Kurt woke up, fully rested, the morning after the closing night of Adam's last show. They hadn't gone to the after party, which had surprised Kurt, but he'd been glad. They had had the whole night just for themselves and they had made the best of it. With a big smile on his face, he stood up and went to the bathroom. His boyfriend was nowhere to be seen so he decided to take a shower and make some brunch afterwards.

"Good morning, baby." Adam kissed him softly, when he came to the living room half an hour later.

"Good morning. What's this?" Kurt motioned to the coffee table full of food.

"We need to eat, don't we? I made some of your favorites…" Kurt immediately sat down on the couch and grabbed a peanut butter sandwich.

"Thank you." He said, his mouth full. "So when are we leaving?" Adam tensed and the action didn't go unnoticed by Kurt.

"Adam? When is our flight?" Kurt asked warily.

"I haven't booked one…"

"Oh...let's just eat and then we can do it online."

"Kurt…" Adam started hesitantly. "We are not going to England…" Kurt stopped chewing on his sandwich and fixed his eyes on Adam.

"Of course, we are. You promised to go if you don't get the part. You weren't called back. We are going to visit your family in Essex."

"Kurt, there'll be auditions…"

"There'll always be auditions! You promised!"

"I know. I'm sorry. But I have to stay here and wait. What if…"

"I don't care what if! You promised! You made me go to the party where Violet was and didn't care that the woman makes me uncomfortable. So now I don't care what auditions are coming. I want to go to England like you promised! Can't you see how distant we've become? We need to spend some time together, figure things out. We can't keep going like this! I DON'T WANT TO KEEP GOING LIKE THIS!"

"I know. I know, Kurt." Adam kneeled in front of his frustrated boyfriend and put his hands on his thighs.

"Look in the pink bowl." He ordered and Kurt did so, just because he was tired of yelling. There were keys in it.

"Keys?"

"To my apartment…" Adam explained.

"I already have the keys to your apartment."

"Yeah, I know but I wanted to make this special."

"What do you want to make special?"

"I want you to move in with me."

"What?!" Kurt dropped the keys and looked at Adam as if he grew two heads all of a sudden.

"You're right. We need to spend more time together. We need to move forward in our relationship and us living in different places isn't helping a thing. If you move in, you'll be here when I come home. We wouldn't have to schedule our meetings…"

"You can't be serious."

"I am, Kurt. Deadly serious."

"What the hell am I supposed to do here when you aren't even here most of the time?"

"The same thing you do when you are home. Rachel isn't there most of the time as well."

"So you want me to sit here and wait patiently for you to come home from whatever crazy and unnecessary activity you claim to need?" Kurt was furious. The morning wasn't going the way it was supposed to be. They should be planning their trip instead, everything was so wrong all at once.

"I can't cut out my courses, Kurt. But it'll be easier to spend time together because you'll be here when I come home. It gets better. I promise."

"For someone who can't keep promises you make a lot of them…" Kurt noted sarcastically.

"Kurt, I love you. I love you and I can't imagine not being with you every single day. This isn't working. I can see it. I want to take another step in our relationship…"

"What do you mean? How do you think this is going to work if you don't change your spare time activities?"

"Will you marry me, Kurt?" Adam took Kurt's hand into his and stared at him hopefully. After the initial shock, Kurt shook his head.

"No, no, no. This isn't happening. This can't be happening!"

"Kurt, we've been together over four years. It's only natural that we've come to this."

"We can't get married…" Kurt stated firmly.

"Why not?" Adam chuckled. He found it endearing how Kurt was so stupefied by his proposal.

"You just broke the promise you gave me a month ago and now you want me to believe in another?"

"Oh my god." Adam laughed. "It's completely different situation! Come on, Kurt. Just give me your answer because I can't put the ring on your finger unless you say yes." He teased him, making Kurt's anger boil in him more and more.

"It's not funny, Adam! We have problems. We've been ignoring them for far too long to sweep them away for the sake of getting married!"

"We aren't sweeping anything away. The marriage actually can solve those problems." Kurt stood up abruptly and it was the moment Adam finally understood that his boyfriend wasn't about to give him a positive response.

"Kurt?" He asked alarmed.

"I can't marry you." Kurt whispered.

"Why not?"

"I thought I had cheated on you."

"What?!"

"I thought I had cheated on you with Blaine. The first time we were hanging out in his apartment we got wasted. I woke up, almost naked and I thought we had had sex the previous night."

"But you didn't, right? You didn't cheat on me, did you?"

"No. No, I didn't but the thought was there. I thought I was able to do so...I can't marry you, Adam."

"You can't or you don't want to? Because for me it seems like a lame excuse…"

"I'm sorry. God, I'm so sorry." Adam took a tenative step towards him not sure what Kurt was apologizing for but Kurt quickly walked in another direction.

"What are you saying, Kurt?"

"I think we should break up."

"No. We can forget about the proposal, we can go to England if it's so important to you but we are not breaking up because of this."

"It's not about England or the proposal, Adam and you know it. We grew apart and neither the trip to Essex nor marriage will make this better. Let's face it. You'd rather spend your time chasing your Broadway dreams - and I don't blame you for it, I really don't but it's more important to you than our relationship...and for the last couple of weeks since I made new friends I'd rather spend my time with them than run to you when you call saying you're free…"

"It can change. Kurt, please, it all can change. We just have to give us another chance."

"I don't want to give us another chance...I'm sorry. I'm…" Tears started to fall down his cheeks but he took a deep breath and with the last one sorry he left Adam's apartment.

"Hello?" Blaine picked up his phone with enthusiasm. It was close to noon and he was hungry. Kurt calling right this moment meant the opportunity to have lunch with him.

"Blaine?" Kurt asked, his voice thick.

"Kurt? Are you okay?"

"Are you still at the rehearsal?" Kurt tried to act as everything was alright but Blaine could hear sniffling.

"No. Wes released us an hour ago. We just went through the problematic scenes - not that there are any but you've met Wes, you know how he can be...Kurt, what's going on?"

"Could you please come over?"

"I'm on my way."

Blaine didn't know what to expect when he came to Kurt's apartment. He knocked and waited. The door opened and revealed a red eyed Kurt with tears streaming down his face, who immediately threw himself at Blaine's short figure. Blaine wrapped his arms around him and led them inside, kicking the door close.

"Shhh...it's okay. Everything will be okay." He whispered soothingly into Kurt's ear while he managed to sit them down on the sofa and rock crying Kurt back and forth.

"It won't be okay." Kurt sniffled and a heart-wrenching sob left his body. "We broke up. It won't be okay." Blaine's hands stopped their movement up and down Kurt's back for a moment. The information caught him unprepared. He composed himself swiftly and continued in comforting Kurt again.

"What happened? Do you wanna talk about it?"

"Everything was alright until he said we weren't going to Essex and then I got mad and he wanted me to move in with him and he proposed and I said I couldn't marry him because I thought I cheated on him with you and he took the proposal back but I realized I don't want to be with him anymore and told him we should break up and left and…" The words spluttered from Kurt's mouths in such speed that Blaine could understand barely half of it.

"Kurt, slow down. Tell me once again, okay?" Kurt nodded and wiped his tears. He started to talk, this time giving Blaine more details so he could see what the problem was. Blaine was still holding him in his arms, feeling totally useless with the lack of his verbal response, because he wasn't sure what Kurt might want to hear right now. He just let him get it all out, carefully listening and putting the picture together.

"…and then I left." Kurt finished his heartbreaking story, his head placed on Blaine's shoulder and his hand gripping on his shirt.

"Kurt, I'm so sorry." Blaine said empathically. "I know it looks bad but maybe tomorrow you'll see it from a different angle."

"No, I won't." Kurt disputed. His decision was final. He had no doubts about it.

"Look, I know you were angry with him because he didn't keep his promise but you guys were together for years…You need to talk it out."

"Blaine, we were together for years and not once did we talk about living together or getting married. That kind of thought didn't even cross my mind…I'm a horrible person. I broke his heart. I was playing with him all those years…" The tears found their way to Kurt's eyes again. "I thought I had cheated on him. I thought I was able to do it…"

"You aren't a horrible person. And I don't think you were playing with him either. You wanted to solve your problems, you were aware of them…"

"But I never did. It was convenient not to pay that much attention to them. Do you remember what you told me when we were at your loft? That we would have to give up something if we wanted to last? The moment I found out he wanted me to move in with him, I knew I don't want to give up anything for him. When he proposed, I was sure I was with him because of habit. I can't keep going in that relationship. I don't want to spend the rest of my life with him. Not now, not ever and it's not going to change. It all came to me in that one moment and however scary it was, I had to break things off. I love him but not the way I should. God, Blaine. What have I done? Why was I staying with him when there were apparently differences that we couldn't overcome? I'm such an idiot."

"Stop it, Kurt. You're not. Relationships start and end every day. Don't beat yourself up for it. You've done what you thought was the best. You were brave to say no to him. It takes a lot of courage to break someone's heart for the sake of their future happiness."

"I'm selfish…" Kurt murmured.

"We all are."

"No, you aren't selfish. You're the most selfless person I know." Kurt stated flatly and wrapped his arms around Blaine's waist tightly, keeping him close desperately as if he was afraid that Blaine would, out of nowhere, realize what a terrible man Kurt was being and leave him in his sorrows alone.

"Stop belittling yourself. I like you exactly the way you are. I wouldn't change a single thing about you." Kurt smiled a bit. Blaine liked him despite his flaws. Maybe he wasn't a lost case after all…

Rachel Berry was having a rough day. After a needless rehearsal that Wes had demanded she went straight to a meeting with a music producer who was trying to get her under contract for months now, but he wasn't able to understand that she refused to sing three sentence commercial pop songs. Today the pattern was the same. The songs he presented were pure shit in her eyes but she forced herself to listen to them, hence she was about to be late for work. When she stepped into the apartment she shared with her best friend, she rushed through the hall to get into shower and get ready for her evening performance in theater but she halted in her trace the moment she saw Kurt peacefully sleeping on Blaine's chest on their sofa. Blaine was softly caressing his arm with one hand while combing his hair with other.

"Blaine?"

"Hi, Rach."

"What are you doing?"

"He broke up with Adam."

"Oh my god! Why didn't he call me?"

"He said you had a meeting. He didn't want to disturb you."

"I would have come immediately! Screw the meeting. It was pointless anyway! What the hell happened?!"

"I think it'll be better if he tells you…"

"Okay…you two look pretty cozy…"

"He fell asleep on me and I didn't have a heart to wake him up. He cried himself to sleep…" Blaine said but he didn't look at Rachel at all. His gaze was fixed on the man in his arms. Rachel wanted to tease him about it but then she changed her mind. It wasn't the right time for that and knowing Blaine he wasn't going to do anything about the feelings he had clearly written all over his face. Rachel was sure he wasn't aware of them yet.

"I need to take quick shower and we have to go. We are supposed to be in the theater in 45 minutes, Blaine."

"Okay." Blaine sighed. He really, really didn't want to wake Kurt up. He also didn't want to leave him alone.

"Kurt…" He whispered and moved a little. "Kurt, wake up." Kurt made a noise of protest and Blaine fought with him for several minutes but Kurt opened his eyes after all.

"I have to go to work. Do you want to come with me and Rachel?"

"No." Kurt shook his head. "I wouldn't be able to interact with people tonight."

"I hate to leave you here alone."

"I'll be fine, I promise. Don't worry about me."

"Okay." Blaine didn't seem convinced and Kurt found it sweet.

"Thank you. I'm sorry I ruined your day…and soaked your shirt." Blaine chuckled and hugged him.

"You didn't ruin anything. I was happy to help."

"Blaine? We need to go." Rachel came to the room, running to hug Kurt.

"I'm so sorry, Kurt. You should have called me. I would have come."

"I know but you had the meeting."

"Still. I don't have the time to find out what happened now and Blaine won't tell me."Blaine excused himself for toilet because he felt redundant. He decided to give them five minutes to talk before heading to work. Wes would understand…Well, he wouldn't but Blaine didn't give a damn about it.

"I'll tell you when you come back, okay?"

"Okay. How are holding up?"

"I'll be fine."

"Kurt? Can I ask you something?"

"Sure. What's up?"

"How much was your break up influenced by Blaine?"

"What do you mean?"

"I know you and Adam had problems even before you met Blaine but since Blaine became your friend you were more vocal about them…I was just wondering if…"

"There is nothing going on between me and Blaine. We're just friends." Rachel nodded but she, as well as Kurt, didn't fail to notice that he hadn't said that his decision hadn't been influenced by Blaine at all.

"I'm ready to go." Rachel stood up from sofa and joined Blaine who appeared at the door.

"You sure you'll be okay?" She asked Kurt one last time.

"Yeah. I'm sure." Kurt shot her what he believed was a reassuring smile.

"Blaine?" Kurt's timid voice made Blaine turn back from the door.

"Yeah?"

"Would you come with Rachel after work?"

"If you want me to…"

"I don't want to bother you…"

"I'll be here."

"Thank you."