He never had woken up this way before, feeling so close to someone, filled with so much peace. Blaine just couldn't find the right words to describe how happy he was, everything was just so perfect; the sunlight invading the room, reflecting lightly in Kurt's pale skin, the young teacher soft breathing against his neck, the way how their legs were tangled…Everything was just perfect.

That was the first night since Blaine had come back that he didn't have a nightmare or a flashback, and he hadn't even used one of his sleeping pills that always left him feeling too dizzy, being surrounded by a dreamless darkness. No, this time he actually slept peacefully, dreaming in vivid colors and all that due the beautiful man asleep in his arms.

"So you are going keep staring me?" Kurt murmured as his eyelashes slowly opened revealing his unbelievable blue eyes.

"Don't blame me, you are too breathtaking." Blaine whispered amazed, letting himself drown in the mix of blue, green and gray that colored his boyfriend's eyes.

"I am too sleepy to blush, sorry…" Kurt whispered burying his face in Blaine's neck before start to place all sorts of lightly kisses there.

"K-Kurt please stop that… it tickles!" Blaine whimpered, chuckling uncontrollably as result of his well-known hyper sensibility that made him too ticklish for his own safety being around Kurt Hummel.

"Someone here is ticklish." Kurt mocked, continuing to playfully kiss his boyfriend's sensitive neck as the man under him couldn't stop laughing.

Unable to stop his boyfriend with words, Blaine enveloped the blue eyes man above him in his arms rolling on top of him, finally taking control and stopping Kurt's attack of his neck. He was planning say something, maybe initiating his own tickles attack, but Blaine couldn't help and ended up paralyzed, admiring the beauty of the man under him.

Kurt's chestnut hair was falling all over his forehead in a stupidly sexy way, his cheeks were covered by light tone of pink and his blue eyes were sparkling in a way that Blaine never had seen before.

Kurt was beautiful; there wasn't any other definition that Blaine could use to describe him, not one that could fit him, besides beautiful.

"You are beautiful" Blaine murmured talking his thoughts out loud without even notice.

"I could say the same about you" Kurt said cracking a small smile as he cupped Blaine's face and stroked the hazel eyed man's cheek with his thumb.

Blaine wasn't beautiful only on the outside, sure he was gorgeous, but the veteran's beauty wasn't just physical, he was beautiful inside as well, being one of the most kind and generous people that Kurt had met.

Both were leaning in to a kiss when Blaine's cell phone began to ring, interrupting them.

"Wait a minute." Blaine whispered annoyed, before rolling off Kurt to answer his phone.

On the display of his cell phone the word "Mother" was flashing. Blaine froze, sitting on the edge of the bed.

What he would do? What was he was supposed to say to his mom?

"Mother, Mother, mother…" it kept displaying, making Blaine's pupils dilate and his breath become erratic, he was panicking.

"You're not going to answer that?" Kurt asked placing a hand on Blaine's shoulders bringing him back from his panicked state.

"N-no, it is nothing" Blaine murmured turning off his cell phone and putting the small object over on the nightstand.

"Are you sure?" Kurt inquired, confused. The young teacher was certain that he had seen the word "Mother" on the Blaine's cell phone display, and Kurt he couldn't figure out why Blaine wouldn't answer his mother call.

"Y-yeah, no one important" Blaine lied cracking an uncomfortable smile before giving Kurt a peck on the lips, unsuccessfully trying to distract the young teacher.

"Why I have the feeling that you are trying distract me for something important here Blaine?" Kurt murmured against Blaine's lips ruining the veteran's attempt to fool him.

Sighing heavily, Blaine placed his head on Kurt's shoulder feeling the guilt beginning to ache in his chest again.

He didn't know how to answer Kurt. How he was supposed to tell Kurt that he wasn't answering his phone because he didn't know how say to his mom that he had spent the night with another man? The veteran thought that he would look pathetic telling his boyfriend that, or even worse, Kurt could think that he was ashamed of him, of what they had and that wasn't true, if Blaine was feeling any shame in that moment it was of himself.

"Can we just not talk about this?" Blaine begged wrapping his arms around Kurt waist and burying his in the young teacher's neck, desperately looking for shelter, some kind of comfort in the taller man's warmth.

"S-sure" Kurt murmured surprised by Blaine's suddenly demonstration of vulnerability.

Soon Blaine breathing become heavy and he began to held Kurt tightly and tightly, making clear for the young teacher Blaine wasn't in condition to answer any question in that moment. The hazel eyed man need comfort, shelter, love, and that was what Kurt was going to give him.

Blaine could answer his questions later.

XxxxXXXXxxxxX

14 messages and 17 missed calls.

Sarah Ann had made exactly 31 attempts to contact her son during the past night. She didn't sleep, eat or do anything besides sit in her couch waiting for a phone call or some news from her son.

Worried, she already had called the local hospitals and the police, but apparently Blaine hadn't been to the hospital, or in jail, and the police needed a period of at least 24 hours to consider someone missing.

Some people may have thought that she was overreacting, after all Blaine was a grow man already, he should know how take care of himself. What those people didn't know was the real reason why Sarah was so worried, she wasn't worried that Blaine could take care of himself; it was this dynamic established in Blaine's relationship with his father and the consequences of it that worried the curly headed woman.

Every time the two of them met, somehow Blaine once more became a vulnerable little boy. And was that thought that made Sarah's chest tighten and prevent her from sleep until her son come back home safe.

During all the hours that Blaine was out, Sarah cursed herself, she knew how Blaine always got emotional after spent time with his father and this little voice in her head keep saying to her that if anything had happen with her son it would be her fault. She was the one that let James visit Blaine; she thought that she couldn't deny James the right to see his only son. And she also had this hope that maybe, just maybe the two of them could finally work things out, after all Blaine just had come back from the war, James couldn't call him weak anymore, Blaine was veteran now, a hero.

That was what the curly haired woman hoped find when she entered her house, James and Blaine talking, finally breaking down the invisible and untouched barriers between them, but that wasn't what Sarah found at all.

Entering her house Sarah found an empty living room covered with empty packs of snacks fallen over the ground and no sign of her son or her ex-husband.

The short woman began to call for her son, she looked for him in his room, in the bathroom, even in the backyard, but he wasn't anywhere. The only clue that about what had happen in the afternoon was a yellow post it hanging in the refrigerator with James hand writing.

"Sarah,

You're out of beer. Blaine went out and I am going home. See you tomorrow in the church,

- James."

Reading James's Sarah covered his mouth with her left hand feeling her body being took by anger. What James meant with "Blaine went out"? Where he was? What James had done to Blaine?

Sarah felt like she was reliving Blaine's teenage years all over again, in the times when the hazel eyed boy used to go out without warning, clearly trying to escape home.

She never understood why Blaine couldn't stay at home for too long without becoming anxious and uneasy. In those times she kept saying to herself that "it's normal, Blaine just wants to go out" or "he is just a teenager who prefers to spend his time with his friends, not a big deal", but deep down Sarah knew she was just trying to fool herself making excuses to Blaine's behavior.

But of course that she never would admit that, doing such thing would be the same as admitting that her family had problems and her family couldn't have problems. Sarah Ann was raised to be a housewife, a good mom, an obedient and faithful wife. And she made her parents proud, finding a strong man like her dad, marrying him and beginning a family that went to the church every Sunday morning.

There wasn't place in that perfect family picture to show James abuses, Blaine insecurities or Sarah's doubts, and it was easier pretend that things were like they seem in the family Christmas cards, perfect, untouched.

If James was being rude it was because he was teaching Blaine to be a real man. If Blaine's entire body language changed around his dad, it was because Blaine was a shy boy. That was how things worked in those times, way before Sarah finally got brave enough to question her husband and put an end in his abuse, asking him the divorce.

But all the time that Sarah took to be brave brought her consequences; and one of those consequences was be sitting on that living room waiting from news from her son that had went out without any warning.

And Sarah continued to sit there, still, unable to do something besides stare the phone, for several hours until she hear the door opening and her heart finally filled with relief. Blaine was home.

"Hey m-mom" Blaine murmured not looking into his mother's eyes as he dropped his keys on the coffee table.

"Hey mom? I left thousands of messages in your phone, called you hundreds of times, and all that you have to say to me is 'hey mom?'" Sarah exploded crossing her arms over her chest.

"Dad came here yesterday mom." Blaine dryly alleged meeting his mother's worried glare with the same look that he used to give her when he was a teen, after spending hours walking adrift, avoiding coming back home.

"I-I know that, I was here when he came" Sarah spoke, trying to keep herself together. She knew exactly what Blaine meant with his statement and she also knew the look on his face, but she couldn't be affected by it, she couldn't look weak, not in front of Blaine.

"Exactly" Blaine murmured, his lips twisting in a bitter and hurt smile, as he looked away from his mother again.

The veteran had to bit his lower lip to keep himself from say something stupid, something that he would say only to hurt Sarah trying to make him feel better about himself.

"I-I… W-where did you spend the night Blaine?" Sarah asked feeling her voice cracked as maintain her act become excruciatingly difficult.

"I was just… I needed some fresh air, mom" Blaine lied feeling his chest burn, guilty.

All the good feelings that coming out to Santana had caused in him suddenly weren't there anymore. The veteran was feeling like a coward again, hiding the truth from his own mother.

"I need a rest, if you need me I'll be in my room…" Blaine murmured turning his back to his mother as he climbed the stairs, practically running to his room.

Sarah didn't have the time to object or ask any other questions, but even if she had, Sarah wouldn't have. She would have let her son run from her and go to his room, like he was doing now, like he used to do when he was a teen.

Sarah could feel her son slipping away from her. The distance between them was getting bigger and bigger and she just didn't know how stop that.

XxxxxXXXXXxxxxxxX

From: Kurt

"So, is everything okay at home?"

Blaine laid on his bed, staring at the message for several minutes.

"If everything is okay?" the veteran considered, biting his lip. Everything was okay? Well everything was the same as usual, he was lying to Sarah, she was pretending not see that and he was feeling pathetic and humiliated.

"As usual…" Blaine simply answered, not lying to Kurt but also no being 100% truthful about how things were.

"Why do I have the feeling that "as usual" isn't a good thing?" Kurt answered minutes later surprising Blaine again with sensibility.

"Because you are a ninja with a sixth sense?" Blaine typed, trying to joked a little and relive the tension caused by the heavy topic of the texts.

"Who told you that I am a ninja?" Kurt answered. Blaine was relieved that it was not another message asking what had happened.

But that relief didn't last too long since soon Blaine's phone was buzzing again with a new message.

From: Kurt

"But, seriously, what happened?"

"I wasn't brave enough to come out to my mom and I almost said something that would have really hurt her." Blaine answered, pulling his emotions from the deepest part of his heart, hoping that Kurt wouldn't find him too pathetic.

Kurt's reply took a several minutes to come, making Blaine feel worried, maybe he shouldn't have told Kurt anything.

"What would you say to her?" said Kurt's message, interrupting the veteran's concerned thoughts.

The hazel eyed man started Kurt's message re-reading it several times thinking about Kurt's question. What he would have said to Sarah? And why he was so sure that whatever he would say would end hurting her?

"I don't really know… But it would be something hurtful, we are talking about my dad and this topic always brings out the worst in me…" Blaine typed and sent it really quickly before he had time to regret what he had just confessed.

"Do you blame her for something that happened between you and your dad?" the young teacher sent minutes later, surprising Blaine with his question.

Did he blame Sarah for anything? Blaine didn't know how answer that question, and that broke his heart a little.

"Sorry. I shouldn't have asked you that, you don't need to answer me that question" a message coming from Kurt said, bringing Blaine back from his thoughts.

"No, no. You didn't offend me or anything… I just honestly don't know the answer to your question..." Blaine replied minutes later.

"Don't worry in some way you already answered my question." The young teacher answered making Blaine crack a small smile.

Of course Kurt already knew the answer, somehow the blue eyed man always seemed to know what to say, how to act, and sometimes he even understood the veteran's actions and feelings before Blaine himself did.

Blaine noticed that amazing ability that Kurt seemed to have when the young teacher took him on a date at 1 in the morning. Kurt knew that if he didn't ask the veteran out in that moment, the hazel eyed man's low self-esteem would have sabotaged him again blowing their chances of actually going on a date.

"I did? Is this your sixth sense speaking again? ;P " Blaine replied not being able to containing his lips from smiling or his eyes from watery.

"Always ;) " said Kurt's reply that didn't take too long to come.

"So what are you doing? Anything interesting?" Blaine's next message said as the hazel eyed tried to lighten the mood, changing the subject of their conversation to trivial stuff.

"Besides talking with a certain awesome man? Nothing interesting… ;P " Kurt answered.

"Awesome? Who are you talking with? We are officially boyfriends since yesterday and you are already cheating on me with some awesome guy? ;P " Blaine replied chuckling a little.

"Oh no, I am not cheating you with some awesome guy, I only cheat you with Britt. Did you forget already about my affair with her? " Kurt's reply teased, making Blaine quickly type an equally mocking message.

"What a lazy boyfriend I am! Forgetting about you hetero affairs! You should look for Mr. Awesome; I am not good enough for you..."

"I have to disagree with you… I already found him, you are my Mr. Awesome ;P " was written in Kurt's reply making Blaine blush a little.

"I wish I could kiss you right now" Blaine's next message said, catching Kurt off guard, in good way, of course.

"Why I am wasting my time correcting all these stupid tests if could be making out with you?" the young teacher answered sighing heavily as he looked to the pile of English tests in front to him waiting be corrected.

"Because you need the money?" Blaine responded before quickly receive a very interesting reply.

From: Kurt

"Well but I think we can find have some quality in the next few days"

"When?" Blaine simply replied excited with the possibility of go out with Kurt again.

"Santana is thinking about having some friends over to eat some pizza… and you know what she means with "Eat some pizza" don't you?" Kurt repliedseconds later.

"Do a huge party full of drunken people and loud music? ;P" Blaine typed remembering the last time that his best friend had asked him out to eat some pizza.

"Yep. Drunken people that will not notice or care if we suddenly disappear…" Kurt's playful text said, making the veteran forget how to breathe for a few seconds picturing what they could do while they "disappeared".

"We are going to disappear?" Blaine replied in the second that his brain began to work properly again.

"Maybe…." Kurt replied and Blaine could picture perfectly the teasingly expression that the young teacher must have had while writing that text.

"I can't wait to disappear with you." Blaine replied before loudly knocks at his room's door bringing him back to reality, making him almost fall from his bed.

"Blaine I made some sandwiches for us, let's eat" Sarah said hesitantly opening the door.

"I-I am not hungry mom" Blaine gasped hiding his cell phone under his pillow, feeling like a fifteen years boy caught doing something forbidden.

"They are triangular cut sandwiches Blaine…. C'mon you love triangular sandwiches!" Sarah said with begging eyes, trying desperately to leave behind the heavy atmosphere left between them after Blaine's return.

Seeing his mother obviously attempt to make things right between them again, Blaine couldn't say no, even if his texting with Kurt was turning into something really interesting.

"Alright mom, give me just a minute and I will be downstairs" Blaine murmured a little frustrated.

"Great! So hurry up or I will eat your part!" Sarah said winking at her son before close his bedroom door, giving him privacy.

"I have to go now… :( My mother made something to eat, and I think I better spent some time with her, things were a little heavy between us after this morning and she is obviously trying to make things right again. Talk with you later ok?" Blaine texted, receiving an "Okay I have some test to correct anyway… Talk with you later then! xxx" as answer from Kurt minutes later.

Blaine sent Kurt a "Miss you already" before leave his cell phone behind and get up to going to kitchen where he thought that his mother would be waiting for him.

But thanks to an odd combination of events, Sarah wasn't there when Blaine went to kitchen.

Sarah, known for being really careful and alert in the kitchen, unexpectedly dropped some ketchup on her blue dress and noticing that little red spot on her dress as she closed her son's bedroom door, the curly head woman decided change her clothes before going back downstairs.

And it was thanks to that odd combination of events, a surprising oversight of a careful cook, a little red spot in a blue dress and buzzing sound that caught the careful cook's attention near her son's bedroom that led to the moment that Sarah was living now, completely paralyzed reading a new message on her son's cell phone.

From: Kurt

"I miss you too. And also can't wait to disappear with you. ;) Xox"