Kurt and Blaine take their seat in a booth right aside the window, looking out on the street. Blaine hasn't even put down his bag as a waitress comes up to their table.

"Hey kid," she greets Blaine with a wink "Long night?"

"Hi Nadine," Blaine smiles back at the woman, "Yeah, kind of. I'll just have a coffee please."

"Sure thing," Nadine answers smiling and turns to Kurt "And for you?"

"The same, just a coffee please." he answers and after nodding shortly Nadine turns and heads back over to the counter in the far back of the room.

There's an awkward silence suddenly, as Kurt keeps his eyes on Blaine while the other boy is looking everywhere but at him, and that's how they stay until Nadine comes back, 2 cups of coffee in one hand and a plate of french fries in the other.

She winks at Blaine when she puts the plate in front of him and places the cups on the table too.

"Here you go honey, that's on the house."

Kurt has already taken his wallet when their waitress shakes her head at him "Don't bother, coffee's too this once." And with a bright smile she turns back and leaves them.

Kurt can see the blush creeping up Blaine's face as he briefly looks over at Nadine before taking a few fries.

"So ..." he starts "Blaine?"

The other boy doesn't say anything, but looks up at Kurt, cheeks flush and an unsure look in his eyes.

"Okay, I'm just gonna ask it, otherwise we'll be sitting here still tomorrow morning. What's going on? Why are you dancing and waiting in that club?"

After keeping his silence for a few more minutes, Blaine's look hardens again as he shrugs,

"I just have to okay? I really don't see why you need to know why, it's not like you really care about what is going on with me right? I mean, it's still just me, Blaine Anderson, the silent geek from your class. The one you didn't even want to do an assignement with, right?"

Kurt just sits there, looking at Blaine and sighs.

"I know," Kurt begins "I've been a first class jerk to you, but I don't know ... Okay, at first I may not have liked being paired up with you, but you ... I don't even know what I'm saying here, I worry okay, I worry about you. What could be so bad you have to work here. What do your parents think of this? You can't tell me they like you doing it?"

Blaine shrugs and unintentionaly balls his fists on the table "Oh yeah, they care so much that they threw me out after I came out to them last summer. First, I don't care what they think anymore, and second, now you have your reason why I do this. I need the money."

Even though his anger is clearly visible, Kurt can't help but notice the slight tremble in Blaine's voice and the hurt more then apparent in his eyes.

Kurt stares at the boy in front of him for just another second, astonished at what he just heard. And without even thinking about it, he lays his hand over one of Blaine's, noticing the immediate release of his fist.

It didn't even last a few seconds, but it feels like a lot longer, until Blaine jerks his hand back from under Kurt's touch.

"You should go ..." Blaine says barely audible and looking everywhere but at Kurt

"I ... euhm," Kurt stammers a little as he tries to catch Blaine's gaze "Where are you staying? I mean, you have to go sleep somewhere ..."

"Nadine lets me crash upstairs," Blaine answers quietly and still not looking at the other boy "The appartment is unoccupied and for just a little bit of money I can sleep there."

"Oh, that's ... nice of her." Kurt replies as he looks over at the counter in the back where Nadine is currently making coffee. "But Blaine, you ... we're the same age. How did they let you work for them?"

"I don't know, I just asked after I saw the add hanging outside there." Blaine shrugs, seemingly unintrested "How did you get in? Same thing ..."

Kurt rolls his eyes at that statement "You can't seriously compare me just going in a bar like that to actually working in it? I mean ... that's just ... you know?"

And suddenly Kurt knows he said the wrong thing. Blaine's expression turns guarded again and scoffs at him when he replies "Oh really? Well, good to know ... It was nice seeing you, Now go home Kurt!"

Taken aback once more by the sharpness in Blaine's voice, Kurt quickly shakes his head and unconsciously reaches out for the other boy's hand again. But before his fingers even touch,Blaine has already pulled them away from him and keeps looking at Kurt angrily.

"Blaine, I'm so..."

"Just go home Kurt!" Blaine says again, a little less angry as before "Just ... please?"

It takes Kurt another moment but finally he smiles apologetically at Blaine as he stands up out of the booth.

"Look, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have ... Well, I'm sorry. Monday? Lunch break? We still need to finish our paper."

Blaine doesn't really answer but only shrugs, and turns to gaze outside, his mug tightly in his hands as Kurt walks passed him.

The rest of the weekend goes by uneventful, keeping Kurt in a bad mood all through monday morning.

Now he's waiting at their usual table behind the gym, not sure if Blaine is even going to show up.

When he finally sees the other boy coming towards him, he can't help the small smile of relief on his face, making Blaine look at him questioningly as he sits down at the table.

Blaine looks around for just another moment before speaking "What? Why are you smiling like that?"

Kurt shrugs, "Am I? Well, I wasn't sure if you would actually show up."

"Look, we may haven't been seeing completely eye to eye, but I do need my grades so, it's kind of a given, isn't it?"

"I guess so," Kurt answers quietly "So, where were we last time ..."

Lunch break is over in what seems a blink of an eye, and Blaine is already standing up and putting his books back in his bag when Kurt suddenly says,

"Blaine, are we really gonna avoid saturday night forever? I just ..."

He stops at the nervous look Blaine shoots him before looking around them once more.

"I think that'll be best, don't you?" Blaine says almost whispering as he makes a movement to start walking away from Kurt.

Kurt al but jumps out of his seat, and grabs Blaine's hand without even thinking about it.

For a split second Blaine looks down at their hands before turning his gaze back to Kurt. To Kurt's relief though, he doesn't make another move and just looks up at him with an inquiring stare.

Kurt scrapes his throat, momentarily not sure of what he actually wanted to say but then just starts,

"No, we should ... God, I'm sorry for what and how I said that. I really didn't mean to sound like the way I probably did. I ..."

Blaine squints his eyes at him as he finally pulls his hand away, and Kurt has to hold back the urge to just take his hand back in his.

"Is it really that hard to understand that I just want to know what happened to you? And why you chose to do that out of all things."

His voice is barely audible as Blaine replies,

"Yes, it is that hard ... especially after you of all people not even talking to me for the past few years. And why? Not here ..."

Kurt doesn't really know what to say to Blaine's first statement and sighs as he looks over Blaine's shoulder at the giant doors where a few cheerleaders are currently walking through, and heading their way.

"You want to meet for coffee later on? We can meet at the Lima Bean if you want."

After a few moments of hesitation, Blaine answers, his voice back to his usual volume "Yeah, okay ..."

"Great!" Kurt kind of beams "Oh, but I do have glee first, so I'll probably be later than you. Just so you know ..."

With a small nod Blaine turns and passes the two cheerleaders, who give him a curious glance and start to giggle.

"What!?" Kurt suddenly snaps at the girls, making them jump and lower their gaze to their feet as they move to sit on the bench behind Kurt.