Practice Makes Perfect

Blaine and Kurt stopped at the Lima Bean as they normally would and had their coffee. They also talked about ideas for the song and Blaine shared Finn’s idea with Kurt to see what he thought.

“Blaine, did you say Finn thought of this idea? It seems a little … uh… intuitive for Finn.” Kurt laughed. “I had no idea that Finn could think?”

“Hey, this is your brother. He is a smart guy, he just doesn’t show it all the time.” Blaine defended Finn for bunches of reasons. He really liked Finn and liked hanging out with him. It was never the same kind of like he had for Kurt, but Blaine was definitely more into the sports and video games and things like that. It was nice having Finn to be able to play Halo with or watch a football game on TV. Honestly, Finn was becoming kind of a brother to Blaine too. “He did say that you guys split up into teams or whatever and do mash ups or songs and compete and it always gets everyone excited to work on it.”

“It is fun. Mr, Shue sometimes gave away gift certificates to Breadstix.” Kurt had to admit to himself that it was a good idea. He would have to remind himself to tell Finn what a great idea he had. “One request. No boys against girls.” Blaine raised his eyebrows. “I have personal reasons for not wanting to do that.” Kurt thought to himself that he always identifies with the girls better than the boys and Mr Shue insisted that he always remain with the boys, based on gender. It was only in New York that he actually let Kurt room with the girls and it was so much fun. He really felt more comfortable with the girl talk.

“We are not going to do that. Finn and I are going to suggest 3 groups and picking out of a hat.” Blaine had his diplomatic face on. “It’s almost 3:00. You ready to go. Let’s go drop our stuff at your house and see if Finn is around so we can talk about today’s practice.”

They got their overnight bags to Kurt’s room and they both laid down on the bed just staring up at the ceiling. Blaine was still feeling tired. They still had 2 hours to practice time. Kurt turned toward Blaine and put his arm around him. “Why am I so tired? We got a lot of sleep didn’t we? I mean we just woke up 3 hours ago.”

“We did stay up late and were sort of exercising.” Blaine was trying to reason why they were tired.

“I don’t really think that counts as exercise Blaine. We could take a nap.” Blaine grabbed Kurt’s hand and pulled him close kissing him very gently. Everything was perfect. Last night, they lost their virginity, they were laying in bed together just talking and enjoying each other. It didn’t get much better than this.

“Let’s take a nap.” After several kisses, they both fell asleep.

“Kurt! Blaine!” Finn was screaming. “Hey. Wake up, or you will be late for rehearsal.”

“Crap. Blaine, wake up! We need to leave now!”

Blaine was rubbing his eyes and looked at the clock. “Oh, we have time.”

“I guess that’s what you get for having a late night booty call.” Finn was giggling and walking out of the room.

“Finn, you seriously have no idea what you are talking about.” Kurt tried to play it off hoping Finn would leave it alone. “Don’t you need to pick up Rachel for practice?”

“Crap.. Yeah. I’ll see you there.” Finn was running out the door. “Blaine, let’s get to Mr. Shue first thing.”

“Okay. I am up. Let’s go Kurt. You know, why do I always drive when you have a perfectly good Lincoln Navigator at home?” Blaine rubbed the back of his neck wondering why Kurt never drove it, though he knew it was Kurt’s car.

“Good question Blaine. Let’s ask my Dad tonight.” Kurt was very short with his response and Blaine was wondering what he said wrong. Kurt could tell immediately. “I say that because, my Dad took my keys away at the beginning of the school year after I got in a bad accident. He said I wasn’t allowed to have it back until I was responsible. Then I went to Dalton and really didn’t need it.”

“Kurt are you saying that you want me to go with you to ask Burt if you can have your keys back? I like my life so much more than you driving.” Blaine let out a big laugh. “I like the Navigator, but I think I might be too short to drive it anyway. You remember, small hobbit man.”

“I love small hobbits sooooo much. I also love small hobbits that drive Black BMW’s with leather seats. They are very fashionable.” Kurt was joking, but was mostly serious. He liked Blaine driving more than he liked to drive. He was more comfortable with Blaine taking control on most things.

They pulled into the parking lot about the same time most were getting there. Everyone looked a little better today than on Sunday. It was amazing what a difference a day made. Wes caught up with us. “So did you guys have a nice evening?” Winking at Blaine.

Kurt didn’t let Blaine answer, because he was so bad at keeping secrets, It’s like everyone could read his mind. Really, Blaine was a predictable guy. He was honest, caring and pretty innocent. However, just a little less innocent today. “Yes we did Wes. Did you?” Wes was picking up that Kurt was not letting Blaine speak. Wes was smart and knew Blaine very well.

“I had a great night. Blaine looks a little tired.” Wes said with a smile trying to make eye contact with Blaine. Blaine refused to look at him because he knew himself just as well as Kurt did. He knew he would give it away just like he did on the phone with Finn. Blaine was kicking himself. He couldn’t keep a secret even when he wasn’t in the same room or even looking at someone. Finn read him so quickly.

“Well, we just took a nap a little while ago.” Kurt was starting to go all diva on Wes because frankly, it was just annoying. Wes was laughing quietly, staring at us. “Okay.. Fine Wes. WE were up late last night!”

Wes yelled to everyone in the parking lot, “They were up late last night!” A bunch of the Warblers were clapping and high fiving. Some were yelling random things like, ‘You go Blaine or way to go and I think I heard a finally’ in all the yelling.

Kurt was wondering when their sex life become so important to everyone? “Thanks Wes.” I think we got everything cleared up. Blaine finally looked up with a huge grin on his face. He was actually happy that everyone figured it out. “Blaine, you are such a boy. Do you want to hang out with the boys and talk about getting laid?”

Blaine stopped walking which caused Kurt to stop also since they were holding hands. Blaine grabbed Kurt’s waist and pulled him into his arms and started kissing Kurt. Blaine caressed Kurt’s lower lip with his tongue and they were now in a hot kissing session. They had been so gentle and chaste most of the day. It was nice, but this kiss had tons of passion behind it. Finally, Blaine pulled away and grabbed Kurt’s hand to lead him the rest of the way in. He squeezed Kurt’s hand and whispered to Kurt. “I Love you and I don’t care if they know. You are hot, and they know it. They all saw Kurt last Friday night.
They got to the choir room before breaking out and Mr. Shue asked the council over for a quick chat. They all nodded heads in agreement. “Finn, Blaine. Come over here. We are going to announce that challenge. Everyone seems to be in agreement.”

“Okay everyone listen up. Finn and Blaine have something to say.”

Finn started. “Blaine and I came up with an idea on getting our 2 original songs before we leave for Europe. We are going to make it a contest. Whoever wins gets a special night out of their choice in any of the cities we are visiting. We will be given time during stage practice for each group to try to work on their song. You can work on it outside of this time wherever you want also.

Blaine took the easy part, which was appropriate since Finn really had come up with the idea. “Groups will be random except there will be 3 captains chosen. Mr Shue will choose one, the council will choose one and I will pull one from the hat. After that, the captains will pull their teams out of the hat.” Blaine was actually excited because he has written quite a few songs in the past. “Mr. Shue?”

“I pick Rachel Berry as the first Captain because she led us so well at Regionals.. My apologies to the Warblers.”

“Thank you so much Mr Shue! I have some great ideas, and…”

Blaine cut her off. “Sorry Rachel will need to get the names drawn and get to practice.”

“Wes. Have the Warblers picked one?” Blaine knew it would be him, but needed to ask anyway.

“Of Course Blaine, naturally we pick you.”

“Thank you Wes, I appreciate the faith that the council places in me. Perhaps a council member would like to lead the last team.” Blaine thought it would be polite to offer, though the decision was originally made that the third captain would be random.

“No, we often make song choices, but we are not unwilling to go along with what you and Finn have decided. Pick away!”

Blaine reached into the hat and picked a folded up name out and opened it. “The third captain is Wes. I guess it was meant to be.” It would be 2 Warbler Captain’s against Rachel. Somehow, Blaine thought she could probably hold her own against them.

Blaine turned and winked at Rachel. She wasn’t’ as bad as people made her out to be, and she seemed so thrilled to have the honor. Blaine quieted everyone back down. “Okay.. let’s get the groups drawn so we can get back to practicing.”

Wes reached in and got, “Brittney!”

Blaine was next and a huge grin came across his face. “Kurt!” Everyone was groaning and some people were saying that it was rigged. “I swear I didn’t cheat or look.” He turned and winked at Kurt who was happy that he could spend more time with Blaine. There was no acceptable amount of time to be away from Blaine.

Rachel was the last of the leaders to reach in. She closed her eyes and held her breath, hoping to pull out Finn’s name. “Mercedes!” She was still thrilled because she and Mercedes were the Divas of the group.

Rachel was livid. “Mr. Schuester. Someone cheats and his name begins with a ‘B’.” She was looking directly at Blaine. “It is impossible that he managed to pick his boyfriend and boyfriend’s brother for his team. They practically live together and will have extra time at home to do this.”

“Rachel, you watched me pick. Maybe I’m just the luckiest guy in the world.” Looking directly at Kurt and smiling. Blaine already knew he was the luckiest guy on earth. Kurt was blushing.

“Aren’t you the sweetest boyfriend ever.” Wes was making fun of Blaine. Kurt shot Wes his bitch stare as a warning to back off. Blaine caught that and blushed a little because his boyfriend looked like he might go ballistic on Wes at any moment. He was so protective of their relationship.

Mr. Schuester cut in. “Okay.. the teams are set, let’s practice for the next hour and then Blaine and Wes’ team will have stage practice and Rachel’s team can start developing their original song in here.

Finn walked over to Rachel. “Hey Rachel. You have a great team. Look, you have a Diva, well, another Diva. Jeff and Jon are awesome dancers and singers and David is the one that can do the flips and stuff. You guys will be great!” He gave her a quick kiss and grabbed her hand leading her to their seats for practice.

Kurt whispered to Blaine. “We are going to kill this. How did you manage to pick me and Finn?” Kurt’s eyes had question in them.

“I was serious. I am the luckiest guy on earth. How else could I have picked my boyfriend’s name out of that hat.” Blaine winked. “Now, give me a kiss, I have to go.” Kurt gave Blaine a gentle kiss on the lips and pressed their foreheads together just for a few seconds so that he look into Blaine’s beautiful eyes. He turned back to the seats in the choir room and took his seat, still basking in the glory of Blaine.

Soon, it was time for stage practice. They needed to work on choreography, and marking on the stage. None of the choreography would be difficult and both groups were good dancers anyway. The Warblers were very excited to be able to do more choreography since Regionals. Kurt was so excited to be able to practice with Blaine and the Warblers on stage. Mr. Shue started putting everyone in position on stage and Rachel’s team made their way to the Choir Room.