Blaine found it quite strange how quickly next weeks flew by in McKinley. He had learned by now that there was almost always some kind of drama in New Directions which was probably the reason why Blaine didn’t notice those weeks. For example, it was quite shocking to hear about Santana’s sexuality.

“Oh, I knew it before,” Kurt said when Blaine had stated the news. “She and Karofsky dated last year, so I figured that there was something wrong. I mean, Santana is smart enough to see that Karofsky isn’t exactly dateable.”

Blaine couldn’t help but feel surprised. Kurt had told him a lot of stories about people in New Directions but this was probably the most shocking so far.

Kurt suggested singing to her later that week, which was something new. Kurt rarely sang out loud in the glee club and that’s when Blaine realized that they actually had never sung a duet together, at least not in public. Their mini duets usually stayed safely between their bedroom walls or in their cars.

Blaine could tell that Kurt had grown more confident and stronger since their first night together. He couldn’t help but feel a little proud of himself and he had to remind himself that he should be more proud of Kurt. As wonderful and special it was for them as a couple, Blaine had to admit that intimacy had affected Kurt more. Something had changed in his boyfriend, somehow it had helped him with his issues.

And Kurt didn’t even let himself down when Santana didn’t hold back with sarcasm after their performance. Kurt simply stayed graceful and acted reasonably. He even had courage to protect Rory, the new exchange student, in the touch ball fight between The Troubletones and New Directions.

The voting for the class president drifted closer with those weeks and Kurt prepared the perfect speech for debating. His relationship with Rachel was still on the rocks, which why it was so surprising for Blaine to hear Rachel’s speech. Blaine felt even more proud when Kurt went to Rachel to talk and saw them hugging later.

“So what were you and Rachel talking about?” Blaine dared to ask later, when they were lying down on Kurt’s bed, just resting a little before starting with their homework. Even though they had had sex for quite a couple of times for now, they still needed those simple moments with each other after school where clothes stayed on.

“NYADA,” Kurt answered shortly with quite weak voice. “About getting into NYADA..”

“So is it your plan now or..?”

“Yeah, maybe.”

It was clear that Kurt wasn’t exactly thrilled to talk about that. Blaine wasn’t neither, both of them tried to avoid talking about the future but Blaine knew than in Kurt’s case, it was kind of necessary..

“You know you can at least try,” Blaine stated. “To get in, I mean. I think you would be amazing..”

Kurt sighed and opened his eyes that he had held closed as he turned his body to Blaine’s.

“I’m trying to be realistic..” Kurt murmured and Blaine turned himself closer too.

“So am I.”

Kurt swallowed and gave him a blunt smile. The silence sank in again and Blaine did what liked to do the most: he started stroking Kurt’s soft hair.

“What about you?” Kurt asked then.

“What about me?” Blaine really didn’t understand immediately since he had almost lost the track of their conversation in silence.

“What about your plans? For the future?”

“Oh.” Blaine stopped playing with Kurt’s hair and pulled away a little. Something heavy landed on the air between them. “Well, I’m planning to just.. apply for different collages. Mostly for singing or dancing specialty but maybe I’ll even try acting..”

“Acting, really?” Kurt sounded.. amused?

“Yeah, well I do know a little about that, don’t I? I mean, I got into school’s musical and everything..”

“Of course you do, you’re amazing,” Kurt rushed to say. “I just.. didn’t expect that I guess. I mean, to be honest I’ve imagined you going to LA or something to get recording contract..”

“So have I, but I’m trying to be realistic,” Blaine smiled and Kurt’s worried face also melted.

“It would be realistic,” Kurt spoke then. “You rocked the Warblers and you could easily get all Finn’s solos in New Directions if you wanted.”

“Considering my relationship with Finn, I don’t think that stealing solos from him would be the best option,” Blaine laughed lightly although it wasn’t really funny.

“You know what I mean.”

Blaine didn’t react, just simply smiled a little and looked at his beautiful boyfriend. He didn’t say anything for a moment because his own future plans were also quite indistinct before he leaned closer to Kurt again.

“Is that why you don’t like talking about future?” he questioned then. “Because you think that I’m planning to go to Los Angeles?”

Kurt bit his lips and tensed.

“Maybe,” he shrugged unsurely.

“It scares me too but we’ll figure it out, I promise,” Blaine granted with a simple kiss before they had to return to the reality and start doing their homework.

Kurt’s emotional roll on voting day was quite overwhelming and Blaine did his best to keep him calm.

“Come what may, I’ll be here for you, remember that,” Blaine assured him and kissed him. Kurt nodded and closed his eyes for a second.

Things got weird when Kurt was asked to go to principal’s office and Blaine didn’t see him for a long time.

“Blaine!” Kurt’s painfully sad voice came out of nowhere. Blaine had barely turned to see him, when Kurt ran into him, so his weight shifted Blaine’s body.

Something was wrong, really wrong and Blaine knew that it was something about election. He curled his arms around another boy’s torso as Kurt’s sobs blocked Blaine’s track of thoughts.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” Blaine tried to ask really quietly and gently.

“I’m sorry, I’m just really confused right now..” Kurt mumbled and tried to pull away.

“Don’t be sorry.” Blaine pulled Kurt back to his embrace, ignoring the glances from other students. Kurt let Blaine hold him until he calmed and breathed normally again.

“Can we just.. find an empty classroom or something?” Kurt said then and Blaine simply nodded.

They pulled away from each other and walked to find a quiet place so Kurt could tell him what had happened.

“Come here,” Blaine said later that day when they were lying on Kurt’s bed again and pulled him closer to cuddle. “I can go if you want to be alone,” he also added when Kurt didn’t attempt to make much moving.

“No, don’t go,” Kurt uttered quickly with a shaky voice and curled closer. “I don’t want to be alone right now.”

Blaine gently kissed his temple and that made Kurt smile. And yawn.

“You can sleep, you know,” Blaine spoke then. “It’s been a long day.”

“Yeah, it is,” Kurt agreed but didn’t close his eyes. “I can’t believe that Rachel would do something like that.”

“Are you mad at her?” Blaine had been wondering about that for hours but didn’t dare to ask sooner.

“I wish,” the boy answered with a swallowed laugh. “But no, I’m not. I can’t be.”

“She meant well.”

“I know.”

They didn’t say anything for a moment while Blaine tried to find a way to ask another question that was in his head.

“Will you still apply for NYADA?”

Kurt swallowed and slowly dragged his eyes up to meet Blaine’s.

“No,” he stated then. “I won’t apply for NYADA.”

Blaine felt his heart sink. He had to fought with himself to not argue or talk about that with Kurt right away. Instead of that he just let out a deep sigh and pulled Kurt closer to smell his shampoo.

He thought about Kurt and his dreams and his future. He thought about things that had changed Kurt so much and he thought about their relationship, THEIR future. When Kurt drifted to sleep, Blaine decided to do something about Kurt’s future, not just to talk.