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"Ow. Mercedes." Kurt raised his hand instinctively to protect the top of his head Mercedes had just chosen to smack with her rolled up sheet music.

The rest of the club tried to act like they weren't paying attention and snickering at the withering Mercedes shot her best friend while pointing her make-shift weapon at him. "I told you last night this was coming. Don't play dumb with me."

Matt nudged Mike's arm and whispered "Do you know what started this one?"

Mike shook his head. "All I know is Kurt called her last night and she left my place like someone lit a rocket behind her. I've never seen her move that fast and that includes when Quinn decided to give birth at Regionals."

"So we're just going to assume she has a good reason for randomly beating him?"

Mike shrugged his shoulders. "I'm sure you'll find out before the rest of us."

"What?" Matt turned to look at his best friend quizzically. "Aren't you dating Mercedes? You'll find out before anyone."

"Not if Kurt swore her to secrecy. Then all I get is what I've been getting. Which is mainly some comments about fool white boy, stupid plans and hard headed idiot who can't learn. And to be fair that could be about Finn learning new dance steps." Mike pointed out. "Besides you see Kurt more than she does these days."

"You're crazy." Matt scoffed. Ok his plan to avoid spending time Kurt was failing epically but they weren't together that much. It was just three classes. And glee. And practices for their song. And Kurt deciding to "help" with this non-date with Quinn. And the occasional movie war battle. But really he couldn't get out of any of those. Ok maybe it was just the classes he couldn't get out of but the rest? It wasn't that much.

"I ran into your mom at the grocery yesterday. She asked me if we had a fight and why we couldn't make up since we've been friends for so long." Mike said calmly, grinning as Mercedes landed another vicious sounding smack on Kurt's shoulder. The countertenor was going to develop one hell of a bruise at the rate his girl was going.

"She did not." Matt refuted as he winced in sympathy as Kurt yelped.

"She did." Mike confirmed. "This conversation was also held while she was picking up those cookies that nice Hummel boy likes. Your mom is buying him cookies dude. By definition that means he's over there all the time."

"It is not all the time. Besides we have to practice for this team performance some time right? And ever since the Rachel Berry bug-gate, he's even more paranoid about her than ever. "

"Is that actually possible?"

"Yes. You wouldn't think it but it is."

"Anyway the point still is you are always with Kurt. I almost never see you without him these days. "

If he hadn't known Mike almost his entire life, Matt would swear his best friend was fishing for information. It was entirely possible after all. Especially if he was getting nothing from Mercedes about why she was suddenly prone to physical violence. A hiss went through the entire club as an especially wicked sounding thump landed on the back of Kurt's neck. Finn even stood up, probably to get her to stop it, but one glare from Mercedes sent the quarterback scurrying back to his seat, shooting a look of apology at Kurt the entire time. For his part Kurt just rolled his eyes at Finn.

"I still say you're nuts. And I'd say come over today but I'm doing that coffee thing with Quinn after glee."

"Yeah that's another thing. You and Quinn? When did that happen?"

"There is no me and Quinn. It's just coffee. And it's more to get Kurt off our backs than anything else. It's his nutty idea that we should date."

Mike arched one of his eyebrows. "Kurt is playing matchmaker for you? Kurt?"

"Well he claims since it worked out so spectacularly for you and Mercedes, it's obviously his new talent."

"Do I want to know why he thinks he's responsible for my relationship?"

"Probably not." Matt shook his head. "Just know he is."

"You know it occurs to me there are apparently many things we need to talk about." Mike lowered his voice as Mr. Schue came into the room. "Think you can find time to break away from your new social circle to squeeze me in?"

Matt nodded as Mr. Schue dropped off a stack of sheet music for Brad and clapped his hands. Hanging out more with Mike was just what he needed to do. Get back to a more normal routine and help him stop this self-destructive pattern of hanging out with Kurt every chance he got.

"You know he didn't follow us." Quinn pointed out with a chuckle as Matt opened the door to Jackson's for her. "You could just leave me here and I'll find my own way back."

"Just because he didn't follow us here, doesn't mean he won't show up just because he was in the neighborhood." Matt pointed out with a laugh. "Do either of us really see him passing up a chance to try out a disguise if he thinks he might get away with it?"

"Good point. There was a sale on trench coats at the mall yesterday." Quinn nodded as they made their way to a small table off in the corner.

"And neither one of us was with him all day so we can't say he didn't go there and buy a new one." Matt smiled. "And of course I'm dying to know the real reason why you wanted to come here."

"I told you Matt. I just haven't had the chance…."

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm still not buying it. You live a few streets over from here. And I hear the days your dad is over there you tend to stay gone." Matt offered her a sympathetic smile and squeezed her hand.

"Kurt and Mercedes have big mouths." Quinn released a sigh as she met his eyes.

"Sometimes but I think this time they really were just worried about you."

"They shouldn't be. I'm fine."

"Hey I know you don't need anyone but sometimes it is nice to let people in. Or so I'm told." Matt teased her gently. "Now spill. You're dating the waiter right?"

A blush covered Quinn's peach skin and Matt leaned back in his chair. "You little sneak. Why haven't you said anything?"

"It's complicated Matt."

"Is it the waitress then?"

"No." Quinn shook her head at his guess. "He….he goes to Carmel."

Matt shut his eyes. "Oh Quinn. He's not…."

"In Vocal Adrenaline? Yes. But he's not one of the ones that egged Rachel." Quinn finished for him in a rush. "He didn't even like Jesse."

"And of course this is why you haven't told anyone you're seeing someone." Matt groaned. "And I went and told you I was a secret keeper."

"Austin really is a great guy. And I wasn't looking for any relationship after Beth and everything." Quinn said softly. "But I met him and things just clicked. Have you ever felt that way about someone? There's all these reasons why you shouldn't get involved and you have absolutely no intention of doing anything about even going about getting involved. But then you meet this really great person…."

"And everything logical goes right out the window. And every plan you make to stay on your path is a failure?" Matt finished for her. "Yeah. I get that."

"He's working today. You can meet him and see for yourself he's not another Jesse St. James in the wings. And I'll tell everyone. I promise. It's just too soon after Jesse and everything."

"I'll meet him. But if I don't like him…."

"You will. I promise Matt."

"If I don't, I'm telling everyone. And you know they'll be so in shock I'm talking they'll actually listen to me."

"Which also means if you like him, you can convince everyone else he's not a monster." Quinn smiled brightly.

"Just let me meet Mr. Wonderful first Quinn."