Sorry about the slow update, like I said I've just started back at school and it's gonna be a pretty busy year, but I'll try and update as quickly as possible.
3. An Anniversary From Hell:
"We get that you want to celebrate the fact you two haven't driven each other absolutely crazy and can actually still tolerate each other's presence-"
"Sometimes you tolerate each other's presence a little too much." Alex muttered, thinking of all the horrifying times she'd walked in on her two dad's making out – something a teenager should never see their parents do.
"But we don't understand why we have to come with you to celebrate such a thing." Jess finished explaining, looking at Kurt and Blaine expectantly.
The family were currently gathered in the expensive looking living room, lounging around on couches and chairs. The triplets were trying to convince their parents that them coming with them to celebrate their anniversary would not be a good idea, nor would it be romantic for the two of them.
"Because you're our children and we love you." Kurt said simply, straightening his tie and ruffling his hair a little.
Jess and Alex just rolled their eyes. "And we love you. We just don't wanna sit through your PDA all evening." Grimes told them, happy that she could finally use the word PDA (which she'd learnt last week) in a sentence.
"There won't be any PDA!" Kurt cried, flushing a little at the accusation.
"Well…" Blaine started. "I'm not making any promises." He grinned, lightly tapping Kurt's behind.
The three girls groaned. "If we come you know we'll only be bored." Alex complained. "Let us stay at home."
Blaine just scoffed. "After last time? No chance. You lot are coming and that's final, now go and get ready." After one last sigh from the teens they all slowly picked themselves up and heaved their bodies up the stairs, grumbling and moaning as they did it. Kurt laughed. "What?" Blaine asked, coming over to Kurt, who was still standing in the mirror, and wrapping his arms around his waist from behind.
Kurt leaned his head back against Blaine's shoulder. "Nothing." He smiled. Blaine just raised a questioning eyebrow. "It's just… we've got it all haven't we? Beautiful house, good jobs, three amazing kids… and to top it all off I'm still hopelessly in love with you after 11 years. I'd call that something to be proud of."
Blaine smiled gently and held Kurt's clasped hands as he watched the reflection of the two of them in the mirror. Just as he was about to say something they heard a crash from upstairs and Grimes shouting, "Sorry!" Blaine sighed lightly. "Go back to the bit about amazing kids." He said quietly, nuzzling Kurt's ear.
Kurt just laughed. "Come on, let's get going before Grimes breaks anything else."
"Oi, Rugrats!" Blaine shouted up the stairs. "Be at the car in 5 minutes or you don't get dessert!"
Slowly the three teens followed their dad's out to the car, dragging their feet as they went. Just before they went out the door, Jess pulled the other two back. "Look. I've got an idea."
"That makes a change." Alex muttered, causing Grimes to snigger.
Jess lightly shoved Alex's shoulder. "Shutup and listen. We have to make them regret ever choosing to take us with them, okay? That way we'll never have to go again." She grinned brightly as the others nodded in agreement and they got into the car.
"Ready?" Kurt asked everyone once they were all buckled in.
"Yup. Can we put some music on though?" Grimes asked from the backseat, winking discreetly at her siblings.
"Sure." Blaine agreed, a little suspicious that the three weren't complaining as much as they just had been. He fiddled with the CD player and found a Katy Perry song.
"I'm sorry. I think Grimes asked if we could have some music on, Dad." Alex said sarcastically, indicating that Katy Perry wasn't real music.
Blaine frowned. "Fine. What do you three want on?"
"Blake Shelton!"
"The Bee Gees!"
"Demi Lovato!"
"Wait… Demi Lovato?" Jess turned to look at Grimes in disbelief.
"What? She has some good songs." Grimes shrugged.
"You guys will have to decide on something. We can't have all of them." Blaine sighed, switching off the song that him and his husband fell in love to.
"The Bee Gees have some classic songs. And I'm the oldest so I should say what should go on." Jess declared, not really caring what music went on, but to cause trouble.
"No way!" Alex protested. "Have you not heard Blake Shelton!?"
"Nobody's even heard of Blake Shelton!"
"Can we all just accept that Demi Lovato is a teen pop idol just like Katy Perry? Which means it's the closest thing to what our parents want so it should be what we listen to." Grimes said smugly.
Blaine and Kurt sighed and looked at each other. It was going to be a long drive.
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The two parents walked into the restaurant looking quite distressed, followed by their three (still bickering) children. "All I'm saying is The Bee Gees make you wanna dance! It's physically impossible to not dance whilst 'Night Fever' is playing!" Jess was trying to convince the others.
"Well I find it easy enough!" Alex argued, folding her arms and huffing.
"Enough! Can we all just stop with the music war!?" Kurt cried, waving his arms in an exasperated manner.
The restaurant was very fancy. The walls were covered in different paintings and musical Broadway icons, making it the perfect place for Kurt and Blaine to have their anniversary. The floor was carpeted, and most of the seats were placed in booths meaning meals were discreet and private. Although the place looked like a romantic hotspot, plenty of families dined there as well, so it wasn't out of place for them to show up with their children – in fact the only difference between them and the other families was that their children weren't quite so well behaved. The waitress came over to ask Blaine the details for where they'd like to sit, but was cut off by Alex. "We'd like to sit somewhere with only three seats. So I don't have to sit anywhere near these two idiots." She stated, receiving a jab in the ribs from Blaine, who apologised and told her they wanted a table for five.
The waitress showed the family to their seats and told them she'd be back to take their order in a few minutes, not before the three girls ordered the most expensive drinks on the menu, and Grimes tried to order an alcoholic cocktail without much luck. Blaine looked at Kurt and gave a tight smile. "I'd like to raise a toast to the most amazing man in the world, and to my family, who despite driving me insane almost everyday… I wouldn't have you guys any other way." He said cheerfully, raising his glass of wine and hitting it with Kurt's. The girls however, hit their glasses a little too enthusiastically, causing them all to smash and the contents go everywhere.
"Blaine this was your idea to bring them!" Kurt whispered harshly, as the girls made a big scene out of clearing up the mess.
"I'm sorry! I thought it'd be nice!" Blaine told him, putting his head in his hands.
"This is gonna be a disaster." Kurt muttered to himself, as he picked up his glass and took a massive gulp of wine. He watched Grimes almost fall over her chair when throwing away paper towels. "A massive disaster."
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"Blaine. Come with me." Kurt growled, after Alex had just managed to break the leg of her chair and was currently using it as a sword against Jess' fork. Kurt dragged Blaine into the toilets and locked the door. "We have to do something about them! They've been worse than normal!"
"I know!" Blaine cried raking his hands through his un-gelled hair. "I don't get it. I mean… normally they're a nightmare but in public they seem to tone it down a bit. We're gonna be banned from one of our favourite restaurants!" He said, pacing up and down the toilets.
"Let's just calm down and think about this." Kurt said, breathing deeply and looking at Blaine. "Maybe we could talk to them about keeping the crazy on the down low?"
"As if that will work. They don't want to be here, Kurt. That's why they're doing it." Blaine said, stopping his pacing and leaning against the bathroom sink. "I know they don't mean any harm, and I love them to death but I wanted this to be perfect for you."
"What do you mean?"
"This is our anniversary, Kurt. It's supposed to be romantic and sexy and celebrate our years together as a couple. Not us sitting at the same table as our kids and trying to pretend they're not ours!" Blaine cried, looking down at the floor.
Kurt chuckled slightly. "Blaine." He said. "Blaine, look at me." Blaine looked up from the floor and stared into Kurt's glasz coloured eyes. "As much as it doesn't seem it, this is perfect to me. You're here, and so are my children. That's all I need, okay? So don't go thinking you've let me down because you haven't." Kurt smiled at him gently. "I love you, Blaine Warbler." He teased.
Blaine chuckled. "I haven't been a Warbler for a very long time."
"I can think of something else that's very long." Kurt said seductively, grinning as Blaine looked at him in surprise.
"Grimes has had such a bad influence on you!" He laughed, thinking of all the times Grimes has made innocent sentences into innuendos.
"Back to being serious." Kurt said, shaking off the laughter. "I don't actually count this as our real anniversary anyway."
"No?"
"Nope. I still love this day, and will always remember it as the day I became chained to you forever…" Blaine shot him look of mock hurt. "… but our real anniversary – the day I fell in love with you is the day I met you on the staircase at Dalton. The moment you introduced yourself was when I knew you were the one. So who cares if today hasn't gone exactly to plan? We can still celebrate that day." Kurt finished, reaching out to hold Blaine.
"You always know what to say." Blaine chuckled softly, leaning in to gently kiss Kurt's lips. "I love that about you."
Kurt just smiled again and leaned in to kiss Blaine again. Just as the kiss began to get more heated there was a knock on the bathroom door. "Hello!? Look I know you two are having some sort of romantic moment in there but I really need to pee!" Someone shouted on the other side.
Blaine and Kurt laughed quietly. "Sorry!" Blaine called, opening the door.
The guy rushed past them. "It's cool. I get that you probably wanted to get away from the mayhem in there." He said before going into a cubicle.
Kurt was about to agree before he realised. "Wait… what mayhem?" He asked, looking to Blaine in pure hope it wasn't anything to do with their daughters.
"Oh, you didn't know? Yeah, a massive food fight was started by some teenagers- hello? Oh." The guy realised he was talking to himself as Kurt and Blaine shot out of the toilets and into the horror of the next room.
"Blake is more talented than the Gibb brothers will ever be!" Alex cried as she hurled a cake that had been standing on a tray of desserts in Jess' direction.
"Please! No one's even heard of Blake Shelton!" The older girl shouted back, grabbing some Yorkshire puddings off her plate and slinging them back.
"Both of you are completely stupid if you think either of them are better than Demi Lovato!" Grimes called from her hiding place under the table.
"You're so wrong!"
The girls continued slinging pieces of food and drink at each other, as onlookers watched in horror and amusement. Kurt and Blaine could only stand in shock as they watched their three kids disrupt the entire restaurant.
"Stop!" Blaine shouted. "All three of you stop right now!" Jess, Alex and Grimes all turned to stare at their dad, who was standing over the scene with clenched fists. Jess dropped the cupcake she was about to throw and looked at Alex, realising they may have gone a little too far.
"Ahem." Someone cleared their throat behind them. "Can we please speak with you and your family in the back room?" The voice asked Kurt and Blaine, who flushed with embarrassment as they realised it was the manager of the restaurant.
"Of um… of course." Kurt stuttered, something he hadn't done since High school. "We're so, so sorry." He whispered as Blaine took his hand and marched the family into the back room.
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"I have never been so humiliated in my entire life. And I was voted Prom Queen!" Kurt squeaked on the ride back home. "Not to mention the fact we had to pay for all that food, plus the damages you made to the restaurant. What were you thinking!?" The girls stayed silent, starting to feel a little guilty for letting the evening get so out of hand. "Broken chairs and glasses, stains on the carpet, stains on the walls! We can never go back there again!" Kurt cried, putting his head in his hands in shame. Blaine stayed deadpanned as he pulled in to an empty parking lot.
"Uhm. This isn't home." Jess stated quietly as she took in the surroundings.
"You're not gonna kill us are you?" Grimes asked. "Cause' that's against the law. Even if we are your children."
"I want to ask you why you acted like that." Blaine told them seriously. "You really embarrassed us back there, and cost us a lot of money. What got into you?"
The girls were silent for a few minutes. "We just… it was a joke really."
"A joke?" Kurt asked incredulously.
"Yeah. One that got very, very out of hand." Alex told them. "We meant to just make you regret taking us with you… but then we kind of forgot that we were in public."
"We're sorry we embarrassed you." Grimes added. "That was an accident too."
Blaine and Kurt sighed. "Guys. We only brought you because we wanted to spend more time with you… what with school and exams and clubs we haven't had much time together as a family. Our anniversary was the perfect excuse to do something. But don't worry… we definitely regret taking you!" Blaine told them, giving a bitter laugh.
The siblings looked at each other guiltily. "We didn't know." Jess said quietly. "We're sorry we haven't been around much. And for dinner. And for everything I guess. This wasn't supposed to happen."
"And sorry for running your anniversary." Alex added in.
The car was silent for a few minutes before Kurt sighed. "I guess it was a little funny." He said.
Blaine looked at him. "What?"
"Please. Don't try and tell me it wasn't a tiny bit funny." Kurt raised his eyebrow at the younger man.
Blaine just shook his head. "Don't encourage them, Kurt!"
"I'm not." Kurt sighed again. "I'm just saying… can we forget this please? Let's all just go home and watch a movie together. Who needs fancy restaurants when you have 'Mean Girls' on DVD?"
"I like that idea." Alex said. "And if you ever want to take us out for family time again, we promise we won't break any chairs. Or throw any food."
Blaine looked at his family and smiled gently. "McDonalds on the way back?"
"Hell yeah!" The three teenagers grinned. Kurt looked and Blaine and smiled.
"Best anniversary ever."
There we have it. Chapter 3. Again, sorry for the long wait but I've been pretty busy. If I don't have too much work to do tomorrow I'll update, another thank you to everyone who's reviewed!