June 1, 2012, 10:40 p.m.
Remember Me, Remember Us: Chapter 3
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Two weeks had passed since the accident and Kurt had all, but ignored almost every phone call from Blaine's parents. He collected Blaine's homework as asked, but delivered it to the Anderson family mailbox instead of going inside. He did everything to avoid seeing Blaine.
He cared about Blaine's health and frankly was still in love with him. He missed Blaine, but it hurt him to think of the love of his life not knowing anything about who he was or what they had. Kurt was supposed to be Blaine's soul mate. He told him so. Now Blaine's soul had no idea that Kurt's soul even existed, or at least, that's how he felt.
The only ones that had been invited to see Blaine, besides Kurt, was Mike and Tina, who visited Blaine regularly and showed him pictures.
"This one," Blaine said, pointing at a fair skinned boy in glee club. "That's Kurt? He was at the hospital when I woke up."
"Yeah he was," Mike confirmed.
"Are he and I friends?"
Mike and Tina eyed each other. It had been explained to them that they weren't to say anything to Blaine about being gay or being in a relationship with Kurt. "Yeah. You were friends," Tina answered. "You two were actually really close."
Blaine looked back at the picture, something was troubling him. Mike nudged Tina slightly and gave her a look that said Be careful what you say. The couple waited while Blaine looked more over the picture. "He wasn't your only friend though," Tina continued. "Everyone in glee club loved you and everyone else was nice to you at school."
"I think you were the most popular boy at you last school too," Mike chimed in.
"Dalton?" Blaine asked. "Mom and Dad said that I was the lead singer for the Warblers there."
"Yeah! I think I've got a picture of that too." Tina started flipping through the scrapbook Kurt, Rachel, and herself had put together of collected photos, mostly Kurt's, for Blaine. "There!" She smiled when she got to the Dalton Academy Section.
Blaine studied a group photo of last year's Warblers. He stood front and center between the boys and to his left, angled slightly towards him, was Kurt. "Kurt went to Dalton?"
Mike and Tina eyed each other again. "That's where you met…" Mike answered.
"What's wrong?" Tina asked, reading Blaine's expression.
The olive skinned boy scratched his head and gulped before answering. Something didn't add up to Blaine. He somehow felt betrayed by this Kurt person. "I don't understand. If Kurt and I were friends and really close, why isn't he here?" Blaine looked at Mike. "He helped you save my life. There are photos of him all over my room. He's the only one my parents call and he never picks up. Never! He drives here every day almost, but never comes inside. He was there in the hospital room when I woke up. He was the only one allowed in, by my parents. He obviously is someone important, but why? Why won't he come see me? Were we fighting about something?"
"No!" Tina emphasized, trying to comfort Blaine. "I think… I think he's just nervous."
"About what? I'm not contagious."
"He knows that. I think maybe he's worried that he'll say the wrong thing and upset you."
"Upsetting me would be better than ignoring me all together. I just want to meet him. That's all." Blaine looked pleadingly at Tina. "Will you talk to him? Please?"
"Of course. I can't promise anything will change, but we'll talk to him."
Even looking at a picture, Blaine felt an amazing pull to the fair skinned boy. He felt like he was missing something and maybe Kurt would know what it was.
The next day, at lunch, Mike and Tina sat at the lunch table with their usual crowd: Kurt, Artie, Mercedes, and Brittany.
"How's Blaine?" Kurt asked once everyone say down. He was always the first one to ask about Blaine.
"You would know if you went to see him" Mike snapped.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kurt snapped back.
"Mike…" Tina soothed cautiously. She looked at Kurt, who looked more hurt than normal. "He's been asking about you." Kurt looked both puzzled and hopeful, but that was squashed as soon as Tina started talking again. "He doesn't remember you, but he knows that you were someone important to him. He's confused because you haven't been to see him."
"Why does he think I was someone important?" He left out the part about being important to him.
"He's not stupid, Kurt," Mike answered. "You both hung pictures all over his room of you two, you were awarded privileges to see him in the hospital that no one else was, and his parents call you practically every day. Calls that, apparently, you ignore." Mike was getting an attitude again. He and Blaine had grown close since the accident. Something about saving a life does that to you. It bothered him more that the person Blaine loved the most, before the accident, was being selfish and not going to see him.
Kurt closed his eyes and hung his head. "I-I can't see him. Not yet. I just can't."
"Maybe you should think more of him and less of yourself. As far as he's concerned, only a handful of people exist in this life and he thinks you don't want to see him. He's trying to figure out his life and he's figured out that you were a big part of it, but somehow, maybe you didn't or don't care."
"That's not true," Kurt said somberly. "I care."
"Then do something about it, man," Mike continued. "Help him. If not anyone else, he needs you the most."
Kurt barely spoke the rest of the school day. Tina caught up with him as he walked to his car with his small stack of Blaine's homework. "Kurt," she called out. He stopped and turned. "Are you going to go in today?"
Kurt swallowed hard, thinking. "I don't know. I want to; I really do. I miss him so much, Tina, but I can't stop thinking that I'm going to screw up, or frustrate him, or treat him like a boyfriend. He's not anymore."
"He needs you, Kurt. He's lonely. They only people that he sees besides his family are doctors, Mike, and me." She paused. "He wants to see you. He asked me to tell you that."
It was that last statement that Kurt couldn't argue with. He would go inside today. He'd see Blaine. He'd face his worst fear because Blaine asked him to. If Blaine wanted Kurt to do anything, he would because Kurt could never deny Blaine what he wanted. He loved Blaine with his whole heart and soul. That much never changed.