Today is the birthday of my little girl. I would like to thank her with this chapter for all the happiness she brought into our life, for the ideas to this fic and for sleeping enough so I can write.:)
We have only a few chapters left. I'm sad and happy at the same time.
At the end of the week, Blaine felt so tired he could barely walk home. It had been a hard week at work and on the top of that, Rachel and Mercedes had called him several times every day to ask questions for the baby shower, although Blaine didn't understand half of them like 'What colour will the nursery's walls be?' or 'How was the first ultrasound like?'. He started getting afraid that the girls planned something Kurt wouldn't like at all.
He sighed when he finally reached the apartment and he made his way straight to the bedroom's door. He had to check on Kurt and then he planned to have some rest, maybe watch a movie and have some sleep. A lot of sleep, to be exact.
"Hey" Kurt greeted him from where he was sitting on the bed.
"Hey. Is everything alright?" Blaine asked as he stepped to him and kissed his pregnant boyfriend.
"I think so" Kurt said uncertainly and put his hand on his baby bump.
"What's wrong?" Blaine asked in concern.
"I just have a few cramps" Kurt answered.
"What?" Blaine asked in alarm. "God, you're in labour!"
"No, I'm not" Kurt smiled. "I don't think I am."
"You-you have to..." Blaine tried to remember what he had read about this in his books. "Shower! You need a shower. They will go away if it isn't real."
"Blaine, calm down..." Kurt started but Blaine was already halfway to the bathroom, preparing everything for Kurt. "Fine."
Kurt got up from the bed, holding his hand on his stomach, and went after Blaine.
"You can just drop your clothes. And breath. In. Out. In. Out" Blaine said, waving with his hands.
"Blaine, calm down. Now" Kurt said, rolling his eyes as he got under the hot water.
"What do you feel?" Blaine asked immediately.
"Would you just shut up?" Kurt almost shouted. He wasn't in a good mood and Blaine wasn't helping at all.
"Of course" Blaine said, tapping with his feet nervously. "What do you feel?"
"Blaine!"
"Alright, I will shut up" Blaine sighed and stepped away from the bathtub but kept his eyes on Kurt.
Kurt stayed under the water for a few more minutes, enjoying the hot water. When he finished, he stepped out and smiled as he took the towel from Blaine.
"Should I call Sebastian?" Blaine asked as he watched Kurt dress up.
"No, I think it was a false alarm" Kurt said. "I don't feel the cramps anymore."
"Thank God" Blaine whispered.
"It's good to know I will be able to count on you when the time comes" Kurt said sarcastically and went back to the bedroom.
"I got scared, okay?" Blaine said as he joined Kurt in their room. "It's not time and-and... I got scared."
"Okay, I believe you" Kurt laughed.
"It's not funny" Blaine shook his head seriously. "I'm worried about you and the baby. I don't want anything happen to you."
"Blaine, it will be fine" Kurt said. "Stop worrying. Come here."
Blaine climbed into the bed next to Kurt who grabbed his neck immediately and kissed him.
"Uhm, you don't want to have sex, right?" Blaine asked as he felt Kurt's hand wandering down his chest.
"Why not?" Kurt .
Blaine pulled away without hesitation.
"Kurt, we can't have sex!" he said. "You're so close to giving birth to Elyse. We-we can't risk her health."
"Blaine, I'm completely fine, just like the baby. It will be alright" Kurt replied.
"We will hurt her" Blaine said.
"So you don't want to have sex with me?" Kurt asked and stood up from the bed.
"Of course I want" Blaine sighed and grabbed Kurt's hands. "But we only have a few weeks left. I don't want to make something that would hurt you or the baby."
"Okay" Kurt nodded finally
"We can watch a movie instead" Blaine offered.
"That's exactly what I wanted" Kurt rolled his eyes, causing Blaine to laugh.
"I knew" Blaine said and helped Kurt to get out into the living room.
~ o ~
On the day of the baby shower, Blaine had only one thing to do: convince Kurt to go out with him for a few hours, so Mercedes and Rachel could finish the decoration and get ready. Kurt wasn't really in the mood to go out but Blaine promised him a large amount of cheesecake if he was ready to go with him to the mall. Kurt agreed in the end and Blaine could finally feel relieved.
"Can we sit down?" Kurt asked as they stepped inside. "I'm tired."
"We're almost there. Just a few steps" Blaine said and grabbed Kurt's hand, leading him to the restaurants.
"I hope that cheesecake is really that good" Kurt sighed and flopped down onto the first empty chair he could find.
"It is" Blaine nodded. "Stay here. I will be back in a blink."
With that, Blaine disappeared from his sight. Kurt put a hand over his large baby bump and tried to find a comfortable position. It wasn't easy but he finally managed to sit so Elyse couldn't kick his kidneys.
"Kurt?"
Kurt jumped on his seat and turned around. God, no...
"Chandler?" he asked in disbelief. "What are you doing here?"
"Working" Chandler smiled, looking down at the mop in his hand. "I'm surprised Isabelle hasn't told you."
"I'm working from home" Kurt said.
"Well, they fired me" Chandler said.
"Really? But why?" Kurt asked. Okay, he knew dozens of reasons why they should have fired Chandler but it didn't mean he expected something like this.
"I asked out a man" Chandler said simply.
Oh. Kurt saw the problem. He had personal experience of what Chandler was like when he wanted somebody.
"Yeah. He told me that I'm a crazy stalker and he reported it to Isabelle. He police got involved and... I have to do community work. Can you believe it? I'm not that bad" Chandler said.
Blaine got back with their cakes and he froze immediately when he saw Chandler.
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
Chandler turned towards him and smiled.
"Blaine! It's good to see you again" he said.
"Chandler?" Blaine asked with wide eyes.
"He works here" Kurt explained. "He got fired from and now he has to work here."
"Yeah, community work" Chandler smiled. "Because of sexual harrassment."
"Really? That's... uhm... unexpected" Blaine replied, barely able to hide his smile.
"It was so cruel of him. I just wanted to show him how much I liked him" Chandler said seriously.
It was too much. Blaine's shoulders were shaking so hard from the suppressed laugh that he had to turn away and Kurt wasn't any better.
"I'm sorry, but we have to go" Kurt said hastily and grabbed Blaine's arm, pulling him away. "You're so rude."
"Sorry, but... Oh, my God! It was so worth to come here today!"
"Shut up. Just shut up" Kurt said, smiling.
~ o ~
They got back home hours later when Blaine had received a text message from Rachel that they were ready. Kurt wasn't really in a good mood, he was tired and he wanted to lie down, but Blaine hoped that the baby shower would make him forget about his problems. He opened the door and let Kurt get inside first.
"Surprise!"
Kurt jumped back at first, seeing his friends and family standing in their living room – in their decorated living room.
"What's going on?" Kurt asked as he took a tentative step closer to them.
"Since you're almost ready to pop, we decided to organize a baby shower for you" Rachel said and went to Kurt to hug him.
"An unusual one" Mercedes winked and hugged him too.
As they pulled Kurt towards the other guests, the man had the chance to look around. The whole room was decorated with balloons, there was a table with gifts, another one with food, and in the middle of the coffee table there was a cake made of... diapers?
"That's... Oh, my God! I can't believe you did all of this for us! Thank you, guys" Kurt said, overcome by emotions.
"You won't cry, right?" Mercedes asked.
"I'm not sure" Kurt said, blinking rapidly.
He noticed his father and Carole standing beside the couch awkwardly and stepped to them to greet them.
"It's good to see you" Kurt said as he put his arms around his father.
"You too, son" Burt replied. "Mercedes called us earlier this week and asked us to come for this... uhm... party. We didn't want to miss it out."
Kurt laughed. He knew his father had never been to a baby shower, he wasn't even sure Burt knew what a baby shower was. But he was glad to see him here with his friends.
"Blaine?"
Blaine, who was still standing at the front door, looked up in surprise.
"Mom!"
He ran to his mother and hugged her.
"And Cooper!" Cooper said from behind his mother. "Come here and hug me, Squirt."
"When will you stop calling me that?" Blaine shook his head.
"Never!" Cooper said happily.
They spent the next half an hour greeting everyone and chatting. Mercedes and Rachel disappeared in the nursery a few times and when they finally came back, they smiled mischievously.
"Alright, guys, it's time for the first game" Rachel said.
"Game?" Kurt asked with wide eyes.
"Of course" Mercedes replied. "You didn't think we would just give you your presents so easily, right?"
"Dear God..." Blaine muttered.
"As future parents, you need to learn how to take care of a baby" Rachel said and hold up a doll, pressing it into Kurt's hands. "You need to change the diaper and then the clothes. Here are the supplies."
Kurt looked at Blaine and laughed seeing the other man's shocked face.
"Come on, Blaine, we can do this" he said and kneeled down to the small table.
"They are all watching us" Blaine whispered.
"Yeah. I think they can't wait for the opportunity to laugh" Kurt smiled.
He grabbed the doll, pulled up its skirt and undo the straps of the diaper.
"What the hell is this?" Blaine asked in surprise when he saw the content of the diaper.
"Mustard" Mercedes answered, her whole body shaking from laughing.
"You're insane" Blaine muttered.
"Here. Use the wipes" Rachel helped them.
Kurt took the wipes from Rachel and started cleaning the doll, looking at Blaine from the corner of his eyes.
"Blaine, give him the diaper" Mercedes said.
Blaine grabbed the diaper and held up, turning it around in his hands. He didn't know what to do with it. Of course, he knew they had to put it on the doll somehow but he didn't know how.
"Give it to me" Kurt said and took the diaper from Blaine. He needed a few minutes to figure out how to use it but in the end, he held up the doll triumphantly.
"Well done!" Rachel said. "Now let's change its clothes."
Taking off the old clothes was difficult. Kurt held the doll in his hands and Blaine tried to free it from its clothes, much to their friends amusement.
"It's a baby" Cooper said. "You can't just rip off its clothes. Be gentle."
"Do you want to try?" Blaine asked as he finally pulled the onesie through the doll's head.
"Nah, you're doing well" Burt said from where he was standing beside Carole, watching the boys, smiling.
"Ready" Kurt sighed when they finished changing clothes on the doll and dropped it onto the table.
"Well, apart from the injuries you caused it during the progress, you did it well" Rachel said.
"But you still have some things to do if you want your presents" Mercedes said.
Kurt and Blaine looked at each other with wide eyes.
~ o ~
Luckily, most of the other games weren't meant just for them. Mercedes and Rachel asked the other guests to take part of them and they really had a good time. They tasted baby food and had to guess what they had eaten, they had to identify baby supplies just touching them and the girls prepared weird meals, like Kurt's favourite peanut butter-mayonnaise sandwich, and the guests had to figure out which two of them were what Kurt liked to eat. They laughed so much that Kurt's cheeks ached but it was a great afternoon, it made him forget the dark side of his pregnancy completely. Mercedes and Rachel organized the perfect baby shower.
When they finished the games, it was time for the presents. They got a lot of baby supplies like diapers, wipes, some more clothes, and there were creative gifts like the diaper cake that looked exactly like a wedding cake, from Mercedes, or a 'bouquet' with it's flowers made of onesies and washclothes, from Rachel. Burt and Carole had bought them – mostly for Elyse – a bouncy seat, Pam and Cooper a baby swing, and they got a stylish diaper bag from Isabelle, much to Kurt's delight.
And then there was the cake, the real one. Kurt didn't know from where Mercedes and Rachel had ordered it but it was so delicious, he ate two slices of it and as the baby kept kicking him from the inside happily, he knew he would have some more.
Blaine waited for Kurt to be occupied by the guests and when he saw the opportunity, he stepped to Burt. There was something important he needed to talk about with him and this day seemed perfect for that.
"Burt, can I talk to you for a second?" he asked quietly, checking if Kurt saw them.
"Of course" Burt said.
"Uhm, privately, please" Blaine said, biting his lower lip nervously.
"Sure" Burt nodded and followed Blaine into the bedroom.
Blaine shut and locked the door behind them. He had to make sure Kurt didn't know about what he was going to talk about with his father. Not now. It had to be a surprise, if Burt would agree, of course.
"Okay, Anderson, what do you want to talk about?" Burt asked.
Blaine took a deep breath and went through his speech in his mind. He knew there was a chance that Burt wouldn't be happy with it, but he had to try.
"Burt, I have to tell you that I love Kurt" he started.
"I figured out" the older man said.
"Yes, of course" Blaine said, blushing. "Uhm... I've been thinking about this for a while. I want to spend the rest of my life with Kurt and I want our daughter to grow up in a family. I know I made mistakes in the past but I learnt from them. I'm ready to take the next step."
"What do you mean?" Burt asked in confusion.
Blaine took another deep breath and stepped closer to Burt, looking straight into his eyes.
"I would like your permission to ask Kurt to marry me."