"Wake up Blainey," Kurt whispered, shaking Blaine's sleeping form.
"Mmm, no," Blaine groaned, turning over on his side.
"But Blaine, look outside!" Kurt begged, ripping open the curtains.
"It's the same as it was yesterday, Kurt. It's been the same thing ever since I moved here a month ago."
Kurt giggled, tugging on Blaine's arm. "Just come look."
Blaine gave in, stumbling to his feet and rubbing his tired looking eyes. "What is it?" he asked, yawning.
"Just come here," Kurt motioned to him from where he was standing, peering out the window.
Blaine reached the window, and finally saw what all the fuss was about- snow. A wide smile stretched across his face as he looked down at the white blanket that covered the ground. "It's so pretty."
Kurt smiled, resting his head on Blaine's shoulder. "My mommy said we have to wait to go outside though, it's too cold."
Blaine wrapped his arms around Kurt. "It's fine, I'm just happy to have a home where everybody loves everybody."
Kurt glances over to the bed where Cooper was sleeping. "Should we wake up Pooper, I mean Cooper?"
Blaine laughs at Kurt's humor. "Nah. He should be fine. Let's go downstairs, we can play with your new dollhouse!"
"Really?" Kurt's face lit up.
"Yeah. Really, Kurt." Blaine started to run down the stairs, "C'mon!"
Kurt ran down the stairs with Blaine, to see Maria and Elizabeth talking. "I don't think it's right that we've been staying here for a whole month, I think we're going to make an offer on that apartment down the street."
Blaine stopped dead in his tracks. "I don't want to leave Kurt."
"I know, sweetie. But, we can't stay here forever," Maria says.
"But mommy," Blaine whines with big, puppy eyes.
"Blaine, you will still be able to see Kurt at school every day and after school and on the weekends. Now, why don't you and Kurt go outside and build a snowman?" Elizabeth suggests, kindly.
"Yay!" Kurt squeals, grabbing Blaine's hand. "Let's go, Blainey!"
Blaine sits in the snow, tracing little patterns on the perfect white canvas. "Kurt, you'll always be here for me, right? Like, you'll never leave me."
Kurt sits down in the snow next to Blaine, "Of course. Why would I leave you? You'd most likely leave me."
"I'd never leave you. Never EVER." Kurt tells Blaine, lying back in the snow. "Why do you think I would?"
Blaine swallows back the uncomfortable lump in his throat. "What if I'm.. what if I'm gay?"
Kurt laughs, reaching for Blaine's hand, "I'll still love you. Do you think you are? We're only eight, Blainers."
"I don't know, I like the Prince's more than the Princesses." Blaine tells Kurt, jerking his hand away from Kurt's.
"Blaine, nothing's wrong with you. It's okay! If I liked boys, you'd still like me right?" Kurt asks, feeling hurt by Blaine's action.
"I-I guess. You'd still be you, right?"
"I'd still be me."
***
A month later, the unthinkable happened. Blaine was moved out of the house, and was living down the street. Kurt's mom wasn't getting better-she was getting worse. Kurt was over at Blaine's house, playing in Cooper's room with Coop and Blaine. But a few minutes after they get settled in, Burt calls with bad news.
"Maria, Elizabeth.. she.. she's at the hospital. Could you bring Kurt down to the hospital? It's bad, and they have her hooked up to machinery. And I know Kurt would want to see her one more time." Maria's face saddens, it's always when Kurt is over at Blaine's house, always.
"Yeah, I'll just have Cooper watch Blaine. We'll be down soon." She hangs up the phone, and runs to Cooper's room down the hall.
"Cooper, I need to take Kurt down to the hospital, can you watch Blaine?" Maria asks, bursting in through the door.
"O-okay. Why?" Cooper asks, getting up from the Legos on the floor, that Kurt and Blaine were playing with.
"What's wrong? Why do I have to leave? I don't want to see her again, she PROMISED she wouldn't leave me." Kurt half yells, half sobs. His eyes are full of tears, and the fact that Maria didn't have to say anything broke her heart.
"Kurt-Kurt, no. She's your mommy, sweetheart. Don't you want to go see her and make sure she's okay?" Maria asks, kneeling down to Kurt's height.
"I want to stay here with Cooper and Blaine. She broke her promise." Kurt pouted, hanging onto Blaine's arm.
"Kurt, sweetie, you need to come with me," Maria tried to pull Kurt off Blaine's arm, not being successful when Kurt started to cry. "Even if you go to see her for five minutes, it'll make her happy."
Blaine tried to get his arm out of Kurt's death grip, "What if I go with you and Kurt, mommy?"
Maria looked at Blaine, and he looked just as scared as Kurt. "Is that okay with you Kurt? Would you go if Blaine came?"
Kurt looked up at Maria, rubbing his nose clean of the snot that was coming out of it. "Can he?"
"Yes, he can. Cooper, you might as well come along too." Maria tells them, as they start to head out the door.
"Is mommy okay?" Kurt asks his daddy, still holding onto Blaine's arm, looking at his mom's limp body in the hospital bed.
"Come here, Kurt," Burt says, picking up his son in his arms, his eyes red and puffy from evidently crying.
"What is it, Daddy?" Kurt asks, tears of his own starting to fall.
Burt cautiously brings Kurt closer to the bed, not wanting to break the news.
"Is mommy dead?" Kurt asks, his voice barely audible.
Burt holds on tighter to his son, afraid of dropping his son. "Yes."
Kurt's face drops, but he doesn't cry. It was something he expected since they told him. "Oh. Is it just going to be you and me now? Since Blaine is moving away from us."
Blaine's crying, but Kurt isn't. Is there something wrong with me? Kurt thinks, but is too afraid to hear the answer.
"It'll just be me and you Kurt. I don't know how to do a lot of things, but we'll make it work." Burt smiles through his tears, and puts Kurt down. "Jesus, you've been gettin' heavy, I can't carry you around anymore."
Kurt giggles, "Daddy! I'm not that heavy." Was it wrong to giggle in a hospital? Probably, but shouldn't they continue on with their lives?
The doctor comes back into talk to Burt, but it all goes by in a daze for Kurt. He still isn't crying when Burt carries him into the house.
"Are you okay buddy?" Burt asks, lying Kurt down in his bed.
Kurt thinks, Am I okay? "Yes. I just don't know what to think of mommy anymore."
Burt presses a kiss to Kurt's forehead. "It'll get better soon buddy. I know, it's a lot to take in, but just remember that your mom is always going to be here."
Kurt makes a face, "But she's dead. She's not here anymore."
Burt laughs, taking Kurt's hand, and placing it over Kurt's heart, "But she'll be in here. In your heart. Goodnight buddy."
"Goodnight dad."
Kurt tossed and turned in his bed all night, it wasn't the same without Blaine in the room. It was just Kurt. His light breathing filled the room with noise, which soon turned into heavy sobs. But not because his mommy died, because Blaine wasn't here to comfort him.