Summary: Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson, Rachel Berry, Nick Duvall, Jeff Sterling, and Elliott Gilbert make up Pamela Lansbury, a rock/pop band that hit it big after their first single was featured on popular tv-show Sing. A little over two years later the band is still dealing with the pressures of fame, their differing dreams, their fans, "shippers", and finding love.

Author's note: The one you've been waiting for...

Also to that guest that left a review to the last chapter, you flatter me. Thank you.

Chapter Sixteen

Nick spent the last few hours they had in Ohio hanging out with his two sisters. They were both a few years younger and Nick often thought it was a little flattering how much they liked Pamela Lansbury.

It was nice to be back at home and to see his family. He saw them a lot during the year when they visited him in New York or when he flew out to see them in Ohio, but it was never really enough. It always surprised him how much his sisters had grown.

In a way, it was also calming to him to be around them for a while instead of all the crew and the other boys in the band. Easier.

He felt relieved to have told Jeff everything on their drive from Columbus to Westerville. Well, he hadn't told him everything, just enough about how he'd hooked up with Sebastian and let Sebastian instruct him in the way of a blowjob.

It hadn't gone past that. Nick respected Sebastian for it, for how not pushy he'd been. Despite how drunk the two of them had been, Nick could admit to how consensual the entire thing had been and how conscientious Sebastian had been to Nick's state of mind. He'd wanted more, obviously, but when Nick finally realized his first time with another guy full on couldn't be some hook up with Sebastian of all people, well, he'd taken it well. He'd made a joke.

"Very thoughtful, you are," Kathy, one of his sisters, said, "are you writing a new song maybe? We, um, we saw that video that fan took of Kurt and Blaine. Are they together finally?"

"Not writing, no, most of the album is already written. They're not actually together, Kath, you know that."

She fixed him with a look. "Bound to happen though, right?"

Nick couldn't help but nod. He didn't want to be in either Kurt or Blaine's shoes at the moment. They were standing on a cliff. To pretend to be together or to tell the truth and say they weren't even though it was inevitable that they would be together. He knew David had to see the PR issues that would come from that and yet bringing it up to both of them felt a little like pushing them when already all of that was up in the air. Nick wanted to lock them in a room and have them hash it all out.

"Meli and I think they'd be cute together," she said, "lots of people do."

Nick smiled and nodded and then dragged her closer, kissing her forehead. "Secretly, I think everyone else in the band thinks so too."

She laughed and squirmed away.

He spent the next few hours watching tv with her until he got a call from Dani to tell him that the car was on his way to pick him up because Jeff had already taken the rental back to the hotel that morning.

He hugged his mom and dad and then his sisters by the door before he left, feeling a little bit like he really didn't want to get back to what the real world might entail.

He spent the entirety of the ride back to Columbus and the bus on his phone looking through his twitter. People were still talking about Kurt and Blaine and the song. There was a link that kept being tweeted at all of them and when he clicked it, it led him to a webpage that seemed to have been set up for the sole purpose of getting people to support the idea that the band should perform the new currently unnamed song.

Nick felt like maybe it'd be something to give to the fans for all of their support.

He retweeted one of the tweets and got off twitter to check his messages.

He had a few nonsense ones from Jeff about a hat and another about coffee. Kurt had sent him a picture of Elliott with some sort of face mask on. But it was Blaine that had sent him a long text.

Blaine: What am I supposed to do? I mean, I wouldn't be able to handle pretending with Kurt when being with him is all I want and I feel like I'm getting mixed feelings from him. I mean, I just, I don't know. But we've always said we never wanted to lie to our fans so telling them we're not together, that's the truth. We can't do things like this because we're being forced. Ugh. What should I do? What do you think Kurt will want to do? I mean what if we…what if something changes and Kurt like feels the same, then what? Then we have to take back the truth that we weren't together and things will just be really hard for us then because of course they'd think we were lying the first time. And, then, what if they think that Wes or the label is trying to keep us from being together or something and that's not the case. I just, what would you do Nick?

Nick didn't know how to respond so he moved on from the message to others. There were a few from friends from New York and he responded to them quickly before moving on and responding to others that he'd ignored because he'd been so busy with the tour that he hadn't had a chance.

When he arrived at Columbus, the car left him out in front of the bus. He thanked the driver and met with Dani who was standing by the bus with Cassie.

"The others are already here," she told him, "we've been waiting on you."

"Oh," Nick said, "should have sent the car out to me earlier, then."

Dani laughed and wrapped an arm around his shoulders. "We're not leaving for a bit longer. There's been a bit of a mess with the other bus so they're having it checked out before we head out."

"Wonderful," Nick said, "so how are Kurt and Blaine?"

"I don't know," she said, "but it was Santana's idea, you know, to give them that sort of ultimatum thing. She says it'll get them to actually admit their feelings."

Nick almost laughed. He almost should have expected as much because if it did go well, then things might actually turn out the way that Santana wanted them to.

"Do you think that will work?"

"Who knows," Dani said and rolled her eyes.

They left for Chicago at sunset and Kurt found himself with Jeff and Elliott at the front of the bus playing a game of UNO. Despite trying his hardest, it was difficult to avoid thinking about what they would tell Wes and David in the next few days. The question of what they might tell the public had changed everything. Suddenly Kurt didn't know if he could admit to his feelings, not more than he had already.

All the consequences, everything that might go wrong was back right at the forefront of his mind and he couldn't ignore it.

"Uno," Jeff said and smirked.

Kurt glanced over at his cards and sure enough he seemed to be holding a lone card.

"We'll see about that," Elliott said.

Kurt went after Jeff and he placed a five down. When Elliott went he grinned at Jeff and put down a "draw four" card. Jeff let out a loud groan and pulled out his phone, taking a picture of the tile. Kurt saw him tweet it and was notified that he'd been tagged, so he responded in a quick tweet of his own.

On twitter most of the fans were talking about him and Blaine and the song. He saw one ask for the title. Another noted on how sad the song actually was. Most of them were discussing if Kurt and Blaine were together. It would be easy in a way to say that they were and to just keep going the way they were and yet the whole idea of a charade was stupid, especially when it didn't need to be one. Blaine had written the song about him. Had probably written all of his songs about him if Elliott was to be believed.

"Your turn, Kurt," Elliott said.

"Oh," Kurt said and looked down at the pile, picking a card out of the bunch he held in his hand and changing the color to green.

Elliott put down a skip card that made Jeff groan and it was Kurt's turn again. He put down another card and his eyes strayed towards the back of the bus. Blaine was probably in his bunk writing or on his computer or reading.

"Do you want to go talk to Blaine?" Elliott asked, ever the one to notice him.

"No," Kurt said, "no, I'll talk to him later."

They kept the game going. Jeff won, so he danced around on the bus even though they weren't supposed to move around it too much while it was moving, and then he tweeted out his victory.

"Pout for me, boys," he said and Kurt and Elliott went with it, letting him take a picture of the two of them.

JeffSterling: I was winning but alas a pick up four Starchild KurtEHummel #PLbusshenanigans

KurtEHummel: clearly I am more skilled at UNO than JeffSterling and Starchild #onthebus #passingthetime

Starchild: JeffSterling is a sore winner #onthePLtourbus

JeffSterling: The pouting losers KurtEHummel Scarchild [pic link] #IloveUno

Kurt told him they needed to talk in passing when they stopped for dinner, but somehow with everything else they needed to do, they didn't manage to find any time alone.

From the moment they got to Chicago they were checked into a hotel and then Dani and Santana were taking them to an interview that Blaine didn't even know they were doing.

"Promise," Santana said while he was getting his hair styled, "no questions about you and Kurt."

Then they were sitting in front of a large poster from their last album and sitting across from two interviewers and the interview was going well enough until one of them asked about the song.

"Aside from the video taken by that fan and uploaded to the internet no one really knows anything about your new song. Care to tell us something about it?"

"A title maybe."

They seemed to be expecting for Blaine to answer and as the person that had written the song, he knew he had to. "Well," he said, "I wrote it not too long ago. The night the video was taken was the first time we were playing it for our managers, actually, to see if we could get it on the album. Most of the songs for the album are already settled on but this was something I wrote after those decisions were made."

"So it's really new, then."

Blaine nodded. "Yeah, it is," he said, "and a title is still in the works."

"The reaction to it has been amazing," Elliott added, "we didn't even know that it was out there until the night after they put it up and it's crazy to think of how fast it's spread."

"And now it's bound to be on the album, right?" the interviewer asked.

"We think so," Kurt said, "it's hard to tell sometimes but it would be a shame to not release it officially."

After that, they all went out to dinner and then it was so late that they were all ready to just go to bed.

Before falling asleep, he texted Kurt.

Blaine: We can talk tomorrow morning. Good night.

He fell asleep before getting a response.

The next morning he woke up to a call from Wes. After a quick good morning, Wes who had flown back to New York with David, jumped straight to business.

"Someone asked your brother about you and Kurt and because he's Cooper he said something stupid that could have been taken a bit homophobic. David is dealing with it, but just don't respond to anything on twitter to do with your brother."

Blaine groaned. "I hate Cooper," he said.

"David may just hate him more," Wes said, "and on another note, what have you and Kurt decided?"

"We haven't even had a chance to talk," Blaine said, "but, I don't know, I'd hate to lie to the fans. I just I want to do what might be easier for us in the future and I just don't know what that'd be."

"Let me know soon," Wes said, "we can't hold off on this for much longer."

"Sure," Blaine said.

He had every intention to talking to Kurt before the show but that morning Santana had dragged Kurt away because a friend of theirs from high school wanted to see them and he didn't get to see Kurt again until he arrived at the venue with Santana and then they were doing some sort of photo op for Rolling Stone and the fan meet and greets went in a blur of faces until they were doing sound check and getting ready to go on stage.

It was while they were waiting on the wings that Blaine knew how he'd tell Kurt what he wanted, but he didn't get a chance to tell the others before they were ushered on stage and they were hearing their fans cheering for them.

"As you all know," Kurt said into his mic, walking closer to the edge of the stage, "Blaine and Elliott are more of our song writers than the rest of us but often times Nick, Jeff, and I try to contribute and this is a song that Nick and I had a heavy hand in."

When the song came to an end, Kurt smiled and waved at the crowd. He was trying to read the signs they were holding up while he waited for Elliott to introduce the next song.

It was Blaine that spoke instead.

"A few nights ago," Blaine said, "a couple of fans took a video of Kurt and I singing a song to our friends and the amazing response that Something has gotten has astounded all of us. We didn't plan on performing this, but I think it's only right that we do. What do you think, Kurt?"

"Um," Kurt said, feeling like he'd been put on the spot. When he looked at Blaine, Blaine was smiling him in a reassuring fashion. Kurt almost lost himself to staring at Blaine. "Yes," he said at long last, "we can…yeah, we can sing it."

"Awesome," Blaine said.

Someone from backstage brought out a couple of stools. They were set with multiple feet between them, but Blaine moved his closer before sitting with his guitar on his knee.

Around them the crowd had gotten quieter in their anticipation and Kurt felt like his entire body was made up of nerves which didn't really make too much sense. Then, Blaine began to strum his guitar.

It was easy to sing the lyrics and lose himself to the song especially now that he knew Blaine had written it with him in mind. He could feel everything about it. The longing, and the wish for more and just everything about it and when he met Blaine's eyes for a split second every emotion was there. There was no way that Kurt could pretend to not feel anything for Blaine, not when he felt everything.

The cheers and clapping was deafening as the song came to an end and Kurt couldn't help the wide smile that covered his lips because suddenly he got it. Blaine didn't want to lie, but he didn't want to pretend either.

The next few songs went in blurs with Kurt only really noticing something when Blaine touched him or when Blaine was singing a particular line from a song with such intensity that Kurt knew it was meant for him.

The moment they were off the stage, Kurt reached for his hand and he pulled him away from everyone else until he found the nearest empty space which just happened to be a closet.

He pushed Blaine inside, crowding into him.

"Tell me it's not just me," Kurt said, "lately, that I'm not making it up in my head."

Blaine made a noise. Kurt smiled.

"It's not because of PR," Kurt said, "it'd be easier if that wasn't a thing but it is our reality and we're in a band and we're best friends and I know that this might be risky, but I love you."

"Kurt," Blaine gasped.

"I do," Kurt said, "if I could write as well as you, I'd write you a million songs. Singing Something with you, it just opened my eyes. I never want to hide how I feel or how I act or have to lie but it's all I've been doing lately or for a while so this is me saying let's not pretend because it wouldn't be a lie. Not on my part. And I've doubted this, whatever this might be for a long time because of circumstances and the band and just everything but the thing is, we really could be something."

Blaine stared him and then he laughed. Then, he kissed him.

Kurt gasped into the kiss, but he kissed him back just as quickly, his hands reaching up to cup Blaine's cheeks. His entire body was overcome with the feeling of "finally" and "at last" and his mind couldn't wrap around what was happening.

"For the record," Blaine said against his lips when he'd pulled back, "I love you too."

Then he leaned up for another kiss.

KurtEHummel: Best idea ever, BlaineAnderson. It's been the best night of my life. #PLtour #Something

BlaineAnderson: I do try KurtEHummel. #Something

Author's Note: Couple of things. 1. Nick told Jeff basically everything that happened in the flashbacks from the last chapter except for how Nick was sort of interested in Jeff...that he kept to himself.

2. They kissed!

So, the thing is back during chapter 13 things kind of went a little bit directly than I expected when they sang "Something" and the fans saw and took a video of it...but it worked to the same end. However, I actually had a whole thing where Kurt and Blaine were actually going to have a huge fight before Wes and David told them they had to figure out how to present themselves and they were going to go with denying anything between them. But then I felt like them doing something like that would be out of character. Either way they were going to get together in this chapter with the song.

I always intended for the first time they sang the whole song to be on stage and for them to get together right after in not on stage...but I think it definitely still worked this way and I'm actually quite happy with it.

Hope you guys enjoyed it as well.

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