Notes: Finally, some Blaine POV! Enjoy the chapter and thank you for reading/reviewing.

Chapter Six

All the furniture had been moved aside to the corners of the room and the double doors were wide open. Blaine Anderson stood right at the front of the crowd of Dalton students and faculty, watching his glee club perform. It was all reminiscent of the day he'd met Kurt, an impromptu performance and he running late holding onto Kurt's hand because he just hadn't been able to let go. Ever since Kurt had swept back into his life, Blaine had done nothing but think about him. It didn't help that Kurt seemed to be absolutely everywhere even when he wasn't present.

Around him the students erupted into claps and he followed suit, watching as the boys hugged and high-fived all while taking the praise from their fellow students.

"Back to class everyone," one of the teachers said and Blaine watched as everyone started to leave.

One by one even the Warblers left and Blaine watched them off before he turned to walk in the direction of his office. Clapping stopped him. So, he turned.

"They were almost as good as we were," Sebastian Smythe said, "and the arrangement was spectacular. With you, we might have beat the New Directions."

Blaine rolled his eyes. "Instead, you used steroids."

"Under duress," Sebastian said, but shrugged his shoulders.

"What are you doing here, Sebastian?" Blaine asked.

Sebastian walked closer. "I came to visit, take a look around. This was my alma mater after all."

Blaine wanted to ask about Kurt. He had seen them just a few days before at the McKinley High Homecoming bonfire and they had left together after Sebastian arrived, arm in arm.

"Alright," Blaine said, "I have things to do. I'll see you around."

"Things to do," Sebastian said ponderingly, "or rather a certain bear. Was never too into bears myself, and I never would have guessed you were with Kurt being your boyfriend and all, but I guess to each their own."

Blaine turned away from Sebastian. "I really have to go."

"I'm sure," Sebastian said, "but I just wanted to make it clear that I would have been more than ready to help you move on if you know what I mean."

Blaine could practically see Sebastian's smirk even if he wasn't facing him. But instead he took a deep breath.

"Goodbye, Sebastian."

This time Sebastian didn't say anything, but Blaine could feel his eyes on the back of his head. When he got into his office he slumped against the door. It had been months since things had settled down for him. He'd gotten a job, started dating again, and he had been happy enough with how things were going. Then, Rachel had arrived, calling him up to get coffee with her, and everything was turning on its head because suddenly everyone was back in Ohio.

Most of them had left already, admittedly, and only Tina and Mike had made an effort to even talk to him, but just the reappearance of the people he'd called friends and their indifference to him – he assumed in light of the break up –brought back that feeling of not belonging that had been present sporadically during his time with the New Directions. It was a realization that yes, they had always been Kurt's friends first.

Blaine shook the thoughts away and he headed to his desk. His office was too spacious. Blaine had no idea what to do with the space, not that he spent a lot of time there.

Working on the a capella arrangements was always easier at home with his keyboard rather in the office where he didn't really feel too comfortable because despite how much he loved Dalton, it just wasn't him.

Later that day, after having a few ideas on what songs they might start working on next, and meeting with the Wablers for practice, Blaine headed to meet Dave.

Sebastian had been right about one thing, Blaine had never really been into bears. He still kind of wasn't which wasn't to say that he wasn't happy with Dave. Blaine just would never have expected that he would be happy with David Karofsky and sometimes he still questioned his judgment.

It had all happened completely on accident. Blaine hadn't been looking for a relationship or for anything really when he walked into Scandals that night. It had been pure boredom that took him there. Dave had been surprisingly easy to talk to and seeing him and how he had turned his life around had been inspiring to Blaine.

Then, one night Dave just leaned over and kissed him and Blaine thought, why not? After all, his therapist had encouraged him to move on. A couple of dates later, and Dave was calling him his boyfriend.

Dave kissed his cheek when he got into Blaine's car.

"So, have you thought about it?"

"Um, I—"

Dave shook his head. "You haven't, it's alright. I know it's something to consider."

Dave had asked Blaine to move in with him, and while he had explained to Blaine that it was as much to do with his roommate moving out as it was about the fact that Blaine wasn't too happy living at home with his parents, Blaine thought that Dave really did want to live with Blaine and that he wanted their relationship to take another step.

"Do you mind if we stop to look at sheet music? I just have to check a few things out."

"Yeah, sure," Dave said.

Dave always said yes. He always acquiesced to what Blaine wanted even when it was something he found no interest in. He was far more easy going than Kurt had been, which had surprised Blaine at first considering Dave's history.

When Blaine saw Kurt browsing through sheet music, he wasn't as surprised as he pretended to be to Dave. He hadn't know for sure that Kurt would be there, but he'd had an idea that he might be.

The way that Dave inserted him into their conversation, wrapped an arm around him and acted like he knew what kind of music Blaine was even looking for left him a bit surprised, but worse still was seeing how stilted Kurt was. How fake his smile was and how awkward their conversation went until they each went back to looking through sheet music.

Blaine couldn't help but keep trying to watch Kurt, and he was sure that Dave noticed, but he didn't say anything, except that he stayed close.

Although, a part of him was drawn to Kurt, and he knew that he still loved Kurt, Blaine also knew that it wouldn't be healthy for him to just go back to him. Not to mention that he really was happy with Dave. This relationship was different, but it was simpler and easy in a way that Blaine needed.

"You know," he said as they got back into his car, "I think we should move in together."

Dave stared at him. "What?"

"We should move in together."

McKinley was weird. Sebastian had never gone to public school, but even if he had, he probably would have still found McKinley weird. There were strange signs everywhere that promoted a lack of PDA, and then students lingering in the hallways instead of going to class. No one had blinked an eye when Sebastian got onto campus, and the whole cliché of the cheerleaders and jocks acting like they were better than everyone else was just a tad surprising.

Kurt had asked him to pick him up, which was the only reason Sebastian was at McKinley, but he regretted not waiting in the car, but he'd gotten a bit curious about why Kurt wasn't out yet.

He didn't find anyone in the choir room, which was surprising, so he kept walking. There seemed to be something going on with two of the girls that he remembered competing against, but he just walked past them. If they weren't in the choir room then they had to be in the auditorium.

The stage had a bunch of boxes and a surprisingly large amount of almond mounds were in some sort of plastic heart and Kurt was filling the plastic heart up with the almond mounds.

"I don't want to be the guy with the poop in my hand," Kurt was saying, "but Britt, we're in Ohio."

Sebastian didn't know what kind of conversation he'd walked in on, but he paused before they noticed him so he could listen in.

"That's just an excuse, Kurt," Kurt's friend said, "I saw you with that Warbler."

"Who? Sebastian?"

She didn't respond and then Kurt spoke again. "I don't think so, Britt, he's a friend."

"Blaine was just friends with David, and look where that ended up. I just want you to be happy and waiting for Blaine isn't making you happy."

Sebastian decided it was time that he stepped forward. This was exactly why he'd told Elliott that Kurt deserved better friends. It was surprising to him, that Kurt didn't seem to see how they just mistreated him and ignored him and used him.

"There you are," he said, "been looking for you everywhere."

Kurt turned. "Oh, I forgot. Lunch."

Brittany looked at the two of them. "You're already having an excellent start," she said and then, "no poop in your hands, Kurt. And I'm sorry for what Santana said. You know she doesn't mean it."

"Right," Kurt said, "thank you, Brittany."

Sebastian watched her set down an empty cardboard box, but then turned back to Kurt. He smiled at him, "what happened?"

"Santana asked Brittany to marry him," Kurt said, "and I might have maybe had a bad reaction to it. She, um, yelled me about it. And, if that wasn't enough, Blaine is moving in with Karofsky."

"She yelled at you?" Sebastian asked. "Are you alright?"

Kurt shrugged his shoulders. "It's Santana. I mean, she vented for like five minutes about how Blaine couldn't stand any of my, I don't know, my quirks. I felt so bad for being this bitter guy that can't handle seeing my friends in love and…"

"And she didn't have to go after your personality," Sebastian said, "isn't she supposed to be your friend?"

"Well, it's not like I was being a supportive friend either. Just, forget about it, she'll get over it and she has no idea what happened between me and Blaine so it doesn't even matter."

Sebastian nodded. "Alright, but you do have to tell me, poop in your hand?"

Kurt grabbed his arm. "Come on, I'll explain about Brittany in a minute."

They didn't talk all the way to the car, but as they walked, Sebastian knew that they turned some heads, mostly from the last of the former glee club members that had stuck around to help Kurt and Rachel.

"She wants me to move on," Kurt said when they got into his car, "wants me to date you in fact."

"Well, I am open for some fun, you know that."

Kurt leaned over to hit his shoulder.

Sebastian wasn't kidding around. He'd meant it the first time he offered Kurt sex about a week after they had really become friends, and then the second time when they were both drunk and walking into his apartment with arms around each other because neither of them could walk straight.

"Hey," Sebastian said, "we're both stuck in Ohio and Blaine is with Karofksy and ew, I really didn't want to think about them together. But, the point is, we are both very hot men. It would really be a tragedy if it never happened."

Kurt chuckled. "Have you given this speech often?"

Sebastian shook his head. "Usually there's less convincing."

"Let's just have lunch," Kurt said, "but it's nice to know you find me hot."

"Have you seen your ass?" Sebastian asked.

Kurt just laughed.

"When I said they wanted me to move on, you know they meant that I should date, right?"

Sebastian turned to face him, "I think sex will for one be more pleasurable, and for another thing I didn't think that you were ready for dating yet."

"But I'm ready for sex?" Kurt asked and Sebastian could see that he was trying not to smile as he said it.

"I think you are."

Kurt shook his head. "Let's just get some lunch, alright."

He drove them to Breadstix, where Sebastian had eaten only one time before. Kurt however, seemed to know the menu better than even their waitress. After Sebastian had ordered himself ravioli, he watched Kurt. He was distractedly fixing the napkins in the dispenser.

"You know I don't expect anything from you, right?" Sebastian asked, "I know you're in love with Blaine, after all, and I know that one way or another no matter how long it takes and how many come and go from your lives that you'll be together."

Kurt finally looked away from the napkins. "How can you be so sure?"

Sebastian wasn't a hundred percent sure, after all he'd never thought that Blaine would be with David Karofksy or that he would be moving in with him. A part of him had been convinced that Blaine would be the same broken shell he'd been after the first break up and that he would be waiting for Kurt with open arms. Still, one thing he was definitely sure about was that Blaine was not over Kurt.

"I guess it's me wanting to have some hope in love and all that stuff. One day, I think I might be ready for the whole settling down thing and if you and Blaine make it then it might be something to really consider."

Kurt smiled a little and then took a deep breath. "Okay," he said, "so if it's meant to be, then you're singing a completely different tune than the other night."

"Well," Sebastian said, "not really. Look, it's driving you crazy that Blaine is with Karofksy. I know it is, you're thinking about it constantly. Well, if I'm right, it will drive him just as crazy to see you with someone else."

"I don't know about that," Kurt said quickly and shaking his head, "I don't want to just string someone along just to make Blaine jealous which he might not be."

Their food got there, then, and Sebastian became distracted again, this time by the way that Kurt just dug into his meal which consisted of something with eggplants. Having known Kurt as a friend for a few months, he wasn't too surprised with Kurt's eating habits, but it always struck Sebastian as a contradiction. Kurt who seemed to be obsessed with being healthy, with having flawless skin, and with being able to fit into the tightest of pants also ate like any other boy.

"What? Don't like your food?" Kurt asked.

Sebastian shook his head. "No, I'm just impressed by your hunger."

"Shut up," Kurt said and went back to eating, this time a little slower.

Blaine should have known better, when he agreed to let Brittany redecorate Dave's apartment for when he moved in. The thing was that she had offered and not let either of them refuse. Then, she'd gone and basically bought anything rainbow themed and stuck it into the room that was meant to be Blaine's.

Although Dave had offered to share his own bedroom with Blaine, Blaine had been polite in declining. After all, he and Dave had not had sex yet and Blaine just didn't know how comfortable he would actually feel sleeping next to Dave. If Dave hadn't liked that Blaine declined sharing a bed, Blaine didn't know because Dave hadn't let Blaine know if he was upset about it.

In the days following his move, and following Brittany's decorating, Blaine moved what he could around. He tried his hardest to make the room look less like the room that could belong to some cartoon character. The addition of his own things made it a little more bearable.

His first night sleeping there, somehow did make him dream about unicorns.

Still, despite the fact that they were sleeping in separate rooms, Blaine found that living together did bring him and Dave closer. Upon realizing that, it made him feel just a tad sad, but mostly because he and Kurt somehow hadn't gotten closer from living together. Instead, all they had been able to do was fight.

He was sitting with Dave in Dave's room with the tv on. Some football game was on and all of Dave's attention was on it, but Blaine couldn't get into it even though he did like football. It was one of the few things that he and Dave had in common but with it also came other memories for Blaine. Memories of Burt Hummel.

"What are you thinking about?" Dave asked.

There was a commercial on, and he'd turned to look at him, smiling a little like he always did and yet also looking concerned.

"Nothing. I'm just tired."

Dave nodded. "Come here, then, lay down."

Dave opened his arms and Blaine laid down against him. It was nice, just like it was nice to have human contact and warmth, but it wasn't at all like what it had felt to be held by Kurt, or to hold Kurt. It didn't feel like home. He sighed, exasperated because he needed to stop thinking and let himself just be with his boyfriend, but somehow he just couldn't let himself relax.

He stayed with Dave for a while longer, until at last he pulled away and muttered that he needed to go to the bathroom.

Blaine splashed his face with water and leaned against the sink. Before Kurt had returned things had been simpler, Blaine had been happy. Suddenly, though, Kurt had showed up and made him question everything like the fact that he'd never really been attracted to Dave at all but that Dave had made him feel more like himself somehow.

"You okay in there?" Dave asked.

"Yes," he replied quickly even while his mind screamed that no, he wasn't okay. Nothing was okay.