Saturday arrived even with Kurt wishing with all his heart that it wouldn’t, so he was faced with the task of telling Mercedes the rest of the story about him and Blaine. Having the night before and the following morning hadn’t helped him figure out how’d he do it, not without Mercedes getting pissed at him. His mind was still a blank when he got a text from Mercedes saying she was heading over. Kurt reminded himself that he had no reason to be worried. Explaining things would be far from fun but he knew it could have been a lot worse. Kurt was confident that once Mercedes heard the whole story she would agree to keep him knowing Blaine a secret. But Kurt also knew he’d probably get teased like crazy, but that was a consequence he was willing to take, if it bought her silence on the matter. Kurt suddenly got another text message and frowned, was Mercedes’s going to be late or something he wondered. But his frown quickly turned to a smile as he saw who it was from.

Courage, keep breathing. Blaine

Kurt let out a throaty laugh as he began to type a reply, when he heard footsteps and looked up to see Mercedes walking down the stairs to his bedroom. Kurt put down his phone and hurried over to her side. “Oh Mercedes hi! I would have come and meet you at the door you know.” Kurt quickly told her as he took her coat and placed it on his hanging chair.

But it seemed Mercedes wasn’t about to let Kurt stall and smirked at him. “Yeah yeah save it Hummel.” Mercedes said with an amused smile on her face. “Start talking.” she ordered as she pointed at the couch.

Kurt knew there was no use in trying to stall so he nodded with a sigh and joined her on the couch. He couldn’t think were he should begin to explain. Luckily for him Mercedes noticed this and decided to make things easier for him.

“So tell me how come I’ve never heard of this dream boat named Blaine before? Who, despite how adorable you two looked together last night, I am suppose to believe is just a ‘friend.’ Because if you two are actually dating Kurt, there’s no need to hide it. I mean, I know you’ve been lonely and everyone in Glee would be happy for you.” Mercedes pointed out.

“Except for the fact that the reason I haven’t said anything about Blaine is because he’s in a Glee club at his school.” Kurt replied, deciding just to get straight to the point. Kurt looked to see surprise appear on Mercedes face, which turned to either anger or strong annoyance, Kurt wasn’t sure.

“Wait what?” Mercedes blurted out.

“He’s a member of the Dalton Academy Warblers and, before you ask, yes I am sure he’s not playing me. But with everything that happened with Rachel and Jesse... I just decided it was better to keep it to myself.” Kurt explained.

Mercedes eyed him and he could tell she was conflicted on how she should react to this information. “Okay... So how long has this secret friendship been going on then?”

“Um... About a month.” Kurt admitted. “Look I’m sorry... I just didn’t want anyone to think I wasn’t loyal to the team. I could just picture what would happen if everyone found out. Rachel would go off on how I treated her about Jesse... And... I can face it. I mean it’s not like I’m doing anything wrong.” Kurt grumbled, “... and I planned to tell everyone eventually, I just didn’t want it to complicate things.” he added.

Mercedes remained silent for a moment as she processed the information. “Alright, I might be able to see why you decided not to tell New Directions about Blaine. I might even slightly agree with your choice. But what I don’t understand is why you couldn’t at least tell me. I thought we were friends Kurt... Don’t you trust me?”

Kurt shook his head with a sigh and reached out to squeeze Mercedes’s shoulder lightly. “I do trust you Mercedes. I mean you were the first person I ever admitted to out loud that I was gay, remember? I wanted to tell you... It’s just... I don’t know! I’m not exactly an expert about this kind of things.” Kurt admitted.

“So I take it Blaine is gay?” Mercedes asked.

Kurt nodded in reply.

“And you’re sure he’s not playing you?” Mercedes added.

Kurt nodded again, “Yes, I know for sure. Blaine’s amazing Mercedes, I never would have thought there was someone like him out there. We just clicked instantly, when I talk to him I feel like I’ve known him forever, when in reality it’s only been for a month. It’s just so refreshing to talk and hang out with someone who knows exactly what I deal with.” Kurt explained to her.

As Kurt talked she instantly noticed the wide smile that spread across his face. She had the feeling that his feelings for Blaine were going past mere friendship. A thing that made her that much more forgiving towards him. She smiled lightly at him and pushed at his shoulder playfully. “Well... I guess I’ll forgive you.” she replied.

Kurt gave a sigh of relief, “Oh thank god! I’m so glad, not that I didn’t know I could count on you. I just felt really bad about it. I promise after Regionals I’m going to tell everyone about Blaine. Or at least I won’t be keeping anything about him a secret anymore.” he explained.

“Good, though I don’t envy you when Rachel finds out.” Mercedes said with a laugh.

“Don’t remind me!” Kurt blurted back.

“So if you’ re going to start being honest with me now, how do you really feel about Blaine? Because I am not buying this ’he’s just a friend’ business. Not with the way you look when you’re talking about him.”

Kurt groaned, he had been expecting and dreading this. But Kurt knew he owed her the truth and he didn’t want to lie to her or himself. In fact it would probably feel good to admit what he hadn’t said aloud to anyone. So once again Mercedes was the first person to hear him admit his deepest thoughts. “You’re right of course, I’m in love with him.” he said softly.

Mercedes squealed in delight, “I knew it! I knew it!” she said poking his shoulder.

Kurt knew he was blushing after his confession, but he couldn’t smile about it yet. “I’m glad you’re thrilled about it.” he mumbled.

“Yes, join me, won’t you?” Mercedes said mockingly.

Kurt gave a weak smile, “Maybe later... When I figure things out. I just realized I’m in love with him, Mercedes. Actually, while when I was singing ’A House is Not a Home’ in Glee club. It’s still so scary and new. I have no idea what I am doing or what I’m going to do about it.”

“You could just tell him how you feel?” Mercedes suggested.

Kurt looked at Mercedes in horror and shook his head in refusal so quickly he felt dizzy. “Ohh no! I am most certainly not going to tell him. At least not... Not yet... No... I don’t want to jeopardize our friendship, Mercedes. It means too much to me, Blaine means too much to me. Even after a month, I’ve gotten so used to him being in my life. So for now I am just going to let things be. I don’t even know if he feels or could ever feel the same way about me. If it gets to a point where I need to tell him or I’ll explode, fine! I’ll face that if and when it comes.” Kurt explained to Mercedes.

“Well it’s your life Kurt, do what you want to do. Either way, at least you got someone to talk about it with.” Mercedes pointed out. “Those are my terms, no more secrets about Blaine-related things. Do that and I’ll keep you knowing him from the New Directions. As long as you can keep yourself from telling him our set list for Regionals.” Mercedes told Kurt, she held out her hand.

“Deal.” Kurt said with a smiled and took it and shook it in agreement. “Mercedes, you are the best.”

“So will I like him?” Mercedes asked Kurt.

Kurt laughed lightly, “Oh I think you will, but why don’t you confirm that for yourself?”
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Blaine had been anxiously waiting for Kurt to call him and let him know how things went with Mercedes. So when he called him later that evening, Blaine was relieved to hear it went well. The whole ordeal of not telling anyone about each other was bordering on becoming stressful. But it was still amusing because if he had met Kurt at a different time, there was no knowing how differently things would have turned out. His thoughts were interrupted when his phone rang and he grabbed it and frowned, it was a number he didn’t recognize. Deciding to answer it anyway since he could always hang up, he brought the phone to his ear. “Hello?”

“Well hello there Blaine, this is Mercedes Jones calling you, Kurt’s friend.” Said a female voice on the other side.

Blaine grinned, “How could I not know who you are, Mercedes? Not after our amusing introduction the other day. I must say this is a pleasant surprise, you calling me. Did Kurt give you my number... Willingly?” Blaine asked as he began to lay on the charm, which he wasn’t aware he was doing since it came naturally.

“What do you think? Yes of course! After Kurt told me about meeting you he said I’d like you if I got to know you better. So I decided to give it a shot and I got your number from him. I know you might not be used to hanging out with a girl when you go to an all boys school and everything. But are you up to meeting tomorrow so we can get to know each other? You gotta admit Kurt will be ecstatic if we’d get along.” Mercedes suggested.

“I’d love that! I already would like to think we’ll get along greatly. But I’ll let you be the judge if you can put up with me. Up for some coffee at the Lima Bean maybe? It’s a regular hang out for Kurt and I after class. In fact, it’s where we first met.” Blaine replied.

“Yeah I heard all about it from Kurt, all this because of a drink mix up. As long as Kurt doesn’t mind me horning in on your turf then I’m game.” Mercedes said.

“Okay awesome! I’ll text you tomorrow when I’m finished at school and we can head over. It’s actually perfect, because I don’t have Warbler practice afterwards. Kurt does know we’re meeting, right? Like, you told him you were calling me to hang out? Though I already know he’d be fine with it since he gave you my number.” Blaine muttered.

Blaine could hear Mercedes make a small annoyed groan in response, “Yes Blaine, he knows and he supports it fully. So I’ll meet you at the Lima Bean tomorrow. Better put your best game on, Warbler boy.” she replied.

“Oh it’s on.” Blaine replied with a laugh.
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Kurt had indeed been delighted to hear about Mercedes and Blaine’s plans to meet up. But it also meant he had nothing to do once school was finished for once. It made him realize how used he had gotten to meeting up with Blaine almost daily at the Lima Bean. Sure, sometimes he was too busy with either glee or Cheerios practice but they always managed to speak to each other every day. Kurt wasn’t sure if that meant anything special and he tried not to think about it too much. So to distract himself and pass time, Kurt decided to tackle the problem of finding a song for glee. Unfortunately he was having no luck at all at trying to find a lame song to make great again. The problem being that he had no desire whatsoever to sing most songs he had found, because they were clearly lame for a reason. Or when he found a song he adored so much he refused to even admit it was even considered lame. Kurt was still traumatized when he was researching earlier on the internet and found a list of the top 100 worst songs of all times. What caused his shock was when he saw Celine Dione’s, My Heart Will Go On, was number 25. Who exactly decided what songs went on this list? Kurt had to resist the urge to send a snarky e-mail voicing his protest, so he had taken a break to calm down.

That wasn’t the only problem he had to deal with either. The other piece of drama in his life at the moment was the whole glist ordeal at school. Kurt knew he wasn’t what anyone would consider a bad-ass, not by a long shot. But it still hurt when his name hadn’t even ended up on the list at all. Kurt was glad he didn’t have any horrible scandals happen to him, but he also hated the fact that he was so boring. It was ironic, Because if his schoolmates knew he was friends with a rival glee club student behind everyone’s back, it might change their opinions. But even then it wasn’t like Kurt or Blaine was spying on each other. Once that became clear his reputation would remain squeaky clean and that was the whole problem. This would normally be the time Kurt would call Blaine to get his input and advice on both problems. But since he was currently with Mercedes Kurt didn’t want to interrupt them. Nothing would make him happier than his closets friends getting to know each other.

But he wouldn’t make any progress if he just gave up so he reached for his laptop and brought up Google again. “Back to the internet drawing board I suppose.” Kurt said to himself with a groan.
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Blaine walked through the doors of the Lima Bean to find Mercedes already there waiting for him. He waved at her to catch her attention and she waved back with a grin. Blaine made his way over to her and greeted her with a friendly smile. “Hey there, Mercedes.” he commented.

“Hi Blaine, glad you were brave enough to show.” Mercedes teased as they got in the queue line.

Blaine chuckled lightly, oh he liked her already, which wasn’t surprising. “I wouldn’t miss it for the world. I can’t wait to hear all the stories you must have about Kurt before I knew him. Or all the amusing things that I know has happened in glee club. There has to be be some stuff Kurt wouldn’t tell me voluntarily.”

“Oh that’s for sure, considering how long this line is we’ve got a lot of time to cover.” Mercedes muttered.

“Then why don’t you start and tell me a good one?” Blaine suggested.

“Okay, how about when we first started to hang out I had a crush on Kurt?” Mercedes admitted.

Blaine gaped at Mercedes in surprise and it wasn’t because that meant Mercedes hadn’t know Kurt was gay instantly. No, he was surprised that Mercedes would go there right from the beginning. Blaine wasn’t sure if Mercedes had mentioned it to try to find out if Blaine had a crush on Kurt. Since he didn’t really know her, he just decided not to let himself overthink things. “Really? How did Kurt deal with that? It’s hard to picture he was ever in the closet... What with how out and proud he is now.” Blaine mumbled as he tried to picture it.

“Well, he was oblivious to it until I pointed it out to him. Kurt lied and said he was in love with Rachel to let me down gently.” Mercedes continued.

If Blaine had been surprised before it was nothing compared to his reaction now. “What? Rachel Berry Rachel? I mean I’ve never met her but from what Kurt’s told me about her... Wow...” Blaine blurted out in disbelief.

“Right? Needless to say I wasn’t happy at the news. So much that I threw a rock through his Navigator’s window.”

“Are you serious?” Blaine said with a laugh.

“Yep, I couldn’t help but let out my inner Beyonce.” Mercedes replied with a smirk.

It was finally their turn to make their orders and even though they weren’t on a date, but since Blaine was ever the chivalrous boy, he insisted on paying both their drinks.

As they headed over and took a seat at a table, Blaine was glad Kurt had given her his number. Because despite the fact that he had never really been around girls for a while, he was enjoying himself immensely. It was a nice change, to have a friend who was a girl. Especially when that friend was Mercedes Jones.

“So I’ve heard Kurt’s side of the story when you two met. I’d like to hear yours now.” Mercedes commented.

Blaine let out a small sigh, because he didn’t want to tell her everything. “I actually saw him the first time when you guys sang at the mall. What made him stand out aside from his voice is when I overheard him dealing with some stupid guys. His sass impressed me right from the start.” Blaine began to admit, as he purposely left out the skinny jeans part of the story. “A few days later he ended up being in front of me in line for coffee here. I can still remember my surprise when I saw him...”

Mercedes watched Blaine intently while he talked endlessly about him meeting Kurt. It was crazy because his face had the exact same dreamy expression as Kurt’s when he had told the same story. She didn’t know how Kurt couldn’t see it, that Blaine was so head over heels for him. Mercedes had to fight the urge to bring up this new realization. Armed with that fact, Mercedes decided she wouldn’t be the one to make their feelings for one another known. It was something they needed to figure out on their own. Because Kurt might have recently figured out he was in love. But Mercedes had the feeling that Blaine was still hopelessly clueless about his own feelings. That just made him that much more endearing, though. Blaine was still talking and Mercedes made herself actually listen to what he was saying.

“So needless to say when I ended up getting his drink order, I knew I had to speak to him.” Blaine finished. “Sorry I’m probably talking your ear off here... You’ll find out I’m pretty chatty.” Blaine muttered taking a long drink of his medium drip.

“I think I see why you and Kurt get along so well now.” Mercedes told him.

“Oh? I’m more curious about if you think we can get along.” Blaine admitted.

“Well I know you’re not a spy for Dalton, so that’s a start.” Mercedes assured him.

A short while later their drinks were empty and they had managed to enjoy their time together. Luckily for them they both had something in common; their friendship with Kurt. But that wasn’t the only thing, there was music obviously as well. Considering that Blaine loved a wide variation of music, it wasn’t hard for them not to like some of the same singers and bands. Being gay aside, who could not like Beyonce! “Well this has been fun, I hope I’m in the clear now with my intentions for Kurt.” Blaine said to Mercedes.

“That you really are just good friends? Yes I realized that the minute you started talking. So you’ve convinced me that you’re innocent. I can’t say everyone else in the New Directions will be that easy to win over... At least some of them. But you’ve got nothing to hide.” Mercedes replied. ‘Expect the fact that you two are so in love.’ she thought to herself. She could only hope that by the time their big secret was out, they would no longer just be clueless friends.

“I wonder what Kurt’s up to.” Blaine said suddenly.

Mercedes smiled at Blaine playfully, she had been so wrapped up in talking to Blaine. She had almost forgotten about him, though it was no surprise that Blaine hadn’t. “Why don’t I call him and we can both find out? I bet he’s gonna be all whiny about me hogging you for so long.” Mercedes teased.

Blaine rolled his eyes at that, though he was relieved this was the only teasing she had done so far. “It’s not like I’m a solo for glee club, there’s no reason to fight over me...” Blaine muttered, though he was joking around.

“Don’t flatter yourself, Blaine.” Mercedes said as she dialled Kurt’s number and his voice could quickly be heard once he answered.

“Well hello Mercedes! I take if it if you’re calling me Blaine is still alive?” he asked playfully.

Mercedes rolled her eyes at Blaine, “Yes alive and kicking thank you!” she replied, gesturing for Blaine to prove it.

“How could you even think my life was in danger, Kurt?” Blaine said dramatically into her phone. “Though I know Mercedes could kick my ass if she wanted to.” Blaine added with a smirk.

Kurt groaned, “What’s gotten into you, Blaine? You’re normally not this cheeky when I’m around you... Does that meant it’s going well?” Kurt asked.

Blaine shrugged at Mercedes, letting her give the verdict, because what Kurt had said was true. He normally wasn’t this forward, but it just came so naturally when he was around Kurt and now one of his closest friends.

“Yeah we’re good.” Mercedes agreed.

“Good! Because I have a crisis that I can’t seem to solve on my own. Can you both head over to my place and help me? Before I implode on myself?” Kurt pleaded.

Mercedes glanced over at Blaine and gave him a quizzical look, he simply smiled and nodded. “Your rescue party is on its way, Kurt Hummel.” she answered.
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“So let me get this straight: your big crisis is deciding on a lame song for Glee Club?” Mercedes asked Kurt in annoyance.

Kurt glared at her, though he wasn’t actually mad. Blaine and Mercedes had headed over and they were now all sitting on his bed. Kurt was sprawled out on his stomach, with his face partially hidden behind his laptop. “Don’t mock me... I’s been driving me crazy!” Kurt hissed. “And it’s not just that! Remember our total lack of a bad reputation at school? Because I certainly haven’t! We didn’t even make it into the list Blaine... It’s so pathetic!”

“Not when you think about what the people on that glist did to get on it...” Mercedes had to punctualize.

“She has a point Kurt!” Blaine added.

Kurt sighed. “So now that you two are friends does this mean you’re gonna gang up on me from now on?”

“Only when it’s needed.” Mercedes answered.

“Honestly I don’t see not being on that list a band thing.” Blaine pointed out to Kurt.

Both Mercedes and Kurt looked at him, Kurt made a slight scoffing noise. “Well of course you’d think that, Blaine. Being the super nice guy who couldn’t do anything bad if his life depended on it works quite well for you at Dalton.” Kurt replied. “Sadly, at McKinley that is far from the case.” he added with a sigh.

“Well let’s take this one at a time and focus on the song dilemma first.” Blaine suggested.

“Right: it’s not like there aren’t any lame songs out there!” Mercedes said with a laugh.

“That’s certainly true!it’s just that I don’t want to sing most of those lame songs! I have a few ideas but I dunno... None of them sounds more appealing than the other.” Kurt began to explain.

“Here, give me your laptop and let me see what I can come up with.” Blaine muttered as he made a grabby motion with his hands.

Kurt shook his head with a chuckle as he complied and handed Blaine his computer. He watched as Blaine’ s eyes darted back and forth as he began to search for possibilities.

“So what are your ideas so far, Kurt?” Mercedes asked as Blaine was busy searching.

“I thought I could maybe do Hero by Mariah Carey or Believe by Cher... But that might be too much of a gay cliche.” Kurt answered.

“Like that should matter, Kurt.” Mercedes moaned.

“Oh this one would be awesome for Mercedes!” Blaine suddenly blurted out, causing them both to jump.

“Hey what about me? I’m the one needing rescuing!” Kurt whined.

“Oh yeah sorry but this one’ s too perfect.... It’s ’Mercedes boy’ by Pebbles! Here, listen.” Blaine muttered in defence as he played the song for them.

As they all went silent to listen to the song they broke out laughing at it. “Okay, looks like I have my song for glee club. Thank you Blaine.” Mercedes said sweetly.

“Now can we go back to me?” Kurt urged.

“Right... Kurt... hmmm oooh yeah here we go! You have to sing this, Kurt.” Blaine said in excitement and he started up another song.

Kurt narrowed his eyes and he heard the intro and instantly could tell the song was from the 80s. “Is that (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight? That’s your pick? Okay that’s... Well it’s not surprising and it could work.”

“It’s certainly less gay than Cher.” Mercedes agreed.

“And it’s also kind of cheesy it could do nicely.” Kurt had to admit.

“Why don’t you sing a few verses and we can be your judges? Look, I’ve already found the karaoke version!” Blaine explained as he plopped the laptop back on Kurt’s lap.

Kurt, ever the professional, wasn’t phased by the idea of singing a song out of the blue. Luckily he knew the song well enough that it wasn’t too much of a struggle. He surprised Mercedes and Blaine by singing the entire song and he tried to ignore the faces they were making in reaction. When he was done he glanced nervously at them. “Well...?”

“I think I might actually die in your arms tonight Kurt, because you killed it!” Blaine said as he patted his shoulder.

Mercedes rolled her eyes, the first of many she had a feeling. “I think your crisis is over.” she added.

Kurt perked up after that and closed the laptop shut. “Excellent! I just need to perfect it a bit and I’m all set, thanks to the both of you. See how helpful Blaine can be with our assignments? It’s like I’ve got my own music consultant.”

“Only make sure to keep quiet when it comes to competitions.” Mercedes warn.

“That’s a given Mercedes, please...” Kurt complained. “Anyway how about I treat you two for dinner at Breadsticks in thanks? Though only if you won’t go too crazy with ordering, I’m not made of money.” Kurt suggested.

“Says the guy in the designer Alexander McQueen outfit.” Blaine teased.

“Oh god you two... If only you could hear yourselves.” Mercedes muttered.

“You better get used to it because you’re stuck with us now. You’ll get a free dinner at least.” Kurt replied.

“Dinner and a show! Sounds like a fun night to me!” Blaine said in excitement.
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Soon the three of them were sitting at a booth at Breadsticks and Mercedes couldn’t help but almost feel like a third wheel for some of it. Even when Kurt and Blaine were just friends, she was sure anyone else would instantly assume they were a couple by how adorable they were together. But even when the pair began to ramble on and on about their shared interest, Mercedes had noticed they always stopped and tried to bring her back into the discussion. Also, Kurt had ended up sitting next to her and she could hardly get mad at them.

“So I watched the video of Sue Sylvester and Olivia Newton John singing ’Let’s Get Physical’ you two mentioned. I still can’t believe it happened because of you guys...” Blaine told them.

Kurt nodded, “I know! I seriously thought Coach Sylvester was going to kill me when I told her it was us who posted the first video. If only my own career could fly off like that...” Kurt said with a sigh.

“Not even singing ’Can’t Touch This’ helped our nonexistent Bad Reputation...” Mercedes added.

“Once again, you two are overthinking this stupid glist too much.” Blaine reminded them.

Kurt just rolled his eyes mockingly at Blaine’s comment. “Just eat your dessert, Blaine.” Kurt said with a smile.
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Kurt had sure felt like a winner when he sang his song choice for glee club two days later. Even if there was no prize, it was obvious that he had helped bring yet another lame song back into the limelight. Considering it was only a song assignment for school, he was quite content with the outcome. As did Kurt feel about the whole ordeal of Mercedes finding out about him and Blaine. It certainly felt good to have someone he could talk about Blaine to now. Except Mercedes quickly made it clear he wasn’t allowed to go overboard or she’d start avoiding him. Considering Kurt couldn’t risk anyone overhearing him, he took the warning to heart. But the side effect to Mercedes finding out about Blaine was that now his feelings for him were that much harder to deal with. It was getting to the point where Kurt might have to admit them to Blaine in the future. As scary as that idea was, he could only dream that the result would be positive.