Kurt turned to smile at Blaine, though his eyes looked a little sad. He wrapped his arms around Blaine in a hug. Blaine could feel Kurt smiling into his neck, and wrapped his own arms around the boy.

"I'll text you when I can make it 'round, okay?" He whispered, holding onto Kurt tighter. Kurt nodded against him.

"Thank you, Blaine." Blaine sighed and pulled out of the hug a little so he could look into Kurt's eyes.

"I wish people would stop saying that to me." He whispered as he brushed Kurt's bangs out of his face. Kurt frowned at him, and Blaine looked to floor, avoiding his gaze.

"I don't see why they shouldn't. You've helped me Blaine, more than you think you have." Blaine sighed disbelievingly and didn't look back up.

"Hey, bro!" Finn's long arms pulled Kurt away from Blaine as he pulled him into a bearlike hug.

"Don't call me bro." Kurt grumbled against him.

"Sorry ma-"

"Or man, or dude. I have a name, Finn." Finn just smiled and squeezed Kurt tighter. And while still holding on to the boy, He looked at Blaine.

"Thank you, Blaine... He needs someone like you to look out for him." Blaine offered a disbelieving smile, which seemed to be enough Finn.

"Come on Kurtie. Mom's baking you a cake." He started to race towards his car and Kurt stayed to say goodbye.

"Well, Kurtie, have a nice trip. Text me when you're home, I want to be sure you're safe... Kurtie." Kurt groaned and pushed him slightly.

"Don't you start. Or I'll tell everyone that you secretly love being called Blainey." Blaine's eyes widened.

"How'd you know that?" Kurt just grinned and started skipping to Finn's car. Blaine sighed and knew he wasn't going to get an answer anytime soon. "Bye!" He yelled. Kurt waved a hand in farewell before throwing his bag into the backseat of Finn's car and hopping into the passenger seat. Blaine sighed as they drove off.

He started towards his own car and dropped his stuff into the passenger seat. Most of the Dalton students would be leaving in two days, but Blaine had wanted to be home for his sisters welcome back party, and Kurt had just sort of knew and called to see if Finn could get him today. Blaine had protested that he could have taken Kurt if needs be. But Kurt had been adamant about it, and said something along the lines of getting someone else to do it as Blaine had been taking him back and forth for a month.

The drive home was short as Blaine didn't live too far away from Dalton. It was also silent. He didn't put any music on because he was so used to leaving it off for Kurt's benefit now.

Once he parked outside his house, he switched off the engine and just sat there. He was really excited to see his sister who'd be home in a little over an hour.

But that wasn't what was playing on his mind.

It had been two weeks since Kurt gad brought up that Blaine might like boys. He thought about it a lot now. Mainly at night while Kurt slept. He tried thinking of boys that way, but for some reason he couldn't do it.

It felt weird trying to do so. He'd tried thinking about some guys from Dalton. All of them were very different. But he felt nothing for any of them.

The one person he refused to think of that way was Kurt.

The boy had gone through so much and the last thing he needed was his friend/mentor thinking about kissing him.

His phone buzzed, breaking him away from his thoughts. It was his mom.

What are you doing out there? Hurry up, Layla will be here soon! x

Blaine sighed before stepping out. He rushed quickly into his house and was immediately brought into a hug by his mom.

"I missed you Blaine." She murmured, squeezing him tighter.

"You saw me a few months ago... Save the death grips for Layla... Please." His mother laughed and let him go, smiling at him sweetly.

"Go get the cake out of the oven! I need to finish makings sure her room is okay. If it isn't perfect she'll be moaning for hours." Blaine grinned as he watched his mother shoot upstairs and made his own way to the kitchen. The cake smelled divine as he pulled it out from the oven. He set it on the side to cool, and switched he oven off. He then started to get out the stuff needed to make the icing. That's when his mother burst into the room.

"Oh Blaine, don't do that." She said, pushing him out of the way and doing it herself. Blaine had to admit she was a lot better at doing it than him. He was fairly good at this sort of thing, but his mother had a lot more practice.

"So who else is coming to celebrate Layla's homecoming?" He asked, walking to the fridge to find some food.

"We decided it's just going be us. Just the five of us." Blaine looked at her from the open fridge, oddly.

"Five?" His mother gasped and dropped whatever she was holding. She spun around to see the curious look on her son's face.

"Oh no, I wasn't meant to say that. You weren't meant to know until Layla was home. Oh god, i've ruined everything. Shit. Urm... Pretend I never said that?" Her question sounded hopeful, but Blaine was too intrigued.

"Why did you say five?" His mother huffed and crossed her arms, looking down a second before looking back up and into his eyes.

"I'm pregnant."

Blaine's jaw dropped and he gaped at his mother, trying to process this. He doesn't know how long they stared at each other though, but his mother was the one to look away when there was a bang that sounded like the front door being slammed shut and then voice.

"I'm home!" Layla walked straight into the kitchen, a huge smile plastered on her face. But, she sensed the awkward atmosphere and when she saw Blaine's face, her smile faltered. "Why does Blaine look funny? I mean, he always does, but, this is different." Blaine didn't even react to her sort-of-insult.

"Er..." Their mothers hands dropped to her stomach. Layla's eyes followed her movement and her own mouth dropped.

"Holy. Shit. You're like, 40!"

His mother looked worried, obviously wanting their dad to be there so she had someone to help. So instead, she tried changing the subject.

"Blaine! How's Quinn? I haven't seen her since before school started!" Blaine finally reacted, but so did Layla, and they spoke at the same time.

"Don't change the subject!"

"Who's Quinn?"

Their mother smiled and realized that they would be talking for a while now, and sneaked out of the room without either of them noticing.

"My girlfriend." Blaine shifted uncomfortably. This wasn't what he wanted to talk with his sister about first. Especially since they hadn't seen each other in a year.

"Girlfriend?" She sounded shocked. Blaine sighed and shut the fridge door and then leaned against it.

"Sort of-"

"Sort of? How can you sort of have a girlfriend?" Blaine looked at the floor, avoiding his sisters eyes. She absolutely loved interrogating him.

"We kind of haven't spoke for two weeks-"

"Why?" She took a step closer to Blaine.

"Kurt told me something about her past which was kind of big, and I got pissed because she hadn't told me..."

"What was it?" Her voice was filled with concern... and something else. Something Blaine couldnm't quite put his finger on.

"She had cheated on her boyfriend, who is Kurt's brother, with another guy, and ended up pregnant. And she told me when we first started dating that she wouldn't have sex because she's hardcore Christian."

"Oh... Wow..." She was closer to Blaine now. "And, the thought that because she goes to a different school, and there's a possibility she could cheat on you like she did with that other guy, without you knowing too, made you realize that...?" she prompted.

"That maybe I don't want to date her anymore." Blaine said, still looking at floor.

"So you're no longer dating?" Blaine looked up at this, only because Layla sounded... happy.

"No. We are. I confronted her and she begged me not to break up with her and then she told me... she told me that she loves me." Layla's eyes looked angry now.

"And you believed her? That's like, the oldest trick in the book to get someone to stay. She's just desperate Blaine! Besides, by now you should of figured out that you're-" She cut herself off abruptly.

"That I'm what?" He asked, eyeing Layla curiously. She looked worried and stumbled over her next few words.

"Er... S-stupid to still be with her... yeah... You should dump her sorry ass." Blaine rolled his eyes.

"Can we drop this?" He pleaded.

"YES!" She said immediately. Blaine grinned at her, before getting rid of the remaining space between them and bringing her into a tight hug.

"I missed you." She giggled and wrapped her arms around his neck. Blaine was now a little taller than her, which is saying something, because Blaine is tiny.

"I missed you too, Blainey." Blaine smiled as his sister called him that. He didn't know how Kurt found out he liked being called it, but it wasn't like he was going to force Kurt into secrecy about it. Because he really did love it. And now he was thinking about Kurt calling him it and then-

No. Blaine wasn't going to even close to that.

"So," Blaine said, pulling out of the hug to look into Layla's hazel eyes that looked identical to his. "You need to start telling me about University. I want to know everything!" he said excitedly

"Ergh. Not now. Because then i'll have to repeat myself when dad gets here and him and mom would want to know. You get tp share to share your Dalton stories too!" Blaine groaned. "Plus, I have to make a call. I promised I'd call my roommate when I got home. You should tell mom that she should finish with that cake. We can question her later." Blaine nodded and hugged her one more time before leaving room. He had missed her a lot and couldn't wait to be spending two and half weeks with her until she went back to LA.

Layla pulled out her phone as walked from the kitchen too, heading upstairs to make sure her room was perfect. She hadn't called this number in a while, so she was worried the guy might have a new phone, but thankfully, when he picked up, it was his voice coming through the speaker.

"Well, If it isn't Layla Anderson. To what do I owe the pleasure?" She found him extremely annoying, but she needed to speak to him, and a few others.

"Talk like a normal guy for once, Wesley. You might end up with a girlfriend then, or does David like that kind of thing?" She smiled, knowing it would annoy him.

"What do you want, Layla?" He huffed out.

"You warblers are still at Dalton, right?"

"Yeah, why do you ask?"

"Have a meeting tomorrow at midday. I need to talk with all of you."

~X~

"Warbler meeting has come to order-" Wes started, but was immediately interrupted by Nick.

"Why are we having one exactly?"

"Yeah! We leave tomorrow an two of us are already gone!" Jeff intercepted.

"They have a point." Thad whispered from Wes' right.

"BECAUSE!" Wes yelled before anyone else could interrupt again. "We so happen to have a visitor who is in need of speaking to us. It is also about Blaine, and with him, Kurt is bound to come up at one point. So it's good that neither are here."

"Wait who-"

"I'm coming in whether you've finished introducing me or not!" A girls voice came from outside the door. Wes and David grinned at each other as the rest of the boys looked confused,

Then the choir room doors flew open and there stood a beautiful girl with black hair falling in ringlets down her back. Her eyes were a shocking hazel color that bore resemblance to a certain absent warbler.

"Hello, boys." She said as she strode in and place her butt on one of the tables gracefully.

"Layla?" Jeff was the first to speak. Only a few warblers had met Blaine's sister, but that was well over a year ago, and she had grown a lot.

"Nice to know you remember me, Jeffy. How's your boyfriend?"

Jeff got a few confused looks at this, especially from Nick.

"Wha- but I'm straight?"

"Oh please, that's totally a cover up so you and Nick can hide your epic romance!" A lot of guys laughed along with Layla as both Jeff and Nick scowled.

"You came here for a reason, I believe?" Wes asked.

"That I did, Wesley." She mocked him slightly and then frowned. There was a silence that followed where the warblers were expecting her to continue.

"Are you going to tell us what for?" David asked when he thought they'd waited long enough.

"I'm surprised you don't already know." She sighed and looked around the room.

"Yeah, Blaine. But what about him?" Layla locked eyes with David.

"His girlfriend." she said simply, but it was enough to make every warbler freeze in their seats. they all knew her thoughts on who Blaine dated, whether they heard it from her personally, or what others had said, and they all agreed.

Wes was the first to speak. And he rushed through the sentences like they could either save or destroy him. And talking to Layla Anderson on this particular subject, they probably could be his last.

"Well, we didn't believe him until I saw Blaine walking with some chick and holding her hand and Kurt along with them."

"When was it and what did she look like." Layla shot back without even having to think about it. Blaine had refused point blank to speak anymore on Quinn, and that irritated Layla to no end.

"Two weeks ago. Same height, brown eyes, blonde hair. Beautiful. Blaine said she was the head cheerleader at her school." This was all once again rushed out. "And Blaine texted me saying that haven't really spoke since that day..."

"Wait, texted you? Why not just tell you to your face?" She looked a little confused.

"Because he spends all his free time with Kurt." He saw Layla's confused gaze and realized she didn't know who Kurt was. She was currently thinking that Blaine had mentioned a Kurt too, but stopped when Wes started an explanation on him. "He transferred a month or so ago. Blaine's sort of like his mentor. Blaine's the only one that knows what happened to him. He wakes up screaming every night. What ever Blaine's doing for him, he's doing it good. Kurt has definitely got mentally better since he arrived here. He's got a lot more sociable and he finally joined the warblers a few weeks ago. Extraordinary voice. I would totally use him for regional's if he seems to get better. But he looks to breakable right now... Oh, and from what Blaine's told us, He's gay."

Layla had looked saddened by each word of this not very detailed story, but she looked rather annoyed with the last few words.

"I don't understand," She said, locking eyes with Wes. "He spends every moment with this boy-"

"Except on weekends when Blaine takes him back to Lima so he can see his family, so Blaine goes to see Quinn... who also lives in Lima..." David intercepted, but trailed off a little when he mentioned Quinn.

"-And yet he hasn't figured it out!" Layla finished like she'd never been interrupted.

"Maybe Blaine really is st-" Flint trailed off when everyone stared at him like he was an idiot.

"I honestly don't believe that Blaine would dream of questioning himself with Kurt. The boy is obviously badly traumatized, and Blaine is more focused on helping him that his own se-"

"You guys suck." Layla said bluntly. "I ask you to help him, and he goes and get's himself a girlfriend. I've known about this since he was thirteen! How does he not? Especially since he goes to gay hogwarts-"

"Not everyone here is gay!" a random warbler shouted.

"No... but two of you are at least, even if one can't see it, and that's enough for Dalton to renamed 'gay hogwarts'."

There was plenty of grumbling from the warblers at this. Layla was starting to realize that she was going to get nowhere with these guys. So, with a sigh, she jumped down from the table she was sitting on. The grumbling stopped when they noticed Layla was now besides the door.

"I don't think he'll figure it out before I go, so, I'm entitling you guys to help him! I hope for your sake that he comes to this realization before the next time I visit. Which is April. Bye Warblers!" She blew them all a kiss before she walked back out the doors, leaving them in a silence.

David looked to his right to see Wes with a certain, evil look on his face. This worried him.

"You have something up your sleeve, don't you?" He whispered. Wes grinned at him and nodded.

"Don't worry just yet. I'm going to use the holidays to foolproof it. Just relax, David. Christmas is in a few days!"

"I still can't believe Dalton cut it so close to the day." Wes shrugged. He was too busy thinking of ways to help Blaine realize he's gay.

Layla knew it. The Warblers knew it. Practically all of Dalton knew it. So it's time he should too.