Hey guys! I'm back! I know it's been quite a bit but I'm grateful you guys are patient with me. Update: My room is all packed up and now I'm back in China! I have free time for the next two hours so I figured I would update. I'm heading to my city and apartment on Tuesday and after that, I should usually always have time to update. But you will not be left hanging for the next 4 months. Anyway! Enjoy!
The next few days were much more bearable now that Finn knew the truth. It was a lot easier to go to his prince lessons now that he didn't have to be as secretive. School was difficult still but he didn't expect that to change. Over the next couple of days, he and his grandmother were going over speaking loudly and clearly. He was still petrified of public speaking, and while he wasn't expecting to ever speak publicly, he was going to humor his grandmother. They also discussed sitting again and waving correctly. Blaine was absolutely shocked. He didn't think there was a way to wave wrong.
Blaine was extremely grateful for his mother lately. After Blaine was over his anger and he was starting to accept the fact that he was indeed a prince, things were getting better at home as well. He came home after a long day of prince lessons and his mother could easily tell that he was stressed. She decided that it would be fun to paint a little bit...or at least, that's what Pam called it. She set up balloons full of paint over a canvas and gave herself and Blaine a poncho and some darts. If this was going where Blaine thought it was going, he was going to have a blast. And it was going where he thought! Pam told him to throw the darts and the balloons and let the paint fall over the canvas. He wasn't doing as well as his mother who was hitting them every time. It took Blaine about 5 darts before he was able to pop one and he almost started crying because he was so proud of himself. He knew it was silly to be excited about popping a balloon but for Blaine, it showed his progression in how he was as a person. But it was more fun than prince lessons and that was for sure.
Finn overslept so when Blaine showed up to walk to school with them, Kurt was the only one ready to go. He smiled at Blaine and he felt his heart pounding. This is what he needed!
"Hey, Blaine!" Kurt exclaimed.
"Hey! Are you ready to go? Where's Finn?" Blaine asked.
"He overslept. He said to go on ahead and he would catch up."
"Oh. Okay. Sounds fun. We haven't had a chance to talk in awhile just the two of us."
"Yeah." Kurt and Blaine started walking down the street but neither of them said anything. Kurt not speaking was more out of nerves.
"So, how are things going with the band?" Blaine asked, genuinely curious.
"Pretty good! We're starting to get a little more attention. It turns out that the cousin of a fan, owns a bar downtown and she's trying to get us to play there. She has to get permission from a lot of people since we're all underage."
"Really? That's so awesome! Good for you. You guys have been working so hard." Blaine exclaimed.
"Thank you. We're still in shock. How are things going with your grandmother?"
"Okay. She's keeping me busy."
"Really? Doing what?" Kurt asked.
"Just...things. She wants to get to know me so she's just been trying to do things with me so she can. It's a bunch of boring stuff. It wouldn't interest you."
Blaine seemed like he wasn't saying what he wanted to say and was therefore making him upset. Kurt decided not to push and change the subject instead.
"What are you doing this Saturday night?"
"Oh. Are you guys playing?"
"We're rehearsing some new things." Kurt's heart was pounding. "We got two new songs."
Blaine smiled and Kurt felt his heart skip a beat.
"Oh, yeah?"
"Plus, surprise! We got the new parts for you 'Stang."
"Oh, yay!" Blaine giggled.
"We could put it together together."
"Well, okay. Is this like a date?" Blaine asked.
Kurt didn't know what to say. He knew what he wanted to say but he didn't know if he should. He wanted to say yes. A millions times yes. This was his chance. But he didn't know if Blaine wanted it to be so he decided against his better judgement.
"No."
Blaine giggled again but Kurt didn't know why.
"Music, cars." Kurt continued.
"Well, would it include pizza?" Blaine teased.
"Of course. Pizza's a given."
"With M&M's?" Kurt smiled to himself. Blaine knew him so well. But Kurt didn't get a chance to answer as the two of them heard Finn shouting from behind them.
"Wait up! Wait for me!"
They turned to see him running up behind two people they didn't recognize who also turned at Finn's yelling. They giggled to themselves when they heard Finn say to the two strangers.
"Not you. I don't even know you!"
"Well, then I am in." Blaine finished their conversation.
"Great. Saturday, it's on?"
"Yeah. Great. Hey, Finn!"
Finn wasn't with them long before Blaine and Finn immediately started talking. Kurt couldn't have told you what they were talking about though. He was too focused on something else. He was going out with Blaine! He was going out with Blaine! He took a deep breath and continued walking next to the two of them but stopped when all 3 of them noticed all the news trucks.
"What's happening?" Blaine asked.
"I don't know." Finn responded.
"What's going on?"
"Maybe it's a protest."
"Maybe." Blaine said doubtfully.
Blaine walked over to a photographer and figured he may as well try and figure out what was going on.
"Excuse me. Hi," The photographer turned around. "Who are you waiting for?"
"There he is right there! That's Blaine Anderson!"
Blaine turned at his name and saw Hunter at the stop of the stairs with a camera in his face.
"We're waiting for you!" The photographer exclaimed, shoving the camera in his face, taking a picture.
Blaine was immediately pulled into a group of photographers and interviewers trying to take his picture and talk to him. They wouldn't stop calling him 'Prince' either.
"Finn!" He shouted over the crowd. "Finn, did you tell!"
"I didn't say anything!" He heard Finn call back.
Blaine felt his arm being tugged and looked behind him to see Principal Figgins grabbing hold of him and pulling him inside.
"Why are they calling him 'Prince'? Kurt asked.
"Come on! Let's just go, please." Finn responded, running up the stairs and into the school.
"The phone's been ringing off the hook." Principal Figgins said as he held up the day's newspaper in front of him showing it to Blaine.
Prince Blaine, Lima Ohio's Very Own Royal
"What?" He rushed forward and grabbed it from him. Blaine sighed. "Oh." He sat back down looking defeated.
"Blaine, your mother's on her way." Mr. Goolsby said walking into the office.
"Figgins." He said into his phone that started ringing. "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm." He hung up the phone and spoke, obviously trying to keep his voice calm. "The Queen is coming to William McKinley High School."
Blaine looked terrifed, not knowing what his grandmother was going to do.
As Emma took a seat in Principal Figgins chair, he got them some tea. He brought her the cup of tea and Blaine noticed the small look of horror on Emma's face when the horrendous cup was brought to her.
"I'm sorry Your Majesty, we don't have finer china." Principal Figgins bowed.
"That's perfectly alright." Emma said unconvincingly.
"Mom, I don't know who told on me." Blaine said, changing the subject.
"We'll get to the bottom of this." Pam responded.
"Carl?" Emma called.
Blaine heard the sounds of reporters out in the hall when Carl opened the door into Principal Figgins office.
"Speak." He heard Carl say, muffling the sounds of the reporters as he closed the door.
Blaine turned around and his eyes widened as he saw the man who was in charge of his makeover, Sandy Ryerson, standing in front of him.
"Sandy?" Blaine asked surprisingly.
"Majesty, it was I who told the press about you. I outed you. So to speak. I don't mean- But not for money, Prince. Sandy hates money. He spits on money. There was no money! Well, there was some money. Each ring is- the point is, it was pride and ego who drove me to know that royalty would see one day the beauty was mine! The hair was mine! That I, Sandy Ryerson, was responsible for-" He was cut off by Carl who started ushering him out the door. Blaine heard him shouting back at him as he was leaving. "By the way, your hair-magnificent. Next time we'll go a little lighter."
"Isn't that just awful? Doesn't anyone respect royalty anymore?" Principal Figgins said as the door closed. "What is it like in Genovia Your Majesty?" He asked, right by her face getting closer and closer. "Do people just fawn over you?" Figgins
"I wonder, would you give us a moment alone?" Emma
"I'm the Principal." He said proudly.
"Carl, would you take this fine educator and show her your security plans for Blaine's safety?" She asked.
"What?" He looked confused but after seeing the look on her face, a look he must be familiar with, he caught on. "Ah, yes, of course." He walked over to the desk to grab Principal Figgins who was bowing awkwardly to Emma and grabbed his arm to escort him out. "Your security system is a bit lax." Carl said.
"Oh, is it?"
After the door closed behind them, it was silent or a few moments before Blaine's mother broke the silence.
"A few weeks ago, Blaine was a normal little kid." Pam all about yelled.
"He has never been normal. He was born royal. And we cope with the press every single day and we will do it again." said Emma.
"You don't have to do this." Pam turned her attention to Blaine who had turned his backs to them. "You can get out of this whole thing right now."
"Your mother is right, Blaine. We had a bargain."
Blaine was silent for only a second before he turned back to them.
"Alright. I will think about it, and let you know soon."
"Good. A diplomatic answer. Polite, but vague." Emma smiled.
"So, Blaine is a Prince? That's what you're saying?" Kurt asked.
"What part of that story was confusing for you?" Finn responded.
Kurt and Finn were by Blaine's locker waiting for him to leave Principal Figgins' office so Finn decided to tell Kurt everything Blaine had told him.
"Well, he's still the person though, right? Being a prince isn't going to change him, right?"
"I'm not worried about him changing. I'm worried about everyone else changing."
Kurt didn't ask Finn to elaborate because he understood completely. People like Sebastian and Hunter especially love being popular and on top and will do absolutely anything to stay there. Kurt was worried about Blaine and what could possibly happen to him. Kurt knew that him and his step brother had to protect him.
"Yeah. Me too..."
"Hey, man. Is everything okay?" Finn asked as Blane reached his locker.
"Yes. Everything's fine. My grandmother is going to take care of the press. Let's just...let's go class." Blaine grabbed his things from his locker and turned to look at Kurt. "I'll talk to you later." He smiled.
"Yeah. Yeah..." He blushed and watched as Blaine walked away talking to Finn.
Even though Blaine was going to be stressed these next couple of days, Kurt couldn't help but smile. He was going to be the reason Blaine was relaxed for even just a few hours. They were going out on Saturday!
Hope you guys enjoyed. I have all the dialogue on my computer so all I need to do is just add details and the storyline to update. So, hopefully it won't take as long. But I thank all of you for being patient with me. Let me know what you thought and until next time. Peace and love! xoxo
