Find Yourself-
Ok so I'm so sorry I've been MIA with updating this, between my hs_bingo one-shots for LJ and a colab I'm writing with one of my gleek friends exclusive to the Soap Fan Fiction forum (link in my profile while it's still a wip) my mind and muse have been awol… I plan to fix that…anyway and so it continues…ps instead of music this chapter I am here to note that dialogue from the film 'The Princess Bride' is used…
March 14th, 2010….
"Kurt…we need to talk," Finn said as the door opened and his eyes fell upon the slightly shorter boy.
'This couldn't be good,' Kurt thought to himself as he motioned for his boyfriend to come into his former home.
Finn stood in the doorway like a statue however, a stone cold look in his usually warm and sweet eyes.
"Whose inside?" he asked.
Kurt didn't know why it was important who'd been at Sam's house but he decided to humor him.
"Well Sam but she's sleeping, and Puck's in the nursery with DB."
At hearing Puck was inside Finn let his lips curl into a half smile.
"Can we talk in the garage."
Kurt shrugged his shoulders.
Sure they could talk in the garage but why would he want to when the house right there was perfectly fine right where they stood.
Kurt stepped out of the house and headed to the family business that stood right outside and opened up the door leading Finn inside.
"So," Kurt said as he began to smooth an imaginary wrinkle in his Marc Jacobs, "you wanted to talk? What about…you need help prepping for Mr. Schue's Spanish Final or something?"
"Or something."
There was an awkwardly silent moment and Kurt just knew that the words out of Finn's mouth weren't going to just be him listing a different subject he needed his academic assistance with.
"I kind of…well…I kind of did something tonight that…well…"
"Spit it out Finn."
The taller boy sucked in a breath of fresh air.
"Well, I kissed someone, a female someone and well…"
Kurt didn't care to ask who this female was as it wasn't his business.
Instead he simply nodded sadly knowing that he'd have to wake up from his 'dream' of dating Finn Hudson eventually… and truthfully ever since the Spring Formal he knew this day would come sooner rather then later.
"So, you're back to being the straight jock I aimlessly crushed on all through the first semester and even some of Freshman Year?"
"I..um…guess so yea…but you're a great guy Kurt…I'm sure there are other…"
"Fish in the sea…yea I know. I just can't believe I'm loosing my first real boyfriend to a woman."
There was another awkward silence as Finn went on.
"We can still be friends though…I mean if you still want to be and all."
Kurt flashed a friendly smile.
It would be painful at first but he could do with being friends.
"Friends…you bet."
Finn's sad look was instantly swapped and in its place his trademark goofy grin.
"Good, now about that tutoring…"
XXX
After that epic kiss Kristina's lips curved into a wicked grin.
"What's going on in that devious Cassadine brain of yours."
Kristina rolled her eyes temporarily regretting telling Artie all about her wack job family, she swore if Artie asked if she was plotting on building a weather machine she'd walk away right then and there. Instead he just looked at her with his sparkling blue eyes waiting for her to respond.
"I was thinking that as utterly romantic as tonight was for us… I bet it kind of sucks for Mike, Mercedes, and Matt who are just watching us."
"And what do you propose to do about it?"
"Well from up here we can get a good view of the drive in."
Tilting his head Artie smiled as he watched the faint flickering of 'Alice in Wonderland' playing on the screen.
"Yea, but we can't hear it."
Shaking her head she knew it wasn't a bright idea however seconds later it seemed that the trio of 'M's' were now sitting on the rooftop with the dup sharing in the dessert that Artie had brought for them and talking up a storm.
"You know," Mercedes, said, "I know I've probably said this before but you two should double date with Mike and I sometime."
Artie smiled at his friend.
"We'd like that…"
"And we've got all summer to plan something," Mike said with a grin as he flashed a saddened expression to Matt.
The others followed Mike's look.
"Don't worry Matt," Kristina said, "I'm sure your happily ever after will come soon enough, even if I have to recruit Molly into finding your dream girl."
Matt just casually smiled trying to repress the urge to state that his proverbial dream girl was in fact a guy and said guy was Kristina's very own non-brother!
"Are you sure Molly is up for the challenge," Matt said instead, "my standards are set rather high."
XXX
Some time had passed and the trio had decided to call it a night and soon Matt's car pulled up to the Davis-Hummel door.
"If your boyfriend doesn't mind, want me to walk you to your door."
Kristina smiled at Matt and shook her head telling him thanks but no thanks as she leaned over to kiss Artie goodnight and headed out to the door.
As she neared the house she had heard a soft whimpering sound almost like a stray puppy causing a pang in her heart as she'd always had a soft spot for animals.
She looked left and right and saw nothing causing her to shrug as she stuck her key into the door and entered the house. And there she spotted him, Kurt, sitting on the couch crying.
"Kurt,' she said approaching the couch, "what's wrong…"
Her mind instantly crept to the worst-case sinario.
"Who died?"
He looked into her eyes with his teary ones.
"Nobody died, just my relationship."
She took a seat by his side and wrapped her arm around him.
"I take it Finn was the dumper and you were the dumpee right?"
Kurt just nodded.
"What happened? You two seemed so happy."
"Apparently he kissed a girl and he liked it."
Kristina simply shook her head.
"Did he say who the girl was… cause I can totally insinuate a chick fight if you want."
"As hot as Puck and some of the other guys we know would think that sinario was Krissy…I don't want you fighting my battles and besides, Finn didn't say who the girl was."
Kristina simply pouted.
"Changing the subject, so where did your Romeo have Rutherford whisk his fair Juliet off to this fine evening."
"Well, Artie set Matt up to drive us to the Lima observatory where we had a romantic dinner under the stars."
Kurt tried to picture that sinario play out causing his sad expression to curl into a hint of a smile.
"Anyway I kind of feel guilty now that I had a night taken right out of a fairytale while your night kind of sucked."
"Don't feel guilty."
She shook her head.
"No Kurt… you listen to me, I'm going up to my room to slip into something more comfortable, you go through the DVD rack and pick out whatever DVD's that you want to see and we are going to wallow together."
"Wallowing won't be necessary."
"Well then we can simply call it a sibling all night movie marathon if you so choose."
"Now that I can agree with."
Getting up Kristina went to her room to change from her dress to a pair of yoga pants and her favorite Yankees T-shirt while Kurt popped some popcorn (carbs be dammed) before heading to the DVD rack and pulling out classic Hollywood musicals such as Meet Me In and Singing In The Rain glad that he had someone besides his father in his world to go through moments like this with.
XXX
She couldn't recall when exactly she had fallen asleep, or where her mom, Burt, and Molly had thought when they had came into the living room that morning however when the phone rang Saturday afternoon and she woke up to find her head resting on Kurt's shoulder, his arm gently wrapped around her tiny frame a small smile crept around her face.
She escaped his grasp and her non-brother surprisingly stayed asleep as she reached out to see who was calling her.
"Hello," she replied into her cell phone after seeing Tina's number on her caller ID.
"Did I wake you Krissy? Cause it's already noon and I just…never mind…I can call back."
She blinked her eyes getting them to focus before she moved from the living room area into the empty kitchen so as not to wake Kurt up.
"No, I'm up what do you want?"
From where she'd been sitting in her own emptied home Tina's mind began to fill with images and sounds of the night before.
The break up with Ethan, impulsively kissing Finn, going home and blasting angsty music trying to forget…
"I was wondering if you wanted to meet me for Lunch or something."
Kristina smiled despite the fact Tina couldn't see it.
"Sure, say twenty minutes."
"Sounds like a plan," Tina said as they decided on the place to meet up.
XX
Twenty minutes on the dot Kristina had entered the small café downtown to see Tina already sitting there scribbling in her sketch book.
"What are you working on?"
Tina shook her head as she closed the book tightly slipping it back into here black and red messenger bag.
"Nothing special."
Kristina just nodded as she looked over to the menu contemplating what to order.
"So, tell me about last night with Artie."
Kristina smiled as she retold her friend all about her magical evening before a pang of guilt came over her.
"Do you ever feel jealous me going on and on about how great a boyfriend Artie is to me when if I didn't come to Lima you'd be the one he'd be whisking away to the conservatory roof."
Truthfully to Tina the answer under normal circumstances would be that she wasn't jealous of Kristina and Artie's whirlwind romance however since her head was still in a daze she simply shrugged.
"Sometimes I kind of am jealous, I mean if I hadn't lied about having a stutter then perhaps we would of went from being friends to being more before Sectionals happened and we'd be blissfully happy…however more so I think everything happened for a reason and that the two of us are destined to be friends and that your his soul mate."
Kristina smiled at the young Asian girls comment as they got their lunch and sat back down talking about anything and nothing like the good friends they had been shaping up to be. However Kristina still noticed a look in Tina's eyes.
"Something isn't sitting well with me Tina, something is bothering you and if it's not me talking all about Artie then what is it?"
Tina swallowed the lump forming in her throat, as she knew this had to come out eventually and better from her then from him.
"Ethan broke up with me."
Kristina blinked in genuine shock over the matter at hand.
"What! Why?"
"Well he called me last night and I at first thought it was to wish me a Happy Anniversary but instead he tells me we need to talk."
"No."
Tina just nodded as she went on.
"He told me I was a great girl and that he still wanted to be friends but that he'd met someone else."
"Who?" Kristina asked thinking that perhaps she knew her.
"Her name's Maya and she's an intern at the Hospital and closer to Ethan's age if not a year or two older even."
"Sorry."
"Well I knew it wouldn't last I mean come on Krissy two strikes against me he was older and long distance…"
"But your Anniversary."
"I think that's what hurt the most," she said while thinking (that and kissing Finn afterwards)
"You know, break ups seem to be going around lately."
"Why? Who else broke up?"
Though in the back of her mind Tina had an inkling of what her friend was about to say.
"Kurt and Finn."
"You don't say," Tina said though she knew that the break up most likely was caused by the kiss last night though she wasn't going to go out and say it.
"Anyway so I spent the better part of last night, early this morning consoling Kurt and watching old musicals and well..want to go back to your place and watch movies or something?"
Tina let out a laugh thinking about how she'd wanted so much to be able to do it the previous evening.
Nodding they headed to her house for a girls afternoon in.
XXX
Across town Finn was in mental mess. He wondered if he should of broken up with Kurt the previous evening and he wondered even more if he should go to the Cohen Chang home to talk to Tina about the kiss. It was just a kiss right? It wasn't supposed to mean anything… cause well kissing her he kind of felt the same way that he felt back when he was with Quinn which seemed like forever ago and yet that was a kiss that he couldn't forget.
"Finn," his mother said upon seeing him, "is something wrong."
He sat and contemplated her question for a brief moment. He couldn't tell her about anything cause she didn't even know he was 'dating' Kurt, she just suspected the two boys were good friends.
"Nothing's wrong… um…I think I'm going to head out."
His mother nodded as she watched him storm out of the house thinking to herself that there was more to her son then he was letting on.
XXX
At the Cohen Chang home by now the two girls were on a kick of watching various movies in Tina's eclectic library. At present their drug of choice was the Princess Bride, a film the girls both clearly had seen one too many times.
"That Vizzini, he can fuss," Tina said along with the movie while she was purging all thoughts of telling Kristina about the kiss into the dark recesses of her mind.
"Fuss fuss," Kristina began to recite, 'I think he likes to scream at us."
"Probably he means no harm."
Kristina let out a giggle going on.
"He's really very short on charm."
"You have a great gift for rhyme."
"Yes, yes, some of the time…"
As the girls were watching and reciting Finn had walked up to the Cohen Chang home and was about to knock on the door when he recognized Kurt's 'baby' parked in the driveway. He figured that the car was probably being driven by Kristina, after all she and the young girl he wanted to see were close… but then again so was she and Kurt…and what if it was him… would Tina tell Kurt about the kiss?
He wasn't going to let that happen and so he decided to man up knocked on the door anyways.
"Fezzik, are there rocks ahead,' Tina was saying as the knock was heard.
"If there are, we all be dead."
Tina paused the DVD and stood up walking to the door with Kristina behind her.
"Finn," she said looking up at the tall boy, "what are you doing here."
"We need to talk about last night."
Kristina put two and two together without anyone saying another word.
"Tina, you were the girl that Finn kissed."
"T-technically I kissed Finn, and if I had known that my moment of weakness would cause you and Kurt to split up…"
She began to cry.
"You just helped to push along the inevitable, no need to be sorry T."
"I should… I should go."
They both nodded and Kristina headed out trying to take it all in.
XXX
By the end of the weekend which seemed to drag on and on and never want to end, Kristina had found herself sitting on the porch swing in front of the Abrams's home watching the Sunday evening sun set, Artie having slid out of his chair to cuddle besides her.
"So," she went on as she let out a laugh, "they decided not to get together right away for fear it would just be a rebound thing."
Artie nodded as Kristina told them about the whole Finn and Tina situation.
"And Kurt."
"I'm sure his Mr. Right is right under out noses and we don't even know it yet."
Artie let out a soft laugh as he ran his fingers through Kristina's hair whispering that she needent fear about loosing him in the near future as he was in it for the long haul.
XXX
TBC
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