It was a week before Blaine felt ready to go back to school, and even then he looked nervous.

Kurt had started to feel like the more time that he spent with Blaine the more he liked him and his feelings were starting to swell in his stomach bursting to come out.

The walked out of the house and started towards the school. He looked at Blaine who still had a lot of worry in his expression.

"You're going to be fine Blaine," he said with a smile.

Blaine smiled back. "When we get to school you don't have to hang out with me," he said and his stomach dropped.

"Blaine, I want to hang out with you," he replied and Blaine's eyes lit up.

"Wont your friends start asking questions?" Blaine said.

"Well, if they have a problem with you then they have a problem with me," he said. He meant every word, he had friends but be had never felt so close to someone like he felt with Blaine, not that he would tell him.

"You don't have to do that, I have been alone for the whole of high school, I think that I can handle it now and besides I get to come home to a safe house to someone who I actually care about and who cares about me," Blaine shrugged.

"Why were you alone all of the time?" he asked.

"Because I was scared of bringing someone into my mess," Blaine admitted and then laughed a little before saying, "But I guess that didn't work anyway did it".

Kurt smirked. "Nope, but I do though".

"What?" Blaine asked.

"I care about you a lot," he said putting a hand on Blaine's shoulder.

"And for the first time in my life I actually believe you," Blaine replied putting his hand over his.

They walked side by side into the school gates, ignoring the looks that they were getting. He wasn't sure if people had a problem that he was gay, he had never really flaunted it and he only told people that he trusted.

They walked into the building and headed towards Blaine's locker as it was the closest. He stood next to him while he collected the books that he needed.

"So what do you have first?" He asked.

"I have English, you?" Blaine replied pulling out his English book and shoving it into his bag.

"Math, do you want to swap?" Kurt laughed. And Blaine shook his head with a smirk.

"No thank you," Blaine smiled. His smile made his heart flutter.

"Kurt," he heard someone yell from behind him. He turned seeing Rachel and Tina hanging down the hall.

"Blaine I'll walk you to class if you want but I need to just talk to these guys for a moment," he said and Blaine nodded another smile sped across his face and another flutter in his stomach. "Wait here I'll be back in a minute". Blaine gave another nod and he turned walking towards them.

"Hey," he said.

"Why are you hanging out with him?" Rachel said taking a glance at Blaine. No hello? This is going to go well, he sighed.

"We just banged into each other and started talking, he's nice," he replied.

"He's a nobody, no one ever talks to him," Tina added.

"You don't know him Tina," he argued getting a little angry.

"Nobody does, Kurt I just don't want you to give up all of the reputation you have built for yourself," Rachel said and he scoffed.

"That never really mattered to me Rachel, none of it did," he said and Rachel gave him a look like he had slapped her.

"So you would choose him over us?" Rachel said and his stomach clenched thinking it over.

"If hanging out with him meant that you would stop talking to me then yes, yes I would because he would never make me choose, he even said that it would be ok if I didn't talk to him at school because he was scared that I would lose my reputation. But. I. Don't. Care," he ranted.

"See he doesn't mind if you don't talk to him, just come with us we're heading to class now," Rachel said looking at him like he was the crazy one.

"No I'm walking to class with Blaine," Kurt said.

"You have one more chance Kurt, come on just come with us, he'll be fine he's been alone for most of high school anyway," Rachel said linking her arm in Tina's.

"Just go," Kurt whispered rage sweeping over his body.

"Fine then, bye Kurt," Rachel said and walked away in the other direction Tina following.

He turned back to Blaine who was staring at him sadly; he must have heard what they were saying. He didn't know how loud they were talking and hadn't even noticed that the bell had gone and everyone had left the corridor.

He walked up to him taking a shaky breath. "Ready?" He asked stopping next to him.

"Kurt…" Blaine replied but he just shook his head.

"Let's talk about it later," Kurt sent a smile his way. Blaine nodded once more and they started to walk to his first lesson.

"Thank you for stick up for me though," he said running a guilty hand through his curls.

…..

He didn't mean to overhear the conversation that Kurt was having with his friends but the bell went, everyone left and the it was quiet the conversation became clear.

The way that Kurt stuck up for him made his heart ache, he really liked Kurt. More than he had ever liked Nathan which made it feel strange.

He didn't want Kurt to give up his friends just to hang around with him.

When he looked back a week ago, he had been a mess. Kurt had managed to start to fix parts of himself that he had never thought that could be fixed and he was so grateful.

And sitting in English looking at the clock he knew that at some point he wanted to be with Kurt, he wasn't sure if he liked him back but he wanted a chance.

He wanted to make Kurt his, but first he needed to make sure that Kurt felt the same.