A/N: Sorry for the long wait. I know this one is short, but I'll have the next chapter up this week. Enjoy
Most of the week went by easily. Blaine came to work with me each morning, cleaning the entire shop and redoing the inventory. I started to teach him a little about fixing cars, but he really didn't take to it the way Kurt had. He could fix something if I told him step by step what to do, or if he saw a diagram of it in a book. But he couldn't repeat what he just did without the instructions again. He just didn't have that inherent ability with cars.
Carol was off from work on Friday, so Blaine stayed home with her to help do things around the house. When I got home from work, Carol's car wasn't there, and Blaine wasn't home either. I guess they were still food shopping. The house looked noticeably cleaner than when I left in the morning, so I guess Blaine actually did some work today. I expected Carol to go easy on him.
An hour later, I heard Carol's car pull up outside, so I went out to help bring in the groceries. Grocery shopping for our family was a massive undertaking. Five people in one house aren't that unmanageable, but three of them are teenage boys. Kurt doesn't eat like a teenage boy, but Blaine and Finn make up for it. Blaine sulked into the house carrying a bunch of bags that he brought right to the table. He started to unpack them slowly as I brought the rest of the bags in for Carol. Before we went into the kitchen, I stopped her. Before I could say anything, she beat me to it. "I'll tell you all about the day later." She said, and then walked into the kitchen to help put the groceries away. Once that was finished, she started to make dinner. Blaine went up to his room, taking the stairs slowly, clearly exhausted. As I heard his door click shut, I walked into the kitchen to talk to Carol.
"Spill. What happened? I don't remember him ever being that quiet!" I said to her. She just laughed a little and continued preparing dinner. Finally she started to tell me about their day.
"We had a nice day. Blaine just got a taste of what it's like to have to take care of a house and a family. First we started with cleaning the house. That wasn't too bad, he thought it was too much work, but really, it was really only half the work with two people. We did everything but Finn's room. No crime is bad enough to subject someone to that kind of punishment. Then we did the laundry, dishes and other miscellaneous house work. Then we went grocery shopping. He kept trying to sneak junk food into the cart. What person needs ten boxes of pop tarts? I finally let him get a few things, but he has to leave them in the kitchen, not hoard them in his room. Did you know he hoarded junk food under his bed? I found a stash when I was collecting laundry last week. I seriously don't know how he stays so skinny. I asked him about it and he said he wasn't hiding it from us; he was hiding it from Finn and Kurt. If Finn knew about it, he would eat it himself. If Kurt knew about it, he would yell at Blaine about eating unhealthy food." Carol said with a laugh, before continuing. "After a day of hard labor acting as a house wife, Blaine finally said that there was no way he was going to be a stay at home dad, which apparently, Kurt and Blaine have already discussed. They have their whole future planned out. They are going to stay in New York after college, Kurt will star on Broadway and Blaine will stay at home with the kids! Once they grow up, he'll return to being a lawyer. I'm going to be a grandmother!" She finished excitedly, clapping her hands together.
"Carol, calm down. Yes, you'll get to be a grandmother, but not anytime soon. If Finn and Rachel were talking about kids, I'd be very worried. But Kurt and Blaine talking about it doesn't mean anything is going to happen anytime soon. They may be trying very hard, but they can't actually get pregnant. It's going to be a long process for them. Don't get so excited over the prospect of grandchildren. That won't happen for a while. Please, stop bouncing around. And you better not start knitting baby things!" I shouted after her as she went back to working on dinner. I decided I should go check on Blaine now that I know he wasn't mad, just exhausted. Apparently Finn and Kurt had gotten home from glee club while I was talking to Carol. Unfortunately I didn't know this as I walked right into Blaine's room without knocking. There was a scream, I turned quickly to leave, ran right into the door frame and then everything went black.
"Oh my god! We killed him!" I heard Kurt whisper as I started to come to. "Did he have another heart attack?" Blaine asked. I was getting worried. Did I have a heart attack? It didn't feel like it did last time. Then I knew everything was ok, because I heard Carol's voice. "No, I think he just got knocked out. What happened?"
"He walked in on us without knocking." Kurt said nervously. "Then we all screamed, he turned to run out the door and ran into the wall instead. Then he went down like a pile of bricks." Oh, that was a relief. At least it wasn't a heart attack. That wasn't very pleasant. I finally opened my eyes and spoke so they would know I was ok.
"I thought you were supposed to be grounded? This isn't prison, you don't get conjugal visits!" I said, trying not to laugh. I laughed a little and realized that hurt my nose.
"Burt, try not to laugh, I think your nose is broken." Carol said through some giggles.
Later on that night I was laying on the couch watching TV and being waited on hand and foot by Kurt and Blaine. Really, I was OK, but why not milk it a little and take advantage of the situation.