Ok, chapter 4 up and running! I won't say anything else or I might actually give something away. Reviews, favorites, story alerts are appreciated. Hope you enjoy this one. I had a blast writing it. Also, I don't own Glee or Kurt or Blaine, sadly...

Blaine stared at the coffee shop for a moment, gathering his courage. He knew Kurt was inside waiting for him with an answer. It had taken Kurt a long time to come to his answer, nearly a week, but Blaine supposed that was a good thing. It had given him time to think (and worry) about what would happen next to the both of them. If they were going to pursue this relationship as adults, they needed to face reality and realize that they weren't in high school anymore. Kurt may have been his first love, but he knew in his heart that he would be his only true love. Blaine couldn't lose that. Kurt just had to say yes.

Gathering up all of his courage, excitement, and nervousness, Blaine pushed the door open lightly and walked into the Coffee Lounge. He felt at home in this little shop, feeling the warmth of the atmosphere around him. That's when he spotted Kurt and his breath caught in his throat. Kurt was looking drop dead gorgeous in his tight black pants, white button up shirt with a gray-blue vest that matched his eyes and a simple black bow tie. His hair was styled messy, but perfectly so*. He was sitting at their usual table, two cups of coffee in front of him.

Blaine (nervous as hell) put on his best smile and made his way towards Kurt.

"Hi," Blaine said as he sat down in the chair opposite Kurt, "you look great, as usual." Compliments never hurt, right?

"Hey," Kurt replied, a bit more timidly than he usually would. The younger boy looked straight at Blaine, and Blaine could feel his heart starting to beat out of his chest and his palms starting to sweat.

As Kurt started to make small talk, Blaine could feel the tension in the air. He needed an answer so badly he couldn't stand it anymore, but he knew Kurt would tell him in his own due time and in his own way. And he knew whatever Kurt decided would be the right choice because the younger boy always overanalyzed everything; every possible situation, scenario, possibility, you name it. He would look at the good, the bad, and the ugly before ever coming to any decision, and though it sometimes made choosing a movie to see a difficult task, it was something he admired about Kurt.

"…Blaine, you still there?"

"Huh?" Blaine had forgotten that he actually had to listen right now. Damn, he'd have to work on that.

"You dazed out on me for a minute," Kurt said, "I was asking if you needed any more coffee, I was just going to grab another cup…?"

"Oh, um, yeah… thanks," he replied, putting on his best 'don't worry about me, I'm fine' smile. As soon as Kurt was far enough away, Blaine started to get fidgety again. He pulled a hand along his hair, messing up his perfectly styled curls. Why was Kurt taking such a long time to give him an answer? Was he trying to figure out the best way to let Blaine down gently? What if he realized he didn't want to be with Blaine anymore? What if he wasn't in love with him? Oh god, what if he didn't have an answer yet and this was all some big test and Blaine was failing and he'd never get Kurt back!… and….

Stop thinking like that Blaine, everything's going to be alright, he's going to come back, say everything you want to hear, and things will go back to how they were before. Just stay cool and relax.

Taking a couple of deep breaths and closing his eyes to focus, Blaine started to calm down. He kept his eyes shut until he heard the sound of walking feet. Yes, Kurt must be back with more coffee. He opened his eyes and looked at the figure standing just inches away from the table.

Oh no, no, no… Hell no, what was he doing here?

"Hi," said Jared.

Hi? After all he did to Blaine and hi was the only thing he could say?

"I'm busy right now Jared, you should leave. I have nothing left to say to you… and unless you're here to apologize, you should get out, now. Actually, scratch that, just leave. I don't want or need an apology from a scum bag like you," Blaine didn't want to get into this right now, not when he was so close to Kurt's answer. But he could feel the anger fueling his body, ready to lash out if the other boy didn't leave soon.

"Just hear me out man, I… I wanna be with you. I'm sorry for being so forceful that night a month ago, but I seriously got the vibe that you wanted the same thing, and once I start," Jared paused and lowered his voice as lust filled his eyes, "I don't stop easy."

"Just get out, I'm here with someone and we don't need any drama right now," Blaine could feel himself shaking with rage but forced himself to stay calm, if only for Kurt's sake. Jared obviously didn't take the hint and sat down, opposite Blaine where Kurt was sitting only minutes before.

"Blaine, you know how I feel about you. I don't know why it's so hard for you to understand that you might feel the same way about me if you just tried it out. I mean, we were friends, why no-"

"What the hell do you think you're doing here?" Jared was suddenly cut off by a voice so full of venom and malice that it caused Blaine to shiver and shrink back into his worn out cushioned chair.

Kurt continued speaking, anger spilling out with every word, "I came here this morning to talk to Blaine… I don't need to see your disgraceful face around here right now, I left for two minutes to refill our coffees, and you show up. Now," his voice dropped frighteningly low, "Leave. Us. Alone."

The icy glare Kurt was giving Jared was enough to make the older boy realize that maybe wasn't the time to talk to Blaine. So he slowly got up from his chair and looked at Kurt with jealous, hate-filled eyes. He smirked at the younger boy once before turning back to Blaine, leaning over the table, and whispering low enough so that only Blaine could hear, "when it doesn't work out, you know where to find me, just like last time," and with that, he turned on his heel and left, the door rattling shut behind him.

Blaine was terrified. Jared had done something to him that he couldn't even think about anymore because it was too painful a memory. All the pain, the emotional torment, why couldn't he have just stopped, like Blaine had asked him to so many times before he finally just gave in and stopped trying to move… because, the more he moved, the more it hurt, and it was just too much, too painful to rememb-.

"Blaine? You're white as a ghost. What happened? When I came back over here, you two looked like you were arguing…" Kurt barely whispered these words, looking at Blaine with genuine concern before grabbing his hand.

"I-it's just… we had an argument a while ago. Don't worry about it," Blaine looked at Kurt and turned on his most dapper smile (even though he knew Kurt could see through his fake happiness, he hoped that the younger boy would just forget it for right now; there were more important things to discuss).

"Alright… if that's what you want," Kurt replied, though he didn't look convinced and Blaine knew that the topic would be brought up again someday.

After sitting with a few minutes of awkward/tension-filled silence between the two, Kurt took a deep breath, looked nervously at Blaine, and started speaking, "Um, the reason we're here… I mean, I want to tell you that… well, the answer to your question from last time…"

Blaine held his breath, pleading for Kurt to say yes, for Kurt to be his again. He was literally praying to anyone or anything who was listening above while he looked at Kurt with awaiting eyes.

"Well, I've had a lot of time to think it over," Kurt continued, "and, I think I want to give it another shot. Me and you," Kurt glanced at the table, "so, yes, I want to get back together," he then looked at Blaine, smile filling his face.

Blaine broke out in the biggest grin he'd ever had in his life and reached over to take Kurt's hand in his. His smile faltered slightly and a bit of worry crossed his face before he said softly, "you really mean that?"

"Yeah, I do. I… Blaine, I love you so much, I always have and have this feeling that I always will… and I know if we just try harder to make this work that it can," Kurt spoke simply, "it just has to."

"I feel the same way Kurt. God I've missed you."

"Though I'm not 'God,' I think I'm probably the closest you'll ever get," Kurt replied, his sarcastic wit earning him a chuckle from Blaine, "and I've missed you too."

The two boys both leaned over the table and met in the middle for a chaste kiss. After breaking the kiss, they both looked at one another for a moment before Blaine remembered he had brought something and reached into his pocket.

He spoke up before pulling it out, "Kurt, I was really hoping that would be you answer, well, because I love you obviously, but I also got you something." He pulled the envelope out and handed it over to Kurt.

A look of amusement and shock passed over Kurt's face before he carefully broke the seal on the envelope and pulled out two little pieces of paper and gasped in shock.

"Blaine… oh, wow. Is this…? How did you know?" Kurt was practically jumping up and down in his seat at the excitement.

"Well, you did tell me once you'd love to visit Paris…especially during fashion week," Blaine said casually as he smiled at his boyfriend (boyfriend, that sounds so wonderful, I've been tired of calling him my ex).

Kurt came around the table and pulled Blaine in for a hug, "you do realize you bought two tickets, right?"

"Well," Blaine said impishly, "I thought you'd like to invite someone… you know, Paris is the city of romance, right?" He ended with a mischievous smirk.

"Hm, maybe I'll take 'Cedes… she loves the fashion and lord knows she could use some romance…" Kurt grinned as he saw the baffled look on his boyfriend's face, "…kidding. Of course I'm taking you Blaine. You're so gullible."

Blaine blushed and quickly took a sip of his coffee before standing up and offering his hand to Kurt.

"Shall we then? That flight leaves in two days time, and I know how long it takes you to pack."

"Ha ha, you're cute when you're trying to act funny," Kurt grinned and then turned on his heel and pulled Blaine out of the coffee shop with him, "though I probably should start packing as soon as possible. Hopefully Grace will give me time off from work, though I'm sure she'll love having an intern at fashion week. I can write an article on it! Ooh, and maybe it will actually get published and I can…"

While Kurt continued talking about all of the possibilities that could come out of fashion week, Blaine felt dazed. He loved being back together with Kurt; it was the best thing in the world. But in the back of his mind, Jared was haunting his thoughts. He needed to talk about it sooner or later he knew… he would probably tell Kurt, but not today, and not until fashion week was over. Right now, he was just going to be happy for him and for Kurt. They needed the fun filled week in Paris and did not need any more drama, especially right now.

Jared saw the two walking out of the coffee shop holding hands and discussing something excitedly. He heard snippets of words like "Paris," "fashion," and "romance." He wondered what was going on. What were those two up to? He'd just have to figure it out… and make sure everything went wrong. Well, he could do that easily enough. He'd followed Blaine around long before he and Kurt broke up the first time. In fact, he knew exactly where Kurt would be that night Kurt had found Blaine and Jared wrapped around one another. He'd called and told Joey to give Kurt some excuse to get back to his apartment (something about Blaine feeling depressed and lonely). Kurt was so easy to get to when he thought Blaine was upset because of him (which he actually was).

Kurt didn't deserve Blaine. Blaine was an amazing person and Kurt was just, well, he wasn't Jared. Jared was so much better than Kurt; he was smarter, less stereotypical, he could protect Blaine and love him and care for him. Blaine may look strong, but he was fragile and Kurt didn't understand that. Kurt himself was too fragile to be strong enough for Blaine, but Jared wasn't. Jared belonged with Blaine and he knew that if he could just get them to break up again, Blaine would be all his. Now the problem was figuring out exactly what he was going to do. But first things first, he had to interfere on whatever these "Paris fashion romance" plans of theirs were.

So, now I have a legit reason to hate Jared. Please don't hate me. Just keep on reading. The next chapter should probably be up within the next few weeks or so.

*Think of how his hair is styled in the Born This Way video. So sexy!

Oh, and if anyone watches the Glee Project, I'm so glad that all four in the finals, they're all so talented and each one would add something new to Glee! Though I absolutely love Sam and have since the beginning… Damian's grown on me. I would be happiest if either of those two made it to the show. Anyways, reviews would be awesome :)