Chapter notes: I hope you like this chapter. it is more of a build up than anything drastic but I hope you all like it anyway! I would just like to thank all of you again for reviewing, you have no idea how much it means. Special thanks to CrazyMegaMind and JustCallMeObsessed for your support on my story! Happy reading! :D

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The next week seemed to drag on forever for me as Madison would be signing the papers on Wednesday. Even Blaine was excited.

Blaine had been living with me for the past week now and we had become very comfortable with each other. We would laugh and joke like old friends. Friends. Why couldn't we be more? In the week we had been living together we had been exchanging kisses to the cheek and forehead, and we held hands almost every second of the day, but I wanted more. But I had it all figured out. I had the perfect plan. It was now the 13th of December and I had the best idea ever. I just had to ask him now.

"Blaine?" I asked from the opposite side of the sofa, where I was sat with my Jane Austen book pride and prejudice and he had his Mac book he had rescued from his house and he looked up and made an affirmative noise, his eyebrows raised.

"What are you doing for Christmas?" I asked. His smile dropped and he rubbed his forehead.

"Well, I could go home because dad is never around. We haven't had a proper Christmas since mom left. I'll probably just go home" he said, shaking his head sadly and his lips turning in to a frown.

"I'm not letting you go back to that house Blaine. You're coming home with me" I said. He gasped at me with wide eyes and stammered over his words for a second but I carried on "You can come and meet my family and spend Christmas at my house. I can ring dad and Carole and I'll buy you something. It'll be great"

"Kurt...I don't want to intrude. I know I'm always saying that... but this is different. This is your family's event, and I can't just waltz in and become part of it. No matter how much I would love to, that is something you celebrate with family" he replied. My heart saddened a small part at his words. I leant over and took the computer of his knee and placed it on the table without a word. He didn't protest and just let me do it. I took his hands in mine and looked in to his eyes.

"Blaine, you said that this is a time to spend with your family, and no matter if you like it or not, you are my family now Blaine and that is the only way I would ever like it to be. You, me and all my family together once year. You will not be intruding because it is where you belong. You are my family Blaine, and my family will love you to pieces, you'll see" I said, staring in to his eyes, getting lost in them.

"Kurt, thank you...you have no idea how much this means to me. To invite me over for Christmas...that is incredible...thank you so much" he said. Giving up on words, he leant forward and pressed a kiss to my cheek and embraced me tightly. I laughed low in my throat and made one of those noises that you make when you hug someone- why do we do that?

"And at last I see the light,

And it's like the fog has lifted"

I pulled back from the hug and blushed as I reached for my phone, blushing at my ringtone. It had been that since the night we watched Tangled on the sofa together. I reached for my phone and saw it was dad. I smiled and answered the call.

"Hey dad, how are you?" I asked eagerly. I looked to Blaine and smiled. He smiled back and picked up his computer, trying to give us some privacy but not having anywhere to go if he wanted to leave us alone.

"Yeah, I'm great thanks kiddo. How are you boy?" he asked me from the other end of the line. I smiled at the sound of his voice of and leant back against the sofa.

"I'm...fantastic" I breathed out, then remembered what I needed to ask him "Oh, I need to ask you something" I said, glancing at Blaine who had looked up from the screen and at me a small smile on his face. Dad made an affirmative noise, urging me to carry on "Could I possibly bring Blaine over for Christmas? He means a lot to me and he has nowhere to go for Christmas because...something has happened. Can her come?" I almost begged through the phone.

"Is he your boyfriend?" he asked the typical Burt question, which I blushed and laughed at.

"No dad, just a friend. So?" I could practically hear the cogs turning in his mind as he thought is over. He answered at last.

"Yeah, he can Kurt. If that is what makes you happy of course, I'll just talk to Carole and get her to make extras Kurt. I can't wait to meet this Blaine that I have heard so much about!" I squealed at his words! This was going to be the best Christmas I had ever had since mum died, nothing compared to the Christmases I spent baking with mother at Christmas and delivering them to the neighbourhood; we were famous for our cakes. I put my hand over the receiver and turned to Blaine, a toothy grin appearing on my face, splitting it half.

"He said you could come!" I said in an excited whisper. He laughed at my excitement and squealed with me.

"Thank you so much dad! I love you! I can't wait to see you all. Wait, what did you want to call me about?" I asked confused about why he had rung me now.

"It is so weird because I was just about to ask you if Blaine wanted to join us for crimbo this year but I guess you beat me to it this time" he laughed down the phone. My heart warmed at his words, everyone already loved Blaine and we weren't even together, yet. I had it all planned out for Ohio. I knew exactly where I was going to take him.

"Oh my god, it must be fate" I said in an overenthusiastic voice which made Blaine and dad both laugh at my enthusiasm.

"Well, I'd better go kiddo, but say hi to Blaine for me. I love you both and see you soon!" dad said down the phone, making me smile.

"I will, love you too dad. Bye!" I said before hanging up. I jumped up and down in my seat and hugged Blaine with so much force that we ended up lying down on the sofa together. We were both laughing and rolling around, still both of our arms wrapped around each other, clinging on for dear life, like if I let him go he would evaporate in to thin air and I would never get him back again.

When we both pulled back, our faces were inches apart, noses almost touching. I looked in to his eyes as the melted in to warm pools of honey before me. His pupils blacked and a small smile spread on his lips. Neither of us had moved yet, we just lay there, looking at each other. I glanced down to his lips, red and plush, just waiting to be kissed. I didn't know if I could take this much longer. I saw him looking down to my lips and the up to my eyes, almost asking for approval.

He began to lean in towards me and my eyes began to flutter close as our lips almost met un-

BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ!

I leant back and realised what position we were in, blushing furiously. That was a close one, I had to do this right, make it perfect for Blaine, that's what he deserved. He coughed awkwardly and rubbed the back of his neck as I went to answer the door, realising why I had pulled away in the first place.

I opened the door to see Madison standing there. Crap! I had forgotten that she was coming today. How could I have forgotten that! I had been looking forward to it all week and then I forgot!

"Madison!" I said, still surprised to see her there. She smiled brightly at me, lighting up her eyes as I opened the door wider and gestured her to come in.

"Hey Kurt, HEY BLAINE!"She said to me and then she shouted to Blaine who was still sat red in the face in the sofa in the other room. He got up and walked in to the hallway where Madison and I were standing.

"Hey Madison" he said, losing all the awkwardness in his posture and loosened up completely. He held his hand out for her to shake which she shook and accepted. She leaned close to my ear and whispered so only I could hear.

"He's cute and chivalrous! When are you going to make a move?" she whispered. I gasped fakley and slapped her playfully on the arm making her chuckle and slap me back gently.

"Okay, I have no idea what's going on here, so I'm just going to go make some coffee" he said and walked off in to the kitchen. Madison and I walked back in to the living room and I went to get the papers for her to sign. I placed the papers on the table and sat down next to her on the sofa.

"Seriously Kurt, what is going on with you two?" she asked me quietly to make sure Blaine wouldn't hear her. I sat there for a minute thinking. What should I tell her? I mean, we weren't dating, but we always held hands and kissed each other's cheeks and stuff, that had to be something right?

"I actually don't know. I mean, we are really close and we live together but nothing has happened as such yet" I replied, choosing my words carefully, knowing how good she was with words from my past experience with her. She winked at me as Blaine came back in to the room with the drinks on a tray and placed it down on the table. Madison made a noise which sounded vaguely along the lines of 'ooh coffee' and picked the cup closest to her and spooning 3 sugars in to it, making me crinkle my nose, before she took a sip, making an 'Aah' sound and relaxing back into the sofa.

"So, what do I need to sign" she said eagerly, sitting back up and putting her cup back on the table before rubbing her hands together making me smile.

I spent the next 20 minutes explaining what she would need to sign and when she would be able to move in. We agreed that we would move after Christmas as I intended on signing the papers before me and Blaine travelled back to Ohio for the holidays. I smiled at the thought of spending Christmas with Blaine; I would have to get him something special.

"Okay, I'm ready to sign now" she said, sighing happily and a radiant smile splitting her face in two and making me smile too. How could a person be this happy all the time?

"Okay, you need to sign here and...Here" I said, pointing to the two dotted lines. She took a deep breath and stroked her pen across the paper elegantly. I sighed, this was it. My home was now hers and only hers. This wasn't mine anymore. All this time I had lived here and now I wasn't legally allowed here anymore. I hadn't expected to get emotional about this, but I found myself feeling suddenly empty. Like he had nowhere to go to. Blaine noticed my sudden change in posture and the look on my face. He moved to my side and slid his hand in to mine, reminding me that I wasn't alone, I had Blaine. He would always be there by my side, to hold my hand and tell me it was alright.

"There! All done and signed" she said happily, her smile growing impossibly wider as she looked down at her signature on the papers. I got up to hug her and she squeezed me tightly, rubbing my back. I still had hold of Blaine's hand as I hugged her and smiled as I saw her wink at Blaine behind my back. When I pulled back from the hug he was blushing and looking down at our hands, but a smile still very apparent on his face. He squeezed my hand and I covered both of our hands with my other one.

We walked Madison to the door and watched her leave silently. When the door was closed, I sighed and let my gaze fall to my feet.

"Come on, let's go put 'Tangled' on and then I'll treat you out to dinner tonight, you know, to take your mind off of things?" he asked me. I smiled warmly at this, once again reminding me that I wasn't alone in this.

"How do you always know what to say?" I asked him, pecking him lightly on the cheek and leading him back to the living room.

"I'll go get us some ice-cream from the kitchen" he said when I was sat on the sofa. I watched him walk out of the room and I felt a longing ache in my heart. I just wanted him close to me, so close I would never have to let go again. I knew we were the best friends we had ever had and I respected that, but I couldn't help but want something more than that, something that I could really hold on to. I just wanted to be able to hold Blaine for no reason, or kiss the tip of his nose when it turns pink in the cold, or hold his hand when we are walking down the street without there having to be an excuse as to why I am doing it. That was all I had ever wanted, but I knew all I had to do was wait. What I didn't know was he was feeling exactly the same as I was and that was all he had ever wanted.

Blaine POV

I looked back in to the living room at where I had left that beautiful man. I just stared longingly for a couple more seconds, my brain in a daze, before I realised why I had come in to the kitchen again. Ice-cream, that was why, to cheer Kurt up. I knew how much this apartment meant to him. I can't recall how many stories he has told me about his friends living with him or his dad helping him move in or making dinner with Carole. It was so obvious how compassionate he was, and that was one of the many reasons that I love him. Yes, you heard that correctly. Blaine Anderson...is in love, officially in love. I had never loved anyone like I loved Kurt, not even my family, well they were never much of a family, more like a bunch of homophobic assholes or abandoners I just so happened to be born in to.

I stared at his back, hoping, longing, and praying that he loved me too, or maybe just liked me, just a little bit. That was all I wanted, just a tiny bit of love in my life. If I had that, then I would never ask for anything else, ever again. Just give me that one thing and I would be a happy man my whole life, despite the looks or the sneers or the whispers, if I had Kurt, none of that would matter one bit to me. My life would be as perfect as it ever could be; now I just had to find a way to tell him how I felt, but how?

Kurt's POV

"Here you go!" Blaine said happily as he placed the tub of 'Ben and Jerry's' in to my hand, along with the special spoons I only ever kept for special occasions like this (because they were a collection of the Disney princesses on the end of spoons) and I had never shared them with anyone else but Blaine.

"Tell me again why you like to eat with these spoons?" Blaine said, tucking his knees under his bum and turning to look at me, the movie playing forgotten in the background. I thought I had told him why before or maybe that was dad.

"Well, when I was about seven or eight, I got bullied a lot by these two boys that were in the year above me. I tell you, middle schoolers have some of the best gaydars I have ever seen" I said, trying to lighten the mood of bullying and making Blaine smile "Anyway, one day mom came to pick me up from school and I had had a particularly bad day. She said that she would cheer me up in no time" I smiled sadly as the pictures flooded my mind. Her hand in mine, her smile, her eyes, everything like it was as clear as yesterday "So she took me to the supermarket and bought me my favourite ice-cream and I looked next to the freezer and saw this stand of spoons. I can still remember tugging on her hand and begging her to buy me one. She gave in to the puppy dog eyes that I had mastered and bought me a set of spoons. These were the ones I chose, and every time I am upset up to today, I will eat ice-cream with these spoons that mom bought me all those years ago" I finished, wiping a stray tear from my cheek as it rolled down without my permission. That kept happening lately, I must seem like I cry all the time to Blaine.

Blaine smiled sadly at my story and reached over to take my hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. He looked me straight in the eye and I could see right in to his soul; what he was feeling, what he was thinking about, It was like his eyes were portals that you could find yourself getting deeper and deeper in to until you were past the point of no return, and that was where I felt I was right now. I could feel myself letting my guard down more and more every time I looked in to those eyes of swirling gold that mesmerised me when I came in contact with them. I smiled back at him and thanked him silently, before turning back to the television where 'Tangled' was still playing, keeping our hands still firmly clasped together.

This was officially my favourite moment.

"At least tell me where you are taking me!" I said as Blaine pulled me out of the apartment by my gloved hand. He had held me to the dinner offer and now we were on our way out to the big city, but why wouldn't her tell me where?

"But that would ruin the surprise" he sung merrily, like nothing in the world could hurt him. That was one of the things I envied him most of, the way that whatever the world may proceed to throw at him, he always saw the bright side of things, something I had never mastered.

I just laughed and allowed myself to be dragged in to the elevator, through the lobby, and out of the door to my building. I shivered as the cold outdoor air contacted with my coat-covered body. Even though Blaine had told me to dress up very warmly, I still felt rather chilly.

The sky was lit up by a million tiny orbs of light, staring at me from a billion miles away and the streets were illuminated my warm coloured streetlights that were dotted along the edge of the road. I had to admit, New York was at its most magnificent at night. The snow had just began to fall in tiny snowflakes which landed on my nose and got caught in my eyelashes, making me smile and breathe out into the air to see if I could see my breath in the dark night. I saw Blaine doing the same out of the corner of my eye and it made me laugh. He was breathing out as much as he could and then looking proud at his record.

We walked down the street, huddled together for warmth, in silence before we reached the gates to central park. We stopped outside the gates and I turned to Blaine.

"Blaine, why are we at the entrance to central park?" I asked him questioningly, glancing into the park and then back to his flushed face.

"Well, I have a friend who knows someone who works at a café in the middle of central park and I may or may not have gotten us a reservation for tonight" he said, a smile working its way on to his face. I laughed at where we were going and shook my head, not quite believing what he had done for me.

"Is there anything that you can't do? Come on, let's go in!" I said excitedly and pulled him through the gates,

Central park was beautiful at this time of year; the snow had begun to settle on the nearly empty path. It was lit by countless strings of fairy lights strung from poles on the side of the path, lighting up the trees.

We ended up outside a small building named 'The café in the middle of central perk' making me laugh at the pure bluntness of the name. It was small and inviting and it looked just like a cottage in the middle of a forest.

"Come on" Blaine said, tugging on my hand and leading me through the small door and I was blasted with warmth.

I looked around the cafe in awe. I was overwhelmed at how homely this tiny place felt. There were a few tables scattered around the shop of all different shapes and sizes and chairs that didn't match, reminding me of my childhood. There was a roaring fireplace on the right wall; dimly lighting up the deep yellow walls in the small room and making the whole place seem one of the cosiest places he had ever been. There was even a table in front of the fireplace with two floor cushions on each side of the tables.

"Hello, do you have a reservation, not that you need it" a small, thin girl with warm honey eyes that were almost the exact replicas of Blaine and she wore her brown hair down in natural ringlets that framed her small face beautifully and draped down past her shoulders, to just above her elbows.

"Yeah, Hummel-Anderson; we reserved the table in front of the fireplace" he answered, but my brain froze after the word Hummel-Anderson. That was a marriage name, had he pretended that we were married, not that I was complaining but why would he have done that?

"Aah yes, our speciality" she said "I would show you the way but I'm sure you can see it! I'll just bring over some menus". She disappeared behind the counter.

Blaine pulled me over to the table in front of the fire and sat down on one of the floor cushions and gesturing me to do the same on the opposite side. I sat down and found myself being extremely comfortable and then turned to talk to him, feeling very brave.

"So, Hummel-Anderson huh?" I asked teasingly, placing my chin on my hand and resting my elbow on the table, looking at him intently. He laughed and looked down, blushing in the low light.

"I hope you don't mind, I just thought that-Urgh I shouldn't have done that" he beat himself up.

"No Blaine, it was sweet, very sweet. It was nice to be called that for once, even if it was pretending" I wish it wasn't though I thought. He sighed and looked back up; smiling lovingly at me "Thank you so much for bringing me here Blaine, it was so sweet of you" I reached my hand across the small table and took his hand in mine.

I looked over to see the waitress looking at us with her hand over her heart and tears in her eyes. Noticing that I had caught her staring, she quickly gathered the menus and knives and forks and made her way over.

"Sorry to interrupt guys, but here are the menus and your knives and forks. I'm called Jasmine by the way. Would you like to order a drink?" she asked. Blaine nodded and ordered a beer whilst I ordered a diet coke from the menu. She smiled and walked back in to the kitchen.

"What are you going to order?" he asked me, glancing over his menu.

"I think I'll get the chicken salad. What about you?" I asked, placing my menu back on the table and leaned forward so I was in my previous position. His eyebrow furrowed together adorably in concentration as he tried to decide what her wanted.

"I think I'll have the steak actually, Wes said that they were their speciality" he said, placing his menu on top of mine and slumping forward on to the table.

We talked animatedly for 10 more minutes before we ordered and then continued our conversation. Our talk going from things like my family and Christmas, to politics and law (most of which I didn't understand). We talked for hours and hours, never running out of what to say to each other, getting lost in each other's eyes countless times. I was in love.

I looked longingly to this man sat opposite me and smiled the widest I had smiled in years. Something had just clicked inside of me. I had never felt this way before, never this strongly. It was like my heart didn't belong to me anymore, Blaine had complete possession on my heart, soul and compassion and that was the only way I ever wanted it to be.

I would sign the papers tomorrow and we would drive to Ohio the next day, surprise my father and spend more time there, because I knew what would happen whilst we were there.

And I just couldn't wait any longer. The love I felt was too much to handle and I needed to express how I felt. And I would.

A/N: Thanks for reading! The next chapter is a hudmel christmas and a kliss? maybe, maybe not, you'll just have to wait and see! I shall say no more! Review? :D