Kurt had kept himself busy in the garage with his Dad for the rest of the week, if he was changing the oil and servicing engines on cars he wasn't thinking about his best friend and worrying about why he wouldn't talk to him. It hadn't been until the weekend that he'd got to see Blaine again, he'd been sat at the kitchen table pushing his now soggy cereal around the bowl with his spoon as his Dad attempted to bribe him into eating just one more mouth full when the doorbell had rung. Using it as an excuse to move he went to answer it before his Dad had even thought about it. He'd been surprised and a little taken aback to see Mrs Anderson stood on the doorstep and even more surprised to find out that Blaine had actually asked that he go shopping with him and his Mom.

Looking up at his Dad with a hopeful look on his face the older man had agreed, not minding that it was the weekend, it saved him coming up with something fun for them to do together. Kurt really hoped this was the start of Blaine getting back to his normal self, and as they wandered through all the different stores in the mall everything with him seemed fine. They laughed and joked as though nothing had happened, Kurt wondered if he'd been making the whole thing up in his mind, he was good at that. Pam treated them both to ice cream before taking them back to the Anderson's home where the two boys spent the rest of the afternoon sitting amongst the many different coloured bean bags up in Blaine's tree house just talking and singing until dinner time when Pam had called them back in, that was when Kurt noticed that something was still off with Blaine. Dinner was only the three of them, Blaine, Pam and Kurt as his father William was working late that night and Cooper was out somewhere with his girlfriend.

Pam had made them her special spaghetti bolognaise, Kurt knew something was up because Blaine didn't eat much of his and the short boy is never picky with his food and he absolutely loves his mom's special spaghetti bolognaise more than anything. He usually scoffs his down in minutes and often finishes Kurt's off for him too because he can never eat as much as he does, but tonight it was actually Kurt who finished all of his ages before Blaine. Pam had finished hers too and went to watch TV in the living room, leaving the boys in peace for a little bit. When Blaine didn't seem to be in any hurry to eat his dinner she'd asked Kurt to join her but not wanting to leave his friend at the table alone he declined and sat quietly sipping his orange juice as he watched Blaine stare at his plate thoughtfully, twisting bits of spaghetti around his fork but never actually eating any of it.

His dinner had gone stone cold by the time his mom tactfully removed it, placing a hand on his forehead to check for a temperature. Kurt had began to worry that maybe Blaine was feeling sick, he never likes to admit when he doesn't feel well. But he seemed to be okay as they went and played some board games with Blaine's Mom until she announced she had things to take care of and sent the two boys up to Blaine's room to watch a movie before bed.

As they reached the top of the stairs Blaine pressed his index finger to his lips and motioned for Kurt to keep quiet. Kurt nodded not sure what he was planning to do but he trusted him enough to follow along with it. They slowly tiptoed into Cooper's dark bedroom, Kurt stayed near the door while Blaine searched through his half empty shelves of dvds.

"Aha" the boy announced grabbing one before dragging Kurt out with him.

Moments later the two were sat in matching pyjamas at either end of Blaine's big bed, the lights out and a huge bowl of popcorn between them as they watched the movie. Kurt pulled his knees up to his chest and hugged them, he wasn't sure why Blaine had decided they should watch something so scary looking but he didn't like it. But he decided to keep it to himself not wanting to upset his friend anymore than he already was. Everything seemed to be okay for the time being and Kurt wanted to keep it that way.

The more of the movie they watched the more scarier Kurt found it, grabbing the popcorn bowl he took to clutching that to his chest in attempts to calm down instead, nibbling on bits of it to stop him whimpering, only it wasn't really working and every little thing was beginning to freaking him out. Suddenly Blaine moved and his cold foot brushed Kurt's leg where his peejay bottoms had rolled up and he jumped out of his skin, screaming loudly as he threw popcorn everywhere. It went all over the bed and floor. He'd also managed to scare Blaine in the process and the curly haired boy spilt the water he'd been about to drink all down his front.

"Kurt!" He shrieked jumping up quickly and flicking the lights on.

His pyjamas were soaked and he slammed the half empty glass down on his desk before running to the bathroom to clean up. Kurt tried to tell him he was sorry as he did his best to scoop the popcorn back into the bowl. It seemed like ages before Blaine returned from the bathroom in a new pair of pyjamas and Kurt couldn't help but notice that something was off straight away, Blaine's usually bright hazel eyes were all puffy and red. He'd been crying!

Kurt frowned as he looked at his best friend, crying over spilt popcorn and water seemed a little excessive, especially for Blaine because he never cries. But Kurt didn't say anything about it, because after all Blaine never says anything when he cries over stupid things.

"Blaine, what's wrong?" Kurt spoke quietly not wanting to make things worse.

"Nothing" He mumbled back avoiding looking at him

"Liar" Kurt replied feeling hurt that he wouldn't tell him. Blaine glared at him but he continued anyways "I'm your best friend Blaine. I always know when something's wrong and something is most definitely wrong. It has been for weeks. I can see it is"

"I'm fine" Blaine snapped

Kurt didn't believe him "Those tears that you're trying to hide? I can see those too"

Blaine wiped his face with his sleeve

"You've been holding everything in, I know you have and that's why it's came out. You never cry Blaine, and I know you probably want to be strong but you don't have to be. I'm here. Best friends forever remember?"

Blaine glared at him again, this time out the corner of his eyes but still didn't say anything.

"Let me help you, Blaine, Please? Just tell me what's going on"

"I can't" he whispered

"Why not? You don't have to pretend that it doesn't matter"

"It doesn't" he shook his head

"The sadness on your face tells me something different. I've felt down a few times before, remember? And who's always been the one to make things right? You Blaine. You always know how to make things better, well now it's my turn to be there for you instead, let me help you fix it"

Blaine looked thoughtful for a moment as though fighting against the voice in his head and Kurt held his breath willing him to accept the help, letting himself be hopeful that he'd finally get an explanation to what was going on.

But then he looked at him and he shook his head "Not right now."