Kurt and Nick finally pulled up outside the comedy club. Nick rode a classy 1970 Pontiac LeMans, a gift from his dad when he turned 16 a few months ago. Nick came from a wealthy family of many generations but he didn’t like to show it off. He told his friends that his car was passed down in generations to him like a family heirloom because he didn’t want everyone knowing that he was one of the most wealthy guys at Dalton. His car had cost him $20,500...he sure didn’t tell Kurt that when he’d asked him when he picked him up. He noticed that Kurt had been very distant since the moment he picked him up from his dorm room.

“Hey Kurt, what’s up?”

Kurt was dazing out of the car window at the club. It shined with neon lights ‘Barry’s Comedy Club’ with ‘special guest tonight – Jerry Buckinghamshire’ on the board below. “Oh what- oh I’m fine I’m just a little...distracted that’s all”.

“Well, try and make room for some Jerry Buckinghamshire! C’mon this’ll take your mind off things, seriously this guy is off-the-hook!”

“Ok, I’m coming.” Kurt gave a little faint smile, sat up straight and thought, c’mon Kurt, just one night of not beating yourself up, you can do it.

They made their way to the door of the club and joined the queue, “if we got here earlier we wouldn’t have to wait...” Nick glanced to his side at Kurt waiting for a response – the one that he got.

“Oh sorry Mr Impatient but not all of us can just wear any old clothes for occasions!” There was silence, but they soon broke out into laughter.

“Well I already told you-you look great in anything so there’s really no point in all the fuss,” he smiled at a surprised Kurt.

“Oh um, thank you.” Kurt felt a blush coming on.

“Hey Bob! There you go,” he handed the doorman the tickets and they went on through the door. Nick had been here many times before with his friends and he loved the place, he thought it was the ideal place to bring Kurt to cheer him up. “So here we are, what dya think so far?”

“It’s um, dark. And, busy?”

“You don’t like it.” Nick looked disappointed.

“It’s not that it’s just-”

“Well we can go somewhere else if you’d like, this is your night.”

“No, c’mon let’s go find a seat before I change my mind.” They exchanged a smile and Nick grabbed Kurt’s arm, dragging him along behind him. “So tell me about this comedian we’re seeing.”

“He’s just awesome you’re gonna love him! He likes to talk about women and politics mainly but he’s awesome.”

“Oh that’s cool.” Kurt put on his brightest smile, he wasn’t completely convinced just yet but there was still time. “So when does it start?”

“Any minute-oh hear he is!” The whole room rose in cheers and screams and whistles as the main act came on stage.

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'Maybe I should leave him alone, he could be having a great time. Maybe he’s gonna tell me he wants to be with me and everything will be fine. Maybe he doesn’t like me that way anymore...or even at all! He could have been kissing back in the heat of the moment! Oh god Blaine shut up!'

Numerous of these thoughts just kept on running through Blaine’s mind and he couldn’t stop them. He just kept on worrying himself more and more so he turned up the music on his car stereo. Blaine just had to sing along to this song...his favourite artist – Darren Criss.

“But believe me, I'm not hostile I just
Want to hear you laugh
When I'm sarcastic like that
But that just makes me a dumb human
Like you

Why
Do I have this incredible need to stand up
And say "Please, pay attention?"
It's the last thing that I need
To make myself seen
Well, that ain't my intention
No”

Blaine stopped as he realised what he was singing, just can’t escape anything. But also he noticed Barry’s Comedy Club on the right hand side, he quickly swerved into the lane beside him for parking as he saw someone pull out. It was the third place he’d tried now so he sure hoped Kurt was in here. Kurt, he thought, his stomach clenched just with the thought of his name. Blaine climbed out of his car, turning off the engine before hand, and wandered over to the door. He noticed a mean looking guy stood in the doorway so before he went inside he composed himself.

“Excuse me sir, is it busy inside? May I quickly take a look I’m just looking for someone – it’s urgent.”

“Sorry kid ya gotta buy a ticket before I let you enter. And how old are you? You got ID?”

“I’m 16 – almost 17 and I got my driver’s license, here.”

“Alright kid, $15.”

“But-”

“$15 or no entry, sorry.” Blaine huffed, he didn’t expect them to pay this much to get in but nevertheless he took our his wallet and handed $15 over to the big guy.

“Enjoy your time, and good luck with whoever you’re looking for.” Blaine thanked the guy and made his way inside, pushing through a couple of people stood in the doorway.

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“Oh my god this guy is hilarious Nick! I can’t get enough!”

“I knew you’d like him, even when you said you weren’t really into this sort of thing. Everybody loves Jerry Buckinghamshire.” The both of them we’re close to being laid on the floor in laughing fits.

“Thank you ladies and gentlemen and ladygentlemen, but I need to go take a piss, be back in 15!” The crowd cheered and whistled when Jerry left the stage and they all knew it was their queue to take a break too.

“So you’re enjoying this date after all, I’m glad.” Nick turned to Kurt and smiled at him, sincerely.

“Date? I thought you said we were just hanging out.”

“Well, I lied.” Nick grinned, “c’mon don’t look like that, you wouldn’t have agreed to come out with me if I’d told you the truth.”

“Well, you got me there. Thanks anyway.”

“No problem, my pleasure,” Nick put his hand on Kurt’s knee, “look at you, enjoying yourself! See you don’t need Blaine to be happy, you can move on.”

“I can’t move on though, I can have times like these where I enjoy myself but the moment I think about him or see him, all my feelings just come rushing back.”

“Damn now I’ve messed the date up by mentioning him...hey there’s something I need to tell you about him, you won’t like it.”

“What is it?”

“Kurt, he messes people around, messes with their minds. He’s done this to someone before.”

Kurt inched away from the hand that was on his knee, “what are you talking about?”

Nick touched his arm instead, “I didn’t want to have to be the one that told you this but, he’s a bit of a player is our Blaine. Sweet on the outside and bad on the inside. He played me before.”

“Blaine would never do such a thing!” Kurt’s voice began to rise, he didn’t know whether to believe this or not.

“He did. Planted a kiss on me the same way he did on you, disappeared for a while to make me want him more and then dated me while dating other people. Then all of a sudden one day, he just dropped me. That’s why I came to your room, because Wes and David had told me what had happened so I needed to make sure you was ok.”

“Oh god. I’m such a fool! Can anything else bad happen to me in this stupid life! Why do I only attract bullies and players? What’s wrong with me?!” Kurt dropped his head into his hands and ran them through his hair, staring into the ground.

“Hey, I’m not a bully or a player and I like you.” Nick put his hand on Kurt’s back and began stroking it gently.

“You like me? I’m not sure I can handle anything like this anymore.”

“Of course I do. It’s cool if you don’t like me but first of all, do you wanna go somewhere quieter? The place is starting to fill up again and Jerry is about to come back so we won’t be able to talk.”

“You don’t wanna hear my depressing stories, and plus you bought the tickets you should stay and watch-”

“No way I’ve seen him plenty of times and you can always watch him on YouTube if we miss much, c’mon let’s go to the toilets it’ll be quiet in there.” Nick grabbed Kurt’s hand and they made their way to the side of the room were the toilets were.