Blaine still couldn’t believe this was happening.

            As much as he hated it, what advice David had given was the only way to distract Kurt. Blaine was taking one for the team, so to speak. So, when Kurt dragged him to his Navigator, only to start making out with him, Blaine smirked and thought, not a bad decision after all.

            But it was.

            After making out for like twenty hours or so (though it was more like twenty minutes), Kurt took him home only to wash out his hair and do something that made his hair look weird, according to him. But as it had settled down and wasn’t flying everywhere, it was fine with him.

            Blaine lay down on Kurt’s bed as Kurt asked him, “If I asked you something, answer it honestly, please? Do you think I made a bad decision in going back to McKinley?”

            Blaine told him, “Though I really hate that we can’t see each other whenever we want, I think it was ultimately your parents’ and your decision. But nobody in the Warblers except Thad thinks you made a bad decision. So don’t worry.” Kurt was happy to be reassured as he kissed Blaine.

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            Blaine met Nick and Jeff after the intense make out session he and Kurt had had, at the Lima Bean. He told them, “Somehow we have to make it right between Wes and his parents. I don’t want to out anyone, but at this point, hiding the major part of your personality isn’t something parents should want their children to do. What do we do though?”

            Jeff said, “Maybe we should get our parents to talk to them. If they see Kurt and his dad, the shock of the major difference between them may make Wes’ parents sit down and listen to them.”

            Nick said, “Maybe we should talk to David’s parents and Burt before taking the decisions in our own hands.”

            Jeff nodded, “Uh-huh. Maybe we should talk to David before talking to his parents. He would know how to talk to Wes’ parents. Let’s call him now.”

            They called up David, but as they were talking, the suck-up Sebastian came again to them. He cried out, “How fortuitous! We all go to the same coffee shop. There are no free tables; can I sit with you guys?”

 The three got up and said, “There’s a free table now.”           

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            Quite frankly, the boys had no idea what happened next. They told their parents who said that the boys should not do anything in case it turned violent, it was better for adults to be present. David, in particular, wanted to be there as it was his best friend and his love that they were talking about. However, the elders were adamant about it.

            Next thing they knew, David’s parents had called them over to his place and told them that Wes’ parents’ attitude was due to a lack of understanding. And yes, they had listened more keenly when Burt showed a picture of Kurt to them. They were willing to adjust to Wes’ needs. It would take them time to get rid of the homophobic attitude that they had, but they were going to support their son, no matter what his sexuality was. They only felt sad that they couldn’t have seen this earlier.

            The three friends were so ecstatic. They were so happy that their two best friends would be able to verbally confess their love for each other. They just had to search for the perfect place now so that David and Wes could remember it forever.

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            The day had finally come. This was the day due to which they had so painstakingly planned that all of them had to spout a bunch of lies at some point of time, mostly to Kurt. Yes, it was the day when Kurt was born. Or to put in normal terms, Kurt’s birthday had arrived.

            Burt, who had obviously clued into the whole secret party thing, had told Kurt to come with him to the garage for some father-son bonding. Kurt took these times more seriously after his father’s heart attack and said yes; even though he was sad he had to be in contact with grease on his birthday.

            In the meantime, Blaine, the Warblers and Mercedes were decorating the Hudmel’s living room. The Warblers were harmonizing and practicing their routine as they hung up streamers while Mercedes was blowing up the balloons.

            Mercedes was so bored. The rest of the New Directions were taking their own sweet time to come, she cursed in her head as the testosterone in the room was giving her a head-ache. And as if they were waiting for her to start complaining, the whole group entered with a bunch of presents for Kurt.

            The whole group started helping the Warblers finish off the decorations. Finn was the only one not present, as he was running interference at the garage with Burt and Kurt, so the latter wouldn’t decide to reach home earlier and spoil all the plans.

            Even though one might expect Rachel to blow up at the Warblers with threats to not steal their set list, she was being surprisingly mild today. On being asked, she said, “You guys protected Kurt when we couldn’t. Just because of that, I am giving you a reprieve for today. Don’t count on this much support later.”

            Wes and David were putting up the streamers together. Wes was putting them up while David was handing pieces of sticky tape to hold it together. And just as Wes was about to finish off one side of the room, the stool started wobbling about. He didn’t realize it as he was so engrossed in trying to see what was going on between Rachel and Blaine. He had to check for Kurt, just in case, even though Blaine was his friend first. He tried leaning towards them to hear more clearly.

            And then, the stool slipped onto one end.