Chapter 8:
Kurt was shaking as the phone rang, terrified of Blaine's reaction. He was about to mess this thing up before it even began.
"Hey Kurt!"
"Hi Blaine."
"I'm so glad you called, I was freaked I scared you there for a second."
"No! Not at all. Umm…I had a visitor."
"Oh? Who?"
"Liam. Remember when we were in the park and that guy I was talking to? Him."
"Oh." Blaine's voice sounded small and Kurt hated himself for making the boy feel that way.
"Um… look Blaine I really want to be honest with you here so there aren't any secrets between us." Blaine stayed silent so Kurt took that as his sign to continue. "Liam and I used to go out for a few months until he dumped me on Valentine's Day out of the blue. I guess its always haunted me as to why he just suddenly decided to stop seeing me. But um…he showed up today at my place and we started talking and he told me the reason he dumped me was because of his parents. I honestly felt nothing toward him but relief that I could finally close that chapter of my life you know? Like something had been resolved. But Liam didn't really feel that way and he..um…he…k-kissed me." Kurt said those last two words very slowly and carefully. Blaine still wasn't speaking on his end and the silence loomed when eventually…
"Did you kiss him back?" Blaine's voice was just a whisper.
"Y-yes, but only for a split second! I was taken by surprise and honestly it was familiar so part of it was instinct but it literally only took me a second to break the kiss off!" Kurt could feel himself getting hysterical.
"Oh." Blaine was silent again and Kurt starting praying to a deity he didn't believe in to make this all okay. "Listen Kurt, I know we haven't really discussed what we are to each other so I get that we're not exclusive but maybe we should have that talk now?"
"Okay yeah I agree."
"So…. what am I?"
Kurt was at a loss for words. He decided to just lay it all out there and then Blaine could decide what he wanted them to be. Kurt knew what he wanted. "I like you Blaine. A lot. Like, I want us to be exclusive."
"Me too." Those were Kurt's two favorite words now. "Kurt, I really like you. And yeah I'm a little upset about the whole ex thing but there's really nothing to forgive. We weren't together or anything. Let's just start with a blank slate and go into this knowing we like each other." After a pause Blaine added, "Also maybe don't kiss anyone else?"
Kurt laughed at that and eagerly replied, "Yeah, I'd love that. So you'll come over tomorrow?"
"Wouldn't miss it for the world."
"I made reservations at my favorite Italian bistro, it's really small but private and I love the food."
"Sounds fantastic! I'll see you tomorrow Kurt. Sleep well. Goodnight."
Kurt didn't want to hang up just yet but knew this was probably Blaine's ever so polite way of ending a difficult conversation. "Goodnight Blaine. I can't wait to see you tomorrow." And without another word Kurt hung up the phone. He was reeling at the fact that Blaine had actually admitted to wanting to be exclusive with Kurt. Nothing, and Kurt meant it, nothing was going to screw this up for him. Blaine was a once in a lifetime shot and he intended to take it.
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Kurt awoke the next morning fairly early, eager to make sure everything was in place for when Blaine arrived. Kurt insisted on meeting Blaine at the bus stop but Blaine had declined stating that he needed to eventually learn the bus route to Brooklyn and how to get to Kurt's place. Every so often, Kurt was looking out the window just in case the buzzer to their building wasn't working. He was working up a serious case of anxiety when finally around noon, the buzzer rang. Kurt ran toward it maybe a little to fast, "Hello!?"
"Hey, it's Blaine!"
Kurt let him in and quickly looked at himself in the mirror. Blue jeans and a white sweater, keeping it casual. Then he heard the knock on the door.
Kurt opened to door to a bouquet of beautiful yellow roses held out by a timid smile on Blaine's perfect face. Kurt awed and threw himself into's Blaine's embrace not caring that it was too touchy because truth be told, Kurt had missed Blaine. Blaine laughed and hugged him right back after making sure the flowers were still intact, Blaine held them out again, "These are for you. Red is a bit cliche and I love the color yellow."
"They're beautiful! Thank you Blaine."
Kurt quickly put the flowers into a vase with water and set them on the dinning room tablet.
"My room's over here. I figure lets get stupid math over with so we can do more fun stuff."
"Excuse you! Math is fun okay." Blaine had a serious look on his face like Calculus was a favorite hobby of Blaine's.
They both laughed at Kurt's dumbfounded face and made their way upstairs.
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It had been 45 minutes and Kurt had not learned one thing. Blaine was teaching him all sorts of stuff, even giving practice and example problems but Kurt found it so hard to focus on anything when Blaine was there and all Kurt wanted to do was kiss him.
They were sitting on Kurt's bed with his Calculus book between them and Kurt's notes scattered around.
"Kurt?" Kurt looked up at Blaine's confused face.
"Huh?"
Blaine laughed, "I've been calling your name like three times now. What's going on? Am I confusing you?"
"No! Not at all, um…I think I'm just really distracted."
Blaine suddenly had a knowing look on his faced and a smirk appeared across his lips. He leaned his lips right next to Kurt's. "How about we make this a game?"
Kurt could only stare wide eyed.
When Kurt said nothing, Blaine continued, "For every problem you do on your own correctly, I'll give you a kiss."
Kurt gulped. "A-a kiss?"
"Yeah."
"Uh-S-s-sure." Kurt was now sweating and it was horribly unattractive. He made himself listen as Blaine re-taught the last 45 minutes again and it took another 30 minutes before Kurt actually got a problem right on his own. Kurt smiled and looked up at Blaine awaiting his reward, but Blaine only shook his head. "Sorry Kurt but you cheated. You looked at your notes."
Kurt's mouth gaped at Blaine. "Are you serious!? I was only checking what the formula was! We're allowed to have cheat sheets for formulas, that's not cheating!" Kurt was getting furious now. Why wouldn't Blaine just kiss him?
"Sorry babe but you need to do the next one without anything."
Kurt blushed deep scarlet at Blaine's term of endearment from Blaine. And then Kurt became determined. He would get his kiss from Blaine. If anything, he wanted to erase the horrible memory of kissing Liam.
Kurt actually did the next problem all on his own and was about to tell Blaine when suddenly a pair of lips were on his. Blaine was kissing him passionately with a desire so deep. Kurt was eagerly kissing back. Maybe it was the pent up tension or the fact that they hadn't kissed since Blaine first arrived but both boys were hungry for more.
Blaine gently pushed Kurt backward so he was laying on his bed and then steadied himself on top of Kurt. After what felt like forever and yet not enough, Blaine pulled away but was still on top of Kurt staring into his eyes. Kurt was a deep shade of red from head to toe smiling weakly at Blaine.
"Better than Liam?"
"Who?"
They both smiled and continued kissing until they heard the front door open.
"Kurt! I'm home." Burt called out.