Maybe because this is like a date?

No, that can’t be it, because this is not a date. This is two new friends going out for coffee. That’s all it is. But oh my, how Kurt wished it was more.

Gathering as much courage as he could, Kurt got out of his Navigator and walked into the coffee shop. He spotted Blaine’s curly mop of hair sitting at a table for 2 in the back corner of the caf�.

“Even from behind he looks attractive.” Kurt mumbled out loud.

As the countertenor approached the table, Blaine looked up from his phone and shot Kurt a million watt grin.
Blaine stood up abruptly a reached out to hug the other boy. “Hey Kurt!”

“Morning Blaine.” Smiled Kurt returning the hug.

“I remembered you saying you like grade non-fat mocha’s last night, so I figured I’d pick you up one if that’s alright?” Blaine said almost hesitantly.

He remembered my coffee order. Oh god, this boy is going to be the end of me, thought Kurt.

“You’re too sweet, thank you.” Kurt replied blushing slightly.

“So, what’s new with you?”

“Well seeing as you just saw me not more than 12 hours ago, I’d have to say that nothing’s really new.” Kurt teased.

The curly head boy just laughed along whole heartedly at Kurt’s attempt at a joke. “You never know! You seem to be a pretty interesting person!”

“I’m really not, you pretty much found out everything about me last night.”

“Not everything! Come on, there must be something you didn’t tell me!” Blaine exclaimed a little too enthusiastically.

“I was on the cheerleading team?” Kurt attempted.

Blaine’s jaw dropped and in his head he was trying to figure out if this beautiful boy could be any more perfect. “No. Way. You have to tell me all about it!”

Kurt started his stories about being on the Cheerios and Coach Sylvester’s antics. “And then she made me sing a 14 minute Celine Dion medley in French for Nationals! In French! Obviously we won because I’m amazing, but still.”

“Wow, that’s wow. I never pegged you for the cheerleading type.”

“Did you peg me for the football player? Because I played kicker for about a week. The game I played in was the first and only win McKinley had that season. I think it helped that I kicked to Single Ladies, but I wouldn’t place my money on it.”

“You just keep getting even more perfect with every word.” Blaine said and then immediately regretted it.

Kurt chocked on his coffee and just barely stopped himself from spitting it out and all over the table.

“Did I just say that out loud?” Blaine asked with his head in his hands.

“Yup, but don’t worry about it, you’re only telling me what I already know.” The taller boy said with a wink.

The boys kept talking for 3 hours at the coffee shop.

They revisited topics from the night before, spoke of their glee clubs, and Kurt told Blaine about McKinley.
“To be warned, there are some really nasty jocks at McKinley, and I mean horrid. Beware of locker shoves, and you should bring a change of clothes with you every day too. Slushies can be a bitch to get out of your clothes. I would know, I lost some of my favourite shirts to those idiots and their bullying.”

“Oh god. I didn’t know that things were that bad.”

“Well it’s really only like that for the glee club and anyone who’s classified as a ‘loser’.”

“How do you deal with it all?” Blaine inquired.

“Glee. It helps us express ourselves. We don’t hold back when we’re together.”

“That sounds completely wonderful. I wish I had that at the public school I went to. But I didn’t have a safe place until I moved to Dalton, and now I’m deprived of even that.”

“Did you leave many of your friends behind moving to Lima?”

“I didn’t have a boatload of friends, but I did have to leave my best friends Wes and David. They were there for me when I first got to Dalton, and were there until the end. I’ll still see them every so often, but it will be hard at first.” Blaine confessed.

“Why did you go to Dalton in the first place?”

Blaine sighed and Kurt interrupted. “You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to. I’m just a little curious, that’s all.”

“It’s okay. I guess it all boiled down to my freshman year Sadie Hawkins dance. I had just come out and there was one other gay guy at my school and we decided to go to the dance just as friends, for support you know? Well when we were waiting for his dad to pick us up after the dance, this group of guys off of the football team came up to us and started yelling in our faces. When we tried to get them away they got violent. I woke up the next day in the hospital with a broken arm and stitches on my face. My friend Mark didn’t get off as easily. He had 3 broken ribs and one of the guys stabbed him in the leg. After that day, I never saw him again and my parents moved me into Dalton as soon as I left the hospital.”

“Oh Blaine. That’s horrible. I’m so sorry. And to think, I complain about locker slams and slushies.” Kurt gave a little laugh at the end.

“Hey, locker slams and slushies are still just as bad. At least you take the bullying, I ran from it all.”

Kurt just stared back at the boy. “Blaine, they physically hurt you to the point that you had to go to the hospital. That’s not running away. That’s preventing yourself from even more pain.”

“Well, no matter what, Dalton was better for me.”

“Are you at all scared to go to McKinley?”

“A little, but I know that I will be there with you, so that makes everything better.” Blaine told the older boy with a slight blush.

Both boys took a sip of their second coffees, bought by Kurt this time, and glanced around the Lima Bean. The coffee shop had a small stage in one corner with a piano and a guitar just asking to be played. “Do you think anyone ever gets up to sing?” Blaine asked.

“I think the odd person may have gotten up at one point, but I’m not too sure. Why?”

“Give me a minute, I’ll be back.”

This worried Kurt. He watched as the shorter boy walked up to the manager and engaged her in a conversation. When they were done, Blaine walked towards the stage with a huge grin on his face.

“Hey everyone, my name’s Blaine Anderson and I’m going to sing you all a song that’s been playing over and over in my head all day. So sit back and enjoy.” Blaine picked up the guitar and started strumming.

Oh, his eyes, his eyes

Make the stars look like they’re not shinning

His hair, his hair

Falls perfectly without him trying

He’s so beautiful

And I tell him everyday

Yeah I know, I know

When I compliment him, he won’t believe me

And it’s so, so sad to think

That he don’t see what I see

But everytime he asks me do I look ok,

I say

When I see your face,

There’s not a thing that I would change

Cause you’re amazing

Just the way you are

Kurt just sat back and watched as this gorgeous boy sang
with a voice so beautiful; it rivaled Rachel Berry’s. As Blaine sang, Kurt didn’t want to believe that he was looking at him for anything but moral support. Because this was Blaine, what would he possibly want to do with Kurt Hummel?

And when you smile

The whole world stops and stares for a while

'Cause boy you're amazing

Just the way you are

His lips, his lips

I could kiss them all day if he'd let me

His laugh, his laugh

He hates but I think it's so sexy

He's so beautiful

And I tell him everyday

Oh you know, you know, you know

I'd never ask you to change

If perfect's what you're searching for

Then just stay the same

So don't even bother asking if you look okay

Kurt felt like he couldn’t breathe. Blaine’s voice was just amazing. And the song. Kurt tried not to notice how Blaine changed all the ‘hers’ and ‘she’s’ to ‘his’ and ‘he’s’, but that could easily be explained as Blaine being gay.

You know I'll say

When I see your face

There's not a thing that I would change

'Cause you're amazing

Just the way you are

And when you smile

The whole world stops and stares for a while

'Cause boy you're amazing

Just the way you are

The way you are

The way you are

Boy you're amazing

Just the way you are

When I see your face

There's not a thing that I would change

Cause you're amazing

Just the way you are

And when you smile

The whole world stops and stares for awhile

Cause boy you're amazing

Just the way you are

Yeah

When Blaine finished he shot a grin in Kurt’s direction and took a little bow on stage. The crowd gave a lighthearted round of applause, but Kurt didn’t really expect anything less from Lima.

As Blaine approached the countertenor, his face lite up even more and he sat back down into his seat.
“So, what did you think?” Blaine asked a little breathlessly.

“That was wonderful Blaine. I couldn’t even begin to explain how amazing that was. You just need to audition for New Directions. We need voices like yours! Hell you could even replace Finn as lead!”

“Woah, slow down there. I want to join New Directions, but I’m not too convinced on the lead part. I mean, that’s not why I want to audition! I just love singing.” Blaine told Kurt.

“Trust me, you will become lead. Then again, that just leaves you and I to battle it out for solos more often, but that should be fun.” Kurt assured the other boy.

“Ok, well set me up that audition then!”

“Will do! But first, the long awaited tour of Lima, Ohio!” Kurt said with mild sarcasm.

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Later that night, Blaine got home feeling like he could fly. The date at the Lima Bean and then the tour of the town was absolutely splendid.

The curly head boy went to bed wishing it was the next day so he could start school with Kurt and join New Directions. And he had the perfect song to tell Kurt exactly how he felt.