It was three in the morning when Blaine finally fell far enough asleep for Kurt to roll him back onto his air-mattress and sneak out. He'd come prepared with some wet wipes to clean them up so they didn't need to turn any water on and potentially wake someone up, but he still felt kind of gross. When he got back to his room he cleaned himself off with more wet wipes until he felt clean and then got into his bed. As he was lying there he missed the heavy press of Blaine's body on him, crowding into his space and curling around him. If it wasn't so risky and so late already Kurt would have just stayed with Blaine. But then he thought of how many people in the house seemed to know at least SOMETHING was up with them and his desire to risk it lessened.

Kurt yawned and snuggled into his bed. He pulled a pillow to him so he could pretend it was Blaine.

No, not Blaine, his future boyfriend. And since Blaine said that wouldn't be him, it couldn't be Blaine.

No.

Kurt still imagined curly hair as he fell asleep.

Finn got up early the next day, apparently determined to make it back to college so he could call Rachel before she expected it and happily surprise her.

They still didn't make it out of the Hudmel house until after one. Still, it was a great effort on Finn's part and Blaine hoped Rachel appreciated it.

Kurt discreetly pulled him into his room before he left and kissed Blaine fiercely. Blaine clung to him, tried not to think about it being the last kiss, and poured as much feeling as he dared into the connection. They were both breathless when they had to pull away.

On the way out the door Kurt gave them both hugs, but Blaine's was a bit longer and a lot tighter, than Finn's had been. Blaine tried not to think about the fact that Burt, Carole, and Finn were all watching.

The door closed and everyone turned around to get out of the entryway. Kurt ran past his father so he didn't have to talk to him about this. He felt tears in his eyes but he refused to let them fall.

He didn't feel anything for Blaine, nothing at all.

This wasn't what if felt like for his heart to break.

Blaine put his phone in one of the bags they put in the trunk so he wouldn't be tempted to just text Kurt the entire ride to Columbus. With every mile they got farther away the more Blaine wanted to turn around.

They were quiet for most of the ride. It wasn't until they'd passed the halfway mark that Finn opened his mouth. Of course he asked about what Blaine wished he wouldn't. "So, you and Kurt."

"Um... Yeah," Blaine said.

"Rachel says you guys have been going out since you came home with me for Thanksgiving." Finn's voice harder than Blaine had ever heard it.

"No... we weren't." Blaine corrected quickly. At Thanksgiving they were just fooling around, they hadn't started things officially yet. "We just went on one date."

Finn nodded. "And so you really got together when you came to mine for Christmas break?"

"Yeah." Blaine nodded. He took a breath. Finn was probably going to boil over soon.

"Okay." Finn nodded one more time. Then he sucked in a breath. "Why didn't you guys just tell me? Or Burt or my mom? Why did you guys sneak around? You didn't have to do that. I like you Blaine, you're a cool guy. I wouldn't have killed you or anything for liking Kurt. Neither would Burt or my mom."

Blaine opened his mouth and then closed it again.

"You're my friend, dude. You're supposed to tell me things like this. Kurt told his friends. Actually, I had to find out from Rachel that something was happening at all!"

"How did you know?" Blaine asked.

"I saw you guys eating each other's faces on New Year's. Really, if you were trying to be sneaky that was really stupid of you. Though, I'm glad you guys were that stupid because, seriously, sneaking around was, like, the stupidest thing for you guys to do. I mean, what would have happened if my mom walked in on you guys making out or something? Or Burt?

"Oh, I just realized I was helping you guys sneak around taking all those shifts at the garage. Blaine, when I told you to talk to Kurt about gay stuff I didn't mean this."

"Finn!" Blaine interrupted. "I'm SORRY we didn't tell you. I just - we weren't really sure for a little while and then... I didn't want you to get mad, exactly as you are right now. When we were sure about things it was kind of late to tell you. And we had a system that works and - we just didn't think of it," Blaine lied.

"Sure of things?" Finn asked.
Uh-oh. Blaine smelled trouble. "Um, yes?"

"So you guys are, like, legit going out? I mean, I thought so after I talked with Kurt a little, but, just making sure. I mean, I thought you were going out with that Sebastian guy and you weren't. And Kurt's made stuff up in his head before. But you guys are going out now?"

Blaine opened his mouth to say 'no', to tell Finn that they'd decided not to try the long distance thing and they weren't REALLY that serious about each other so it was okay and no one was getting hurt. What ACTUALLY came out of his mouth was, "yes, we are."

The tension and coldness in the car, caused almost entirely by Finn's agitation and Blaine's reluctance, lifted. All that was left was the content rolling off Finn in waves. "Good, we can carpool back to Lima on weekends."

"Yeah, sounds great." Blaine forced a smile on his face and didn't say anything more.