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CHAPTER 5

Kurt sat in his seat at the Lima Bean waiting absentmindedly for Rachel as she was getting her soy latte. He still hadn't had a coffee as it normally put him slightly on edge, and he was already stressed enough about the rising homework load and the Blaine-Sebastian situation. He watched as the brown haired girl slumped into her seat and took a long sip of coffee. She looked up at Kurt and sighed, twirling her hair in a very 'Rachel' manner.

'I don't…'

'How…'

They both started speaking at the same time, wildly gesturing with their hands, and they both comically stopped, slightly breathless, together.

'You first,' Rachel giggled. Kurt seemed very stressed and obviously wanted to get a heavy load off his chest. Kurt gave her a thankful look and continued.

'I don't get it, Rach.' Kurt pinched the bridge of his nose and shut his eyes momentarily. 'How did he even get your number? You've met him once! This is crazy and stalkerish. I mean, come on! Did you see that text?'

Rachel raised one eyebrow, slightly amused, at how worked up Kurt was getting.

'Yeah, yeah, it's your phone… Details…' Kurt mumbled, his face turning slightly pink. 'But, Rach, please promise me you won't…' Kurt paused, 'Fuck him?'

Rachel looked half offended and half shocked at Kurt and how he would even think she would want to fuck the crude, obviously beautiful boy. She opened her mouth to explain in detail why she would never, ever fuck Sebastian Smythe- but Kurt interrupted her yet again.

'Okay! I know you would never fuck him but still.' Kurt rolled his eyes, 'He's such a dick.'

Rachel laughed, her eyes wide in shock at Kurt's language.

'Kurt!' she squealed, 'I can't believe you just said that!' Rachel couldn't control her giggles at the now embarrassed boy.

'I need coffee…' Kurt muttered, standing up and rushing, embarrassed, to the till.

Rachel shook her head, amused at Kurt's actions. He kept her on her toes and always managed to surprise her when she was least expecting it. This is why we're friends, she thought, still giggling quietly at her best friend. She was so distracted by her thoughts that she didn't see or feel Sebastian crouching next to her.

'Hey, gorgeous.' Sebastian breathed into her ear, putting a feather light kiss just below her earlobe, causing the distracted girl to yelp and jump up in shock.

'You… How… What?' Rachel spluttered, her heart racing and her senses still tingling with the feel of Sebastian's lips against her skin.

'I said: hello, gorgeous.' The tall boy's voice was silky smooth and deep and his eyes were dark and slightly amused.

Rachel sat down in her chair and turned to him, angrily, 'I have a name, you know!' she exclaimed, her eyes heated and an endearing blush staining her whole face and her chest. Sebastian simply laughed; even his laugh was erotic, Rachel thought; and scanned the girl's petite figure.

'Nice outfit, gorgeous,' Sebastian ignored the girl's retort and continued speaking, enjoying the light blush that stained the girl's cheeks, 'it really shows off your…' Sebastian moved in even closer and his voice dropped to a sensual whisper, 'assets.'

Rachel ducked her head and hid behind her dark hair, feeling unsure whether she should believe the boy or not.

Someone coughed and Rachel looked up to see Kurt holding a coffee with one eyebrow raised and a hand on his hip. She gave him a weak smile, which he returned quickly- but warmly, before he glared at the kneeling boy next to her.

'Did anyone invite you to be here?' Kurt snapped at the smirking boy.

'Now, now, Kurtie,' Sebastian stood up, his tone mocking as he looked down at Kurt, 'Don't get your panties into a twist.' The taller boy laughed at Kurt's annoyed expression and continued, 'I was just talking to Rachel here about her incredible fashion sense and what her clothes do to her gorgeous body. And, I also was still talking to her before you rudely interrupted our… Conversation.' Sebastian winked at Rachel before sitting down in the spare seat next her.

Kurt sighed. He still hadn't had a coffee and he was just too tired to even consider getting annoyed at the arrogant, flirty boy, so he just let Sebastian sit with them without a word of complaint. There was a long silence that was filled with the sound of Rachel and Kurt finishing off their coffees quickly. They finished at the same time and shared an exasperated look- their earlier conversation was unfinished and Kurt still had the need to rant about the boy sitting next to Rachel.

'Um… Rach?' Kurt asked tentatively, feeling Sebastian's mocking gaze on him as he spoke.

Rachel looked up and smiled brightly.

'Thank god.' She laughed lightly, 'I thought you'd never start talking.' She winked playfully and Kurt decided that the flirty boy next to her would not interrupt their DMC, and Kurt would completely ignore his presence.

'As I was,' Kurt coughed awkwardly, 'Um, saying.'

Rachel looked shocked that her best friend was trying to continue their earlier conversation and she shook her head subtly at him, trying to stop him talking.

'No… I mean yes,' Kurt stared at Rachel, silently warning her that he was continuing. 'So. We established that you wouldn't… ya know. That.'

Rachel just looked at Kurt, wide eyed and open mouthed. Kurt raised an eyebrow at her and giggled as she nodded slowly, her expression still shocked. To her left, Sebastian looked on amused and slightly confused at the exchange between the two best friends.

Kurt coughed again. 'So. Basically, you can't go anywhere with the um… Meerkat… Yes. The meerkat.' Rachel giggled at Kurt's nickname for Sebastian and indicated for him to continue. 'Because the meerkat would only use you for… Um… Food? Oh, and the meerkat would leave you once you gave it food and you would feel really sad and I would be the one to comfort you because the meerkat doesn't mean anything!' Kurt's voice was getting higher and higher in pitch as he went on, his normally calm exterior becoming flustered.

'Honey,' Rachel gave Kurt a meaningful look, 'Calm down.'

Kurt raised one eyebrow at her and they shared an amused look.

'I promise that I won't go anywhere with Se-the meerkat.'

'Good.'

Kurt winked at her and they erupted into fits of giggles while Sebastian looked slightly put out and confused. He felt left out and had no idea what the fuck was going on.

'What… the fuck?' Sebastian cut their giggles short and he raised both eyebrows at Rachel, as if to say 'explain.'

Rachel opened her mouth to speak, but Kurt cut in before Rachel could tell Sebastian too much.

'Why does it matter to you? We're not even talking about you.' Kurt snapped, silencing Rachel's laugh that she unsuccessfully tried to turn into a cough. Both boys stared at her and she mumbled a quick apology about her "cold", blushing a tomato red while Kurt gave her a warning look.

'Because, sweet cheeks-' Kurt spluttered at the degrading nickname but Sebastian went on anyway- ignoring the annoyed boy sitting across from him. 'I'm here with you and you should try and make conversation with me out of politeness. Obviously you Americans do it differently… Maybe it's polite to leave people out…' Sebastian trailed off, his tone light and teasing but annoyance was creeping into his accusation.

'Smirk-face,' Sebastian laughed at the nickname and Kurt glowered at him before continuing, 'You invitedyourself to sit with us. We were here first without you so you are the impolite one.'

'Princess-'

'Don't call me that.'

Sebastian raised one eyebrow at the flustered boy sitting across from him but continued as if he hadn't been interrupted.

'Don't get your panties into a twist, I'm just here to talk to Rachel. And she hasn't said anything so I assume she still wants me-' Sebastian winked at Rachel, who had her head in her hands, '-to be here.'

Kurt fumed and he roughly took a large sip of coffee.

'Fuck you,' he muttered.

Sebastian mock-gasped and held a hand towards his heart.

'Did Kurtie just swear? At me? How rude!'

Kurt glared at him and just gave him the finger, rolling his eyes at Rachel who nodded sympathetically.

'He has quite the dirty mouth, doesn't he?'

A different voice cut in and Kurt jumped up, startled at the sudden interruption.

'Blaine.' Kurt sighed, rolling his eyes half-heartedly and sitting back down.

'Aww, babe. I thought you'd be more pleased to see me,' Blaine winked at Kurt, who now had his head in his hands. He squeezed Kurt's shoulder and sat down next to him. Kurt didn't even look up, but accepted the fact that Blaine and Sebastian were going to interrupt his very important conversation with Rachel. Rachel shot him an exasperated look but she had also accepted the unwelcome intrusion into their coffee date.

'Anderson! Fancy seeing you here.' Sebastian laughed and him and Blaine shared greetings.

'So.' Blaine started, looking at Rachel who was staring into space. She didn't seem to notice that Blaine was trying to talk to her so she remained in her daydream. Kurt noticed that Blaine wanted to talk to her so he leant over to her, startling her. Sebastian watched the exchange between the two friends: the way she reacted when Kurt spoke to her, how they easily joked with each other and made physical contact. Even small touches seemed easy and natural between the two of them- they were so close, almost like siblings. Sebastian felt an unfamiliar tug in his stomach, watching the two friends. He wanted to be the one that made Rachel smile so easily and he wanted to be the one who was allowed to always be close to her. He shook those thoughts out of his mind when he saw that Blaine was speaking to Rachel… and wait! Was she blushing? And why did Kurt look so pissed off? Sebastian leaned forward and decided to actually listen to the conversation around him, instead of staring at Rachel.

'Babe, those clothes make you look hot,' Blaine winked at… wait… Rachel?

Before Sebastian could say anything, Kurt coughed and started speaking.

'Blaine!' Kurt snapped, 'Can you stop flirting for at least 2 minutes? What is wrong with you?'

'Ooh, is someone jealous?' Blaine teased, and now Sebastian could see what he was doing. He wasn't actually attracted to Rachel- or he was, but his attraction towards Kurt was so much greater and he was only hitting on her to make Kurt feel jealous. Sebastian looked towards Rachel, who was blushing slightly and picking at her clothing and felt himself wanting to be closer to her.

'I am not jealous-' He was but Blaine could never ever find out- 'I'm just… confused. I don't know what you're doing… I just don't really understand…' Kurt trailed off and looked down at his hands, closing off into himself. Rachel could practically see his mind go over his insecurities and his walls were coming back up, blocking out his friends and the people who loved him. She knew that Kurt harboured a small amount of affection towards Blaine, but was too afraid to let it show in the fear of rejection or some idiotic practical joke that would end up in his humiliation- yet again. Frustration was building up inside of Rachel and she knew they both needed to leave the Lima Bean and just be apart from their pursuers.

Kurt felt jealous. He didn't know why- it was only Blaine. He shouldn't matter to Kurt and he probably didn't actually want Kurt anyway- he was probably waiting to see a sign of weakness and beat Kurt up or something. He was the same as everyone else- Same, Finn… They didn't matter and they didn't care. The only person who knew him was Rachel and she was probably going to leave him as well- it was an obvious pattern in his "friendships". People would get close to Kurt, find out about everything and just leave.

He saw Rachel say something to Sebastian and Blaine, but he wasn't listening. He was lost in his thoughts- he wasn't going to let them see any form of weakness. Rachel turned to him and grabbed his hand. Even this small sign of affection was enough for Kurt to feel loved- he was rarely shown signs of affection from his dad and he just didn't know Carole enough to feel comfortable hugging her. He heard Sebastian and Blaine say their goodbyes and turned around to see Blaine standing up as well. Kurt cocked his head to the side and bit his lip- what was he doing? Blaine turned to Kurt, his expression intense and his eyes burning. Kurt felt Rachel tug his hand, trying to drag him to the door.

'Let's go, honey,' she whispered to him. He looked down at her and smiled shyly.

'Two seconds,' he mouthed. She smiled weakly and squeezed his hand reassuringly.

'I'll see you by the car, 'kay?'

Kurt nodded absentmindedly, avoiding Rachel's worried gaze. He barely saw her leave as he caught sight of Blaine coming towards him.

'It's always you, Kurt.'

Kurt just looked at Blaine blankly, but seeing the shorter boy's meaningful eyes, nodded. Those few words seemed to act as a trigger for Kurt to be normal again. He corrected his posture, held his head up higher and let the familiar glint in his eyes reappear. His expression went back to his Kurt expression- strong but kind- and he felt lighter and freer all of a sudden.

Blaine felt relieved to see Kurt back to normal. It was odd- one moment, they were bickering like normal and the next, Kurt was closed off and weak. It was unlike the Kurt Blaine had ever seen before- Kurt was always strong and confident, even in his embarrassed or weaker moments, but just then, he was unconfident and unsure of himself. He watched Kurt walk out the door, watching the familiar light sway of hips and admired his long legs and ass.

Blaine was set on one thing and one thing only- and it was Kurt. He was going to get Kurt and Kurt would be his.