heart.
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Following Mikki in his car around to her apartment, and then her letting him in via the main entrance since she went and parked around in the parking spaces set aside for that of tenants; he and Mikki then took the two flights of stairs up to her apartment.
"You know this is actually the first time I've been to your apartment" said Blaine, with a laugh; as Mikki unlocked her door and the two of them walked inside.
"Yeah" replied Mikki, with a laugh also as she went over to the small little table that she had in the apartment and placed the costumes that she was making of them. "Take a seat, did you want a coffee?
"Umm yeah but only if you are" replied Blaine, as he walked into the part of the apartment that was set aside as the living area.
"Yeah I am" replied Mikki, with a nod. "Pod coffee okay?"
"Sure, one sugar with it please" replied Blaine, with a smile to her; and Mikki filled up the water tank on the machine and started to make the coffees for the two of them.
Blaine sat on her sofa, and looked at couple of framed photos on the little side table.
"Your brother and sisters?" asked Blaine, picking up one with Mikki in; as well as Marley who he also recognized and also another girl and boy, who he could also vaguely recall from being here a few months prior.
"Yeah, it was taken the Christmas just gone" replied Mikki, as she walked over to Blaine and handed him a coffee. "When I went home for it"
"Thanks" replied Blaine, as he put the photo back down and Mikki went to make her coffee. "You miss them?"
"Well I see Marls all the time" said Mikki, with a laugh as she made her own coffee.
"True" replied Blaine, with a laugh also.
"And I guess I do miss not having Kit and Rod around all the time, but they don't live that far from me" said Mikki. "It wasn't like when I was in South Carolina, and they were all over here on the west coast whilst I was on the east"
"So you went to college over there as well?" asked Blaine, looking at another picture that was also on the side table; that looked to be taken at Mikki's college graduation.
"Yeah" replied Mikki, with a laugh. "I was the strange one who chose to go to a college two hours from where I grew up; whereas the other three decided that they would go all the way over to this side of the country"
"How come?" asked Blaine.
"How come what?" asked Mikki, as she turned off the coffee machine and added two sugars to her coffee.
"Why did you decide to stay and study over there and the others didn't?" asked Blaine, as Mikki went and sat on the sofa next to him.
"I guess it was because when I did start college" said Mikki, looking at him. "Rod and Marls were so young, I kind of didn't want to be too far away from them in case they were to ever need their big sister. Kit was older enough, being she was in grade twelve, but Rod was only in the sixth grade and Marls starting high school; I just felt the need to be close by for them"
"That was pretty sweet of you to do" replied Blaine with a smile.
"Yeah" said Mikki, with a laugh. "And Kurt wanted to go close to home as well, so it was like well I get to have my best friend with me, so that was something too"
"So Kurt's in this photo?" asked Blaine, as he put down the coffee cup he had and picked up the photo of graduation.
Mikki looked at it and nodded with a smile and small laugh. "Yeah he is"
"So which one is he?" asked Blaine, looking at the photo; seeing that there was Mikki along with another girl and three guys in the photo.
"This one here" replied Mikki, tapping on Kurt's face.
"And the other three?" asked Blaine, looking at her and then the photo.
"That's my other best friend Ellie, we met freshman year of college when we became roommates" said Mikki, tapping on Ellie, and then tapped on the two other guys as well as she continued to speak. "That's Artie, and then the other guy is Seb, my ex"
"College boyfriend" said Blaine. "How long were you together?"
"Almost six and half years" replied Mikki, with a small laugh.
"Okay wow" said Blaine, looking at her in somewhat alarm at the notion of a relationship being that long in length. "Why did you break up?"
"Umm, I got the job here in California" replied Mikki, with a nod. "And we kind of realized that it would be completely selfish of me to ask Seb to move here because he had a great job there in South Carolina; so we ended things"
"So it wasn't because one of you cheated or you fell out of love with one another" said Blaine, looking at her closely, trying to read her emotions.
Mikki shook her head. "No, he's still one of my best friends and he always will be; and there is always going to be a part of me that will always love him too"
"Huh" replied Blaine. "Guess I don't have anything that really compares to that"
"You've never had a long term relationship?" asked Mikki, looking at him.
"I think the longest was maybe six months in college" replied Blaine. "But apart from that, no nothing long term"
"So where did you and him meet?" asked Blaine, as he put the photo down and picked up his coffee. "Class?"
"No" replied Mikki, with a laugh. "I was an English major and Seb was PoliSci, we didn't have any of the same classes"
"PoliSci?" asked Blaine.
Mikki looked at him and nodded. "Umm Political Sciences, and after we graduated he then went on to law school to become a lawyer"
"Wow, lawyer" said Blaine.
"Yeah" replied Mikki, with a nod.
"So if not class where you met" said Blaine. "A party then?"
"Umm at a bar actually, sophomore year" replied Mikki, with a laugh. "Not that either of us were drinking, since we were both nineteen at the time"
"A bar" said Blaine, with a laugh. "Mikayla Kapowski got picked up on in a bar"
"It wasn't like that at all really" replied Mikki, with a smile; and he looked at her.
"Oh well do tell" said Blaine. "How was it exactly? Because as someone who works at a bar, I've seen it all"
Mikki looked at him and laughed. "He offered to buy me a drink, and I told him I don't take drinks from guys I don't know the name of, so he told me his name and bought me a drink"
"And?" asked Blaine, with a laugh.
"He asked me for my name but I made him guess it" replied Mikki with a laugh and also smile as well.
"Guess your name?" asked Blaine. "Okay that would take forever"
"I ended up giving him some clues and he got it after a little bit of hinting in the correct direction" said Mikki, with a smile still on her face. "And when he'd guessed and I went back to my table and him back to his; he came over and said I never gave him my number, and I told him he'd have to work for that, and by the end of that night we'd exchanged numbers, and went out on a first date a week later, and we were together for almost six and a half years"
"Wow" said Blaine, looking at her. "That's just wow"
"Pretty much" replied Mikki, with a nod. "And even though we aren't together anymore, I still see his family as being like an extension of mine; I was at his brothers' weddings, been there when their kids were born, well except for the last one because I was here in California; and regardless of me and Seb not being together anymore, I still talk with them and he talks with my brother and sisters as well sometimes"
"Isn't that like weird though?" asked Blaine.
"I don't think so at all" replied Mikki, shaking her head as she finished up her coffee. "I feel it would be strange to cut people out of my life who mean so much to me, just because of one circumstance would be weirder. There is nothing to say I can't be friends with my ex's brothers or sister in laws; and also nothing to say he can't talk or be friends with my sisters and brother"
"No I guess not" replied Blaine, shaking his head as he also finished the coffee he had. "Just never had that myself"
Mikki looked at him and nodded. "Hmm well enough, talk about that of my ex"
"Okay, yeah I agree" replied Blaine, with a nod really not wanting to hear about Mikki's perfect ex boyfriend and his family much longer.
"I will go and get this dress on, and then you can tell me what you think" said Mikki, with a smile and placing a kiss to his cheek; and then stood up, taking both coffee cups over to the kitchen and placing them in the sink.
"That I can do" replied Blaine, with a smile also; and Mikki went to get the dress on that she'd been working on for the upcoming Comic Con that her and Puck were going to be attending; and after getting a good reaction from him on the dress, the two of them grabbed some takeout, before he headed on home to his own house.
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Whilst Mikki, Puck and Sam were in San Diego for Comic Con; he had the challenge of looking after the three young Puckerman girls for the couple of days that the other three were away.
And even though he felt as if he were getting closer to Mikki, he still felt as if there was something that was holding the brunette back from fully opening up to him and also that of trusting him as well; so he decided to take a good look at her Facebook page, which he hadn't really done when he had added her as a friend on the social media site; when the three girls were all asleep in their beds.
Going to Mikki's profile page, the first thing he noticed was what her relationship status currently said; and that was "It's Complicated" and he frowned, not knowing what she really meant by that status of a relationship, he then looked at the first couple of posts that were recent along with photos from San Diego and what she was doing there, and saw there was a few likes and comments from some of her friends, including Sebastian; and thus proving to him what she said about the two of them still talking with one another.
Scrolling down further, he saw that there was also some pictures from when they went to Hawaii and that he was in quite a few of them; which in turn made him smile; because it was good to know that he somehow had a presence enough in her life for him to be actually in photos that were posted to her page; and he kept scrolling down, until he came upon a picture collage that by the looks of it had been done by Sebastian and one that he had tagged Mikki in that read
"Thirteen is that of a lucky number, seven years ago I had a date with the most gorgeous girl ever; and even though we're not together anymore, I am so glad that she was a part of my life. I am thankful for those nearly six and a half wonderful years, that we had together and I miss her like crazy every single day, and I know that no matter what a part of my heart will always belong to her, and I'm so glad that I can still get to call her a friend".
Looking at the photos that had been put into the collage that were obviously taken over the course of his relationship he frowned, having not seen Mikki look that happy or content in all the time she'd been in San Francisco to the extent that she seemed to be in the photos, and he clicked load more comments to see what her friends or maybe even family had said about the photo.
The first one was from Artie, who he could vaguely remember Mikki saying she went to college with, that read "So hard to fathom there isn't a Mik&Seb anymore, it's like Barbie & Ken splitting up; it's just wrong!" and a reply back from Mikki to that comment that said "I don't know whether to be flattered you're comparing Seb and I to that of Barbie and Ken, or insulted Arts! :p" , and the comment being liked by Artie and then a reply back that was of a laughing face.
Blaine sighed as he looked over the next comment from Kurt which said "Agree Artie, it's just so wrong. But you know what Barbie and Ken got back together! So maybe we can live in hope that Mik&Seb will as well?!"
He frowned upon reading that, seeing that a lot of Mikki's friends and also those who clearly seemed to be friends of Sebastian also, were rather hopeful that one day that may get back together, and he looked at the reply from Mikki to Kurt that read "Again comparing to B&K, really!? And well we really don't know what the future holds now do we?! ;)"
"What does that even mean" said Blaine, out loud to himself since he was obviously alone in his room. "Does she want to be with him still?"
Shaking his head and not wanting to read anymore of the comments on that photo, he scrolled down a little further and came upon the photo of the four Kapowski siblings, that was taken by her brother when they were all in San Francisco not that long ago; with a post on the photo that said "We may have annoyed the hell out of one another growing up; but it's always nice when we now get to be together, even if it's only for a really short quick visit. Kapsibs forever – love you girls!"
Blaine gave a laugh at the sweet nature of the post, knowing how true it was about annoying one another but also have this love for a sibling that you really can't explain to someone else, and he looked at two of the comments that were attached to photo on Mikki's page; one from Kurt which read "Miss you my Kapsibs ;) Glad you all got to have a catch up again over there on the WC, even if it was just a really quick one! xxx" and the second comment from Sebastian, that read "Second what Kurt said, miss you guys all heaps! Seems so weird not talking to you all as often as I use to now, feels as if I have lost a part of my family. xxx"
Blaine frowned at the comment from Mikki's ex, which she had liked and also had a reply from her brother which read "Still totally see you as my big brother Seb, even though you and my sis aren't together anymore! Who else I am going to talk to when they are driving me insane! And they still love to drive me insane!" This comment was liked by Sebastian, and then a quick short reply from Sebastian that said "Anytime you want to chat buddy, you know where I am!"
As he scrolled down further into that of Mikki's Facebook page and got to posts that were from last year, and from the looks of them; Christmas when she went back to South Carolina to spend it with her family, he sighed and rubbed at his forehead; finding it hard to fathom that someone could clearly be still so comfortable hanging around with the person that essentially was their ex partner of so many years, as he read over the photo post from Mikki, which had herself, Sebastian and two other people in it, one he was pretty sure did look like the girl from the photo he had seen at Mikki's apartment of her college graduation, that read "Can't really call it a 'double date' – but definitely love hanging out with these truly awesome guys, who I miss so much! Great way to end what has been a happy but yet somewhat sad trip back home!"
"You want to know what I call hanging out with your ex, weird. Extremely weird" muttered Blaine, to himself, as he looked at the comment from Ellie that read "It was great seeing you again Mik, I miss you! And I know Seb misses you too. Hell we all miss you, can you please just come home to us! PLEASE!"
Blaine sighed to himself as he looked at the reply back to the comment from Mikki. "I would come home tomorrow, if I could. Miss you and everyone else so much as well. But I don't know if my future lies there in SC anymore, my heart surely does, but my life; it just doesn't want to cooperate. Come visit me soon in Cali, Ellie; and we can have a day of shopping and just total wacky utter adventures that only us two could have! xxx"
"Why are you torturing yourself like this?" Blaine said out loud to just himself. "Clearly she isn't going to let such a huge part of her past just be erased completely from her life"
And with that realization in mind, Blaine closed up the computer tab and then shut down his computer, not needing to see or know anything else about Mikki's past, because he thought to himself if she wanted him to know then if they were to further progress in what was their relationship with one another, then she would tell him when she felt the time was right for her; and with that in mind he then went to sleep, knowing that the next day Mikki would be home and somehow he was going to broach the subject of them actually becoming a couple, just how he was going to do that though, he wasn't entirely sure.
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As Monday morning came around, and after two nights working at the bar; and being hit on by numerous girls, some who he had in the past willingly slept with, if there was one thing that he had come to realize, it was that wasn't what he wanted anymore.
Of course that's not to say he was ready to jump back into a relationship again at the moment, because knowing that he had opened so much to Mikki, to only have her only half open up and then go running back to her ex, who she clearly never ever stopped loving; that truly did break his heart and crush his spirit more than he ever thought was possible.
But if there was one thing he did know, it was that he Blaine Anderson would find love one day again; he didn't know where it would be or he didn't even know at the moment who with, but somehow in his heart he knew that somewhere out there was the right girl, waiting for him and maybe she too was just waiting for him as well, and that if their destiny was to be together; then he had every faith in that one day soon they might meet.
End Note:
I know I did maybe torture him a little there, or maybe he just tortured himself!?
I do know who the girl is going to be (she won't be a Glee character but that of another OC of mine, that I have actually had fun creating and coming up with backstory for!), and she is going to becoming into later chapters, with that of a nice little twist. Let's just say if you know my writing at all, then you know with me there is always a little plot twist that you would never have seen coming!
Also as well, I have decided to dabble in a little something outside of the Glee fandom; and have started to write a Flash story line and the first chapter for that, is also now on here as well for reading; shameless self plug I know.
But thanks for reading, and I will be back with some other updates of stuff soon.
Love always,
KJ xoxoxoxoxo