Kurt was in the auditorium by himself. It was awhile after school had ended, and he had stayed behind because he had wanted to be by himself for a little while. It was the last school day before winter break, and he should've been happy about that. Instead, he honestly didn't know how he was feeling. He had been feeling the same way ever since the day at the Lima Bean with Blaine and Dave.

He stood on the stage, looking out towards all of the seats. Kurt had actually done this quite a few times before. He'd picture being up on a stage in Broadway, performing to sell-out crowds full of people that had came just to see him. These were the kinds of thoughts that could usually make him feel better.

Kurt glanced down towards the stage floor, raising his left hand to smooth out his shirt for a moment. He looked back out towards the auditorium seats, clearing his throat, before beginning to sing softly to himself.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on
Our troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on
Our troubles will be miles away

Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of Yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more

Through the years
We all will be together
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough

And have yourself a merry little Christmas now

Kurt looked down towards the floor once again, sighing lightly. He closed his eyes for a moment and imagined the applause that he could, one day, receive. He opened them slowly, only to see something moving out of the corner of his eye. He glanced over to his left by the first row of seats to see Dave setting his backpack down on one of them.

"How long have you been standing there?" Kurt asked, setting his hands on his hips and raising an eyebrow.

Dave slid his hands deep into his pockets, shrugging. "I don't know... just a few minutes, I think."

Kurt looked away, smirking. "Were you planning on trying to scare me?" he asked jokingly.

"Uh," Dave laughed. "No, I don't think so."

"Okay, good," Kurt laughed too. He walked a little closer to the stage steps, crossing his arms over his stomach. "What are you still doing here?"

Dave swallowed once, glancing down at his feet before looking back up. "Just wasting time, I guess. I wasn't really ready to go home yet." He took a few steps towards the stairs, but didn't walk up them. "What about you?"

Kurt shrugged. "I just wanted to be by myself for a little while... I have a lot of things on my mind right now, I guess."

Dave nodded briefly. "Do you want me to leave?"

"No, it's okay," Kurt said, as he shook his head. "But don't stay down there, though," he smiled. "You're making me nervous." He laughed lightly, bending down to sit on the steps that went up to the stage.

"I'm sorry," Dave said dramatically, as he laughed again. He walked up the stairs a little bit, only to sit down next to Kurt on the same step he'd sat down on. He turned his head to the left to look at him, smiling. "You sing really well," he said softly.

Kurt smiled back. "Thank you." He jabbed Dave's arm with his right elbow. "You're not so bad yourself, you know."

Dave let out a small laugh. "Thanks."

"So... are doing anything special over break?"

"No, not really," Dave shook his head. He glanced back down towards his shoes, taking a deep breath. "Just spending some time with the family, I guess. But probably not much else." Dave looked back over to Kurt. "How about you?"

"Same, mostly," Kurt shrugged. His eyes widened as he began speaking again, "I have to say that I'm not looking forward to Finn waking me up really early Christmas morning like he did last year, of course, but..." he laughed. "Whatever."

Dave smiled, though his mouth was open slightly and his eyebrows were wrinkled in confusion. "Was he excited about Santa leaving him presents or something?"

Kurt rolled his eyes in irritation. "Something like that. Everybody had to be up before anyone could start opening presents, so," he laughed again. "He was definitely getting a little antsy."

Dave nodded, smiling back down towards his shoes. "Do you like having a brother?"

"Yeah, I do," Kurt paused for a moment. "Well, most of the time, at least. Finn can be a little irritating at times, but... I'm sure I'm the same way."

"You?" Dave asked, looking back with an obviously fake, puzzled expression on his face. "Irritating? Never."

Kurt scoffed, before smirking once more. "Jerk."

Dave laughed lightly, hitting Kurt's shoulder with his own. "I'm just kidding."

"Good," Kurt nodded. "So... have you talked to Azimio lately?"

Dave's expression grew serious. He looked out towards the seats, shaking his head. "No... not exactly, anyways. We might say something to each other every now and then when we're out practicing or playing a game, but... I don't know." He looked back, shrugging. "It's fine."

Kurt glanced over Dave's face for a moment, giving him a sympathetic look. "How close were you two anyways? I mean... don't get me wrong, but most of the time when I saw you two together, you guys were just going around starting stuff with everybody. Did you... hang out outside of school or-"

"Yeah, of course we did," Dave interrupted. "I mean... yeah, most of the time we were messing around with people, but," he stated, a sad look coming to his face. "He was definitely my best friend at one time."

Kurt nodded, where his eyebrows shot up and then back down quickly. "You probably miss hanging out with him then."

Dave shrugged. "I don't know," he replied, shaking his head. "I guess I miss a few things, but... I don't miss most of it, to be honest."

"The slushy throwing? The locker checking?" Kurt laughed lightly.

"Yeah," Dave smirked. "I should probably let you throw a slushy or two in my face, huh?"

"Probably, yes," Kurt laughed again, looking back towards David with a smile. "But no... I couldn't do that to you."

He smiled back, nodding ever so slightly. "We could go outside and you could throw a few snowballs at my face, if you want. It's a little different from a slushy, but I'm sure it'd still hurt like hell."

Kurt looked away as his smile grew. "Yeah, I'm sure it would... But no, that's okay."

Dave sighed, rubbing his palms against his jeans as he stood up. He walked down the steps and turned to face Kurt, who was still sitting down. "Kurt, I... I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for the other day with Blaine. I just mean that... I wasn't trying to start anything with him on purpose."

"I know you weren't," Kurt nodded at first, and then began to shake his head. "You don't have to apologize for that."

"But he makes you happy..." Dave said, as he looked back down at his feet. He glanced back up at Kurt, taking a few moments before saying anything else. "I just hope that I didn't start anything between you two."

Kurt shook his head again. "Oh, you didn't. It's fine, really." He moved his feet up a step, clasping his hands together against his knees. "To be honest, you pretty much said everything that I had been wanting to say to him for awhile now..." he trailed off, swallowing once. "You weren't wrong," he said softly.

"I wasn't?"

"No," Kurt sighed. He stood up on the steps, walking down a few to stand on the bottom one. "I don't know, I mean... I'm really happy when I'm with him," he closed his eyes for a moment. "But then I'll be away from him and I'll start to think about everything, and... sometimes I feel like I'm not completely being myself when I'm around him."

Dave's expression hadn't changed. He simply nodded slightly, waiting for Kurt to continue.

"It's like... I'm hesitating with certain things or something," Kurt said, shaking his head. "I don't know if that even makes any sense at all, but..."

Dave nodded again. "No, it does. I mean... obviously, I haven't been in a relationship before, but... I can guess that that'd be pretty hard sometimes."

Kurt instantly began smiling at him, where Dave gave him a confused look quickly.

"What?" Dave asked.

Kurt laughed lightly, crossing his arms in front of his stomach. "I was just picturing you being in a relationship with somebody."

Dave's confused expression hadn't changed yet.

"I think you could definitely be good boyfriend material," Kurt finished.

David smiled, looking down towards the floor. "Maybe eventually, but," he began, glancing back up where his smile diminished. "I don't think I really am right now. I mean, I'm still not out to everybody, and... I still have a lot of things to deal with."

"Yeah, but..." Kurt shrugged. "You're working on it."

"I'm trying, anyways," Dave smiled again. He cleared his throat, shuffling his weight between his feet as if he had become nervous about something. He slid his hands back into his pockets, before focusing back on Kurt. "So, um... I know you said that you didn't like talking about it the other day, but... I'm sorry I kind of left you there by yourself at prom last year."

Kurt's expression grew sad, and he began shaking his head once more. "David... don't even worry about that. Honestly, that was my fault. I should never have told you to come out right then and there... I felt so stupid after I thought about it again."

"No, it's okay," Dave replied. "I understand why you said it." He shrugged, "I'm just sorry that I wasn't able to stay back then."

"Yeah, you definitely shouldn't have left," Kurt smiled. "You missed out on a dance with me," he said dramatically. "And I just happen to be the greatest dancer ever."

Dave laughed. "Is that so?"

Kurt nodded, a smug look forming on his face. "Of course, it is. I'd be out winning a bunch of competitions right now if I wanted to."

"Yeah, I bet," Dave laughed a bit harder, where he started to nod briefly. "I've seen you break it down a couple of times... you're pretty good."

"Pretty good?" Kurt said, mockingly. He raised one of his eyebrows. "No... I think I'm amazing," he joked. They both started laughing at how stupid the conversation had become. "You're not so bad yourself, you know."

It was Dave's turn to look smug. "Yeah, well... I think I do okay, definitely," he laughed again.

There a few moments of silence, until Kurt finally decided that he wanted to ask Dave the one question that he never thought he'd ever ask.

"Can I ask you something?"

Dave nodded. "Yeah, of course."

Kurt looked down at the floor momentarily, taking a deep breath before looking back up.

"Why did you kiss me last year?"

Dave glanced over Kurt's face a few times. He focused on something towards the back of the stage, licking his upper lip once. He let out a soft sigh, looking back to Kurt when he finally realized how he wanted to answer.

"I was just... really confused back then," he nodded. "I mean, you know that already, but... you came into the locker room and you were just yelling at me and standing up to me and..." Dave looked away again. "I don't really even know how to say it."

He waited for some sort of acknowledgment from Kurt, but all Kurt did was wait for him to continue instead of doing anything else.

Dave got the hint and tried to finish what he was trying to say. "When you did all that, you were just... the first person to break through me, I guess," he said quietly, shaking his head once more. "I had always been hiding from everybody up until then and... I was hiding from myself... but you got right in my face and..." he shrugged a little bit.

"You just made me let go of it all," Dave continued. "I remember wanting you to go away, but..."

"You needed to know if what you were feeling was real," Kurt finished.

Dave's gaze stayed on Kurt's face for a few moments. He thought over what Kurt had said, before he began to nod slowly. "Yeah."

He glanced away from Kurt once more, taking another look down towards his feet, while his hands were still deep in his pockets. "I just wanted to know what it felt like," he said without looking back up. Dave shrugged again lightly, "I had never kissed anybody before."

Kurt nodded, never taking his eyes off of Dave. "I had never been kissed by a guy before," he replied softly.

Dave looked back up at Kurt with a painful look on his face. Kurt realized that Dave probably hadn't realized that he had taken his first real kiss from him. He began shaking his head, where his mouth was slightly open in surprise. "I'm so sorry, Kurt..."

"It's okay," Kurt responded immediately, nodding quickly. "It happened a long time ago, and... we're okay now."

Dave took a few moments to glance over Kurt's face again, before he also began to nod. A small smile formed on his face, where he took his right hand out of his pocket to rub the back of his neck. "Well... I should probably get going."

Kurt nodded again, as he watched Dave turn around to take his backpack off of one of the auditorium seats. He stopped abruptly, looking down at it as if he was trying to make a decision about something. He turned back around towards Kurt with it in his hand, taking a few steps closer to the stage steps.

"I know that this is probably really stupid, but, um... I got you something."

Kurt smiled, letting one of his eyebrows raise in response. "For what?"

"I don't know," Dave laughed lightly. "Just for all the times I screwed up, I guess... for what happened with Blaine the other day," he shrugged. He glanced down at his backpack momentarily, taking a deep breath. "But, you could just think of it as a Christmas present, really."

"I feel bad now," Kurt laughed. "I didn't get you anything."

"Oh, don't even worry about that," Dave replied, shaking his head. "You've been helping me so much lately... that's been enough," he smiled.

Kurt instantly smiled back. They both stood there for a few moments- neither moving nor saying anything else. "Well... can I see what it is then?"

"Uh..." Dave began, rubbing the back of his neck once more. He seemed to become nervous quickly, as he began fidgeting with his backpack. "Yeah, sure," he finally said, taking a few steps towards Kurt, who was still standing on the bottom step of the stairs.

"This is really stupid, by the way," Dave continued, as he unzipped the backpack and put his hand inside. "You're probably just gonna look at me like I'm crazy."

Kurt laughed, "I'm sure it's fine."

Dave nodded. "Okay, um... here." He pulled his hand out, handing Kurt a small teddy bear.

Kurt just stared at it for a few moments with a confused expression on his face. He knew that he was smiling, though he thought that he probably looked a little crazy. "It's a teddy bear..." he said softly.

Dave glanced away nervously, swallowing once. "I know," he said, zipping his backpack up.

"I don't get it," Kurt said, looking back up at Dave with the confused smile still on his face.

"It's stupid," Dave laughed, though he was obviously still nervous. "It was just on my mind since you said that I was one awhile back, and I saw it... and... I don't know."

Kurt immediately began laughing. "Oh my God, David..."

Dave raised both of his hands up in defense, as he started laughing harder. "I know, I know. It's dumb," he said, looking down towards the floor and shaking his head.

"No," Kurt replied. Dave glanced back up at him. "It's... actually kind of adorable." His smile grew as he looked back down at the teddy bear. "Thank you," Kurt nodded.

Dave nodded back. "You're welcome," he smiled. His expression then changed as he raised one of his eyebrows and started looking around the auditorium jokingly, seeing if anyone was in there with them. "Maybe we should just... keep this between us?" he laughed.

Kurt laughed back in response. "Yeah, you gotta keep your reputation up, huh?"

"I don't really think I have much of a rep anymore, but... yeah, sure," Dave chuckled.

"Well... thank you," Kurt responded sincerely.

Dave looked over Kurt's face for a moment, as his usual goofy grin formed. "Yeah, no problem." He took a deep breath, nodding once more. "I guess I better get home."

"Yeah, I think I'm gonna head off soon."

"Okay, well... I hope that you have a good break."

"You too," Kurt replied.

Dave smiled once more, turning back around to head for one of the exits of the auditorium. He had only taken a few steps before...

"Hey, Dave?" Kurt called out.

He turned back around quickly. "Yeah?"

Kurt paused for a moment, where he then stepped off of the last step of the stairs, walking over until he was standing right in front of David. He smiled, looking right into Dave's eyes as he began leaning forward. He turned his head just a little bit, kissing Dave's cheek softly before leaning back.

"Merry Christmas," Kurt smiled again.

Dave smiled back, and Kurt could instantly see him blushing slightly.

"Merry Christmas, Kurt."