The next day, both Kurt and Rachel were assigned to teach about soil for that day's field study. Rachel decided right off that it'd be smart to combine their two smaller groups into one big one so that the kids could all work together, although given the looks she'd been giving him all morning, Kurt suspected it was mostly because she knew something was up and wanted to grill him.

After they'd done an icebreaker activity to acquaint everyone, they gave the instructions for the first activity and set them off to work.

Rachel sidled up next to Kurt, who was watching the kids go about gathering the different layers of soil and put them into their little paper profiles. "Well...?"

Kurt didn't take his eyes off the group. "Well what, Star?"

"Don't play dumb with me, Sparrow. He's in your cabin now. He has been for several days. You guys sang together last night and you've been grinning like a dope all morning. Has anything happened yet? Please tell me you've at least attempted some kind of move on him. I see the looks he gives you- that boy is definitely interested."

Oh, I think I know exactly his level of interest, Rachel.

Kurt shook his head, but the flush on his cheeks betrayed him and made Rachel squeal with excitement. "I KNEW IT! Spit it out. What happened?"

Kurt couldn't keep the grin from forming as he told her. "We may have kissed. Multiple times. It was wonderful. I may have actually passed out at some point from how great it was."

Rachel gaped at him for a moment before smacking his arm with her palm. "And you didn't tell me? We are supposed to be best friends! You are going to give me every last detail the moment we get home, and the only reason I'm not going to force it out of you this very second is because these poor children don't need to hear what's happened in their cabin when they weren't around."

She paused, thinking for a moment.

"But you obviously can't keep that behavior up. If you get caught I'm sure there would be some kind of consequence. Are you going to ask him out? What about after camp? Do I smell double dates with me and Finn?" She began to bounce up and down, clinging to his arm. "Oh please please please can we double?"

Kurt extracted himself from her clutch. "We'll see. I mean, I don't even really know what's going on between us or if he'd even be interested in dating once we're back home. We haven't exactly had a chance to talk about it."

Rachel frowned. "Well, you'd better find time. It's not good to just give go giving yourself to someone like that when they could potentially ditch you afterwards. You never struck me as the type to just kiss and run."

"You sound just like my dad. And I'm not. I definitely think he's worth dating, but it's been twice now that we've kind of...taken advantage of being alone, and I still don't know what he's thinking- if it's just a summer camp fling or what. I hope it's not, but as much as it pains me to say, you're right. We need to figure it out before anything else happens. It seems like every time we're alone we just...lose our inhibitions."

One of the kids, a blonde-haired girl with glasses, walked up to them. "Star, can you help me? I can't find any bedrock. It's too far down!" Rachel smiled kindly at her, "It's okay, Sarah. You're right that the bedrock is the furthest down, so it'd be pretty darn tough to get at it. Instead, you can just pick up a small rock off the ground and use that to represent it. Does that sound okay? Do you think you can go tell the others that for me?"

Sarah nodded, skipping back to the group as Rachel turned back to Kurt. "Well, I recommend laying off until you figure out what exactly is happening between you two. I don't know the full scale of what happened with Jackal, and frankly I'm not sure I do because it's guaranteed to throw me into a rage. But I just want you to be sure of your feelings. That you're not just doing these things because you feel like you owe him something."

Kurt blinked at her. Honestly, the thought had never occurred to him. While he did feel he owed Blaine something for what happened in the bathroom, he wasn't sure that the kisses were directly related. He shrugged. "I'll try talking to him about it the next time we get some time together."

Kurt's next moment alone with Blaine came the very next day, much sooner than he had expected. The busy schedule hadn't allowed them to find any more time to sneak away, which a small part of Kurt was thankful for. He had just cleaned up the soil study area for that day's lesson and was carrying a tub of the supplies back to the small cabin they used to store everything in when he heard crunching footsteps behind him. Rachel had already taken the kids back for lunch, so he knew it couldn't have been them. He turned, and was faced with a rather pleased-looking Blaine.

"Ha!"

"Pardon?"

"Ha! I found you!"

"So it would appear that you have. And to what do I owe the pleasure?" Kurt was trying to rein himself in, not allowing himself to get sucked in by those gorgeous hazel eyes and the stubble he hadn't gotten around to shaving yet and his lips and those curls and oh god his resolve was crumbling already.

Blaine looked a little confused at the cold reception. "I thought you'd be happy to so see me...but if you're busy I can go-" He turned to leave the way he came.

"No! Wait...I'm sorry. I am happy to see you." I just can't let this turn into something else before we get a chance to talk.

Blaine turned back and closed the few steps between them, lifting the tub that Kurt was carrying from his hands with a smile.

"Good. Now let me take that off your hands and you point to where we need to go. I'll be your pack mule. I'd offer you a piggy back ride too, but that might end in disaster on these uneven paths."

Kurt led them up the trail to the cabin and opened the door, finding it empty inside.

He pointed to a corner. "You can just put it over there. Are you going to lunch now too?"

Blaine set down the tub and turned towards Kurt. "Actually, yeah. But first..."

Kurt knew it was going to happen before the words were even out of Blaine's mouth. Despite what he'd just told Rachel the day before, he couldn't help himself when Blaine pulled him into his arms, cupping his face with one hand and peppering kisses across his neck and jaw before capturing his lips. It felt right to be kissing Blaine, and one of Kurt's hands found its way into his hair as he used the other to pull their bodies flush together. It was sensory overload, and Kurt made a pleased noise deep in his throat.

They broke apart after a moment, Kurt sighing happily as Blaine looked up at him, tousled, but there was something else there... He looks conflicted. About us? Does he feel the same way? Is he having second thoughts? This would be the perfect opportunity to say something about it.

Blaine pressed his lips to Kurt's gently again, before releasing the other boy and sighing. "We can't keep doing this, can we?"

Kurt frowned. He was 99% sure Blaine was talking about what he hoped they were talking about, but wanted to make sure. Was Blaine having second thoughts? "Can't keep doing what?"

"This!" Blaine gestured between them. "I don't even know what this is. All I know is that we've kissed several times and now I'm having crazy daydreams about whisking you away for coffee dates and holding your hand and just...I don't know what to do with all of the crazy because I don't know what this is between us."

Kurt moved over to one of the benches lining the wall, sitting and patting the space next to him. Blaine sat, leaning his elbows on his knees and resting his chin in his palms.

"Blaine, I'm not too sure what this is either. I know what I'd like it to be, but it does seem like it's happened fast for only knowing each other for such a short amount of time. Maybe we should...lay off? Wait until camp is over and try picking up then when we're not so paranoid about being caught and tossed out? I don't like the idea, because kissing you is amazing, but it might be what needs to happen."

Blaine didn't like the idea either, but knew that it was probably best for everyone involved.

"Maybe? I mean, I really like you, Kurt. At least, I really like what parts of you I've gotten to know so far."

He blanched, "Oh god, that sounded wrong. I didn't mean-"

Kurt laughed, patting his shoulder. "I know what you mean. And I like you too. And I really like kissing you. But maybe we can agree to tone it down a bit? Get to know each other for the remainder of camp, then see what happens afterwards? We got on the same bus coming here so we can't live too far apart. Maybe after this is all over, we can go on a date?"

Blaine looked up, eyes hopeful, and Kurt's heart lurched. "A date? I haven't been on one of those in...ever." Kurt looked at him skeptically. "No, really! I mean, I've been asked before. Mostly by girls. But I've never gone. Even when it was guys, I never wanted to say yes."

Kurt nodded. "Me either. I mean, I went out with this girl once when I was trying to convince my dad I was straight." Blaine raised an eyebrow. "I failed miserably, don't you worry. But a date with you might be nice." He kissed Blaine's cheek, pulling away only slightly before planting one more for good measure. "At the very least, I may have to keep doing that, if that's okay with you."

Blaine answered with a grin, "More than okay."

Kurt stood. "Let's get to lunch, okay? We can talk more when we have free time. I didn't get to shower yesterday, so I'll be doing that while the kids are off doing activities with the staff this afternoon, but afterwards we can hang out in the cabin if you want. Maybe play a game of 'ask me anything' or something horribly cliché like that."

"Sounds like a plan to me. I may need to shower too, though. I don't get to use any gel or anything out here, so if I don't shower at least every other day, birds start looking to make their home in my hair."