AN: I got absolutely no writing done in advance this weekend. So I'm going to try but there might start being day gaps between chapters. Never more than a day and I'm going to try really hard not to have to. Hope you enjoy.

Chapter 66

Blaine's dad took the role of banker and they started playing. As they played, they talked.

"So what did you do for Christmas this year?" His mom asked.

Blaine gave a small smile as he rolled the dice. "We just stayed in at Kurt's house and watched movies and opened presents with his family. It was really nice."

Blaine's dad nodded. "I'm glad you still had a good time even though you couldn't go to Wes' this year."

Blaine shrugged. "He had plans. I guess he's gotten really close with some of his new college buddies so he didn't even come home for the break."

His dad shook his head. "I'm sure his parents were disappointed."

Blaine looked at him. "We normally spent Christmas alone at his place. You know, since you guys are normally gone and his parents are normally gone. He wasn't missing much."

Clearing his throat, Blaine's dad looked at Blaine. "Well, when you go away for college, we do expect you home for the holidays."

Blaine scoffed a bit at that. "For what? An empty house?"

Blaine's mom looked down at that while his dad grew angry. "You had the option of joining us for the holidays and you chose to stay here."

Blaine rubbed his face, laughing a bit. "Because I didn't want to spend the whole vacation away from my friends and my boyfriend."

Blaine's dad shook his head. "And it goes back to him again. Blaine, your relationship is really too intense for a high school romance."

Blaine stood up and glared at him. "I love him. Just because you can't understand that, doesn't mean it's not real."

He turned to leave and had just reached the base of the stairs when his dad yelled at him. "Get back here and sit down."

Blaine froze and took a deep breath before turning around and asking. "What dad? Do we really have to do this every time I see you?"

Blaine's dad sighed and pointed at the seat Blaine had abandoned. "Sit."

Blaine glared and stalked over to the seat, plopping down and crossing his arms. Blaine's dad sat back down and took his glasses off, rubbing his forehead. Blaine's mom looked between the two before quietly excusing herself under the guise of washing off the flight.

After a few moments of sitting in silence, Blaine's dad said calmingly. "I don't mean to belittle your relationship. I just worry that you are getting in too deep with that boy."

Blaine huffed. "That boy has a name. And it's Kurt. And how deep is too deep dad? Why shouldn't I be allowed to feel this way? Is it because it's a boy? Huh?" He ended up yelling at the end, leaning forward and waving his hands a bit.

Blaine's dad looked at him, shocked. "It's not because he is a boy and I resent that accusation. I have never been anything less than supportive of you in your life. I just worry about how committed you are."

Blaine laughed at that. "You've never been less than supportive huh? So what was with the whole 'let's rebuild a car' kick last summer?"

With a sad look on his face, Blaine's dad looked at Blaine. "That wasn't to try to 'straighten you out'. I just knew that work would be sending me out a lot starting at the end of that summer and I wanted to get a little bit of quality time in with my son before that."

Blaine shook his head. "Then why would you have us rebuild a car? There are a million things we could have done that would have been better."

Blaine's dad chuckled a bit. "Admittedly, not my best plan. But I had read in one of my journal articles that by building something together, animosity between us would lessen. Clearly, it didn't accomplish that. But Blaine, I never intended for it to be about you being gay. I just wanted to have a chance to spend time with you."

Blaine sat back at the genuinely hurt tone in his dad's voice and looked back on the summer. Thinking about it without the context of being a homophobic response to his coming out of the closet, it appeared his dad was being truthful. His work had definitely picked up a lot since then and they had spent a lot of time together during that project.

He still had a question. "If that's true, then why are you always so weird about my relationship with Kurt? Because you always seem to not want to talk about him or spend time with him."

Blaine's dad leaned forward and looked Blaine in the eye. "It's never been about him being a boy. We are so rarely home that, when we are, I want to spend time with you. And I'll admit, it's to the detriment of getting to know your boyfriend. But it's not because we don't like him." He added after a bit of thought. "Though I do worry about how close you two have gotten in such a short amount of time and at such a young age."

Blaine shook his head, tone pleading with his dad to understand. "No dad. We've known each other for a while now. And age doesn't matter. I've given him a ring. We know that we are meant to be together."

Both men whirled around when they heard a gasp in the doorway. "You're engaged?" His mom asked, hand over her heart.

Blaine laughed. "No, no. It's a promise ring. That one day we will get engaged and get married. I know we are too young to be engaged and thinking about marriage but with Kurt, I can't help but picture a future. And he's always in it."

His mom came over and pulled him into a hug. He looked over his mom's shoulder at his dad, silently asking if his dad understood. His dad gave a small smile and reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

"I can tell you mean that. I'm sorry if it seemed like I didn't support your relationship but I didn't want you getting hurt. I see that won't be a problem as long as you have Kurt."

Blaine smiled and pulled his dad into a hug, which was returned after a moment of startledness. After they broke apart, Blaine's mom wiped at her face and said. "Well, enough with this emotional drama. Let's continue our game, yes?"

The two men laughed and sat back down, resuming the game.

AN: I'll write in some Blaine/Blaine's mom interaction tomorrow. I can't name them. They are only going to be around for two more chapters max and I have zero creativity with names. So I'll wait until canon gives me some names before writing it. I might be waiting a while. Please review.