Chapter 4
Blaine spent an hour that evening on the phone talking to Cooper and about 90% of their conversation was about Kurt. Cooper insisted that Kurt felt the same way about Blaine but the youngest Anderson still wasn't too sure. Instead, for the next two weeks Blaine began to grow a lot more confident around Kurt. Instead of Kurt always being the one to initiate any sort of contact, Blaine was a lot more sure of himself and often when they saw each other Blaine insisted on a hug straight off before grabbing the taller boys hand. If Kurt felt like there was anything unusual about Blaine behavior, then he never said anything.
"So, how is Klaine going?" Cooper asked on the phone that night and Blaine just sighed heavily. "That bad, huh?"
"I want to say something, I really do Coop, but I can't, do you think I'm just being a chicken?"
"Yes," His older brother adamantly told him. "But you haven't properly trusted anyone since your attack and it's understandable. I think it would be good if you told him how you feel though. Kurt has really helped you come back out of your shell Blaine and not to sound selfish but I want my brother back."
"If he feels the same way, like you've said, why doesn't he say anything?" Blaine argued.
"If it was the other way and Kurt had been attacked and was timid around people. Would you want to be push and ask him out on a date?"
"I guess not."
"Well Kurt feels the same. Just talk to him Kurt, I promise you that everything will be fine, and if it's not, I'll fly home and break his legs for you!"
It took Blaine another week before he felt like he was able to approach Kurt and they made arrangements to meet in Blaine and Jeff's dorm room that evening, after making sure that Jeff would be out.
"Are you OK Blaine, you seem nervous?"
"I want to audition for the Warblers," he blurted out, surprising himself in the progress.
"Well that's great news Blaine. You know Wes would give you an audition whenever you ask for one and I'm definite that you will be let into the group. Is that all you wanted to tell me?" He asked with a small smile before squeezing his hand.
"I've been practicing my audition piece and I wanted your opinion on if that's OK."
"Oh I'd love to hear it. Go on then," Kurt asked excitedly as Blaine just gave a weak smile before getting up and grabbing his guitar. After strumming several chords, Blaine began to sing.
I've been alone
Surrounded by darkness
I've seen how heartless
The world can be
I've seen you crying
You felt like it's hopeless
I'll always do my best
To make you see
Baby, you're not alone
Cause you're here with me
And nothing's ever gonna bring us down
Cause nothing can keep me from lovin' you
And you know it's true
It don't matter what'll come to be
Our love is all we need to make it through
Now I know it ain't easy
But it ain't hard trying
Every time I see you smiling
And I feel you so close to me
And you tell me
Baby, you're not alone
Cause you're here with me
And nothing's ever gonna bring us down
Cause nothing can keep me from lovin' you
And you know it's true
It don't matter what'll come to be
Our love is all we need to make it through
I still have trouble
I trip and stumble
Trying to make sense of things sometimes
I look for reasons
But I don't need 'em
All I need is to look in your eyes
And I realize
Baby I'm not alone
Cause you're here with me
And nothing's ever gonna take us down
Cause nothing can keep me from lovin' you
And you know it's true
It don't matter what'll come to be
Our love is all we need to make it through
Cause you're here with me
And nothing's ever gonna bring us down
Cause nothing, nothing, nothing can keep me from lovin' you
And you know it's true
It don't matter what'll come to be
You know our love is all we need
Our love is all we need to make it through
When Blaine finished singing, he felt slightly tense still even though he had put his guitar down. Normally once he had played his guitar or sung, it relaxed him but now he was waiting. Waiting extremely impatiently for Kurt's reaction to the song.
"You wrote that?" He asked in awe and Blaine just nodded, afraid to use his voice. "That was amazing Blaine, I mean truly amazing. I know a couple of people that have written original songs but yours just puts them to shame. I mean, wow." he grinned grabbing Blaine's hand. "Can I ask a question though?"
"Of course."
"Did you, I mean, well, did you write that song about anybody in particular?"
"You," Blaine replied looking down into his lap, afraid of his impending rejection that Kurt was going to send his way. Instead he felt a shift on the bed as Kurt moved closer to him before the taller boy brought a hand up to cup his cheek. They were so close that they were almost nose to nose.
"You are never alone, never again sweetie," Kurt whispered and before Blaine even had a chance to register what was happening Kurt was kissing him. It was nothing like Blaine ever expected. When he read about first kisses in books or watched it on TV and movies, it always made a first kiss seem awkward yet with fireworks still going off. Yet this was nothing like that. It was as if they fit together perfectly like a puzzle, that they were actually made for each other.
"Hi," Blaine whispered when they broke apart, their foreheads resting together.
"Hi," Kurt giggled in response before giving him a chaste kiss.
"Did we really just kiss?"
"I do believe we did."
"So...what does this mean?" He asked timidly.
"So you just wrote me the most amazing song I've ever heard, and I am including the whole of the Wicked soundtrack and every song by Lady Gaga, and then we had wonderful kiss and now you're too shy to ask me out?"
"Well I can't do all the work, can I?" Blaine said, surprising himself with the response.
"Well in that case, would you like to go out to dinner with me tomorrow night Blaine Anderson?" Kurt smiled and Blaine displayed a massive grin.
"Well Kurt Hummel, I do believe I would be honored."
The next day, Blaine had his Warbler audition at afternoon rehearsals. Wes was making the Warblers have extra practices, even two lunch practices a week as Sectionals 'wasn't that far away', in his words, although they still had just under a month to prepare.
"You're going to be fine Blaine, I promise," Kurt grinned taking his seat while Blaine went to the center of the room before announcing his name and began singing his song that he had played for Kurt the night before.
To say the Warblers were surprised that Blaine had written his own song for the performance was an understatement. They were completely shocked and because of that fact, by the time Blaine had finished singing the room was in utter silence. Nobody muttered a word. Are they even still breathing or did my song kill them? Just as Blaine made his way to leave Kurt jumped out of his seat and grabbed Blaine's hand, forcing him to stay in the room, although now feel slightly stronger knowing that Kurt was on his side.
"Aren't any of you going to say anything? Seriously?"Kurt said looking round the room and giving everyone, what Finn would call, his 'bitch' stare.
"That was brilliant Blaine," Wes finally said and finally the other Warblers in the room began to mumble their approval and agree. "Well it is unanimous then Blaine, you are officially a Warbler." Was my song really that impressive?
"Your song was mind blowing Blaine," David said surprising the boy who thought he'd only made his comment to himself. "I mean, seriously, I will break up with Wes right this second if you tell me that song is about me. Actually, even if it isn't about me I will break up with him and go out with you because I bet you could right an even better song with me as your muse. What do you say Blaine?" David grinned ignoring how Wes was spluttering and stating that he too could 'write a kick ass song'.
"Sorry David, Blaine's already taken," Kurt answered for him before leaning down and giving him a peck, resulting in many wolf whistle's from the Warblers.
"Damn, my loss is your gain Kurtie," David said looking depressed.
"Seriously David? Have you actually forgotten about me? Your boyfriend? I'll write you a song, no, a hundred songs if that's what you want love."
"I don't know Wes, it's taken you three years to even offer to write me a song." David teased.
"I swear to God David," Wes sighed grabbing his boyfriend into his arms and holding him tight. "What do you want from me love?" With a wicked grin, David whispered something into his ears which seemed to have quite an impact. Once David tried to pull away slightly, Wes held him even tighter before lifting him up into his arms and leaving the room as fast as possible, only pausing a second to announce that practice was over, even though there was still, supposedly, an hour and a half left.
"Awesome, you need to get Wes jealous more often," Jeff grinned as the Warblers began to leave the room.
"How about we go out slightly earlier now?" Kurt asked. "I'll knock for you at half five?"
"Sounds good," Blaine grinned and Kurt gave him a quick kiss before announcing that he had to get ready.
At half five exactly, Kurt was knocking on Blaine's door and within seconds the smaller boy was yanking the door open, as if trying to pull it off it's hinges. To say that Blaine was shocked would be an understatement. Despite him knowing that Kurt loved fashion and that he owned every Vogue magazine from the last five and a half years did not stop him from being shocked at Kurt's outfit. Normally when they hung out they were in uniform and even though it looked great on Kurt, it looked nothing like this. He was wearing, the skinniest, tightest, black jeans that hugged him in all the right places with a purple shirt and skinny black tie.
"Are you ready then?" Kurt asked after several moments of silence, shaking Blaine out of his day dream.
"Yeah, you look amazing by the way," Blaine replied quickly grabbing his phone before leaving, thankful that Jeff wasn't there to take the piss out of him as he swore he was drooling.
"Thank you. I have to admit that I love your bow tie." Blaine smiled at Kurt's compliment and went to adjust it but Kurt just grabbed his hand. "It looks perfect sweetie, leave it." Blaine just nodded. "So I first thought that we could go out to dinner at a restaurant but this is still Ohio and I don't want out first date to be ruined by homophones so I managed to get permission to use the student kitchens and made us a picnic."
"That sounds great," Blaine grinned as they headed towards Kurt's car.
It took around twenty minutes for them to get to the area where Kurt had planned to have the picnic. However, instead of parking and eating straight away, Kurt grabbed the picnic basket from the boot of his car before they started what Blaine would only describe as a hike.
"Seriously Kurt, where are we going?" Blaine asked struggling to keep up with the blue eyed boy. Recently he had begun exercising regularly again, mainly since he had been learning boxing in Dalton and wanted to get into shape but he had never once seen Kurt enter the gym. How the hell is he so fit?
"It's not much further, I promise you," he replied, leaning in to give Blaine a quick kiss on the cheek before continuing to walk. It was another five minutes until they managed to get to where Kurt had been talking about. There in front of Blaine was a massive open field with hundreds of wild flowers doted around, many of which he had never seen before.
"How the hell did you find this place? It's amazing." Blaine said as they settled down on the grass, once they had put the blanket down so as, in Kurt's words, 'not to ruin my amazing jeans'. Blaine did have the agree, they did look wonderful on the older boy.
"My mum and dad used to come here when they were younger. My mum then showed it to me and we had picnics here every week in the summer. When she got sick, they became rarer and rarer. My dad decided to sprinkle her ashes here so I now make a point of visiting as regularly as possible."
"Well this is amazing," Blaine grinned. "She sounds amazing."
"She was. When she was ill, it was a lot harder for her to get up but one day, it must have been nearly November and it was a clear day. It was one of her good days and she phoned my school up and told them I was ill and just packed up a picnic basket and some books and we stayed here all day. When we got home, my dad was already in and he had been really worried about where we were. When we told him, he was livid. I thought he would shout at me so I ran and hid in my room. He ran in five minutes later, extremely apologetic, saying that he was only teasing and wished that he had been able to come. I promised we'd invite him the next time we went to the field."
"Did you end up having a picnic with him as well then?"
"I had one more picnic with my mum. The three of us had it in the lounge as mum was too ill to go out at that point. I then had them occasionally here with dad instead but it never felt right without her," Kurt said going to get the food out but Blaine stopped him and pulled him into a tight hug not saying anything. After several moments Blaine pulled away and asked Kurt what he had cooked for the pair of them.
Blaine was pleasantly surprised to find out that Kurt was an amazing cook. The boy had also made his Dalton famous chocolate chip cookies which Blaine had yet to try. It was a good thing that Kurt had put several of them in because Blaine couldn't stop eating them.
"Is there any more back at school?" He asked half way through munching on his third cookie.
"Well, I did make three batches of them," Kurt replied and Blaine lit up. "But I did leave them in my room and Jeff had just turned up when I left to get you and apparently him and Nick had plans with some Warblers. No doubt he smelt them out and now they're all gone."
"Well they are amazing." Blaine grinned finishing the cookie.
"I think I'll be having them make them more often if you like them that much. I made them at home once and Finn at twelve of them in one sitting," Kurt grinned laying down on the blanket looking at the sky.
"It's a compliment," Blaine said hesitantly looking at where Kurt was laid. Does he want me to lay with him? Would that just be weird? Kurt seemed to be able to read his mind because he opened his arms inviting Blaine in. With a gentle smile, Blaine rested his head on Kurt's chest and wrapped his arm around him.
"You use too much hair gel," Kurt commented as he ran his fingers through it before finding a loose curl and began playing with it.
"I didn't use to but some of the people at my old school didn't like it. I refused to go bald so I begged my parents to get a hair cut and then I bought my first tub of hair gel. It stopped the teasing for a while but when they realised I was gay it just got worse. I've just been used to gelling it so often I guess."
"Well one day I want to see you without it, OK?"
"One day," Blaine grinned looking up at him and kissed the only place he could reach, Kurt's chin causing the boy to giggle slightly. "This has been the perfect first day."
"I completely agree," Kurt said pulling Blaine up to kiss him.
"Kurt, are we, you know..." Blaine hesitantly asked however Kurt didn't seem to understand his badly asked question.
"You can ask me anything sweetie."
"Are we boyfriends?" Blaine said shyly and refusing to meet Kurts eyes.
"Yes, yes I think we are," Kurt replied and Blaine grinned before kissing him, a lot more passionately than their previous ones before pulling apart again.
"Hi," Blaine smiled resting their foreheads together.
"Hi," Kurt replied before leaning back in, for a much needed and wanted kiss.
A/N
The new chapter is finally here. Sorry it wasn't up sooner but I've been busy with work and my cousin has finally got engaged! :D :D He finally proposed to his boyfriend on Saturday after them being together nearly five years. They wanted to wait until they could get married instead of having a civil partnership. I'm so happy for them!
Moving on from my family's drama, thank you to tikipunch22, lolislis, itsemzx and AMereShellOfMyself for adding my story to their favourites. Also thank you itsemzx, GothicGold, Abbynormal212, AMereShellOfMyself and Gleeful Dreams for following.
Finally thank you for the reviews.
Rori Potter - Glad to know that you're still reading and enjoying :D
lucky333123 - I hope this chapter lived up to your expectations, especially now that Blaine knows how Kurt feels.
itsmezx - I'm glad to hear that you discovered Moving On. Your review made perfect sense to me, despite you saying it was 3am :P
The song that Blaine sung to Kurt was Not Alone by Darren Criss. I'm been in love with this song since I heard it in A Very Potter musical.
I don't know when I'm going to be able to update again. I'm working a 23 hour shift tomorrow :( and then I'm going out to celebrate my friends 20th birthday Friday night. It might not be my best idea because no doubt I'll be home after midnight and I'm leaving at 3 Saturday morning to go on holiday with my family to Italy. I've been told I'm not allowed to have any alcohol because me plus a hangover is not a pretty sight, but surely one glass can't hurt?
See you all next time - I'll try and post at least one chapter for you all while I'm in Italy!