"Why was it in Kurt's room?" Carole asked only slightly amused.
"Well, I thought maybe if you found them in there you'd think he was trying to get a gender change." Finn shrugged.
"Honey," Carole shook her head, "I don't think he's big enough to have beem taking steroids."
Kurt held up his head, "I'm plenty big enough." He insisted and crossed his arms.
"Sure you are, kid." Burt said sarcastically.
"I have to go to the mall with Mercedes." Kurt stood up and gave Finn a hug, "Good luck." He whispered in his ear.
"Be careful." Burt called after him, then turned his focus back to Finn. Kurt was glad that his brother had finally agreed to talk to them. When he had gotten home from his radiation therapy that day, Finn was mad and insisted that he didn't need help, but Kurt had calmed him down about two broken vases later.
Mercedes picked Kurt up and drove them to the mall. Dave had talked to Azimio when he had met Kurt after school to give him Blaine's backpack. Dave had convinced Azimio to go with him to the mall that afternoon so that they could 'hang out', it was actually code for 'stalk your soul mate'. Apparently Dave had experience with stalking, but refused too tell Kurt who he stalked.
"So, why are you so eager to make me buy new clothes?" Mercedes asked on the way to the mall.
"Just in case." Kurt smiled omniously, "Maybe someone will ask you out and don't you want to look perfect when he does?"
"You said I looked perfect all the time." Mercedes pointed out.
"Yeah," Kurt admitted, "but you're gonna look more than perfect after this."
"Okay, sure, whatever." Mercedes chuckled as she pulled into a parking space. "Let's go squander all of my allowance."
"I've been waiting all week to hear you say those words, Mercedes Jones." Kurt smiled and jumped out of the car.
"Thank God that glee was cancelled or we wouldn't have enough time." Mercedes said. "We have four hours until nine."
"Still not enough time." Kurt groaned. "We'll have to skip dinner!"
"Oh, hell no!" Mercedes insisted as she linked an arm through Kurt's, "We are not skipping the third most important meal of the day!"
"You do realize that that makes it the least important meal of the day, right?" Kurt wondered.
"It's still important." Mercedes insisted as she tugged him towards the entrance.
It took two hours just to find one outfit. Kurt had to make sure that she had the perfect thing to wear for her first date with Azimio.
"Food time!" Mercedes announced as they left the store with he new out fit.
"Fine, fine." Kurt sighed. He was glad to have a chance to sit down. Just climbing up stairs made him out of breath. Dr. Benson had warned him that he would have breathing problems, but it was better than having the headaches that came along with the Leukemia being in his brain. He'd take a chest tumor over a brain tumor any day.
Kurt settled into a chair as Mercedes went to get herself some food. Kurt wasn't hungry, he attributed it to his anxiety from how the talk with Finn was going at the moment.
"You need to eat, Kurt." Mercedes said as she pushed a slice of pizza in front of him, "You didn't eat at lunch and I know you have to be starving after all that shopping."
"Really, 'Cedes, I'm not hungry." Kurt pushed the pizza away.
Before Mercedes could protest again someone say, "Oh, hey Mercedes."
They looked up to see Azimio staring at her nervously with Dave standing behind him, smiling at Kurt.
"If you're here to slushy me at least let us go somewhere where no one will see." Mercedes moaned.
"What?" Azimio blinked, "Why would I-"
"Don't worry Mercedes." Dave dragged a chair closer to Kurt then sat down in it, wrapping an arm around his boyfriend. "We just wanted to say hi. You gonna eat that pizza, Kurt?"
"Go for it." Kurt chuckled and his boyfriend obliged.
"Fine, then." Mercedes gave Kurt a look that clearly meant 'you're never going to hear the end of this Kurt Hummel!'. "You gonna sit?" She raised an eyebrow at Azimio who slowly sat in a chair next to Dave.
Mercedes felt slightly betrayed by Kurt who ignored her to cuddle with his boyfriend leaving her to sit in awkward silence with Azimio.
"So, uh..." Mercedes was shocked as Azimio tried to talk to her, "I was wondering if you would like to... be my partner in the science project."
"Oh," That was an odd thing to just ask, "I guess so," She didn't want to upset Kurt by bitching out his boyfriend's best friend. "I really don't have any good friends in science anyways."
"Okay." Azimio seemed a little too pleased.
There was another awkward silence. "Those two are getting way too cozy." Mercedes said as she looked at her best friend and his boyfriend. They had been kissing a little too long.
Azimio chuckled, "Yeah, they're always doing that in the hallway, too."
Kurt and Dave didn't seem to hear them as they kept kissing. Mercedes raised an eyebrow, "Is it wrong to enjoy watching that?"
"I don't know..." Azimio stared and tilted his head to one side, "It's kinda hot... But weird."
"Yeah." Mercedes sighed.
Kurt opened an eye and noticed them staring then quickly pulled back, "Okay, enough of that."
"Aw." Mercedes giggled, "That was too adorable."
"Weirdo." Kurt rolled his eyes.
"I have to agree." Dave said leaning in to kiss Kurt again, but he froze halfway, "Your nose is bleeding."
"What?" Kurt held a hand to his nose then pulled it away to stare at the blood on his hand. This was another symtom that Dr. Benson had told him about. Part of him wondered if it was karma getting back at him for hitting Blaine. He mentally reminded karma that it was self defense.
"Here." Dave grabbed some napkins and held them to Kurt's nose to soak up the blood.
"Thanks." Kurt sighed.
"That was weird." Azimio said, "No one even hit him."
"It must be the dry air." Mercedes decided. "Aw, you got some on your shirt."
"I hope that washes out." Kurt gasped.
Dave pulled the napkins away, "I think it stopped."
"I'll take Kurt to wash up." Mercedes stood up, "I would let Dave do it, but who knows what you two would do alone in a bathroom!"
"I'd like to know." Dave said flirtatiously.
Kurt gave him a teasing smile as Mercedes tugged him away, "You two go at it like two cats in heat." She commented.
"We haven't even had sex." Kurt insisted, "I want to wait."
"Does he?" Mercedes raised an eyebrow as she pushed open the door to the girls' room.
Kurt didn't like that question. His first relationship was ruined because he didn't put out and he didn't want that to be the same case here. "I don't know Mercedes, but I'm more than just a sex buddy to him." He glared at himsellf in the mirror and washed away the dried blood.
"Sorry, Kurt." Mercedes sighed, "I don't want that to be what your relationship is about and I'm sure that it's about more than sex."
"It is." Kurt pouted.
"I know, Boo." Mercedes gave him a quick hug. "Sorry, I brought that up, I know you're still upset about Blaine."
"I'm not upset about Blaine." Kurt denied. "I don't care about him anymore, now he can sleep around and not worry about getting caught by his borfriend."
Mercedes nodded, "You're better with Dave anyways, at least he cuddles."
"And he's an awesome kisser." Kurt agreed. He could have sworn he heard someone high five outside but when they left the restroom Dave and Azimio were the only two out there and Dave was nonchalantly counting as Azimio did push ups.
"One hundred fifty, one hun- oh," Dave looked up feigning surprise at the appearence of his boyfriend, "I didn't know that you were in that girls bathroom."
Mercedes rolled her eyes, "Sure you didn't."
Azimio jumped to his feet and flexed his arms, "Yeah, I did one hundred and fifty one pushups." He said and suavly leaned up against a wall as he looked down at Mercedes. "I can do more if you want to see."
Mercedes giggled a little, "I'm fine, thanks."
"We only have an hour and a half until nine!" Kurt gasped as he checked his phone.
"Maybe we should come with you two." David said quickly, "We could carry your... bag."
"Well, we're almost-" Mercedes started.
"That's a great idea!" Kurt inturrupted then looped his arm through David's, hurried ahead, and left Mercedes with Azimio again.
"That boy is so gonna get it when we get to the car." Mercedes growled.
"So is Dave." Azimio nodded, "What were you thinking?"
"Freeze out?" Mercedes suggested.
"That would just give them more time to talk about each other." Azimio pointed out.
"Or text each other," Mercedes agreed, "that boy has been glued to his phone all week."
"How about we ditch them?" Azimio asked. "I know this really cool place where we can get some kick ass ice cream."
"As much as I hate it when people use the word 'ass' in the same sentence as 'ice cream', I'm in." They snuck away while Kurt and Dave were talking cute to each other and took Mercedes' car. "Kurt can ride home with his boyfriend." Mercedes insisted.
Azimio gave the directions to the ice cream place and Mercedes followed them.
Halfway there Mercedes yelled, "Slug bug!" And punched Azimio in the arm.
"Ow," Azimio rubbed his sore upper arm. "What was that for?"
"Oh, sorry," Mercedes grinned, "Me and Kurt like to slug bug each other and see if we can leave bruises."
"I'm afraid that you're in an abusive relationship." Azimio said with feigned concern.
"Actually," Mercedes giggled, "I think it's the other way around, you should look at Kurt's arm right now. The distraction of having a new boyfriend keeps him from noticing the Beetles before me. I think I liike you, you didn't correct my grammer when I said 'me and Kurt' like Kurt always does."
"Does that make me awesome?" Azimio asked eagerly.
Mercedes giggled again, "Of course."
"Guess what?" Azimio said, suddenly excited.
"What?" Mercedes asked.
"Slug bug!" He tapped Mercedes lightly on the shoulder.
"Did you really just slug bug me as if you were afraid to hit me?" Mercedes raised an eyebrow.
"I'm a gentleman, I don't hit little ladies such as yourself." Azimio assured her. "It's not how I was raised. There it is."
Mercedes parked at the ice cream place. It looked too small to be a buisness and a little run down, but it was fairly buisy. Mercedes didn't even notice that Azimio had gotten out of the car until he had opened the door for her. "Ma'am?" He said as he held out a hand to help her down. Mercedes was afraid that he might see her blush as she accepted his hand and stepped out of the car.
"It looks pretty popular." Mercedes observed as she watched children, teens, and adults alike enjoy their ice cream. "Me and Kurt always go to the ice cream place down the street from my house."
"This place will put that place to shame." Azimio promised, "Me and David always came here back in the day. It's all on me by the way."
"Oh, I can pay for myself." Mercedes insisted.
"No," Azimio pulled out his wallet, "I'll pay. It's not entirely selfless, I get a free ice cream in three more purchases."
Mercedes smiled, "Well then who am I to decline such an offer?"
They ordered and had to sit at one of the tables outside due to the fact that there were no tables inside the tiny parlor. They ate ice cream and talked about how annoying it was when Kurt and Dave went all gaga over each other and ignored them. Possibly getting bitched out by Kurt the next day was so worth getting to know Azimio. He wasn't the shallow, obnoxious, jerk that she always thought he was. He was sweet and caring and very, very, handsome.
Azimio couldn't believe that he was finally on an almost date with Mercedes. He had liked her ever since the first grade when he put glue on her chair. He was extremely thankful that she seemed not to care about the tourture that he had once put her and her friends though. She was finally seeing who he really was and Azimio suddenly knew exactly how his best friend felt about Kurt.
xXx
"Where'd they go?" Kurt asked Dave as he realized that their friends were gone.
"I do believe that we lost them over an hour ago Kurt." Dave chuckled, "Where you really that lost in my eyes?" He teased.
"I hope this means that Mercedes is no longer single." Kurt said excitedly. "I'm tire of having to tell her everything that happens between us via text, it's exhausting." Speaking of exhausting, he really needed a nap.
"Tired?" Dave grinned. Kurt nodded and sat down on a bench. "Come on, Kurt." Dave sighed and picked Kurt up bridal style. "I think it's time for bed again and it's only eight thirty."
"I know." Kurt burried his head in Dave's letterman clad chest. "Why do you always wear this stupid jacket?"
"Stupid?" Dave pretended to be offended then gave Kurt a lecture on school pride all the way to the car even though he knew that Kurt was asleep before they even got out of the mall.
xXx
A/N: Awwww, Mercedes and Azimio are in loooooove! But will they act on their feelings? Reviewz!