Yay! I'm back! College has been pretty hectic and yeah, I dunno when the next chapter will be out, but I promise I haven't given up on this! Although my other fic, "Gift from the stars" will be on hiatus (as if it wasn't already) yeah. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter.

Again, nothing here is mine, I'm just having fun with the characters!

yeah, yeah, yeah... on with the show!

It's already been two weeks since Thanksgiving, and Blaine was still on edge about everything that happened. At first he was surprised, well, not really. He didn't know how he felt actually. He was just happy that his parents took the news somewhat well enough, although something else could be said about his mother.

They still hadn't called Blaine.

But that's in the past, what's gotten the man worried about now is the fact that break was fast approaching. He still hadn't finished making the midterms for his students and there was that stack of algebra worksheets he still didn't grade yet. Those and Alice was playing in her room. She's experienced a lot in the last two months. Who knew a divorce could cause… Well, he wasn't really surprised that a divorce caused all this, but he just wished that Alice didn't have to go through all that.

Arms circled around his sitting form. They were much too long to be Alice's, so he instantly knew who they belonged to. "Hey sweetie, need any help?" Kurt buried his nose into Blaine's curly hair. He felt the other man take a sharp inhale, taking in the strawberry scented shampoo Alice always liked. "Staring at the paper won't do anything."

Blaine let go of the pen he was holding, curling them instead so that he was embracing Kurt's arms. "Will you please?" He looked up. "I'm way behind on grading." They swayed in position as Blaine leaned back on his chair to get closer to Kurt. The couple stayed there for a while, dancing like grass in the wind for what felt like an hour. Kurt smiled. Never in his life did he think that he would be spending anytime with a man like Blaine, granted Blaine thought the same thing. "How's Alice?"

He nuzzled his cheek next to Blaine's ear. "Sleeping." Kurt moved away from their current position, earning a small whine from the other man. Blaine hoped that Kurt didn't hear it, but the small grin on Kurt's face proved otherwise. Kurt sat across the dining room table where Blaine placed the stack of algebra homework he managed to accumulate. Kurt's eyes grew at the sheer height of the stack. "You really like torturing your students don't you." Kurt said, flipping through the whole pile. There had to be at least four different quizzes here and from Blaine's four classes of the day? Wow.

"I need to have a certain amount of points by the end of the semester. I kind of promised a short midterm, so…. yeah."

Kurt continued flipping through, still amazed by the fact that Blaine still had this much he didn't finish. Now he was really thankful that he didn't apply to any high schools, even though he could have.

"You know… Staring at the paper won't do anything." Kurt gave him a quick glare at the rather impressive imitation.

"Shut up." He grabbed the red ink pen off to the side and gave quick glances on the assignment. "Where's the answer key?"

"It's under the whole thing. Two points for every answer right. One point each if they showed some work. I'll take a quick look later if their work actually reflects the answer." And with that, Kurt started going through the pile. "Thank you so much babe." Blaine reached over and placed his hand on top of Kurt's, thankful that he was here right now. Not just because of the grading thing, no. He was thankful because this has been a challenging time for him and his daughter, and with Kurt here. Kurt alleviated some of that stress.

No, they weren't having sex, but… It wasn't because Kurt wasn't attractive. Blaine looked up from the list of possible test questions from the book and smiled when he saw how confused Kurt looked. The man's brow gave a slight curve as he tried to make out the student's handwriting. It was the way he coifed his hair just right that no matter how much he moved his head, no single hair went out of place. It was Kurt's jaw, so well formed that Blaine could just miss the way it felt on his shoulder. It was the way he moved his pen across the paper, placing check marks for every correct answer, that made Blaine's heart race. It's as if every single thing this man did made his heart skip out of pure awe and amazement.

Blaine never felt like this before. Not with Julia, nor any of his past girlfriends. This was much more than those feelings combined. Maybe it was because he never had moments like this with any of them. They never just sat down and enjoyed each other's company. They always did something so grand, so over the top that he felt they didn't like him for him ─they just wanted the lavish gifts, the great food and the amazing sights. But with Kurt, even the simple things made them both smile.

It was a couple of days ago. Class just ended for all of them and Kurt took it upon himself to drive to McKinley.

"Papa!" Blaine was surprised when a small set of arms made his office chair roll away from its current position.

"Ally! What're you doing here?" He questioned how the girl got there, first of all, but as soon as another voice came in his answer was apparent.

"Fine, ignore me." Kurt came up, entering his classroom with a smile, a smile that caused him to smile even bigger.

"Hey butterscotch." Kurt leaned in and kissed Blaine's forehead, before the math teacher directed his attention to his daughter and lifted her up. He placed the little girl on his lap and started rapidly rocking his leg. Alice vibrated her voice with the motion. "What are you guys doing here?"

"What?" Kurt stood right behind Blaine, placing his hands on his shoulders, giving them small rubs. "Can't I visit my beautiful boyfriend while he's at work?"

Blaine couldn't really hear what Kurt was saying. His legs had long stopped shaking, much to Alice's dismay, and his mind were much more focused on Kurt's fingers. They weren't digging in deep, but the way they moved caused him to moan a bit louder than he expected. Blaine leaned his head back and opened his eyes when'd he close them and saw Kurt.

"Having fun aren't we?" Kurt said with a smile.

"You have no idea."

Meanwhile, Alice just trained her eyes at her dad and teacher with a confused look.

One drive later, the trio found themselves walking along a familiar park. Alice was ahead of them, taking in the wonderful sights of nature. The snow fell a two days before, so the park had a healthy amount.

"Papa look at me!" Alice then fell down on the ground and started making a snow angel. She laughed so adorably that Kurt and Blaine couldn't help but giggle at her expense. Once she was done, Blaine lifted her up from the ground, so that her footsteps won't ruin her creation. "Ooh! I know! Let's make a snowman right next to it!"

"Ok! Let's go!" Blaine bounded from Kurt's side, careful enough so that he won't step on the angel, and went off to the slight slush that was a couple of feet away. Kurt gave a small chuckle as he watched the father and daughter make snowballs and roll them around in the ground.

As they collected snow, Blaine wondered where Kurt was. It was only when his snowball was at knee height that he noticed. Blaine looked around, in hopes that he would invite Kurt over for the fun. First he saw Alice, trying to make the head, then he saw Kurt, sitting down on a bench, watching them. Blaine waved Kurt over, but was graciously rejected. Blaine gave a small pout, making Kurt giggle with his prevalent childishness. Blaine was happy to make Kurt giggle like that, even though he was unsure of how, he was glad to do it.

Kurt stood up from the bench and picked up some snow. Blaine was ultimately happy to have Kurt change his mind. The smile on his face soon disappeared because the snowball hit his chest. Hard. The look on Kurt's face was of pure victory. he gave Blaine a small once over, and smirked. He smirked! The battle was on.

The day was filled with two grown men fighting like children. Snowballs flew through the small area they were in and two gigantic mounds of snow were placed on the opposite edges of the clearing. At one point, Blaine yelled at Alice for switching sides, only to have her stick her tongue out at him so that she could join her favorite teacher.

Far after it got dark out, they all went back to the school so that Blaine could get his car. The day was spent with surprise, a walk in the park, snowball fun and singing in the car. Experiences Blaine never had before, experiences Blaine wanted more of.

Yes, he should have worked that day. Yes, he should have worked most days after the whole debacle with his family, but what the hey! He deserved some fun even though he was paying for it now with his mountain of papers to grade and a midterm to make and the soon and upcoming Regionals.

Speaking of his glee club, they won sectionals with flying colors and more so than ever, his students were clampering about having more time to rehearse. He was glad to give them more time. Since Kurt gladly offered to take care of Alice after school while they practiced the students' wishes were granted.

"Done!" Kurt said with pride, setting down the red ink pen on his side with the stack of partially graded homework on the other. He looked at the stack again. "How the hell I finished grading math homework I'll never know. I'm still in awe in how you manage teaching Algebra, Geometry and directing glee club."

Blaine smiled.

"Seriously. And I thought I was slumped."

Silence boomed inside the dining room while Blaine picked out a couple of word problems from his Geometry book.

"Blaine?" Kurt said, picking at the underside of his fingernails.

"Hmm." Blaine pushed up the glasses he was wearing.

"Nothing, never mind."

"Kurt? Is something wrong?" It was the way the other man picked at his fingers that made Blaine ask. He noticed that Kurt only did that when nervous.

"No, no, no! Nothing's wrong." Kurt waved his hands in defense. "It's just that…"

"You know you can tell me anything, right?" Kurt blushed. The moment Blaine saw Kurt's face turn red, and the moment Blaine noticed Kurt stop picking his fingers, Blaine smiled.

"I know. It's just. You remember the last time I invited you right?"

How could he forget, it was his first invitation to a family gathering, and Blaine didn't go.

"I'm so sorry Kurt. I would have gone, but─"

Kurt cut him off. "No need to apologize Blaine, but the drama was just… wow. Even though I wasn't the one under everything. How's your parents by the way?"

"Honestly? I have no idea. They haven't called me yet, but I think they're fine."

"Oh…"

"So what were you going to ask me?" Kurt closed his grip on Blaine's hand he didn't even realize was holding onto his.

"You know I was part of New Directions, right?" Yes, Blaine knew. It had been Blaine's new goal to achieve what the original group of New Directions had done, and with Kurt being part of that group, he wanted to do his best. "Well…"

"You guys! We should totally hang out for Winter break! Ooh! We should go to the mall! Oh my god, I know! three words: Chuck. E. Cheese! It's gonna be awesome! Pizza and games, right?"

"Yes, Alex, we should hang out, but keep it down will ya? Even the people on the other side of the street are looking at us." Midterms were here and Calvin just wanted some peace with his girlfriend.

"What is it with you guys anyway? You've been dating for what? Three weeks? I wanna see some action! Blaine and Kurt shared a kiss their first date why couldn't you?"

Sam and Calvin sighed. It wasn't really an issue. They were happy the way they were, but sometimes, Alex was just…

"You know what? I'll leave. Give you guys some time to talk about stuff." With that, Alex left the couple sitting in front of the Hudmel house porch. They all waved each other goodbye.

"Crazy. I don't know how you put up with her." Cal tightened the grip he had on Sam, pulling her in closer.

"It takes a special kind of patience."

"Uhuh." He gave her a small peck on her forehead, looking out at the neighborhood. "Sam? Can I ask you something?"

"Yes?" She looked up, her head still connected to his shoulder before he moved away.

"This weekend, there's gonna be a small party, nothing special, just a small gathering. And I wanted to ask if you'd come with me."

"Sure. It'll be fun! Who's gonna be there?"

"That's the thing, you have to keep it a secret."

"Why?" She asked, her eyes filled with concern and curiosity.

"It's nothing bad, just don't tell Alex. She's gonna be so freaked out." Sam gave him a curious look, raising one of her eyebrows. "It's a party with the original New Directions."

"WHAT?" The couple almost nearly jumped out of their seat when Alexis jumped out of the bushes at the side of the Hudmel's property line.

Winter Break will happen next and Christmas!