After a tiresome day at school, Kurt Hummel wanted nothing more than to crawl into his bed and sleep for a year. So he did- mostly, anyway.

After saying a brief hello to his father in the Garage he climbed the stairs and ducked into his room, scowling when he caught a glimpse of his appearance in his mirror.

The bullies at his school were just being immature now, seriously, throwing salad from the lunch room on him? Pathetic. But, he did prefer this over slushie facials or dumpster dives any day.

His frown only deepened when he began picking the bits from his hair, clothes, his bag.

Some days dealing with the jocks at his school was fine; and some days not. This was one of the days. Once he had put on something more comfortable, a plain T-shirt and pajama pants, he looked to his laptop and brightened.

Luckily when it was one of those days, he had something that always cheered him up without fail.

Kurt opened his laptop and it dinged, coming to life quickly.

He then opened a web page and instantly went to YouTube, scrolling down his home page of his subscribes and grinned when he found the right video.

Clicking on the thumbnail he got settled in bed and his smile widened even more upon seeing a familiar face.

A teenage boy around Kurt’s age popped up in a box in the corner of the video, and he smiled at the webcam as he launched into his usual introduction, adjusting the microphone in front of him a bit. The rest of the screen he didn’t inhabit was a menu to a video game.

“Hello everybody, I’m Blaine, and welcome back to “Let’s Play Amnesia: The Dark Descent.” Blaine said, voice dropping an octave at the end to be dramatic.

Blaine had the most beautiful hazel eyes Kurt had ever seen and black curly hair that was tamed down slightly with the pair of headphones he wore in his videos. Today Blaine was wearing one of his favorite hoodies. A black one that had the design of a white video game logo called Minecraft, another game Blaine did a series of videos.

He was a Let’s Player, a term Kurt hadn’t even heard of until a few weeks ago. A Let’s Player was a person who recorded themselves playing video games, adding in commentary and criticism and their own humor while they played.

Finn was having trouble in a video game and insisted that Kurt Google a walkthrough for him. Sending him a glare, Kurt had done so, and one of Blaine’s videos was a link.

Interested Kurt had watched him goof off in a video game, noting that he was incredibly good looking. And really funny, too. His interest grew even more so when he watched Blaine play a video game live for his fans, pausing occasionally to glance at the Livestream’s rapid moving chat to answer questions happily.

As it turned out, Blaine lived in Ohio, just like Kurt.

Soon after he subscribed to Blaine,  loving the video’s he had seen and began watching more, becoming just as invested in the games storylines as Blaine did.

Blaine started up the game where he had left off and moved his character, Daniel, forward. “He” took out a lantern crept silently towards a room. Blaine’s eyes were squinted slightly with concentration as he carefully guided Daniel to shut the door behind himself, looking around the room.

“Whoever this Alexander dude is, needs to re decorate his manor, because this shitty place is falling apart!” Blaine said, taking in the old Victorian style library. The graphics of the game were quite good, the books on the shelves all looking dusty and decaying, even though they were simply background objects and held no point to the game’s plot.

As if on cue a deep growl resonated from the room Daniel had just exited, sounding extremely close. Blaine let out a squeal, jumping in his seat when a loud crash sounded from behind him, signifying that whatever had made the noise was trying to tear down the door.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it!” Blaine yelled instantly, guiding his character as far away from the door as possible. He had to direct him behind a bookshelf, as there were no safe cupboards in the room to hide in.

Kurt had never been that much of a fan of horror games, but the story plot to this game in particular was pretty interesting, and he watched nearly all of Blaine’s videos.

Not because he was obsessed with him or anything, of course not. Watching Blaine jump and freak out and scream like a girl was very entertaining, is all.

“So what if you can’t have a weapon in the game- I’d slap him upside the head with a damn encyclopedia, you’re probably standing next to a whole shelf full Daniel!” Blaine complained, yelling as if the character would actually hear him. Kurt laughed to himself, shaking his head.

“I’m just gonna have to gun it and run past this guy, aren’t I?” Blaine asked, making a face at the realization.

He peeked around the corner of the bookshelf and saw a clear path to the door the monster had knocked down. With a sigh he put on his concentrating face again.

“Let’s do this.”

And with a weak battle cry he ran towards the door as quickly as possible.

Suddenly the music shifted to an eerie screeching noise; the monster was giving chase.

Kurt was on the edge of his seat, silently cheering and yelling him to run faster.

Shouting, Blaine ran to the nearest door, panicking when it didn’t open automatically.

“Shit I need the key!” He yelled, hitting the TAB button to open his inventory and momentarily pause the game. He double clicked on the correct key and with a breath, closed his inventory. He hurriedly ‘used’ the key the door and waited for the noise indicating it had unlocked.

Instead a message flashed onto the screen.

“”The key broke off”?! You asshole!” Before he could turn and run to another door it was too late, the monster caught up with him and slashed at him with his claws unexpectedly, causing Blaine to scream and jump back in his chair.

Even Kurt jumped a bit at that, and he was unable to contain his laughter at the face Blaine was pulling.

The game faded and a splash screen message appeared, reading “You have to carry on.” Blaine was still partially in shock, mouth and eyes still wide open. He let out a wheezy exhale and placed a hand on his heart, shaking his head as he scooted back closer to his computer.

“I swear, the things I do for you guys.” He said, smiling slightly. He saved his game and closed it off looking back to his webcam.

“I think this is a good place to end it, haha. Add it to your favorites and likes if you enjoyed it, or don’t, I don’t care. But I will see YOU-“ He pointed to the cam with a smile. “-In the next video, bye bye!” Blaine then waved enthusiastically with both hands before leaning forward to turn off the cam, thus ending the video.

With a smile Kurt closed off the page, successfully cheered up. It must have to do with Blaine’s infectious, gorgeous, smile.

Alright, so maybe he did have a small crush on the boy, and as stupid as it sounded Kurt really wanted to meet him someday, if not just to tell him that he had helped Kurt so much through his rough spots.

But really, what were the chances of that happening?