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Hunter made his way to the music room, he knew that it was Blaine's go-to place when he got stressed.
Blaine and Sebastian had been Hunter's friends for as long as he could remember. Blaine's father had become a partner in one of the tech companies that is part of the Clarington group and worked with his father until the accident that killed him and his aunt happened. Sebastian they'd both known from kindergarten and even though they had spent time apart over the years they'd always kept in touch.
All three fell out from time to time, but nothing feeling this serious. If this was someone other than Kurt then things would be totally different.
The thought crossed his mind at how different things would be if Blaine and Sebastian had met Kurt when they were younger, but he had only spent time with Kurt without them being allowed. When Kurt came to stay they either went away on family holidays and then after the accident it was because it was Grandma's time to spend with her Grandsons.
Hunter could hear Blaine playing the piano as he slowly tapped on the door.
Blaine's fingers stilled as he turned and saw Hunter in the doorway, "If you've just come here to bitch at me about who my friends are, I don't want to hear it."
"Blaine, look, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said those things to you, I was angry. Kurt, Grandma and Uncle Burt is all the family I've got and you know Kurt's story. I saw what it looked like with Sebastian and Luke, so instinct took over and I wanted to protect Kurt."
"I understand that, I really do, but you know me and you know Sebastian. While you and I both know what a bastard he is at times, I thought we both could see how different he is with Kurt. And do you really think he'd go there with that piece of crap again when he was finally getting a shot with Kurt?"
"He loved Luke and for a bit I thought that maybe that creep talked him around like he did in the past. Or don't you remember the times we tried to tell him Luke was seeing other people?"
"Of course I remember, but I also remember how broken he was when he found out the truth. And don't forget how many times we had to pick him up after he got drunk and decided the best way to get over it was to whore himself out. Sebastian was never going to go back there again and you should have known that."
"It's hard to remember when someone you love is crying and convinced that they've been used in some sort game, then you show up with only one goal and that was to help Sebastian and please don't say you didn't."
"I'm not a liar, I was there to help Sebastian but only after tearing into him myself in Kurt's defence. He was desperate Hunter. I've never seen him so panicked as when he thought he'd blew it with Kurt. I understand how you feel protective of Kurt after everything, so I forgive you." Blaine and Hunter pulled one another into a hug, "Now we got pass all this nonsense, tell me Kurt went to speak to Sebastian."
"You damn well know he did. You knew exactly how to get him there. And they say Sebastian's the devious one."
Both boys laughed and headed out of the room, "You know this means they're going to get together now."
Hunter rolled his eyes, "Yeah, you realize they are going team up on us now don't you?"
"MY EYEEESSS," Hunter covered his face with his hands, "Can't you use Sebastian's room?"
Kurt and Sebastian looked up from where they were laying on Kurt's bed, "Merry, we were only kissing."
"Yeah if we were fucking we'd have no pants on. See pants still on." Sebastian gestured to his pants.
" I'll make sure to mention you in your room with Sebastian alone and the favor you did me of keeping your pants on to Uncle Burt later. It's been a week, how the hell does Blaine put up with this?"
" It helps that one; Blaine's not related to either one of us and two; he's gay, we're hot and I think he's hoping we'd let him watch or forget he's there. Either way he'd get to watch." Sebastian started to laugh at the look of horror on Hunter's face.
"Sebastian don't tease him," Kurt started to giggle, "Stop making it sound like you're getting more than you are."
"Ha take that string-bean, you ain't getting any." Hunter dived on Sebastian.
Kurt moved off the bed and put on his jacket, "When you two children have finished play fighting," Kurt pointed at Hunter, "We've got to hit the road for Lima."
"Ahh Princess don't go. How can you leave by myself allllll weekend?" Sebastian dropped to his knees in front of Kurt.
"Get up idiot, you're not on your own, Blaine's still here for you to annoy and I'm sure you can talk Simon, Thad, Jeff and Nick into doing something stupid with you."
Sebastian attempted to pull a sad face to guilt Kurt into staying, "Yeah but the things I want to do, I only want to do with you and Jeff takes it badly when I grab his ass."
"Please, you need to take lessons from Blaine to prefect that puppy dog face and there will be no ass grabbing, understand?"
"Hmmm possessive, I like it." Sebastian tugged on Kurt's tie, pulling him close enough to kiss.
"Come on guys, not again. Sebastian put him down. It's bad enough he'll most probably be texting you all weekend or talking about you, I don't need visuals burned into my brain to remind me." Hunter grabbed their bags and headed for the door, "When you both come up for air, I'll be waiting in the car."
Kurt pulled away from Sebastian, "I better go. I'll see you Sunday night."
Kurt headed towards the door, "I'll walk you down. Don't worry everything will be fine. You'll tell your steps and they'll be surprised, but they will be fine with it."
"I know Carole and Finn are good people."
"Good now go nag Hunter about his bad driving and the state of his car. I'll go try to keep out of trouble and you call me to let me know that I was right and you had nothing to worry about." Sebastian pressed one last kiss to Kurt's lips and opened the car door for him.
"You do know I'll never admit that you're right, right?"
"Of course I do, doesn't mean it's not true and I'll still say I told you so. Right, you need to go and I need to go see if Jeff wants to play mad professor in the chem lab."
"Please don't burn the school down, I'm starting to like it here."
"Not making any promises. Bye Princess." Sebastian closed the car door.
Hunter pulled into the Hummel driveway. He'd only been to the new house once or twice since Uncle Burt had remarried. Even though he'd been invited to the wedding, he hadn't gone due to a school trip he'd already committed to.
He had wondered from time to time if Carole was anything like Aunt Lizzie, but was afraid to ask Kurt for fear of upsetting him by talking about his Mom.
Any fears he had about Carole disappeared when the woman threw the front door open and ran over and enveloped Kurt in a hug. She was nothing like Aunt Lizzie. Carole bore no resemblance to Aunt Lizzie at all.
"Let me look at you sweet-pea, have you lost weight? Is that school not feeding you properly? We'll do some baking before you go back, make sure you got something nice to keep in your room to snack on." Carole beamed at Kurt.
"I've missed you too and the school is fine and no I'm the same weight as when I left so you don't need to worry but I'll take some of those cookies you make back anyway."
"So you don't want my brownies then?" Carole started to laugh and then Hunter standing there caught her eye, "Hello, who've we got here then, Kurt?"
"Oh I 'm sorry Carole, I'm being rude," Kurt turned to make the introductions, "Carole this is Hunter, my room-mate and my cousin." Kurt held his breath and waited for a reaction.
Carole's head spun back towards Kurt, "Cousin? Have I missed something?"
Hunter could see Kurt start to panic and stepped in, "Surprise, I guess we should explain what's going on. May I suggest we go inside and chat over coffee?" Hunter lookedbetween the two as they both nodded.
They made their way to the kitchen and Carole poured them coffee and placed a plate of cookies in front of them, "Okay, Burt will be home after work and Finn after Glee practice so we have plenty of time, spill."
Kurt swallowed a lump in his throat and started to explain everything to Carole, throwing in apologies as he went. He pointed out that the decision to keep her and Finn in the dark was his and that his Dad was caught in the middle but he'd never liked keeping things from her.
"I'll talk to your father about those things later, sweetie and I do understand your logic. You're right, as much as Finn would promise to keep it to himself, he would slip by accident. But you know you could trust me with it Kurt, don't you?" Kurt saw the hurt look in her eyes.
"I do trust you Carole, I really do, but I wasn't going to ask you to keep secrets from your son." Kurt took her hand in his.
"That's the only reason?"
"Yes the only reason. I love you Carole, you're the best thing to happen to me and my Dad for a long time."
"Okay then, we're good, make sure you invite your Grandma over for dinner some time. I guess we should get to know each other if we're going to be spending holidays together from now on." Kurt couldn't help the huge smile that spread across his face.
Finn pulled into the driveway noticing the unfamiliar car already parked there, he felt disappointed as he was expecting to see Kurt's car there.
"MOM, MOM." Finn started yelling as he walked through the door, "WHO'S CAR IS THAT AND WHERE'S KURT? HE HASN'T CANCELLED HAS HE? MOM, MOM."
As Finn walked through the hallway sticking his head into the living room, and then the kitchen, finding no one, he started yelling again, "MOM, I'M HOME. WHERE IS EVERYONE. MOM."
"Finnegan Christopher Hudson will you stop with all the shouting? I think that the whole neighbour hood might've figured out Carole's not here by now."
Finn turned around and saw Kurt by the bottom of the stairs smiling at him, "Hey man, you're home. I didn't see your car or did you get a new one? Is that your Mustang? Burt's not going to like you got rid of the Nav." Finn lifted Kurt into a bear hug.
"C- c- can't breathe, Finn."
Finn dropped Kurt back to the floor, "Sorry bro, I missed you."
Kurt smiled, "I missed you and that's not my car by the way. I left the Nav at school."
"Someone lend you the Stang? Please let me drive it before you go back? I've got to tell the guys."
"Finn calm down. No one lent me the car and no, you can't drive it and if you wait a few minutes before you go call everyone you know, I want you to meet someone first, okay?"
Finn got a look of confusion on his face as he processed the information and then reacted as if he figured it all out, "Man you brought a boyfriend home, Puck said it was a gay school but I thought he was joking."
Kurt rolled his eyes, "No I haven't brought a boyfriend home and Dalton isn't a gay school, tell Puckerman if he keeps saying that I'll shave his hawk off."
Kurt took Finn up to his room and introduced him to Hunter. Kurt slowly explained everything to him as Finn listened.
"So you're filthy rich, like you've got more money than Burt? And you and this dude are cousins and share all that money?"
Kurt could see Finn slowly working it all out. "Yes, that's right Finn, have you got any questions?"
Finn looked down to the floor and mumbled, "You could have told me, I wouldn't have told anyone."
Kurt felt guilty, "I'm sorry Finn, but you know what it was like for me at McKinley, they already thought that I thought I was better than them. If they knew about the money it would have been ten times worse. And not just for me, they would have started in on you too and I couldn't let that happen. So it was safer to keep quiet."
"So why tell me now if you didn't think I'd tell?"
"Right, I'm going to be honest with you, so hear me out okay?" Finn nodded, "You may have not told anyone on purpose, but you could have slipped, say to Rachel. While telling your girlfriend isn't a bad thing, but if someone overheard, like Jacob, who you know stalks Rachel, it would have been around the school within minutes, you get what I mean?" Kurt hoped Finn got it.
Finn thought for a few minutes about everything he'd heard, "Okay."
Hunter looked at Finn and then at Kurt, "Is that it? Just okay?
Kurt patted Hunter on the back, "Yes, that's it , okay."
The three boys started chatting and, when Hunter and Finn started talking sports, Kurt made a call to Sebastian as promise
"Hey Princess, How's it going?"
"It went very well actual, just like I thought it would."
"Like You thought...really now 'cause I remember it differently."
"Well it doesn't matter who thought what in the end, as long as it turned out for the best."
"Yeah okay, we'll talk about who thought what when you get back. So what are you and Hunter going to do with yourselves for the weekend? Just so you know me and Blaine are shipping in a group of hot strippers to keep us entertained."
"As long as they're women we won't have a problem. As for our plans, not too sure yet."Sebastian heard some muffled talking in the background, "Oh, sounds like myself and Hunter have shopping with my girls tomorrow, followed by a party at Satan's."
"Party? What, a girly sleepover party?"
"No, as in all of the New Directions."
"Will there be drinking and hot boys there?"
"Sebastian, don't you trust me?"
"I trust you, it's that Satan girl. She seemed keen on getting you laid last time we saw her."
"Emm you might be right, I wonder who she could be setting me up with?" Kurt started to tease Sebastian.
"Not funny Princess. You just remember what's waiting here for you. I'm going, have a good time and I'll see you and Hunter when you get back."
"Okay, bye." Kurt cursed himself for not telling Sebastian he missed him.
Sebastian put his phone back in his pocket and turned to Blaine, "Blaine, call the guys who stayed for the weekend and find us a Motel. We're crashing a party tomorrow in Lima"
Blaine started laughing as Sebastian pulled his phone back out and made a call, "Satan,...Yeah, that's right, it's hottie... The reason I called, right I just heard you're having a little soiree tomorrow night...It means party... Cool, was wondering if me and a few friends could drop by?...Good, text me the address and we'll see you tomorrow night...Yeah we'll bring booze...Bye."
Blaine just shook his head, "Kurt is going to kill you."
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