The one that mattered most
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"Blaine? Blaine are you here?" Kurt yelled, when he entered the front door. He had stayed three days longer in Lima than originally planned. He was glad he did, as he really did enjoy the time with Carol and his dad. Still, as great as it was, he had missed his boys terribly.
"Kurt, is that you?" Blaine replied, head popping out of the kitchen looking towards the entrance.
"Did you expect anyone else?" Kurt replied amused, setting his bag on the floor. He walked toward his husbands who was busy preparing lunch.
"Welcome home, we missed you Kurt!" Blaine said, kissing his husbands cheek.
"I missed you too." Kurt replied, smiling at his husband. Dalton was drawing idly at the kitchen table and as soon as he saw Kurt, he jumped of his seat.
"Papi!" He exclaimed happily and ran as fast as he could towards Kurt, hugging his leg.
"Well hello there, my little pea. Have you been a good boy? Papi missed you!" Kurt said taking his son of the ground to hug him. He placed a kiss on his sons cheek, who beamed at Kurt.
"Papi, miss you too!" Dalton said. "Papi, Dada and Mommy and I go to visit the penwins."
"The penguins? Are you going to the zoo today?" Kurt asked, looking at Blaine. Blaine nodded only at Kurt and took a look at his watch.
"Yes! Penwins!" Dalton said nodding fiercely. "Papi come too!"
"I am just making some Sandwiches Kurt. We will pick up Rachel in a minute. Do you want to join us? The weather is so nice today and Dalton loves to go and see the penguins." Blaine said, carefully placing some cucumber sandwiches into a plastic container.
"Sure, why not. Do I have time to freshen up really quick?" Kurt asked, while placing Dalton on the ground.
"If you manage in 15 minutes, than yes." Blaine replied, while washing cutting some mango for the fruit salad he was currently preparing. Kurt just smiled and quickly went upstairs to their bedroom, to change into some fresh clothes.
15 minutes later the Anderson-Hummel family was all ready to leave.
"Okay, all ready?" Blaine asked, mentally ticking his list of things he had to take.
"You got the food and the stroller, I have our son - we only need Rachel." Kurt said, while opening the door.
"Let's pick up mommy Dalton!" Kurt smiled at his son and hopped down the three stairs from his house. He then stopped in front of Rachel's and Jesse's bell and let Dalton push the bell, as he loved doing that. The eyes of the little boy sparkled of joy, when the noise of the bell rang.
Moments later Rachel opened the door with a big smile on her face.
"Hey baby! Mommy missed you!" Rachel exclaimed kissing Dalton.
"Kurt you are back!" She then said, hugging her best friend.
"Hey Diva! I just arrived, hope you don't mind if I join you guys to the zoo."
"The more the merrier! I am happy you are back. Aren't you happy Papi is back baby?" Rachel said tickling her sons stomach. Dalton giggled joyfully and nodded happily.
"Penwins!"
Kurt and Rachel laughed. Rachel closed the door and together they went down the few steps of her house to meet Blaine.
"Okay looks like we are all set." Kurt said looking at his husband and Rachel.
"Yes let's go!" Blaine replied, hailing a taxi.
After a short drive they arrived at Central Park. They had decided to visit the Central Park Zoo today, instead of the bigger Bronx Zoo. Since moving to New York Rachel had always loved Central Park. When she moved in with Jesse about 6 years ago they had lived on the upper east side within walking distance of Central Park. When they got married however they wanted to have more space and moved to Brooklyn. Since then she didn't manage to go as often as she liked to to Central Park, as it was unfortunately a little far from her home.
She was going to enjoy today's day with her two best friends and their baby boy.
When the cab left them at the entrance of Central Park Blaine put Dalton into the stroller and buckled him up.
They leisurely walked towards Central Park Zoo, enjoying the sunny spring breeze of this wonderful day in May.
They had been walking through the zoo for an hour, when they finally arrived at Dalton's highlight - the penguin house. While Kurt took the liberty to take Dalton into his arms and approach the penguin habitat as close as possible, Blaine and Rachel stayed back, watching them.
"So Rachel, I was meaning to show you something", Blaine started. Since he had received that picture, he was arguing with himself how and when to approach Rachel with it. He was wondering, if he should tell Kurt about it, but Blaine figured there would never be a right time and maybe there was a plausible explanation. An explanation where Kurt did not need to know anything about the situation, because it was a weird coincidence and there were no consequences. Oh the consequences, could there be any? Would there be any? Blaine had a million scenarios in his mind, how this could end and he was feeling desperate.
In the end he realized, he would just have to do it and now was as good as any time.
"What is it?" Rachel inquired.
Blaine took a deep breath and took out his mobile, where he had the picture saved. He unlocked his phone and opened the picture to show it to Rachel.
"Oh how adorable. I didn't know you guys went with Dalton to the beach, Blaine!" Rachel said, smiling at the picture of her son.
Blaine gave her an intense look and Rachel looked at him questioningly.
"Blaine? Everything alright?" She asked, wondering why he didn't say anything. It wasn't as if she would be upset, that Kurt and Blaine had taken Dalton to the beach. Yes - it was weird, that they wouldn't have said anything, but it wouldn't be an issue.
"We haven't been to the beach with Dalton." Blaine simply said. Rachel looked at him puzzled.
"You are just showing me a picture of him at the beach, Blaine!" Rachel said confused. Obviously she was looking at a photo of her son - at the beach.
"Rachel." Blaine said, looking at her sternly. "Rachel, this is not Dalton."
"Don't be ridiculous Blaine, of course this is Dalton, who else should it be?" Rachel started to become incredibly irritated. What was Blaine doing? Was he trying to pull a prank on her? She really didn't feel like it was funny, at all. So what the heck was happening?
"Rachel, this is not Dalton." Blaine repeated. He sighed heavily. "This is a photo of Sam. As in Sam Evans."