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Thank you for all the reviews. There's an author's note at the end since I don't want to say too much before the chapter.

Enjoy. There is a time jump in this chapter. Just to warn everyone again.

Disclaimer: I don't own glee just OCs. PS. This is not Beta'd, she was too sick to do it and I didn't fee like waiting.

Kurt stared out the window. They've had a bit of snow and the layer outside gave the world a very pure look. It was really cold though and Kurt could finally break out his winter collection, which he was happy about even though there wasn't much opportunity to wear them with Dalton's strict uniform code.

He tried to keep his mind on his winter clothes otherwise he would start to think of the real reason he was staring out the window. He was waiting for Blaine who was having a Christmas Eve dinner with his family, how awkward. How did he get into this again?

-Flashback-

"Kurt that you?" Burt asked as Kurt walked through the front door Friday night, a week before Christmas. He didn't have to come back this weekend considering he'd be back home Wednesday evening, but he wanted to help get everything ready.

"Yeah, it's me."

"You were out on a date with uh.."

"Blaine."

"Blaine again?"

"Yep, like every Friday." Even though they've only been dating two months they already had a routine down.

"What's he doing for Christmas?"

Kurt walked into the room and looked at his dad, not sure why he was asking, "Probably nothing, his family doesn't get together until the weekend after since so many fly in from other place."

He grew more concerned as he watched his dad shift uncomfortably, "Well you should invite him here for Christmas Eve, at least. Finn asked Rachel since she doesn't celebrate Christmas at home, you should ask your…boyfriend."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I want to meet him properly this time. The last time I saw him was at the football game and you two weren't dating then."

"I'll call him."

-End flashback-

Oh right.

"Kurt, are you going to stare out the window until he gets here or actually listen to me talk?"

Oh right, Rachel was sitting next to him. Why wasn't she bugging Finn again with her chatter? He turned his head to see Finn playing a football game on his Xbox. Of course. Blaine better get here soon.

"Yeah Rachel, I was listening to you talk about your most recent solo in glee." He wasn't listening, but he figured that was the safest bet.

"Nice try. I was talking about Brittany wearing my clothing ideas then taking credit for them."

"Why would Brittany wear clothes like yours?" He may have said that with a little more insult than he meant to.

"I dress very fashionably, Kurt. All the glee girls are dressing like me except maybe Mercedes."

"At least somebody has some sense left." He looked at Rachel's outfit and shuddered, "I'm going to have a long chat with Santana the next time I see her."

"There is nothing wrong with the way I dress."

Kurt rolled his eyes and looked out the window again. A smile broke out on his face when he saw Blaine's familiar car pull into the driveway. He didn't even have to give Rachel an explanation when he jumped up and all but ran towards the door.

He took a minute to compose himself before he threw open the door, just as Blaine was about to knock.

"Eager much?" He said causing Kurt to blush.

"Maybe just a little," He breathed out, pulling the other boy into the house, "Merry Christmas, Blaine."

He leaned forward and hugged Kurt briefly, "Merry Christmas Kurt."

They pulled apart and Kurt led Blaine into the living room. Rachel immediately jumped off the couch and held her hand out for Blaine to shake.

"Nice to see you again, Blaine. Even though I'm Jewish Merry Christmas. I decided to spend this holiday with Finn even though my own beliefs-"

"Rachel, why don't you check on that Tofu Turkey that Carole is making to make sure it looks okay?"

"Good idea, I'm vegan in case you didn't know." She said to Blaine before exiting the room. Blaine turned his gaze to Kurt, his eyebrow raised. Kurt just shook his head.

"Don't even ask. She's…something else." Kurt muttered then looked at his step-brother, "Finn we have company, company that includes your girlfriend."

Finn paused his game and looked at the other two boys, "Oh hey dude, uh, wanna play?" He held up a second controller.

Kurt looked at Blaine, "If he wants to he can. I'm going to make sure Dad found the angel for the tree."

Blaine decided to bond with Finn and joined him and Kurt went to the attic to look for his dad. He found him looking at some pictures that were in the box with the angel. Upon closer inspection, Kurt realized they were pictures of him, his father and mother all taken around Christmas time.

"Dad?"

He looked up, "Oh, hey kid. I forgot these were in that box. Your mom bought that angel for your first Christmas you know."

"I heard this story every year since I was born, Dad. Blaine's here, you probably want to get downstairs, we'll be eating soon."

"Is Rachel still talking about all the songs she sang so far this year in glee?"

"No, that stopped about a half hour ago."

"I know she's Finn's girlfriend and she can be nice, but she's usually just annoying. Well then, downstairs we go." They started down the stairs together, "Where's Blaine?"

"Finn recruited him to play football on the Xbox. Typical boys."

"You play that Xbox with Finn often enough."

"When it's just him and me. Finn has Rachel here and he's ignored her the whole time meaning I've had to listen to her."

They entered the living room. Blaine paused the game and jumped up to greet Burt, "Thank you for inviting me, sir."

"It's Burt, kid. Relax," He began to walk away, "The interrogation won't begin until dinner." He disappeared into the next room.

"Dad!" Kurt yelled after him while Blaine looked at him scared. He hoped he was joking.

He wasn't.

As they all sat down at the table to eat Burt looked at the boy, "So Blaine, tell me about your family."

Blaine gulped, "It's just my dad, mom, older sister and me. My sister's a sophomore at college so I don't see her often."

"Do they know you're gay?"

"Dad." Kurt hissed.

Blaine laughed, "It's okay, Kurt. I came out to them when I was a freshman. My mom and sister were very accepting. My dad, I don't think he knew how to react, he completely threw him. He took me to a lot of football games and I helped him rebuild a car. At first I thought he was trying to change me, but after I talked to him I found out he just didn't know how to act around me. We're doing a lot better now. They know I'm dating Kurt." He finished, reaching under the table to grab Kurt's hand. Kurt smiled.

"Dad grounded me when he found my tiara collection." Kurt replied, when it looked like his dad was going to say something about Blaine's father. Though he kind of felt bad, he still smirked at the sheepish look on Burt's face. His father has overreacted before too and Kurt pretty much screamed gay.

Dinner after that had calmed down. Rachel started talking about Glee Club and the conversation managed to stay off Blaine and Kurt. Once dinner was done and everything was cleaned up, the two boys went up to Kurt's room to relax- door open of course.

They both collapsed on his bed, curling up together. Cuddling was something they both enjoyed and sometimes Kurt found himself sneaking into Blaine's room at Dalton just to cuddle. It paid to know the R.A of Warwick and be dating the Junior R.A.

"So what else do you guys do on Christmas Eve?" Blaine asked quietly, running his nose through Kurt's hair.

Kurt shrugged, "This is the first year with Finn and Carole so we're trying to combine traditions. It seems to be going well so far. I'm glad you could come, Blaine."

"I'm glad your dad allowed me. I would invite you to mine but I don't want to subject you to that. A few of my extended family are kind of homophobic and you don't need to deal with that right now. Maybe Easter I'll have you over to meet my parents."

Kurt yawned, "That would be nice."

"Hey you can't sleep yet. I have to give you your present."

"You shouldn't have gotten me anything."

Blaine smiled, "I wanted to. I'll be right back. It's in my car."

He whined as Blaine got up and walked out the door. Groaning he sat up and reached over to grab the present he bought for Blaine. It wasn't much but they've only been dating a few months. Plus it was better than what he got Zach, Nikel, Wes, David and Sammy. Those he gave to the boys the last day of school before break. Honestly he expected Zach to text him more jokes from the joke book he bought than he did. After talking to Nikel though he found out that Zach wasn't really texting anyone and wasn't going to Nikel's for a New Year's party his parents hosted every year. Funny he didn't say anything about Loretta being there.

"Here it is." Blaine said coming back into the room jarring Kurt from his thoughts.

He gingerly took the box and opened it. Inside was a beautiful silver scarf and gloves to match. He looked up at Blaine and smiled, "It's beautiful, but it's too much."

Blaine leaned forward and pressed their foreheads together, "I know you're depressed you can't wear your winter clothes at Dalton but they have nothing against wearing scarves and gloves in the winter and I thought these would bring out your eye."

Closing the few inches between them, Kurt gently but quickly kissed Blaine before pulling back. Though he was getting better at it occasionally his memories got the better of him and Blaine would end up being pushed away.

"Thank you." He whispered, before reaching behind him, "Here," He handed him a box, "It's not much."

He bit his lip while watching his boyfriend open the box. Inside was blank sheet music, some piano books as well picks for his guitar along with some new strings and a new guitar strap with music notes on it. He knew Blaine snapped one of the strings on his guitar and didn't replace it yet.

"I know you play a bit of piano but I thought I could teach you more if you're interested." Kurt started babbling, "I know it's not much, but I didn't know what to get you and you said you snapped a string on your guitar and I know you don't have a strap for it and-"

He was cut off by Blaine's lips briefly on his.

"I love it. Thank you."

They kissed again and laid down together to cuddle and chat. Kurt smiled to himself; this was the best Christmas he's had in a while.

"Do we have any classes together?" Blaine asked as they walked to where most of the classes were located. With a new semester, everyone's classes changed. Kurt was hoping he had more with friends; he was pretty lonely last semester.

It was January 3rd and the first day back to school since break. His dad dropped him off at school so he didn't really see anyone yet.

Kurt grabbed Blaine's schedule and compared them, "We have history together before lunch." He concluded before giving it back, "It's better than nothing."

"Hey boys welcome back." They looked over to see Nikel and Sammy walking towards them. Sammy was on his phone and from the sounds of it talking to Allina.

Nikel rolled his eyes, "They spent the whole break together but he's been on the phone with her since he got here this morning."

"How's Loretta?" Kurt asked politely.

Nikel shrugged, "Okay I guess. I saw her the first day of break to exchange gifts but only text her since. We both have been busy."

"She doesn't come to your New Years Party?"

Nikel frowned, "No, it's my parents party, they like Zach so he's been coming since Freshman year. That reminds me, I have to scold him for my mother since he didn't coming this year. My mother adores him; I think she'd trade me in a second." He laughed good naturedly about it.

"You haven't seen Zach yet?"

"Nope it's strange. Have you guys?"

"Nope." Blaine responded, looking around, "Wes, David, over here!"

"Hey guys how was break?" Wes asked coming over.

"Not too bad." Blaine replied as they all traded brief break stories. The boys teased Kurt and Blaine since Blaine spent Christmas eve at Kurt's. They were so immature.

"Have you guys seen Zach?" Nikel asked.

"Yeah I saw him walk in. Haven't seen him since. His mom was with him."

"Why was Maria with him?" Nikel asked which Kurt thought was weird that he was on a first name basis with Zach's mom.

"Who knows. Oh there he is. Hey Zach!" David yelled out.

Zach wandered over to them, a tired smile on his lips.

"Are you okay?" Kurt asked. Zach had tired circles under his eyes.

He tapped his fingers against his leg as if to a beat only he could hear, "Yeah, you know break means no curfew, I may have stayed up a little too late most nights." He laughed lightly as he said it.

"How was your guy's Christmas'?"

"Pretty good." Kurt replied, "How was your Christmas, Zach?"

"Long and boring. How was your Christmas?"

Kurt frowned, "You already asked that."

Zach bit his lip, "Sorry, you know you get in the habit. Every family member I talked to it was the same conversation. Kind of a habit now. My bad."

The warning bell went off then and everyone started heading off to their various classes. Kurt found he also had Zach in his history class with Blaine. He had to wonder how the kid managed to stay in this school. He spent the whole time tapping his fingers on the desk, staring off into space. He didn't pay attention once.

Lunch was a normal affair. Nothing seemed to change there, but Kurt did wave at Gabriel when he walked past their table. Jamie sniffed at him but Gabriel waved back, smirking. He seemed to laugh when Blaine grabbed Kurt's hand and pulled him to their table.

It was the last period of the day. Blaine and Wes sat in the library since they had a study hall period. Wes was going over their hypothetical set list of Regionals while Blaine nodded at appropriate times.

David walked up to them near the end of the period. He also had study hall but decided to help Ms. Carson in the art room, "Did you hear? There was an ambulance outside of Dalton; they were loading someone inside like half hour ago."

"Really? Who?" Wes asked, looking up from his work.

"No clue." He replied as the bell went off signaling the end of the school day.

"No rumors so far?" Blaine asked. There were always rumors.

Hearing footsteps the two boys looked up to see Kurt running towards them. He stopped in front of them out of breath. He was abnormally pale and shaking.

"Kurt? What's wrong?"

"He just collapsed in class and wouldn't wake up. The teacher called 911."

"Who? Who passed out?" Blaine asked, grabbing his boyfriend and pushing him down where he had been sitting. Nikel walked in then. They planned on meeting there after school since most of their group had study hall in the library.

"Where's Zach?" Nikel asked Kurt, "Kurt what's wrong?"

"Zach collapsed in class. He just went down. The teacher called 911 and he was shaking. I think he had a seizure. They wouldn't tell us anything."

"I'm calling Maria." Nikel announced pulling out his phone. He dialed quickly and then seemed to be arguing with Zach's mom before hanging up.

"She said we can't see him right now, but she said not to worry."

"I say we go to the hospital anyways." Wes replied, putting his papers away.

"Maria said she'd call later. It's just not a good time right now. He just arrived. I think they're running tests." Nikel replied, collapsing in the seat next to Kurt.

"We'll go in a bit then."

They headed to the dorms, most going into Blaine's room but Nikel continued on to his own. He knew there was something weird about Zach today but what could cause a seizure like that out of nowhere.

It was past dinner when finally Nikel couldn't take it anymore and called Blaine saying he was going to the hospital. Maria never called him back but he didn't care. He had to see his best friend. Kurt and Blaine decided they'd go too but Wes, David and Sammy would stay behind to it didn't get crowded. They were supposed to call with any news.

Nikel ran around his room grabbing his coat and other necessities when there was a knock on his door. He was supposed to go to Blaine's room to get the two boys so why would they come down to his? Nikel opened up his door. A confused look crossed his face as he saw Loretta standing before him.

"Are you ready to go?"

Nikel blinked his eyes wide, "Oh shit! Sorry, Lore, Zach collapsed in school today and I'm going to go see him in the hospital. Whether he wants visitors or not. Which I'm going to assume not."

"We made plans, Nikel. You're seriously ditching me on our date night? You just said yourself he doesn't want visitors. He's probably fine."

Nikel stared at her shocked, "Why are you being a bitch about this? My best friend is in the hospital and you're worried about me missing our date. What the fuck, Loretta?"

"I'm just saying you can go out with me or you can sit in the hospital waiting room since he doesn't want to see anyone anyways. Which seems like more fun?"

"It doesn't matter what's fun. What matters is that he knows I'm there. I'm there for him and that I care."

"You're so stupid, Nikel. You're stupid and blind." She screamed.

"Really, Loretta? Insulting me now? I'm not Zach; I'm your boyfriend."

"Are you sure?"

"What's that supposed to mean?" He snapped back. He didn't have time for her princess ways.

"You share a bed with Zach all the time. You let him hang off you, you have dedicated gaming nights where you never text or call me back, he knows your whole family and your older brother actually likes him, hell he's been to more holidays at your house than I have."

"Where are you going with this?"

She sighed suddenly looking very small, "He's in love with you, Nikel."

"Lore-" He started to say but she cut him off.

"That night at Jamie's party I figured it out and I confronted him on it. He didn't deny it. Why do you think we fight so much? I have what he wants. He's been in love with you for years and you didn't even realize it. I hate when you hang out with him because I know he likes you."

Nikel was speechless for a minute before something stuck with him, "That's some double standard you have." Were they really going to get into this now? Apparently so.

"What are you talking about?"

"You hang with Jamie all the time and you know the reason we don't get along anymore. So you can hang out with someone who has a crush on you but I can't hang out with Zach."

"Jamie knows I chose you and we're just friends. Zach thinks he can only be your friend, because you're straight. If he thought he had a chance-"

"What are you worried about then? I'm straight. Zach's my best friend."

Loretta smiled sadly at Nikel leaning against the doorframe, all the fight going out of her, "You're so stupid, Nikel. You love Zach."

"I'm straight, Loretta."

She knew this day was coming, but it didn't hurt any less, "Love is genderless, Nikel. You keep holding onto to the fact your straight, but guys don't share beds with other guys that they're just friends with. When you were sophomores you missed two days of school because Zach had the flu and his mother wasn't able to stay home with him, so you did. You never did that for me."

"I love you, Loretta." He tried, taking a step towards her.

She took a step back from him, "But you're not in love with me. You just never realized it." She turned from him to walk away.

"Loretta."She paused, "Are you in love with me?"

"I didn't want to lose you." She shrugged, "It was something Zach always said to me, but I didn't want to believe it. I tried to keep Zach's feeling from you because you were mine, not his, but I just can't pretend being second best is okay anymore. Go find out what's wrong with Zach. I'll just hang out with Jamie."

He approached the girl and kissed the top of her head, "I'll call you."

After she left he looked one last time around his room before walking to Blaine's where the two boys were already waiting for him outside.

"We saw Loretta walk past. She looked upset. Something wrong?"

Nikel shrugged, "I think we broke up."

They looked confused, but Nikel paid them no mind. He just wanted to get to the hospital. He needed to see his best friend. He had a lot of questions that only Zach could answer.

Stupid cow Loretta, I mean hi!

So many of you guessed Zach but nobody guessed what was wrong with him correctly. Though a few guessed Bulimia or eating disorder…hmm I didn't even think of it being construed that way. Oh well.

I can say nice conclusion deduction to perchance to wake who noticed that Blaine didn't tell anyone that Kurt was in the hospital until morning when Zach said he couldn't sleep because he was told that night. You figured out that Zach was already at the hospital and just so happened to meet up with Kurt there hence his shocked face at first.

I can safely say that nobody is dying anytime soon. Whether someone will die is still up in the air.