Giancarlo, the man Kurt had met, was the real estate agent for the property and he proved to be very helpful in navigating certain hoops Kurt had to jump through as an American. He also called Bianca and had her read over the paperwork, just to make sure that nothing seemed unreasonable.

Bianca had been overjoyed when Kurt told her that he was going to buy the house. In only two days she had taken a shine to him and was more than happy to look over the deed. She had mentioned over dinner that she had been a barrister is England for a few years so he figured she would be more than able to negotiate a fair contract with Giancarlo.

Several hours and multiple phones calls to Kurt’s bank later, he had signed all the paperwork, gotten the previous owners to agree to pay for a new roof, an exterminator and install a new water heater, and been approved from a mortgage. He had money, more than he knew what to do with. When his mother died, his dad had put all of the money they were given from the insurance company into a account in Kurt’s name and gave it to him on his twenty-first birthday. Kurt never knew what to do with it. He was making more than enough at Vogue.com so he just let it sit in his savings account collecting interest until he knew what he wanted to do with it.

The second he walked through the door of the house, he knew. It needed work. There were water stains on most of the ceilings and Giancarlo told him that because no one had actually lived in it for several years, the water heater was in disrepair and there was a bit of a pest problem. But then Giancarlo said that the name of the house was Villa Elisabetta Kurt was able to look past all that. He knew it was just a coincidence, but he couldn’t ignore that this house shared a name with his mother.

Bianca invited Giancarlo and his family to the hotel for dinner that night. They ate in the garden and both Giancarlo’s children were excited to see Blaine outside of school. It was easy to tell that Blaine was easily the most popular teacher at the school. The boy was one of Blaine’s current students and the little girl would be in his class in a few years but was clearly already enamored with him. Blaine spoke to them both animatedly in rapid Italian and Kurt couldn’t help but smile as Blaine gave Giancarlo’s daughter Giulia a piggy back ride.

They hadn’t spoken much, Kurt had tried to strike up a conversation with Blaine but it always felt awkward. Cooper, however, was easy for him to talk to. He was a struggling actor based out of Los Angeles who was getting a few bit parts on cheesy sitcoms, always as a dopey guy with an accent. They liked the same shows, both were obsessed with a new fantasy show on HBO and they even discovered that they had a few mutual friends in L.A. where Kurt traveled a lot for work.

He went to be that night a bit tipsy but incredibly excited about what ever would happen next. He was supposed to leave tomorrow but now... Well, he had to call his dad and Carole, Isabelle, and Rachel and Quinn to let them know he wouldn’t be coming back and arrange for his things to be shipped. But for now, he felt more at ease than he had in a long time.