The guys came as they promised. It was four o’clock and they were sitting in Blaine’s living room, eating the delicious snacks Kurt had prepared and talking about their drive. They caught up on missing time and the evening was full of laughter, teasing and joking, recalling the highlights of the year that would soon become history.

“Do you remember how we met at the bar in the beginning of the year? Kurt couldn’t even hit the ball!”

“Do you remember how we kept it secret from Mathew?”

“Do you remember how he found out?”

“Oh my god, do you remember how the three of you got drunk and blamed everything on Kurt?”

“I remembered how you yelled at us in the evening.”

“Do you remember Blaine being an idiot?”

“When? First time or second time?”

“Hey! That’s rude! I had my issues!”

“Do you remember how we worked on that awful project for more than a month?”

“Do you remember how sad we were when Kurt left for New York?”

“Do you remember Kurt being an idiot?”

“When?”

“When we had to come here so Blaine could serenade him…”

“Oh, yeah. Do you remember how we ruined their night then when we came home drunk? That was hilarious!”

“No it wasn’t!”

“Do you remember Blaine’s goodbye party?”

“Actually, I really don’t remember much from that night…”

When they got to bed, it was almost four a.m. Kurt rested his head on Blaine’s chest, both of them tired, with closed eyes and soft smiles on their faces. Blaine was stroking Kurt’s hair and Kurt was caressing Blaine’s collarbone with his thumb.

“I’m so happy I found you last year.” Blaine whispered. “I honestly don’t know where I would be right now if it wasn’t for you.”

“I’m glad you’re here with me right now.” Kurt said and placed a kiss on Blaine’s chest. Blaine sighed and tugged him closer.

“Goodnight, my love.”

“Goodnight, honey.” Kurt raised his head and kissed Blaine’s jaw. Then he moved a little, settling himself half on top of him and attached his lips to Blaine’s neck.

“Kurt, sweetie. I can barely keep my eyes open…I know why we are sleeping in this room…” Blaine shifted a bit, tiredness evident in his voice. “I would love you to continue but I’m not even fully awake. Let’s get some sleep and then…”

“Shhh…You don’t need to do anything. Let me take care of you. Let me show you how much I love you.” Blaine was about to protest but Kurt had already started his mission and Blaine couldn’t find the strength to say something. His body was attacked by Kurt’s mouth and hands in the most beautiful way and he allowed Kurt to do whatever he wanted. The waves of pleasure overflowed him and he wasn’t sure whether it was reality or a dream but he didn’t care. Every time Blaine was falling asleep, Kurt would lick or nibble on the right spot on his skin and Blaine would awake from his daze. It was torture. Amazing, wonderful torture that he would gladly go through anytime. He felt like every inch of him was aching and craving for more. He had no idea for how long Kurt dedicated his action to his lower body, but he knew he hadn’t gotten a kiss on his lips for ages, so he took all the power that left in him and tangled his fingers in Kurt’s hair. Kurt immediately stopped sucking on his hip bone and crawled up. He was greeted by two hazel eyes, so expressive and glittering, the eyes he could look into for eternity and he wouldn’t get tired of it, because they were eyes full of pure love. Love for him. Kurt smiled, the smile Blaine knew was reserved just for him, telling him Kurt loved him as well without any words needed. Kurt leaned down and captured Blaine’s lips, still smiling. He carefully pushed himself inside of Blaine, eliciting a soft moan and a sped – up heartbeat. He moved slowly, wondering if he could lull Blaine to sleep this way. Blaine was lying underneath him, his eyes closed, the sounds he was making were quiet and his body seemed to take control over his head. Blaine had no idea what was going on, he let the sensation filled him completely, his arms and legs were on their own accord, he didn’t do anything consciously, he just felt. His skin was tingling, his whole body was trembling, his breathing was ragged, his head was heavy and the coiling feeling in his stomach was ever present. He was on the edge since Kurt had started his beautiful assault, something he didn’t think was even possible for such a long time, but here he was, praying for the end because every touch and kiss was too much to handle due to the intensity of Kurt’s caressing that was multiplied by the state of his not so clear mind. However in an instant he always changed his prayers for Kurt to never stop making love to him, to continue in this for the rest of his life because he couldn’t imagine anything he would rather do.

“Ohmygod!” The loud shout to the silence surprised Kurt. The end hit Blaine unexpectedly. In one second, everything disappeared and all he could receive was an overwhelming feeling of pleasure that wasn’t leaving him for a long amount of time. Yeah, it might be just a few seconds or maybe it was a minute, it could be hours or even days, he lost the sense of reality. He might be dead right now, but he didn’t care because it was the best way how to get out of the life. And he felt how Kurt tensed above him, whispering his name all over again so he knew if he was dead, Kurt was on the other side with him hence everything was as it should be. As long as he had Kurt it didn’t matter where Blaine was.

Kurt felt how Blaine’s breathing slowed down and his grip on Kurt’s body eased. There was no doubt he fell asleep. Kurt kissed his nose and as he was pulling away safely, the cold air on Blaine’s chest made Blaine shot his eyes open.

“No!” He whined, his voice raspy. Kurt suddenly found himself back on top of Blaine, Blaine’s arms secure around his waist.

“Blaine, darling, I’ll be right back. Let me clean us up and then you can hold me, okay?”

“Mmmm…never let you go.” Blaine murmured, clearly falling asleep again. “Hurry up, miss you already.” Kurt brushed some sweaty curls from Blaine’s forehead and stood up. He used Blaine’s sleep shirt which Blaine hadn’t even used that night as a towel and quickly returned to Blaine’s side. Blaine put his head on the crook of his neck and tangled their legs. Kurt had little difficulties with covering them both with a blanket but he somehow managed to do that and now nothing was in his way to restful sleep. He had his lover in his arms and that was everything Kurt could ask for as a perfect start of the year that was ahead of him.  

A few hours later Blaine woke up with Kurt’s back glued to his chest. They were lying on their left sides, Blaine’s right arm around Kurt’s torso. Blaine remembered Kurt’s arms around him from the early morning and he smiled at the thought how they always changed positions in their sleep but never did they wake up without any physical contact between their bodies. He kissed Kurt’s shoulder lightly and sighed, breathing the scent of Kurt he loved so much. Kurt laced their fingers together.

“Morning.”

“Hmmm…” Blaine answered, not detaching his mouths from Kurt’s neck.

“We should get up.” Kurt said when he looked at the clock above Blaine’s piano. “We are supposed to be at my apartment in two hours.”

“Which leaves us plenty of time to make love once again.” Blaine gently rolled Kurt on his back and pecked his lips while his hands roamed all over Kurt’s body.

“I’m so glad you didn’t insist on putting our pajamas on.” Blaine was talking between sucking and licking on Kurt’s collarbone, driving Kurt crazy.

“Blaine, we need to go… Oh, god, yes.” Blaine was now above him, slowly rolling his hips against Kurt’s.

“We’ll go later, sweetheart. Forget about everything and enjoy.” He placed Kurt’s legs around his waist and leaned down to connect their lips. Kurt instinctively put his arms on Blaine’s shoulders and returned the kiss until both of them were breathless.

“Tell me to stop…” Blaine whispered to his ear. “Tell me you don’t want to and I’ll stop.” Kurt moaned and thrust his hips up, letting Blaine know he was in whatever was about to happen. All at once, Blaine was everywhere. His fingers were brushing on Kurt’s skin from head to toes, his lips and tongue following the manner and Kurt had a problem with supplying his lungs with the air properly. His breathing was uneven, his voice hoarse from loud moaning and whimpering, his eyes closed and his back arched. He needed Blaine. He needed him more than anything.

“Blaine…” A broken whisper left Kurt’s lips and Blaine rushed to kiss them.

“I’m here, love. I’ve got you.”

“Please…I…I need you!” Kurt choked. Blaine nodded and soon they were one body, one soul. Blaine focused on Kurt only. He wanted to make him feel good, to show him how much he loved and cared about him, to cover him with pleasure and make sure Kurt would experience the same mind blowing sensation he had provided to Blaine not so long ago. It was hard though. Kurt looked so hot, writhing and moaning, screaming and saying the things he was saying that Blaine found it really hard not to think about an excitement in his own body.

“Yes!...Blaine…Oh, god…I love you…Right there! Right there!...Don’t stop!...More, Blaine, please, I need more… Iloveyouiloveyouiloveyouiloveyou…” After the last burst of I love you’s Blaine wasn’t able to keep calm and he ceased his movements. He put his arms under Kurt’s back and lifted them both up. Kurt immediately tried to find a better position so he could move in Blaine’s lap, but Blaine’s arms stopped him. He held Kurt tight, hiding his head in the crook of Kurt’s neck, evidently trying to get his breathing under control. Kurt gripped his shoulders and felt how Blaine’s body was shivering and hot tears were dropping on his skin.

“Blaine?” He asked silently with concern in his voice. Blaine turned his head and met Kurt’s eyes with a goofy smile on his face. Kurt cupped his cheeks and wiped the tears away with his thumbs. Blaine mirrored the action and kissed him softly.

“I love you so much. I had to stop because everything just hit me and I needed some time to process it.”

“You’re not hurt? Are you okay?”

“I’m fantastic…You…You’ve changed my life. I don’t know what I did to deserve you but I’m so grateful to have you. I’ve never felt so close to someone…never felt to be so connected with someone. I just…I just realized that and it was so overwhelming and…Damn!” Blaine kissed him hard, Kurt reciprocated eagerly, all tongues and teeth, both of them desperately trying to communicate through the kiss what they couldn’t put the name on. Kurt knew what Blaine was talking about. He felt exactly the same way.

“It’s not enough.” Kurt whispered against Blaine’s lips. “It’s not enough.”

“What is not enough?“

“I love you is not enough. It seems to me like those words don’t match what I feel for you anymore. But I don’t have anything else. I don’t have anything more meaningful…” Blaine smiled at him and caressed his lips with his thumb. Then he replaced it with his lips, kissing him slowly and carefully, almost as he was afraid Kurt would break if he did something more forceful. They stayed like that long couple of minutes, tasting each other’s mouths deliberately. There were soft moans and whispered names until the sweetness of the moments was too much.

“I need you to move.” Kurt whined and Blaine lay him on the bed before pulling out of him almost completely and thrusting in the deepest he could get. He was rewarded by a low groan, Kurt’s beautiful eyes wide open, his arms tugging him closer. Since then they were chest to chest, forehead to forehead, speaking sweet nothing and moving steadily. Their hearts beat in the same rhythm and after a while it was hard to recognize which one was whose. It didn’t matter. It was their heart. One body, one mind, one heart, one soul, one life to live. None of them needed anything on their own. They would gladly share everything with the other for the rest of their lives.  

“I don’t wanna go anywhere.” Kurt told Blaine as they were lying beside each other, still a little dizzy from their previous activity. “Can we just stay here and cuddle?”

“Yeah, of course we can. But we need to let Rachel know we are not coming and tell the guys to busy themselves…” Kurt groaned. Sure, they couldn’t stay like this for long. They were late already.

“There is no way we can be in my apartment in half an hour…” Blaine turned his head to look at the clock and nodded.

“As much as I hate to get up, we should probably move. Take a shower, I’ll call Rachel and tell her we are going to be late.”

“You would do that for me?” Kurt’s eyes lit up. Telling Rachel about changing the plans was like taking a bullet for him.

“I would do anything for you, Kurt.” Kurt tugged him closer and kissed his lips soundly.

“Thank you. I owe you.” He stood up and held his hand for Blaine. Blaine took it and got out of the bed as well.

“You don’t owe me anything.” Kurt was putting his pajama pants on and smirking. Blaine watched him curiously because smirking Kurt was always up to something. Blaine put on his sweatpants and Kurt wrapped his arms around his waist.

“I don’t? I was about to pay you back for your kindness tonight.” Blaine laughed and hugged him.

“Or maybe I could pay half of it in a shower right now…” Kurt said in a seductive voice and if they actually hadn’t had sex for the second time that day a while ago, Blaine would have definitely taken the offer.

“Later, love.” Blaine responded and led Kurt backwards to the door. They were smiling and placing small, close-mouthed kisses on their lips as Blaine backed Kurt in the direction of the bathroom. They shared a long kiss at the bathroom door, completely ignoring four pairs of eyes observing them.

“Are you sure you don’t want to join me?” Kurt asked.

“God!” A loud growl echoed the apartment and Kurt and Blaine turned their heads to see what was going on.

“Could you just stop it please?” Nick begged. “We’ve been waiting for you for hours now and it’s really not time for sex.” Kurt entangled himself from Blaine, pecked his lips and with a quiet ‘love you’, he shut the door. Blaine took a deep breath and entered the living room, ready to face his friends.

“Hi. We…umh…overslept.” The guys laughed at the lame excuse but Rachel seemed to be pissed.

“For someone who overslept, you two are awfully awake!” She barked.

“Wow. Rachel, calm down. What’s gotten into you? What are you doing here anyway?”

“What am I doing here? What are you doing here? You were supposed to be at our place in twenty minutes!”

“I was going to call you. Jesus, Rachel, didn’t you get a good New Years sleep? I’m sorry. We didn’t mean to upset you…”

“I called you! None of you would answer the phone. Then I called Nick and he said you didn’t even wake up!” Rachel was yelling at Blaine, anger visible in her facial features. Blaine knew her good enough to realize her fit wasn’t about them being late or not answering the phone.

“So you came here?”

“I spent the night at Robbie’s apartment. I wanted to know whether Kurt needed to go home or we could go out from here.” She said in a normal voice.

“You spent the night with the trumpeter?”

“I wish! He wouldn’t let me go home from the party alone and offered me to stay with him. I slept in his bed while he was sleeping on the couch. ON THE DAMN COUCH!” And here we are, Blaine thought.

“Who is Robbie?” Lucas asked, warning them about their presence.  

“The guy in the theater orchestra Rachel set her eyes on.”

“Did he put the moves on before?” Nick’s question made Rachel sit down with a frustrated sob.

“I don’t know. He is always near me, talking to me and smiling at me and complimenting me but we’ve never really been alone. There is always someone around us. In theater or when we go out with friends. I asked him for coffee a few times but he declined. Lot of work.” This was new information for Blaine. In fact, Rachel hadn’t said anything about the trumpeter since his first week in the orchestra.

“Why didn’t you tell us? We could help you come up with something.”

“Oh, Blaine. As if you cared. You and Kurt are so smitten by each other you barely see someone else.”

“What do you mean?”

“I love spending time with you. Don’t get me wrong. But I haven’t had a proper movie night or makeover with Kurt since you came here. You’re always together. And I’m so happy for him because you’re a good guy that loves him and I can see the way you look at him like he is the best thing that ever happened to you and it’s amazing. But sometimes I would love to have my time with him too. We had more contact when he was in Pittsburgh and that’s saying something because we share the apartment! When should I have told him about Robbie? You either watch the TV with me or spend the time locked in his room. And I really can’t talk about it when we are at the club with a million other people.” Blaine kneeled in front of her and cupped her cheek to caress it.

“Rach, you need to talk to him. I’m sorry we made you feel this way. I’m not going to stay in the way of your friendship. I was so caught up in my own little world that I didn’t realize we were practically attached at the hip. I’m really sorry.”

“No, don’t apologize. I’m happy for you. It’s just…It’s just that I don’t have anyone to be attached to and sometimes I feel lonely…When there was no one to kiss at midnight…well, yeah, I’m pathetic.”

“No one to kiss? Are you kidding me?” Nick was disbelievingly shaking his head. “This Robbie guy is a jerk. If you had been with us yesterday, I would have kissed you.” Rachel smiled a little and leaned to Nick to kiss his cheek.

“Thanks.” 

Meanwhile Kurt came from the bathroom, wondering why Rachel was thanking Nick and why Blaine was kneeling in front of her.

“Blaine, honey, you can use the shower and then we are ready to go to...”

“Actually,” Nick interrupted him. “We are not going anywhere. You and Rachel are going.”

“What?”

“Yes, we’ve changed our minds.” Blaine joined Nick. “You two go out for coffee or whatever. We will stay here and you can come back this evening.”

“No. We had a plan together.” Rachel protested.

“Doesn’t matter. Just go, okay?” Blaine held the coat for her and Kurt was confused as never but he took his coat too and let himself to be pushed out of the door with an ‘I love you, have a good time’.

“I am a terrible person.” Kurt sat crossed legs on the couch in the music room, watching Blaine change into his sleeping sweatpants.

“You’re not.” Blaine argued.

“Yes, I am. I completely ignored my best friends! It’s not just Rachel…I haven’t had a private skype call with Luke for two months.”

“Kurt, we were both a little bit preoccupied by each other but it doesn’t make us terrible people. They all understand. We just have to take more interest in our friends. We realized we haven’t treated them as we used to and we are going to change it.” Blaine tried to reason with him but Kurt was still frowning. He lay on the bed and pulled Kurt to his embrace.

“Come here. I wanted us to have a normal relationship. That’s why I didn’t move in with you. So we could spend some time apart. But I wasn’t acting on it. We need to figure out how to spend time together, spend time with our friends and spend time together with our friends. Okay?” Kurt nodded to Blaine’s neck.

“Great. We’ll talk about it more tomorrow.” Blaine was running his arms up and down Kurt’s back, hoping the soothing gesture would help Kurt fall asleep. Blaine hated seeing Kurt upset.

“Blaine?”

“Hmmm?”

“I’m looking forward to this year.”

“Me too.”

“What are you looking forward to the most?”

“Being in a stable relationship with you.”

“I love you, Blaine.”

“I love you, Kurt.”

“Can I pay you back now?” Kurt slid between Blaine’s legs and hovered over his body. He covered Blaine’s neck with kisses and grinned when Blaine rolled them over so he was on top of Kurt.

“You’re not paying for anything. We are going to make love until we black out and then we’ll go to sleep.”

“Kiss me!” Kurt ordered and Blaine did so.