On hot summer days Blaine and his mommy would walk to the coffee shop down the street together.  His mommy would order different things depending on her mood but Blaine always got the same thing: a strawberry smoothie with lots of whipped cream on top. When it wasn't too hot they would walk to the park and sit on the bench until Blaine finished his drink and began running around on the play equipment. On other days they would sit in the coffee shop and color together. Today was no exception to their summer plans.

Blaine grasped his mommy's hand while they walked through the scorching parking lot and into the coffee shop. Today was a coloring day.

Now that Blaine was seven years old he was finally able to see over the counter so while his mom told the lady their order Blaine watched with wide eyes as all of the coffee makers ran around with silver cups and milk laughing with each other until his mom pulled him to the side to wait for their drinks. After her drink came out she went to sit down while Blaine waited for his.

While watching over the counter he saw a man put the ice and strawberries into the blender and pushed the start button causing the contents of the blender to change to a light pink color.

Blaine bounced anxiously on his toes as the tall man emptied the blender into two cups and loaded the dome lid with whipped cream. Before he could even call out the names on the cups, Blaine was reaching up onto the counter to grab his when another little hand went reaching for the same smoothie.

Both boys retracted their hands looking over to the stranger who was trying to steal their drink.  Blaine saw a boy who was just a little taller than him with bright blue eyes and a bow tie staring at him.

The other boy looked down at his shoes scuffing the bottom on the floor while twisting his fingers together shyly.

"Sorry." Blaine could barely hear his voice, which was a little higher than he expected.

"That's okay!" Blaine reached up onto the counter and grabbed both smoothies. "Here you go. My name is Blaine." He happily held out the second smoothie for the other boy to take.  He didn't reach for it right away, but after a moment of evaluating he finally grabbed it.

"I'm Kurt." His voice was a little louder this time.

"I'm here with my mommy. We come here durin' the summer. Are you here with your mommy too?"

"Ya." Kurt's eyes got a little brighter as he reached his hand out pointing to a woman sitting down at one of the tables. "That's her, right there."

"That's my mommy." Blaine pointed to his mom at the table next to Kurt's. They both took a small sip from their smoothies and Blaine looked down at his cup realizing that it had Kurt's name on it.  "Hey, look! I guess I'm Kurt today! Which means you're Blaine."

The young boys started giggling at the mix up of cups and walked back to their moms.  Blaine ran ahead of Kurt and sat down at the table with Kurt's mom.

"Hi, Mommy! It's me, Kurt!" Blaine pointed at the name on the smoothie cup giving her a toothless grin.  

Kurt was much shyer than Blaine, but he still willingly sat down with Blaine's mom smiling.  The two mothers looked at each other with bright smiles on their faces before Blaine's mom turned back to Kurt.

"Well, Blaine, you sure have grown since we ordered the coffee."

It was then that Kurt lost control of and began laughing uncontrollably but Blaine didn't find that joke to be so funny. He crossed his arms and pouted out his lip.

"Aw, Kurt," Kurt's mom laid her hand on Blaine's shoulder, "Don't worry, we are going out for ice cream later, remember? Maybe that will make you feel better."

 "But Mommy!" Kurt chimed in from Blaine's table, "We were going to go get ice cream later." His eyes went wide with panic.

Both moms began laughing with each other before looking back to their sons.

"Well, maybe if you ask nicely we can all go get ice cream together?"

Both boys looked directly at Blaine's mom excitedly willing her to say yes.

"Well, I don't see why not."

Blaine jumped out of his chair and stepped over to Kurt pulling him out of his chair and into a tight hug.

"You're my new best friend!"

Kurt smiled shyly and Blaine grabbed his hand and pulled him over to their table.

"Wanna color with me?"

Kurt nodded as his eyes lit up.  Their moms turned and looked at each other with a knowing look; this was not going to be the end of their friendship.

"I'm Tracy Anderson."

"Elizabeth Hummel."

"So, Elizabeth, I have a feeling I will be getting to know you pretty well."