"Alright" Kurt said after he and the man had sat down, "so, I know this is probably weird, but you seemed to need someone to either listen or just talk to you, or someone to listen to. So… would you like to talk about what has happened, or do you just want to talk about random things, or just listen to me rambling?" Kurt asked, smiling sweetly at the man.
The man looked down at the coffee in his hands, not lifting his gaze even the slightest. It hurt a little to see someone like this, it hurt not really knowing what to do to help. He was slightly faced by how calm he felt around this guy, not even needing to concentrate on getting his words out correctly or anything at all, he just wanted to make sure this man felt comfortable too.
"I… I don't know" the man half whispered.
"Okay, that's okay. Do you want me to tell you about myself, so you at least know who you're having coffee with?" Kurt asked looking slightly hopeful at the man.
"That would be nice" the man answered, a small smile forming on his lips but still looking down at his coffee.
"Well... My name is Kurt, I'm from Lima Ohio, and I went to McKinley High in the glorious high school days" Kurt said the las part with a sarcastic tone in his voice, it made the other man chuckle a little which Kurt thought was absolutely adorable.
"I won't lie, it was hell, being the only out gay kid isn't exactly easy in a place such as Ohio, so every day I had to listen to people shouting slurs at me, I got thrown into dumpsters and against lockers, and I always had to bring two or three extra sets of clothes with me to school, just in case they wanted to have fun with slushies. There was one person who was especially horrible though" Kurt told the man who frowned at him, and Kurt could feel the tell-tale prickle of tears starting to form, but he quickly blinked them away, "Uhm, that would be a story for another time though" he added and cleared his throat.
"But! No matter how hard it could get, I had a dream of getting out there, and end up in this beautiful city, and I did, I'm here now, and sure, my high school years left wounds that are still healing, and no, I'm not completely over it all, for example, I'm sort of scared of speaking to strangers outside of this shop, since I started to stutter a bit after it all, but in here I feel safe. So, I always try and do what I can to make other people smile" Kurt said, looking earnestly into the other mans eyes, who returned the look with a smile.
"I've never chosen to offer someone to talk though, but you looked like you needed it" Kurt said, "now, you don't have to tell me what has happened, but will you tell me about yourself maybe?" Kurt asked him, tilting his head slightly to the side. The man nodded and looked up into Kurt's eyes as he started.
"Uhm, okay." He said as he released a breath a little shakily, "my name is Blaine, I'm from Ohio too, Columbus to be more exact. I used to go to public school, but some things happened, so I transferred to Dalton academy", "Oh, a prep school boy huh?" Kurt asked teasingly, making the Blaine laugh lightly, "Yeah, well, I ended up in their glee club, The Warblers, we actually almost made it to competition in New York" Blaine said proudly.
"I was in glee club too, people treated us like shit, excuse my French, but it was fun, we made it to New York though, our name was the New Directions, please ignore what it sounds like" Kurt said with a chuckle, people had made fun of their name way too much by now.
He smiled at Blaine who now looked deep in thought, and suddenly he realized something.
"Wait, we competed against a group of prep school boys, an acapella group, they had this lead singer with a literal gel helmet… Wait was that you?" Kurt asked, his voice going higher, he'd had a ridiculous crush on that lead singer.
"It could be, I remember the name New Directions, though from the members of the group, I only remember this small brunette girl with a voice that almost seemed too big for her, and this tall, pale cute guy with really tight pants" Blaine said the last part a little dreamily without knowing who he had just described, Kurt blushed fiercely and looked down, hoping Blaine wouldn't notice, "I think they did an original song once" Blaine said thoughtfully.
Kurt couldn't help his huge grin. Here he was, sitting in New York, in a gorgeous coffee shop, having coffee with a gorgeous man who is apparently that handsome charming Warbler he used to fanboy over, and who never really left his mind completely. And he remembered him. He didn't seem to know he remembered him though.
Kurt smiled at him, "well this is weird, what are the odds? You guys were amazing" He said to Blaine who just smiled sweetly back at him, and, was that a blush on his cheeks?
"Thank you, you guys were really good too" Blaine said and then went quiet, looking like he was remembering something.
Suddenly his hands flew to cover his mouth, eyes wide he muttered an 'oh my gosh'.
Kurt couldn't help but laugh at how adorable it was.
"It was you wasn't it?" Blaine asked from behind his hands, "I just described you, didn't I?" He added.
"Well, I did have the tightest pants of all the boys in glee club, probably out of all the boys in the school too" Kurt said to him, trying to seem calm but internally squealing out of happiness because a cute guy had just called him cute.
"Oh god… Please ignore me" Blaine said, face going burning red, smacking his hands to his face to hide, and Kurt just couldn't help but laugh at him.
"I'm quite flattered from the fact that you accidentally called me cute, that haven't happened before" Kurt said once again trying to seem calm about the whole thing, but not being able to fight the blush anyway.
"Maybe I should just admit that I did find the lead singer of the warblers cute too" He added, smiling sweetly at the man across from him, hoping to calm him down a little.
Blaine looked up at him, seeming unsure of what to do.
"So what did you do after you left the beautiful walls of Dalton?" Kurt asked to change the subject.
"I left immediately for NYU" Blaine said, "Wait, the beautiful walls of Dalton? Have you been there?" Blaine asked.
"I uh… My glee club sent me there to spy once" Kurt said a little nervously, "I didn't tell the New Directions anything else than, that you guys were really good though, giving out information just wouldn't be right" He added, looking up at Blaine to find him smiling at him.
"Well… I wish we had met then" Blaine said shyly, not being able to hide the cute genuine smile gracing his lips.
Kurt couldn't help the butterflies he felt, and the victory feeling of having made Blaine smile, and hopefully getting the possibility to keep doing so. Or is that weird to hope for? Maybe? Nah…
"Me too".
Coffees forgotten, they continued to talk, and eventually agreed to meet up again soon.