Chapter 12

"What the hell were you thinking? We can't pretend to date! You've just fucked everything up now!" Trixie was mad. She couldn't believe the stupidity of her ally! I mean really! Not that she had had much of a plan but a lot of the ideas she had come up with were now pretty useless.

"Look, ok maybe not one of my best ideas to announce that I was questioning my sexuality… but I have an idea that just might work!"

Trixie stopped her moping and looked up at him, she had always assumed that it would be her role to be the brains of the movement, but she was not adverse to a little help if it meant achieving their goal; "Go on, I'm listening."

"Well, from what I have heard from Blaine they were together before. This means that they must also have split up before meeting up in Paris, and from what I gather this must have happened in high school as I know for a fact that Blaine came to England almost immediately after High School. Mercedes is clearly Kurt's friend and from America so this shows that they must have been together when Blaine was in America, this leads to the obvious conclusion of High School." Jayden paused; waiting for encouragement from Trixie.

"Ok… so they were High School sweethearts, this gets us nowhere! What's the big plan?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Jayden said, only to see a glare from Trixie so he quickly went on to explain. "They must have broken up in High School and it must have been pretty bad for it to cause the total lack of communication since. So all we have to do is…"

"Remind them of why they broke up in the first place!" Trixie finished. She hated to say it but she dearly wished she had come up with the plan. "You know, Jayden, this might just work. The only problem is how we get them to open up. Both of them hate our guts and I don't want to see Mercedes ever again if I live to be two-hundred. That girl scares me."

"Ah but that's just the beauty of the plan. See, Blaine hates to feel like he's hurt somebody. We used to be quite close friends before we started a relationship. To be honest I wasn't exactly myself with Blaine when we were friends. I wanted him to fall for me. Anyway, I know for a fact he feels guilty about our break-up. I can now get close to him again. Whenever I see him he's going to be worried that I'm gonna hit on him or make Kurt feel jealous or something like that. If he thinks I'm straight and in a relationship that takes away that barrier. I can be friends with him and see if I can get him to open up about the break up!" Jayden finished with a triumphant smile.

"I honestly never thought would say this, I always thought you were the just plain desperate type, but that plan might actually work. While you do that I'll try to be a bit nicer Kurt. See if I can get him to open up to me. He's wanted us to get along for ages, if I play my cards right I can get him pretty trusting." Trixie smiled, for the first time that week she felt she had Kurt right back where she needed him. She was back in control. She would stop this relationship, break his spirit even more; this could be the final piece in the puzzle; the last thing she would need to do to get that part.

"Question: what the fuck is going on?" the door swung open and Marco walked in, he had the air of someone who knew a lot more than they were letting on.

Trixie's mouth opened… then shut again; unsure of what to say to Marco. Jayden just shot her questioning glances as he himself had no idea who the man who had just walked in was, though he did look a little familiar.

"Trixie, who is this?" Marco asked his head jutting slightly towards Jayden as he said it.

Trixie had no idea how much Marco had heard so wasn't sure how big the lie she told him should be. Eventually she decided that it would be a lot easier if Marco was not involved in all this, "This is my boyfriend Jayden. He and I were just chatting, he's taking me out for dinner tonight and we are just discussing where to go."

Marco raised an eyebrow as Jayden coughed to hide his surprise. He had known Trixie approved of his idea but he hadn't thought she would take it as far as to introduce him as such in front of her fellow cast members. Jayden wasn't quite sure what to make of it and he knew Trixie was waiting for him to say something to back up her lie.

"Urm… How about that little place by the fountain with the red and blue door?" Jayden tried feebly.

Luckily Marco managed to save to conversation from complete awkwardness, "I've heard there a karaoke night at the Italian place down the road. It's about time we made another impromptu performance! I hope you guys don't mind if I join you." He added the last sentence as an afterthought; Just as he predicted neither Jayden nor Trixie made any kind of protest to his presence.

Marco smiled pleased with himself; he had a pretty reasonable idea of what was going on here, he had heard voices earlier, seen Kurt there with some curly haired twat that he recognised from Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat it made his blood boil. Kurt was way too good for him! So Marco wanted to help, but he needed to get them to admit the situation first, if he told them he knew they would work out he had been listening and then they would think he was in love with Kurt or something. And Marco most definitely did not love Kurt! He just thought it would be nice to show up at the restaurant he had heard Kurt talking about going to with Hobbit.

"Oh my God, Mercedes! Why did you bring so much stuff! It's going to be pretty cramped; I only have a little flat!" Blaine complained as himself, Kurt and Mercedes hauled Mercedes' luggage up to Blaine's apartment.

"He lies! It's not that small, he just doesn't want to give up some of the bathroom space he reserves for his hair gel!" Kurt teased.

"Oh, of course, I forgot how familiar you must be with his apartment, Kurt!" Kurt blushed at Mercedes' blatant hint.

Blaine stepped walked ahead now they were on the right floor and took his keys to open up for Mercedes and Kurt. Mercedes went in after him; keen to see where she would be staying for the next few weeks.

Mercedes looked around critically. It wasn't big, but it wasn't too small, she could always just spend as much time with Kurt as possible. She only really needed to sleep here after all.

"Is this ok for you, Mercedes?" Blaine asked politely, Blaine had been very polite to her, she knew why he wanted her to help him get with Kurt; Mercedes herself wasn't quite sure yet whether or not she wanted them to stay together. Anyway it wasn't important right now; there was time for all that later when the issue of Kurt leaving was more pressing.

"It's fine, I've stayed in worse places. I think I'll unpack later though, if that's ok with you guys. I think it would be nice to head out soon.

"Yeah, but can I take my stage make-up off first. You guys might all be used to me being green but most people find it a little strange," Kurt dead-panned.

"Aw! But Kurt you look so sweet when you're green!" Blaine teased before adding, "You can get it off here if you like, my products probably aren't as fancy as yours but I know not to skip of my skin."

Kurt nodded at him in approval before heading off towards the bathroom; leaving Blaine and Mercedes on their own.

"So, how long have you been staying here?" Mercedes asked; trying to start off a conversation.

"About two years, give or take a month or so. I didn't really think I'd be staying in London that long, I still want to chase Broadway but I guess it's harder than I originally planned. There are quite a few men like me, I'm not unique enough to stand out."

"So you're giving up?" Mercedes asked. Her man deserved someone who refused to give up on things! Blaine might think Mercedes was just making conversation but all the time she was very aware of what Blaine wanted from Kurt and she was determined to test him to see if he was worthy of it.

"No, not at all, I was running out of money, though, so I took my current role so I could save. I'm Joseph for a couple more months then I'm thinking of giving Broadway another go. I'm not giving up, but you can't live on dreams." Blaine finished sadly.

Mercedes nodded, she knew how much of a bitch that could be. Of course she had also given musicals a go, but people like her and Blaine found it hard to stand out from the crowd.

There was an awkward silence after that with neither quite sure what to say to each other. They were both grateful when Kurt re-entered the room.

"The cleanser was acceptable, though why you need thirteen different types of hair gel I'll never know! And that's me talking!" Kurt said as he came in, smashing through the barrier of tension as he did so, leaving the occupants free to laugh at sassiness.

"I like to try out different looks… oh well never mind! Shall we get going and leave off the hair jokes?" Blaine asked, he knew there was no point in starting as argument with Kurt… especially one of beauty!

"Yes to the first question but an unfortunate no to the second," Kurt laughed. Blaine would have come up with a witty response at that point in time if it had not been for the sound of Kurt laughing. Blaine hadn't heard Kurt laughing in years; he forgot how beautiful the sound was it did funny things to the way Blaine was breathing and it made his heart hurt.

A small cough from Kurt brought Blaine out of his trance "Sorry, I think I lost my train of thought there."

There was a short pause before Kurt resumed his carefree attitude "I'm not surprised you're probably planning which hair gel to use tomorrow. I can imagine that taking up a lot of one's time."

Trixie, Marco and Jayden arrived at the restaurant together. Marco noted how his companions kept their distance from each other. They really are pretty useless at this whole fake relationship thing he thought to himself.

A waitress came up to them and showed them to a table. She was slightly confused as to how they were all connected to each other. She thought the whole bring-your-friend-along-with-you-on-your-date thing had ended for most in High School.

Once seated at the table the conversation, though a little stilted, flowed reasonably well with talk of musicals. Not once were Blaine, Kurt or the mysterious American diva mentioned; to the relief of Trixie and Jayden and to the frustration of Marco. That was until they noticed three people entering the restaurant, three people they all knew.

"Shit," Jayden muttered under his breath. This complicated matters.

Marco tried to seem detached from the people sitting a few rows down from then and he noticed the two he was with doing the same. However, it was hard to ignore the laughter and light atmosphere which seemed to emanate from the nearby table.

It seemed there was a mutual, unspoken agreement between the three of them to leave as soon as possible. True, it might have been Marco's idea to come here in the first place but he had sort of been hoping for arguments and tense conversations. He didn't think he could bear to watch Kurt being so happy and free with another man… not that he liked Kurt or anything because he didn't.

They were just moving on to desert when the karaoke started. Something that had at first seemed like it was going to be the highlight of the evening now felt like a kick in the gut to the trio.

Their worst fears were soon confirmed as a short curly haired male made his way up to the microphone.

"Double shit," Jayden muttered; he didn't think he could watch Blaine sing to someone else. It was like watching your boyfriend snogging the face off another man, only worse because a snog could mean nothing but you could always see emotion in a song.

Kurt tried to pull Blaine back as Blaine made his way up to sing a song, "Blaine, no! You'll make everyone else look bad!"

Blaine pouted, "but I want to sing you a song! It's not my fault I'm awesome!" he said with a cheeky grin.

Mercedes laughed at the exchange, "Come on Kurt let the man go. I haven't seen Blaine sing in years!"

Mercedes pulled Kurt's restraining hand off Blaine leaving Blaine to run free. He winked at Kurt as soon as he was out of touching distance. Kurt, only just, resisted the urge to stick his tongue out and his ridiculous boyfriend!

Blaine grinned as soon as he got up on stage, kurt just prayed he would just sing and go, but if he knew Blaine too well and also knew that Blaine was incapable of merely doing something and leaving.

"Hey! I came here with someone very special to me tonight! My beautiful amazing boyfriend Kurt who I love with all my heart," Blaine called, looking straight at Kurt as he did so. Despite himself Kurt went into a noticeable swoon as the rest of the audience showed their appreciation with a chorus of "Ah"s.

"This is for you," Blaine said before picking up a guitar (one of the instrument available to people participating in the karaoke who wanted to make their own music).

Blaine started playing the first few chords. His eyes focused on the countertenor who sat with Mercedes.

Look at the stars,

Look how they shine for you,

And everything you do,

Yeah they were all yellow,

Kurt recognised the song but he was not sure where from, all he knew was that it was beautiful.

I came along

I wrote a song for you

And all the things you do

And it was called yellow

Kurt smiled slightly at his boyfriend, it had been a very long time indeed since someone had sung Kurt a love song and he doubted even then that it had been as perfect as this, though the person singing had remained the same.

So then I took my turn

Oh all the things I've done

And it was all yellow

Your skin

Oh yeah your skin and bones

Turn into something beautiful

D'you know you know I love you so

You know I love you so

I swam across

I jumped across for you

Oh all the things you do

Cause you were all yellow

Kurt recognised the song now, it had used to be one of his favourites but he had given up on love songs when he and Blaine split up, they had upset him too much… but Kurt figured he could start to like them again, especially if Blaine were the one singing them!

I drew a line

I drew a line for you

Oh what a thing to do

And it was all yellow

Your skin

Oh yeah your skin and bones

Turn into something beautiful

D'you know for you i bleed myself dry

For you i bleed myself dry

Kurt and Blaine's eyes met, both pairs had tears in them. They, however, weren't the only ones by this time, half the restaurant had been reduced to tears by now; shocked by the display of such love.

Its true look how they shine for you

look how they shine for you

look how they shine for you

look how they shine for you

look how they shine for you

look how they shine

look at the stars look how they shine for you

Before knowing what he was doing Kurt ran up to Blaine on stage. He didn't care about the many eyes all he saw was Blaine, perfect Blaine. Though Kurt didn't realise it at the time, this was the turning point in their relationship. They had reached the point of no return.