Chapter Four

Finn arrived at Dalton at 9am. Kurt was waiting in the entrance hall and pulled his step-brother into a tight hug.

“Hey Finn. How have you been?”

“Dude, the last time I saw you was two days ago. Nothing important happened.”

“Okay, a) don’t call me dude and b) consider it as a rhetorical question. I just want you to talk.”

“Yeah, well, why don’t you just show me around? Your room and your friends and…”

Kurt sighed. “Okay, c’mon.”

Blaine had watched Kurt and Finn talking for a few seconds. He could hear every single word they said because of his heightened senses. When they left the entrance hall and headed to Kurt and Blaine’s room, he followed them and then took a shortcut through a classroom, so he would arrive earlier than them.

He saw them coming around the corner of the hallway when he closed the door of his room. He quickly sat down on the couch and pretended to read a book.

Kurt entered the room, Finn behind him. He is quite tall, Blaine thought. And I’m a small hobbit.

“So, Blaine. This is Finn, my step-brother. Finn, that’s Blaine. He’s my roommate.”

Blaine grinned at Finn. “Hi. It’s nice to meet you.” He could read on Finn’s face that he thought about the fact that gay Kurt was rooming with a boy.

“Hey Blaine.” He took a deep breath. “So, um, are you gay, too?”

“Finn!! Why would you ask that?” Kurt gasped.

“No, it’s okay, Kurt.” Blaine said. “I have no problem with him asking me that. And to answer your question, Finn, yes, I’m gay, too.” He smiled which made Finn and also Kurt frown.

“Ahm, Blaine… have we met?” Finn asked.

Blaine was surprised. He never expected things like this to happen, because there was literally no one that knew him.

“No, I don’t think so. At least I don’t remember you. Sorry.”

“Okay, I just had the feeling that I saw you before, somewhere…” Finn seemed suddenly absent. He was trying really hard to remember but it just wouldn’t come to him.

Blaine cleared his throat. “Well, whatever.. Kurt, are you ready to meet the Warblers? I set an audition for you. I hope that’s okay.”

Kurt’s mouth fell open. “Seriously?! I didn’t even practice any songs. Oh, no, what am I gonna do?”

Finn grabbed Kurt’s shoulder. “Hey, calm down. It’s just an audition. You are such a brilliant singer. Why would you be afraid of an audition?”

“Finn’s right. I think you’ll make it, even if you didn’t practice.” He stood up. “So, let’s go. We don’t want to be late, right?”

“I guess not.” Kurt gulped.

Five minutes later the three boys arrived in front of the Warblers’ practice room. Kurt got so nervous that he was about to turn around and run back to his room. But both Finn and Blaine kept him going forward.

Blaine pushed the door open.

“Ey, Kurt!” Jeff shouted from across the room. The room was full of boys in red and blue blazers.

Jeff and Wesley waved and Blaine dragged Kurt over to them. Finn just followed them but everyone could tell that he felt very uncomfortable being here.

Wes shook Kurt’s hand. “If you want to you can start immediately.”

“Okay, just give me a second.” Kurt was breathing faster. Blaine could hear his heartbeat; so fast and so strong. Blaine licked his lips without noticing it. Fortunately no one else saw it either.

“You can do this Kurt. I’ll be right over there.” Kurt just nodded. Then he started singing and the room went quiet.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night 
Take these broken wings and learn to fly 
All your life 
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night 
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see 
All your life 
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

Blackbird fly blackbird fly 
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night 
Take these broken wings and learn to fly 
All your life 
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird fly blackbird fly 
Into the light of the dark black night. 
You were only waiting for this moment to arise 
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Blaine started clapping and soon everyone joined in. A few boys even started whistling.

Blaine was amazed by Kurt’s angelic voice. He never had hears anything as amazing as this voice.
This was probably exactly the moment when Blaine official fell in love with Kurt.

 Oh god, what am I going to do now? I can’t ever be with him. I can’t tell him about me. No, never.

Kurt was asked to leave the room and Finn quickly followed him.

Blaine was still struggling with his thoughts when Wes waved one hand in front of his face.

“Hey, Blaine, I’m talking to you!” Blaine blinked a few times.

“Sorry, what?” Wes sighed. “I asked you, what you are voting for. Shall Kurt join the Warblers or not?”

“Of course he should. He’s amazing.” He heard a cough and Nick saying, “Yeah, that’s what everyone’s thinking.” Then he muffled something that no one except for Blaine could hear.

“He has probably already a crush on him. You can see it all over his face. What the hell did I do wrong?”

Blaine felt bad. Nick was right. He had a crush on Kurt but he didn’t want to have a crush. It would just make everything so much more complicated. But anyway, he couldn’t choose to feel different.

“So it’s decided.” Wes smiled. “Kurt is a Warbler.”

Outside of the practice room, Kurt was waiting. Finn seemed to be caught in his thoughts while Kurt could only think of one thing.

What if they didn’t like it.

And then a worse thought came to his mind.

What if Blaine didn’t like it.

He immediately tried to think of something else. He looked over to Finn. He was staring at the wall and he was tensed, so much Kurt could tell.

“What are you thinking about?” he asked.

“About Blaine” Finn mumbled.

“What? Why?”

“I’ve seen him before. I just don’t know where. And I need to know, because I have this feeling that it is important.” He looked away. “It seems like a picture or something…”

Suddenly he looked back to Kurt. “That’s it!” he shouted. “A picture.”

“What?” Kurt looked worried.

“Sorry, Kurt. I gotta go. But I’ll be back in the afternoon. I just need to check something.”

He started walking away quickly. Kurt was standing there, totally confused.

“But Finn—“

“I’ll be back. Just text me when you made it into the Warblers.” And then he was gone.

The door opened. Blaine was standing there with a total neutral face. Kurt just couldn’t tell what he was thinking about.

“So?” he asked.

“Come in.” Blaine stepped aside to let Kurt pass.

Inside the room everybody was sitting. Kurt was the only one standing. Then Wes stood up.

“We’ve decided.” He looked around. “We all had the same opinion.” He smiled.

“Welcome to the Warblers, Kurt!” Everybody started cheering and one after one came to Kurt to shake his hand and congratulate.

Kurt was so relieved. When Blaine came up to him, he held his hand out. Blaine took it and then pulled Kurt into a hug.

Blaine was holding his breath again because his face was buried in Kurt’s neck and the scent was simply overwhelming. None of the boys could later remember how they reached their room.

They were relieved to get away from the cheering Warblers.

“Wow, those guys really want to party, I guess.” Kurt fell down on the couch. “I’m really happy I made it. Oh, I got to tell Finn.”

“Right. Where did he go anyway?” Blaine sat down beside Kurt.

“I have actually no idea. He said he had to check something. I don’t know what he was talking about. Remember how weird he reacted when he first saw you? He was still thinking that he had seen you before. Really, really weird.” Kurt sighed and Blaine was looking down at his lap.

What if Finn really saw me before? Would that be dangerous? Could it reveal my secret? No way. Even if he saw me before, what could that prove?

Kurt was texting Finn. When he finished it he put it beside him and cleared his throat.

“Blaine, do you really think I was good? Or were the Warblers just polite to accept me?”

“Okay, Kurt. First of all, you are good. Very good. Marvelous. And second of all, how could you think that you are a bad singer? I mean, come on, it’s ridiculous.”

Then Blaine came to a quick decision in his head.

It didn’t matter that Blaine didn’t want a relationship. It didn’t matter that Kurt was human. It didn’t matter that he was a monster, a vampire who would probably kill Kurt at some point. It didn’t matter that Kurt probably didn’t even want to be with him or what Kurt would think if he would find out. Everything that mattered was Kurt. Kurt made him feel different. Around Kurt he didn’t have to feel like that monster anymore.

Without Kurt there’s nothing I can live for.

He looked into the boy’s eyes.

“Kurt, there is a moment when you say to yourself: ‘Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you forever.’ “

He took Kurt’s hand. Kurt let it happen.

“Watching you do Blackbird, that was a moment for me… about you.” He could feel that Kurt was tensed.

“You move me, Kurt.”

And then he slowly moved forward and his lips touched Kurt’s and there was no better feeling in the world. Kurt laid his hand on Blaine’s cheek and kissed him back. After a few seconds they ended the kiss.

“Blaine… I—“

“May I kiss you again?” Blaine whispered and Kurt pressed his lips on Blaine’s and again the moment felt perfect. The second kiss was longer and more intense. Blaine’s tongue touched Kurt’s lips and Kurt’s tongue touched his’.

Blaine could feel Kurt’s scent overwhelming his senses and he wanted to stop but he just couldn’t. It felt too good.

Then suddenly Kurt jumped backwards. He reached up to his mouth and when he touched his tongue his finger was bloody.

“Ow, I think I bit myself. That kind of ruined the moment, don’t you think?” he smiled.

Blaine looked away, his lips presses tight together, so Kurt couldn’t see his fangs. They had suddenly appeared and Blaine hadn’t really noticed. If Blaine hadn’t been hunting the other night he would probably have attacked Kurt.

Shit, I can’t let that happen again. That was really close. What the hell was I even thinking? Why did I kiss him?

Oh, right. Because I told myself it didn’t matter. Because I love him. Because I’m in love with a human.

He felt his fangs retracting and relaxed a little bit. He looked back to Kurt and smiled.

“I love you, Kurt. And I don’t ever want to lose you.”

“I don’t want to lose you either. We’ve known each other for two days and yes, I love you, too.” Kurt smiled back at Blaine and then hugged him tightly.

At this moment Finn came in.

“Woah, what are you guys doing?” They quickly let go of each other and looked at the tall boy standing in at the door.

When Finn looked at Blaine the expression on his face turned from embarrassed to mistrust. Without taking his eyes off of Blaine he said,

“Kurt, can we talk for a second? Alone.”

“Of course.” Kurt got up and walked past Finn out of the room. With one final glance at Blaine Finn left the room, too, and shut the door behind him.”

Kurt was confused. “What’s wrong Finn?”

Inside the room, Blaine overheard their conversation although they were almost whispering.

“Look at this.” Blaine heard the rustle of paper.

“What’s that?” Kurt asked.

“Well, you know, those times when Carole drags me to the library and while she’s looking for books, I would always pick random books and read them in the library until she’s done. Last time we were in the library, I picked a history book. It was about a few of those old rich families from Europe and stuff like that. And there was one family – the Andersons – I found the story interesting because they had a gay son. And there was this picture!”

“Did you rip that out of a library book?” Kurt’s voice became louder.

“That’s not the point, Kurt. Look at the picture!” Finn demanded.

“Do you see him? The boy in the back. That’s Blaine.”

Inside the room, Blaine stopped breathing. This couldn’t be happening. He knew exactly what picture Finn had found. A friend of his father had painted it back in 1767. That was only a few months before he was turned into a vampire. His father told Blaine to stand in the back, so no one would notice him. He had never accepted that Blaine was gay. However, on the picture Blaine was still very much visible and he looked exactly like he did now.

“That’s not Blaine, Finn. How could he be? That’s just an old painting.” Kurt was almost laughing at Finn.

“So you think that it’s a coincidence that this boy’s name was Anderson and that he was gay?” Finn wasn’t whispering anymore. He was angry that Kurt didn’t believe his words.

“Yes, it is a coincidence.” Kurt sighed. “Have you thought about that this could be like Blaine’s great-great-grandfather or something? If he’s even related to that family. And you don’t even know if that boy on the picture was called Blaine, do you?”

“No, I don’t. But—“

“We’re not talking about this in front of him, Finn. Just because you found some odd, old picture, it doesn’t mean that Blaine is a zombie or a vampire, okay? Things like that don’t exist. I advise you to stop watching those horror movies.”

Kurt took the picture from Finn. Then he pushed the door open. Blaine was still sitting on the couch looking out of the window. Kurt could still taste Blaine’s lips on his’ but he could also taste his own blood.

This is nothing. Nothing. I love him and he loves me. This picture is not going to ruin this. I won’t let that happen.

Finn hadn’t come back in. In fact, he was gone. Probably already at his car, still angry about Kurt’s reaction.

Kurt tossed the piece of paper into the bin. Then he sat next to Blaine again.

“So, where were we?” He smiled at the curly-haired boy.

“We were at the part where we officially became boyfriends, I think. How does that sound to you?”

“Pretty good. Blaine… thank you.” A tear fell down from Blaine’s eye as Kurt said that.

“What for?” he asked.

“For being you. For being here. For everything.”

They both were happy but they both were concerned about what had happened only a minute earlier.

I will just forget that this ever happened. It’s just a strange thought, Kurt thought.

I think, I will have to tell him eventually. He’s my boyfriend after all, Blaine thought at the same time.