They slid into their seats in silence. Blaine was already pulling out of the parking lot when Kurt turned to him, eyebrow raised questioningly.

"So, cool, huh?"

Blaine had the decency to blush a very impressive shade of red despite his tanned skin. "I'm sorry, Kurt. I don't mean to objectify you or anything. It's just... I never met a hybrid before and this just really... fascinates me. I'm sorry if I'm crossing boundaries here and of course I'm not going to ask you anything about it if it makes you uncomfortable-"

"But you hope that it won't make me uncomfortable?" Kurt interrupted the endless flow of words coming from Blaine. Flushing some more, Blaine gave a shy nod, eyes fixed on the road, carefully avoiding Kurt's gaze.

"Well, in that case: Feel free to ask whatever you want to know. Well, maybe nothing too insanely personal but other than that," Kurt shrugged. Blaine spun around so fast Kurt was worried he'd land them in a tree with his jerky movements.

"Do you really mean that?" he breathed out, expression incredulous and eyes so wide Kurt felt he could quite possibly drown in them.

"Yes, Blaine." Kurt tried to stifle his laughs as to not embarrass Blaine any further but he couldn't keep a little chuckle from escaping. Promptly, Blaine was back to pouting at him.

"I don't see what's so funny here."

"It's just that you're trying so hard not to be insolent or offensive that it just ends up being hilarious. I'm sorry if it looks like I'm laughing at you, but really, I'm just a bit overwhelmed that someone's actually being considerate enough to make sure I feel comfortable with it before asking impossibly personal questions about my body."

"Kurt," Blaine whispered, voice so soft it made shivers run up and down Kurt's spine. "No one has the right to just invade your privacy like that. I'm sorry so many of the people you've met felt entitled to just ask whatever came to their minds. I swear I will back off the moment you'll give me a sign that I'm crossing boundaries."

"Blaine," Kurt reprimanded, expression too soft to make it sound condescending though.

"Okay, fine." Blaine took a deep breath and a quick look at Kurt before he focused his attention back on the road. "So, the tail and the ears, are those the only visible traits you inherited? Or do you have like, I don't know, whiskers and you're keeping them so short no one can see them or...?"

"No and no," Kurt replied, more amused than anything. When Blaine threw him a confused glance, Kurt clarified. "No they're not the only traits and no, I don't have whiskers. The only other visible differences I have are my teeth and that my nails get really sharp and dangerous if I don't give them a sufficient manicure every now and then."

Just then they were coming across a red light, giving Blaine opportunity to stare at Kurt for a few seconds. "Your teeth? Like, how? How are they different? I didn't notice anything about them so far," he asked, eyes fixed on Kurt's beautiful pink lips, stretched thin in an amused smile. Blaine knew it was probably impolite to stare so blatantly - Kurt might think he wanted to kiss him by the way he was staring and oh well, wasn't that an ever so nice thought - but he couldn't help himself. At the back of his mind he promised himself to make it up to Kurt with a cup of coffee once they were done at the music store but for now the part of his brain that was infinitely curious just wanted to know.

Blushing under all the attention directed at his lips - oh God, it looked a bit like Blaine wanted to kiss him and while he told himself that that most likely had nothing to do with the way he was staring the very idea still got him overwhelmed. No one had ever shown any kind of interest whatsoever in Kurt, apart from his hybrid traits and how to best humiliate him with them. For the first time, someone blatantly staring at him made him feel uncomfortable in a... sort of hard to describe good way. Clearing his throat awkwardly, Kurt started to explain.

"Well, it's not that visible. They're just sharper than a normal human's for the most part."

When Blaine was still staring at him - and thank God no one was waiting behind them because Kurt was pretty sure they'd missed more than one green light - Kurt just chuckled quietly, rolling his eyes a bit. "Now you want to see, don't you?"

Caught off guard, Blaine practically jumped in his seat. "What? I- I- yes! I- I mean, only if you're not uncomf-" He stopped himself when Kurt offered him a rare, open-mouthed smile, showing a row of tiny, pointed teeth that nearly made Blaine swoon with how adorable they were. How adorable the whole of Kurt was. Shaking his head at himself to clear his thoughts, all that was running through his mind was ‘Jeez, Anderson, get it together, he's only just come to Dalton this very morning'.

If he was this attracted already, Blaine couldn't deny that he was equally afraid of and thrilled by the thought of what else Kurt Hummel might make him feel over the next few months.