Chapter Five

Not allowed Friends

"So," Kurt smiled as he got up from the sofa as Blaine sat on the chair. Originally they had both been on the sofa, but somewhere during their watch of 'When Harry Met Sally', Blaine had changed places, his body still extremely rigid.

It disappointed Kurt in a lot of ways.

Now that Blaine had the hair gel on he looked more like the boy that Kurt had had as a partner, the one who loved him and wasn't afraid of showing it, the one who would fight for his right to be with Kurt. Right at this moment he was trembling in this very 'set' position and closing his eyes. Kurt had no idea how to comfort him.

"Blaine?" Kurt asked as he slid on the couch over towards where Blaine was seated. "Is something wrong? If you didn't want to watch the movie you could have said something."

Blaine stood and he looked around the house, his eyes wild and Kurt wasn't sure what was happening. The Blaine he had known had always been so confident and was able to relax and hang out at The Lima Bean without any problems. Kurt looked down, his heart beating painfully in his chest, had he pushed the other teenager too far? Had he been the reason that Blaine was like this? He didn't want to be, but wasn't there a chance.

"I ha-ha-have to g-g-go," Blaine announced as he looked around, his eyes darting to different things in the house. As he stood there, his whole body started to shake even more, his hand was gripping to the side table next to him.

Kurt's face turned into one of the deepest concern, "Is something wrong? Did I do something wrong? Was it the movie?" he asked.

Blaine looked at him and turned not saying anything as if he was in some kind of trance.

"Blaine?" he asked before watching the other male going to his shoes and putting them on to leave. Kurt had absolutely no idea what was happening, Blaine had seemed just fine watching the movie. Of course he had been displaying proper posture of the kind you associated with English nobility, but that wasn't too strange, was it?

"I-I-I'm so-so-sorry," Blaine replied, "I ha-ha-have t-t-to go-o."

Blaine started lacing up his expensive, formal shoes and he straightened his collar.

Kurt leaned against the wall, he didn't quite grasp what was happening and he wanted to know why Blaine was suddenly this upset. When they were together in the past, or rather future, the two of them would often watch 'When Harry Met Sally' and sometimes Blaine would be the big spoon and sometimes Kurt would be. What was happening now moved Kurt to believe that somewhere during their time together he had violated Blaine, or at least made him uncomfortable enough to leave.

"Can you please tell me what I can do to make it up to you?"

Kurt was desperate to make amends for this afternoon and it was more than for making Blaine feel happy and comfortable again. Kurt needed to do something to prove to Blaine that he was sorry because otherwise he might not see Blaine again. If that was the case, and Kurt was really just stuck here, that would mean that he would never date, be engaged to, or marry Blaine. He didn't want any of those things to happen, he just wanted Blaine to stay.

"N-N-Noth-thing," Blaine replied, a few tears in his eyes which Kurt desperately wanted to wipe away. He knew how this would be handled in the future, he would rush to Blaine's side, demand to know what the problem was, hug and kiss the man he loved, and just do anything he could to make it better. However, if Kurt was to run to Blaine to kiss him and hug him it would definitely make it harder for Blaine to even feel safe to return to the house.

"Can you please tell me what's wrong?" Kurt tried again as the other teenager looked at the floor.

"M-M-My da-da-dad com-omes h-h-home toda-day" Blaine flinched as he gripped to his arm and Kurt's brow furrowed. Was that it? Was Blaine just needing to see his father, or more was Blaine just expected to be there when his father returned. What was the worst that could happen if he wasn't? Okay…judging by the way that Blaine was acting perhaps a lot of things that Kurt wasn't even considering could happen, the answer is would they?

"I want to see you again," Kurt said quickly as Blaine approached the door, "Would that be possible?"

Blaine's breath quickened and he gave himself a hug as he looked at Kurt. He tried to measure his breaths but it was obvious that he was very scared by it all. As Kurt approached him, Blaine flinched, he hung his head and then shook it as a definite no. "M-My pa-pa-parents wo-wo-wouldn-n-n't li-like i-i-it," he announced.

Kurt was caught off guard by that kind of a reply. Were the Andersons really this controlling of their youngest son's life, would they really be happy trying to find their own power in each and every moment of their son's life? Kurt had been criticized by his dad a few times when it came to more feminine fashions and behaviors, but his dad had mostly been joking about them, he had never really cared as to what Kurt did and especially not to who he was friends with. Burt had always been very protective and supportive, but he hadn't been anything close to cruel. Kurt should just admit that he had no idea what Blaine was going through, but obviously his mouth wasn't catching up to his head.

"You enjoyed your time here, right?" he asked and saw Blaine nod quickly, "You can enjoy your time with me again, your dad doesn't have to know. I won't tell anyone, I promise, and if my dad comes home and he meets with you he won't either. Maybe tell them you went to the library or a PSAT prep class."

Blaine seemed to be struggling more as he listened to Kurt and he held himself tighter, a couple of tears trickling down his cheeks. As Kurt continued, Blaine started to flinch at every other word.

Kurt knew he wasn't helping at that point, but he still didn't understand the problem, he still didn't understand why Blaine was having such a hard time explaining this to Kurt or risking the consequences of his father. "I really want to be your friend, Blaine," Kurt finally said as Blaine looked at him terrified.

"I-I-I-I a-a-ant ha-riends" he choked, his words starting to come together as he gripped to the door handle, turning it. Kurt heard his heart pound in his chest, the rhythm of the beats causing for his breaths to tighten and for even more fear and pain to appear on his face. Did Blaine really just say that his parents didn't allow him to have friends? When had this ever happened?

I can't just leave the Warblers. Those guys are my friends.

Kurt remembered when Blaine had said that to him, it was during the time when Kurt was trying to convince Blaine to transfer to McKinley even though Blaine seemed hesitant about doing so, it still meant that he considered the Warblers his friends though…..yet…Kurt had never known Blaine to spend time with anyone but himself outside of the school.

Kurt had been a bit self-involved at first, he had tried to spend every moment he could with Blaine and he had made Mercedes feel a bit neglected because of it. Kurt had accepted that when he had been with Blaine the priorities in his life had been pushed around. Had he never known that Blaine wasn't socializing or hanging out with anyone else? Was this why Blaine had become so obsessed with Jeremiah or why he had developed that stupid crush on Sam? Had it been because those two guys had actually bothered to make time for him when few people had in the past?

"Skype!" Kurt said as Blaine turned around, "Do you have Skype? We could message each other, it wouldn't even have to be every day, my Skype username is FashionSavvyKurt," he said. Kurt was desperate to at least maintain some form of contact with Blaine. It wouldn't be as good as physically being able to spend time with him, but it would be so much better than Blaine disappearing from him.

Blaine nodded, "O-Okay, I-I-I'll a-add you," he replied.

Kurt took a deep breath in and let Blaine leave at that point. He still wasn't sure if he had been the one who had done something wrong, he didn't even want to question it really, but he was excited for that first Skype conversation.

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About four hours later, Kurt was sitting at his computer and was trying to decide which pieces from latest designer lines would fit both his preferences and still be tasteful fashionably. He didn't want to look too different from other people, but he couldn't just live his life with these kind of drab outfits.

It was when he was trying to design something based off of a Marc Jacobs look that he realized he had been added by someone on Skype 'HeartofGlass95'. Kurt smiled at the name of the Blondie song and clicked accept. Most of the details were blank, but there was one name. Blaine. That was all he needed to know.

Instantly Kurt tried to place a video chat.

It was rejected.

Kurt sighed, he blamed the internet, it had definitely sped up as the years went by and if a successful call could be placed it would make him extremely happy because he would be able to see Blaine.

Kurt tried to place the chat again.

Once again it was rejected.

Kurt actually tried three more times and on that fifth time he tried, Blaine picked up and Kurt paled as he looked across at the boy he had seen earlier. Over his left eye was a bruise and on his throat were finger marks. There was a cut that Kurt was pretty sure had been bleeding earlier on the left side of his forehead.

Kurt's heart started to break as he looked ahead at the boy he had had round his house earlier.

"B-Blaine?"