Kurt woke up the next morning with red, puffy eyes. As much as he hated to admit it, he had cried himself to sleep. With waking up came the realization that he was going to see Blaine at work today. He briefly considered calling in sick but Kurt knew he would have to face him sometime. So instead of crawling back into bed and sleeping this off like he wanted to, he started to get ready for work.

As Kurt walked towards Benny’s, he thought again about just going home. But he pushed the thought away, took a deep breath, and stepped inside. Once there he quickly scanned the place for Blaine, although not for the usual reason. When he didn’t see him anywhere Kurt began to hope that maybe he had misunderstood and Blaine wasn’t working today. Then a bell rang behind Kurt and he spun around to see Blaine walking through the front door. He tried not to think about how cute Blaine’s hair was in the morning, all curly and unruly. Blaine leaned forward to hug Kurt but he backed away. Blaine raised an eyebrow in concern.

“Is everything okay?”

Is everything okay? Is everything okay! No everything is not okay! Kurt seethed. He decided to give him one last chance though, one chance to tell the truth.

“How was dinner with your parents last night?” Kurt asked ignoring Blaine’s question.

Blaine looked around, obviously uncomfortable. He began to rub the back of his neck, something Kurt knew he only did when he was nervous.

“Oh, um fine.” he said without meeting Kurt’s eyes.

Anger started to rise in Kurt; he was no longer sad or upset, just furious.

“Interesting, I don’t remember you mentioning Rachel Berry was a part of your family.” Kurt said, his voice rising.

Blaine looked as if his worst nightmare had come true. When he didn’t say anything Kurt realized that he must be right.

“How could you! How could you cheat on me with one of my best friends! And the worst part is you lied about it. Lied right to my face!” he practically yelled.

“Look Kurt I can explain but we need to go somewhere else. You’re making a scene…”

Kurt looked around and noticed he was indeed making a scene; almost everyone in the diner had their eyes on them.

“Fine.” he huffed and stalked back into the kitchen.

Kurt tapped his foot impatiently. “Well,” he prompted. “Explain.”

“Last night, dinner, it wasn’t a date.” Blaine said carefully.

“According to Rachel it was.”

“Well yeah, umm… it wasn’t really a date for me but uhh, she might have thought it was. If that makes sense.” he said looking at his feet.

“Oh I see. So not only are you cheating on me but you’re also leading on Rachel. I’m so sorry Blaine for being mad, this was just one big misunderstanding. You are obviously a real stand up guy.” Kurt said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

“Just listen,” Blaine began but Kurt cut him off.

“Just listen to what? More of your lies? All you have been doing since I met you is lying. Have you told the truth about anything? Is your name actually Blaine? Are you actually gay? Are we actually dating? Or do I just think we are dating?” Kurt saw the hurt in Blaine’s eyes as he said these things. He deserves it, he thought savagely.

“Kurt stop!” Blaine was finally beginning to get mad. “You have no idea how hard my life is right now, how much stress I’ve been under.”

“No Blaine. You don’t get to make this about you. There is no excuse for what you’ve done. I’m finished with you.”

Kurt spun on his heel and walked away from Blaine, back into the restaurant. He expected he would feel good after yelling at Blaine but he didn’t. Kurt thought he wanted to hurt Blaine, like Blaine had hurt him. But now that it was all over, he felt worse than ever.

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The next couple days were really hard for Kurt. He was constantly thinking about Blaine as much as he tried to forget him. Not that Blaine was making that any easier. Every time he saw Kurt he would try to talk to him. At first it was always apologies but after a while he just went to saying “hi” or complimenting Kurt in some way. Kurt would never acknowledge Blaine but he secretly enjoyed the fact that he hadn’t forgotten about him.

His family noticed Kurt was feeling down and they all had their own way of trying to cheer him up. Carol noticed first, or course, and also correctly guessed it had something to do with Blaine. She rented a bunch of chick flicks for them to watch and asked Kurt if he wanted to talk about it. When he said no she didn’t push him and instead they just had a fun movie night. It took a little bit longer for Burt to catch on that something was wrong but when he did he tried to help. Kurt was always begging to give his father cooking lessons and for once Burt relented. Cooking with his dad was defiantly a fun distraction for Kurt but that’s all it was; a distraction. Even Finn tried to make Kurt feel better. Now, since Kurt had a subscription to Vogue he already had the magazine Finn gave him, but it was still a nice gesture. Still after all that his family did, Kurt felt empty.

To Kurt’s surprise Mercedes was actually all for him forgiving Blaine. He guessed that she felt kind of guilty about being the one who broke the news that Blaine was cheating. Mercedes kept telling Kurt that Blaine seemed genuinely sorry and that everyone deserves a second chance. Kurt was very torn. As much as he wanted to run straight into Blaine’s arms and forget this ever happened he knew he couldn’t. Blaine had cheated on him and he couldn’t just forget about that.

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Blaine kept on trying to talk to Kurt for about a week and then one day he suddenly stopped. He had worked the same shift as Kurt but didn’t even look at him the entire time. Kurt told himself it was better this way, but it still hurt him. Kurt assumed that Blaine had finally moved on. At home that night he was watching a movie in his room when his phone buzzed. Kurt tried not to be disappointed when he saw it was Wes calling and not Blaine.

“Hello Wes?”

“Hi Kurt. Sorry to be calling so late but I just had an idea about what could be going on with Blaine.”

Kurt paused. Finally he said, “Wes, do you really think I’m the best person to talk to about this with?”

“Well I mean I know you two broke up but I just thought you would still care about it…” Wes trailed off.

“I do. But I just don’t think I’m really in a position to help anymore. Talk to David about it, you two know him better than me anyways.”

“Alright, I guess I will.” Wes said sounding disappointed.

“Good luck with finding out what it is.”

“Thanks. I’ll talk to you later?” It was more of a question than a statement.

“Of course.” Kurt assured him. He didn’t think his breakup with Blaine needed to be the end of his friendship with Wes.

“Cool.”

“Bye.”

Kurt hung up the phone and began to feel a little guilty. In the craziness of this last week he had completely forgotten about Blaine’s problem. He knew he had no business being guilty now that they were no longer dating but he felt bad anyways. Just as Kurt was about to climb into his bed he heard something coming through his open window.

“So scared of breaking it that you won’t let it bend And I wrote two hundred letters I will never send Sometimes these cuts are so much deeper than they seem You’d rather cover up, I’d rather let them be”

When Kurt reached the window he looked down and saw Blaine, with his guitar, singing to him.

“So let me be, and I’ll set you free”

This is so cheesy! Kurt thought to himself. There is nothing more clich� than serenading someone in the middle of the night. But even as Kurt internally criticized the gesture, he couldn’t help but smile.

“I am in misery There ain’t nobody who can comfort me, oh yeah Why won’t you answer me? You’re silence is slowly killing me, oh yeah”

As Blaine sang Kurt became aware of just how much he had missed him. He might have lied to everyone else and told them he was over Blaine but he couldn’t lie to himself.

“Girl you really got me bad You really got me bad Now I’m gonna get you back Gonna get you back”

When Blaine stopped singing he looked up at Kurt and waited to see what he would do. Kurt slowly left the window and began to walk downstairs. As he came out the front door, Blaine’s face lit up.

“For a second there I didn’t think you were coming.” Blaine said.

“It crossed my mind.” Kurt said coolly.

Blaine took a deep breath. “I know you’ve heard me say it before but I just got to say it again. I’m sorry Kurt. Knowing that I hurt you, it makes me feel sick. I know there is no excuse for what I’ve done but I feel like you at least deserve an explanation.”

Blaine paused and looked to Kurt but when he didn’t say anything he continued.

“When I got home from your house that day I went out to mow the lawn before dinner. Rachel just happened to walked by me and I stopped to congratulate her on going to Nationals. My dad saw us talking and he walked up to us and made a joke about us dating. At first I was annoyed because he knows that I’m dating you but then I saw how happy he seemed at the prospect of me dating her. My dad’s been giving me a hard time lately and I thought that maybe if I took Rachel on a date he would lay off a bit. It was selfish of me, not only did I hurt you but I hurt Rachel too. I’m so sorry.”

Kurt didn’t say anything for a minute. Finally he said, “I’m sorry your dad is like that. I sometimes think I take for granted how accepting my dad is.”

“Yeah it’s been hard.” Blaine admitted.

Then Blaine looked up suddenly, like he had just thought of something. “Kurt, would you come over for dinner tomorrow to meet my parents? I’m pretty sure my dad will be more comfortable with everything once he meets you. I mean, if you’re still mad and don’t want to I understand, but I just think it will make things better…”

Kurt highly doubted that things would get better if he met Blaine’s father. In fact, he thought it would probably make things worse. But Blaine had come to dinner at his house so he felt like he owed him. “Sure I’ll come.”

Blaine looked slightly shocked. “Does this mean I’m forgiven?” he asked hopefully.

Kurt sighed and smiled. “Yes you’re forgiven.”

Blaine’s face lit up like he had just won the lottery and he stepped forward to embrace Kurt. At the last second he stopped and looked at Kurt, silently asking if this was okay. Kurt answered by closing the gap between them and kissing Blaine. What started off as a loving kiss quickly turned passionate. Eventually Kurt pulled away, something that took quite a bit of willpower on his part.

“I missed you so much” Blaine murmured.