Dec. 17, 2012, 4:27 a.m.
Locked In: No Signal
E - Words: 2,186 - Last Updated: Dec 17, 2012 Story: Closed - Chapters: 2/? - Created: Dec 17, 2012 - Updated: Dec 17, 2012 253 0 2 0 0
“Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!” muttered Blaine while rocking back and forth slumped by the counter.
“BLANCHE, shut your mouth!”.
Blaine froze and sunk his head down to his knees at the sudden outburst of the still anonymous person whom he was sitting in front of. The stinging at the back of his eyes became overwhelming and he felt his them glaze over with tears. His breathing became deep and stuttered as he began to cry into his arms which were still clutching at his knees.
Totally unaware of the broken boy on the floor, Kurt began to search the stock rooms and staff room for any sign of an employee. There was no one. Kurt made his way back to the front of the shop and walked from behind the counter.
“I’ve checked everywhere, there is no one here besides us Mr. Stumpy”
Blaine looked up and huffed out a breath of annoyance, his tear streaked face turned towards Kurt. Frustration and anger bubbled inside him, he was stuck in this stupid shop, for twenty four hours with the most annoying person he had ever met. If this random dude thought he could treat him like this for any longer then he was mistaken.
“Are you crying?” chuckled Kurt with a tinge of ridicule when he spotted the other man’s distress.
Blaine’s breathing rate heightened, he squeezed his sore, wet eyes shut and snapped. Opening his eyes and scrambling up of the floor Blaine decided to give this guy a piece of his mind. His face only mere inches from Kurt’s; Blaine began to vent his annoyance to the man that was stood in front of him.
“You know what?! I don’t know who you think you are that gives you the right to treat a person like this! I am absolutely petrified, not only because I am a little bit nervous of the dark but obviously from this notice; it looks like we are stuck in this place for TWENTY FOUR HOURS! I am sorry about what happened earlier and I have apologised numerous times and yet you still treat me like shit! Just knowing I have to be locked in here with you drives me insane! Just stay away from me!”
Blaine pushed past Kurt and stumbled into the back room of the shop, hands held over his mouth muffling the soft sobs that were now escaping past his lips. Kurt’s eyes followed the man as he walked off, a sudden wave of guilt swept over him as he could make out the sobs that echoed around the empty store. He scanned the surroundings and decided to sit down in the spot where Blaine previously was, sliding down the counter Kurt tucked his knees into his chest and began to process what had happened that morning. Pulling out his phone from his tight jeans, Kurt unlocked the screen and began dialling Rachel’s number. Pressing the call button only brought up a server message stating that no signal was being received. He sighed and ended the phone call, the bright screen flashed 10:30 am.
This going to be a long twenty four hours
“Where the hell is he?”, Rachel mumbled to herself, glancing at her watch. It had been over two hours since he had left for the grocery store and there was still no sign of him. She got up from the sofa in the living room and strode into her bedroom, she picked up her phone from her bed side table and unlocked it. No missed calls or texts were logged. She opened up a new message and began to type;
Hey Kurt, I know I drank your milk but surely this doesn’t justify a 2 hour bitch fit. Call or text me as soon as you can, stay safe. By the way, isn’t your date tonight? R x
Rachel pressed the send button and walked back towards the living room. The Barbra Streisand Story on E! was starting very soon and Rachel never missed a re-run.
“Yo dude! I tried calling you a few times but it keeps going to answer machine. Ring or text as soon as you get this? Pick us up some beers bro if you got your ID. Later”
Sam ended the call and restarted the Mario game he had been playing on the Wii. He was not going to let Blaine live this down if he ended up hooking up with someone in their first week in NYC. He will find out soon enough though; he had other things to worry about...like beating Blaine’s high score in Mario Kart.
Gay boys not being able to play video games? My ass!
Kurt stirred from his sleep, when had he dropped off? He looked around and saw the familiar sight of aisles and food counters, everything seemed very calm and quiet; the only sound he could hear was the low hum of the fridges and a soft low breathing from the back room. Shit. He had totally forgot that Blaine was in there. Picking up his phone from beside him he pressed a button and the digital clock flashed 12:30pm. Only a few hours had passed since he had been verbally abused by what he thought was quite a handsome stranger. He knew he deserved what he got, he did take the morning’s aggravation out on him. He felt an uncomfortable feeling in his bladder as he started to push himself off the cold marble flooring. His clothes were going to be a wreck after all this. He headed towards the staff room, there he saw the other man curled up on a small, worn, brown leather sofa. The man looked so peaceful in comparison to the mad outburst that Kurt was lucky enough to have had the full brunt of earlier.
Kurt’s eyes skimmed over the sleeping person; his coat draped over himself like a blanket and his toes wriggled in the black socks that he was wearing. One of the man’s arms had dropped and his hand was now wedged inside one of the removed leather high ankle boots. The soft breathing continued and Kurt swore he could hear a little light snore escape the man’s lips. He bit back a small chuckle at the sight.
He’s quite cute...
Kurt turned away and walked through the door at the rear of the supposed staff room. He trudged into the stock room and went in search of the bathroom facilities. Muddled boxes and bags were stacked on shelves in no particular order. His search was finally successful when he reached the toilet at the far end of the ware house; the cold room had no mercy from the December weather, Kurt pulled his jacket around his torso tighter and entered the wash room.
Blaine felt a draft on his feet, he jolted awake from the sudden breeze of cold air. He snuggled down even more into his jacket and glanced around the empty room. He wondered how Kurt was, but confused as to why. Kurt totally deserved to be knocked down from his high horse; ever since they met in the parking lot earlier that day all he had been was rude. Blaine thought about what would come of this twenty four hour lock in, it would be a miracle if they made it through the night without a physical altercation;
I wouldn’t mind a physical altercation with that ass, those jeans should be illegal...
“Oh my god get your mind out of the gutter” Blaine scolded himself.
He is cute though...
He closed his eyes and shook his head to clear his mind. At the sound of quiet footsteps he noticed that the door near the couch was left ajar and walking towards the staff room from the warehouse was Kurt. Blaine pushed himself up into a seated position as the other man came to a halt at the door way upon noticing that Blaine was awake. Blaine removed his one hand from the boot that had somehow attached itself to him during his cat nap and shyly ran a hand through his unruly tight curls.
Smooth Blaine, real smooth.
Blaine huffed out a stuttered, nervous laugh and locked his warm honey coloured eyes with ocean blue orbs. His breath caught in his throat. He exhaled the breath he didn’t know he was holding.
“Hey...”
“Hey, I didn’t mean to disturb you while you were sleeping”
Blaine gave Kurt a coy smile; “It’s okay I was just waking up any way, need to use the rest room. You found it I guess?”
“Yes I did, it’s straight through the warehouse right at the back” Kurt instructed returning a small smile.
“Thank you, excuse me”
Blaine rose up off the sofa and manoeuvred his way around the man that was standing in the door way. The way Blaine staggered towards the bathroom with sleepy eyes looked so adorable! Kurt also noticed how Blaine’s hair was sticking out at all angles, cute little brown curls falling onto his forehead; the scent that lingered after Blaine slid past him was damn good too.
Down boy...
Kurt plopped himself down onto the sofa with a huff and glanced around the dreary looking room. The walls were a boring cream shade and the total furniture within the room was the sorry excuse for a couch he was sitting on, a small table with two matching chairs and a sink with a small countertop that was home to a coffee machine, mini fridge and chipped mugs.
Blaine had returned from the bathroom and was watching a confused looking Kurt scanning the room. The small throaty chuckle that left him made the young man sitting on the sofa turn to look in his direction. Both exchanged a small smile and Blaine made his way over to sit on one of the chairs by the table. Both men locked eyes again, Kurt exhaled sharply, he knew he needed to apologise.
“Look, I need to apologise for the way I have acted today. I had a bad morning involving my roommate and then I nearly kill you with the car; even though it was your fault by the way...”
Blaine let out a small laugh at that remark.
“...then I was very short with you, no pun intended I swear, even though you are vertically challenged...”
Blaine folded his arms over his chest and shot Kurt a look of disproval and confusion; was this guy seriously insulting him again!?
“...please don’t look at me like that. What I’m trying to say is...I’m sorry. Please can we start over? We are going to spend quite some time here together and I don’t really want us to kill each other...Blood is extremely hard to get out of clothing and I had a manicure two days ago”.
Blaine gave Kurt a toothy smile like he had earlier and got up from the chair he was seated on. He approached Kurt and held out his hand for a proper introduction.
“Hi, my name’s Blaine”,
Raising up from the chair Kurt took Blaine’s hand in his, “Kurt”.
“Nice to meet you Kurt. Now we have the proper introductions out of the way we need to try and find a way to contact someone and let them know where we are. Any ideas?”
“Well I tried to phone my roommate earlier and I had no signal at all, whole place is a dead zone”
“Hmm, I’ll try at the back of the warehouse. My phone won’t stop beeping so I hope it’s my roommate trying to reach me”
As they walked near the back of the warehouse towards the bathroom; the reception on Blaine’s phone picked up and a call finally came through.
“Hello?” Blaine answered hopefully.
“Yo dude, where are you?!” questioned Sam through the receiver.
“I’m at Tilly’s Deli”
“It’s taken you this long to get a coffee? Dude who are you hooking up with?!”
A blush formed on Blaine’s neck and crept up to his cheeks. “No one and it’s taken me this long because I’ve been locked in!”
The reception started to crackle and diminish again.
“Sorry what was that dude? You’re breaking up!” Sam yelled into the phone.
“I have been locked in the Grocery store, the owner left us!”.
A beep sounded in Blaine’s ear and the call was cut off. “SHIT!” Blaine shouted, kicking one of the boxes that was near him across the room. Kurt looked at him concerned.
“What happened?”
Blaine exhaled a sharp, frustrated sigh. “I lost signal”.
“What do we do now?” Kurt asked Blaine with worry.
Blaine just shrugged his shoulders.
“I don’t know...You hungry?”
Kurt rolled his eyes, shot Blaine a cheeky smile and walked towards the staff room; “You are such a boy...”
Blaine’s eyes trailed down to Kurt’s ass and watched as slim hips swayed so beautifully away from him. Realising what filth he was thinking he bit his lip to hide a smile and started to follow Kurt back towards the front of the store.
This could be an interesting night...
Comments
Great idea for a story, enjoying the tension between them and their internal monologue! Should be a very interesting 22 hours left, a lot can happen in that time.
This chapter was so much fun. It is nice that the boys were able to start over and be civil to each other. It is also fun to see that they are both attracted to each other which should make their time in the store interesting. I can't wait to see what happens next.