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"Do you wanna hang out tonight?" Blaine asked as he and Kurt walked out of the Lima Bean after school.
"I would, but I can't, sleepover with the girls" he smiled apologetically "haven't seen them in forever." Blaine nodded
"Fine. But you owe me one sleepover, sir!" he said and hugged Kurt briefly before turning towards his own car, effectively missing Kurt's blush.
Blaine settled down to a truly uninteresting night of movies and popcorn, awaiting his roommates return. He fell asleep around 1:00 and woke the next morning to his phone blaring in his ear. He peered at the screen before answering
"Kurt?" he asked, clearing his throat
"No. But we need to talk, hobbit, stat." Blaine sat up
"Santana?" he asked "why do you have Kurt's phone…and why are you calling me at 7:00"
"Because, as I stated before. We. Need. To. Talk." She separated each word carefully "meet met at the Lima Bean in 20." And hung up.
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Blaine walked into the Lima Bean and saw Santana occupying a table near the back.
"You needed to talk to me?"
"Yes." She glared at him "Listen. Kurt's my boy, whether you believe it or not. He helped me out a lot with my gayness, and I've got his back." Blaine nodded slowly
"I'm sorry, am I in trouble or something? I'm now following."
"Kurt says he's made plenty of new friends."
"Which he has."
"He says he's not being bullied."
"Which he's not."
"Then explain to me why he spent half the night in tears."
"What?" Santana raised an eyebrow
"Clueless, clueless little man." She shook her head "I'm going to let you listen to something, and Kurt's probably going to shove his bedazzler up my ass for it, but trust me, you both need this." Blaine frowned, he had no clue what was going on, but before he could protest, a phone was being shoved into his hand and held up to his ear.
"Well, what about Blaine?" a girl asked, probably Brittany
"Yeah, boo, he's a good friend." Kurt laughed
"I know he is, but he's the only one, really…" Kurt sighed "it's a new school, so of course it's going to be kind of hard, but everyone's really great."
"Got a boyfriend?" a girl, Mercedes, Blaine guessed, asked suggestively, Kurt laughed, but it sounded wrong, not his usual happy laugh
"Please, don't even."
"What? You could definitely have gotten a boyfriend by now."
"Mercedes, please." Kurt sounded desperate
"Boo, what's wrong?" there was a tiny sniffle and Blaine's chest tightened
"Don't pretend like I'm good enough to get anyone."
"What are you talking about? Of course you are." Brittany chimed in
"No, I'm not." Another sniffle "I'm not interesting or have any real talents, aside from my clothes, I'm boring, and I have the sex appeal of a baby penguin." Blaine might have laughed at the penguin part, but the way Kurt's voice broke put all traces of humor out of Blaine's mind.
"Who told you you weren't sexy?" Santana asked, there was a pause
"Blaine." There was so much emotion in that one word, that one name, like everything Kurt had ever been disappointed about just piled up and came out in that one syllable. Blaine's heart broke into a million pieces.
"Honey, you're plenty sexy,"
"Blaine doesn't think so."
"Baby, I know it seems like his opinion is the only one that matters," woah, what? "But believe us, you're sexy, and if he doesn't realize that then you can just drop him right now."
"I can't though." Kurt said softly "You guys don't understand. I care too much about everything he says. I mean, I've thought he was interested before, he flirts a lot…but then goes and says things like that, or points out what a great friend I am, and I just can't take it." He takes a shaky breath "I don't want to let him know that I'm upset, it would make him feel like a bad mentor. Sometimes I just wait for him to leave the dorm so I can just cry out all my frustration." Blaine took the phone away from his ear and handed it back to Santana so quickly it almost gave her whiplash. She raised an eyebrow at him
"I…I didn't know…" he said weakly
"Now you do." She said "it's not that Kurt feels he can't get you. He thinks he's not good enough for anyone", and flipped her ponytail, stood from the table and left, leaving Blaine alone and confused.
oOo
"Is something wrong?" Kurt asks warily as he's sitting on his bed, reading a book. Blaine looks over
"No." he says quickly
"Really?" he asked "because you wouldn't look me in the eye all night and you've barely said a word to me." That's because if I do, I'm pretty sure I'll cry. Blaine thought, biting his lip. How could Kurt honestly think he was that undesirable? Forget Blaine, Kurt could get any guy he wanted. Blaine's the one who should be worrying. Kurt was talented and sweet and hilariously snarky and beautiful…and yeah, Blaine was an idiot.
"I just…" and to his embarrassment, his voice cracked, in a flash, Kurt's book was out of his hands and he was sitting in front of Blaine.
"Hey…what's wrong?" he asked, trying to take Blaine's hand, but Blaine moved it out of the way.
"You are." He said, finally looking up at Kurt "about what you said, you're so, so wrong." Kurt frowned
"What are you talking about?"
"Don't kill her…but Santana recorded what you said last night and showed it to me, Kurt, it broke my heart." Kurt went pale as a sheet
"Oh my god." He said, "oh my god I can't believe this."
"No! Kurt, please, everything you said was wrong, how could you think that?"
"Because I've basically been throwing myself at you and you've hardly noticed!" Kurt shouted
"Because I'm an idiot!" Blaine yelled back
"What?"
"I'm and idiot, Kurt, if you haven't noticed, that thing with Jeremiah? Stupid. Me saying you're not sexy? The most idiotic thing I've ever said in my life." He looked Kurt in the eyes "I'm kind of oblivious, and unless you'd stood in front of me and shouted your feelings, I never would have guessed that someone as amazing as you would even be slightly interested in me." Kurt sat, mouth slightly open
"What are you saying?"
"That sometimes, I don't figure things out until the very end. Like how I like you. A lot." Kurt blushed
"You don't have to-"
"I'm not saying it because you want me to. I'm saying it because it's true." Kurt chuckled
"In that case…I like you too." He took Blaine's hand "a lot."