Hey everyone! Sorry it's been almost a month since my last update. I've been super busy with summer ending and school beginning, and it took me a while to fit writing in with my homework. But I found time :) unfortunately updates will probably be farther apart now then they were over the summer, but thanks in advance to anyone who has been reading and to anyone who will continue to stick with this story! It's an amazing feeling knowing people want to read what you write. Love you guys! Enjoy :)

Blaine felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, and after looking around to see if there were any teachers in the hallway, he pulled it out to see who was calling him. Blaine's heart immediately quickened as he saw that the call was from Kurt, and Blaine decided history class could wait. He ducked into the first empty classroom he found, and answered his phone. "Kurt?"

Blaine heard Kurt take a shuddering breath that filled Blaine with worry. "Kurt what's wrong?"

Kurt hated that he was calling Blaine now. He hated that he had run from the school and locked himself in his car, with tears escaping his eyes. He hated that he was just so weak. And yet, he couldn't bring himself to hang up on Blaine. Couldn't bring himself to get out of the car and walk back into McKinley with his shoulders squared and his head held high. He was sick and tired of pretending nothing was wrong.

After a long silence Kurt brought himself to say "Blaine—"

Blaine's eyes watched the hallway for teachers as he listened to Kurt's breathing and his broken voice on the other end of the phone. Blaine couldn't stand to hear Kurt like that. He wanted nothing more, in that moment of time, then to gather Kurt into his arms and hug him. Even though Blaine didn't know what was going on, he wanted to help Kurt.

Blaine listened as Kurt took a deep breath and began talking, his voice growing steadier as he continued. "It's-it's Karofsky, Blaine. And this is going to sound stupid, because he hasn't actually done anything wrong, but he's-he's just scaring me Blaine. I walk down the hallway crouched in fear that he'll be waiting for me as I turn the corner. I'm scared he'll be there when I close my locker, or when I walk out of a classroom. I feel like I'm trapped in a horror movie. And if I do run into him, he just looks at me, or gets so close I can feel his disgusting breath on my face. And I just don't know what to do." Kurt finished and took another deep breath, trying to calm himself down.

Blaine, stunned, felt helpless and useless. Because he didn't know what to do either. As much as he wanted to, he felt he couldn't lie to Kurt. He couldn't just say that everything would be alright, that everything would work out, because he didn't know that for sure. "I—Kurt—I wish I could help you…" Blaine trailed off lamely, feeling trapped in Dalton. "I'm so sorry Kurt."

Kurt sighed. "Thanks. But there's nothing you can do. There's nothing I can do…I just needed to talk to someone."

Suddenly, Blaine felt angry. "But there is something I could do. If I wasn't in Dalton I could come and beat him up for you and—"

"Blaine, he's practically twice your size. Not to mention you are in Dalton. Besides, beating him up wouldn't do anything. If anything it would make him angrier."

Blaine rubbed a hand through his hair, exasperated. "I hate that he does this to you Kurt. It's not fair. It's not right!" Blaine groaned. He hated knowing he couldn't do a goddamn thing.

Kurt wiped his eyes with the palm of his hand and smiled slightly. It felt so good knowing someone cared. He wished Blaine was with him right now, he wished he could just curl up next to Blaine and feel safe. "No, it's not fair. But that's life."

Kurt waited on line at the Lima Bean that Sunday, hoping Blaine would come soon. Suddenly the door opened, and Kurt turned around and saw Blaine walk towards him.

"Hi." Kurt smiled

"I missed you last week." Blaine confessed and Kurt nodded.

"Me too."

"You better at all?" Blaine asked.

"I'm hanging in there." Kurt replied with a small smile.

Blaine nodded and stepped forward in line.

Kurt looked at Blaine's back as he stepped forward to and noticed Blaine had a guitar. "What's the guitar for?"

Blaine smiled nervously. "You'll see."

Soon after they stepped up to the counter and ordered their choice drinks. After they paid, they walked outside and went to the small park down the street. They walked past a few families, and went to a more secluded part of the park near some trees. Blaine took the guitar strap off his back and laid the guitar on the ground. He then sat cross-legged next to it with his back leaning against a large tree. He looked up at Kurt expectantly and took a sip of his coffee.

Kurt shook his head "I'm not sitting down; I'll get grass stains on my new jeans."

"But Kurt-" Blaine whined. Blaine pressed his coffee cup into the grass so it would stand up on its own, and then he stood up and turned his head too look behind him. He turned his back to Kurt and then turned to face him again. "No grass stains!"

Kurt groaned, "Fine."

He sat down with his legs out in front of him and his ankles crossed, and Blaine sat back down next to him and smiled.

Kurt took a sip of his coffee and Blaine watched him, wondering if he should follow through with what he was about to do.

Kurt looked over and saw that Blaine looked a little scared. "You okay?"

Blaine took a deep breath and smiled at Kurt. "Yea, yea I'm fine. I just- I wanted to tell you something Kurt."

"Hmm?"

"I-Kurt…I wanted to thank you.

Kurt furrowed his eyebrows together and looked at Blaine.

Blaine continued talking nervously, "I just wanted to say thanks for giving me a chance. Thanks for being my friend. For talking to me, and listening to me, and just being with me. I had almost forgotten what that felt like, having not had much social interaction with people for the past two years." Blaine was rambling now, and be knew it, but he couldn't stop. He wanted Kurt to understand, and he felt the best way to convey his feelings to Kurt was by simply explaining everything on his mind. "I was never a very social person, I had a couple of friends in public school, but not real ones. And as you know, the one time I actually thought I had a chance at something—well something normal for a change—I got sent to Dalton. But Kurt, you've helped me become comfortable with a person again. You've helped me so much Kurt, just by being the only person I knew and could trust."

Kurt stared at Blaine, speechless, as Blaine finished talking and pulled his guitar onto his lap. Kurt was surprised Blaine felt so strongly when Kurt hadn't even realized he'd been doing that much. Because in all honesty, Kurt had thought Blaine had been helping him.

Kurt watched Blaine with curiosity and confusion as Blaine began to strum his guitar. It took Kurt a little bit to figure out what song it was, because Blaine had changed the arrangement so he could play it on his guitar, but Kurt laughed when he figured it out and Blaine began to sing.

"Our planet is poison the oceans, the air, around and beneath and above you."

Kurt tried to keep a straight face as he sang back, "Um Blaine that's true and I totally care-"

Blaine looked at Kurt and gave him a goofy grin as he sang "I'm trying to tell you I love you. The world is at war filled with death and disease; we dance on the edge of destruction. The globe's getting warmer by deadly degrees-"

Kurt bit his lip to hold back laughter as he quietly cut Blaine off "-and this is one fucked up seduction."

Blaine was glad Kurt was seeing this as a joke more than anything, but he did hope Kurt took it a little seriously. Blaine had spent forever thinking of a song to sing to him. He hoped it conveyed the right message. "The planet is pretty much broken beyond all repair, but one thing is working, if you're sitting there. Perfect for you, I could be perfect for you. I might be lazy, a loner, a bit of a drinker, it's true." Kurt smirked and Blaine stuck his tongue out playfully before he continued, "But I could be perfect, perfect for you. Airplanes are falling from quiet blue skies,"

Kurt cut in with, "My school is a total disaster." feeling that was more appropriate than his schedule being likened to a disaster.

Blaine sang, "The world shuts its ears when a starving child cries,"

"We'd sink like Titanic, but faster."

Blaine shook his head as he countered with, "Tsunamis and hurricanes crash on the beach,"

"You'll crash even worse if you date me," Kurt sang, the realization that Blaine was trying to say something with this song growing greater with every line they sang to each other.

Blaine continued with "And peace somehow always stays out of our reach"

"I'll freak and we'll fight and you'll hate me." Kurt trailed off quietly.

Blaine smiled as he sang "The world may get more and more messed up with each passing year, but we can be flawless, just you and me here. Perfect for you, just let me be perfect for you. We're both slightly crazy, but you, you amaze me, you do. I'll make myself perfect, perfect for you. You square all the corners, I straighten the curves."

"You've got some nerve Blaine and I'm just all nerves."

Blaine leaned a little closer to Kurt as he continued to play his guitar and sang "But even if everything else turns to dirt,"

Kurt joined in with Blaine and they both sang, "We can be the one thing in this world that won't hurt."

Kurt inched a bit closer to Blaine as Blaine quietly sang "I can't fixed what's fucked up, but one thing I know I can do, I can be perfect for you."

Kurt sang "I can be perfect for you."

Kurt and Blaine then locked eyes and sang "Perfect for you" together, their voices blending in the air as they trailed off.

Blaine smiled coyly at Kurt as he placed his guitar on the grass in front of him. Kurt scooted closer to Blaine and tilted his head up to meet Blaine's gaze, his blue eyes shining. Kurt's heart thumped in his chest as he extended his neck and hesitantly touched his lips to Blaine's. Blaine took a sharp intake of breath, and brought his left hand up to the nape of Kurt's neck, pulling Kurt closer to him, pressing their lips together even more. Kurt's thoughts flitted to Karofsky, and how he had forced Kurt into a kiss, but Kurt didn't dwell on it. Because Blaine was so not Karofsky. Blaine was sweet, and tender, and, well, perfect.

Slowly, Blaine lowered his hand to the small of Kurt's back, and they pulled apart from each other just a little, so they were still close enough to feel their breath on each other's faces. They both smiled nervously, and laughed a little.

Suddenly, Kurt reached his arms up around Blaine and hugged him tightly. Blaine hugged him back, feeling the lithe boy melt into his body as Kurt whispered in his ear, "What're we doing?"

Blaine laughed and kissed Kurt's neck gently, in awe that he was holding this beautiful boy so close to himself. And he realized that he didn't know what he was doing. But he also realized that it didn't matter. He realized that he would be happy just living this moment over and over again forever. "I don't know." He whispered, his lips brushing against Kurt's earlobe. "But I hope it works."

TBC

And just a quick disclaimer-the song they sang is Perfect for You from the musical Next to Normal, with just a few lyric changes