Author's Note:

Hello! This is the first of the updates that I will be doing before starting the new song based fics.

I started to write this a while ago and I was feeling quite miserable and needed something to cheer me up, and two of my favourite OCs did it perfectly. This is the third instalment of the graduation, and I think that it shall be the second last one, the next being a party afterwards. And then shall begin their adventures in New York!

Sorry for such a late update. I hope this chapter makes up for it. There are Warblers. I shall update again sooner than the gap has been between the last update and this one, so please stick around. :)

Also, I know very little about graduation ceremonies, so if my information is off, please don't sue me! :)

Thank you to my beta for doing everything that she does, betaing and everything! Her name is alexagirl18 and she writes great stuff that I have the privilege of betaing! :D

Some of the characters are based on CP Coulter's Dalton, which is amazing!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, especially not Glee. :(

They had arrived at McKinley for the last time as students. Today was the day. They would be off to New York soon; their dreams were finally coming true.

Blaine and Kurt were greeted at the front of the school by his parents, brother and his cousins and aunt. Burt and Carole and Finn went inside to find friends and seats, leaving the couple alone with Blaine's family.

Kurt was surprised to so much of Blaine's extended family, but Blaine knew that it was coming, that they were coming. Blaine's family, his mom's side anyway, treated any kind of milestones as 'I wouldn't miss it for the world' moments. This meant that when Harry and Grant had graduated, they went to California to watch and celebrate, despite it being so far away and not all that exciting. Now they were in Lima, it was a bit over the top, but Blaine was pleased to see them.

"Hey guys!" Blaine said and hugged everyone but his dad, who he shook hands with.

"Hi Blainers!" Harry said, clapping his cousin on the back. "You're graduating!" He said in a sing song voice, doing a jazz hand like gesture.

"Yeah…I am." Blaine said, having a brief moment of realisation.

"You're grown up!" Grant said, biting his fist jokingly.

"But we still have little Shaney to guide through senior year." Harry said to Grant.

"That's true." Grant replied, nodding to his brother. "Don't worry Shane, we'll tell you all of our secrets."

"How to get invited to good parties, how to not get tired after parties, how to not to get behind on work." Harry said.

"And how to get a good date for prom." Grant added.

"Oh yes, that's an important thing." Harry said, nodding to his brother. "That can be hard."

"You two had girlfriends when it was prom time!" Shane exclaimed, staring at his cousins in confusion.

"Yes, but we still had to persuade them that they wanted to go with us." Grant said almost wisely.

"They wouldn't have gone with anyone else, you were their boyfriends!" Shane said.

"You don't know that, you have to be sure…" Harry said, and then continued wistfully. "Especially with the clever ones. Alice can find a way out of anything."

"Where are they anyway?" Kurt asked, changing the subject.

"Who?" Harry said, breaking out of his reverie.

"Alice and Luna, you seemed inseparable earlier in the year." Kurt said.

"They're packing." Grant said sadly, and started to study his shoes intently.

"Packing?" Blaine asked.

"They're moving to New York." Grant said, looking up with sad eyes.

"Are you going with them?" Kurt asked tentatively.

"We don't know. Maybe." Harry said, just as sadly.

"And they're leaving soon?" Blaine asked. Harry and Grant nodded in unison. "But you don't know if you are moving or not?"

"We might join them later on." Harry said. "We have an apartment there, so we can go whenever."

"Do they want to go with you?" Shane asked; he couldn't imagine leaving Reed behind.

"No, I don't think so. But they kind of have to go, they don't have a place to live now they've graduated, but with us which is where they've been living." Grant said. "We said that they could stay as long as they like, but they wanted to move to New York…"

"Don't they have family over here?" Blaine asked.

"No, they went to our sister school; their family is in the UK." Harry explained.

"Are you still together?" Shane asked. When he had met the girls, he had liked them; they were good for his cousins.

"Yeah." Harry said, nodding to Shane.

They stood quietly until Principal Figgins came outside, announcing that the guests had to go into inside, and the students wait outside. Blaine and Kurt said goodbye to Harry, Grant and Shane, who were the only family members of Blaine still outside.

"Good luck guys!" Harry called back to Kurt and Blaine as they went inside the building.

Kurt and Blaine made their way around to the side of the building, to line up alphabetically by surname. This meant that Kurt and Blaine had to separate, and they did so reluctantly. Blaine kissed Kurt on the cheek, making Kurt blush. It wasn't that he was embarrassed, he had got used to it now. It had now gotten to the point where he couldn't go long without at least hugging Blaine or holding his hand. He was blushing because he still went all mushy when Blaine just looked at him. Kurt often told himself that he should be over it by now, but he knew that, for some reason, he would always melt in response to Blaine.

Kurt watched Blaine leave to go and stand near the front of the line, and then turned to Finn who was watching him.

"So…last day of school, eh?" Finn said awkwardly.

"Yeah…" Kurt replied inattentively, but to be fair to Kurt, Finn wasn't paying much attention to the conversation either. They were both watching their partners talk to one another. However, it was more like Rachel was talking at Blaine, and Blaine was trying to pay attention, but not really caring and wanting to talk to Kurt more than he did Rachel. This was obvious from the way that his eyes kept drifting to Kurt, and they would exchange smiles before Blaine realised he was meant to be talking to Rachel, so his gaze would drift back.

"What do you think they're talking about?" Finn asked after a while.

"Oh…I don't know." Kurt sighed. "Rachel's probably trying to get Blaine to busk with her in New York."

"Busk?" Finn asked half-heartedly.

"Sing outside for money." Kurt was so unfocussed that he didn't care as much as usual about his step-brother's musical ignorance.

They happily watched Rachel and Blaine's conversation, or Rachel's monologue, until they were pulled to attention by Coach Sylvester who told them rather sharply to line up and get ready to get their diplomas.

They did as she asked and waited outside. Luckily, Kurt wasn't near the end so he had a short wait, and one that he couldn't wait to be over.

He watched as Blaine entered the hall, and felt a small swell of pride, and then that was quickly replaced with both slight annoyance and amusement as he heard two loud exclamations of "Whoop!", several wolf whistles and a loud amount of applause, followed by a sound that was meant to make the boys quiet.

"What was that?" Finn asked, turning to Kurt, wondering why there was so much noise for Blaine.

"Harry and Grant." Kurt said, their names were self-explanatory, when you knew who they were.

"Eh?" Finn said. Unfortunately, he didn't know who they were.

"Blaine's cousins, they were at the front of the school with Shane when we arrived." Kurt explained. He was now focussing on their conversation as he no longer had Blaine to stare at.

"Oh, I wondered who they were…" Finn said. Rachel had just gone into the building, turning and blowing a kiss to Finn as she went.

"Yeah." Kurt said, not sure what to say.

They waited for a while longer, having short conversations about little things before Finn was called to go and get his diploma. Kurt was next, and he was now more nervous. He knew that nothing would go wrong, he had practised smiling and walking without tripping, it would be fine, but he was still nervous. He had never really been alone on stage in front of the school before, but he considered it as another performance.

Yes, it's just a performance. Make sure you nail it.

He began to sing 'Defying Gravity' in his head, it always calmed him down, and would help with convincing himself that it was a performance.

His name was called and he stepped through the doorway. The room was set up very similarly to his Junior Prom, except without the streamers, music, dancing and fun. But the stage was in near enough the same place.

He walked up the few steps onto it, and turned to the camera as he was handed his diploma by Principal Figgins. When the photo was taken, Kurt received a louder cheer than Blaine did, and he guessed that that was because Blaine and Finn were watching, and his dad, who was bound to make a fuss. He beamed, forgetting that he had a practiced smile, and Blaine took that opportunity to whip out his phone and take a picture quickly, making note to set it as his background later. Kurt didn't see this, he was too busy wondering what Harry and Grant were doing, but it looked like they were doing some sort of dance. A dance with some other people, blazer clad people.

The Warblers!

Kurt beamed even more and practically ran off the stage, he had missed his friends far more than he had realised, and was overjoyed to see them, so happy that they had come to see him and Blaine graduate. He knew that many of them had mainly come to see Blaine, but he knew that the main core of Windsor, the conspirators as they were often known, had come to see him too.

He took the seat next to Blaine, instantly clasping his hand, and knowing that Blaine was just as happy as he was. If Kurt had missed the Warblers, then Blaine had missed them so much more. The Warblers were Blaine's family, and Kurt knew that as soon Lauren had got her diploma and Figgins had said something, he would be out of his seat in the blink of an eye and embracing every single one of them.

The rest of the graduation went by fairly slowly, Kurt not really taking in who was graduating, only noticing when one of his friends from Glee was on the stage, but that was a useful enough marker. Finally, the Lauren was off the stage and Figgins was thanking everyone. When he had finished, as Kurt had predicted, Blaine's hand left his and he watched as his boyfriend ran to the back few rows to see his friends. Kurt congratulated some of the people around him before following Blaine.

"Guys!" Blaine was saying. "You made it!"

"Of course we did, dummy." Wes said, thumping Blaine on the back as they hugged.

"Why wouldn't we?" David added, smiling.

"Well, you have only just graduated yourself, and McKinley is an hour away from Dalton…" Blaine said, shrugging before being pulled into another hug.

"An hour is nothing." Reed said, moving out of the crowd of Warblers to stand next to Kurt.

"Especially when you have a helicopter." Evan said brightly.

"You didn't?" Kurt said in shock. There was no way that the Tweedles would have been allowed to land a helicopter in McKinley.

"If I said that then I would be lying." Ethan said happily, attempting to ruffle Kurt's hair. Kurt swatted him away and rolled his eyes. Sometimes he couldn't believe that these type of people existed and that they were his friends.

"Hey Blaine!" Charlie said, pushing through the crowd to get to Blaine. "You're wearing your blazer!"

"So I am." Blaine said, pretending not to have noticed.

"Once a Warbler, always a Warbler." Logan said who had appeared at Blaine's side.

"Amen to that." Wes said happily.

The photos outside the school had been exhausted, if there was another combination of people to have a photo of then Kurt would have been surprised. Evan and Ethan had made it their mission to get into every single photo somehow, a plan that Harry and Grant had been all too happy to take part in. Kurt would've protested, but it was all rather funny. The four of them were darting about all over the place to get in every single photo. There may have been a couple that they missed, and one or two being of Kurt and Blaine.

"Evan!" Kurt said, spinning around. "Move! I don't want your face in a photo that I want to keep forever."

"Aw, but you love my face!" Evan said sadly.

"Yes, of course." Kurt said noncommittally. "Now move!"

"Aw." Evan said, before moving out of the shot and yelling in no direction in particular. "Ethan! I need you in this photo!"

"No!" Kurt called back.

"Take it quick, before they come back." Blaine said to Wes who was trying to take the picture.

They had got a good picture, but Kurt's first comment had sparked a flurry of Tweedle photo ruining. They were trying now to not only get in every single photo, but to get into one with Kurt, which was easier than previously thought when Kurt was in a larger group. Evan and Ethan were looking forward to the day when Kurt looked through his graduation pictures to see them somehow in basically all of the pictures that Kurt was in.

"Kurt?" Burt called to his son. He could see Kurt stood with the blazered boys, but he didn't want to risk going over, he had seen what they were like.

Kurt turned around and waved to his dad quickly before holding up a finger to say that he would be over in a minute.

"Ok guys, looks like I have to leave." Kurt said.

"We'll see you later though, right?" Reed asked. He had only just started talking to his friend properly and now he was leaving.

"Later?" Kurt asked.

"We're having a party at Dalton!" Evan said, bouncing up and down.

"A party?" Kurt asked worriedly.

"Yep, and you're invited!" Ethan said, jumping and then when he landed again, he pointed at Kurt with both hands.

"Ok…" Kurt said. "Well, I'd love to come…"

"But we said that we'd go to Breadstix with the New Directions." Blaine finished for Kurt.

"Aw…" Wes said.

"Unless…" Evan said, looking at his twin.

"Yes…that would work." Ethan said, nodding.

"What?" Blaine asked hesitantly.

"Why don't the New Directions come too?" Ethan said.

"The party's going to be far more fun than Breadstix." Evan added.

"What do you think?" Blaine asked Kurt, looking at him hopefully.

"You want to go, don't you?" Kurt said, raising an eyebrow at Blaine. Blaine nodded eagerly, reminding Kurt of an excited puppy. "Ok then. We'll come."

"Yay!" The Tweedles exclaimed, doing a little happy dance.

"Now I have to go…" Kurt said, trailing off. "Can you go and tell the New Directions for me?"

As soon as he had finished, the Tweedles ran off without a reply.

"Bye everyone!" Kurt said, turning to walk to his dad.

"Hey, I'm coming too!" Blaine said, running after Kurt.

"Blaine, I think you have to stay with your parents." Kurt said, smiling at his boyfriend.

"Naw…" Blaine replied.

"Actually, Kurt, Blaine's family are coming over for snacks now, so he better come." Burt said.

"Really?" Blaine asked, his eyes widening.

"Yeah, they aren't staying for long, are they?" Burt said, Blaine shook his head. "So they may as well wait with us until they decide to leave."

"Just don't get into any arguments, ok?" Kurt said.

"No, I'll try not to." Burt replied.

"I want you to be at peace on our wedding day." Kurt said.

Oops. That was out loud.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed that! :D As I said, this is the first of the updates, next shall be Look Sharp for any of you who have/are reading that. :D There wasn't much Harry and Grant in this, but they shall also go back to Kurt's house and then the party, so if you like them, then there you go. And I used Sebastian's first line of speech in this, but it's so great and was relevant. :D Love, DH :) x