Title: Unwritten

Category: Glee

Pairing: Kurt/Blaine

Genre: Romance & Hurt/Comfort

Rating: T

Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, the Glee characters or any references made to anything pertaining to the Glee show. I also do not have any affiliation with Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, Doc Marten or Skechers. All copyright to names of parks, restaurants, stores, theatres, malls and airports belong their specific owners and I am only using them for explaining my story. No copyright infringement intended.

A/N: Wow! Thank you so much for your feedback from the last chapter! I really appreciate everyone who is reading, alerting, favouriting and reviewing this story, it makes me feel really good about myself when I wake up and have a bunch of emails waiting for me :) This is by far the longest chapter I've ever posted but it turns out a lot had to happen before the thing that everyone wanted to happen could ;) keep in mind while you're reading this that I live in Canada, and I haven't actually been to Chicago or LA so any distance errors, or any other errors are because of that. Yeah, so I hope you enjoy!

Kurt smiled to himself as he continued to fold his clothes and put them in his Louis Vuitton suitcases in preparation for his trip to LA. He had been having mixed feelings all week about actually going through with the book tour but he resolved that if he changed his mind now he would have a lot of disappointed fans. Kurt wasn't particularly sure of how many fans he had, but after the press release saying that he was doing a tour, he had noticed many bloggers excitedly writing about their plans to meet him.

Artie had told him that his first ever interview would be with Tina and Mike from The Chang-Chang Show which, according to Artie, was the most popular morning show filmed in LA. Kurt had never heard of it, but apparently everyone else had. When Kurt had called his father to tell him about his upcoming trip and what the first few interviews were, that he knew of so far, he had realized that the show was a lot more popular than he had originally realized. He remembered Carole, Finn and Rachel's reactions to the news that he was going on The Chang-Chang Show with a chuckle.

"Hey dad," Kurt had said when his father picked up the phone.

"Hey kiddo, how's it going? When do you leave for LA?" his father had replied.

"That's actually what I'm calling about –" Kurt started before being interrupted by his father.

"You didn't change your mind, did you?" his father had asked.

"No dad," Kurt replied. "I just wanted you to know that I leave next Wednesday and my first interview is Friday morning on The Chang-Chang Show. I've never heard of it but I thought you would want to know so you could watch or something."

"The Chang-Chang Show?" his father questioned. "I've never heard of it, either."

That's when Kurt heard Carole and Rachel yelp in the background. Apparently Rachel and Finn were over for breakfast that day. "He's going to be on The Chang-Chang Show?" Rachel shrieked. "I LOVE that show!" Carole had nodded her agreement (even though Kurt obviously couldn't see that).

Burt chuckled into the phone. "Well, Kurt, I guess it's a pretty popular show. Carole and Rachel both seem pretty excited about you being on."

"Great..." Kurt said. "I'm going to be just thrown to the dogs right away."

"Don't worry, son. If anything happens that makes you uncomfortable, know that you can come home at any time," Burt reassured his son.

"I know, thanks dad," Kurt said before saying goodbye to his dad and his family.

Kurt missed his family like crazy, but he knew that Ohio wasn't safe for him to live. He would go back once in a while because he couldn't go too long without seeing his family, but he knew he would never move back.

Rachel had gotten a job as a music teacher at the local grade school and Finn was working for Burt at the garage. They had gotten married a few years before after Rachel got back from her fruitless search for work in New York. Kurt knew that the hometown life that they were living suited them great, but on the contrary he had wanted to get out of Ohio as quick as possible.

As Kurt was about to take a major step in his efforts to get back the old Kurt from early high school, he knew that he was going to have to rely a lot on his family to help him go through with it. Just the thought of being bombarded by people he didn't know who would either want to talk to him, or be criticizing him worried Kurt. He wasn't sure if he was ready for either of those scenarios yet, but he realized that he would have to get over his fear because he had known what he was signing himself up for when he had agreed to go on the book tour.

Kurt continued to pack, realizing that he didn't own very many nice clothes because for the last few years he had mainly stuck to loose-fitting jeans and baggy sweatshirts. He realized that if he was going to go on national television to promote his book, he might as well look nice doing so. He was pretty well off from the sales of his last few books, and decided to treat himself to a shopping trip; something he hadn't done in years.

Kurt grabbed his satchel and threw on a pair of comfy running shoes, before pulling a comb through his hair (he hadn't styled it in years either, figuring there was not point wasting his time if no one was going to notice anyway) before exiting his apartment and heading outside.

Upon reaching the sidewalk, Kurt walked the short distance to 900 N. Michigan Avenue, where a large mall was located in which Kurt was planning to start his search for a new wardrobe. Upon entering, Kurt headed straight to Bloomingdale's, the largest store in the mall. He hoped that he would be able to find everything he would need there without too much trouble.

Entering the store, Kurt felt his jaw drop at the sheer size of the area, and at the large variety of clothes and accessories, and everything that the store sold. He went straight to men's apparel and revelled at the vast collections of Marc Jacobs and Alexander McQueen (his two favourite designers) before starting to pick his way through the racks in the search for new clothes.

After about half an hour, Kurt had accumulated quite a pile of clothes and decided that he was ready to try everything on. He had picked out some skinny jeans (black, white, red, blue), some white dress shirt, a leather jacket, an incredibly soft grey sweater, a black vest, and some other coloured dress shirts. He grabbed a few more outfits too, and made his way towards the dressing rooms.

Oddly, there was no line, so he handed the clothes to the attendant and proceeded to try on each outfit in multiple combinations. When he was finished, he decided to buy basically all of it and felt happy with himself.

Now, Kurt decided he needed new shoes, and some accessories. He tried on many pairs of shoes before deciding on some Doc Marten dress shoes, some brown Skechers, and a pair of black boots that went to his knees with buckles on them. He realized that shopping was like therapy to him, and he had no idea why he hadn't tried it sooner (well, if he really thought about it, he did know why, he had had no reason to buy new clothes). After shoes, Kurt went to accessories. He bought himself three new bow ties, a new shoulder bag, and some sunglasses. He also bought a fedora and a pageboy cap.

Feeling satisfied with his purchases, Kurt decided to browse the store a little bit longer, in case he were to find something else he had forgotten. As Kurt passed the section of hair products, he decided that he should take a look realizing that he would have to fix his hair for going out in public if people were going to recognize him. He decided to purchase some hairspray and a new comb.

Finally knowing he had everything, Kurt exited the store with all of his purchases and groaned, realizing he would have to walk all the way back to his apartment with the heavy bags. I'm glad the apartment's close, he thought before stepping back onto the sidewalk and squinting in the bright sunlight. He saw that the sidewalk had gotten noticeably busier while he had been in the mall and smiled at the invisibility he felt walking along with no one knowing who he was, just continuing on with their normal days and not even given him a second glance. Remember this, he thought, it's going to change soon.

When Kurt got back to his apartment, he took the elevator up to his fourth floor apartment and unceremoniously dropped the bags on his floor before plopping down on his desk chair to survey his room. He noticed his half full suitcase lying on his bed and his phone blinking with a missed call, and at that moment he felt utterly exhausted. Kurt decided that before he did anything else with his day, he was going to go back downstairs and get himself a coffee.

Kurt ordered his grande non-fat mocha, as usual, but instead of sitting at his usual table in the corner, he took the coffee to go and walked to the newsstand right outside his apartment building. He decided to buy some magazines to bring with him on the flight to LA so he wouldn't get bored. He picked up the new Vogue and a couple of men's magazines before deciding that it was such a beautiful day, he should enjoy it outside.

Kurt was feeling rather spontaneous and a lot more like his old self lately and decided to make the most of it by heading to Millennium Park to walk around a bit while he drank his coffee. The breeze and singing birds made Kurt smile and once again he found himself humming as he walked along. He hadn't sung in ages, opting to stay quiet in order to try not to bring attention to himself, and had only used his "voice" when writing his stories in his notebook.

In early high school before the bullying had gotten so bad, Kurt used to sing all of the time and people had told him that he had a beautiful voice. That was back before he had come out, and though he was teased a bit for the high pitch of his voice, it hadn't been so bad because he knew that it was just teasing out of jealousy at the range of songs he could perform. The bullying had steadily gotten more serious when he came out, and then his singing was just another detriment of his personality that the bullies used to their advantage.

Kurt hardly even listened to music anymore, but he had turned on the radio out of curiosity because Finn had told him that he had read about a Chicago radio station doing some sort of contest for Kurt Hummel's biggest fan to win a trip to LA to watch The Chang-Chang Show the day Kurt was on. Kurt figured that there wouldn't be very many people trying to win, but was surprised at the sheer number of callers the radio station had gotten. In the time that he had the radio on, maybe an hour, Kurt had heard some new songs (he hadn't listened to music in almost a year, so almost all the songs on the radio were new to him) and had decided that his favourites were by a singer named Blaine Anderson.

Kurt had never heard of the singer and despite liking his songs didn't bother to look him up or anything, knowing that he wasn't going to turn the radio on for another couple of months (or at least weeks), and this singer would probably be old news by then.

Kurt finished up his coffee and threw it in one of the nearby trash cans before walking back to his apartment with his new magazines in hand. He took the elevator back up to his home and decided that he might as well keep packing because, before he knew it, it was going to be time to go to LA and he wanted to make sure he was completely ready.

A week later, Kurt boarded the plane at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to head to LA. He had to check two of his bags because all of his new clothes hadn't fit in only one Louis Vuitton bag. He had also packed his new shoulder bag with his new magazines and his iPod for the flight.

Kurt sat in his window seat on the plane and stared out the window with a feeling of dread in his stomach. He knew that by Friday afternoon, he wouldn't be able to go out without people recognizing him and that made him really nervous. Kurt had become so used to being invisible in the last 7 years that anything else seemed completely foreign and terrifying to him. He knew it was way too late to back down now, and he realized that he was actually quite excited to take this next step in his career.

Kurt sighed as the plane took off, settling in for the flight and opening his new Vogue magazine. Luckily, there was no one in the seat directly beside Kurt and he was able to use the arm rest without bumping into someone else.

Just as Kurt was contemplating whether to take a short nap while waiting for the plane to arrive in LA, the seatbelt sign was turned back on and Kurt knew that they were almost in LA. He looked out the window and saw the bright lights of the city glowing below them. He felt the excitement beginning to bubble in his veins. He had never dreamed that he would ever go to LA and now he was here, and he was going to be on national television in a couple days. It all seemed so surreal to Kurt that the one thing that he had turned to when all of his dreams of show biz and being famous had been fruitless was the thing that had made him famous after all.

Disembarking from the plane, Kurt headed straight to baggage claim to grab his bags before heading out to the sidewalk that was still crowded, even at the late hour in the night. He hailed a taxi and got in; giving the driver the address to the hotel he was to be staying in. He felt exhausted from his day of travelling and couldn't wait to get to sleep on a nice, comfy hotel bed.

Upon arriving at the hotel, Kurt checked in as fast as he could and took the elevator up to his room. Kurt entered the room, followed by a porter who brought Kurt's bags into his bedroom before leaving. Kurt was shocked at the absolutely huge size of the room; it was almost bigger than his apartment in Chicago.

When Kurt went into the bedroom, he saw a gift basket waiting on his bed. He almost squealed in pleasure, revelling in the celebrity-like treatment he was receiving and excited that Artie had arranged for him to be put up in a luxury five-star hotel. He hurried over to the bed and grabbed the card that was stuck to the gift basket. It read, "Good luck with your book tour Kurt! We love you! Love Dad, Carole, Finn and Rachel xoxoxoxo".

Kurt felt tears in his eyes after reading the note and realizing what his family had done for him. The gift basket was filled with chocolates, some bags of organic chips, a couple romantic movies and some magazines, and Kurt decided that he would definitely have to call his family in the morning and thank them. He knew that since it was late in LA, it was definitely a lot later in Ohio and he decided that he should get some sleep before hopefully doing some sight-seeing the next day while he was still invisible.

The following morning, Kurt woke up very early, his body not yet used to the time change. He decided to use his early rising to his advantage by heading down to the continental breakfast that was available to all guests staying at the hotel. Glancing at the clock, Kurt saw it was 6am, the time that the breakfast started, and figured he would be able to get in, grab a toast and some fruit and get out without having to talk to anyone.

When Kurt reached the dining room, he saw that he was the only one in the room besides the incredibly tired-looking wait-staff and he was able to get his toast and fruit to bring back to his room with only a mumbled good morning to the chipper waitress that clearly had already had some coffee. Finishing off his breakfast quickly, Kurt decided to call his family, knowing that it would be late enough that they would be awake, especially because of the time change.

Kurt picked up his cell phone and dialled the long-distance number of the house he had lived in for the first 17 years of his life. It was picked up on the second ring. "Kurt!" came Carole's cheerful voice through his phone. She knew it was him because they had caller ID on their phone. "How was your flight?"

"Great! I had lots of space and no problems with the air pressure or anything. It was quite relaxing. But I was really calling to thank you guys for that gift basket. It was so sweet of you guys to do that for me." Kurt was already feeling in a much happier mood just by chatting with his stepmother for a few minutes.

"Aww, it was no problem sweetie. We just wanted you to know that we love you and are thinking about you. I wanted to wish you all the best with your tour and also to tell you that I am so proud of you for what you're doing. It is going to be such a great experience for you, especially to get out a bit more."

"I know, I was becoming a bit of a hermit. I'm sorry if I worried you guys but I've decided that I want to take some steps to fix that and I figure actually talking to people is a good start." Kurt chuckled a bit at the thought but also felt a nervous clenching in his stomach the prospect of all the new people that he was going to be surrounded by.

Carole hummed in agreement. "Oh, your dad would like to talk to you, Kurt. I'll talk to you later and good luck tomorrow."

"Bye Carole," Kurt said before his dad picked up.

Kurt talked to his dad for another half an hour before hanging up and trying to decide what he wanted to do first. Despite never thinking that he would ever come to LA, there were a bunch of attractions that he wanted to see, so he had to be sure not to miss anything.

In the end, Kurt decided that most of all he wanted to see the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Hollywood sign, the Chinese theatre and the Kodak Theatre to see where the Oscars are presented. He hurried to get ready for his full day and decided to save his new clothes for when he was actually going to be getting noticed, opting to throw on his comfy navy sweatshirt, some loose-fitting jeans and his sneakers. He made sure to grab his camera, hoping that he didn't look too much like a tourist even though that's exactly what he was.

The day seemed to pass quickly in Kurt's mind, but he thoroughly enjoyed himself the whole time. He found the Kodak Theatre tour he went on incredibly interesting and loved all of the behind-the-scenes information he learned about how the Oscars show actually worked. He also got really excited seeing all the handprints and footprints of various celebrities on the Hollywood Walk of Fame taking pictures of some of his favourites including Mickey Mouse, Paul McCartney and Elton John. He also made sure to get a picture of the Chinese Theatre and the Hollywood sign.

By the time 4 o'clock rolled around, Kurt was having a blast in LA. He had just discovered Rodeo Drive and although his shopping obsession had been held back for the past seven years, as soon as Kurt had released it back in Chicago, it just took a hold of him and he found himself walking and browsing the boutiques and shops all down the famous street. It was 8 o'clock before Kurt even considered finding somewhere to stop for dinner.

As Kurt sat down at The Palm Restaurant for a nice steak dinner, he thought about the last few months of his life, and how quickly everything had changed for him; just the previous month he had never even considered the remote possibility of ever doing a book tour. Yet, here he was, the night before the beginning of one of the biggest adventures of his life, and he was still alone unfortunately, but he had never been less worried about it then he was right then. He knew that in a few short hours he would be absolutely bombarded with media, which in reality would probably be increased because of how long it took for him to present himself in the spotlight. Kurt decided to embrace the final shreds of alone time he would get before all his privacy would be stolen from him.

Kurt savoured every bite of his steak and after paying his bill stepped back out onto the busy streets of LA. Walking along the sidewalk that seemed to get busier and busier the later it got, Kurt decided that he wanted to treat himself to some ice cream (he realized that he was treating himself to things quite often lately and chalked it up to making up for the past 7 years of doing nothing). Kurt compromised with himself, though, this time and decided on a healthier version of frozen dessert, gelato. Walking along the busy boulevards, Kurt came across Pazzo Gelato which he stopped at, buying himself a chocolate hazelnut flavoured gelato. He took his dessert and ate it while he continued walking towards his hotel.

Kurt finished the dessert about three minutes before his hotel came into view and after throwing the cup away in a bin along the sidewalk, he hurried up to the front of the hotel. Upon entering, Kurt went straight to the elevators, resolving that he should go to bed early in preparation for his interview on The Chang-Chang Show the following morning.

After arriving in his room, Kurt quickly changed into his comfiest pair of pyjamas and slipped one of the movies that his family had given him in the gift basket into the built-in DVD player in the room. It was a good thing Kurt had seen the movie before, though, because he was fast asleep before the opening credits even finished.

The following morning Kurt woke up bright and early again, this time it was planned though because he was almost completely used to the time change. He hurried downstairs to grab some breakfast again and was pleasantly surprised when he noticed that there were warm eggs and ham available to eat as well. He decided to eat in the dining room and watch the early morning news that was on the TV.

Kurt was very surprised when one of the stories that the news anchors were talking about was about him and how the mysterious Kurt Hummel was finally going to come out of hiding and greet the world, 5 years after his first book hit the shelves. Kurt blushed slightly at the praise that the people being interviewed were giving his writing, and he realized that he had a lot more fans out there than he had even considered possible.

After eating breakfast, Kurt went back to his room and picked out one of his new outfits to wear for his first ever exposure to the world as Kurt Hummel, world renowned author. He took great care in picking out the perfect outfit, deciding on his black skinny jeans, black knee-high boots, a grey dress shirt with a black cardigan and a black bow tie. He could see bits of high school Kurt peeking through in his outfit and decided to embrace his past self and style his hair as well.

Pulling out the new bottle of hair spray, Kurt ensured that every last hair was perfectly in place before checking his appearance in the mirror. He smiled at what he saw, and decided that he hadn't looked this good in seven years. Grabbing his messenger bag, Kurt left the hotel room hoping that he would be able to meet the expectations of his awaiting fans.

When Kurt accepted the request for doing the book tour, Artie had offered to provide a limo for Kurt to ride in to his first interview, but Kurt had turned down the offer in favour of staying inconspicuous as long as possible. He also felt that with all the junk he had eaten recently, he could use the exercise to avoid gaining extra and unnecessary weight. These are the reasons that at promptly 8am, Kurt found himself making his way towards the studios for The Chang-Chang Show on the busy sidewalks of LA (that never seem to NOT be busy).

When Kurt arrived at the address he had been given, he was shocked at the sheer number of people waiting outside the studio. He couldn't believe that this many people would come out at this time of the morning on a Friday, just to try and catch a glimpse of him. He was glad that he had turned down the limo so that he could stay invisible for just a little bit longer.

As he approached the doors for the studio, the crowd seemed to be getting thicker. It also seemed to be getting a lot more rowdy with people trying to press closer to the entrance to the building. As Kurt tried to push his way through the crowd, he found it harder and harder to keep moving forward and kept getting bumped as he tried to press closer to the door.

When he could see the doorway, Kurt figured that he had successfully slid through the crowd without anyone messing up his clothes or hair, or causing him any type of bodily harm. Unfortunately, he had thought too soon, and when he was about five feet from the door, he felt a hard shove from behind as the crowd tried to push forward again and soon he felt himself falling. Great, he thought, this was such a good idea. How ironic is it that the people coming to see me are causing me injury?

When Blaine woke up on Friday morning, he was incredibly excited. He wasn't too nervous about his performance but the prospect of meeting his idol, Kurt Hummel, was causing him excitement like he had never felt before.

He quickly dressed in one of his signature graphic t-shirts (today's had an owl that said "Be HOO you are") and skinny jeans. He left his dark curls loose, in the way he had begun wearing them after high school. Realizing that there would be a lot of Kurt Hummel fans (and possibly a few fans for Blaine) waiting at the studio, Blaine grabbed a blue plaid sweater, a blue baseball cap and his signature pink sunglasses to wear so no one would recognize him.

When he was completely ready, Blaine decided to walk to the studios. They weren't too far from his and Wes's apartment and he figured he could use the exercise. He also decided that he would be more inconspicuous if he didn't show up in a car and just looked like another fan off the street.

It didn't take very long for Blaine to reach the studios and soon he found himself standing just off the sidewalk taking in the large crowd in front of the building. As he watched the crowd, he was glad that he knew where the back entrance to the studio was to get in the building without having to go through the mob that was forming.

He decided to stick around outside for a little bit to see if he could catch a glimpse of Kurt when he arrived. While he was waiting, Blaine tried to think of what he would say to Kurt when he first met him. He didn't want the author to think he was some crazed fan (although he kind of is) and he wanted to leave a good first impression with the man.

As the time passed, Blaine noticed that the crowd was getting a little bit rowdier near the door and hoped that no one got hurt with all of the pushing that seemed to be going on. Suddenly there was a break in the crowd so Blaine could see the people standing in the front, just in time to see a young, well-dressed man get shoved quite harshly from behind and start to fall.

Without even thinking, Blaine raced through the crowd and grabbed the man before he hit the ground. He pulled the man out of the crowd and around the side of the building so that he wouldn't be still getting shoved while he caught his breath.

When the man looked up, Blaine was struck by the bright blue eyes that met his, and decided that this was THE most beautiful man he had ever seen.

"Th-thank you," the young man said nervously. Blaine decided that he seemed shy, like he didn't talk to people often.

"Oh, it was no problem," Blaine replied in an incredibly friendly tone. He pulled his sunglasses and hat off, pushing a hand through his thick curls. "I'm Blaine Anderson, by the way," he added when the man didn't seem to recognize him.

Blaine noticed a flicker of recognition on the other's face before it was gone and Blaine was left wondering if he had imagined it. "Nice to meet you," the man replied in a happier tone. He stuck out his hand to shake. "I'm Kurt Hummel."

Blaine stopped, hand half raised. No way, he thought.

A/N: Soooo... Did you like it? Please review and let me know :) I would love to get to at least 35 if not more reviews after this chapter. Also, if any of you happen to live in/have been to LA and know of any attractions/special places that Kurt (and maybe Blaine) needs to definitely see can you let me know. All the information I got for this (ie, names of stores, parks, restaurants, everything) is from Google, and my brother telling me where he went when he went to LA. I hope their meeting met your expectations in some way (or at least it wasn't so much build-up for failure). If there is anything that you really want to see, let me know and I will see what I can do. The next couple chapters might take a bit longer to post, because these are the ones in the middle where I tend to get writer's block, and sometimes kind of boring (hopefully not this time). Thank you so much for sticking with this and I hope you liked it! Please, please, please review :) next chapter is the interview and whatever else my characters decide they want to do. Thanks for reading!