Chapter 18

Classes today took forever, especially when Kurt could only think about one thing;

Blaine.

He was in his last class now, finally, but he hadn't seen Blaine since breakfast. He had tried texting and calling him, but he didn't answer. He had been to their dorm during lunch break, but he wasn't there either, yet his things were still there. But that was two hours ago… what if he was gone now?

Kurt shook his head to try and clear it. He couldn't think like that yet. He just needed to find Blaine.

Mr. Walker, their math teacher finally said they could go and Kurt was the first one out.

He walked quickly to his locker to throw his books in there and take out the ones he needed later tonight for homework. Before he could run up to his room, Jeff and Nick ran over, intercepting him, looking worried and sad at Kurt. This only made Kurt feel worse and more afraid.

"Hey Kurt, have you heard from Blaine?" Nick asks softly.

Kurt sighs, just hearing it out loud made it more real.

He shakes his head, "No, but I'm going to check our dorm to see if he's there."

The other two nodded, "So when did you guys become boyfriends?" Jeff asked with a small smile, trying to lighten up the mood.

It helped slightly and he can't help but smile when Jeff asks. It was still new and his stomach jumped every time he thinks about it.

"Oh…" he smiled, looking away and blushing, the two other grinning at him, "This weekend."

They smiled at Kurt knowingly, making him blush even more.

"I should go and find Blaine." Kurt finally said after a moment.

"Just call us if you need anything, okay?" Jeff replied as they walked away together, very close Kurt noticed.

Kurt smiled knowingly at them as they left before his thoughts yet again wondered back to Blaine. He ran to their dorm and threw open the door, quickly locating Blaine sleeping in his bed.

Kurt sighed in relief and sat down gently on Blaine's bed beside his sleeping body.

Kurt studied Blaine for a moment, not wanting to wake him up, but really wanting him to wake up so he could tell Kurt what had happened. He decides to wait.

Carefully his laid down beside Blaine, his head on his hair and clasping his hand in his. He really just wanted to lie as close to him as he could in case he needed to go and they wouldn't have the chance to do this again.

They laid there for a bit before Kurt could feel Blaine moving under him. He looked down at him and met a pair of his favourite hazel eyes. Kurt couldn't help but smile and Blaine does the same.

"Hey…" he mumbles softly with a sleep filled voice.

"Hey." Kurt said gently back as he caressed Blaine's hand with his thumb that he had been holding since he laid down, "How did it go?"

Blaine closed his eyes and sighed, moving closer to Kurt. He could hear Blaine wincing slightly when he moved. Guess he wasn't so much better after all…

"We got sent to the principle and we, well I, told him what happened. He asked about my face, but I just told him that it wasn't Seb." He mumbled into Kurt's neck.

He didn't want to, but he didn't have a choice, he needed to ask, "Did you… did you get expelled?"

Blaine shook his head "no" slightly and Kurt let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding, "No just a warning. So if it happens again, we are. We just got detention for a week though."

Kurt nodded, "Well that's good."

Blaine hummed in acknowledgement and moved to look at Kurt, wincing again.

Kurt frowned, "Are you okay?"

"Fine" Blaine said, not meeting Kurt's eyes, meaning that he was lying.

"Blaine…What's wrong? Does it hurt badly?"

Blaine let go of Kurt and lay down, Kurt already missing the closeness.

"I just needed to get all of my anger out after we were done with the principle, so I just went to the gym to box for a while. I'll be fine."

Kurt sighed, "Blaine you shouldn't do that… what if it gets worse?" he says, concerned.

"You don't know how this is like Kurt! I don't have a perfect family like you!" he nearly yelled and Kurt looks at him with big, hurt eyes.

After looking at Kurt, he closed his eyes and didn't say anything more. Kurt stared at him for a while, not sure if he should be angry or hurt. So instead he got off the bed, mumbling a "fine", and finds a magazine to read on his bed, pretending he wasn't as hurt as he felt.

He could feel Blaine looking at him, so he looks back blankly. Blaine doesn't look away; he just stared at Kurt, not saying anything. He couldn't read his face; it's like he doesn't know what he was even feeling himself.

After minutes of just looking at each other, Blaine finally says something.

"I'm sorry…" he mumbles apologetically, "I'm just angry at what Seb did and what my parents did… I shouldn't take it out on you though, I'm really sorry.

He got of his bed slowly and walked over to Kurt, "I'm sorry" he whispered again.

Kurt wants to be mad at him, but how can he? He could understand why he had gotten angry, but of course that doesn't mean he could just yell at Kurt. But he knew he was sorry and he was going through a lot.

Kurt just hugs Blaine to him carefully and once again, the boys lay close on the bed.

Blaine kept telling him how sorry he was and every time Kurt soothed him that it was okay and that he knew he didn't mean it.

Xx

Kurt woke up the next morning and noticed that he and Blaine had fallen asleep in his bed together. He smiled slightly and couldn't help but think he would love to do this every morning.

The alarm went off and Kurt leant over Blaine to turn it off, Blaine waking up by both the sound and sudden movement.

With Kurt half lying on top of Blaine, he looked down and smiled, "Good morning"

Blaine smiled and responds with a good morning too.

Kurt, suddenly realizing his position, blushed and moved away quickly.

Blaine grinned and pulled Kurt down to lay beside him.

"We need to get ready for school." Kurt said; Blaine however, determinedly ignored him.

He pulled Kurt closer and kissed him softly, Kurt feeling butterflies fill up his stomach again.

They kiss for a few minutes before a knock interrupts them.

Blaine groaned slightly and Kurt can't help but chuckle.

"You are getting the door; my hair is probably everywhere right now." Kurt informed Blaine and pushed him lightly in the shoulder.

Blaine laughed, "You look beautiful and I'm sure my hair is worse! All the gel is gone" he says and makes a face when he can feel that, yes it's gone.

Kurt can't help but blush when Blaine tells him he looks beautiful, but laughs when he looks at Blaine's face.

"I kind of like it that way" he told Blaine and ran a hand through his hair. He had never done that, his hair is always filled with a box of gel. It's really soft and he really loves the adorable small curls that are everywhere.

Blaine rolled his eyes and swats his hand away playfully.

Another knock, louder this time and Blaine rolled out of the bed and towards the door. He opened it and Kurt could hear that it was Jeff on the other side.

Frowning, he got up too and walked over to them.

"I'm fine, just a warning" Blaine answered Jeff before Kurt is by his side.

"Jeff? What are you doing here so early? Is everything okay?"

"Hey, can I talk to you…? And I'm sorry to come over so early…"

Jeff was looking slightly worried and Kurt nodded quickly, letting him in. Blaine told them that he would go and take a shower while they talked.

Kissing Kurt's cheek, he walked away.

Jeff smiled at them before he sat cross-legged down on Kurt's bed and waited for Kurt to do the same. When he does he started to talk.

"Sorry to come here so early…" he mumbles again, looking down.

"It's fine, Jeff. Is everything okay?"

He doesn't say anything for a while and Kurt just let him take his time. He could hear Blaine faintly getting in the shower.

"Nick asked me out!" Jeff suddenly says and Kurt slightly jumped in surprise after thinking about something totally different.

"Really? That's amazing!" Kurt says excitedly. "Wait, why is that a bad thing?"

"I don't know… I'm just freaking out! And I don't want to mess up our friendship. We have been friends for so long and I can't lose him. What if he doesn't like me that way and then our friendship is ruined?"

"Jeff!" Kurt said to cut him off, "Take a deep breath and relax."

Jeff does and soon calms down enough so that Kurt can continue, "I know it can be scary and I know you don't want to ruin your friendship with Nick, but he asked you so that means he likes you."

Jeff sighed and fell down on his back onto the bed. Kurt smiled slightly at Jeff and lay down too; just like they had done the time Jeff told Kurt that he liked Nick.

"Well I was right about him liking you" Kurt says smiling and nudging Jeff's side with his elbow.

Jeff blushes slightly and nods. After a few minutes of silence, Jeff's smile just gets bigger and bigger from what he is thinking about and when Kurt smirked at him, Jeff laughs.

"Stop looking at me like that!"

Kurt laughed too, "I will when you stop looking like a love sick puppy!" he joked.

Jeff blushed, "I do not look like a love sick puppy! You are so much worse than me! Just saying 'Blaine' makes you smile"

And sure enough, Kurt can't help but smile when he hears the name, blushing when he realizes it's true.

"Shut up" Kurt laughed and buried his face in his hands.

Jeff just laughed at him, "I'm happy for you Kurt." He said when they had calm down.

Kurt looked at Jeff and smiled, "Thanks and I'm very happy for you too Jeff, you deserve it."

They both smile at each other.

Xx

Friday comes and it's time for Blaine to meet Kurt's family. After school they would both go home to their places and get ready and then Blaine would come later.

Kurt was at the moment trying to find the perfect outfit, but something was always wrong. After an hour, he finally settled with his black skinny jeans and a nice white shirt with a dark vest over it. To make it more him, he wrapped a scarf around his neck. After getting his hair in place, he is satisfied with the result. Smiling to himself, he walked down the stairs.

Burt and Finn are watching something on the TV, while Carol is finishing dinner. Kurt offers to help, but she says she doesn't need any help at the moment, so Kurt sat down beside Finn on the edge of the couch and watched TV with them.

Kurt looked at his clock and can see it was 15 minutes till Blaine was supposed to be here, the thought making him more nervous. What if his family didn't like Blaine? Of course he can't imagine someone not liking Blaine. It's Blaine, but the thought was still remained.

13 minutes…

And what if his family asks about Blaine's parents? He hasn't said anything to them, so he is sure his father will mention them. Maybe that will freak Blaine out and he would leave…

12 minutes…

"Buddy, breath! Stop looking at the clock every damn minute, I'm sure he will be here soon." His father said to him.

"What's his name again?" Finn asked suddenly, not tearing his eyes away from the TV.

"Blaine." Kurt said simply, forcing himself not to smile too much, but failing.

"Have I met him before?" Finn questioned.

Kurt sighed, exasperated, "No Finn, that's why he is coming over now."

Finn just nodded, "So he is like your boyfriend right? But didn't you say you already had one? Tom or something?"

Kurt rolled his eyes, "It's Ben, and no we aren't together anymore. It didn't work out. And yes, Blaine and I are together."

5 minutes…

Finn just nodded again, "Cool" he says, still watching the TV.

The doorbell rings and Kurt is on his feet right away. He could hear Burt chuckle slightly behind him, but he ignores it and ran to the door.

He threw it open and his breath hitched. There he stood, handsome as ever, with tight red pants, a black shirt with a red bowtie and a big smile. His hair doesn't hold as much gel as usual and Kurt loved that.

He couldn't help but to smile back at him and after making sure no one is watching them, he leant forward for a kiss.

Blaine kissed him softly back and whispers a hello when they part, "you look amazing"

Kurt blushed slightly, "Thanks so do you. Are you ready?"

Blaine nods and walks in with Kurt.

Carol came out of the kitchen with a too big smile for Kurt's liking and not long after Burt and Finn is standing beside her in front of Kurt and Blaine.

Blaine is smiling charmingly at them and he reached out his hand to shake the three others',

"It's nice to meet you all, I'm Blaine"

"It's so nice to finally meet you!" Carol says, reaching forward and shaking his hand, "I'm Carol, Kurt has told me so much about you." She adds with a big smile.

"You too and I love your dress" Blaine says to her with a big smile, rivalling hers.

Carol looks down at her dress, "This old thing" she brushed it away, but says thanks.

Kurt rolls his eyes, knowing that in fact she bought it a few days ago especially for tonight, and he had told Blaine this.

Blaine shakes Finn's hand next and then Burt's.

"Nice to meet you again, Sir" Blaine says with the same smile.

"Please call me Burt, I'm not that old…and you too."

"Well dinner is ready, so please have a seat." Carol says to the other four, walking in to the kitchen.

Finn was the first to sit down. Blaine and Kurt sat down beside each other on the other side of Finn and Burt sat down at the head of the table beside Blaine and Finn. Carol came in with the rest of the food and sat down on the other edge beside Kurt and Finn.

After talking about a few things over dinner, the question had to come…

"What do your parents do, Blaine?" Burt asks, taking a bite of the meat he has on his plate.

Kurt sees Blaine freeze slightly and without thinking he reaches for Blaine's hand under the table, which only Carol saw.

Blaine looked at Kurt and smiled before looking at Burt again, "ehh… they're lawyers"

Burt nods, clearly not noticing the boy's discomfort, "That's great, but aren't they busy a lot of the time? Are you home alone much when you are home?"

"Burt…" Carol begins but Blaine answers anyway.

"Yeah I was alone a lot, but I got used to it. But I don't live there anymore."

Kurt squeezes Blaine's hand.

"Oh…" Burt starts, but this time Finn speaks up.

"Why?" he looks confusedly at Blaine.

"Finn! That is none of your business!" Kurt says to him, glaring.

"No, it's fine Kurt" Blaine assured him, "Me and my parents just had some disagreements, so I live with my brother now."

"I'm sorry Blaine, we didn't mean to make you uncomfortable" Carol says, kindly.

"It's fine, don't worry about it" Blaine smiled at them and it looks like everyone is satisfied, but Kurt can see that he is lying a little.

They finish eating and after Blaine insists that he can help with the dishes. After minutes of saying he doesn't have to, Carol says he can. Kurt joins, not wanting to watch the match that it playing.

Carol washes everything, Blaine dries it and Kurt puts it where it belongs.

They were almost done when Carol accidently dropped a glass when she was handing it over to Blaine. Blaine quickly reached for it but suddenly he pulled back and the glass fell on the floor, the sound of glass breaking going through the house.

First Kurt didn't really understand what happened, but then he looked at Blaine. His eyes were closed and his face only showed one thing; pain. His hands were on his chest and stomach, and he fell on the floor.

Burt and Finn come in quickly after hearing the sound, confused. Carol is still standing there, just as puzzled.

Kurt quickly came to Blaine's side, "Blaine, are you okay?"

"What happened?" Burt asked and walked over to where the others were.

Carol explained what she understood, but it isn't much.

"Blaine?" Kurt asks again and holds Blaine close to him.

"Fuck…" Kurt could hear him mumble.

Carol leant down to look at Blaine, "Blaine? Can you hear me?"

Kurt feels Blaine freeze and suddenly he pulled away from Kurt, "I'm fine…sorry about that."

With some struggle he got up, getting paler and paler, and walked out of the kitchen.

Kurt quickly got up after him, "Blaine! You are not fine! Look at you, you're so pale!"

"I just got dizzy, I'm sorry I freaked you out."

"Is everything okay here?" Burt asks and everyone looks at Blaine and Kurt.

"I have to go… The dinner was lovely Carol, thank you for having me." Blaine turned and tried to walk away again, but Kurt wasn't having that.

He gripped Blaine's hand and pulled him back, making Blaine whine in pain, as he held the side of his stomach. And suddenly Kurt got it.

"It's still not good?"

Blaine looked at Kurt and then to the others before back at Kurt again, "I'm fine."

"You are not fine." Kurt said, clearly upset that Blaine couldn't tell him the truth.

"Are you hurt?" Carol asked, concerned.

Blaine looked down and nodded.

"We should take you to the hospital" Burt spoke this time.

"No! I don't need to go to the hospital. I'll be fine, I promise."

"Let me see then" Kurt demanded, "let me see you stomach so I can be sure you are okay."

Blaine looked at Kurt like he was joking at first, but when Kurt just looks at him, he looked terrified. "Kurt… please don't" he whispered.

Kurt walked closer and ran a hand softly over Blaine's chest. "It's okay Blaine; I'm just worried about you. I don't want you to be hurt." He whispered back, but only so he could hear it.

Kurt kissed Blaine on the cheek softly and hugged him. He could feel Blaine whine slightly at the touch but he relaxed more.

"Close your eyes Blaine" he whispered as he pulled slightly back.

It looked like Blaine was about to cry, but he does as he was told.

Kurt ran his fingers down Blaine's torso softly and slow. When he came to the edge of the fabric, he slowly unbuttoned some of the buttons before pulling it higher up.

Kurt stopped breathing at the sight. An even bigger, darker bruise is formed all around his stomach.

"Blaine…" he breathed out, tears in his eyes. Blaine opened his eyes and looked at Kurt, a tear escaping his eyelashes.

Burt came by his side and his eyes grew ten times bigger.

Blaine quickly buttoned his shirt close again and looked away.

"Sweetie, who did this to you?" Carol asks, concerned.

Blaine just looked down, clearly not wanting to talk about it. Kurt could understand that, but he hadn't known it was this bad. He thought it was getting better. How could he not see that Blaine was in pain?

"Blaine you need to go to the hospital… You are very hurt."

Blaine shook his head, "No I can't, I'll be fine."

"Blaine this is getting worse! Maybe something is broken! Please Blaine, for me?" Kurt pleads.

After a long pause, Blaine's shoulders sagged and he looked at Kurt, "C-Can you come with me?"

"Of course I will! Come on" Kurt said and took Blaine's hand, squeezing it in comfort.

Burt told them that he could drive and Carol said she wanted to come too. Finn stayed home so he could clean up the rest.

The ride is quiet for a while. Blaine's head was resting on Kurt's shoulder and Kurt kissed his hair a few times and held his hand.

When they get there, Kurt helped Blaine out of the car and they walk in. It doesn't take too long before they could see a doctor, everyone thankful that there wasn't many waiting at the moment.

Burt and Carol wait outside while Blaine and Kurt walked with the doctor into the room.

"Okay what seems to be the problem here?" The doctor asked, noticing the two boy's hand holding.

No one says anything. Kurt thought maybe Blaine wanted to tell the doctor and he didn't want to push him.

The doctor raised his eyebrow, "Which one is sick?"

When Blaine still stays silent, Kurt spoke up, "Blaine is hurt."

The doctor, Peter Daniels, Kurt thought his name was, looked over at Blaine, "Okay and where are you hurt, Blaine?"

"Eh…stomach…" Blaine mumbled.

"Why don't you come closer so I can look at you, if that's okay?"

Kurt squeezed Blaine's hand and let it go for Blaine to walk closer.

When Blaine was closer, the doctor asked if Blaine could take off his shirt. And after a few breaths, he did.

The doctor frowned with a worried look and looked closer, sitting down on his chair to examine him properly.

"Blaine, can you tell me how and when this happened?" he asked and looked up at him.

Blaine looked at the doctor for a few seconds, looking like he was trying to see if it's safe.

"You won't tell anybody, right?"

The doctor looked at Blaine before down at the bruises again, "Why don't you just tell me and we'll handle it from there, okay?"

Blaine just stood there not saying anything, so Kurt came closer and took his hand again. And when Blaine looked over at him, he smiled to show that it's okay.

"It happened about a week ago…" Blaine answered after a few minutes and the doctor nodded, "and…someone h-hit me…"

"Why didn't you come sooner?" The man asked, finding a few things in his drawers.

"I-I don't know" Blaine said, looking down.

"Okay, well can you go lay down on the bed so I can look at you?"

Blaine did as he was told, Kurt never letting his hand go. He wasn't sure what he could really do right now, but he knew that holding Blaine's hand helped. He looked so scared lying on the bed and Kurt feels more helpless by the minute. And he looks bad, really bad.

Kurt can't stop thinking about why he hadn't noticed. Blaine never showed any pain and he always seemed good, but now when he sees how bad Blaine was, he can't be. And Kurt hated himself for letting this happen to Blaine. If he had seen it, he would have made Blaine come here earlier and it would all be better now.

The doctor came over and placed his hands over Blaine's stomach, "okay tell me if it hurts Blaine."

Blaine nodded and closed his eyes when the doctor started pressing in different places on Blaine's torso. It was never once that he didn't say it didn't hurt, but there were some places that hurt more than others.

"It doesn't look like anything is broken, but it's odd you aren't feeling better. Have you been doing something that might have made it harder for you to get better? Maybe moving too much or falling or something like that?" The doctor asked Blaine as he sat back down on his chair.

Blaine got up and sat on the side of the bed while Kurt stood beside him, holding his hand. Blaine didn't say anything for a while, so both Kurt and the doctor just waited.

"I have been working out a lot… Mostly boxing…"

Kurt looked at him with a frown. He didn't know about this either…

"Has it hurt while you were doing this?" The doctor asked.

Blaine nodded.

"Why would you do it then?" Kurt asked, trying not to sound too upset, but failing.

Blaine looked at Kurt this time, "I'm sorry, it made me feel better and I managed to not care about the pain. But yesterday, I think I used to much force and just something in me…burned." He explained.

"What do you mean?" The doctor questioned.

"Just suddenly every movement hurt more and the pain just got worse…"

"Okay, we need to take some pictures, so if you can just wait here, I'll be right back."

The doctor walked out and left the two boys alone in the room.