April

Finn spent the first half of April trying to cheer Kurt up when he and Blaine broke up. Kurt still hadn't felt up to telling him what happened, but Finn had accidentally overheard the entire fight. Not that he ever wanted Kurt to find out about that.

Earlier:

Finn had come home from taking Mercedes for ice cream when he heard raised voices in the kitchen. He hurried through the house to make sure everything was okay, but ducked behind the door in the living room when he realized Kurt and Blaine were fighting.

"Blaine, don't be idiot. You got into Yale! If you get into Yale you go to Yale!" Kurt sounded frustrated, Finn should know, Kurt got frustrated with him a lot.

"But I got wait-listed for Columbia! I got into NYU! We said New York and I'm coming to New York with you. You are going to get your acceptance for Parsons or FIT any day now. We've been talking about this forever," Blaine argued.

Kurt's voice was quieter and Finn wouldn't have heard what he said if Blaine hadn't made him speak up, "I got my letter from Parsons on Monday, I got in."

"Kurt! That's amazing, I knew you would. See, New York is meant to be," Blaine argued.

"For me, Blaine. New York is an amazing opportunity for me. I can't let you throw your opportunity away for me."

"I only got into Yale because I'm a legacy. I don't want my father's life Kurt, you know that."

"It won't matter in the end, Blaine. All that will matter is that you'll have a degree from one of the best schools in the country!" Kurt said, loud enough now that Finn could have went back to his own room and still heard them, like that was going to happen.

"No, what matters is that you are my boyfriend, and I love you and I want to be with you no matter what!" Blaine looked like he was about to pull his hair out, and Finn could sympathize with that reaction. Kurt could be stubborn when he thought he was right.

"Than maybe I shouldn't be!"

"Shouldn't be? What do you mean? Shouldn't be what, Kurt?" Blaine asked, but Finn had a bad feeling he knew what was coming.

"Your boyfriend. If being with me is going to cause you to throw your future away than maybe I shouldn't be your boyfriend anymore," Kurt said though he could barely get the words out. Finn seriously wanted to go in there and stop this before things got worse, but he knew he had to leave them alone.

"Kurt, that's crazy. You can't mean that. We love each other, we'll figure this out," Blaine said, his voice cracking. At this point Finn really wanted to sneak out the back door, he felt pretty guilty for listening but he had the feeling Kurt might need him when this was over.

"I do love you, and that's why I can't do this anymore. I think you better go," Kurt said, turning away from Blaine, his eyes on his boots.

Blaine choked a bit, "Okay, okay. Obviously we can't talk about this right now, but I don't accept this. You can't just throw this away. Call me when you are ready to have a real conversation about this."

Finn waited until the door slammed before he entered the kitchen and opened his arms, not surprised at all to have his brother sobbing on his shoulder.

When Kurt made up his mind about something it was hard to change it, Finn knew that from experience. Convinced he was doing this for Blaine's own good his brother refused to answer the other boy's calls or texts for nearly two weeks.

Finally, Mercedes and Blaine's friend Wes conspired via Facebook and gave the two of them a figurative or maybe literal knowing his girlfriend, slap upside the head. It turns out that New Haven and New York City are no farther apart than Lima and Westerville. Finn spent the last week of April pretending to be annoyed at how obnoxiously in love Kurt and Blaine were once they made up.

May

As juniors the prom had seemed like a thing they had to do. It had, at least for a while, seemed important. It was on the way back from a decisive win at Regionals that they decided none of them actually cared that much about prom. They just wanted to have a special night together. Puck and Finn had been in favor of just getting dressed up in their fancy clothes and going to Wendy's. Finn thought that would be a pretty good anti-prom statement and plus they had those triple cheeseburgers that he loved. They were pretty severely out-voted, however, and that's how the New Directions Anti-Prom Hudmel Dinner and House Party started.

Kurt and Mercedes had taken charge of the planning and figured out that if they all pooled the money they would have spent on tickets, dinners, and limos they could easily have a meal catered and pay for a weekend getaway for Burt and Carole. That part took some negotiation, but in the end all the parents agreed with the condition that no alcohol would be present. Finn was pretty sure that some of the parents still weren't on board, but finally Burt had just cut to the chase and pointed out that on the off chance anyone in the group was still a virgin they weren't suddenly going to change their mind because it was prom weekend.

Finn was careful to agree with the concept without verifying his dad's assumptions about the entire group, although at this point he was pretty sure they were correct. He figured they were all less likely to do anything like that on the night they were sharing a house with all their friends than if they had been left to find their own after prom entertainment.

The dinner was awesome and afterwards they all piled into the living room to watch some of those 80s teen movies on the big screen. As the night went on they changed out of their formal clothes and movies turned into board games and Rock Band, which turned into truth or dare.

Finally, at 3am everyone was exhausted and decided to call it a night. Everyone else spread out their sleeping bags and pillows in the living room while Finn, Mercedes, Kurt and Blaine headed upstairs. He figured being the host bought him a little bit of privacy. Just because they were both too tired to do anything didn't mean that he didn't want to cuddle up with Mercedes and wake up with her in his bed. As she climbed in next to him and rested her head on his chest he thought back to prom the year before. He was so glad he had the guts to kiss her when he did.