Blaine rose from his seat and signaled Kurt who was just entering the caf�. Zach caught the look on his face. Eww, he thought. How quickly he turns from man to mush.

Kurt didn't seem nearly as happy to see Blaine as Blaine was to see Kurt, but he accepted Blaine's advances anyway. Blaine gave Kurt a hug and a quick kiss on the cheek, which surprised Kurt because he'd never done that in public before. He smiled in response and said 'hi.'

"Kurt this is James. James this is my Kurt."

My Kurt? James thought. This guy must really have Blaine by the short hairs. James didn't stand or attempt to shake Kurt's hand. He just flicked a few of his fingers in a 'hello.'

Blaine was so happy to see Kurt he didn't notice the gorgeous blonde teen behind him. He was suddenly pissed. He didn't want him around Kurt. In Blaine's mind, everyone would want Kurt once they met him. Blaine was confident in trusting people around Kurt when Kurt was at Dalton, but now that he wasn't there to see him everyday, he forgot that there were other men in this world that would want Kurt for themselves. Then it hit him. I'm jealous. Well, this is a really shitty feeling.

"Blaine this is Zach. Zach, this is the guy I've been texting all day."

"Your boyfriend?" Zach smiled.

Kurt rolled his eyes and smiled with a small flush appearing. Fantastic! They already have inside jokes. I fucking hate this guy. "Blaine," he said, introducing himself and extending a hand.

Zach took it. "Nice to meet you. I've heard so much about you already."

Kurt took the chair next to Blaine and Zach sat next to James. Blaine sat through all of the conversations putting his arm around Kurt, holding his hand, stroking the back of his neck gently with a couple fingers. He made sure to always be touching him in some way to establish ownership. Kurt's mine.

James stayed silent most of the time, smirking and imagining ways to get Blaine alone and out of his Dalton uniform. It was be the icing on the cake if Lady Face walked in… hmm. Kurt caught him licking his lips and ogling Blaine a few times. James never seemed apologetic either when he saw the Kurt catch him.

Blaine had no end of questions for Zach, except he never really seemed interested when the answer came. This is a disaster, Kurt thought.

Zach was the perfect gentleman and answered everything with his positive personality. He also had a lot of questions for Blaine. How did you two meet? Where are you from? Apparently one of Zach's distant cousins goes to Blaine's old school. This didn't spark an excitement in Blaine's voice because he hated that school.

"So, James," Kurt began, sick of watching him stare at Blaine. "Blaine says that you have a good voice. What did you sing for your feature?"

"Streetlight. Joshua Radin. What did you sing?"

"Don't cry for me Argentina."

James smiled. "I'm not a fan of musicals."

"Way to break the stereo-type," Kurt said blandly.

"Kurt," Blaine interrupted. Kurt looked at Blaine shocked and annoyed. "Maybe we should get going before we're late for dinner with your family.

"Oh that sounds like fun!" Zach chimed.

Blaine eyed the blonde boy. "Yeah, we have family dinners every Friday."

"Blaine," Kurt said sternly.

"Are you guys going to Puck's party tonight?" Zach asked carefully, finally picking up on Blaine's feelings toward him. "I know you and him are tight with Glee and all, Kurt."

"Yes we are," he answered with a smile. "I think," he said to Blaine. "How'd you know about it?"

"He sort of invited everyone from Phys Ed class and added 'you too new kid.'"

"Oh! So are you going?"

"I was thinking about it. I probably will… meet some more people and all."

"Cool. Well, maybe we'll see you there."

James stood up without warning. "I'm going to head out. See you around the dorms, Blaine."

"It was nice meeting you, Blaine," Zach said uncomfortably as he stood. Both boys walked away from the table at the same time.

Kurt and Blaine sat not looking at each other, both silent and seething. Kurt slid himself over and sat where James was sitting and looked at Blaine. Blaine wasn't looking at him yet, so Kurt waited.

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James opened the door and let Zach pass by him. They shook hands on the sidewalk and exchanged "nice meeting yous." James watched Zach walking away when He jogged to catch up to him. "Zach, wait."

Zach turned and smiled, trying to be friendly.

"You're into Kurt, right?"

Zach looked at James suspiciously, but said nothing.

"If Blaine weren't in the picture, he'd available for the taking."

Zach grinned and shook his head. "I'm not going to help you break them up."

"I doubt you'd even have to do much. Just keep fawning on him the way you were today and that train will derail itself."

"And I doubt that you breaking them up would send Blaine into your arms, or bed, or whatever it is you want from him."

"You don't have to worry about that. Only about Kurt needing a friend to comfort him. Do whatever you want with him."

"I'm not going to help you."

"Why not?"

"First because it's wrong and second because I'm not gay."

"HA! Then you are the most closeted gay ever because you all, but giggled and pouted your way into his lap."

"You don't have to believe me, but it's true. I'm not gay."

James glared at Zach and huffed. "Fine."

Zach didn't wait for James to say goodbye before he turned back around and headed for his car. "Prick," he said under his breath.

Back in the caf�

"So… Zach…"

Kurt looked at Blaine curiously. "Yeah?" he asked, elongating the word.

"He's… I don't like him."

"Blaine, he was nothing, but nice."

"Yeah, his eyes were nicely attached to you."

"Oh please!"

"Kurt, I love you, but you're kind of na�ve to flirtatious attention. How could you have noticed his subtlety?"

"Na�ve? Thanks, but I'm disinclined to believe you, seeing as how you didn't even know that you'd been flirting and leading me on for months before I brought it to your attention on Valentines day."

"Sorry, but I can't respect someone who checks out MY boyfriend right in front of me. So, again, I'm sorry, but I don't like him."

"Well, I don't like your new BFF either."

Blaine smirked and shrugged his eyebrows. "I wouldn't exactly call James a friend. James is so turned on by James that he'd probably marry himself if he could."

"Oh you wouldn't?" Kurt opened his eyes and fluttered his eyes. "Because that little scene I saw before I walked in here tells me otherwise." He pursed his lips and licked the inside of his teeth.

"What?" Blaine squinted his eyes and gaped his mouth.

"You were leaning in so close you could suck out his pores! I might have thought you were kissing him if I wasn't at the right angle."

"He hit on me and I played a trick on him! I told him I was with you! That's why he backed up!" Blaine paused and softened his tone. He was disappointed in himself for making Kurt even think he was messing with another guy. " Kurt, I don't like James. He repulses me. He reminds me of Thad."

Kurt stared at Blaine with furrowed eyebrows, not knowing what to say. Blaine slid his hand across the table and took Kurt's hands in his. "Why would I do that? To you? To us? Especially after last night. Kurt, I love you."

"I love you. I'm sorry you don't like the way Zach looks at me, but you can't get mad at me for what he does."

Blaine nodded his head, his eyes rimmed red. "You're right. I'm sorry. I just got jealous that he got your attention today and I didn't."

"Look, there's something we say all the time, and that's 'I miss you,' but there's something that we don't say that I think we need to: 'We can overcome this and I trust you.'"

"I do trust you. It's him I don't trust. You're beautiful and why wouldn't he want you?"

Kurt laughed. "I don't think he's even gay. Metro sexual maybe, but definitely not gay."

"Kurt, he made you giggle when you first walked in."

"I saw him flirting with a couple cheerio's in the hallway."

"Really?"

"Yeah. He had them wrapped actually. I think he's just friendly." They looked into each other's eyes and smiled at one another for the first time since Kurt walked in.

"We just had a fight, right?" Blaine asked.

"Yes, I would say this was a fight."

"It wasn't so bad. We can overcome this."

Kurt smiled wider. "That's my man that I love so much." He paused. "By the way, You are incredibly sexy when you're jealous."

Blaine gave Kurt his puppy dog eyes. "I'm hideous when I'm jealous. You're just plain sexy. Can we go somewhere so we can have a make-up make-out?"

Kurt went wide eyed and gave Blaine a shocked looked. "Well, yeah…that's a given." The boys laughed and walked out of the caf� quickly.