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WhenRiversTurnToRoads and Temarifan9622- This chapter is for you! (I was going to skip the meeting between the all the boys but you said you were excited to see that interaction, so I had to write it...it evolved into something I didn't see coming until I had written it but I hope you enjoy it all the same)

Sarahamanda- Glad to hear you liked the previous chapter and I hope you continue to like the chapters.

Kurt and Blaine were both nervous about meeting up with David and Wes. Kurt because he wasn't looking forward to having to explain everything to his two best friends (and even though he didn't want to admit it to himself- he was worried about what they thought of Blaine).

Blaine was nervous because he was meeting Kurt's best friends. He didn't know where this whole thing with Kurt was heading but he hoped it was in the direction of a relationship, and he wanted Kurt's best friends to like him just has Mercedes and the rest of New Directions had embraced Kurt.

It didn't seem all that long at all before the guys were parked in front of the coffee shop. Blaine turned the car off and both guys sat there, each waiting for the other to exit first.

Kurt caved first.

"Come on, the sooner we go in and I tell them what happened...the sooner I will be done telling them what happened."

Blaine nods and follows Kurt into the coffee shop reluctantly. He didn't know what was going to happen around Kurt's friends. In their previous brief interactions, the boys had seemed pleasant enough...but that he been when Blaine was just a nice guy with an understanding parent who was letting Kurt stay at their house because he needed constant supervision that he couldn't get anywhere else. Now, however...

Kurt was living with Blaine. For who even knows how long. He was pretty sure the guys knew that Blaine liked Kurt- and now they were living together. I just have to keep telling myself that we're just roommates- just like Wes and David are roommates...except for the part where one isn't attracted to the other.

As soon as they walked through the coffee shop door, Blaine could see the change in his friend: he seemed so much more relaxed. Blaine could tell that these were people Kurt felt comfortable being purely himself around.

All Blaine could think when they approached the table was: please don't hate me, please don't hate me...

"Kurt!" Wes yelled in greeting, even though it was clear they needed no help finding the Dalton boys. David quickly shoved Wes to quiet him and smiled at Kurt.

"Hey guys!" Kurt said excitedly while taking one of the empty seats from across his friends.

"Hi Wes, David." Blaine greeted before adding to Kurt- "I'm gonna get us coffee." Blaine said making a quick exit as his nerves got the better of him.

Kurt watched as Blaine hurried away and shook his head at his friends who were watching Blaine like hawks.

"Stop it." Kurt said. "I know those looks- stop it right now."

"But-" David started.

"No buts" Kurt said giving the boys his best bitch glare.

"You're one of our best friends." Wes replied. "We just wanna make sure that he's a good guy."

"He sat by me at the hospital, had me stay with him and his family during my mandatory observation period and now he and his family are letting me live with them while I figure out what the next step is. He is an amazing guy, in every way, who's given me so much and asked for nothing in return."

Kurt spoke quickly and then flushed red when his words sank in. David and Wes's jaws had dropped as they looked at each other, then at Kurt and then back to each other.

"What did I miss?" Blaine asked taking a seat and then handing Kurt his coffee.

"Nothing." Kurt said at the same time as Wes said "You."

Kurt promptly kicked Wes in the shin and David couldn't help but smirk.

"Y-you were talking about me?" Blaine asked, his nerves doubling.

Wes and David opened their mouths to comment that yes, they were talking about him and what kind of guy he was; give him the whole hurt-our-best-friend-we'll-kill-you speech but Kurt silenced them.

"First- I should tell you what happened with my father...and Dalton."

Blaine took one of Kurt's hands in his, gave him a reassuring smile, and Kurt spilled everything: about how his dad had come by Blaine's house to get him and how he refused to leave, how Blaine's dad hit him and his father threatened them, how he when he returned to Dalton he discovered his father had withdrawn him with the excuse they were moving to New York.

"So, I went to Blaine's." Kurt said holding back the tears that were threatening to fall. "And since I can't go home- yes, guys I talked to my mom and she did what little she could- his family is taking me in for the indeterminate future."

Wes and David were shocked into silence. They knew Kurt and his father didn't get along but they never thought it was at that level of hatred (not that they could even think a father could hate a son like Kurt like that) that he would do something like withdraw his son from school.

David spoke first-

"Why didn't you come to one of us? "

Kurt looked, really looked, at his friends since he first started telling them the story. David looked hurt and Wes looked a little angry.

"Because you both are at Dalton. I can't go live with your parents while you're at Dalton and I can't live with you at Dalton while not attending- which brings up the next fact: I still need to go to school. Can't commute the hour and half from either directions from your parents' houses."

Wes and David's faces softened. They clearly hadn't thought logically- all they thought was that Kurt chose this new guy he has a crush on over his two best friends.

"I guess you're right." Wes said begrudgingly. "Any idea what your next step is?"

"No idea. I went into school with Blaine to talk to the principal at McKinley. They said I could attend for as long as I need to."

"I'm sensing a huge 'but' that you're leaving off." David said, trying to prompt his friend into elaborating.

"But he doesn't want to, understandably, because McKinley sucks." Blaine said frankly.

All three boys looked at him. This was the first time he had spoken since he brought coffee back for Kurt.

"It's rough. The classes are going to be boring compared to what classes are like at Dalton and the student body isn't...accepting toward those who are different."

"He's being diplomatic." Kurt added. "The jocks make his life a living hell because he's gay- tossed in dumpsters, shoved into lockers and slushees thrown in his face."

Wes and David looked absolutely horrified.

"And no one stops this?" Wes asked trying to mask the growing concern he was feeling over his friend attending this school.

"Not really." Blaine replied. "The majority of teachers don't care either way. My choir director is...sympathetic but there really isn't much that can be done. The bullies are jocks and I'm just a member of the glee club."

"This is the place you want to go?" David asks before he could stop himself.

Wes smacks his forehead with an audible thud in a I-can't-believe-he-just-said-that gesture, David had the decency to look embarrassed, Kurt had flushed bright red and Blaine's face was surprisingly neutral.

"I don't want to go there just as much as Blaine wants to get the hell out of there- but there really aren't any other options guys."

"Anything we can do?" Wes asked. He didn't want to see Kurt go back to a place like the one he had attended before Dalton- he remembered what Kurt was like when he first started at Dalton all too well.

"Adopt me? Brainwash my father into accepting the fact I'm gay? Pay for my tuition at Dalton?"

"Well, if we split tuition between us..." David started and shared then shared a contemplative look with Wes.

"Guys, that was a joke." Kurt warned and Blaine's eyes went wide.

Wow...how rich are these guys that it wasn't a totally absurd thought for them to pay Kurt's tuition on top of theirs?

"We know!" The two boys chirped at the same time but Blaine got the distinct feeling that they were still working on it.

"Guys...seriously...stop." Kurt said giving them a glare that Blaine could only describe as bitchy.

"You want us to change the subject, we'll change the subject." Wes commented and then he smiled- Blaine wasn't sure he liked that smile. "Blaine, what are your intentions with our best friend Kurt?"

Blaine's jaw drop and flushed red- which was better than Kurt who flushed red and promptly began to choke on his coffee. Blaine started to tap Kurt on the back and then rub it while the coughing subsided.

Once it did, Kurt kicked Wes' shin, inadvertently in the same spot as before, quite hard.

"Ow! Kurt! Dude, that hurt!" Wes shouted, while trying to rub the pain away.

David tried to hide his smile behind a sip of coffee- Wes deserved that. He wanted to find out what was going on between the two boys just as much Wes but 'subtle' was definitely not Wes' strong suit.

"You just can't ask something like that!" Kurt yelled, then turned to address Blaine "You don't have to answer that."

"It's okay. They're your best friends- they just want to know." Blaine replied surprising even himself.

Then all eyes turned to look expectantly- but the only person Blaine could look at was Kurt.

Can I really tell him I truly feel?...yes, I can. He's going to be living with me- there's no way I can hide that from him...I can't believe I'm about to do this- in front of his best friends no less. Alright Anderson- you can do this.

"I...um...this wasn't how I pictured doing this." Blaine said then heaved out a sigh and turned toward Kurt.

He looked at him but then he looked away, not knowing if he would be able to stand the look of Kurt's face if/when he didn't return his feelings.

"I like you...I've liked you since I stopped you on that staircase and thought I was looking at the face of an angel. I was going to be...okay with being just friends because never in my wildest dreams could I think you'd ever be interested in someone like me...and then everything with Karofsky happened and all I wanted to do was help you in any way I could because I wanted to and well, because it was my fault you got hurt-"

"Blaine-" Kurt started but Blaine laid a hand on top of Kurt's.

"Please, let me finish. After you came to stay at the house, and we spent more time together, it was harder and harder to keep myself at an emotional distance...to tell myself that just being your friend is enough for me. I know that there is an extremely high likelihood you don't feel the same but since we're going to be roommates for the foreseeable future..." Blaine took a shuddering breath barely keeping his emotions at bay. "I just don't want to keep anything from you- especially something as big as my feelings."

And then Blaine couldn't talk anymore- his throat closed as he lost his battle with his emotions and he lost his ability to speak.

But what made Blaine's inability to speak infinitely worse was that there was silence at the table. He knew that Wes and David would be trying their hardest to pretend they weren't there...but Kurt.

Kurt hadn't said a word and Blaine felt tears began to gather behind his eyes. Oh God- I've just made the biggest mistake of my life. What the hell was I thinking? I just ruined my only chance at having a friend who actually understands me- all because I couldn't keep my damn mouth shut.

Blaine, took a shaky breath and blinked, silently cursing when he felt a few tears fall.

"Kurt-" He choked out, his voice cracking. "-please say something."

"Not until you look at me." Kurt replied.

Blaine was terrified to look up- he didn't want to see the look of pity Kurt surely had on his face over the fact Blaine ever thought Kurt could like him back.

"Blaine-" Kurt said laying a hand on top of Blaine's "-look at me."

Blaine felt every fiber of his being struggle to keep looking down...but he knew he had to face Kurt sometime. So, he closed his eyes and forced himself to lift his head. He took a deep steadying breath and then forced himself to open his eyes.

And what he saw stopped his heart: Kurt's cheeks were wet from crying a little...but he was smiling at him. He felt a small smile start to tug at the corners of his mouth.

"Kurt?" Blaine asked, putting every emotion he was feeling into Kurt's name, daring to hope that Kurt's smile meant what he thought it did- what he was praying that it did.

"Oh Blaine-" Kurt cried. "-all this time I've been thinking how lucky I was that out of everyone running down the stairs- it was me you stopped on the stairs...a-and how anyone like you could ever like someone like-"

But Kurt didn't get to finish because Blaine had rushed forward to press his lips to Kurt's. The two boys kissed tentatively at first but the kiss quickly deepened after it sunk in that they really were kissing each other. It seemed like both forever and only a second later, when the need for air broke them apart.

Blaine turned to Wes and David, still slightly breathless, and smiled.

"My intentions with your best friend is to make him as happy as possible for as long as he'll let me."

AWWWWW- cavity inducing fluff. I really hadn't intended on writing their confessions but Wes and David wanted to know what his intentions were right?

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