Glee practice that day was fun. Like really fun! Kurt did really enjoy it, mostly because of Blaine. After their “Moves like Jagger” performance ,everybody asked Blaine a lot of questions and he replied to all of them very politely. Kurt and Mercedes waited a little bit in the background because they didn't want to overstrain him with to much question. They had time to ask him later, maybe after school or the next day.

At the end of glee practice, when Kurt and Mercedes wanted to go, Blaine was still crowded by the other members. They shouted their good-byes and were on their way to leave the building, talking about the songs they wanted to rehearse, when they heard fast foot-steps behind them.

“Hey”, a voice shouted which Kurt recognized immediately.

He turned around with a smile planted on his face and looked at Blaine questioning but friendly.

“Do you need something?”, Mercedes asked also smiling at the boy in front of them.

Blaine suddenly looked a little bit embarrassed. He scratched his neck looking at his feet while he answered.

“Well...”, he said slowly. “I just wondered...You two seemed to be very nice and maybe we could ...uhm get a coffee or something? I don't really know where to get coffee in Lima...so...”

He looked up at them carefully, meeting their eyes and blushed lightly. He looked very shy and, Kurt couldn't deny it, very cute.

“Of course!”, Mercedes said and sent Blaine her brightest smile.

“Maybe we could go to the Lima Bean”, Kurt suggested and blushed as Blaine's eyes met his.

Mercedes looked at both of them one eyebrow raised before she replied: “Yeah,they've the best coffee in Lima, let's just meet there this afternoon at 5 pm.! Do you think you could find it, Blaine?”

“Uhm,yeah I think I could!”, Blaine said tearing his gaze away from Kurt to look at Mercedes.

“Cool,then we'll see you later!”, she smiled so wide she was almost grinning. “Bye!”

“Bye”, Kurt murmured, unable to keep himself from blushing brightly.

“See you then”,Blaine replied smiling at them one last time before turning around the corner.

“He seems to be a nice guy”, Mercedes smiled looking at Kurt.

“Yeah, you're right”, Kurt just answered looking at the floor, trying not to blush to bright.

They walked to the parking lot in silence, Kurt's gaze never leaving the ground in front of him.

Maybe this week wouldn't start as bad as he thought...

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It was a few minutes past 5 pm and Kurt hurried toward the Lima Bean. He was too late. Only because he was nervous. He had arrived fifteen minutes to early in the parking lot and so he thought that he could wait a few minutes in his Navigator until Mercedes would arrive. But then his phone had rung and after a quick look on the display he saw that Mercedes was calling him. He had been confused: why was she calling him now?

“Hey Mercedes, what's wrong?...Yes,I'm already here....Wha-....What do you mean, you're not coming?! Family problems?! You've never family problems! No,you can't b-....Mercedes!...No,no I won't go in there!I won't! Not alone!...No,I'm not nervous!...No, I'm not!Why should I?...No,I-...No-...Okay. Okay I'll go!...yeah...bye...No!I've already told you,I'm not nervous!”

He was nervous. He had never been this nervous in his whole life. It had taken him more than fifteen minutes to get out of his car. This fifteen minutes he had spent proving his hair in the back mirror and telling himself that there was no need to be nervous. This was no date! He didn't even know if Blaine was gay!

But after he had had the courage to get out of his Navigator he had discovered that the reasons not to be nervous weren't as good as he had thought. His nerves were still killing him.

And now as he saw Blaine sitting at a table in the Lima Bean through the window, he was so close to just run away and never ever come back again. But then he took a closer look at Blaine. There was this beautiful boy sitting all alone at this table, looking as nervous as Kurt felt. He looked so lonely that Kurt's heart ached. So he took a deep breath and walked through the door and, with a natural looking smile (he hoped it looked natural and not totally uncomfortable), towards Blaine's table.

Blaine, who had been looking at his hands the whole time, looked up as he realized that someone was standing in front of him. As his eyes met Kurt's, he smiled and Kurt's knees began to feel weak.

This eyes! He loved this hazel eyes even if he just knew them for one day but somehow he felt like he had known them forever and this lips....

“Hy”, he heard Blaine's voice through the crowds in his head.

Kurt realized that he was staring and shook his head lightly.

“Hey”, Kurt said and forced the smile back on his lips. He took the chair at the opposite of the table and removed his jacket while he spoke. “I'm so sorry, I'm late but there was a traffic jam and then Mercedes just called and....ühm...she isn't coming!”

The traffic jam was definitely a lie but what else should he say? 'I was too nervous to get out of my car and I was so close to just run away because you're pretty gorgeous and, while we only know each other for one day, I might have a crush on you. By the way, are you gay? Because it's like I always like straight guys!' No, definitely not!

“Oh”, Blaine looked at him, looking a little pale. “So it's just the two of us?”

“Ühm yeah”, Kurt said flushing. “It seems so...”

There was a uncomfortable silence until Blaine raised his voice:

“What do you want to drink? I'll pay.”

“Oh,no you don't have to invite me”, Kurt said quickly.

Blaine looked at him pleasantly: “But I want to.”

So Kurt just smiled awkwardly at him and said: “A Grande nonfat mocha, please”

Blaine nodded with a small smile still on his lips and stood up to get their coffee.

Kurt looked after him and found himself looking at Blaine's ass. He tore his gaze away quickly, blushing brightly red.

When Blaine was back with their coffee, Kurt hoped that most of his blush had disappeared but he wasn't sure.

Blaine passed him his Grand nonfat mocha and Kurt smiled at him thankfully. No boy had ever invited him to a coffee or something...

Again there was a small silence and Kurt realized that he should maybe say something.

“So,Blaine”,the name felt strange on his tongue. “You...ühm...transferred from Dalton.”

“Üh...yeah. I did. It was really awesome there. I was in their Glee club too. They are called The Warblers!” Blaine smiled at the memories.

Then suddenly Kurt realized that he had seen Blaine before. The New Directions were at Sectionals last year and The Warblers had been there too. They'd both won the first place and went both to Regionals.

He wondered why he hadn't remembered Blaine's face earlier.

“Yeah, I remember you singing at Sectionals and Regionals! You were amazing”, Kurt said unable to stop himself but Blaine just smiled at the compliment.

“Thanks”, he said. “You guys were really great too! Did you won the Nationals?”, Blaine asked.

Kurt just smiled sadly at him. “No, we didn't. But this year we'll try again.”

Blaine nodded and took a bit of his coffee. Now Kurt was a little bit curious.

“Why did you transfer schools?”, he asked.

“Me and my family moved from Westerville to Lima and they said I could visit a school here now.” Blaine told him and added with a wink: “And I was tired wearing the Dalton uniform every day.”

Kurt laughed and felt a lot of his nervousness falling from him.

“Oh yeah, I couldn't imagine myself wearing the same as all the other students. It would be terrible!” Kurt shuddered a bit and Blaine began to laugh.

“It was terrible!”, he said between his laughs. “And the baddest thing about it:” Blaine leaned forward a little bit. “They didn't were bow ties!”

They both began to laugh loudly and after a few minutes they found themselves in a headed conversation about fashion.

Kurt hadn't had this much fun in years!