Chapter Two: A Date by Any Other Name

by: Kahlan

Disclaimer: Not mine

Back in his room, Kurt began to panic a little. Sure, he knew the best thing to wear when you wanted a shock factor and how to make his drab school uniform look at least a bit fashionable, but he'd never been on a date. What did one wear on a date? Kurt had managed to pack most of his collection into the tiny closet that Dalton had provided and at this point, all of his clothes were around his room. He had Marc Jacobs jeans on his desk, no less than eight tailored sweaters laid out on his dresser, and his bed was covered in Alexander McQueen blazers and jackets and Kurt was going into a full out panic.

While he'd never considered Wes as a romantic partner, mostly because he didn't know that was an option, he wanted to be perfect for him. Maybe his first date wouldn't be with Blaine, but if Blaine wasn't going to notice him, maybe this thing with Wes might turn out to be just what he needed. He just hoped it wouldn't backfire and he really didn't want to hurt Wes. He tried to believe that he didn't want to make Blaine jealous but he really did like Wes as a friend and maybe now, as more.

After thirty minutes and hair fix later, he still couldn't make up his mind. He finally narrowed it down and when he heard a knock on the door, he made his choice.

"I'll be out in a minute," He called to Wes.

"Okay, I'll be here." Wes replied

Kurt scrambled into the clothes, did a final check in the mirror, and opened the door.

"Wow, just wow. Kurt, I've never seen you so fashionable."

"Yeah, well I can only do so much with a uniform." Kurt had chosen a tight fitting, tailor made Perry Ellis sweater in dark blue, his dark colored nice fitting jeans from Marc Jacobs, and his smart and stylish jacket over it.

Wes laughed and extended his arm to Kurt in a gentlemanly fashion and Kurt smiled and took it after shutting the door.

An hour later, Wes and Kurt walked through a local park with sno-cones.

"This has been a really cool date." Kurt said

"What do you have to compare it too?" Wes and Kurt laughed.

"You're right. But I have had a good time."

"But it'd be better if it was Blaine, right?" Wes looked away.

"I really don't want to talk about Blaine right now. I want to enjoy right here with you. So forget about him."

"Okay, I'll try," Wes smiled, "You know you're pretty good at pep talks."

"Believe me, you haven't had to deal with major divas, drama cheerleaders, and jocks who refuse to sing. This was nothing." They both laughed and sat down.

"So, Wes, tell me about yourself." Kurt said after a while.

"Well as you know, I'm one of the councilors of the Warblers."

"Yes I may have noticed at one point."

"Funny. Um, while David and James (?) prefer pop music arrangements, I actually like hip hop better."

"That's surprised me."

"Let me go for three. I have two younger siblings, Analyn, who is a little diva in the making, and Noel, who prefers science to singing, and my parents Mary Ann and Wesley Senior. What about you?"

"Well when I was eight, my mom died. So for a long time, it was just me and my dad, but just before I came here, he married Carole."

"Did you approve of that?"

"Did I? I set them up. Carole is the mother of one of my friends, well now my step-brother, Finn."

"So you like your new family?"

"Yeah, Carole and I have gotten close and Finn and I worked out our differences."

Wes smiled. "Sounds like there's a story there."

"Maybe I'll tell you one day. The highlights, he was uncomfortable with me being gay and I was uncomfortable with him because of that, but its cool now, and he really is a good brother, even if he has the worst girl problems."

They both snickered at that.

"So what do you plan to do when you graduate?" Kurt asked.

"Well, I really want to go to NYU for Musical Theater, but my dad's pushing for Med School."

"Hey, I want to go to NYU, too."

"For what?"

"Fashion, what else?"

"I can totally believe that."

"So why are you a councilor? I can see how rigid David can be."

"Ha, David's a good guy, but he has a stick up his butt." They both laughed until they gasped about that. "But seriously, I've been a Warbler for three years and I really wanted to give back to them, so I accepted the position. Plus, Blaine was totally going to take my place as a soloist no matter what I do."

Kurt turned pensive. "Yeah he's a good singer."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Wes looked stricken.

"Don't change what you have to say because you think I don't want to know." Kurt looked at him. "I know you're friends with Blaine and you have been for a long time. I'm okay with that. Just be yourself."

"And here I thought I'd have to tell you that," Wes smiled, "As much as I hate to, we do need to be heading back before curfew."

"Yes, I suppose so." They both stood up, "Walk me to my room?"

Wes put out his arm. "It would be my pleasure."

A short walk later, Wes stopped outside Kurt's room.

"It's been a wonderful night." Kurt said.

"Thank you for giving me a chance." Wes smiled at him.

"I'm still not over him, but I would like to do this again. If you want, that is." Kurt looked down at the floor.

Wes reached out and touched Kurt's chin. He brought Kurt's head up to look him in the eye.

"I would love to." And then Wes leaned forward and quickly kissed Kurt's lips. He was gone before Kurt could say anything. He reached up his hand and touched his mouth and smiled slightly. He may still love Blaine but Wes made him feel special and Wes knew he wasn't ready for anything more so what was the problem. There wasn't one. Kurt shook his head and turned into his room.

As he did, Blaine watched from a shadowed corner of the hall.

A/N: This A/N comes in two parts as I will explain later. You can also skip the whole A/N and just go to the next chapter or wait for it or say screw this and leave whatever because there isn't anything terribly important and not reading it won't take away anything from the story. The first part is about this chapter and the other is what was in the chapter this chapter is replacing because I hate when chapters are only A/Ns so I strive not to do it whenever possible. Anyway part one; I was blown away by the response to my first chapter. I had more hits and visitors on this chapter within two hours than most of my stories combined for the whole month of February so wow. I went to check the numbers just to see how many people would actually need the A/N so soon(see below) and sat staring at it for a minute. You threw my stats through the roof and I can understand why. When I see a new Kurt/Blaine story, I am all over that like white on rice. I hope I do them justice and I look forward to exploring Wes. So onto to part two:

I hate doing these Author's Notes as a chapters so I took down the other one and put it at the end of this chapter. It has an explanation but I wanted to put it out there as soon as possible and knew chapter two wasn't ready, but now that it is, I'm moving the A/N to here so people can still get the message but I don't feel so guilty. Like I said, I'm a new Gleek. I totally love Blaine and Kurt and Blaine and Kurt together, which was the intent of this story. I went against one of my few rules of writing, which is never write about a scene or passage you haven't watched or read yourself. I broke it and I broke it bad. Okay so the scene above was the one in the coffee shop at the end of Silly Love Songs where Blaine and Kurt have this conversation about Kurt liking Blaine. After reading A LOT of fanfiction revolving around it, I thought well I don't want to watch the episodes out of order but I really want to write about this scene. I have this great idea for a cool little spin on it. And long story short, I wrote Obvious. I, then got to Silly Love Songs, which I loved, and got to that scene, only to realize that I totally was off base with how I thought it would go, (Go ahead make a joke about me and thinking). I had read several fanfics where it seemed that that scene went in such a way that Kurt was hurt and angered about it. Only to watch it and totally fall in love and can't wait for the next episode. So this story is now completely AU and at some point, I will write my version of what I thought the scene was going to be about. I, however, will still write this story. I already have it in mind and if it's AU, well I'll just be darn happy. So like I said, hopefully within 24 hours chapter two will be posted. And hopefully, *fingers crossed* will take this A/N down because I really hate it when author's do this and I feel like such a hypocrite but I didn't want to be flooded with reviews, okay that's not true, I'd love to be flooded by reviews, but not about how wrong I am and blahblahblah, etc etc, so I wrote this note just in case. So please forgive me.

Love you all,

Kahlan