"Kurt, are you sure? I mean...I don't want to intrude..." Blaine trailed off, rubbing his freezing hands together in a faint attempt to warm them.

"Stop it, silly. I am inviting you, there's no way you could be intruding. It's going to be a party with some of my close friends, though I am sure I wouldn't know half of the people who'd be there because my friends like to bring random people to parties." Kurt shrugged and smiled a little. "It'd be nice for you to finally meet some of my friends."

Blaine couldn't believe his ears. Kurt wanted him to meet his friends. Yes, they've gotten pretty close in the past couple of months, they hang out all the time and Kurt already knew Nick and Jeff, who were his closest people in New York, so it sounded logical for Blaine to finally meet his friends, too.

This didn't stop the swell of his heart and the hopeful look he probably gave Kurt.

"Okay, then." he breathed out and nodded. "What if they don't like me, though?" he furrowed his eyebrows.

"Believe me, this is impossible." Kurt smiled reassuringly at him. "Oh, bring Nick and Jeff, too, if you want to. And Jesse and Rachel are probably coming, too, so you'll know plenty of people at this party."

"Jesse and Rachel, huh? Is that a good idea? I mean, wasn't Rachel Finn's ex?" Blaine wrapped his scarf tighter around his neck and rubbed his hands once again.

"Please, don't even remind me. I asked Finn if it was okay to invite them and he was all like 'Yeah, sure, why wouldn't it be? It's your party, do whatever you want.' And all I could see in my head while listening to him talking was Finn doing something stupid, like hiring a hooker to pretend to be his girlfriend just so that he could make Rachel jealous. He's my brother and I love him, but when Rachel is involved, he becomes a brainless idiot, I swear." Blaine couldn't help but laugh at the mental picture of Finn and a hooker and Kurt huffed out a breath, rolling his eyes a little. "If he crashes my party, I'm kicking him out." he concluded and looked quickly at his watch.

"You should go, I don't want you to be late for your shift," Blaine smiled at Kurt and nodded his head towards the caf� shop. "But I'll call you after I finish at the community theater, okay?"

"Yeah, you do that. I want to congratulate you for getting the part." Kurt hugged him quickly and Blaine flushed a little, but he could blame it on the cold weather. "Bye, Blaine."

The blue-eyed boy quickly went inside the caf� shop and Blaine was left standing outside, looking after him through the glass door, freezing but not moving.

"Bye, Kurt." he murmured and shook his head, slowly remembering that he was needed in the community theater and leaving his spot in front of the Starbucks.

xxx

When he went home, Blaine was just telling Kurt that yes, he did get the part of Mark and that they should celebrate. He walked past Jeff's room, the door was opened and Jeff was sitting on the floor, dressed in sweat pants and a baggy T-shirt, his blond hair - a mess. He was animatedly texting somebody and making strange noises. To say that Blaine was worried was an understatement.

"Kurt, I'll call you later, okay? Bye." he hung up and walked inside Jeff's room, who didn't even notice his presence. "Jeff? What are you doing, dude?" he sat next to his roommate on the floor, taking off his coat and putting his bag on the floor.

"Erm, I'm texting Nick." Jeff's voice broke by the end of the sentence and he sniffled a little.

"Did you two break up again?" Blaine felt like he was talking to a child, but he could see that Jeff as upset and he didn't want to make him feel even worse by saying the wrong thing.

Jeff nodded obviously not trusting his wavering voice.

"What happened, dude?" he put his arm around the blonde's shoulder, who buried his head in Blaine's neck, wetting it with fresh tears.

"I'll tell you if you promise to not be mad at me, Blainers, please, promise me." Jeff literally begged him, which wasn't something he would normally do. Blaine felt anxious, what would have possibly happened to break those two up and have him involved?

"Just…tell me, I think you'll feel better after you get that weight off your shoulders." Blaine ruffled his already messy hair, his worry doubling.

"Well, Nick was here earlier and I-I went to take a shower," Jeff was mumbling and pausing and Blaine really felt like slapping him so that he would start talking like a normal human being, but he knew that Jeff had to take his time. "I left my phone on the nightstand and it rang while I was in the bathroom. Nick got mad and yelled at me when I came back. I get it, you know, I would've been mad, too." he was furiously wiping his eyes, hiccupping a little while getting up.

"Jeff, calm down," Blaine followed him around the room. "Who called you?"

His roommate stopped, his back turned towards Blaine, his shoulders hunched. "Er…it was Sebastian." he whispered it, but to Blaine's ears it sounded like a yell. He felt like he was punched in the face.

Sebastian.

"Why on Earth would he call you?" Blaine felt anger going through him in waves and tried to calm himself down, tried not to get mad at Jeff because he already felt like shit. "What did he want, Jeff? Tell me."

"I don't know, Blainers. I didn't call him back, okay? I didn't." he finally turned around and looked pleadingly at his roommate. "You know I wouldn't do anything to hurt you or our friendship, right? Please, don't be mad at me. Nick already thinks I cheated on him with that fucker, I don't want you to be mad at me because of him, too." Jeff was visibly shaking now and Blaine was so mad and upset and he felt like kicking a wall or something, but he knew that Jeff hadn't done anything wrong. He wrapped him in a tight hug, and rubbed comforting circle on his back.

"Okay, hear me out. We'll talk to Nick about this, I'll explain who Sebastian is and get you back together, how does this sound?" Jeff hugged him tighter and whispered a 'thank you' against his roommate's neck.

"I'm just so tired of our constant fights and breakups." he wiped his face once he was out of Blaine's embrace. The curly-haired boy nodded because he knew how hard Jeff took his relationship problems with Nick.

"Don't worry, everything will be okay." he reassured the blonde. "By the way, Kurt invited the three of us to a party at the end of the week. If everything's worked out by then, we might as well go and have some fun. But if you don't feel like it, we won't go."

"Are you kidding me? We are going, Blainers. It's Kurt's party after all. Forget about my drama, you should get the boy." Jeff smiled at him and Blaine felt all of his anger disappear and he felt thankful that he had a friend like Jeff, even if he was a pain in the ass most of the times.

"Okay then, I'm gonna go call him. You better make yourself presentable and when you're ready, we're going to Nick's place to talk to him." Blaine instructed him. All Jeff could do was nod and start fumbling around his room in search of clothes.

Once inside his room, Blaine sat on his bed, head in his hands, and actually thought about what his roommate had told him

Sebastian had called.

This was anything but good. Blaine ran his fingers through his hair, anxious and a little scared, not knowing what to think of this unexpected phone call. All he knew, though, was that he had to think of the present and call Kurt. He knew he should forget about Sebastian, who was just another shadow of the past.