"I think you should go," Blaine says to him.
"Why?" Kurt asks, standing up from where he had been bent over pulling clean dishes from the dishwasher.
"It might be good for you. You've been so busy at work, it might be nice to relax for an evening." He sounds sad when he says it.
Blaine is always trying to get Kurt to do things other than work, and Kurt doesn't want to because when he's not working he starts thinking, and he doesn't want to think. And he especially doesn't want to spend time with his coworkers. Ever since... well, they've never looked at him quite the same since. Always walking on eggshells around him, it feels like they're handling him with kid gloves and he just wants things to be normal again.
He just wants things to go back to how they were.
"Spending the evening with the same people I spend all day with doesn't sound very relaxing," he responds, turning back to the dishwasher and pulling out some plates to put away.
"You might be surprised," Blaine tries.
"I doubt it."
"Kurt, please. There's only so much I can do."
"I'm not asking you to do anything," Kurt says, maybe snaps a little, regrets his tone the second the words pass his lips but Blaine doesn't react.
"That's not what I mean, just... it might do you some good. Getting out there and doing something different. My therapist said that it's good to get out and do things."
He bites his tongue, tries not to comment on Blaine's therapist. He's been trying to work on that.
"Blaine, I don't think going out with my coworkers for one night is going to do anything," Kurt counters, tries to keep his tone light.
"Just try, please? For me?" Blaine asks, and when Kurt turns to look at him he sees the plea in his eyes, too. "You said they've been weird around you, right? Maybe if you went and spent some time with them, they'd stop."
And... Blaine might actually be right. Maybe if he shows them that he's fine, then they'll stop treating him like he's not. And Blaine is giving him that look and, god, he never could say no to those eyes.
"Fine," he relents with a sigh, "I'll go. Maybe it won't be so bad."
"I'm sure it won't be," Blaine says, giving him a small, grateful smile.