He watched Blaine leave the auditorium, as the doors shut; he lost it crumbling to the ground sobbing. Hearing Blaine sing I Wanna Hold Your Hand, all the passion and raw emotion he put into the song broke his heart, he could see how much pain he was in. Now he basically just told him they needed a break, it killed him to say that.

But he knows that he needed time to heal and think. He loved Blaine, more than anything! The past two days he’d been in such pain and anguish and all he wanted was Blaine, now his heart was saying ‘no, not yet.” He was so confused.

He heard the door open thinking it was Blaine but when he looked up it was Finn, whose facial expression changed as soon as he saw his brother and walked over. He got up when Finn opened his arms to him enveloping him in a hug as he cried. “Kurt, what happened?”

He let out a shaky breath and said “I-I told him I ne-needed t-time.”

Finn rubbed his back hushing him. “It’s okay Kurt, I know it was hard but I know you need time. I know you love him, you know,”

He let go of Kurt to look at him and continued “if he loves you like I think he does, he’ll be there when you’re ready.”

He nodded “I-I know. I’m just so, confused! I don’t know wha-what to do!” he sobbed into his brothers shirt.

“Hey, it’s okay! You’ll figure it out, I know you will. I’m here for you. Even though I’m probably not the best person to give relationship advice, but I’m here to listen.”

He smiled at Finn through his tears and hugged him. “Thank you Finn.”

Finn smiled “I’m your brother, that’s what I’m here for. I love you bro.”

He chuckled “I love you too.”

He sniffled “I have some stuff to do, you better go.”

Finn nodded “Okay, call me if you need me okay?”

He nodded.” Okay.”

Blaine walked back into the choir room grabbed his guitar from Puck and left without saying a word. He walked to his car threw the guitar in the backseat and just sat there in the parking lot crying. Finn came over to his car a few minutes later and tapped on the passenger side window. He looked over and nodded unlocking the door.

Finn sat beside him and they were quiet. Finn was never quiet so naturally it concerned him.

He sighed “Look, if you’re here to beat my ass for shattering your brother’s heart just do it already and get it over with.”

Finn sighed “I’m not going to beat you up Blaine, One Kurt doesn’t want me to and I respect his wishes. Two he’s not the only heart that was shattered through this.”

He looked up at him and shook his head. Finn sighed looked out the windshield “Blaine, I honestly hated you after you and my brother broke up. He was so upset; he cried for hours and cried himself to sleep.”

Finn looked at Blaine, “That was before, you sang I Wanna Hold Your Hand to him, Did you know that he sang that song when Burt had a heart attack in October?”

He shook his head feeling bad now, that might be the reason why Kurt was crying “No…I didn’t. Now I feel like shit! I hope I didn’t bring back flashbacks for him…I didn’t want to make him cry…I hate seeing him cry.”

Finn chuckled “No Blaine, you didn’t give him any flashbacks. As I was saying, I hated you for hurting him like that, but then I looked at you sing to him.”

He looked at Finn as he continued. “I could sense how hurt you were, I could hear it in your voice. You sang with such raw emotion. I could see not only that in the song but I could see you do love my brother.”

He nodded crying a little bit. “Oh god Finn, you have no idea how much I love him. He’s the most important person in my life, and I”

He paused before he continued “I probably just ruined it forever.”

Finn shook his head “No you didn’t Blaine. The reason why Kurt cried when you sang that was because he loves you! Blaine you’re his everything. Did you know that he has a picture of you in his locker with the word courage underneath it?”

He chuckled nodded “Yeah…he gave me one before he left.”

He sighed “I don’t know if he will come back Finn, he gave this back to me.” He said holding out Kurt’s bracelet.”

“What’s that?”

He smiled sadly. “It’s a charm bracelet I got for him, there’s two charms one with our names on it and our anniversary on the back it says I will always love you and the other is a puzzle piece that says My missing puzzle piece. It’s a line from Teenage Dream, the first song I sang when we met. I have one too and I gave it to him the other day for our 3 month.”

He sighed and continued “And, he gave it back saying he needed time to figure it out.”

Finn shook his head “Blaine, you need to understand something, you didn’t let him explain and that hurt him. But he does love you, he just needs time to heal that’s all. But I know you’re hurting too, you both need time to heal. I know you love him Blaine, you’re good for him. If you love him like I think you do, you’ll be there when he’s ready. Notice I didn’t say if I said when you’ll get back together I know it.”

He smiled sadly “You think so?”

Finn nodded “I know so. Look, I know that you have people to talk to at Dalton and stuff, but if you want to talk, or just need to vent to someone, give me a call…I know you still have my number.”

He smiled gratefully “Thanks Finn.”

Finn smiled “Don’t mention it. You’re a good guy Blaine, and you’re good to my brother. So give me call or text me if you need anything okay?”

He nodded “I will thanks. Same for you Finn. Can you do me a favor?”

Finn nodded “I guess.”

He sighed “Can you keep me updated on how he’s doing, I worry about him sometimes.”

Finn chuckled “Sure thing man. Listen I gotta go, so I’ll talk to later. Hang in there okay?”

He nodded and gave Finn a hug “Thanks for everything Finn.”

“No problem.” Finn got out of the car and went back into the school. He wiped his eyes and drove back to Dalton.

He walked back to his dorm not saying a word to anyone, he was a bit comforted by what Finn had said, but Kurt was unpredictable sometimes and he may not take him back…at all and that’s what scared him.

Jake was sitting on his bed just doing homework when he got back in. “Hey, how’d it go?”

He just went straight onto his bed and cried. Jake sighed and walked over and sat on the edge. “What happened Blaine?”

He handed Jake Kurt’s bracelet. Jake looked at Blaine “Oh…Blaine. He really ended it?”

He turned around. “He said he needed time to think and heal, and gave this back. He bolted from the room after I finished the song.”

Jake nodded “That I expected…I didn’t expect him to tell you that you needed to take a break though. Everything will work out Blaine I know it will.”

He shook his head “I’m not so sure Jake, he said that he loved me but he needed space and time and how hurt he was that I didn’t let him explain, and how hurt he was about me thinking he betrayed him.”

“He loves you. You know what they say, those that love you will come back in the end, or something like that.”

“I honestly think that my heart was literally just ripped in two. When he said
‘I just need some space…time.’ “

“It’ll all work out Blaine! You’ll see! I know it will!”

“Jake I’m just…I’m just gonna go to bed, I don’t want to do anything today, probably won’t for a while until this is all figured out.”

Jake didn’t say anything knowing that there really wasn’t any point.

Finn left right after Blaine did and went back to the house to be there for Kurt if he needed him. Burt was sitting on the couch watching t.v.

“Oh Dad, you’re home early…”

“Yeah…so are you. Look I’m glad you’re here I need to talk to you about something.”

“Am I in trouble?”

“No…Guilty conscience much?”

He breathed a sigh of relief. “Okay so…what’s up? Is Kurt okay?”

“Um...He’s fine.”

Before Burt could say anything Kurt came back to the house and went upstairs crying.

“Okay, now I’m going to ask you again. What’s wrong with Kurt? I haven’t seen Blaine either…what’s going on Finn?”

He sighed “Kurt didn’t lie to you…him and Blaine did fight…but what he didn’t tell you was that Blaine broke up with him.”

“What?! Why didn’t he tell me!?”

“Uh because of how you’re reacting, he’s worried about your heart! So am I! You don’t need this kind of stress!”

Kurt fell on his bed crying. He just broke Blaine’s, even though he loves more than anything in the world! He just looked at his room there were pictures of him around his room, and cried at them seeing how happy he was. He knew he was happy because he was with him. He’s just so confused. He was pulled out of his sorrows when he heard “Kurt Michael Hummel get your ass down here right now!”

He groaned wiping his face and went downstairs to see what his father wanted. He was surprised to see Finn was with him.

“What’s going on?”

“Blaine…”

He closed his eyes trying to keep the tears from falling. “We’re fighting right now…what about him?”

“Kurt, you can cut the act. I know. Finn just told me.”

He looked at Finn. “Seriously?”

“Hey I told you the other day, if he asked me I’d tell him!”

“Okay so now you know? What do you want?”

“To know what happened.”

He sighed “Okay fine, “Blaine got a picture text of James and I kissing, the picture looked like I was kissing back. But James kissed me and I pushed him away after my brain had finally registered what had just happened. I tried to explain that and he wouldn’t let me and he broke up with me.”

“That little…”

“Dad! I’m not finished yet! But today, he came and sang I Wanna Hold Your Hand to me and we talked and I told him I loved him and I needed time to think and heal.”

“So…you guys are back together?” Burt asked still al little confused.

He shook his head. “N-no. Not right now anyway. I still need to figure out what I want to do…I still love him dad. I just don’t know right now.”

Burt got off his chair and went to hug his son. “I’m sorry kiddo.”

He hugged his father back. “I don’t know what to do anymore dad.”

Burt looked at him. “I wish I could tell you what to do, but I can’t…not on this one.”

The doorbell rang and Burt sighed as he got up to answer it. He looked at Kurt. “You up for a visitor?”

H sighed “It depends, who’s the visitor?”

“Hey Boo!”

He smiled “Let her in.” He got up and smiled at her “Dad, we’re going to my room.”

Burt nodded. “Okay.”

They went upstairs and he sat on his bed beside her. “So, Finn texted me…said you’re having issues with this decision.”

He groaned “Remind me to kill him later.”

She chuckled “Besides Blaine, I’m probably the only other person who can help you with this.”

He shook his head “I doubt anyone can help me with this. Talking just doesn’t help ‘Cedes.”

She sighed “I figured that, that’s why I brought something with me.”

He looked at her curiously “Did you now?”

She went into her bag and pulled out a book from her bag and handed it to him. “Here.”

He took the book from her and on the front was the word Klaine and 3-15-11 Forever and a picture of them at Reigonals. “Mercedes…what is this?”

“It’s a scrapbook I’m working on, I was going to give it to you on your birthday if it was done if not I was going to give it to you on your anniversary or something.”

“Uh, how is this supposed to help?”

She laughed “Just open it.”

He opened the book and there was a quote with a picture of them from Reigonals singing Candles. “You know you’re in love when reality is finally better then your dreams.”

He kept looking through the pages and more pictures of them together and the second to last page made him smile sadly. It was a copy of the picture Mercedes had taken out of his locker earlier and a copy of the word Courage and next to the word courage there was a sentence “Courage is the key to love.”

The last picture brought tears to his eyes; it was a picture of them at Prom. The quote was what got him though, “Love is just a word until you find someone who gives it a meaning.”

Mercedes smiled “Boo, look at how happy you are here with him. I’m gonna leave you here to look through this and gather your thoughts, you call me if you need me okay?”

He nodded “Yeah…thanks ‘Cedes.” This just made his decision a whole lot easier for him to make now.