Kurt and Blaine spent the next few weeks spending most of their time together, and their friends began to notice, apparently more than they did themselves.
"So what's the deal with you two?" Mercedes said with a smirk and grabbed the attention of the pair who were currently laughing hysterically at an inside joke they shared. Her abrupt question silenced them immediately. Blaine turned bright red yet again and he let out a small giggle and turned to look around him; the ceiling, the floor, anywhere but Kurt. Kurt's reaction was very different. He shot his friend one of his famous dirty looks and simply said "We're friends."
He then turned to Blaine and said "Hey do you wanna go finish our lunch somewhere else?"
"Um yeah, sure." Without looking back, Blaine mumbled "Bye," gathered his things, then quickly ran to catch up with Kurt who was already strutting out of the cafeteria.
Once they found a quiet place outside, Kurt said "I'm sorry about them. They're just excited I finally have a gay friend. Don't worry about them though, they're being immature."
"No, it's okay. I get it. It's fine, really." Blaine smiled. Kurt couldn't resist laughing at him. He really loved being Blaine's friend. And he's secretly been a little bit in love with him since they first met, but he couldn't admit that. Not just to his friends, but even himself. He didn't want to get his hopes up, just to be inevitably disappointed. What he didn't know was, Blaine felt the exact same way.
Later that night, Kurt was staying at Rachel's house with Mercedes. They were watching When Harry Met Sally when Kurt and noticed Rachel and Mercedes sharing mischievous glances. He ignored them for as long as he could, already suspecting what they were thinking, and then when he couldn't take it any longer, he paused the movie, turned to his friends and said, curtly, "What do you want?"
Their smug faces turned to look at each other before practically exclaiming simultaneously, "Why aren't you with Blaine yet!?"
Kurt let out an exasperated sigh before reciprocating with "Why should I be!? He's my friend, and yeah he's gay, but that doesn't mean he likes me in that way!"
"Kurt, open your eyes! HE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU." Rachel yelled as loud as Rachel Berry could. Which was loud. No matter how hard Kurt tried, he couldn't mask his stunned yet pleasantly surprised expression. But then Kurt remembered he was a cynic and skeptically looked at his friends and said "Why would you think that..?"
The girls burst into laughter and divulged that everyone had been thinking the same for weeks. Puck especially, had been very enthusiastic about them getting together, which surprised Kurt. Did Blaine really like him? No wait, was Blaine in love with him? He couldn't possibly be, because that would be good, and good things didn't happen to Kurt Hummel.
"Based on your reaction it is very clear that you're in love with him too, although we already knew that!" Rachel kept on, and her and Mercedes were virtually winking and nudging each other.
Kurt didn't want to let them know how he really felt, but it was obvious to him there was no point hiding it any longer. "So, if what you say is true, what do you think I should do?"
"Kurt, that's not up to us to decide, we just had to give you the... 'nudge' you needed!" Mercedes snickered.
He could feel himself getting embarrassed, so he quickly said "Okay, great, end of that discussion, let's watch the rest of the movie." and he pressed play and the three carried on watching in silence, but Rachel and Mercedes were more interested in the quietly blissful smile on their friend's face, and they couldn't be any more glad that things were finally looking up for Kurt.
