Blaine is a tiny dictator but I'm finally free, I could use some cuddles though.
Jeff sent the text off to his soulmate from the backseat of Blaine's car (Sebastian had called shotgun) on their way home from rehearsing. They had had a productive day of both writing and rehearsing. They had worked on the song Blaine and Jeff began the night before – Sebastian was surprisingly helpful in writing the new song – as well as a few others, and rehearsed their usual set for gigs. Nick replied a few minutes later:
Trent bribed me with cookies to come home, I'll go to your place soon and bring you some.
Jeff smiled at the thought of cookies and his soulmate; he couldn't believe how lucky he was to have Nick in his life.
"Judging by that smile, Nick's coming over again?" Sebastian asked.
"He's bringing cookies," Jeff grinned. "Are you seeing Kurt tonight, Blaine?"
"We're going to brave the paparazzi and try to find somewhere quiet for a dinner out," he answered.
"What about you, Sebastian? Seeing the mystery guy again?"
"Quiet night in, gate-crashing the lovebirds," Sebastian rolled his eyes.
"Maybe you can work on some of the new songs if you're not doing anything else," Blaine suggested. "I don't think we've got any time in the studio booked for a while but it couldn't hurt to have them done."
"Sure, I might need to spend the night in the soundproof office anyway so I might as well be doing something useful," Sebastian smirked, making Jeff blush.
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"You're alive!" Jeff grinned, pulling his soulmate inside by the hand and leading him to the couch. "You didn't get mauled by pre-pubescent students!"
"Yeah, I survived my first day teaching," Nick laughed, eyebrows furrowed slightly with his confusion over the other boy's excitement.
"I missed you so much today," Jeff said as they settled down together on the couch. "And we're going to make up lost time by cuddling for 8 minutes straight."
"Sounds great," Nick smiled, placing a kiss onto his soulmate's forehead. "Is anyone else home?"
"Sebastian's in the office and Blaine's leaving soon to go to dinner with Kurt," Jeff answered.
"Great," Nick smiled, sinking into his soulmate's arms.
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"Blaine, this restaurant is amazing," Kurt said in awe as they took their seats in a small, quaint Italian restaurant.
"I wanted somewhere low-key but still romantic," he shrugged. "I've been here a few times and I thought it would be nice."
"It's beautiful, you're beautiful," Kurt smiled.
"Well I am wearing some of your designs, it helps things," Blaine grinned back.
"Have you ever thought about a career in modelling? My clothes look fantastic on you."
"Maybe I should as an excuse to spend more time with you."
"Consider it at least," Kurt shrugged, looking down at the menu in front of him.
"Maybe you should be the official designer for the band, we all wear your clothes half the time anyway."
"Maybe I should, I don't know if I could live with knowing you're going onstage without a properly styled outfit."
Blaine laughed, smiling at how easy it was to talk to his soulmate. The banter came naturally to them and the conversation flowed easily.
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"Sebastian, please tell me you didn't tell them anything this morning," Hunter said through the phone. "It's bad enough someone sat on me and they saw me asleep and naked."
"They know your name starts with H, that's all," Sebastian told him, sighing and sitting down on the couch in the office.
"And they don't know that the name on your wrist starts with H?"
"I keep it covered all the time," Sebastian quelled his worries. "I promise, no one's going to find out."
"Good." Sebastian could almost hear Hunter nodding over the phone. "When are you coming over next?"
"Probably not until tomorrow, I could use a night in and I've got a couple of songs the guys want me to work on."
Hunter sighed, sending static over the line. "Alright, text me when you know what you're doing and I'll see you then."
"See you," Sebastian said in farewell, before ending the call. He stared at the sheet music around him for a moment before sending a text to Thad.
I'm bored. Come over and work on these songs with me?
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Jeff's proposed 8 minutes of cuddling turned into watching two movies on the couch and Nick's arm falling asleep under the weight of his soulmate.
"Dinner?" Jeff offered, yawning and stretching.
"Sounds perfect," Nick said, doing the same.
"Are you opposed to ordering in?" Jeff asked. "There's a great pizza place that delivers."
"I love pizza," Nick smiled.
"I'll go ask Sebastian if he wants some," Jeff said, disappearing into the office.
Nick stood up and stretched out his limbs, trying to regain the feeling in his arm. His day was going better than he could have expected – he woke up next to his amazing soulmate, his students were all great at his first day at work, he had spent some great time with Trent and Lauren, and then spent the past few hours in the arms of his aforementioned amazing soulmate.
"Did you notice Thad come in?" Jeff asked, his eyebrows furrowed with confusion as he returned from the office.
"No," Nick shook his head.
"Neither, but he was in there with Sebastian."
Nick's stomach grumbled and they both laughed.
"I'll go order food," Jeff smiled.
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"Blaine, tonight has been so perfect," Kurt gushed as they walked up the stairs to Blaine's apartment.
"Why does it have to end here?" Blaine asked. "Stay the night?"
"Sure," Kurt nodded, smiling. "If your housemates won't mind?"
"Nick's been staying over since Friday and we always find strays in Sebastian's bed, it'll be fine."
"Strays?" Kurt raised a questioning eyebrow.
"Strange men that he sleeps with," Blaine shrugged. "Jeff accidentally sat on one this morning."
"You guys really are insane," Kurt laughed.
"You haven't seen anything yet," Blaine warned him. "We get weirder."
Blaine held the door open for Kurt like the dapper gentleman he was and they entered the apartment. Jeff and Nick were on the couch with an empty pizza box on the table and Sebastian was nowhere to be seen.
"How'd the date go?" Jeff asked them, keeping his voice low.
"It was great," Kurt smiled, also dropping the volume of his voice.
"Why are we whispering?" Blaine asked.
"Nick fell asleep and he's too adorable to wake up," Jeff explained. "Though I can't feel my arm… maybe this is payback for earlier."
Blaine laughed softly before asking, "Where's Sebastian?"
"In the office with Thad," Jeff answered.
"He's going to hurt his neck sleeping like that," Blaine pointed out. "Take him to bed so we can have the living room to ourselves."
"Fine," Jeff sighed before nudging his soulmate awake and coaxing him into the bedroom.
Blaine took Kurt's hand and dragged him down onto the couch in the spot Jeff had just vacated.
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"The song's coming along great," Thad nodded as Sebastian played it for him.
"Thanks," Sebastian smiled. "Do you want to take a break and trawl through what the media's saying about Blaine and Jeff meeting their soulmates?"
"Sure, I haven't really seen much yet."
Sebastian opened the internet browser on his laptop and they scrolled through several articles similar to the first one released on Friday night before they saw one that made them stop and decide to tell the rest of the group.
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Thad was sent to get Jeff and Nick while Sebastian talked to Blaine and Kurt. Thad found Jeff and Nick in the blonde's bed attached at the mouth. They were sharing long, sleepy kisses and he could feel himself getting a toothache from how sweet it was.
"We found something you might want to see," Thad informed them. "Sebastian wants both of you in the kitchen now."
Jeff grumbled something incoherent before rolling over and nodding to the drummer. "We'll be there in a minute."
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Rumours are spreading around that The Warblers be going on a temporary hiatus from the music scene. With both lead singer Blaine Anderson and bassist Jeff Sterling meeting their respective soulmates in the past few days, it seems they may have other things on their minds and the chances for new music from the band are getting slimmer. We'll keep you updated with any news we find, but don't hold your breath.
"This is ridiculous!" Blaine shouted at the screen. He was sitting at the kitchen table with Sebastian, Thad, Jeff, Nick and Kurt, all of them staring at the laptop. "Nothing has changed within the band, if anything it's given us more to write about."
"Do you want me to call Wes and yell at him to fix it? That always seems to work," Jeff offered.
"He's probably already doing something," Blaine shook his head.
"If it helps, I've started work so I won't be around as much," Nick said. "If they don't see me around it might help, right?"
"Maybe, but I won't like it," Jeff frowned, squeezing Nick's hand.
"Does it even matter what they're saying?" Sebastian asked, starting to regret showing them the article. "We'll release a statement saying that article's a load of crap, and when we keep playing shows and recording songs everything'll be okay."
"That sounds great in theory, but we hardly have anything booked in the next couple of weeks," Blaine sighed.
"People would get suspicious," Thad frowned.
"People suck," Jeff said, resting his hand in his chin. Nick rubbed his back comfortingly and the group murmured in agreement.
"No," Blaine shook his head. "We are not going to sit here sulking and letting all of this get to us. I'll talk to Wes about releasing a statement, but we're not going to let this change anything."
"Aye-aye captain," Sebastian smirked with a mock-salute, earning him a glare from Blaine and an eye roll from Kurt.
"I mean it, we can't let things like this get to us," Blaine said adamantly.
"He's got a point," Nick agreed. "One of the best things about you guys is that you don't care what people think and you're always yourselves. People like that you spend your time making more stuff for the fans rather than worrying about a couple of internet articles."
"Maybe we should put something on youtube, not directly addressing the article but letting the fans know that we've still got heaps of new stuff we're working on," Thad suggested. "Wes was filming a bit today at rehearsals, wasn't he?"
"He was," Jeff nodded.
"Perfect," Thad grinned.
"Dibs not editing this one," Jeff announced. "It takes way too long."
"I'll do it," Thad volunteered. "But I get to put whatever I want in it."
"Go nuts, as long as I don't have to do it it's all fine by me," Sebastian shrugged.
Blaine nodded his approval and Thad began formulating how to best present the footage they currently had.
"I have to get up early tomorrow, so I'll go to bed and leave you guys to it," Nick excused himself and Jeff accepted the quick kiss he was given.
"How long until he officially moves in do you think?" Thad asked once Nick was safely out of earshot.
"What?" Jeff asked, confused.
"It's obvious that you two are inseparable," Sebastian explained. "My money's on less than two weeks until he moves in."
"I reckon three," Thad added.
"You won't mind if he does?" Jeff questioned.
"I'd rather he comes here than you moving in with him," Blaine said. "It's obvious those are the only two possibilities and there'd be less fun shenanigans if you moved out."
"Did you really just say shenanigans, Blaine?" Sebastian laughed.
Blaine pouted but Jeff rolled his eyes and stood up before he could say anything. "I'm going to go join him if we're done here."
"Go ahead," Thad said. "I should probably get going too."
"And we should get to sleep soon," Blaine added, turning to Kurt. "You said you had a meeting in the morning, didn't you?"
"Yeah," he nodded.
Blaine took Kurt's hand and led him into his bedroom. This was the first night they'd spent together and Blaine made sure Kurt knew that he didn't expect anything more than sleeping to happen that night.
Blaine fell asleep content in Kurt's arms and woke up the same way the next morning, kissing Kurt goodbye before his soulmate left for his meeting.