A/N: Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter, this is further moving it forward as to seeing Blaine being able to come to the realization that there is someone else out there for him.
This chapter also refers to something from the latest posted chapter of "Runnin' Back Home To You".
Nothing much more to say, but enjoy as always and thanks for reading
Love,
KJ xoxoxoxoxoxo
Chapter 5 –
Knowing that Ryder had proposed to Marley on New Years' Eve, which was just a little over a month after his heart was broken; the last thing Blaine expected was an invite to the wedding.
Sitting along with Sam and Puck, and the three girls in the kitchen one Sunday morning in March; eating breakfast; the door leading outside from the kitchen opened, and Marley and Ryder walked in to the house.
"Good morning" said Ryder, when he saw them all.
"Oh hey morning bro" said Sam, looking up to that of his younger brother as he munched on the cereal he was eating.
"So we just wanted to stop by to give you these" said Marley, holding that of two envelopes and handing one to Puck and one to Blaine.
"Thanks" said Puck, taking it from her with a smile.
"Umm what is it?" asked Blaine, taking the one Marley held out for him also.
"Wedding invites" replied Ryder with a nod.
"And where is mine bro?" asked Sam, with a laugh.
"Yeah very funny" said Ryder, with a laugh also. "You already know you're my best man, so I think that makes an invite not needed for you"
"You're having it in South Carolina" said Puck, who had opened that of his invite and was reading over it.
"We are" replied Marley, with a nod. "There is this beautiful place in Florence, South Carolina; where we can have the wedding outside in these beautiful gardens, and also as well the reception too"
"Do we get to come along as well?" asked Alyson, looking to her.
"Yeah sweetie" said Puck, with a nod. "Your name is on the invite here that Marley has given me"
"Well thanks, for the invite" said Blaine, standing up from the kitchen table. "But I'm going to have to say no"
"Blaine, we'd like you to be there" said Ryder, as Blaine walked over to the kitchen sink and placed his bowl into it.
"Whilst I do appreciate the invite" said Blaine, as he walked back over to the others and picked up the invite from the table and holding it out to Ryder. "I just can't go there"
Ryder looked at him and nodded, and took the unopened invite from him; and Blaine headed upstairs.
"He's got a point bro" said Sam, looking to his younger brother. "As nice as it was for you and Marls to invite him, going there to where Marley is from and obviously going to see Mikki there as well; that would be difficult for him"
Ryder looked at his older brother and nodded; as Marley took the invite from him.
"No, Ry you want him there, he's your friend" said Marley, looking at him. "And I think he's being completely unreasonable about this, and he has to stop thinking about himself here for once, and come to realize that he can't wallow in self pity forever"
"We've tried Marley" said Puck, looking to her. "But your sister really did a number on him"
Marley looked at him and nodded. "Yeah, I'm just going to go and talk with him if that's okay; see if I can get him to see it from another point of view except that of his"
"Sure, if you think you can get through to him" said Puck, with a laugh. "Go for it"
"Thanks" replied Marley, and quickly looked at Ryder with a smile and gave him a kiss. "I'll be back in a bit"
"Sure sweetie, thanks" said Ryder, with a nod; and Marley headed upstairs through to Blaine's room, and saw him sitting on laptop.
"You're not writing evil things about my sister are you?" asked Marley leaning against the door frame. "And are going to ask me to take them to South Carolina when I get married and give them to her?"
Blaine looked at her shaking his head. "No, I know what I did before was childish, and I've apologized for that"
"Yeah I know, Mik said that you had" said Marley, with a nod. "So this not wanting to accept the invite to the wedding, what's all that about?"
"Like I said I really appreciate it Marley" said Blaine, looking to her. "But can you see how hard this would be for me?"
"I do, yes" replied Marley. "And honestly when Ry first said your name as a guest, I very quickly said no"
"I would have as well, said no to me too" said Blaine, with a nod and looking at her.
"Yes, but what you also have to understand is that Ry sees you as a friend as well" said Marley. "And he wants his friends to be there at our wedding, even though it may be just that slight bit difficult for some to see those of other people"
"It will be more than difficult" replied Blaine. "How do you think you would feel if it were you and you had to see your ex be happy with that of someone else, someone who they never truly got over loving?"
"I can't begin to imagine how hard it would be" said Marley. "Because I've never been, and hopefully never will be in that position"
Blaine looked at her nodded. "Just seeing her be happy with him, I don't think I can deal with that. I'm sorry"
"Well if you change your mind" said Marley, and walked more into his room and placed the invite on his bed.
"Thanks" replied Blaine, with a nod to her.
"Sure" said Marley and went to walk out of his room. "I know what my sister did really hurt Blaine, but you have to move on and I don't know maybe this might give you the closure you need"
"Maybe" replied Blaine, with a small smile to her. "I'll think it over"
"Okay" replied Marley with a smile of her own. "Later Blaine"
"Yeah later" he said, and Marley walked away to head back down stairs.
Blaine sighed and then picked up the wedding invite and opened it, reading what was written; he wasn't sure just yet if he would be able to accept the offer of the invite just yet; but one thing he did know and that was what Marley said, he needed closure and maybe this might be the way to finally get it.
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After still not deciding for a week, what he was wanting to do about attending Marley and Ryder's wedding; he thought maybe if he was to have a look at her Facebook page and see if that made him okay with going to South Carolina and seeing his ex girlfriend, then it might be a good place to start.
Heading into Beth's bedroom on Saturday morning after breakfast, where she was reading a book for class; he sat down on her bed.
"Hey angel" said Blaine, looking to her. "Can I ask you a favor?"
"Sure Uncle Blaine" replied Beth, marking where she was up to in her novel.
Blaine nodded and looked at her. "So I was wondering if I could maybe look at your Facebook for a bit please?"
"Uncle Blaine" said Beth, with a sigh. "Dad has already checked this week to make sure I'm not doing anything bad on there"
"No it's not that sweetheart" replied Blaine, with a laugh. "I kind of need to see how okay I am with maybe going to South Carolina, and since I don't have Mikki on my Facebook anymore I was kind of hoping that I could look at yours"
"Okay" replied Beth, with a nod and went and got the small laptop off charge over in the corner of her shared room with Alyson.
"Thank you" replied Blaine, as Beth bought it over to him and he opened it up.
"I'm sure I don't have to tell you my password" said Beth, with a laugh.
"No you don't" replied Blaine, with a laugh of his own and went into Beth's Facebook account.
"So why don't you have Mikki on yours anymore?" asked Beth, as she sat next to her uncle on the bed and he went into that of Mikki's profile on the site.
"I deleted her, not long after she left here" replied Blaine. "It was too hard seeing posts all the times with her being happy, that it wasn't doing me any good"
Beth looked at him as nodded, as Blaine looked over Mikki's profile; and saw in the intro part, that it said that her relationship was now engaged to Sebastian Smythe.
"Okay, well she's getting married as well" said Blaine, with a small sigh.
"Really?" asked Beth.
Blaine looked at her and nodded. "Yeah it says right here she is engaged to him"
"Oh yeah" replied Beth, as she looked at the intro part. "I've never looked at that before, only ever seen some of the pictures she has posted on here"
"Yeah, also as well says she is a news and current affairs reporter for WZRB News, Columbia, South Carolina" said Blaine. "Guess she's moved past being that of a breakfast TV show host"
"But that is what she wanted to be wasn't it?" asked Beth. "A reporter?"
"Yeah, it was" replied Blaine, with a nod and arrowed down the page to look at the photos, and saw that there was some very recent photos of Mikki and Sebastian in New York, as well as that of a status along with some of the photos that said "Technical 8 year anniversary – a not so surprise trip to a very cold and snowy New York, since I may have kind of extirpated Seb's proposal plans by actually finding the ring before he had a chance to actually propose! :D But it still doesn't mean we can't enjoy what could have been! Happy anniversary babe, love you heaps and I look forward to many more anniversaries for years to come! xxxx"
Blaine sighed as he saw some of the comments from those who were Mikki's close friends and also family; one comment standing out from Kurt, who he knew from what she had told him was her oldest friend.
"Technical Schmenical – and don't you dare tell me there is no such word, my dear little mouse! :P Your heart and Seb's hearts were never truly a part, even when you were physically apart and for short time with other people; you never stopped loving one another and never will. Happy anniversary guys, can't believe it was a week ago eight years ago since you first flirted with one another in that bar, our soph year of college. Love you guys heaps and remember you both still owe me; after all if it wasn't for my hints about you looking over to our table that night Seb, then you two might have never gotten together!"
"That is kind of true" said Blaine, with a sigh, as he arrowed down further on Mikki's profile.
"What is Uncle Blaine?" asked Beth, looking at him.
"That Mikki never really stopped loving Sebastian" he replied, looking at her with a small smile. "I don't think she would be fully able to give anyone all her heart, because so much of it was his"
"Kind of like in Once Upon A Time" said Beth, looking at him. "And how Prince Charming and Snow they have that of one heart, each having a half"
"Yeah a bit like that" replied Blaine with a nod, and saw the picture of what was clearly that of Mikki's engagement ring on her profile. "Stop the presses! Look who is engaged! I might have totally screwed up Seb's plans – kind of found the ring in bedroom drawer and completely ruined his grand plan of proposing to me albeit very soon! But in all honesty I don't think either of us could care less about how it has turned out, because why do things the normal way when you can be different! One day soon, will be that of a officially a Smythe"
Blaine sighed as he looked over the comments from what was not a lot of people, some also loving the status as well with little hearts. Comments from those who were obviously Sebastian's and really also Mikki's family; one from Brooke that said "Smythe sister in law, officially now! Yah congrats you guys, Dyl, Vanna, Loges and I love you both heaps xxx see you both soon!"
Followed by one from Jeremy that read "About bloody time you guys! You do know he has that ring for well over a year now right Mouse! And when you moved to California, oh my lord the whining we all had to endure from Bash! But thankfully for that of all our sanities you two both realized that you can't live without one another; and now I finally get to actually call you family, Mouse; even though you've been like my annoying kid sister for many years! Love you both heaps and just remember it's not your honeymoon yet!"
And he read over the it couldn't help but give a small laugh of that comment, seeing that Jeremy was very much like that of his own brother with the teasing; and he also caught on to the other part of the comment as well which clearly stipulated that Sebastian was obviously planning to propose to her before she made the move to California; he sighed and looked at the next comment under it from Ellie, who he also had come to realize was a very close friend of both Mikki and Sebastian as well.
"So happy for both of you, and I knew when Mikki came back home that it was only a matter of time before the two would be engaged; and remember when you have kids, I am totally Auntie Ellie, when they ask stories about how their mom and dad met, won't I have some great ones to tell them! Love you guys so much, huge hugs to you both! xxxxx"
"You okay Uncle Blaine?" asked Beth, looking to him.
"Yeah, I'm fine sweetheart" he replied to her with a smile. "Thanks for letting me borrow this"
"Sure" said Beth, as Blaine passed her laptop over to him. "Are you going to come to South Carolina with us?"
"I think so" replied Blaine, with a nod as he stood from his niece's bed. "And I know this might sound very weird to you, but I think I need to see them together to fully let myself move on; I was the one who ultimately screwed everything up with me and Mikki to begin with by jumping to the wrong conclusion a few months ago; and I think if I do this, see them and make proper amends with them, I can then maybe start to be comfortable dating again; because even though it was in a way my doing that ended us. I think we would have anyway, gone down that path because I can't see how she'd be happy here with me and having a life together"
"I'm sure there is a really nice girl out there for you Uncle Blaine" said Beth, with a smile to him. "One that is even better for you then Mikki was"
"Yeah, here's hoping huh" said Blaine with a small laugh. "See you sweetie"
"Yeah" replied Beth, with a nod and Blaine walked out of his niece's bedroom, grabbing his cell phone from his pants pocket and sending a text message to Ryder telling him that he will accept the wedding invite to his and Marley's wedding knowing it was what he ultimately needed to do to be able to move on with his own life; and not knowing at that moment how his life was drastically about to change, and maybe for the good.
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The first week in April, sitting on the sofa, Saturday morning with Sam in the living room playing the latest Madden game on Sam's Xbox which he'd bought up from downstairs that morning; since it was only the two of them home being that it was Spring Break and Puck had gone with the three girls to see his mom in Oregon where she lived; the two males were making the most of the alone time that they had from being that of caregivers; when there was a knock on the front door.
Pausing the game quickly, Sam stood and went over to the front door and opened it and saw his younger brother Ryder on the other side.
"Hey bro" said Sam, with a smile to him. "Come on in"
"Thanks" replied Ryder as he entered the Puckerman residence and Sam shut the front door behind him. "I'm just going to chill with you guys here for a bit, if that's okay; because there is only such girl talk I can actually take before I want to blow my own brains out"
Sam looked at him with a laugh as he sat down. "Yeah no problems, we will finish this game and then sign in another controller"
"Sure, no rush" replied Ryder looking to him with a smile. "I just needed to be away from the talk of threading, waxing, plucking and whatever other weird things girls feel the need to do their bodies"
"They're complex species that is for sure" said Sam, with a laugh. "But I'm sure Marls is loving having them both here with her"
"Yeah, she is" replied Ryder, with a nod.
"Ummm, who is with Marley?" asked Blaine, looking to Sam's younger brother; thinking possibly he knew who but that the other two males were refraining from actually mentioning that of names.
"Her sisters" said Ryder, looking to him with a small smile.
"So both Mikki and Kitty then" said Blaine.
"They're helping her with wedding stuff today" replied Ryder. "They both got in last night, are here all day today and then leave tomorrow morning"
"Oh okay then" said Blaine with a nod, and turned his attention back to the game.
"You're not going to go and do anything stupid are you?" asked Sam, looking to his friend.
"Stupid, no" replied Blaine, shaking his head. "It would honestly achieve nothing, it's not like she is going to leave her fiancée for me or anything like that, so it would be pointless"
"So you know Mikki's engaged then" said Ryder.
"Yeah, I do" replied Blaine, looking to him. "I saw that she was when I was trying to make the decision to go to your wedding and I looked at her Facebook on Beth's and saw that they had gotten engaged"
"I didn't realize you knew" said Sam. "I'd seen also, but kind of didn't want to say anything in case it sent you into this madness again and you did something crazy or stupid"
"I'm surprisingly okay with it, to be honest" said Blaine, looking to him. "I can see how happy the two of them make one another, and to be the one standing in the way of that; I don't think I could ever be comfortable knowing that two people who are clearly it for each other aren't together"
"Wow, you really have got over this" said Sam, with a small laugh.
"Yeah, kind of" replied Blaine, with a nod. "It is still going to be just a little bit difficult when I do see them together in a few months, but I know deep down it's for the best them being together"
"Well I will tell them to keep the cutesy stuff when we're all there in South Carolina to a minimum" said Ryder, with a laugh. "And that's not just for your benefit, but everyone's, because sometimes they are truly nauseating together as Kitty will often say"
"It's fine really" said Blaine, with a small smile. "If they love one another, then it's just something other people have to deal with"
"Yeah" said Sam, with a laugh; and the three of them continued to play video games and talk, enjoying that of essentially guy time.
End Note: As you can see Blaine is slowly realizing that maybe this is for the best; and who knows he just may meet another girl soon in the probably the last place he'd ever expect!
Next chapter - will be confrontation with Mikki; and that will be posted in conjunction with the chapter from Runnin', as there is going to be two views as to some of the conversations that happen in them; and then align with that of one another!
Until then, thanks for reading as always!
Love,
KJ xoxoxoxoxo